《In a new world, so lets go it alone!》 prologue Blood was everywhere. Bodies of beings obviously no human have strung around, no one body was fully intact. The ground was barren and black. One man was walking and humming to himself. ¡®So you must be wondering how I can just walk and hum after doing what I just did. It¡¯s because I''m sain. What? You think that''s the opposite? Insane, the opposite of sain, means to be out of touch with reality, and right now I''m in full sink with reality, more than anyone else.¡¯ ¡®It all goes back to a while back¡¯ A while back I was drinking coke, and
Race ¡®humanity¡¯ has passed the undead trial, and qualifies for Gia project. In twenty-four hours all humans shall be transported to a completely untamed world with the god system. Click ¡®help¡¯ to see rules of god system
Oh, yah I forgot about the zombies. Zombies, you ask? Well, ten days ago a million zombie appeared around the world. But they were killed by the collective governments pretty fast. But back to the topic, after reading the rules it can be compacted down to what is essentially a lite-RPG. One rule is that nothing on your person is left behind. So got to get all the things I need. First, a weapon got lucky on this. My sister minored in cooking and had a Japanese made steel knife in a sheath. So I slipped that in my pocket, seconded food. So I said this before, but I got lucky. I have a deep love for salted meats, more specifically beef jerky. So I grab my backpack (i¡¯m big so I have a hiking backpack for a school one) (i¡¯m a senior in high school), dump the shit out, and put some textbooks back in, mainly on physics, and math, and put the jerky in it. Now clothes, I go to my room open my dresser and put in my shirts, pants, undies, a black cloth jacket. then put a black leather jacket on. I like leather (not S&M), and black. I gonna beat the horse with a knife to the heart. And say I''m lucky! The water filter on my fridge was broken, and my dad bought a large pack of water bottles. After cramming those in I put some cokes in the side pocket. I like coke.Help support creative writers by finding and reading their stories on the original site. At this time my dad got back. ¡°---! did you see that!¡± My name? Not relevant. ¡°Yah I saw it.¡± ¡°You think it¡¯s real?¡± ¡°Zombies dad, zombies¡± ¡°Yah in hindsight this isn''t that more surprising¡± I put the bulging backpack on and say. ¡°Sorry, dad but I think I''ll go it alone.¡± ¡°What?¡± ¡°I¡¯ve been reading about this type of thing on the internet forever! I¡¯m not passing up this chance¡± ¡°That''s insane!¡± I should mention one rule is anyone you aren''t directly touching will be randomly teleported to a different location called a ¡®spawn point¡¯ with others. I just remembered to grab my phone, it¡¯s charger, a pair of headphones, and one of those strips with outlets that protect from power surges. I also get a notepad and some pens. getting into my dad''s car I drive to the library, seeing that the counter is unmanned I think to myself, this makes things easy. I grab some books on plants, mainly how to recognize plants that are poisonous. I also tried to find a book on skinning, and on what parts of an animal are edible. Unsurprisingly I couldn¡¯t find them. I go to the fiction section and grab my favorite fiction series, that I first read five years ago. So I go to my second stop. My school. I break in and go to the science lab to get some burners, I grab one electric one and a gas one. What is that gas, I whip out my phone and check what it is. Methane huh? CH4? Cool. now home. At home, i print some things on skinning and on what parts of various animals are edible. I put the papers in my bulging backpack. I get back into the car and drive, drive to a hill a few miles out of my city to a nearby hill and take out a coke I grabbed on the way out. Sipping on the coke I look at the city, and
Five minutes until transfer, please directly be in contact with people or items you wish to transfer with by the five minutes
I take a photo on my phone and send it with a text saying goodbye to my family.
Transporting in 5¡­ 4¡­ 3¡­ 2¡­ 1¡­ Now transporting
chapter-1 first day first Troubles first powers I appear in a field with say¡­ one thousand people, thankfully I was on the edge of the crowd, most started panicking, some started calming all the others while taking control. I not wanting anything to do with that, I start wondering off, a man of non-white color sees me going and said. ¡°Yo kid where you going?¡± ¡°Off¡± ¡°You should stay here, safety in numbers and all...¡± ¡°Nah¡± And with that, i walk into the nearby forest. I think I should explain some things, first the Babylon system was initiated and now there are no language gapes, second, all animals above level 20 were put into stasis in a pocket dimension. Speaking of which, I find a stump and say ¡°Status¡±
Race human (100%) Level 0 (0/10)
HP 90/90 MP 120/120
Str 7 Int 12
Dex 11 Wis 13
Agi 7 Will 11
Vit 9
So in the rules, i saw that the average state of a human is ten, so I''m a bit of a mage it seems. *shake* As I think that a snow white rabbit with a spiral unicorn horn walks out of a bush and glares at me, it looks adorable but not what I should be focused on right now, I pull out my knife, from my pocket, and half-crouch. I use the one skill we were all given ¡°Identify monster¡±
Horned rabbit Level 2
Easy prey¡­ not! It leaps at me and i sidestep. i wasn''t expecting the speed at witch it could jumpat, so it cuts me on my arm, but it is just a scratch not even enough to draw blood though it stings like a bitch. It prepares to leap again, but this time it''s prepared, i sidestep a bit more this time, and slash at it. A large gash appears on its side. The cut was deep enough for organs to start to spill out, it was whimpering in pain, not even enough energy to cry out, and then it was dead.
Xp +5
Congratulations! You are the 8,234th human to kill a monster! You will gain a rank C skill roulette package! Access menu to use it.
Sweet!, arm still hurts though. I think I''ll check that out after I skin the rabbit. I grab into my backpack and find the paper on skinning. Following the instructions, I cut off the fur and skin from the meat, the meat was spoiled by the guts, so I only take the fur wiping it on the bushes and grass to get as much of the blood off as possible, before folding it so the small amount of blood stubbornly stuck to it wouldn¡¯t leak onto my other stuff. I put the folded pelt on top of my backpack trying to ignore how tattered it looked as another prompt shows up
Skill gained! Skinning C Beginner 1 (0.00%)
Congratulations! You are the 954,359th human to gain a skill-rewarding D ranked skill package! Access menu to use
Well, aren''t I lucky! Doesn''t change how bad the pelt is¡­ shut up me! It was my first time! I sit back down and check my status again
Race human (100%) Level 0 (5/10)
HP 88/90 (1/h) MP 120/120 (13/h)
Str 7 Int 12
Dex 11 Wis 13
Agi 7 Will 11
Vit 9
Seems regen was added suddenly. Odd? It¡¯s almost as if the author is lazy, and tables are hard at three in the morning with a stomach cold? Anyway, ¡°Menu¡± Some boxes appear and I click the flashing ¡®rewards¡¯ box two options pop up, those options are the C and D skill roulette. And saving the best for last I choose the D one. A wheel pops up, each of the wedges is of different colors, some smaller than others. I press the only button there, and the wheel spins. It tips to one of the smaller wedges on the wheel.If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.
Skill gained! Recovery UC beginner 1 (0.00%)
I check the skills description and it said
Recovery UC beginner 1 (0.00%) You heal at an unusually high rate for your race. My evolve skill by drinking the blood of monsters with high regeneration and reaching a high enough skill level
As for what monsters blood I could drink, and it had a long risk, some like troll, or ogre I recognized, but most I couldn¡¯t, like wuzilnabs. Which personally sounds like a Rick and Morty species. I then use the C ranked one. And¡­
Skill gained! Hard skin UC beginner 1 (0.00%)
It landed on one of the bigger wedges, and like recovery, i check this skill too.
Hard skin UC beginner 1 (0.00%) Your skin is more resilient to attacks. You gain the def stat
So after seeing that I check my stats again.
Race human (100%) Level 0 (5/10)
HP 88/90 (6/h) MP 120/120 (13/h)
Str 7 Int 12
Dex 11 Wis 13
Agi 7 Will 11
Vit 9 Def 1
The def stat seems to reduce damage. And the recovery skill increases my hp regen, so I probably won¡¯t die at least, right? I was wondering for a place to check my stats, so I didn¡¯t look around carefully before. I look around carefully, I see the trees with dark brown bark, the bushes so full of green¡­ the blood that I smeared on the ground and bushes from earlier¡­ I better leave before something smells this blood. So I start walking away, and about ten minutes I start to think I''m safe¡­ for now. I grab some jerky and water from my bag and eat/drink it. After finishing my snack, and realized I never checked my skill list ¡°Skills¡°
skills
Identify
Monster beginner 1, hide
active
---
passive
Skinning beginner 1, recovery beginner 1, Hard skin beginner 1
What? I know about identify monster, skinning, recovery, and hard skin, but identity hide? I click it and
Identify hide (tied to skinning) You can identify the material and quality of hides [more accurate at higher levels]
So from what I can understand the level of identity hide is the level of skinning¡­ probably? But then what is identify monster tied too?
Identify monster C beginner 1 (0.04%) You can see the details of a monster/person as long as they are close to the user in level. [more info, and bigger level difference at higher proficiency]
Unlike identify hide, identify monster is its own skill, speaking of which, I never checked skinning
Skinning C beginner 1 (0.00%) You can take the hide, scales, carapace, and other outer layers, Off of animals. Also, provides joint-skill identify hide
Other than being more divers than i thought it was within my expectations. And with skinning i had finished all my skills, time to get some more skills! First herbology. Why herbology? Well mainly because of the new info i just got. If i can gain the ability to identify hides from the skinning skill, i can identify herbs with the herbology skill, and with that i could get food from nature. So i grab my knife wipe off the blood from the blade, that i forgot to wipe off earlier, then i go to a nearby plant, if i had to describe how it looks like, it looks like a stereotypical plant. A small green stem, with a few leaves growing from it. So i start digging with my knife, while trying to get the roots up too, because in light novels, thoughts always seem important. Turns out picking plants is harder than i thought. I did get some roots out, but most got destroyed, or shredded in the process. But i got no new skill. This doesn¡¯t make sense, i got skinning after one try, so why not herbology? Because i did a bad job? Probably right. And so I start digging, plants, and flowers. And after what was about thirty times.
Skill gained! gathering C beginner 1 (0.00%)
Finally but gathering, and not herbology? This is not what I expected¡­ I pull up the skills info and
gathering C beginner 1 (0.00%) You can find, and extract items from nature. Such as herbs, berries, nuts, fruits, and wild vegetable grants joint-skill identify plant
Ooh! That''s why it took a while! This skill involves, things from trees and bushes, not just herbs! So I was only using one part of the skill! No wonder I got it so slowly! Anyway¡­ ¡°Identify plant!¡±
boress A common weed with no real use
That was the result of one of the flowers I pick, ends up it¡¯s not a flower but a weed¡­ ¡°Identify plant!¡±x10-20 So I identified all my plants, and most, like the boress. were useless weeds. The most interesting by far was
Restilin A slightly uncommon plant containing a weak healing property +1 hp/h for 1 hour
Seem useless, because it only heals me one health and over one hour at that. But who knows, it might be of use one day, and it¡¯s the most interesting of the bunch, so¡­ I through all the herbs but the 2 restilin away and think to myself, how will I carry this? The bag is full and I have nothing to carry it in¡­ the rabbit!. t¡®s pelt. I can sew it into a small bag to put them in! First things first, i need a needle, but how could i get one? Stone! I can sharpen one from stone! I first find a small stone about the size of a finger and find a second one. I start scraping one on one to make a needle. It was too hard, the stone I mean. So next best thing, bark. I take a piece of bark and after fiddling for a while getting one message
Skill gained! Wood carving C beginner 1 (0.00%) You can fashing small wooden items from bark and wood. Gain joint-skill identify small wood item
Identify small wood item (tied to carving) You can identify small wood items
This was¡­ unexpected. Not that I don¡¯t appreciate, in this world info is powerful so the more identifies I get the better. ¡°Identify small wood item¡±
Crude bark needle Formed by a beginner carver, this disgrace can barely be called a needle at all, it is recommended that you choose some other tool to use for sewing.
