Markus walked a good distance from the others, his mind still in high alert for any grounders still hiding about.
Then he looked at his newest ability, having obtained it when Wells had jumped him and he while stumbling touched the body of the grounder with his foot.
It had been quick thinking on his part.
He looked through his bag, grateful that he still had it even after all that chaos and took out a couple herbs.
He grabbed a couple rocks and started smashing the herbs together, making a thick paste just as his [Medicine] talent guided him to.
Then he applied the paste on his wound, tearing his long sleeve and using it as a bandage to hold the paste.
The paste would help stop the bleeding, cauterize the wounds and boost healing.
He was slightly surprised when he found that the wound should heal fully within 4 days though.
' These plants and herbs are definitely not fucking normal.' He thought to himself, finding a stump to lay on and relax for just a second while keeping an eye on the rest who at this point were walking towards him.
He felt a sting on his wound signalling that the paste was working and smiled.
He knew that he could have just asked Clarke to heal him but after they saw him kill someone, not just an animal and then drop Wells he didn't really want to deal with that.
Plus he wanted to feel the pain and gain the scar as lesson to him, to not be that weak again and to remind him of how close he had been to dying.
[—Ding! Showing all held up notifications....]
Markus blinked, scoffing lightly at the screen.
' Ah so now you show up?'
[—You've survived a Grounder Assassination Attempt – Reward: 2 Talent Points.]
[—You've killed a Grounder physically much stronger than you – Reward: 3 Talent Points.]
[—You've Stolen the ability of a Grounder – Reward: 5 Talent Points.]
[—You've severely beaten and broken the ego of a superpowered Wells Jaha – Reward: 3 Talent Points.]
[—You've stirred a deep seated fear and awe of your capabilities to multiple people. – Reward: 1 Talent Point.]
Markus blinked, rubbed his eyes and stared at the notifications again with a shit eating grin on his face.
' A fucking windfall!' He thought, already imagining all the new talents he could obtain with 14 Talent points.
Quickly though he simmered that rogue thought away.
He needed to first strengthen his base capabilities before he started thinking about obtaining new talents.
He first needed to learn how to wield weapons, not just the sword that he had talent for.
Marksmanship through bow and arrows would be great, especially in a world that was mostly covered in forest's.
Then some type of martial arts, he wondered whether one of the hundred obtained an ability that made them innately master fighters like Munroe and Octavia were with weapons in order to teach him.
And last and most importantly, use his [Physical Conditioning] talent to gain increased bodily capabilities and coupled with [Growth] and its rapid adaptation effect he was sure that he'd see great gains.
His talents synergistic effects were truly incredible, he wondered how many more synergies he could obtain with his talents but for now he would need to focus on increasing his and his groups capabilities.
As with the world now gaining sudden supernatural properties, monster animals and grounders being way more powerful than he knew them to be then he was sure that he had only seen the surface of things.
So he needed to think carefully about what to do with the limited amount of Talent points he had.
He also needed to think about how he was to obtain more, but for now it seemed that conflict was the sure way to power at the moment.
He'd think of that at a later time though, for now he wanted to see how much he had grown by opening his status.
[—Name - Markus 'Quinn' Blanc.
—HP - 90%
—IP - 3%
—[-]—
—Body - 2.3[+10]
—Mind - 2.7
—Soul - 8
—[-]—
—Talents - Science[3] – Social Talent[4] –Growth[5] – Sword Talent[3] – Medicine[3] – Physical Conditioning[4] – Tracking[4].
—Talent Points - 14
—[-]—
—Abilities - Deaths Feast[A] – Tek Domain[A]¹ – Nature's Forge[S]² – Grounder Physiology[D]³.
—[-]—
Markus carefully analysed his status.
His stats had also grown, body through physical exertion that he had been through had growth thus making him twice as strong as your average built human and with the boost granted by his [Grounder Physiology] it make him twelf times as strong which was something as the stat went all around the board including every single physical capacity of the body.
Mind through his talents and abilities feeding off each other through information scanned and directly uploaded to his brain, causing it to be stimulated and grow through his [Growth] talents effects.
Then Soul grew due exerting his abilities, each time he used them the well of power inside him would grow in tandem with the stress.
He blinked as he came up with those conclusions.
He realised that his talents seemed to have a passive effect to them, allowing him to detect and comprehend their effects on his body that he normally wouldn't have been able to identify.
He liked that, knowing what was happening with his body and why would help him a lot in knowing how to nurture it.
Then he looked at his Talents, his old and recently added Talents.
[Medicine] had already shown it's benefits, especially coupled with his [Nature's Forge] ability allowed him to skip the entire trial phase of testing medicine and simply producing and using them knowing fully well of the effects that they would grant.
[Physical Conditioning] had broken his limiters, allowing for [Growth] to allow his body to adapt way faster thus growing much faster in turn.
[Tracking] he hadn't used much, the overload of information in tandem with his always active 'flora sense' were too much for his brain to handle at the moment but he'd work through that.
Then his windfall of Talent Points, he'd be using those shortly.
The last thing to check then was his newest ability [Grounder Physiology].
He had a lot to mull over that ability just from its flavour text.
[—Grounder Physiology[D] - A genetic evolutionary ability birthed from those that had night-blood in their veins even as little and have lived in an Iner-Proto rich surrounding, causing their bodies to mutate and strengthen. Grants a +10 to the Body Stat, sharpens senses, physical reaction time and boosts self-healing.]
He also wondered whether there were higher tiered versions of the ability that every grounder had and just how much of a boost it granted them.
Mostly though he wondered how much of a threat a person with an S tiered Grounder Physiology was.
If he was lucky he wouldn't find out anytime soon.
But for now he settled on improving his odds for if he ever arrived to that day.
" Spend Talent points on...."
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