I Reincarnated into a Game Filled with Mods – Chapter 112

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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‘Hmm…’

I placed my hand on the stat-checking orb and pondered how to allocate my stat points, reviewing my current stats.

This had been my ongoing dilemma for three days straight.

The experience points gained from defeating Lucia, the Creature Abandoned by God, and the newly opened areas had exceeded my expectations.

My level had jumped a whopping 37 levels, reaching 62.

Considering that leveling up was relatively easy before reaching level 100 and the true hell began around level 200, it wasn’t a negligible increase.

‘But the place I have to go now is the final area…’

I sighed inwardly.

I had just cleared the Abyss Dungeon, the final area of the DLC, in the Holy Kingdom, and now I had to head to the Imperial Palace, the final area of the main story.

Of course, it didn’t really matter since I wasn’t going to fight the knights in the Imperial Palace, but it was still frustrating.

‘Focus.’

I pulled myself together and concentrated on the status window.

I had already accepted that the story would get twisted the moment I decided to defeat the Creature Abandoned by God at this point in time.

Now that things had come to this, I just had to make sure the main plot progressed smoothly, even if I couldn’t follow every single detail of the original story.

‘How much Strength should I allocate?’

I had already decided on my build.

The extremely late-blooming Priest build and the Mage build, which constantly struggled with mana shortage, were practically trash in the mod, so the only option left was a melee build.

The real problem was stat allocation.

I would need to use buff spells later on, so should I allocate points to Mana and Faith in advance, or should I just deal with it later?

‘Buffs are absolutely necessary.’

In the vanilla game, buffs were just a nice bonus.

However, in the mod, where enemies’ health had been significantly increased overall, the difference between having buffs and not having them was huge.

I had already allocated points to Magic Power and Divine Power just to utilize the Bloodstained Sword’s buff.

Now that I had invested those points, I had to make the most of them.

Even though the story had become so twisted that the time to retire the Bloodstained Sword had come much sooner than I expected.

Health was essentially a dump stat in the mod.

I could just allocate the points I would have put in Health to Mana and Faith instead.

After much deliberation, I finally made my decision and placed my finger on the blue status window.

‘I’ll allocate points to Faith later when I get the chance.’

It was a bit disappointing that I wouldn’t be able to fully utilize the Solar and Lunar Eclipse skills I had acquired, but I could make do with other spells.

There was no need to invest in Faith right now.

If I really needed to fight demons, I could just ask the Holy Kingdom for help.

They wouldn’t refuse to fight demons, especially considering the “relationship” I had established with the Popes.

I had learned my lesson about Stamina during the Creature Abandoned by God boss fight.

It was better to have a bit of a buffer than to barely scrape by with the minimum number of rolls.

In the game, it didn’t matter as long as you memorized the boss’s patterns, but in this world, anything could happen.

I stared at the numbers displayed next to my stats and finalized my decision.

Although my stats had jumped significantly, I didn’t feel any noticeable changes at the moment.

I swung my arms around.

Nothing changed.

I didn’t feel like I had become significantly stronger.

I removed my hand from the orb.

The blue light that filled the room faded away.

Now, I just hoped that Minerva wouldn’t be too interested in my changes when we met at the Imperial Palace.

I left the stat-checking room and returned to the castle’s training ground, where I found Iris and Lize sparring fiercely.

“Haaaah!”

Iris’ longsword swung from top right to bottom left, then swept back up to her right shoulder with a powerful gust of wind swirling from her left side.

She thrust her arm forward.

The grayish wind swirling around the blade seemed to split the training ground in half as it shot towards Lize.

A booming sound echoed through the air.

Lize didn’t just stand there and take it.

She crossed her left arm to the right and her right arm to the left in front of her chest before swinging them horizontally.

A sheet of sharp frost covered the training ground floor.

A sharp, glass-shattering sound rang out, followed by a thick blue mist.

The swirling wind mixed with the cold air.

The whirlwind and frost mist collided head-on.

As I mentally reviewed countermeasures for those attacks, I approached Claudia and Erica, who were resting in a corner of the training ground.

Erica, her face noticeably thinner than before, greeted me.