Wow, my needle was so bad that the system recommended against it? Harsh But accurate. So getting my ¡®crude¡¯ needle I was about to sew when I realized somethings. I need some string, and the hide hasn¡¯t dried, it still is wet from blood! So first things first I grab the folded hide, and sprawl it out on the ground, the inside facing up, hoping to sun dry it at least a little. Now for string, maybe one of these plants have some useable fibers? I cut some open, but I know nothing about this shit. Well, time for plan B. If you''ve read ¡®Master of all, jack of none¡¯ you probably have seen how he made a coin pouch. I think I can do the same. After looking around I found a rock about the right size. Originally I couldn¡¯t find one, but after realizing that it didn¡¯t need to be perfectly round, I found a rock that was an oval-ish shape. At this time it was starting to get dark, so now to think, how to sleep while not getting eaten in my sleep. Oh! What do you know! a platform is in that tree! That looks the perfect place to sleep! If it really existed. So i walk around for a bit, while keeping the drying rabbit pelt in sight, until i find a relatively large branch nearby. And this is where the rope starts to become useful. Ever seen in the movie where the main character ties themselves to a branch? Well let me tell you, it works, but surprisingly, it wasn¡¯t very comfy. But it was at this moment that all the exhaustion from the day started to catch up with me, and after a hour or two, i fell asleep, but not before checking the time on my watch. 11:20 PM. chapter- 2 coke-sama! I wake up in the morning and think to myself, owww. Why am i in such pain? Then all of yesterday comes flooding back. i tied myself to a tree. that''s why i''m in pain! ¡°How did I tie myself up here?¡± I was tied to a tree by a rope, but¡­ how? After wiggling for a while and I flipped over, to paint you a picture, i was in a sleeping bag on top of a branch, and now I¡¯m in a sleeping bag, tied under a tree. Lucky, or unlucky i didn¡¯t tie myself up too tight, and slip out of my bag, and land face first on the ground. Rolling around in pain, i do that hissing thing where you suck in air through your teeth. In a few minutes the pain fades a little and i sit up, and check my watch. 10:00 AM. so that''s how it is. Any of you who have a brain, know that the length of a day, is equal to the time it takes for the earth to do a full rotation, so for larger planets, longer days and nights. And since the sun is rising, it seems gia is larger than earth. Not that that helps me in this situation. Anyway i look around for my stuff and it seems to all be fine, that¡¯s a little surprising considering it had food in it, not that i¡¯m unhappy with that. I unstrap my sleeping bag from the branch, and pack it up, speaking of witch. I pull out a coke and start sipping on it. I look through the beef jerky i have more carefully than before. How long will this last me, i had grabbed a lot at home, but never really counted. But if i have a piece or two every hour¡­ what? Every hour you ask? Well the three meal system is largely inferior to having multiple small ¡®mini meals¡¯ per day. Anyway i have about four days worth. Less than i thought more than i need. I pick out a piece of jerky and eat it, as i finish up my coke. Ok what do i need to do.
  1. Get farther away
    1. I don¡¯t expect the main group to never get this close, actually, if someone smart takes over a scout party will be coming this far into the forest in a few hours, to look for potential danger.
  2. Get more food
    1. I have four days of food, but what will i do after that? I can use foraging to get some fruits and nuts, but can i live off of all that? I have that butchering guide i printed offline. But i need to kill some monsters for that. And i¡¯ve only seen that one rabbit.
  3. Get water
    1. I have around eight water bottles so about two to three days worth. After that i have to find some streams or lakes, and i¡¯m not some survival master, i can¡¯t just listen to the wind and be like, 0.35 miles south south-east from here is a stream that will only give me a mild stomach cramp. I could drink the blood of my enemies, but i might get some kind of disease, and again i¡¯ve only found that rabbit. So i guess that leaves water magic.
So i know what i need to do but, as i stated earlier, if i want water, i¡¯m probably gonna need water magic, but how do i learn magic? ¡°Fire ball!¡± Didn¡¯t work, nor did i ever expect it to work But meh worth a try. Plan B time. I pull out a book on science, flip to the end to see the index, find some pages on water, and start reading, ten minutes later
Congratulations! You have gained a basic understanding of water and have gained an increase of water affinity
Affinity? ¡°Affinity¡±
affinities
Earth 0 Fire 0
Water 2 Air 0
I clicked affinities to see what it meant and
Affinities mark how close you are to an element. A higher affinity can reduce the cost of spells, increase the power of spells, and give a resistance to attacks of that element
Cool? I guess? I really wasn¡¯t expecting this, but i guess it¡¯s ok, more good stuff is good. *shake* *shake* *grrr* Wolf!!! Wolf!!! I scramble back, tripping over myself. But i keep moving, until i hit the tree. The wolf was coming closer, i don¡¯t have my knife so i look around, until i find¡­ Coke-sama! I grab the coke can and do the spray can, thing. And it doesn¡¯t pan out like i thought. It sputtered a bit, but didn¡¯t go in the wolf¡¯s eyes like i thought. Fuck you coke! Seeing that it wasn¡¯t working i roll away. But why aren''t i dead?Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation. I look over and see the wolf drinking the coke! I¡¯m sorry coke-sama! Forgive me for my ignorance! I look for my knife. And can¡¯t find it, so option two. Up the tree! I climb up a nearby tree. And fail. I land on my back and groan in pain. It seems my luck has run out because the wolf has seemed to have finished the coke. It sees me on the ground, in pain, and starts walking towards me. At this time i only can think. This bitch is looking down on me! Fuck you! I roll over and get up. The wolf lunges at me half-heartedly. I jump back way too far, luckily i don¡¯t fall over and stay on my feet somehow. And at this time my mind really starts working, and i realize, i forgot ¡°Identify monster¡±
Grey wolf Level 4
Oh, that''s not as bad as i thought. I was thinking it would be something like level seven or eight. Oh wait¡­ that actually makes it worse! If this is level four? then what''s a real level eight? The wolf starts to lunge at me seriously, and i kick it, in the face. I¡¯m a bit proud of myself to have been able to do that. I look around before find the knife and run to it. After getting the knife, i turn to see the wolf in my face, in a moment of ¡®superhuman reflexes¡¯ i get my arm bitten like a bitch. Screaming, so loud that I scared myself, I stab the wolf in the eye. Over and over. And now i¡¯m crying on the ground, man. Now i know you''re thinking, wow you''re so manly, thanks i know. ¡°The plant¡± I half whisper to no one. I start one armed crawling to the plant and shove it into my mouth. I have to say, it¡¯s not easy to eat raw, unprocessed plants. I cough a bit and only eat about one-tenth of the whole plant. I cry for what seems like forever but was probably just five or ten minutes before getting up to a sitting position. ¡°Status¡±
Race human (100%) Level 0 (30/10)+
HP 51/90 (1+6/h) MP 120/120 (13/h)
Str 7 Int 12
Dex 11 Wis 13
Agi 7 Will 11
Vit 9 Def 1
Only half? It feels more like I should be on five health, not fifty! But at least I''m not dead, woohoo. I climb to my feet and decide i need to make a sling for my arm. But how? Well i¡¯m gunna take a perfectly fine white t shirt, and use it as a cast, staining it with my blood forever. Not! I¡¯m going to use a redshirt. I like red so i have at least four red based shirts. How am i gonna make it a sling? Not by tearing it! Ever tried to tear a shirt, i have, and failed. What i do is slip my arm through the sleeve of the t shirt, and then put it through the waist hole, before looping it through the other sleeve and out the head hole. Now all i need to deal with is the wolf. Since i didn¡¯t spill the guts on this one i can have some fresh meat tonight! So how to skin this¡­ we first i need to drain the blood. How would i do that you ask? By hanging it! I just have to tie it to a tree, and slit the throat. But now that i¡¯m thinking about it. The white rabbit had spoiled meat, and the wolf with a dark wolf didn¡¯t, you could almost say the whites were spoiled¡­ sorry. So i grab the wolf with one arm, and drag it over to the tree¡­. ¡°How will I hang it with one arm?¡± ¡°Rope!¡± With this, we now have definite proof that rope is the number one survival tool. I tie the rope to the wolf¡¯s tail, or at least i tried. Ends up tieing a thin non-boned tail, isn¡¯t good for one armed rope tieing. Next i tried the legs, and they work! So i tie the leg, through the rope over the tree, and hoist the wolf of the ground¡­ at an angle¡­. I only tied one leg. But that''s perfectly fine! Now if i were to treat this as a human, i¡¯d probably want to cut the vein on the side of the neck, you know the vain you press in the vulcan death grip. But i¡¯m gonna cut the jugular because i want to be able to say. I fought with a wolf, and instead of being bitten in the jugular i cut its jugular! But i guess stabbing it in the eye is pretty cool too. I mean if this was an anime, or manga i would only have injured its eye, and the next episode it would be back, with a whole pack, but that''s not going to happen¡­ i turn to the wolf and ¡°Oh shit!¡± I just realized! How am i gonna slit its throat with one arm! Any cut i would make would be too shallow, so i would have to use multiple cuts, thus needlessly damaging the pelt! In the end i just used my head to hold the wolf to the tree as i slit its throat. But i forgot to ask myself something critical. Where will the blood go? All over the ground, was the answer, i hurriedly kicked away my stuff before it got caked in blood. Luckily i got there in time, and nothing was covered in blood. Good thing too, not like i can just buy more, this is all I have for a while. Next time I should dig a pit. But I guess in the end, the wolf has no blood. Now that I think about it. Why didn¡¯t I level up? ¡°Status¡±
Race human (100%) Level 0 (30/10)+
HP 52/90 (1+6/h) MP 120/120 (13/h)
Str 7 Int 12
Dex 11 Wis 13
Agi 7 Will 11
Vit 9 Def 1
I do the only sensible thing and click the plus sign
Level up? Y/N
. I clicked Yes
Congratulations! You are now level one, and have gained five status points!
You are now level one! You are the 8,903,157th human to become level one! As such you gain a F ranked skill package
Another one? They seem to love handing these out. But at least the five status points seems standard. ¡°Status¡±
Race human (100%) Level 1 (20/50) SP:5
HP 52/90 (1+6/h) MP 120/120 (13/h)
Str 7 Int 12
Dex 11 Wis 13
Agi 7 will 11
Vit 9 Def 1
There were pluses next to each stat but Def, so assuming the obvious that''s how i spend them, but the real question is how do i spend them? I need survivability, but magic is cool, something i¡¯ve always dreamed of doing, and could help me survive. I know what I need to do... chapter- 3 mice of death!
Race human (100%) Level 1 (20/50) SP:0
HP 82/120 (1+6/h) MP 120/120 (13/h)
Str 7 Int 12
Dex 11 Wis 13
Agi 9 will 11
Vit 12 Def 1
I never really explained what the stats do, did I? Str makes you stronger. Dex raises reaction rate and increases the fluidity of movements. Agi increases the speed of all movements, not the minds though. Vit increases your life force, or ¡®health¡¯ Int raises your max MP pool, and increases spell damage and all around intelligence Wis increases MP regen Will affects resistance to mental status debuffs. Def reduces damage. I¡¯m gonna be honest, my gamer instincts want me to get all my stats to a nice even ten. But I can¡¯t stay hold up forever on this. I use the D rank skill package. The now familiar wheel pops up, I spin it and¡­ it lands on a red X. I got nothing, well no more new skills I guess. But considering how much trouble that wolf gave me, I think I won''t move farther than I am for a while. Like at least for a week. So priority one is setting up a base. But how? Well, i need.
  1. Shelter
  2. ...
