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Chapter 8: Making The Most Of Things

  Date August 13th, 2250

  A week ter.

  "Okay, hoime for you to take a nap." My mom Jane said to me in an upbeat and positive sounding voice as I was busy roaming around our home's rge living room floor, trying to build up, strengthen, and improve my weak but quickly growing baby muscles.

  ahh

  After responding to her with one of my signature baby noises, I tinued crawling on the floor for a few more seds before I found myself being picked up by her and brought to my bedroom to be put down for one of my many scheduled naps.

  When she arrived at my bedroom door with me in tow, she ope and brought me inside my room, which I’m pretty sure was quite a bit rger thaypical bedroom for the average uy resident. Though I haven't been to another one so I don't know that for sure.

  With the two of us entering the room, mom walked over to my crib with me in hand aly pced me in my crib before tug me in with my usual b and gazing at me with what I perceived as a loving gaze for several seds.

  "Alright, honey, I'll be back when you wake up. Sweet dreams." She said to which I responded with another of my many baby hat I had in my arsenal, making a smile appear on her face before she relutly departed my room, probably to tinue her work in the living room.

  Now that Mom's out of my room and has left me aloo take a nap, I'm not really feeling all that tired thanks to my Monstrous Physique perk cutting the amount of sleep I need by half. So with that being as it is, I suppose I'll use the time I have avaible to myself like I've been doing the past couple of days by getting a bit of w out in before she eventually es back to check up on me sihat's all I really do besides sleeping and sug on my mom's teet.

  Thank god there aren't any baby monitors in my room. If there was one, I wouldn't be able to do much of anything besides normal baby activities.

  Dohinking and ready to get to grinding, I set into motion by first removing the very soft and fy b c me and tossed it to the side of my crib before I then stood up wobbly without holding onto anything. Whio doubt would have left both of my new parents gobsmacked because no newborn baby out of the womb for a single week should be capable of that type of physical feat.

  What exercise should I start out with... I'll begin with squats first to tirengthening my legs and once I feel like I've reached my limits in that exercise, I'll rest for a bit and move on to some of my other bodyweight exercises.

  Finished deg, I got to work on my squats before resting and tinuing on to a different exercise.

  ...

  Maer.

  I think I did more than enough exercise for the time being, don't want to overdo it and end up stressing my newborn body too much. Although, now that I'm giving it some thought, that's probably not possible with just bodyweight exercises since I have 11 endurance. Which is a hell of a lot higher thao 2 endurahat most normal humans down here should have going off of my game knowledge.

  As for the various humans roaming around the wastend above, they could range anywhere from 1 to 10, however, most will probably range around an average of 3 to 4 endurance. Additionally, there should be a few gifted individuals above that have breached and surpassed the normal human limit of 10, but they're an exception and should be few and far between...

  Going bay previous train of thought, I have many years ahead of me to make a ton ress, so it's better that I err on the side of caution than to push things too far and end up damaging my body. Plus, if I were to end up ihat would most definitely make my parents ed and would likely result in me being put under a microscope, something of which I’d definitely rather avoid for obvious reasons.

  With my exercise pleted, I id back down on my bed and brainstormed to see if there was anything else I could do at the moment. After pting on it for a bit with both of my thought processes that I was still getting used to, I came up with no other ideas, thus I opened up my status first to see how I rogressing.

  As soon as the holographic s popped ience, I was on the new s that was only dispying my pleted daily workout quest. Not seeing anything else, I wasted no time and turhat daily quest iing myself a nice 16 exp as my reward. Once I had that out of the way, I sed tabs and checked out my status to see where my exp progress was at.

  Hmm, my exp sitting at a total of 112, so with my current rate ress I should be able to get my first level up in about 56 days, not too bad of a wait holy.

  Moving on from there, I carefully examihe rest of my status in its eo see if anything else had appeared or ged that wasn't dispyed in the ab. I pleted the task of going through it all in seds thanks to my new and improved intelligend didn't notiything different. So with nothing else to do in any of my system's menus, I exited it, making the system poof out of existen the blink of an eye.

  Well, looks like I've done all I for now. Guess I'll take that nap like mom wanted.

  Happy with the small amount I aplished, I pulled my fy b back over myself and closed my eyes to get a bit of shuteye for however long I had left before my mom iably checked up on me.

  ...

  Time tinued on and the hing I knew, 3 weeks and 4 days had quickly flown by with the date ging to September 7th, 2250. On that day, while I was supposed to be in the midst of taking one of my several daily naps, I was iraining my perception that I had just figured out how to train the prior week.

  And as I was training said attribute with my other thought process that I had also grown aced to over these st 3 weeks, I couldn't help but be impressed at the usefulness of this attribute and the possibilities it could offer me down the road when it finally surpasses 10 and beyond.

  This pseudo-perception field of mine is pretty busted. It kind of reminds me of those xianxia cultivation hat I used to read ba my previous world. The ones where the cultivators beyond a certain stage would be able to sense everything within a certain distance around them.

  Though mine is a hell of a lot weaker than what was described in those books, with what I sense being pretty fuzzy overall simir to tv static. That aside, the range of this perception field is limited to around 10 feet by my rough estimates, give or take a few inches. So it's like a signifitly weakened version of what those books described.

  Even with it being a hell of a lot weaker than what cultivators would have, I for sure see it being very useful in many sarios, including those that would require me to be sneaking around eerritories, deteg traps, lock pig, and other such activities. It'll probably end up saving my ass more than a few times in my future adventures.

  Furthermore, I bet if I tihis perception training of mine up, I'll reach a simir level to what was detailed in those novels some day. Although I have no idea when and how many years it will take to achieve that kind of ability and mastery thus, I'll just have to keep at it sistently until I do.

  On another note, hopefully by the end of the year I'll be able to increase it by a point at the very least. So I get another perk for surpassing 10 points in a siribute, which is typically the limit for most humans unless drugs, cyberics, and mutations are taken into at. There could be other methods avaible to increase them, but those are the only ones I know of currently for normal humans...

  My thinking might be unrealistid a bit too mu the optimistic side of things, but I think my ces are pretty det given that I've already noticed a small improvement in my ability to perceive when someone is nearby and or nearing me. Plus, I am almost sure that both my vision and my hearing have improved. However, the ges in those two aren't as btantly noticeable as the previously mentioned one, hence I might just be imagining that they've improved.

  ...

  That's enough thinking about that. I better redirect my entire focus to my perception training sihere's no use in pting further on this until I actually start seeing real progress made.

  After I set aside my thoughts regarding what I would like to happen iure, I tinued ying down under my fy bs in my crib, keeping both eyes shut, aurned my entire focus to my perception training. As soon as my two thought processes teamed up together to focus on their objective, the crity at which I could perceive a things within my surroundings increased by a level or two.

  Now with the inclusion of my other thought process, I kept training my perception primarily by fog my senses on the various objects in my room that sisted of a small amount of furniture that was here since day one of my arrival and an increasing number of toys that my mom and dad got me over the past couple of weeks.

  Though they mainly sisted of numerous block toys because that was the only toy I found somewhat enjoyable to eain myself with when I was in the preseny parents and nearents.

  Something they all picked up on immediately, hehe increasing number of blocks I had at my disposal to py with. But besides training off of that, I also allocated some focus to the hallway that ected to my space to keep a for either my mom or dad ing down the hallway.

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