30. Experimenting

(So I was right! They’re eating Powerstones to level up!)

I didn’t waste another second before pulling up their status screens.

【Citizen Status】

• Name: Gopuro

• Race: Super Forest Goblin

• Rank: ★★

• Level: 11 (↑ +1)

Vital Status

• HP: 300 / 300 (Max ↑ +50)

• MP: 30 / 30 (Max ↑ +5)

• Stamina: 67 / 300 (Max ↑ +50)

Core Attributes

• Attack: 23 (↑ +8)

• Defense: 12 (↑ +2)

• Magic Attack: 0

• Magic Defense: 0

• Magic Capacity: 0

• Speed: 5

*The arrows indicated changes compared to last time I checked their statuses.

I checked Gopuran’s status as well, confirming that she got the similar increase in her stats.

(So per level they gain roughly +50 Max HP, +5 Max MP, +50 Max Stamina… and a whopping 10 points distributed across core attributes? That’s fantastic growth!)

That immediately made me compare it to what I remembered of Gopuro’s earlier stats.

When I had first saved him, he was only level 8 and had around 10 total attribute points. That meant each level from 0 to 10 had likely granted only 1 point, or at most 2.

But now, the jump from level 10 to 11 alone had given him nearly as many attribute points as his entire progression from level 0 to 10 combined!

The difference was absurd. No wonder the cost of leveling up had become so steep.

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In this case, it had taken 7 Powerstones to push Gopuro from level 10 to 11.

That was equivalent to 35 Castle Points.

By comparison, raising him directly from level 9 to 10 through [Lord’s Blessing] had cost only 12 Points.