Defiance of the Fall

He sat down on some moss , brought out a bottle of water , and opened up his status page .

Name

Zachary Atwood

Level

34

Class

Hatchetman (F)

Race

Human (F)

Alignment

Human (Earth)

Titles

Born for Carnage , Ultimate Reaper , Luck of the Draw , Giantsbane , Disciple of David , Overpowered , Slayer of Leviathans , Adventurer , Demon Slayer I , Full of Class , Rarified Being , Trailblazer , Child of Dao , The Big 500

Dao

Seed of Heaviness - Early

Strength

175

Dexterity

59

Endurance

100

Vitality

69

Intelligence

49

Wisdom

49

Luck

67

Free Points

3

Nexus Coins

545716

The battle had only given him one level , compared to the almost 3 from the last Herald he killed . He currently felt he was roughly halfway to level 35 . That showed just how much harder it was getting to level up the higher his level became . The only reason he kept leveling quite quickly was that his killing speed had improved faster compared to the increasing level requirements .

Before doing anything else he quickly opened his quest page as well to make sure whether what he killed was actually a Herald or not .

Off With Their Heads (Unique) : Kill the four heralds and the general of an incursion within 3 months . Reward : 10 E-Grade Nexus Crystals , E-Grade equipment , unique building depending on performance . (3/5)

It was indeed the third Herald he killed . He sighed in relief , elated with finally having moved his quest forward . He had been looking for this boss for weeks and started to worry whether he would find it in time to complete the quest . But this part was finally solved .

He already knew where the last herald was located , and it was badly wounded to boot . The last missing piece of the puzzle was the general . Zac still had no idea how to locate and eradicate him or her , but one step at a time .

However , the good news didn’t continue .

Zac closed down his quest page in order to allocate his points into Strength and Endurance as usual . This time something went wrong , however , and he was unable to put his free point into Strength . He put two points into Endurance without a problem , bringing his total to 103 . But no matter how many times he tried , he simply couldn’t allocate his last free point into Strength . Zac started getting a sinking feeling in his stomach , worried he might have screwed up quite badly .

It looked like he had reached his cap for Strength . This was extremely bad news as his main stat was Strength , and he automatically got 3 points allocated every time he leveled up . Would he able to level up at all? Would he just loose those 3 points if he gained a level? What if his Dao Seed improved or he gained a new Title?

He didn’t believe that 175 Strength was the limit of what was possible in the multi-verse . Those titans he saw in the vision should have had thousands in Strength from the aura they emitted . Therefore the problem came down to how to increase his limit .

Zac pondered for a few minutes and came up with a few ways that might work . The simplest method , and the one he desperately hoped was true , was that the cap would increase with a set amount of points every time he got a level . Then his problem would be taken care of . If the increase per level was low he could simply allocate his free points into more Endurance or a third stat .

But if this wasn’t the case his problem got a lot thornier , because the only other method he could think of currently was getting an upgrade . Both his Race and Class were currently F-Graded . If he upgraded one of them , his limits might get increased as well .

The problem was that he had no idea how to do that . Usually , in games , you got a class upgrade when you reached a set level . Unfortunately , Zac didn’t know whether this was at level 35 , 50 or even 100 .

As for Race , he was even more clueless . He had seen no indication anywhere what to do about race , and the only hint he had gotten that it was actually upgradeable was that the grade got added when he attained a class .

It might take a long time until he found a solution to this problem . The thought of losing tens of levels worth of attributes while he waited for getting an upgrade made Zac truly sick to his stomach .

Zac’s vision started to close in on him , and his thoughts were getting scattered . Suddenly he puked out a large mouthful of blood and bile , before falling down on the ground .

Something else is making me sick as well’ Zac realized , just before passing out .

Chapter 54 - Luck

Zac woke up woozy and disoriented , and his innards felt like they were on fire . A sheen of sour perspiration covered his whole body and he was weakly shaking .

If he didn’t know better he’d think that he had caught a bad case of the flu . However , he felt that he should be immune to things like the flu or a common cold since his constitution improved .