Hardcore OP-ness

Chapter 39: A Daily Quest

Charisma was a very ambiguous stat. It was more than just beauty or the ability to physically attract others; aside from influencing charm-related spells, it also made a person or creature seem more likable and reliable.

Depending on the Charisma of a Party, Raid, or Army's leader, the teamwork would naturally increase. However, Michael was mainly just interested in the fact that his teeth had strangely become white and much straighter.

He muttered "Five-thousand fucking dollars and two goddamn years of braces in the other world... and all I had to do was invest a single stat-point in this world to get a much better result. Sigh~, oh well, even the thousands of acne scars are gone. My face looks about the same, but did I get taller? Ugh, nope, that's probably only possible with evolution..."

The reason why adventurers were typically never considered 'ugly,' was because they usually had at least one point of Charisma. It explained why in Riverside Village, most of the 'normal' people weren't very aesthetically pleasing.

After stretching his arms out and yawning loudly, Michael removed Inari from his first Companion-slot, and was greeted by a completely clueless vixen. She sniffed around and barked a few times before scampering off to the southwest.

With his Strength at six and Agility at seven points, the Human's body felt amazingly light, and he briskly followed after the fox without much effort. Of course, he could have caught up with her if he had sprinted, but he just complained "I really need to learn some kinda flying spell, or maybe teleportation..."

It wasn't as if they didn't exist; in fact, all Elements had various forms of both... but they were usually used in combat. The amount of mana required to use either one for travel purposes, was simply unreasonable: not to mention the 'Aura' that was necessary.

When he finally found the giant fluorescent-green vixen, she barked loudly at the base of a truly massive, bright-blue tree. Michael looked around and didn't find anything particularly strange about that specific plant; it wasn't a monster from what he could tell, but there was something odd that occurred when he approached. On the mini-map, a name suddenly appeared: "Entrance to the Forgotten Grotto."

He stared at it for a few moments, while murmuring "Dungeon, hidden village, or possibly an abandoned spa..." Without thinking too deeply about it, he simply walked up and touched the mossy bark, then yelled "Activate! Teleport! Open up, motherfucker!"

Then he noticed that Inari stopped barking and copied what he was doing, putting both of her front paws on the tree, right next to his hand. She howled loudly, and unconsciously channeled her Nature-Affinity mana into the bark.

Michael snickered while petting her fluffy-green mane and saying "Good girl, you're such a smart puppy~." It took a few seconds, but the two of them were eventually enveloped in a bright-blue aura, and then vanished.

They suddenly appeared, over a mile underground, in a surprisingly brightly-lit cavern. Illustrious, azure, crystalline stalactites were hanging from the ceiling and illuminating the entire area.

A Quad-Tailed Nature-Fox, along with a Human of the Arcane Element, had arrived in the home of a long-forgotten, rank-A, 'Raid Boss.' Huge blue roots ran down the walls of the grotto, and aside from the single limestone platform, that the two newcomers were standing on, everything else was a relatively clear, bright-green lake.

When he saw the colossal, viridian snapping-turtle's head, resting only a few meters in-front of him, Michael snickered and muttered "I guess its level is too high for me to read, huh?" Inari was sitting down and didn't even seem flustered by the gigantic creature, which made him guess "This guy probably isn't an enemy; maybe a Quest-Giver?"