Mike, probably thanks to his decent VIT Score and having gone to bed really early the day before, was able to get up pretty early, about thirty minutes before he needed to start heading for school. It was thanks to this that he not only got a decent night's sleep, but was also able to have some time in the morning to probably go for a quick round of grinding Zombies in the Pseudospace. Ten zombies were spawned, ten zombies were defeated in about a minute. These zombies seemed to put up a decent fight and they were pretty tough, even with Mike's newest Skill. Still, they didn't put up too much of a challenge for Mike, despite them outnumbering him ten to one, literally. In fact, if anything it was their numbers and slight bit of toughness that made them a challenge more than anything. Still, a nice 20 EXP was gained. Mike still had a good bit of MP left. He would have time for one more session of grinding. The twelve zombies that showed up the second time around put up a much better fight. Perhaps Mike was just off his a-game that time, but they got some pretty nasty bites into him and took away a good chunk of HP. He even leveled up Hardiness from this a couple times, implying that he dodged the bullet on getting a bad status, that was, until he actually got it. It seemed to be a pretty nasty effect, which he had time to check just after the fight. -25% Strength, Dex, and Vit until cured, and it just made him feel sick. Called Undeath Plague. A nasty sickness that makes one's body as if it were the undead, slowly draining away their physical abilities until they could no longer function, or so said the info on Mike's status window. Fortunately Mike would heal it when he went to bed and it would not kill him, just being a temporary nasty affect for now. Unfortunately he got the status after he had leveled up during the fight, so wondering if a Level Up would cure it was out of the question for now, as was anymore fighting as the disease status made him feel just very, very sluggish. Unfortunately in the medicine cabinet, there was no medicine to cure diseases like this, despite having been sick before. Apparently there was medicine that cured the Sick Status or other such things, but this was apparently a Plague Status, and nothing in Mike's medicine cabinet cured plague. Luckily a level in Observe was gained from checking the medicines, something Mike's basic intelligence told him to do. --- Still well enough?: 1 (Critical) --- Mike still felt that, despite this disease, he could power through the school day. Kendo club, maybe. School? Definitely. In fact, he managed to stay awake despite the sluggish, tired feeling he had throughout the day. --- Mike Learning: 36 - 15 Knowledge = 21 --- A few windows appeared at the end of the school day. [hider=Window 1] Studying diligently at school for the past few days has made you smarter. +1 Intelligence. [/hider] [hider=Window 2] Studying diligently at school for the past few days has made you more knowledgeable. +1 Knowledge. [/hider] [hider=Window 3] Powering through a tough disease, despite how it feels on your body, and still managing to pay attention in school has made you sturdier and hardier. +1 Vitality.[/hider] [hider=Window 4] Hardiness has gone up in level by 1. [/hider] Kendo Club, on the other hand, was gonna be somewhat difficult. Mike met the members of the club, who thought that he didn't look so good. His parents had thought the same, but Mike was able to seem well enough to go to school anyway. Keiichi, on the other hand, pulled Mike aside. "Its not good to push oneself too hard when sick... you should go home and get some rest... I can tell that is no natural disease you have either. While it is not contagious" which is something the info in the status window mentioned as otherwise going to school would have been a no go since that would probably go against the Interference Law "you should still probably go home anyway." As much as Keiichi admired Mike's spirit he still thought that pushing oneself with that kind of disease wasn't good training.So essentially Mike would have no choice, as disobeying Keiichi's orders was probably not the best of plans, so going home was probably his only choice meaning he didn't get to participate in the Kendo Club that day. Luckily, while it may have impeded him physically, mentally and spiritually Mike was still fine. So after dinner using Meditation and Spirit Channel were not too much of a problem for him. Getting an hour each of Meditation and Spirit Channeling leveled them up a good bit, Spirit Channeling providing some buffs once it got to Level 5, Meditation only helping him recover MP much more quickly as it leveled up more. All in all though, an hour each was his limit as even with Meditation's ability to recover fatigue, the disease was also making it harder for him to recover fatigue through basic relaxation. Seeing as it was pretty late after Kendo club now, about 8 PM or so, Mike would have been best off turning in for the night and sleeping in a little more this time around to get rid of this terrible Status Affect. Zandaka, being turned on and off throughout the day since it had a high MP Cost, would also have been leveled up a bit more after the fight. It seemed to level alot more slowly than his other Skills, but it still got some good leveling nonetheless.