Tokyo: Earth Online Manga Artist.

Chapter 102 Huge Upgrade (Daily Life)

Eri Aragaki remained completely unaware of this, because after completing the important task of "Yes, what should we eat?", she and Ayane Takeda cleaned up the dishes and tidied up the room.

Ayane Takeda was in charge of washing the dishes and wiping the table, while Eri Aragaki was in charge of putting the leftovers into food containers and putting them in the refrigerator. Working together, the two of them cleaned up the kitchen in less than twenty minutes.

Then Ayane Takeda went back, while Erina went back to study immediately after finishing her meal.

Eri Aragaki also has her own things to do, which is—

I'll finish drawing this week's storyboard for Attack on Titan tonight.

In fact, she even thought that if she had enough time tonight, she could draw the storyboard for next week in advance, so that she wouldn't be so busy during the combined week and could attend the year-end party and JUMPFesta without worry.

She turned on the desk lamp in her studio, adjusted the heating to a comfortable temperature, and sat down in front of the desk. Her G-pen and pencils were arranged on the pen holder, and a stack of blank drawing paper was placed on her right.

Then, as she placed her hand on the drawing, she suddenly remembered something.

"By the way! The skill point allocation for 'Fog Hill of Five Elements' should be released by now."

Eri Aragaki remembered this incident and her eyes lit up.

The short story "Wu Song" previously contributed one ordinary skill point to her. "Fog Hill of Five Elements" should also follow the same mechanism, with a complete short story being equivalent to one ordinary skill point.

She hadn't thought about it since handing over the completed manuscript of "Fog Hill of Five Elements" to Lin Shiping last week, but it suddenly came back to her memory now.

After all, the skill points should allow her to increase her drawing speed at this time, and allocating them to Overclock Burst is the best time to use them.

Anyway, there's no need to worry about whether to put skill points into self-defense skills anymore. After knocking out three thugs with three punches in the alley last time, she has basic confidence in her current fighting ability.

Then she silently said, "Panel."

The next moment, the long-unseen Earth Online player panel appeared before her eyes.

However, there have been very obvious changes.

Player ID: Eri Aragaki Race: Forest Apes (Late Homo sapiens)

Occupation: Creator (Special Occupation of Forest Apes)

Level: 18 (Currently 0 normal skill point, 0 ultimate skill points)

Strength: 9 (5 for adult male forest apes)

Agility: 7 (+1)

Constitution: 8 (+3)

Intelligence: 11 (+3)

Perception: 7

Charisma: 13 (+2)

Popularity (Profession-Specific): 110002

Boxing (Lv.3): Chief, Chief, I've discovered that if I make a stone-like shape with my hands and strike someone's head hard, they'll immediately fall into a corpse-like sleep!

Ultimate Skill: Boiling Water (Lv.1): Chief, Chief, I've discovered that as long as I use this red stuff to boil water, the water will become warm again, and I won't have a stomachache the next day after drinking it!

Professional Skill: Artistic Creation (Lv.8): Chief, Chief, I've discovered that the sound I make is particularly pleasant to hear, and I've also discovered that when I use colored water to swirl around on those big white leaves, beautiful things appear—

Professional Skill: Overclock Burst (Lv.5): Chief, Chief, I've discovered that whenever I want, a lot of things just pop into my head!

Professional Skill: Learning Ability (Lv.5): Chief, Chief, I've discovered that I learn everything incredibly fast, almost five times faster than my fellow companions!

Ultimate Job Skill: Super Creation (Lv.2): Chief, Chief, my super wisdom tells me to use Super Creation!

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Eri Aragaki was slightly taken aback. What caught her most attention was naturally the change in attributes at the beginning; her power had reached 9!

She quickly realized that upgrading her boxing skills meant that each level up not only instilled knowledge of boxing techniques but also directly increased her strength.

It's really simple, direct, and brutal!

So, if the strength of an average adult male is 5, then her 9 is roughly the level of someone who works out regularly.

Eri Aragaki suddenly became very curious about her own strength level.

So she plans to find a gym to test her bench press skills. Based on her previous ability to punch a thug away, is it possible for her to reach 100kg?

However, Eri Aragaki looked at her own arm, raised her right arm and tilted her head to look at it. It didn't look like she had a very high level of strength.

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Slender and fair-skinned, like the arms of an ordinary girl, with small knuckles at the wrists and long but thin fingers, completely different from Natsume Akane's.

She had seen and touched Natsume Akane's arm. Despite Natsume Akane's quiet, thin, and weak appearance, her arm muscles were actually quite prominent, the kind that would show even without exertion.

Once, when Natsume Akane helped her move a box of manga magazines, the muscle lines of her forearms were so clear when she rolled up her sleeves that they looked like an anatomical diagram from a textbook.

Eri Aragaki subconsciously made a gesture that emphasized her arm muscles, clenching her fists, bending her elbows, and tensing the muscles in her entire arm.

result----

Her once slender, fair arms were now clearly defined, with prominent muscular lines. Her biceps bulged, and the extensor muscles of her forearms were also visible, making her look completely different from when she was relaxed.

Eri Aragaki immediately understood; she really had become a "muscle Barbie."