THE WOLF! I forgot to skin the wolf. I look over and see the corpse of the wolf drained of blood. I take off my shoes and socks before shuffling through the blood on the ground, trying to not splash the surprisingly large amount of blood around. I then start skinning the wolf. When I''m done I get out of the blood and flick my foot to get some of the blood off from my foot, I didn¡¯t get much off though. Next is the pelt ¡°Identify hide¡±
Grey wolf pelt Low grade
Low grade? How bad is that on a scale of one to ten? If I had to say personally what the pelt would be, it would be a two. I did it one-handed, and it was my second time skinning, so I don¡¯t think I did badly. I head back to my backpack and grab the other instructions I had printed out, the ones on butchering. I¡¯ll skip the process and just say I failed. The organs spilled and spoiled most of the meat. At most I got part of the legs. With the blood work over i asked myself. How am i gonna clean myself. I guess that''s another reason to find water. I take my clothes off, and use them to scrap the blood off myself as best as possible. I then put on a new set of clothes, my socks, and my shoes. I put the pelt where the rabbit pelt is, to dry in the sun, i take the rabbit pelt and set it with my backpack, then i grab a random stick that is a little bit longer than my forearm, getting my knife i then sharpen it to a point, if you''re wondering how, i did it with one arm, i put the stick in between my legs. I look into my backpack for a snack. And i see the burners, gas and electric. I forgot about those, i dump them little ways into the forest, why? Well i bought them thinking i would be able to learn electric magic and use them, i was wrong. Anyway, i need fire, but how? Friction? No i have only one arm¡­ flint? Maybe but i don¡¯t have any. Wait¡­ flint is a rock, so i can probably find it out here too, but where is flint found usually? Well probably around streams and rivers. Well if i find one, i¡¯ve also got a source of water. Well i should go find water, and i have no reason to stay here specifically, so i pack up my things, including the wolf pelt. And go. I rest about every half hour. I also ate some food. Sadly i left the wolf meat behind, so as not to inconvenience myself. After a while i noticed the trees are quite big. How long have they been here? How long has life been on this planet? Are there other races? There must be. The announcement said ¡®humanity¡¯ implying that the creators are not human. Though that¡¯s kinda obvious, i don¡¯t think humans have ever had the power to do something like this. Though going back to what i said before, was there sentient life on ¡®gia¡¯ before humans, and any other race were transported here? It said that all monsters over twenty were put into stasis, so what¡¯s the highest level monster? Hundred? Thousand? Milion!? Thinking about it, is there a level cap? If so what is it?This book''s true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience. That also brings up another important question. Whats hp? I mean, if someone cut my neck off, I would die. So would my hp go to zero instantly? Then why rais vit? I should stop, if I keep asking questions I can¡¯t answer then I''ll get nowhere. *splish* *crinkle* ? Water? I walk over and see a small stream, about as wide as my body, completely clear, I can see the river stones under the water, the fish swimming in the water too! But the stream had some other visitors too, four mice who noticed me too. ¡°Identify monster¡±
Forest mouse Level 1
Later I would think back and say, I was stupid, why would mice go to a stream if they couldn¡¯t protect themselves? I pull out my knife, this should be some good free xp! I charge at the nearest mouse, but they did something that surprised me, they split up and flanked me, one mouse (the one i was charging at) glared at me, while the other three ran around me. I ignored them as i charged forward. The three mice slam themselves at the back of my knee, making me land on the ground, but after that wolf bite i haven¡¯t been as weak to pain, i use the momentum and angle of my fall to roll on the ground. This attack was a bit of a wake up call on my part. I get to a kneeling position right as they get to me again. I slash at them but they dodged, and bite me. But these mice apparently don¡¯t know the most important rule in fighting. Don¡¯t get greedy. They keep biting, trying to gouge out my flesh. And i roll. In the process i crush them. Well two of them the other two jumped off when they saw me rolling. I don¡¯t just wait for them to recover after i finish rolling. I swing out my knife while still on my stomach. The knife cleaves the mouse''s head in twine. One down three to go. I get ready to respond to the other mice but¡­ they are gone. I guess they got scared after i killed there buddy. Anyway i won. I check my status
Race human (100%) Level 1 (22/50) SP:0
HP 69/120 (6/h) MP 120/120 (13/h)
Str 7 Int 12
Dex 11 Wis 13
Agi 9 will 11
Vit 12 Def 1
Two xp? Well, they were level one. Still disappointing though. But hey I''m a water source. There are river stones, so maybe flint. There are some fishes, so I might have a sustainable food source for a while. First thing first I examine my surroundings. I¡¯m in a small clearing, the trees are a bit darker than when I first entered the forest. The ground is filled with grass, everywhere except about four feet from the stream. Speaking of which the ground surrounding the stream is rocks and pebbles. If you want to be more detailed, it can almost be called gravel, though it seems to be a bit less grounded, being made up of pebbles more than actual gravel. Then the stream itself, I already talked about how clear it is, but I can¡¯t help but talk about how clear it is, it¡¯s almost as if it was gathered from nature itself. Wait we are in nature. I walk up and taste it. Now i know that in TV when people taste fresh water in nature they always exclaim something like. Oh! It¡¯s so fresh tasting! But i don¡¯t taste fresh. Actually what would ¡®fresh¡¯ taste like? Frest just means it has just been gathered right? Anyway it seems ok to drink. I set my things out, and put the wolf pelt to dry in the sun, i also grab the mouse and through it downstream. It was too small for a beginner like me to skin. I grab the bloody clothes from my pack and put in the stream, pinning them with a slightly big rock to keep from slipping. Then i unsling my makeshift sling and do the same to it. Actually my arm is a lot better, like good enough to use for none strenuous things. I walk around the stream, picking up some of the darker rocks around before heading back i sit down at the edge of the water and grab my knife. First i wash it in the stream, moving it around some to make it clean from the mice blood. Then i dry it with a shirt. Now i can start. I grab one of the rocks and slide it fast and hard against the flat side of the blade a couple of times¡­ nothing. I do this for some of the other rocks. If you can¡¯t already tell I¡¯m testing to see if they are flint rocks. I vaguely remember that flint can be found near streams, and are darker than the other rocks there. I also remember that they make sparks against steel. After i go through most of the rocks one of them makes a spark or two. I found it! I put it in my pocket for later and kick the other rocks back into the stream. I need shelter, food, water, fire for water i have the stream, i can make a fire pit later, i have food for a while, and have an idea for how to cook some more. And lastly¡­ shelter. While camping under the stars is nice, not being in the open is nicer. I tied myself to a tree last night, but that hurt, and my back is still in pain. Well the trees are pretty big, so i can probably carve one out to sleep in, but how? My knife would dull, and then i would need a new weapon. Wasn''t flint used to make tools? I would need a hatchet, or an axe. So i look around for some bigger dark stones, when i say big, i mean the size of my fist. I find one, but only after i look around for what was about twelve minutes. I also need a stick. So i go to a nearby tree, and use my knife to hack a long big stick. After shaving it down, and cutting some off i have a handle. Now i only have to sharpen the flint and attach it to the handle. But that''s for tomorrow. It has already gotten dark, and i don¡¯t want to be caught drowsy. So i have to sleep in a tree tonight, again. But before i do that i grab a late night snack. I also get my clothes, and hang them to dry. Then there''s the wolf pelt. Ok now what do i need to do before i sleep? Nothing? Am i sure? Just go to sleep. No! It¡¯s so uncomfortable! Do it! Fine no need to yell me. I hang my sleeping bag to a tree branch and slip in. this is really uncomfortable... chapter- 4 am i finally finished doing nothing? I wake up more sore than that day I was forced to run a marathon against my will. I don¡¯t think I can look at trees the same anymore. Anyway, I stretch the pain away. I grab one of my two last cokes and chug it. There warm so i don¡¯t feel so refreshed from them. I have to say. I¡¯m glad i brought some toilet paper, and soap. Thinking about all the people back at the spawn point, having no toilet paper, having to use leaves, no soap so dirty dirty hands, yuck! After buried it under a tree, and wash my hands in the stream, i¡¯m ready to face the day, in this new crazy world. First i need to make that hachet. I grab the rock I found yesterday. How do i go about sharpening it? Probably another rock would do the trick. I grab one of the many stones on the nearby streambed, walk over to the edge of the stream, sit down and get to work. After five minutes of scraping i can only think to myself, this is going to take all day isn¡¯t it? The work was boring, i check my watch, 2:10 PM. that''s odd. Oh wait. My watch is about three hours off because the rotation of gia is different, i take a moment to turn my watch to about¡­ well i¡¯ve been here for three days, and the world has about two or three hours more per day, so¡­ 8:00 AM. after doing that i think of anything i can do that''s not just scraping a rock against another rock. Magic? How would i though? I tried reading a book about an element, but that didn¡¯t work. What do mages do in books? Meditate? Might as well try. I wiggle around until I¡¯m in a semi-comfortable position. Now i look into myself trying to look for something, anything. After a while of nothing i look at my watch. 8:30. Might as well give up and try again later. I get back to grinding the flint. I stop again, so bored, seriously i can only do so much boring tasks, so i whip out my phone and headphones, pop on one of my favorite songs, and relax. I¡¯ll spare you the rest of the next few hours of my alternating in scraping a rock and trying to meditate. In the end, I had decided to sharpen the opposite side of the hatchet head into an arrowhead shape, as to use it to wedge it into the handle. After I was finished though
Skill gained! Stone carving C beginner 1 (0.00%)
Skills stone carving C, and wood carving C can fuse into a new skill, will you accept? Y/N
The obvious answer was yes.
Skills stone carving, and wood carving have fused into skill carving C beginner 1 (0.00%)
The skill description was the same as stone/wood carving was, but on a much wider scale. And to get everything else out of the way, after I put the handle and head together, by wedging the arrowhead shape near the end of one side of the handle.
Skill gained! Crude item crafting C Beginner 1 (0.00%)
The description was just as it sounded
Crude item crafting C beginner 1 (0.00%) You can craft items, such as tools, weapons, and miscellaneous items, from wild items, and few to no tools. Gives joint-skill identify crude item
I am getting so many identifiers, again not complaining about that. Though I still haven¡¯t gotten the meditation skill, I know it existed, because if it didn''t it would be crazy. I probably just have a bad affinity with staying still and doing nothing. I bet I will get it in a day or two. I get to work with my new hatchet¡­ wait I forgot to identify it!
Crude flint hatchet Made with flint, and oak wood, this hatchet barley will serve its purpose. 4-6 damage -Low quality
So the trees are oak trees? Good to know. Know to get to chopping! But before that i need to plan this out. Just a hollowed out tree won¡¯t stop animals from killing me in my sleep, which is the whole reason i¡¯m doing this. The best solution would be a door, but i don¡¯t think i can make one. Maybe i should plant a bush in front of the entrance. But it would be too short to cover the whole thing. It would still stop animals from seeing me from the outside, which is all i need it for. So I plant the bush, Am in agreement with myself? Yes. After that i start chopping and chopping. Before i get tired and stop. After looking at the dent i made in the tree. I sigh. I¡¯m very out of shape. I got tired cutting about an inch deep into the tree. How late is it? 6:00 PM. getting kinda late here, so just gotta keep working! ---- the next day ----- I finally finished! The tree is hollowed out, a bush is in front of it for camouflage. Bit of a bitch to get in and out of, but meh. I have all the water I need, but for food¡­ I can survive about three days with the junkie I have left and foraging plants in the woods. But before I start hunting for meat, I want to get this magic stuff down if possible. So I keep meditating. And at the end of the dayEnjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit.
Skill gained! meditation C beginner 1 (0.00%)
Meditation C beginner 1 (0.00%) By Focusing on calming your mind and stilling your thoughts, you are able to see that which eyes are normally unable to see Increases mana regen by x2 Sense energies more easily Takes full attention
Energies, not mana? Interesting. But not what I''m focusing on! Go meditation! After a while, I felt something from inside my head, but before I could do anything with it I was snapped out of meditation by a notification.
