《The Creator - Old version》 Chapter 1 - Lucid dreaming I woke up with a start and open my eyes while millions of information overwhelm my senses and create an unending flow of questions in my head. However, all of that is flooded by an information transmitted by my main sense, the sight. In the sky, I see two moons both slightly bigger that our moon. The view by itself is breathtaking but the meaning it implies fills my body with adrenaline. ¡°Status ¡­¡± I whisper to no one in particular. A reality check. A way for a dreamer to know he is dreaming. Well at least it is what it¡¯s supposed to be. There is no evidence of its effectiveness except the testimony of people online. It¡¯s supposed to be an action that has no effect in the real world but is associated to an illogical result beforehand. Like your fingers going through your hand, phrases changing each time you read them or in my case a status window from games popping up in the air upon calling it. By the way the window did pop up, although it¡¯s completely empty. And only a few second should have passed since I opened my eyes. Anyways, the window did pop up, that means I¡¯m dreaming! The adrenaline is now skyrocketing however, if it continues like this I will wake up so I try to calm myself. It is not finished yet. The next step is to question the reality. So, I try to will the window out of existence. But it stays there empty. I try again a few times but it stays here impervious to my efforts. I then shift my concentration to one of the moon and do the same only to be met by the same disappointment. I am going to try once more but a voice cut experiment short. ¡°Where are we?¡± Soon other voices follow and I understand that I¡¯m not alone. Standing up, I noticed a bunch of other people around me both women and men. We are all standing in a clearing. Well now that I look at them they all look to be around 18 years old, like me. Some a bit older and some a bit younger. They all start talking louder and louder and everything starts to melt into a giant buzzing sound. Annoying. However, it makes me notice something. Everything just feels too real. There¡¯s no trace of the haziness or the dullness of the senses that should be present in a dream. But the blue blank window in front of me is screaming the opposite. Before I can continue my cogitation, changes in the window bring my attention back to it.
Magical Game Interface started. User registred. Relaying pending notification.
By accessing the system before its initialisation, you have been granted the title "The hurried one" You learn and master skills with less difficulty than the average. It takes you less time to bring a skill to its next mastery.
Okay, even though it should be unbelievable, the fact that I was expecting it take a bit of the surprise away. But a game like system in another world, did I become a novel character? That¡¯s fucking awesome! Wait, that means I¡¯ll be op and get to slay mythical monster! I guess that x1.5 experience is part of the op thing ¡­
As the first one to access the system, you are granted the ability to design your own skill. Please define the rules and boundaries of your skill. If not defined or if too light, rules and boundaries will be defined by the system.
Kukuku ¡­ kuhahahaha! KUHAHAHAHA!!! Hum, let¡¯s just act like this three-steps laugh never happened. Not even in my head. Anyway, a skill huh? The list is long too long, the scrolling bar is not even a line! Well I can always make my own. So, I want something that is op as fuck ¡­ I know! ¡®I want a skill that allow me to turn elements from my imagination into reality!¡¯
You have been granted the title "The Creator". Using the adequate tools and resources, you are able to create anything you want Subskill linked to the title have been added. Subskill linked to this title needs to be discovered befor being displayed.