She's the type who seems harmless most of the time, but reveals her true colors when she puts in a lot of effort, just like Natsume Akane.

But it's not a big problem. Actually, it's good this way. She doesn't want to be some pale, thin, and beautiful girl. At least this way she has strength.

Having strength is better than anything else. At least next time you encounter a situation, you won't need to drag someone away; you can solve the problem standing up.

But apart from strength, her agility, physique, intelligence, and charm have all improved, which is a bit strange.

"Could it be—"

She looked at the numbers that had increased on the panel and mentally calculated the situation.

Thinking about it carefully, it's possible that her attributes are indeed dynamic and change as she changes herself.

This panel is not a fixed initial attribute table, but a status bar that reflects her physical condition in real time.

Thinking about it this way, the more I think about it, the more reasonable it becomes.

Because her life has indeed changed a lot since then.

Before they had no money, she and Erina could only live in that old, dilapidated rented room. The room, which was less than ten square meters, didn't even have a decent table. When drawing, they could only make do by lying on a low coffee table.

Moreover, she often had to eat expired bento boxes left over from convenience stores. Makunouchi bento boxes, which cost 400 yen each, were marked with a 30% discount when they were about to expire. She would buy them on her way home from get off work, sometimes eating them cold, and sometimes heating them up in the microwave. The fried chicken inside was soggy.

This is definitely not very healthy. The nutritional intake is not enough. There is not enough protein and vitamin deficiency. Plus, you have to work several jobs every day.

Previously, Eri Aragaki worked three jobs a day. After finishing her job at the convenience store, she would hand out flyers. After handing out flyers, she would put on a mascot costume and become an NPC at the children's amusement park. The heavy headgear made her hair wet every time she took it off.

Thinking about it that way, it makes perfect sense. After all, she's been living a very comfortable life lately and has been over-nourished.

Every morning, Erina makes breakfast, laying out eggs, milk, bread, and fruit on the table. For lunch and dinner, she either cooks her own lunch or eats out, and her refrigerator is always full of ingredients.

Aside from the fact that activating Super Creation consumes a lot of energy, requiring her to eat a lot of snacks to replenish it each time, under normal circumstances, the calories she consumes far exceed the calories she burns.

She no longer needed to go out to work. Erina and the others helped her with her regular drawing work. Ayane Takeda was in charge of the background and some halftone dots, while Akane Natsume was in charge of blacking out and organizing the drawings. Her workload was reduced by at least one-third.

There is plenty of free time and rest time; you can sleep when you want and play when you want.

So my physical condition improved, and with that improved physical condition, I also gained some ability points.

As a result, agility and intelligence are improved, and with a better physical foundation, the brain functions faster.

As for her charm, it could be said that Eri Aragaki's previously unhealthy lifestyle led to her looking good, but that was ultimately a result of her being in a sub-healthy state.

Now that I've returned to a healthy lifestyle with enough sleep and a balanced diet, my charm has naturally increased, my complexion has improved, and the advantages of my facial features have become more apparent.

So—did the numerical monster's stats increase?

That's really interesting.

The changes in attributes were the most noticeable, but Eri Aragaki then discovered other key points as well.

The first thing is popularity.

One hundred thousand popularity points can add one point to an ultimate skill.

Both racial skills and class skills can be upgraded, as stated in the interface.

Although she wouldn't be able to add any racial skills, and with those 100,000 popularity points she would definitely prioritize adding to her class's ultimate skill, that doesn't mean the racial skill "Boiling Water" is useless.

Because the skill description for Boiling Water Lv.1 seems quite ordinary, in reality—

At this moment, if Eri Aragaki had a single thought—to add those 100,000 popularity points to the "Boiling Water" skill—a completely new description would appear.

[Boiling Water Lv.2: Chief! Chief! I've discovered that if you bombard a uranium-235 nucleus with a slow neutron, it can instantly transform into the unstable uranium-236—.—(800 words omitted here)]

Then it pushes the steam turbine to turn, which in turn drives the generator to produce electricity!

Well, so the idea behind "boiling water" is actually nuclear energy theory!

But thinking about it, it makes sense—the essence of human civilization is boiling water, after all.

But is boiling water at Lv.2 nuclear fission?

Wouldn't it be like nuclear fusion taking off at Lv.3?

But after thinking about it carefully, I decided against it.

To come up with something like nuclear fusion theory—especially something that someone like her, who clearly didn't have formal training, suddenly came up with—isn't she afraid of being captured and used as a guinea pig?

"Forget it, forget it—if I were old and dying and came up with something to benefit humanity, that would be fine, but right now—it's not something I can do."

Eri Aragaki muttered to herself.

If she were to die of old age soon, she wouldn't need to worry about what would happen after her death, since she probably wouldn't leave any descendants in this life.

She can then max out her "Boiling Water" skill, since her popularity will likely be ridiculously high by then, allowing her to upgrade her ultimate skill multiple times.

By then, let alone nuclear fusion, we might even have controlled nuclear fusion, zero-point energy, Dyson spheres, and the like.

Now—she dismissed the idea of ​​taking such a dangerous approach and decided to focus on leveling up her ultimate professional skill.

However, when Eri Aragaki looked at Super Creator, she also noticed a significant change: Super Creator had upgraded itself!