“You’re here, Mr. Delta.”

“How are the preparations going? Everything okay?”

“…I’m so nervous I feel like I’m going to die.”

Erica’s face fell.

Even Claudia, who was usually boisterous and carefree, was sitting with her shoulders hunched, her hands clasped under her chin, her expression tense.

“You’ve worked at the Imperial Palace before. You’re still nervous?”

“That’s why I’m even more nervous. It’s been a long time since I’ve been back to the Imperial Palace.”

Cecilia’s decree was simple.

Aurora and the Silver Dawn Knights were to appear before her at the Imperial Palace in three days.

A teleportation scroll was included with the decree.

The Knight Commanders accepted the decree without complaint.

Only Aurora, who was suddenly obligated to accompany us to meet the Empress, grumbled about the extra work.

Of course, the Knight Commanders were also inwardly anxious, even if they didn’t show it.

The reason for their sudden sparring session was also related to the decree.

They had spent over a day preparing for their trip to the Imperial Palace, and now that they had finished all their preparations, they were so restless that they had decided to spar to clear their minds.

I was also anxious about Cecilia’s unpredictable nature, but not as much as the Knight Commanders.

In fact, their anxiety made mine seem relatively calm.

At this point, I was starting to get curious about Cecilia’s reputation.

As I sat between Claudia and Erica, watching the other two spar, a thought suddenly occurred to me.

With Claudia here, it was a good opportunity to test my Strength stat.

“Knight Commander Claudia, could you lend me your sword for a moment?”

“My sword? Why?”

“There’s something I want to try.”

“Be my guest. But you won’t be able to lift it, you know? The other girls struggle to lift it, how could you possibly—”

Claudia offered me her sword with a playful smile on her face.

Then, her jaw dropped as she watched me lift it with one hand.

‘Wow, it actually worked.’

My arm trembled as I held the greatsword, and I felt like I would drop it if I relaxed for even a moment.

But the fact that I could lift it at all was what mattered.

I could truly feel how much my Strength stat had increased.

My past self wouldn’t have been able to lift it with one hand, let alone move it with all his might.

‘What were the stat requirements for this thing again?’

I think it was 36 or 37.

My current Strength stat was 25, so I could barely lift it.

A warning message would appear if my stat was less than half of the weapon’s requirement, stating that the weapon was too heavy to lift.

In other words, I could lift any weapon with a Strength requirement of up to 50 with one hand.

I was struck by the sheer weight of Claudia’s greatsword.

It was incredibly large, thick, and heavy.

I wondered how she could even swing it.

But now, even I could use it, albeit with difficulty.

When wielding a weapon with both hands, the Strength stat was multiplied by 1.5, so I could swing it without any damage reduction.

Of course, I had no intention of using anything other than a one-handed sword, even for parrying.

I slammed the tip of the greatsword into the ground and offered the hilt to Claudia.

“Here you go. It’s unbelievably heavy.”

“…”

Claudia gaped at me, her face blank with astonishment.

It was a rare sight, considering her personality.

It wasn’t just Claudia.

Erica, who was sitting right next to me, and even Iris and Lize, who had been tearing up the training ground with their swords, were staring at me, frozen in place.

“What’s wrong with everyone? Do you have something to say?”

“How did you… lift that, Delta?”

“This isn’t the first time I’ve done something like this. Just accept it and move on.”

I grinned at Lize, who was staring at me with wide eyes.

I wasn’t this kind of person originally, but it felt like I was becoming more and more shameless with each passing day.

The Knight Commanders’ reactions were as expected.

They were looking at me with “Just you wait” expressions.

I felt like they would kidnap and interrogate me until I revealed my secret if I changed my attitude.

“…”

Perhaps because of my actions, the atmosphere seemed to have relaxed a bit.

It wasn’t intentional, but the result was good, so it was a good thing.

Time flew by.

There was a minor incident where Lize froze up after being hit by Claudia’s direct question about whether my “bedside strength” had also improved, and if she could test it at night.

Finally, we were just an hour away from our departure to the Imperial Palace.

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[cant wait for the kidnapping and ‘Interrogation’ theyll do to him probably naked lmao ]