Hearing Hestia's sudden cry from behind him, Su Mo wasn't the least bit surprised.
"I did warn you, didn't I? Who was it just now saying that gods don't get scared so easily?"
He couldn't help but chuckle, teasing her a little.
"Anyone would be shocked seeing numbers like these, alright!" Hestia retorted, her eyes still wide as she stared at the stats on Su Mo's back, trying to convince herself they were real.
"Did the Falna glitch or something? That shouldn't be possible—I checked the process, and everything looked normal…" she muttered. "But still… how could this even happen?"
Her voice grew more incredulous with every word. "Just what in the world did you do to gain this much experience!? Don't tell me you ran off and accidentally killed some divine beast or something!"
She was clearly at her wit's end, her mind struggling to process what she was seeing. Despite Su Mo being her only Familia member, she still knew the Falna system well enough to understand that this simply shouldn't be possible under normal circumstances. These stats were absurd.
"You could say something like that happened." Su Mo nodded thoughtfully. What he had fought wasn't a divine beast, technically—it was a monster—but in terms of power, there wasn't much difference.
"Anyway, Hestia, you've been gaping at me for a while now, but you still haven't told me what the stats say."
Curious, Su Mo looked to her expectantly.
"…See for yourself," she said, finally coming to terms with the fact that she couldn't explain what she'd seen. She copied the stats onto parchment and handed it to him.
The moment Su Mo saw the numbers, he immediately understood why Hestia had reacted the way she did.
His own expression twitched slightly. These stats were even more ridiculous than he had expected.
[Name]: Su Mo
[Level]: LV1
[Stats]: Strength: I0 → ???9999
Endurance: I0 → ???9999
Dexterity: I0 → ???9999
Agility: I0 → ???9999
Magic: I0 → ???9999
[Development Abilities]: —
[Magic]: Light Magic, Unknown Magic, Unknown Magic…
[Skills]: Transformation—??? Form
…
…
Under normal circumstances, a Falna's stats are ranked in ten stages from I to S, each corresponding to a numerical range.
For instance:
I = 0–99H = 100–199…S = 900–999
That's the upper limit for most adventurers. Reaching S-rank in a stat was considered the peak of potential.
Even Orario's most powerful adventurer, Ottar—Level 7—had once hit that cap. His stats represented the ceiling of what was thought possible.
Even in the original storyline, with Bell as the chosen protagonist, his cheat-like growth only pushed his stats into the SSS range, with numbers around 1500 at most.
And that alone had been deemed dangerous enough that Familias would go to great lengths to guard such data.
But now?
Compared to Su Mo's stat sheet, Bell's so-called "protagonist-tier stats" looked like a joke.
Every stat on Su Mo's sheet was listed as ??? rank, unmeasurable. Every value showed 9999—a number nearly ten times the supposed limit.
Su Mo looked at the sheet and rubbed his chin thoughtfully.
"These look like overflow values from a system bug."
He'd written enough code in his past life to recognize the signs. It seemed the gods had never expected anyone to push their stats this far. The Falna system simply didn't have the capacity to display anything beyond four digits.
And now, every stat on Su Mo's sheet had hit the hard cap: 9999.
It didn't mean that the experience Su Mo gained from defeating Golzan and Melba could only increase his stats to this level.
Rather, it simply meant that the Falna—the divine blessing system—was only capable of displaying numbers up to 9999. There was no provision to show values any higher than that.
"I can't believe those two monsters actually overflowed the Falna system."
Realizing this, Su Mo couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth.
It was absurd—ridiculously so. Then again, those two monsters were the kind that even the hyper-advanced society of Tiga Ultraman's world had failed to eliminate. No wonder. They were terrifying on a whole different level.
Setting aside the obviously-overflowing stats, Su Mo focused his attention on one particular attribute.
"It makes sense that the other stats maxed out... but endurance too?"
Each attribute in the Falna was calculated separately.
You had to use a particular trait in combat to accumulate experience for it— Strength, Dexterity, Agility, Magic—these were easy enough. After transforming into Tiga Ultraman, Su Mo had used all four extensively.
But Endurance was different.
That stat only increased when one received damage in battle. And when Su Mo had taken down the two monsters, he'd ended the fight swiftly—
No drawn-out clashes.
No direct hits taken.
There shouldn't have been any reason for his endurance stat to increase, let alone hit the max.
So then... how?
"Wait a minute…"
Thinking back carefully, Su Mo suddenly realized a likely explanation.
"Could it be… when I flew into space with Daigo, the force from breaking the sound barrier was counted as an attack?"
After all, when an object moves through the atmosphere at high speed, it inevitably encounters air resistance. Once you approach the speed of sound, that resistance compresses into an almost solid wall of force.
If someone tried to break the sound barrier without protection, the shock alone could rip steel apart.
For an Ultraman, such force was negligible—barely even noticeable.
But for a human?
The impact could kill instantly.
Su Mo suspected that the Falna had interpreted that sonic shock as a form of damage received. That would explain how his Endurance stat had increased so dramatically—despite never being hit in combat.
"Well, I guess that saves me the trouble of standing around trying to get hit just to max out my endurance."
Su Mo, a bit obsessive when it came to his stats, certainly wasn't the type to tolerate one attribute lagging behind the rest.
Especially not Endurance— A vital stat that directly affected how long he could maintain his transformation into Tiga Ultraman.