Status
Name Allen Race Human
Level 1 - (0%) Id 0
Health 225/225 Mana 220/220
Vitality 25 Endurance 28
Strength 22 Agility 24
Dexterity 24 Perception 1
Intelligence 24 Wisdom 25
Condition Well rested
Health regeneration 0.0025 - (100%) Mana regeneration 0
Inventory 13/27 Wealth 0 - (22.26€)
Wait ¡­ I just got ripped off! That¡¯s like the most basic ability of mankind! I want a refund! I don¡¯t even know if my stats are great ¡­ Well they probably are but that''s not the point. Myname isn''t even fully displayed, I¡¯m not an op MC, I¡¯m just a background character with a trash skill. Probably one that will die in the beginning ¡­ I can''t even appreciate this novel like status window ...The story has been taken without consent; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. Now that my dreams have been crushed, I look around me. After a quick count, we are almost 50, 48 to be precise. It looks like we have been teleported in the state we were in but everyone is waking up. I can see a woman with her groceries in her hands still dazed by the situation. There is a man with the keys of his home still in his hand. There is even some people in pajamas, well at least what they are using as a pajama. And some people are really light clothed, like a boy in boxers or a girl in a nightie. Well most of the good looking, light clothed girls have already received supplementary clothes while two merciful people who were at the gym gave their changing clothes away. Scanning the crowd a second time, I can see that groups are forming. Mostly only boy or only girl group but there are some mixed group around the ¡®natural¡¯ leaders who amounts to 3 in this case, two boys and a girl. There are also some loners, most of them still too shocked to move and other just uneasy with groups of people. However, one of them catch my attention. It¡¯s a slightly overweighed nerd who¡¯s tapping in the void. Guess he didn¡¯t realize that he could use his thoughts. Seeing the leaders starting to gather everyone, I move my attention back to fatty to see what he will do with his new discovery. However, I start to see people sitting down then lying and soon, I want to do the same. To lie down and wait. Wait! That¡¯s not normal!
Congratulation, you resisted a mind affliction. As a creator, you can bend your mind to your will to visualise and create whatever you can imagine. Your mind is impervious to mind attack. You learned [Mind shock]. Synergy with creator created[Mind tinkering]. [Mind shock] is now a sub-skill of[Mind tinkering].
Okay so during the next 5 seconds, I need to do 2 things. First I need to get a weapon, whatever it is and then to wake up everyone from this state. Beggars can¡¯t be choosers so I¡¯ll settle with a thick enough branch. And I guess waking them up is already taken care of with mind shock. Slowly I move toward the closest dead branch that won¡¯t fall into pieces when I swing it. Then I look at the male leaders lying down and use [Mind shock]. The first one starts to wake up but as I focus on the second, a wave of dizziness appear for a second. Well, I won¡¯t wake everyone that way. However, leader one will take care of it shaking everyone around him. I¡¯m fairly away from him, which means I still have some time. I place my improvised mass next to me and I lean on a tree so that I can see the clearing and everyone in it. Although it means that the forest is behind me with whatever caused this, I need to take care of the situation. Without being noticed. Using my mind tinkering skill, I try to create a skill that will allow me to whisper something to leader one who started to stand up. By the way, I can keep my eyes open because everyone has them open just not focused on anything. Back to the skill, I get it without difficulties.
You created the skill[Mind whispering]. This skill allow the user to whisper a message to the subconscious of the target. The target must not be protecting his mind in anyway.
Pretty straightforward but that will do. Okay let¡¯s try it. Imagining the most mystic voice I can I concentrate on leader one who already woke up 3 people. ¡®Status ¡­¡¯ As soon as the skill is used, I feel a slight discomfort but way milder than when I used [Mind shock]. Well now I only need to wait. Anyway, He look around him to find the origin of the voice. After a few second, he gives up and finally try to open his status. I can¡¯t hear him but I see his lips moving. I then see him frown, probably at the screen and then looking at the people currently up. I guess seeing he wasn¡¯t the first was not to his liking. What surprised me was that he only told three other people. Guess I need to use the other leaders. Concentrating on ¡®male leader two¡¯ who got upgraded to ¡®male leader one¡¯ since former one is too selfish for the group, I repeat the process. First wake him up then suggest him to open his status. I hope he won¡¯t act like ¡®two¡¯ since I would need to try again with the girl leader, or worse, take care of things myself. By the way, I finally understood the logic behind the groups