Skill gained! Mana sense C beginner 1 (0.00%)
Mana sense C beginner 1 (0.00%) Can sense the energy mana Can only be used in conjunction to meditation skill
While still being a bit peeved at being interrupted, I start meditating again, while focusing on that feeling I got from my head. And eventually, i got it. In the back of my brain, right above the base, i felt an orb, with blue mist rolling around in it. I tried to move it, or rather pull it out of its orb, but to no avail. But i keep this up, eventually i get the mist to move out of the orb, but it felt like dragging a hoe through dirt. I was again interrupted
Skill gained! Mana manipulation C beginner 1 (0.00%)
I stood up and struggled through my ¡®door¡¯ bush walked over to the stream, and started punching the water. Why am i doing this? Because i keep! Being! Interrupted! I raise both hands over my head and clasping them together, swing it down into the water, causing a large splash of water to get over me. Maybe it was the was from the water punching, or the water all over me, but i started to calm down. I get up laughing. I am really stressed. All the pent-up stress of doing a boring repetitive task, all came piling out in that laugh. What? The stress from being in a new world, or almost died multiple times? Sorry to tell you but I¡¯m not the most sane person in the world. Or am i? I mean on earth, being almost killed and not freaking out about it would be considered unhealthy, but this isn¡¯t earth. This is Gia, and in this new world of danger, my mindset will definitely be helpful. So am i crazy? I don¡¯t know, but i should get back to my training. After getting back to my ¡®room¡¯ i sit and meditate again. And to my disappointment i see all my mana is still in the orb, not that i was expecting anything else. I try pulling it again, and to my surprise, it was easier than before, not that easy though. If before it was pulling a hoe through dirt, now it¡¯s pulling a hoe through thick mud. Though the elation i got from this didn¡¯t last long, as i tried pulling it out my mind and into my spine. Hoe through mud? More like hoe through stone, is more like it! What i¡¯m trying to say is my mana wants to stay in my brain. In fact, i slip in concentration for not even a second before it¡¯s back in the orb. After a few repeated attempts at this i get a prompt i haven¡¯t seen yet.
Congratulations! skills meditation C and mana manipulation C have leveled to beginner 2, and beginner 2 respectively
Now that I think about it, this is the first time, I''ve leveled a skill isn¡¯t it? Wow! Wait, why hasn¡¯t, mana sense leveled? I check the skill
Mana sense C beginner 1 (98.73%) Can sense the energy mana Can only be used in conjunction to meditation skill
So I just got unlucky, and stopped before it leveled? I meditate and look all around my mana for a minute, then
Congratulations! skills mana sense C has leveled to beginner 2
Now that I''ve done that I see it fit to go to bed, this might not be physically tired, but it is mental. I wake up the next morning refreshed and ready to start sitting again. I first wash my face, and drink from the stream, before taking care of my daily routine, peeing, brushing my teeth, washing my body and hair. After that i get back to the dark desolate hovel in a tree that is now my bedroom. And get to meditating. Let me tell you pulling mana down my spine, is not as boring as you¡¯d think. It was hard for me to meditate, because it just involves not thinking, but this takes all my concentration, before i even eat breakfast, i¡¯m in a slight sweat, having only been able to get my mana, to about the base of my neck. It feels wrong to be so tired, and yet still have so much energy in my body. To shake this feeling of wrongness i did a few jumping jacks, and by few i mean four. I am not in shape. But at least now both my body and mind feel like crap. I decided to relax. Play some games on my phone. I checked the power 23% shit, i was banking on having learnt some lightning magic by now. Luckily with all the things i¡¯ve had to do, i was able to not have the constant need for my phone. Still nice to have though. After a bit of rest i get back to the grindstone. And i was able to get it to my chest before i got too hungry, and ate some jerky. I spent the next few hours moving it around in my body until it wouldn¡¯t take an hour to get it from my mind to where ever i wanted it. I gained a few skill ups in meditation, mana sense, and mana manipulation. Getting my skills to meditation beginner 5, mana sense beginner 4, and mana manipulation beginner 6. I probably should mention that skills rank up from beginner at level 50. I also no longer need to meditate to move my mana. All that tedious work was worth it because now i get to try using a spell, to start with i decided to use the most basic one i could think of. Mana bolt. Moving the mana from my brain orb to my right hand took around three minutes, not fast enough to be useful in combat but it¡¯s a start. I raise my arm, pointing my palm towards a nearby tree. I slowly forced my mana out of my body and the mana flew out of my palm, the force was so strong, and considering i wasn¡¯t expecting it, i was flung to the ground, and rolled a few times before stopping, my body was still aching from the impact when a message popped up, but before looking at it i sat up and groaned for a moment, waiting for the pain to pass a little, and after a minute i looked at the announcement.
Spell learnt! Mana bolt C beginner 1 (0.00%)
Seems right, but just in case I check the description
Mana bolt grade 1, neutral, destruction beginner 1 (0.00%) The spell most following the path of mana learn mana bolt flings a bolt of mana out of there body 2/mp damage
2/mp? Probably per mana. Thinking about damage made me remember the tree, so I looked up at it, and the bark was flung away smashing a bit into the tree. I next take a look at my stats to see my mana
Race human (100%) Level 1 (22/50) SP:0
HP 118/120 (1+6/h) MP 110/120 (13/h)
Str 7 Int 12
Dex 11 Wis 13
Agi 9 will 11
Vit 12 Def 1
Ten mp? So that''s about twenty damage? It really doesn''t make sense. I have over a hundred hp yet, that would kill me I assure you. This makes me think one thing. Hp is bull shit! chapter- 5 thank you darkject (mice! mice! mice!) I wake up the next morning and start my day by stretching, eating, and take care of the other morning things. Today is also the last day I can survive on the food I have, so hunting is the next priority, but I want to get my mana manipulation and mana bolt as high as possible today. I think I will check my stats, and skills first, haven¡¯t done that in a while.
Race human (100%) Level 1 (22/50) SP:0
HP 120/120 (6/h) MP 120/120 (13/h)
Str 7 Int 12
Dex 11 Wis 13
Agi 9 will 11
Vit 12 Def 1
skills
Identify
Monster beginner 1, hide, carving, crude item, plant
Active Meditation beginner 5
Spells Grade 0 Mana bolt beginner 1
pasive
Skinning beginner 1, recovery beginner 1, Hard skin beginner 1, gathering beginner 1, carving beginner 1, crude item crafting beginner 1, mana sense beginner 4, man manipulation beginner 6
Keeping myself concentrated on stats there isn¡¯t any change, below average agi, and strength. But everything else is ok for level one. Then there is the list of skills. Most of my skills are still level one. Skinning, monster identify, and carving I haven¡¯t had much of a chance to use. I¡¯m glad I haven¡¯t taken enough damage to level recovery or hard skin. I have been practicing my use of man, and thus have been living off my food rations until now, so I can probably expect gathering and skinning to level soon. Later that day while meditating, I hear a squeaking, ignoring it as one of the sounds of the forest, I go back to meditating. Soon after I hear a lot of squeaking. This time taking it seriously, I stand up and look towards where I heard the sound. I see a sea of fur, teeth, and eyes. Mice, so many mice. Then it hits me and everything snaps into place. Why I haven¡¯t been interrupted before now by any animals until now, and why those four mice were so openly drinking the water without a care in the world, this was their territory, and they have been gathering their numbers to confront me. I raise my arm and shout ¡°Mana bolt!¡± What? Why did I shout the name? Oh! I forgot! The author changed the spell system, here''s the new screen for mana bolt
Mana bolt grade 0, neutral, destruction beginner 1 (0.00%) The spell most following the path of mana learn mana bolt flings a bolt of mana out of their body Activation: mana bolt Cooldown: 5 sec 2/mp damage Default 10 mp
You see spells can be used in two ways, one is called casting. the spell is used automatically after saying the activation word(s). For a damage scaling spell like mana bolt, it has a default mana use, in this case, ten. It also has a cooldown of five seconds, or in other words, I can only use it every five seconds. The second way is direct use. You use the spell manually doing it step by step. This allows me to use less or more mana in scaling spells like mana bolt, it also has no cooldown this way allowing me to use it to my heart''s content, but to do it manually is harder. Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more. With the explanation over, I get back to the present of my situation, I fire my bolt at the swarm of mice that were previously glaring at me. Now that they saw me fire my bolt, they started running at me. So I do the same and start running without looking at what my bolt did, but I could still hear the boom it made as I was running, I swing on a tree to turn left as I run, I don¡¯t want to get too far away from my stuff. But as I do so I look back and see the mice are still running at me, seeing this I decided to hold my ground, why? Because I would lose energy much faster than a swarm of mice and would rather face them at near full energy than at near empty. I start using mana bolt manually, shooting each at one or two mana. Due to the splash effect, I''ve already killed about ten of the two hundred-ish mice. As they get closer they start to jump at me, so I pull out my knife and swing at them, I get some, but I''m inevitably knocked to the ground, so I start rolling, ignoring the bites that come my way. Staying on the ground I pick myself up into a kneeling position. The mice are still coming so I will keep killing, almost on second nature by now, I swing my knife at an oncoming mouse, but it¡¯s getting bad my knife is starting to dull taking longer to rip through the mice. It¡¯s not good. But I keep going, if I can¡¯t knife them, then I kick them, I was able to kick a wolf, so how hard would it be to kick a mouse, a lot harder it seems, but since they were in such a big group, I couldn¡¯t really miss as I kicked out But in the end, there were too many, so with my legs getting tired, I did the least leg tiring thing someone can do, run! My legs are just about to give out but I keep pushing forward until I trip, I see all the mice running at me about a hundred are left so I do the only thing I can, I stand on my jelly legs and use all my mana to fire one large bolt. Similarly to my first time but on a larger scale, I''m launched through the air, but unlike my first time using mana bolt, I don¡¯t hit the ground first, but instead a tree. After doing so my consciousness fades. I wake up and immediately groan from a splitting headache I have. But after I finally am able to focus on something other than the pain I see I''m fully submerged inside of a large bush. I clumsily roll out of the bush, and get to my feet, ignoring the now prominent soreness from them. I see about thirty mice corpses flung about from that mana bolt I vaguely remember casting. If I had to guess, the mice ran away after seeing what I did, and thinking I could do it again, they retreated without a second thought. ¡°Well at least I won¡¯t have to go looking for food now¡± I say to myself chuckling at myself. I then slowly make my way back to my base, following the trail made from the many mice feet. After getting back I grab my pack, and start filling it with mice, bringing them into a pile near my base, after a few trips I''m done. Looking at my kill count, I look at my stats and skills.
Race human (100%) Level 1 (262/50)+ SP:0
HP 98/120 (7/h) MP 10/120 (13/h)
Str 7 Int 12
Dex 11 Wis 13
Agi 9 will 11
Vit 12 Def 2
skills
Identify
Monster beginner 1, hide, carving, crude item, plant
Active Meditation beginner 5
Spells Grade 0 Mana bolt beginner 3
pasive
Skinning beginner 1, recovery beginner 2, Hard skin beginner 2, gathering beginner 1, carving beginner 1, crude item crafting beginner 1, mana sense beginner 4, man manipulation beginner 6, blade mastery beginner 2
I take it all in, the fact that my mana is at ten, most likely being the source of my headache. How I Lost a surprisingly low amount of hp. The large and sudden xp boost. Or maybe the newly acquired skill, and newly leveled skills. Deciding to not be overwhelmed I start at the skills.
Mana bolt grade 0, neutral, destruction, beginner 3 (7.93%) The spell most following the path of mana learn mana bolt flings a bolt of mana out of their body Activation: mana bolt Cooldown: 4 sec 3/mp damage Default 10 mp
Mana bolt leveled twice. I¡¯m assuming that one level lowered the cooldown, the other raised the mp per damage. Not a huge improvement but a noticeable one.
Skill gained! Blade mastery C beginner 2 (10.35%) You can wield a bladed weapon more easily.
Blade mastery? Not knife mastery? Seems strange, but not unacceptably so. But now for the moment of truth
Level up? Y/N
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Race human (100%) Level 1 (212/120)+ SP:5
HP 98/120 (7/h) MP 10/120 (13/h)
Str 7 Int 12
Dex 11 Wis 13
Agi 9 will 11
Vit 12 Def 2
Level up? Y/N
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Race human (100%) Level 3 (92/270) SP:10
HP 98/120 (7/h) MP 10/120 (13/h)
Str 7 Int 12
Dex 11 Wis 13
Agi 9 will 11
Vit 12 Def 2
Two levels, ten sp. Sp? Stat points? Probably. I¡¯m getting tired, my thoughts are kinda slow now. So I decided, early rest. So I hit the metaphorical hay and sleep chapter- 6 kebabs I wake up notably less sore, and the headache is gone. I grab my last bits of jerky and wolf it down, along with as much water as I can get from the stream. With my head being clearer than before, I go over what I need to do, skin and butcher the massive amount of mice, make a bag with the leathers to carry all my stuff, make a fire pit, and apply my stat points. Let''s start with the stats first.
