Wasteland Conqueror

Chapter 35: Master Of All Skills

This excruciating experience continued for god knows how long. Time even seemed to slow down just to extend what I was going through. Despite that, it thankfully ended, and I managed to not let out even a peep throughout the entire experience.

Fuck, that pain was out of this world. I wonder how long it went on for.

Curious, I looked up at a digital clock I had set up on the wall and saw only 15 minutes passed by while I was going through hell.

Damn, I thought, hours had passed. I suppose the way I perceive time slows to a crawl when going through that sort of pain. That entire experience could have been a hell of a lot worse had I not had the foresight to give myself two healthy doses of P-Dex.

Ding!
Ding!
Din...

Oh, here come the skill perks. Let's see what I got.

Opening up my system quickly, I navigated to the perks section and was presented with a load of new perks.

| Bulletstorm | Requirements Ballistic Weapons 101: All your weapons that fall under the ballistic weapons category now deal 0.50% more damage for every skill point you have in your ballistic weapons skill instead of the previous 0.25%. Other than that, the velocity of all projectiles fired from your ballistic weapons increases by the same percentage without any additional increase in recoil. Besides getting a damage and projectile increase, you can now control how much damage your ballistic weapons do on the fly via your will. You can also do the same with your ballistic weapons' accuracy as well as their fire rate. Lastly, this ability cannot be used to raise your accuracy, damage, and fire rate above what you are normally capable of.

| Overcharged | Requirements Energy Weapons 101: All energy weapons you use now deal 0.50% more damage for every 1 skill point you have in your energy weapons skill instead of the previous 0.25%. Their projectile speed is also increased by the same percentage, with no additional recoil, the only exceptions to this bonus are laser weapons and other similarly fast energy weapons. Besides getting a damage and projectile increase, you can also control how much damage your energy weapons do on the fly via your will. You can also do the same for your energy weapons' accuracy as well as their fire rate. Lastly, this ability cannot be used to raise your accuracy, damage, and fire rate above what you are normally capable of.

| The Power Of Atom | Requirements Explosives 101: Your fascination and skill with explosives has earned you the ability to increase both the amount of damage all your explosives you use do and their radius by 0.50% for every 1 skill point you have in your explosive skill instead of just increasing their damage by 0.25%. Other than that, you can also control how much damage your explosives will do and how large the explosion will be on the fly via your will. However, you can't use this ability to increase either of those two things beyond what you are normally capable of.

Not bad, they're all basically the same as the heavy weapons skill perk Devastator minus The Power Of Atom, which gives a bonus to explosion radius. Depending on what kind of heavy weapon I decided to main, I could be benefiting from two weapon skill perks at the same time and if I want, I could use a ballistic heavy weapon loaded with explosive rounds, thereby utilizing three of the perks.

I don't know if I want to go that route, since it would take quite a bit of carry capacity to lug around the kinds of rounds I could load with explosives. On top of that, I don't even have an idea what kind of weapon I would even use... Yeah, I'll throw the idea of utilizing those three different perks till a later date and stick with my original plan of either using a gatling laser or minigun as my primary weapon in the meantime.

| The Great Leader | Requirements Leadership 101: Those under your leadership are more efficient and effective, so for every 100 points you have in leadership, those under you will gain 1% in efficiency and performance. Additionally, when you gain the loyalty of your people anytime their loyalty increases, it will increase by twice the rate.