Legendary Traveler: By Earning Progress Points I will Become Supreme!

Chapter 28 Descending Pressure

After a full night's sleep and having only gotten up once to stoke the fire, Aoni was awoken by soft nudges and gaos from a certain little fluff ball and peeked out at her through cracked eyelids.

"Go back to sleep... it's too early..." Aoni grumbled while hiding a smile. Since he had gotten plenty of rest during the night, he wasn't tired and only teased his summon, who gave the appropriate response of more adorable nudges and gaos.

"Five more minutes, Glacia," Rolling over, he noticed the summon fall off his body and plop down onto the bed. Then, with a huff, she charged up and...

THWAK

Headbutted him in the back with enough force to slide Aoni from the center of the bed till he was pushed up against the wall, in turn causing him to burst out laughing.

Sure, she had put all her minuscule weight and power behind that headbutt and didn't actually intend to hurt him, but he still found it hilarious.

"Okay, OKAY, jeeeeze, I'm up; I get it; you're hungry!" Aoni stated while pushing off the cave wall and sitting up, only to notice that Glacia had already appeared by the bookshelf and was staring up at the box of MREs with drool dripping from her mouth.

"GAOOO!"

"I got it; I got it, lemmie get dressed first," rolling his eyes at the protests of the ball of white fur, he walked over to the makeshift drying rack and checked on his semi-cleaned clothing.

After making sure they were dry and fairly warm, he went ahead and put on the t-shirt, boxers, and jeans before padding over to the bookshelf barefoot.

With that said, Glacia quickly woofed down the breakfast MRE and curled back up on the bed for a nap, causing him to chuckle because it reminded the Lad a lot of the cranky dog he'd grown up with.

Much like Glacia, Snarky, too, would nap after every meal, and seeing Glacia do the same thing didn't seem too out of the norm for Aoni, especially since she was technically still a baby.

Since breakfast was complete, he walked over to the desk and sat on the chair while looking at his TD with a contemplative gaze.

'There's only a single drop-down arrow now, next to my Potential...all the others are gone, indicating I can no longer upgrade anything.' Aoni thought while trying to decipher if it was in reference to his Potential as a whole or the individual parts.

Thanks to the Spikey Fruit, Aoni's rank potential increased, but his Attribute was still at one; however, that caused a bit of a problem in his mind.

'Logically speaking, if Upgrading my stats to the limit of my potential increased the stage of my Attribute, that should mean that by raising my potential, I should be able to bring it to the next Step...but the question I have is whether or not my potential is considered one stat or two...' Scratching his cheek Aoni eventually decided it was better to be active rather than sitting around doing nothing.'

So without further ado, he double-checked his Progress points, burning the number into his mind, '38.33', then stated the mental command.

'Increase my Potential'

| No Designation Determined |

'... no Designation...ah, Increase my Rank Potential,' figuring he may as well give it a shot, Aoni thought the command only to come up empty when he saw the notification.

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Aoni Thurston

Age: 16

Potential: Two Star/F- Rank

Rank: -F

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Attribute Grade: ✫

Attribute: Progression

Progress Points: 18.33

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Statistics

Attack: F-

Defense: F-

Speed: F-

Energia: F-

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Passives

Cold Resistance: F-

Pain Resistance: F-

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