Race human (100%) Level 3 (92/270) SP:0
HP 120/120 (7/h) MP 100/120 (13/h)
Str 11 Int 13
Dex 12 Wis 14
Agi 11 will 11
Vit 13 Def 2
After pushing up my str, and agi to ten, I put one in everything but will, will only raise mental debuff, so it¡¯s pretty useless right now. But suddenly I see a plus in the upper right corner of my vision. After focusing on it a lot of pop ups appeared, obviously, this was a log of all the popups from when I was unconscious. Almost all of them were the same you gained two xp, or this skill/spell has leveled. But one caught my attention
Congratulations you have earned a title! Titles are records of achievements that give certain rewards depending on which you have equipped. The title you have gained is rodent slayer. Currently, you can only have one title active.
Rodent slayer: you have killed over one hundred rodents at or above your level in under one hour. Effects: +5% damage against rodents
Titles: rodent slayer Name: ???+
Race Human (100%) Level 3 (92/270) SP:0
HP 120/120 (7/h) MP 102/120 (13/h)
Str 11 Int 13
Dex 12 Wis 14
Agi 11 Will 11
Vit 13 Def 2
Rodent slayer? Maybe I should start sculpting, I already have the carving skill, and carving is like mini sculpting, Nah! Sounds boring. On another note, I can now add an official name, but I don¡¯t think I should use my old name, but what should I name myself? I''ll have to think about this for a while. But now that I''ve finished with my skills and stats, I now have to start skinning a mountain of rodents. --- 2 hours later --- I HAVE to take a break. Not by choice mind you, but my knife finally gave out, she lasted through quite an amount of corpses, but it was meant for constant care, so the most I could do was sharpen it with a rock, which I did, but now it has chipped a few times, and is almost unusable. So I walk to a nearby tree and stick it in as deep as I could, never to be pulled again. But what to use now? Ba! Who am I kidding! The obvious answer is to make one with flint! I do have the necessary skills so no problem. ---- 5 hours later ---- There''s a problem! How do I put my newly made knife blade to a handle? I can¡¯t wedge it like the hatchet could, so how? In the end, i decided to do exactly what I just said I couldn¡¯t do and wedge it. I didn¡¯t think I could because it wouldn¡¯t last long without being unwedged if I stuck it in like the hatchet. But then I realized, if I wedge one side in completely then it should work fine, so after making an appropriately sized stick I wedge it. For those who can¡¯t imagine it yet, it looks like this [knife blade] {stick} [][]{} [][]{} [][]{} [][]{} {} {} {} After looking at it again, it looks like a comb with a handle in shape. In the end, though it identified as this
Crude flint knife? A knife-like item that will serve as a one sided knife for most purposes. 2-3 damage -Low quality
Not good as a weapon, but then again I''m not using it as a weapon now am I? So I get back to skinning until I get hungry. Then I decide to eat, sadly I don¡¯t have any jerky left, so mincemeat it is, you see I piled the meat on some leaves and had enough deboned meat to last me over a week, and I haven¡¯t even finished skinning them all yet. But I can¡¯t just eat it raw now can I? Well, I could eat it raw, but I would rather not risk getting sick. So I need to dig a fire pit. Grabbing the knife in the tree, breaking it out even though I was planning to never again, I use it as a trowel to dig a fire pit, of course after digging a two inch pit I stick the knife back into the tree, and place stones in a circle around the pit, next I put some grass, leaves, and small twigs Along with some of the bark I got from hollowing out a tree into the pit, next I once again grab the knife in the tree, and use it and my flint hatchet to start a fire, takes a few times to get it right though, next I grab a few bigger wood chunks from the firewood pile I have, and put the knife back in the tree.This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report. Grabbing some sticks I make three makeshift shish kebabs and using two sticks that fork near the end as ground posts, I spit roast the kebabs. And soon they are fully cooked
Skill gained! cooking C Beginner 1 (0.00%)
Yay for cooking! It even came with an identify food skill.
Bland mice kebab A not evenly cooked, unseasoned kebab made from mice meat there are too many flaws to count but was roasted in what was not THE most primitive way, and was cooked to an extent that it won''t kill you -horrible quality!
Now that just hurts. I take a bite and have to say the description was right, it tasted horrible, or more accurately it tasted like nothing. And nothing does not taste good. I quickly shove the rest down my food hole, and get up, and finish my skinning, I then set them down the fur down to sun dry. Next on my list of to do is to find a way to preserve these meats, I don¡¯t have cold, nor salt, so smoke? In the morning though, smoking takes a while, like that''s gonna be a day in of itself. So I do some med, no not the drugz, meditation. Don¡¯t do drugz kids, unless your brain is fully developed, and it¡¯s weed, I pick up a weed from the ground and sniff it. No not that weed. In case you can¡¯t guess I''m a dicking around, but it¡¯s med (not drugz) time. And I do so until sleep time. But first, I need to put out the fire. I pour some water bottles on it until the fire stops, then I kick around the ash, and half burnt wood. (Smokey says only you can stop forest fires). Then I sleep. As the sun goes up, I get up and out of my sleeping bag, and change into my waking bag (clothes). And¡­ some of the mice meat is gone, it seems some animal ate the meat, got full and left. I make a shish kebab and eat it. Then I start smoking the meat. I do so by sticking the meat on sticks (kebab style.) and using long sticks to put them a bit about the flame, that I reignited. I make the fire small as I could. Cuz you smoke meat with low flames. Like I said earlier it was a day in of itself. Or more accurately about half a day.
smoked mice Mice meat that has been smoked so it won''t go bad for a while. -travel quality (for travel use only)
I guess travel is better than horrible. Also cooking all this meat got my cooking up to beginner 3. But I now have more to do. I made a bark needle a long while ago (like three to five days) I made it with the intent of making a bag for plants. But now I need a bag for all this meat, but before that, i should explain the inventory system. You see there is an inventory, but to access it you need to use bags. Bags, chests, and other containers made from materials from this world made in this world have an inventory proportional to the quality of materials, quantity of natural space, and workmanship. Though it doesn¡¯t reduce weight or stop time. Well not without enchantments. So let''s think about what kind of bag to make. Pouch? Backpack? Or¡­ backpack pouch! You see my backpack has a strap for carrying on the top. So I could make a pouch and tie it to the strap. Yeah, I think I''ll do that. So to make a pouch I first need a large square of hide. I cut the wolf hide into the largest rectangle as I can. The edges were jagged, but it will serve its purpose. I grab a slightly large rock and place it in the center of the rectangle. I grab the edges and pull them over the rock to meet each other. Now I set the corners back to where they were, now that I know how I''m going to pull them I start on the ¡®string¡¯. I slice the mice hide into strips, and tie them with big notes, making a string ish thing. I then go to a nearby tree and make another bark needle but this one was larger, with a hole large enough for the hide string. After looping it in the hole, I pull the edges up over the rock again and holding it there with one hand, I grab the threaded needle and press the needle through the leather until the needle ends up where it began. Then I push the needle through the first hole I made. Then I tie the end of the string on the beginning. In case you couldn¡¯t understand what I did. I made and eight with the top half being made around the opening of the pack. The knots I made to connect the string were just the right size to not fit through the holes without force, so it was perfect.
Skill gained! sewing C Beginner 1 (0.00%)
Similar to most of my skills this one had an identify attached to it.
Hide bag A bag made from wolf hide, tied with a mouse hide string. The workmanship is terrible and could come apart at any moment. -Low quality
I¡¯ve gotten used to the descriptions hating on my works so it didn¡¯t sting as much as the others had. And after opening the bag a screen popped up
Rock x1 ---
This is, of course, the inventory screen. The rock which was in the bag to help model the shape was now listed on the inventory screen. I press the section with ¡®rock¡¯ on it and then a smaller screen popped up
Take rock out? Y/N
I clicked no. then I pushed my hand into the screen with the rock and it went into it, then I felt the rock and pulled it out. It worked just as I read from the rules before I came to this world. There are two ways to withdraw an item from the inventory. The first is the quick draw. You reach your hand into the icon on the screen and pull out whatever item¡¯s icon was where your hand was. Next is the select style. You press the icon with your finger and it pulls up the earlier screen. Ok so now I have completed that I get to packing all my mice kebabs and pelts into my new pack. Oh, I almost forgot to mention items like food and pelts stack, but the max stack size depends on the bag quality. This quality allows around a twenty stack. While doing so I start thinking everything over. So I know how to use magic (even if only slightly), I have my water stocks completely full, I have a large stack of food, and now all I need is a weapon. The hatchet and knife won''t work because they would snap easily, the steel knife is too dull and chipped, so it seems I will have to use my fists for now. My next step would be to move further into the forest. The most I will meet here are, level one mice or level four wolves. I want my blood to be pumping, to fight strong enemies and become stronger from it. So I think I''ve already decided. I will leave tomorrow morning. I mean like eleven AM not like eight. I need my sleep. So after I finish packing everything other than my sleeping bag, I decided to spend the rest of my day foraging. But first, I would need something to dig the plants out. So I decided to make a flint trowel. I¡¯ll save you the boring details about how I made it sense you have already seen it with the knife and hatchet. So here''s the finished product.
Crude flint trowel A trowel made from flint and oak, it will dig but might break at any moment -low quality
I also leveled my crude item crafting with this. I then go around spending the rest of the day digging small plants, picking fruit, berries, and nuts. By the end, my gathering had leveled up. I also take a look at all the plants I had, the ones that had properties were A spiky nut in the shape of a banana (tasted like walnut)
Splindro A nut that is known for calming stomach aches Cures grade 0 poison
A green looking blueberry (that tasted like one too)
Mansrg A berry that has a soothing taste +1/h mp reg
A berry with too much juice for its size (tasted sour [i like sour])
Rinsag A berry that literally explodes with flavor
A plant with leaves just a bit smaller than my hand and smelt of mint
Tensis A herb that¡¯s Leafs make a calming tea
I did the first thing I thought to do with all these things and that is to make tea with the ensis. So I set two tensis leaves on the ground in a pile and cut them into small pieces with my knife. I then carve a makeshift wooden cup out of some wood I cutted from a random tree. I grab a sort of flat stone and use sticks to prop the stone over the fire, and put the cup on it after filling it with water and throating the leaves in there, I also covered the cup with one of my shirts to stop steam from escaping. I see the cup start to burn on the bottom so I grab the shirt and threw it to the side, and using another shirt I grab the cup off the stone. The bottom was a bit black but it wasn¡¯t leaking so I call it a success. I take a sip and it tasted mostly like water with a hint of a flavor I had never tasted before, probably the leaves. Over all, I call it a failure and considering the system didn¡¯t put up any screens it must still consider this water and not tea. After failing to make a tea I grab some unsmoked mice meat. What? Unsmoked mice meat? Of course, I kept some uncooked. I just didn¡¯t say it. I put the meat on a kabob stick and squeezed some rinsag on it, or more specifically I pour some of the juice on the meat. I then cooked it and.
mice kebab A none evenly cooked mice kebab seasoned with a sour ingredient, adding a sour hint to the flavor. -very low quality!
