The appliance repair Cultivator

Well. Its official. Not only do aliens exist but apparently their shit is broken. At least that's what the 32 year old appliance repair technician gathers after reading the Two quests being displayed in a literal HUDs display pop up screen glowing in his vision. The first open global Quest is to fix the Master control matrix aboard the Vassaroth. Some kind of ship ? Maybe. The quest lacks details. What is does say is that failure will result in earth no longer being isolated from the Extra planer realms. What ever that is. At least Maik has almost 12 and a half years to figure it out

Maik could get more information, if only he were a recognized citizen of the 5th Imperial Congregate. Maik's pretty sure those are the aliens. He can gain citizenship now. Well, remedial citizenship at any rate. Not that that doesn't have disturbing implications of its own. All Maik has to do is take part if the first open global quest by contributing Chi energy to the system, and then paying a monthly subscription fee to retain his citizenship.

This is all assuming that the population of the planet collectively contributes enough energy, because the second quest says that the planetary magic regulatory systems central command and control center is about to fail. To avoid this fate humanity just need to collectively contribute 2.0964e+13 Joules of chi energy within 24 days. Yeah, there might be 7 billion people on the planet but Maik is rather doubtful that humanity is going to make that deadline. Maik's not sure what the effects of this magic regulation system going down would be, but with a quest name like 'Avoid the apocalypse, its probably not good it if goes down.

What a way to start the weekend.

(To me, the essence of what makes a LitRPG a LitRPG is how the characters are quantified. A physically mediocre character isn't going to suddenly reach deep down into some hidden well spring of power or untapped potential to overcome the current obstacle. That's just another form of Deus ex machina in my book. But if the author knows and has quantified what the characters can, and more importantly, can't do, then its way harder for any character to go all god mode.

This is why I'm using the LitRPG format. So that I know my character strength and weaknesses. Someone who is physically weak isn't going to just suddenly get in a fist fight with a jock over pride or hurt feelings because, deep down, he knows that hes just going to get his ass whooped. And that can be expanded out to every stat, allowing me, the author, to know on a deep and foundational level what my characters will do in a given circumstance.

I'm not saying that every righter needs to have stat sheet for all their important characters, or spread sheets showing stamina and chi usage for various tasks. Now saying every righter needs to keep track of how tired their characters are with data points so they know if that characters is hangry or sleepy during a particular conversation. I'm saying that's what I need in order to make a great story where I know that the actions and reactions of the characters in it will be as genuine as possible.

Now, I'm not going to be showing you all the math. Far from it. Some of that is because many of you don't like that much math, which I totally understand. The other part is so that other people can't steal my system to duplicate my works. MwaaAHH HAHAHAHAHA.

And I should probably note that I'm going for more of a slow burn here. I want to take my time with this story and I've had to redo the magic system a few times in order to get the tone and pace about where I think I want it. We'll see as things progress but I'm pretty much committed to this version at this point. No more redo's Its time to put up or shut up for me.

Enjoy.)