Following his level up notification, another notification window appeared.

You've been granted the title, "The Tutorial's Champion."

"A title already?" This notification surprised Merlin, titles were one of the most important things in New Genesis. Due to there being no such thing as assignable stat points in this game, titles were one of the few major ways to increase stats, the others being equipment, souls and occasionally knowledge.

There were a few methods outside of those four to increase stats, but they were the major ones, everything else was an exception, such as being too unique to even bother mentioning.

Merlin checked the title he just received, a window appeared before him.

[The Tutorial's Champion.]

Granted as a reward for completing the quest, "The Tutorial's Challenger."

Vitality: +1

Strength: +2

"Wow, those are some pretty good bonuses." Merlin was genuinely happy with this reward. At level zero, all of your stats started at one, you gained one point into every stat per level up. After reaching level one, Merlin's strength was only two, and his health was twenty.

This title added an extra ten health, raising Merlin's current health pool to thirty, as each point in vitality granted you ten health. His strength score was also doubled, strength contributed to things such as your carry capacity, load bearing ability and physical damage.

"I never expected to see such talent here, I'm impressed." Gaia's voice echoed throughout the endless field once more, followed by a notification that even surprised Merlin.

You have earned +1 familiarity with Gaia.

Earning familiarity was somewhat uncommon of a reward, usually tied to larger quests for most NPCs. But to earn familiarity with Gaia herself, it was unheard of. As far as a