Tasted better than my first kebabs at least. But after I was finished cooking I just meditate until I decide it¡¯s bed time, where I then go to sleep after checking all my screens
Titles: rodent slayer Name: ???+
Race human (100%) Level 3 (92/270) SP:0
HP 120/120 (7/h) MP 120/120 (13/h)
Str 11 Int 13
Dex 12 Wis 14
Agi 11 Will 11
Vit 13 Def 2
skills
Identify
Monster beginner 1, hide, carving, crude item, plant
Active Meditation beginner 5
Spells Mana bolt beginner 3
passive
Skinning beginner 1, recovery beginner 2, Hard skin beginner 2, gathering beginner 2, carving beginner 1, crude item crafting beginner 2, mana sense beginner 4, man manipulation beginner 6, blade mastery beginner 2, sewing beginner 1, cooking beginner 3
chapter- 7 boars and bears I wake up and put on a new pair of clothes, and pack up the sleeping bag. I eat two of my kababs and drink a large amount of water from the stream. And after stretching I start walking deeper into the forest. The amount of light that was able to breach the trees was getting notably less and less as I walked, but my eyes were adjusting too so I could still see clearly. I was just about to take a break when a boar rushes out of the bushes at a high speed. Instantly I realize its weakness and I side step its attack. ¡°Identify monster¡±
Striped boar Level 3
It did indeed have a large long stripe going down its side. And if I had to describe its fur color it would be a dark brown with the strip being even darker at an almost black coloring. It had two large tusks jutting out of its mouth, they looked sharp most definitely able to draw blood if it were to land an attack, an idea I had no intention of letting it do. It charges again, and again I sidestep, but unlike last time I kick its side, the boar wasn¡¯t sent flying like I had hoped, but from what I felt with my foot I most definitely broke a few ribs. I turn to the boar and glare at it. the boar was angry so much in fact that its eyes had gone full red. It charged again, but I think it might have used a skill because it was faster, a lot faster. It was so fast I wouldn¡¯t be able to dodge it in time, but I wasn¡¯t planning to anyway, so it didn¡¯t matter. As it was speeding towards me, I lean forwards, digging my left foot in the ground as hard as I could, then I raise my right foot to stomp the boar in the forehead. It must have taken it as a challenge because it charged faster, but I don¡¯t back down. But right before it got to me I lean far back leaning on the tree that was behind me, you see I positioned myself in front of a tree for this purpose. I then angle my foot towards the boar''s head, raising my other one to go next to my right one, at the last moment. The boar charged right into my feet, the force was so strong my legs folded in and my but hit the ground. But the boar got it worse. It was lying on its side most likely unconscious. I walk up to it and using one foot to hold one tusk to the ground, I pull the other tusk out, it didn¡¯t come out at first, but after a moment I heard a cracking sound and it broke off. The pain must have woken up the boar, because raised its head, knocking me off balance and on the ground, or more specifically on my back. I quickly roll to my knees. And see the boar charging at me, it was so close I wasn¡¯t able to do anything. But it was close so the force was only enough to pierce halfway into my calf. Roaring in pain I bring the tusk I had grabbed earlier through its eye into its brain killing it. This was confirmed by the pop-up
Xp +8
I got a shirt from my backpack and cut it with my knife, using the strips as makeshift bandages, I then just lie there for a moment checking my status
Titles: rodent slayer Name: ???+
Race human (100%) Level 3 (100/270) SP:0
HP 113/120 (5/h) MP 102/120 (13/h)
Str 11 Int 13
Dex 12 Wis 14
Agi 11 Will 11
Vit 13 Def 2
I lost a small amount, but it seems it hit an artery because the bleeding lowered my regen by two. Though because of the recovery skill, the bleeding did pretty much nothing to me. At least I was about to take a break so I guess I''m resting for¡­ an hour and a half. I spent the time waiting for my leg to heal practising my mana flow, it was also pretty dark around so I had an idea, in most fantasy things when you put mana in your eyes, so what if instead of just flowing mana through my eyes, I infuse it into my eyes, and that''s what I do
Spell learnt! Magic eyes C beginner 1 (0.00%)
Magic eyes grade 0, neutral, enhancement beginner 1 (0.00%)Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation. One of the first enhancement spell people using enhancement magic learn it allows the user to gain enhanced vision of various types depending on this spells level, and various other skills/spells levels. -long -night 5/mp per type per minute
Cool, I activate night, and immediately it looked a lot brighter, though the color faded a bit, making everything look a little gray, though this would be immensely helpful because I could now see everything much clearer. I then use long and it made me see everything twice as large, and I must say it was weird, I could still see everything I could before but at the same time it was all twice as big, in fact after a moment I started getting a headache from all the info, it was a small one so I could easily ignore it. I deactivated them both since it was still bright enough that night didn¡¯t help all that much and long wasn¡¯t the best to have twenty-four seven, that and I didn¡¯t want to waste mana, speaking of which, I forgot I could use mana bolt in the fight with the boar. It would have helped immensely if I could have used it. But no use worrying over the past. So I go back to meditating until my leg was healed. I decided to not take the boar because I was running out of space and didn¡¯t want to get too laid down. So I stand back up, leg a bit sorer now than when I was walking before, but that''s irrelevant, and I start walking again. I met another boar while walking but this time I remembered I had magic and with a ten mana, mana bolt it died. But eventually I came across a sword in a giant stone, just kidding! The rest of the day was boar-ing! Get it cause I only met a few more boars, the rest of the day¡­ get it? Yeah I met three more boars, and three more mana bolts and they were dead. It was the next day, I got out from my hiding place for the night and start trekking again. It was about two boars later that I met something new a bear. It was large and brown with gray spots. It looked terrifying. Yes, the bear itself looked scary, but the blood on its lips from the boar''s guts it was eating. I almost barfed, but holding it down I muttered as quietly as possible ¡°Identify monster¡±
Grizzled bear Level 8
I calm myself, it¡¯s level eight, a level five wolf is the highest I''ve ever faced. I quietly raised my arm towards it. How much mana should I use? I ponder for a moment before using fifty, a bit causes I know but I don¡¯t want to die. I launch the mana bolt, but I forgot about knock back because I was sent backward slamming into a tree before slumping to the ground on my side. Sadly there was another bear, it seems the one from before had a mate, I quickly raise my arm again and launch another fifty mana, mana bolt. This wasn¡¯t the best idea because I am slid across the ground on my side, my body was sore, but the worst pain was from my entire right side, the skin was ground off from my body and blood was pouring out onto the ground. There wasn¡¯t much I could do to stop the bleeding, but what I could do was look at my stats
Titles: rodent slayer Name: ???+
Race Human (100%) Level 3 (288/270)+ SP:0
HP 100/120 (1/h) MP 20/120 (13/h)
Str 11 Int 13
Dex 12 Wis 14
Agi 11 Will 11
Vit 13 Def 2
Twenty health from just sliding? Ouch. I sit in pain before standing up, mainly leaning on my left leg. Hobbling over I get a bit into the clearing. I see the corpses of the bears, and threw up, luckily not onto my hurt leg. Their heads were gone, and by gone I mean scattered around the clearing, brains here, skull there. The one I shot from the ground was also missing its shoulder, most likely where I had hit it, compared from the first which I hit in the head. But I knew what I had to do. I hobbled away from the scene if another bear were to see that I would be dead, so after getting about twenty feet from the bears I climb into a tree, with much difficulty, and sleep in it. I wake and immediately I check my status.
Titles: rodent slayer Name: ???+
Race Human (100%) Level 3 (288/270)+ SP:0
HP 120/120 (8/h) MP 85/120 (13/h)
Str 11 Int 13
Dex 12 Wis 14
Agi 11 Will 11
Vit 13 Def 3
I felt as good a new, though the skin on my right side was a little sensitive, speaking of which, I change into a new set of clothes, my old shirt and pants missing a right side. I then checked my log. Other than the xp gain messages it also seems mana bolt, recovery, and hard skin leveled one each. Speaking of leveling. I had leveled up. Which I preceded to do, then I divided my five stat points..
Titles: rodent slayer Name: ???+
Race Human (100%) Level 4 (18/500) SP:0
HP 120/120 (8/h) MP 85/120 (13/h)
Str 11 Int 15
Dex 12 Wis 16
Agi 12 Will 11
Vit 13 Def 3
As you can see I put one in agi and two in int and wis. But five hundred? That''s so many! After eating and drinking my rations to refresh myself. I decided to meditate until I go to sleep since it was almost night. And that''s what I did, I meditated and then I slept through the night. The next day was spent walking and killing one bear. This time I only used thirty mana. But it still was killed. chapter- 8 man vs. bear I awoke to another day. And I have to say, I miss coke, I miss couches, I miss comfy. So today I''m going to do nothing, and anyone who tries to stop me gets a mana bolt to the face. So I spent my day lazing in a tree, a few boars and a bear tried to interrupt me, but as promised they got a personalized mana bolt to the face. The next day I started walking again. It was really dark at this point. So dark I started using magic eyes (night) twenty-four seven, except when I was low on mana or sleeping. I did find a few new ingredients, but they didn¡¯t do anything special, but I grabbed them anyway since they weren''t poisonous. But I realized I forgot something. I wanted to learn magic to use water magic so I didn¡¯t have to worry about water! But then I came across the stream and forgot about it! How do I do elemental magic? I mean it can¡¯t be that hard, maybe it has something to do with affinities? I have two in water but nothing happened, so it might not be the most critical part of it. Meh! *shoulder shrug* It will come in time, I''m sure. Walking was getting boring though so I think I might stay in one place for a while in a few days. As I walk I see a bigger bear. It was about twice the size of the bears I bet before, not only that they had a silver marking on there head. It looked like a crescent moon and a thin one at that. I was hidden so I use identify monster.
Silvermoon guardian bear Level 12
.Twelve? Harsh, i mean it was a level eight before this
Congratulations! Skill monster identify has level to beginner level two
At the sudden and unexpected notification, I jump a bit and scream a bit¡­ in a manly way. Unfortunately, the bear heard my manly roar too, so I am forced to raise my arm and shoot a fifty mana mana bolt. The bolt hit its head and¡­ got hurt. The fur was burnt, and I think it lost an eye. I was honestly surprised the other bears died in one hit, their head literally was gone after one hit, but this bear wasn¡¯t even fazed¡­ ok so it was but you get what I meant. After mana bolt failed I gave up hope and accepted my fate NOT! I did the only thing I could think of doing shoot a 70 mana (the rest of my mana) mana bolt, as I ignored the thumping headache I got from emptying my mana I looked over the bear, and think I it got knocked out. Time to finish it. I grab the boar tusk I had gotten from that first boar. Ah, i remember that boar. That was back when I didn¡¯t use mana bolt to solve all my problems¡­ I grab the tusk and after placing it lightly in the injured eye, and kick it! Of course, it died. No brain no life. Simple as that.
Xp +120
That is a lot of xp. I mean if I used a one hundred mana bolt I could have killed that bear so much easier. The first thing I do is walk back where I came from for a bit, and meditate in a tree to restore some mana, and surprisingly mana sense raised to beginner five. And then it changed. I felt the mana in the¡­ everything. If I had to describe what it looked like¡­ well felt like, it was like the painting ¡®starry night¡¯ in case you''ve never seen it, it looked like a massive amount of swirls. Curling, curving and swirling around each other. I also saw it move into me slightly. It wasn¡¯t much but I felt it seeping into me, the interesting thing is that the mana felt different in the air, kinda like my mana was orange soda, while the mana in the air is grape, not necessarily worse, but different. The first thing I do is try to manipulate the mana in the air, it was hard about ten times as hard as when I first manipulated my own mana, but my mental fortitude had gotten stronger than it was back then, the only thing I could do was pull it into my body or move it over my skin slowly. But hey three good things came of this. The first was my mana regen soared when I pulled mana into my body. The second and third was that meditation and mana manipulation levels to seven and eight respectively. It felt good to make such leaps in progress. Tiring but satisfying. I also think I was ready to face those bears again So I went back and saw no bears, but hey I never expected there to be another bear in the same place as the last, but I hadn¡¯t expected to meet another bear two minutes after walking away. I send a hundred mana bolt, and the fur and skin were gone. The skull and eyes that miraculously survived (i think it closed its eyelids before the mana bolt hit) blood was pouring over the skull making it look about as pissed as a bear in its situation could be. So again I mana bolt with the rest of my mana killing it. After that, i leave and meditate in a tree again. I meet a new bear and empty my mana killing, before meditating. It sort of became a routine, wake up find a bear, kill a bear, meditate lost mana back, sleep. I also was sort of getting used to what mana depletion felt like. Now I had a level up to apply and of course, i put all five in int, raising it to twenty. And the next day I found that this power was enough to kill one bear with one hundred mana. After shooting a bear with a one-shot I find a new kind of bear there too.This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience.
