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FiOP Chapter 56
🕑 Added 2025-06-05 12:51:58 +0000 UTCStatus recalibration was a fairly uncommon occurrence that happened when a person gained more skills or skills that were too powerful for their body to handle. It only really happened to the top percentage of adventurers who had adventured for decades. So for it to happen to a farmer barely through his first year of farming… It was almost unfathomable.
The body just couldn’t handle the amount of skills he had; his body was so weak that it almost killed him. That was why his body instinctively began to correct itself and make changes. Sacrifices needed to be made, but those sacrifices would feed into other areas, improving the body's stats, statistical ratios, or fusing skills.
Danny’s instincts drove the changes that were occurring in his body. His love for his wives, his wish to give his children a better upbringing than he had, and his fear of not being strong enough determined his future path and what changes would be made. The first was the entire jack of trades skill tree, even the skills he hadn’t purchased. Removing the skills provided less proficiency than the skills gave, but the natural proficiency bonus was now a fundamental part of him and could be inherited by his children.
For the same reason, the tool skills tree he had rolled into what he was naturally capable of. The transition led to a slight improvement in both stats and the stat ratio. Improving the stat ratio would allow the body to get more out of every stat and might have been more important than improving his stats, but he needed to improve his stats, otherwise, this situation would happen again, where his body couldn’t contain the powerful skills.
Quality over quantity, and harder and faster were absorbed into the farming skill. The effect was the same, but combining into a single skill freed up more room for the future, although the skill didn’t upgrade into a new, higher-tier skill; his farming skill was already better than most, and it was very, very close to upgrading. The stat-increasing skill tree was removed, increasing his stats by about half of what the skills provided, but once again, the stats gained through skills didn’t calculate for child inheritance. It was a loss for the body but a gain for all his future children.
The problem was… It still wasn’t enough; the body was still too full of energy and was going to cascade into failure if more changes weren’t made. That was why the body combined every single sexual related skill while removing the ones he hadn’t purchased yet, along with similar skills involving his children's growth to create two new skills. Each skill was weaker than the combined skills; the body would get less benefit from them, but his wives and children would get more. That was the trade-off.
The combination also left behind plenty of excess energy, which was quickly applied to the body's stats and stat ratio. If anyone were currently viewing the body, they’d see it grow in size while the changes were being applied. The energy was expended, but it was a small miracle that a common non-combat class managed to survive a status recalibration. Not only survive, but gain many benefits while not losing too much, which wasn’t always the case.
Sometimes, the person just loses skills without gaining anything, and the truly unfortunate die. The body was only capable of so much, but by going through a status recalibration, it would break its limits. Everything about the body improved as his potential increased beyond what was possible before. The body also made the stat boosts from modifiers apply to the character to remove some of the excess clutter. The body wasn’t sure why the person hadn’t changed something that instinctively annoyed him… But because it was the instinct's choice, it chose to change that.
Name: Danial Drizzle
Age: 17
Height: 6’5”
Weight: 180
Health: 559
Mana: 581
Stamina: 1118
Class: Farmer
Level: 01
Stats
Strength: 2.91 + .4 + .81 + .24 + .55 + .85 = 5.76
Perception: 2.55 + .55 + .32 + .45 + 1.26 + .42 = 5.55
Endurance: 3.00 + .35 + .52 + .36 + .87 + .52 = 5.62
Charm: 3.05 + .23 + .20 + 1.17 + 1.00 +.47 = 6.12
Intellect: 3.20 + .15 + .15 + 1.04 + .52 + .79 = 5.85
Agility: 2.85 +.84 + .39 + .22 + 1.76 + .23 = 6.29
Luck: 3.50 + .21 + .13 + .32 + .28 + .32 = 4.76
Skills
Lucky Farming- Increases the quality of crops by 200%. Increases yield and experience with gathering jobs by 100%. Decreases the chance of low-quality crops, fatigue from farming, and time for plants to fully grow by 60%. Gives a 1% chance to pick a crop with 1 quality higher than normal.
Smart Minor spell user- Increases the speed of acquiring new minor spells and reduces the cost of using those spells. Choose utility-based spell specialization. Gain .5 intellect boost.
Harem Bond- You and your wives gain 25% of each other's stats, you can more easily satisfy your wives, and recover 25% of resources from climaxing. Wives gain a skill that is helpful for farming.
Bloody Magic specialization (utility)- Animation- Gain instinctive knowledge on the animation school of magic. Freshly bloodied golems have their stats boosted even further until the blood dries.
Familial connection- You and your wives gain 10% of the stats of your children once they reach adulthood, while your children and wives gain 25% of your stats. Your children gain 10% of their mother's stats, increased proficiency, increased stat ratio, and have a much higher chance of inheriting skills.
Perennial Golem growth medium- Can plant mushrooms, moss, or vine-type plants into a golem. Golems gain bonuses depending on what type of plant is added. Items planted will regrow after winter.
Strengthening Wicker quality- Crops grown on wicker golems now also have an increased quality by 50%. The potential bonus doubles if higher-quality fertilizer is used. Fertilizer used also increases the defense of the golem by an equal amount.
Elemental affinity- Earth- Gain instinctive knowledge on casting Earth-based magic.
Potion seller- Your potions are too strong for mortals to consume. Applying created potions to dirt will make a perfect growth medium for herbs that require that potion.
Comfort zone- Increases health, mana, and stamina regeneration by 100% while on the farm.
Un-acquired skills
Monocrop- Increases the rarity of a single crop by 100% while decreasing rarity by 25% for everything else.
Polycrop- Increases the benefits of planting multiple crops on a single field, 10% per symbiotic crop.
Magical field- Increases the odds of developing a magified crop. Pouring your mana into the field to increase the chances even further.
Magical specialization- Choose a specialization. Offense, Defense, Healing, Support.
Elite golem- Gain knowledge on how to create an elite golem. This golem has 500% of the stats of a normal golem. (Can only create a single elite golem).
Bodyguards- Declare a golem as you or any of your family's bodyguards. That golem will get a 100% boost to stats while protecting that person.
Mini planter golems- Gain knowledge on how to create mini planter golems. Passive golems that will allow you to more easily transport plants.
Eat the vial- You can condense potions down into a solid glass-like container, which will double the effects if the same potion is stored and consumed.
Placebo- Drinking any liquid out of a potion vial has a small chance to provide a small boost to health, stamina, and mana.
Herbdar- Gain an innate feeling when near a wild herb, can somewhat tell which direction it is in.
Accumulated research- Gain a 5% boost to quantity and quality of herbs for every different type of herb you’ve grown.
Comments
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Understood the need to trim the status a bit but it does feel like you could have added some more story around it, or just made this a special chapter that said you were cleaning up the status so things were easier.