Half moon elite (uncommon) Level 20
I leave. This bear was bigger than the Silvermoon guardian but other than its size it also had a half moon where there was a crescent on the other. I¡¯m not facing this at my current strength. So I do some boring repetitive stuff the next few days until I level up, and this is what it looked like after I leveled up.
Titles: rodent slayer Name: ???+
Race human (100%) Level 6 (24/3500) SP:0
HP 120/120 (8/h) MP 250/250 (16/h)
Str 11 Int 25
Dex 12 Wis 16
Agi 12 Will 11
Vit 13 Def 3
I pump myself up. What are you so afraid of? Death? You''re a gamer you¡¯ve experienced death more times than you can count. Yah! Why am I afraid of a low leveled bear? Having pumped myself up I dash deeper into the forest. Until I meet the elite, with mana bolt at a full two hundred fifty I fire it at the bear. And miss¡­ why? I know why i got overexcited and didn¡¯t aim properly. I also noticed something I forgot earlier when I said I died before it was in a game, you know where you can respawn. But sadly this game has no respawned. But in other news, this is bad, while running I passed some bears so I have some chasing me from behind and one in front of me, so I do the smart thing and run to the right. I hook around another tree flinging me to the left when I see another bear over there. I am lucky though, these bears are strong and tough but they are slow, so even if they are a higher level than me I can still keep my distance from them. Speaking of distance, I''ve gone quite far into the woods, the same as before, trees are bigger, the place is darker, etc. He stopped running, why? Because he knew he had blown it. He had run into a big clearing, and sleeping in the moonlight was a big bear, the biggest bear he had seen it was pure silver, except for a circle of black on its forehead, but for some reason I knew that it wasn¡¯t really a black circle, as much as an outlining for the full circle on his forehead. He didn¡¯t need to identify it to know that it was massively stronger than him, but he identified it anyway.
Moon blessed bear (rare) This bear was blessed by the moon goddess giving it great strength. Level 35
It was also in that moment that he realized that there was a rating other than level there (rare), and wasn¡¯t that half moon elite (uncommon)? But those were thoughts for another time, the bear was level thirty-five, and he knew he was dead. It was a guardian, one of the few exceptions to the level limit. {Author: I don¡¯t remember what I made the level cap, but I''m changing it to twenty if it wasn¡¯t already that} Guardians were beings who rule over a territory, they were allowed to stay because they needed to maintain their territory or risk a large change in the ecosystem, that would endanger the new races massively. But they weren''t allowed to get near the new races yet, unluckily for him though, he was the one that came to the bear, not the other way around. At that moment the bear woke up and looked into my eyes. I stopped completely. I wasn¡¯t able to move my body, or my head, even my eyes, and lungs, stopped, trying anything it could to lose that bears attention. I was scared, I had never felt fear in my life, you must think I''m joking, but I''m not, sure I''ve had my fair share of surprises, but never have I felt terror. The bear raised an arm and slashed at me. The claws slashed my torso, cutting three deep grooves on my chest and stomach. The impact had thrown me against a tree. And just as quick as it had arrived, my fear left, and replacing it was dread, and acceptance. I will die here. They say that when you die, you see your life flash before your eyes, and they were right, my brain was looking through all my experiences to see anything that could keep me alive, that I could use to claw myself out of the jaws of death. But there was nothing, my days of gaming, reading, sleeping, watching tv, laughing, none of it could save me now. I always thought that if I died I wouldn¡¯t mind, because life was boring, that whatever afterlife or void that I went too would be more interesting, but now? Now I want to live¡­ I want to live? I realized it, I WANTED TO LIVE! I started getting goosebumps, my hairs sticking up on edge. Not that it meant anything, the bear¡¯s slash left me bleeding and dying, my body was going cold, my vision started to blur But¡­ I¡­ want¡­ to¡­ LIVE! 3rd pov. The bear had lazily swiped at the furless thing that had disturbed its rest. But it was almost dead, he thought it was strange that something so weak could get past his kin, he would have to retrain them later, but back to the intruder, it was just staring off into the distance, before its eyes closed, he had thought it to be dead, before its eyes shot open, they held a more primordial look in them than before. And the bear felt this could be anything but good, he in his (relatively) long life he had seen this look before in the eyes of many animals, animals willing to throw anything away to live, even much weaker animals who had this look, had injured his kin. But any though the bear might have had beyond this point, was cut off by our main character''s actions. He raised himself onto his feet of the ground, and did something stupid (not that he hadn¡¯t in the past) he charged at the bear. Being wary at this point, the bear struck at the intruder seriously, his claw moving several times faster than before, with a faint shine to them that was not there before. But the intruder moved his body in an almost impossible way, twisting his body like a serpent to dodge the bear¡¯s strike. Getting up close to the bear, the intruder swipes his hand in a clawed manner towards the bear, and surprisingly enough, he had claws! The bear distinctly remembered the intruder not having claws, and furthermore, as he discovered moments later when he was struck with them, that these claws were sharp. The claws ripped the bear¡¯s face off, literally. What was left what some fur on one half of the bear¡¯s face, the other half, had the skull fractured, with some pieces missing, and a missing eye. Needless to say, the bear was pissed, and in pain, but with its pain overpowering its fury, it chooses to run, not that it would get the chance. The intruder grabbed onto the bear¡¯s skull refusing to let go. And furthermore, the blood pouring out of the skull was pulled into the intruder, through the various injuries he had. The bear was desperately flailing around as he felt his life drain from him. And his last thoughts before dying was shame, at seeing his kin flee in terror at the loss of him... chapter- 9 the shop ¡°Bagels!¡± I sat up with a start as I awoke, then immediately fell over in pain, all my muscles hurt, my bones hurt, my skin hurt! What did I do last night? Let''s go over what I did yesterday. Accidentally met the head bear, got almost instantly killed by him/her, then¡­ nothing, wait, I forgot! I said something very Chuunibyou, didn¡¯t I? This is embarrassing, but I have bigger questions, like, I can understand why I''m so sore, but why don¡¯t I have any injuries, or scars for that matter. If you were paying attention earlier, then you would realize I said questions, implying multiple. So question two, what''s with the bear corps? Yup, there was a dried up bear corps. Wait¡­ did I do that? I don¡¯t think so, but better be sure
Titles: rodent slayer, guardian breaker Name: ???+ Class: ___+
Race human (100%) Level 13 (040,124/68000) SP:35
HP 120/120 (8/h) MP 250/250 (16/h)
Str 11 Int 25
Dex 12 Wis 16
Agi 12 Will 11
Vit 13 Def 3
HOLY MOTHER OF BUTTS, AND KETCHUP! That would be, over one hundred thousand xp! But class? I click the plus and it pulls up a list
Classes pick one
  1. Arcanist
  2. Superstes
  3. guardian
  4. Potion master
  5. Warrior
  6. Cook
  7. Tailor
  8. Tanner
I¡¯ll leave out the description for numbers three and higher, since you can probably guess what they are, as for one and two...
Arcanist As one who walks the path of mana, you ignore the use of elements to delve into the truth of manaThis tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report. trees unlocked: arcane,
Seems like a pretty standard mage class
Superstes The one who never falls, no matter what hits you, you get back up and continue trees unlocked: unbreaking
A tank class? Superstes is Latin for survivor, by the way. oh right trees! I forgot to explain those. They are essentially skill trees from most RPGs, the only difference is that you can unlock them through a myriad of ways, such as titles, skills, and classes, as for why I haven''t gotten one yet, it is because you need to have a class before you can unlock them. I choose the class selection screen, I think I''ll hold off on it, for now, not knowing what happens once I choose one, could be the end for me if I pass out again. so I think I want to get to a bit safer of a place, considering I''m in the home of the bears¡¯ boss, I must be very lucky to not have been attacked yet. So I quickly change clothes, because the ones I''m wearing are shredded. I then grab a kebab, I''m understandably hungry. Also guardian slayer? It was a bit overshadowed by the class thing, but still, what is it?
Guardian breaker: you killed those who were not meant to be killed, break those who were not to be broken Effects: +500 shop points
Shop points? What shop? I honestly don¡¯t know, I read the guide for this world, but it said nothing about some kind of shop. But I guess it can¡¯t be bad to have at least¡­ oh! Pending notices!
You have reached level ten, and qualify to choose a class!
Already knew that.
WORLD ANNOUNCEMENT! A being has slain a guardian, and thus the protection period is over, monsters over level twenty shall be reinstated over the next year
Oh good, midway there I thought I had doomed a lot of people by ending the waiting period early, but if it¡¯s a year then I didn¡¯t do that bad of a thing
WORLD ANNOUNCEMENT! As the protection period is over, shop shall now be instated you may access it the same way as the status screen and my purchase various things.
WORLD ANNOUNCEMENT! As the protection period is over, language barrier is reinstated, and all beings shall be given skill common lv.MAX
Oh, so that''s what the shop points are for¡­ also, I guess I''m trilingual now? If my Latin teacher could see me now! It took about seven years in case you didn¡¯t know! But more importantly, let¡¯s check out that shop!
SHOP! points: 500 + Info + Skills + Items + Unenacted purchases
Obviously, I click unenacted purchases
Common lv.MAX Basic SHOP INFO
I use them both, and I have to say, suddenly knowing a language is odd feeling, not bad but odd. As for shop info, it was mainly about what you can shop for, and how to get points. The way you get points is by killing monsters or crafting items or more specifically offering them, drawing a circle around a monster or item, and saying ¡®offer¡¯, will make it disappear and an appropriate amount of points will be awarded. The only other way to get them is to be given them by another, or to get them through titles like me. As for what you can buy, well a lot more than I can list. But apparently, five hundred is massive amount for someone who¡¯s level is in the tens. Deciding to test the offering system, I draw a circle in the dirt around the bear corpse ¡°Offer¡± And it was gone, no flash of light, no big animation, just gone.
SHOP! points: 502 + Info + Skills + Items
Level thirty-five corpse for two points? Harsh. I decided to buy things after I look through my last pending notification.
For killing a guardian during the protection period, you may get a choice of, two hundred shop points, or may ask a god one question
A god? Two hundred is a lot but asking a god a question has a lot of benefits. So yeah the god one. chapter- 9.5 meting god ¡°Hello I am Serove God of light¡± When I awoke that was the first thing I heard, looking around I saw nothing. Literally, not even white, just nothing. I couldn¡¯t even see the god I am supposed to talk to. ¡°Hello¡± (me) ¡°For the astounding achievement of killing a guardian in the protection period, you may ask one question. Now I know you must have many questions, so take your ti-¡± ¡°How does HP work? I mean, something with one thousand HP will die just as easily as one with one hundred HP if they get there head destroyed.¡± ¡°Are you sure this is what you want to ask?¡±Unauthorized reproduction: this story has been taken without approval. Report sightings. ¡°Yes¡± ¡°Ok. HP is essentially the measurement of your life force, it is one of the big three energies of life, with the others being mana, and soul, it usually is just flowing through your body, but when you get injured, the blood you lose or the injury itself makes you lose some, as for surviving your head destroyed, the brain is where the mind, and soul rest, so the destruction of the head, and by association, brain, almost everything will die.¡± ¡°Oh¡± ¡°I have answered your question, so I will do another favor for you, but first let''s have a look at your potential. Oh! What a coincidence! You have vitality brain.¡± ¡°Vitality brain? That doesn''t sound good at all.¡± ¡°Not true! It is very rare, even in high ranked species. It essentially means your brain, which for almost every species is usually made of mana, is made of vitality. This gives you the talent to control vitality much easier, but a side effect is that you will be much worse at magic pertaining to mana. I¡¯ll awaken your talents for you.¡± I suddenly felt immense pain rake my brain, it felt as if someone was reshaping it like clay, which I guess is fairly accurate. ¡°They''re, try meditating when you get to the material plane.¡± ¡°Ok¡­ so I guess I''ll be going now...¡± ¡°Yes¡± chapter- 10 kitty When I woke back up, I was in the forest again. Now I know god said to meditate when I got back, but I''ll hold off until I get to a place to stay for the, now rapidly, approaching night. I get up and start walking in the opposite direction of the way i came, as for how i could tell this it was because of the massive amount of blood on the tree that the bear knocked me into when he swiped at me. I suddenly come upon a steep decline, was this forest on a hill the entire time? Not that it makes a difference, just interesting to think about. About five hours later my feet are getting sore, so i think i¡¯ll take a break here, as i sit down i take a look around the area. The trees were a bit different than before, the trees now less thick, but more dense, so the area was just as hard to navigate, the underbrush was thicker here too, with most of the ground being covered in some kind of grass, but if i had to say what i found most striking was the lack of animals. Back before i met the guardian, i would still come across squirrel or bird the bears were too lazy to kill but now? Nothing. But as i half lay down to relaxs, i find out why¡­ i wandered into another animal¡¯s territory. The first thing that notified me to their presence was the black streak, that flashed by me as, my arm now had three large gashes on them. I get up to my feet immediately, looking around i don¡¯t see anything, so i quickly rotate to look all around me, and then i see the black streak dash towards me. I charge a mana bolt at one hundred to test the waters, and it dies.
Xp +160
Now that I can get a better look at the guy who just tried to kill me I can now see that my enemy was a cat. Well wild cat, but you get what I meant. ¡°Identify monster¡±
Wild woods ocelot Level 18
Now i¡¯m a bit sad, this probably won''t be the only one i¡¯ll have to kill, and i like cats, they''re just so cute and fluffy, how can¡¯t you love them? I don¡¯t think i can handle skinning a cat, so i decided to offer it. After the corpse disappears I leave and continue walking. About the time the sun slips over the edge of the world I find a cave, well more of a large hole that leads underground, I think I''ll stay here tonight. Once I get to the bottom I come across a strange, and sad sight. A large dead ocelot, and a sleeping kitten. Now i¡¯m no veterinarian, but I think the mother died giving birth, on another note, that kitten is adorable! {search ocelot kitten and you will see what i mean} I think I''ll keep him. I offer the mother and pick up the kitten. The kitten stirs a little as it wakes up, and looks at me with its big eyes. ¡°Mew¡± I think my heart stopped! I scratch him under the chin, and he purrs. I grab a bit of my mice meat from a kabab, cats can eat mice meat right? Well it would probably be weird if they didn¡¯t. His little teeth nibble a bit of the meat, before digging into the meat i have in my hand. I grab my jacket that do to the warm weather have yet to use, and set him down on it. Seming to like it, he crawls into the hood, before curling up and going to sleep. Well now that, that''s done, i think i¡¯ll meditate. So i quickly slip into a meditative state, and i think i understand what god was talking about. I was now able to sense a pulsing red energy flow through the veins in my body. It was full and thick with life. To try and test the waters, i stop meditating, and grab my hatchet, using it i cut my palm deep enough that it starts to leak blood, and try to get back into a meditative state, and fail, the pain was enough to distract me from meditating. It takes a while for me to meditate, but by then, my regeneration skill had already healed the cut, so I''m forced to cut myself again and try again, and this time I slip into meditation before the cut heals. The energy was, in fact, being pulled out with the blood, but it didn¡¯t disperse, it stayed in the blood, and this gave me an idea. I try to pull it back into the wound the same way I would move mana, it did nothing, but then again so didn¡¯t mana the first time I tried. So I try and try, over and over again, and after several hours, I realize something was wrong, no matter what it shouldn¡¯t take this long¡­ ugh! Let''s think back to what god said about it¡­ it is one of the big three energies of life, with the others being mana and soul The three parts of the ones existence. The body mind and soul. Then from what we know we can assume, soul is the energy of the soul, mana the energy of the mind, and HP is the energy of the body¡­ ok so i¡¯m going to refer to HP as vitality from now on, why? Cuz shut up! That''s why! That would mean we¡¯ve been going about this the wrong way, can you control your arm with your mind? No! Try it now, instead of using your body to move it, command it to move with your mind¡­ didn¡¯t work did it? So instead I start moving my body and moving mana with my mind, comparing how they feel, and i think i got it, moving mana is conscious, while moving your body is subconscious, you move your body on purpose, but you don¡¯t choose how you get it to move, you let your subconscious do it, choosing what muscles to use, how much force to use, so i just have to learn how to control my muscles manually! It was hard, controlling each individual muscle wasn¡¯t something i was meant to do, so i was having to overpower myself, and i wasn¡¯t able to do it that night. The next morning I decided to stay in the cave until I get this thing down. So after feeding the kitten some meat and water, I get back to practicing how to manually move my muscles, and like that the next few days slip by, and the reward for my efforts was this.Unauthorized tale usage: if you spot this story on Amazon, report the violation.
Skill gained! Manual control C beginner 1 (00%) You have learned to control your muscles by yourself, this is the first step in gaining mastery over your own body.
YES!!! You have no idea how hard this was, the arm i was practising with felt dead, if i try to control it normally it was sluggish, from fatigue, but with my new skill i can still move it as if it was in peak condition, is this the effect of the skill? Being able to move your body unhindered by injuries? That sounds pretty good. But i wanna focus on the more mystic side of this, and get back to manipulating vitality. So here i am again, cutting my palm to try and control my blood, just like a few days ago, thinking of which, what day would it be if I was back on earth? what would i be doing back on earth? Reading? Surfing the web? But now? I¡¯m learning how to control my blood. So cool! I try to control the vitality in my blood that was spilling out of my palm, I treat it as if it were another part of my body, moving it just as I did with my muscles, move¡­ move¡­ MOVE! I felt it! A ripple, and nothing more, but it was there, movement where there shouldn¡¯t be any. It was a start
Skill gained! Life manipulation (Blood) B beginner 1 (00%) Ambulans in via imperii corpus diligenter
That''s odd? It¡¯s in latin, now I''m not the best but it roughly means ¡®he that walketh in the path of the imperial body, be careful¡¯ So ominous. Very spoopy. I look down, at the cutie that was sleeping in my lap as i was doing this, ain''t he the best. Lets see what should i do now, i know i¡¯m forgetting something, somethi- my class! I held off from acquiring a class because i didn¡¯t know what was going to happen, but now i¡¯m in a safe place, i think i should get it.
Classes pick one
  1. uia corpus imperii
  2. Arcainist
  3. Superstes
  4. guardian
  5. Potion master
  6. Warrior
  7. Cook
  8. Tailor
  9. Tanner
A new class? Wonder what it is?
Uia corpus imperii Ambulans in via imperii corpus diligenter trees unlocked: N/A
It¡¯s just the same as the life manipulation¡¯s description¡­ and no skill tree? I¡¯m choosing this, no question this is just too interesting to not chose.
You have gained the class Uia corpus imperii, and have unlocked access to skill trees, open trees the same way as status CLASS MODIFIER:
  • Increased skill growth in skill body control
  • +4 vitality per level
Plus four vit might not seem a lot but if you consider I will one day be over level one hundred, it is a lot. But let''s check out that skill tree ¡°Skill tree¡±
SKILL TREES: skill points:1
  • Arcane spell
I guess since half of my skill page is mana based skills getting the arcane spell path was inevitable, but i¡¯m not going to use it for a while, why? Because as god said, my talent with mana is terrible, and it makes sense, since it took over a day just to start meditating. Not to say i¡¯m giving up on spells, no i will learn magic one day, just today is not that day. But since i¡¯m not using magic, i will use a weapon, and with the shop, i can buy any kind of weapon i want! So, what weapon should i use, no heavy weapons, just standing there and getting hit isn¡¯t what i want. No knives or daggers, i don¡¯t want to try and kill massive monsters, with a tiny dagger. No long ranged weapons, i¡¯m by myself so if they were to get close, i would die easily, so what to chose, what to cho- oh¡­ my god, the answer was right in front of me this whole time! Swords! They are close combat, and most are light weight! But what kind, in case you don¡¯t know there are many different style of swords, long, short, katana, saber, great, rapier, and so on. Now that i think about it, why don¡¯t i look at the shop to check out there fighting styles, hmm? Oh i should mention, that the shop also sells fighting styles, they aren''t advanced, and are more of a basic guide on how that style works but, for a newb like me it should be good. I spend the next few hours, looking at the various styles for different swords, until i came to rapiers. I have to admit, rapiers are one of the final few i¡¯m thinking about using, they have a long, but lightweight blade, so it fits my needs but the real question is, does it have any style that stick out to me? Let''s see, most styles start with single rapier style, before branching of into others such as dagger, or buckler. Hm? Dual wielding? Now i know it sounds very chunni, but i want to dual wield swords, kirito style. With that in mind, i think i have my answer. So rapiers, how much do they cost?
bronze rapier COST: 100 A system made bronze rapier RANK: 1 PROPERTIES: Slashing D piercing D Durability E+
And i have 610 points, so that would leave me with 510 points, considering that the style costs 250 points, i would then have 260 points, deal! I buy the sword, and a small circle of light appears in the air, and slowly slides down, as it does so a hilt appears, it was just as it said, made of a goldish bronze, the hilt had a spiral pattern on it, now i don¡¯t actually know that much about swords, but i think it¡¯s for the purpose of helping you grip it easier. Next the guard, and this was the unusual part, if i remember correctly don¡¯t rapiers have a guard that looks like a half sphere right? Well this had no guard. If i had to make a guess the guard is meant to make it harder for your opponent to disarm you, but that¡¯s with a human, when going against monsters, it isn¡¯t really that helpful. And finally, the blade, now looking at it, it was wider than i thought it would, at about a little over two of my fingers together, as for length, it is about the length of my forearm plus a little more, giving the entire sword a length about the same as my arm. But as it finished coming out i remembered something, how am i going to carry this? It had no sheath, so i had to buy one from the store, for five points. It was a dark brown, with a similarly colored metal rim at the entrance of the sheath. Then I buy the knowledge on how to use the sword. A small crystal about the size of my fingernail appeared in a similar fashion to the sword. When i got ahold of it the only thing i could think of was eating it, and i don¡¯t mean that i didn¡¯t have any other ideas, it was that i literally couldn¡¯t, and before i knew it, the crystal was already in my mouth, then my stomach. The info i bought then appeared in my head, it wasn¡¯t anything fancy, but what it was, is practical. A few slashes, a thrust, and some footwork, now don¡¯t think this means i am a master now. I only got the knowledge i still need to put it into practise, and use it more, before i become more comfortable with it. I spend the rest of the day swinging my sword practising, but i noticed something odd (and adorable) the little kitty was swinging his tail in tandem with the sword. When i stopped and turned to look at him, he tilted his head as if to ask, why did you stop, i walk over and pet him before getting back to practising, and my reward was, getting blade mastery to level four, from its previous two. That''s not to say that''s all i did, i also practised life manipulation, and got it to level two. Now the ripples i could make were bigger, to the point that i could kind of slide my blood around on the ground. The next day I head out, not only to keep moving forward but also to find some water, I''m starting to run out! unable to go on just as it says, I can''t continue to write this story... in its current state. I had planned all of the major plot points in the story, but after taking a break, I realized that all my ideas were too embarrassing to write. we have a few options, I came up with several ideas during the break I''ve had, and have written them down, so I have listed your option below so vote and I''ll do which one you want 1. rewrite the changes in the story will mainly be that he wouldn''t leave the group immediately, and people gain their classes at level one allowing me to show off classes earlier.Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon. 2. cultivating a world a cultivator that reached divinity destroys his soul to protect humanity''s last stronghold from demons, but a fragment of his soul becomes the host of a probe whose mission is to create a new universe (i took some inspiration from world keeper) 3. skeleton knight our MC was a professional VR gamer who wakes up in the past on the day of the game''s release, and his choice to go for a certain hidden class changes his destiny. 4. animal evolution online (AEO) (this is a rewrite of hybrid evolution online) the MC starts playing a vrmmorpg where your stats and skills aren''t only decided by your class but also your race of animal that you choose at the start of the game and can be evolved under the right circumstances landslide victory the people have spoken! in an overwhelming victory was AEO (animal evolution online) so here is the link! Did you know this text is from a different site? Read the official version to support the creator.