or at least I think. There is mostly one person groups however, due to seeing some couples and groups of people wearing the same clothes ¨C like students uniform or ¡®party clothing¡¯ if it¡¯s even a thing ¨C I guess that we were teleported or summoned or whatever with one people acting as the catalyst and the other ones being caught in because they were too close or they touched the catalyst during the ¡­ thingy. By the way we only have what we had on us which includes bags if you had one. Thus, I¡¯m carrying my shoulder bag. It contains a note block, basic furniture, some handouts but, most of all, my computer and all the related stuff including its charger and a charger for my phone, a black CodX, a new brand that started producing phones with an awesome OS that allowed great liberties to its users. It won¡¯t be of much use but as an engineer specialized in coding and a big technology, old and new nerd, I hope that I will be able to use my knowledge in this new world. A-ny-way. To my relief, he is part of the annoying ¡®good guy¡¯ club. After including his friend, two boys and two girls ¨C which makes the ten ''first users¡¯, probably the ten that I need to be wary of, well nine since I hope I¡¯m not stupid enough to try to trick myself or ten if you consider I''m user 0 whatever ¨C he gathers everyone since we have all been woken up at some point. Seeing no immediate threat, I guess that what put us to sleep is too weak to confront a group of fifty or so frail 18 years old mess. After a few seconds trying to determine the first five users, scrutinizing the crowd ¨C he seems to have noticed fatty ¨C number one cough to get the attention and finally take his first step as one of the leader of the group. ¡°Everyone please, can I have your attention?¡± Chapter 2 - Reflections ¡°Everyone please, can I have your attention?¡± No, you can¡¯t mister leader. Of course, even with a leader¡¯s aura, people waking up in the middle of nowhere can¡¯t possibly calm quick enough to listen even if it¡¯s the right thing to do. Everyone was talking and asking question without letting anyone answer. ¡°SHUT THE FUCK UP!¡± Well ¡­ I guess that if you don¡¯t have natural authority, a gorilla can do the trick. By the way, gorilla is one of his friend, black hair, brown eyes, around 190/195 centimeters. Perfect build to intimidate. The soon to be leader place a hand on the shoulder of his gorilla and take a step forward. ¡°Okay, I think that most of you noticed but we are not on earth anymore, I think we-¡° Are you sure? I thought that the two moons were clearly telling us we were in the rainforests of Australia. Even if he has this leader aura he is incapable of leading. He¡¯s more like a good friend to have. Ever since he said those words ten second ago everyone has been talking even more fervently between themselves. Oh, gorilla is acting again. ¡°SILENCE!¡± Even though it works, I doubt that this type of conversation would be very productive. ¡°Thanks. Everyone, I¡¯m Tom, Tom Finn. I have several things to tell you.¡± By the way Tom is around 180 centimeters and has light brown hair, his eyes are also brown and he has a slender build although he doesn¡¯t seem very muscular. He definitely counts as handsome though. I mean objectively. ¡°And they are my friends¡± His four friend are in order, Gorilla whose name is Al Stones, I don¡¯t know what it stands for bit it¡¯s perfect. You already know what he looks like but man, he looks like a professional bodyguard except for the clothes. Then there is Martin Palis, the other guy. He looks more like the mental type. He¡¯s around 175 centimeters with blond hair and brown eyes. Nothing special. And finally, there is the two girls. There were probably the most beautiful from the 48 of us. The first one may not stand against professional model but that¡¯s beside the point. Eleanore was a tall blond girl with deep blue eyes and that¡¯s pretty much all I remember because I was too focused on the second girl, her name was Ma?l, she literally had fire-like hair, and her eyes were like two round emerald. She had a body with perfect curves and she looked like even if she came here alone she would have been ready to survive for years. Don¡¯t get me wrong, I¡¯m not a pervert nor am I na?ve to the point of believing in love at first sight. I just appreciate the beauty presented before my eye. Anyway, once the presentation ended, Tom finally got to the main topic. ¡°Then, I know you¡¯re probably either scared or confused but I need you to try to think ¡®status¡¯ in your head¡± Before people could start to voice their incomprehension, people started to scream as they saw windows popping before them. At least, that¡¯s what I think happened as I can¡¯t see their window. Anyway, at this point, I stopped listening as I needed to think for a bit. ¡®Status¡¯
Status
Name Allen Race Human
Level 1 - (0%) Id 0
Health 225/225 Mana 220/220
Vitality 25 Endurance 28
Strength 22 Agility 24
Dexterity 24 Perception 1
Intelligence 24 Wisdom 25
Condition Well rested
Health regeneration 0.0025 - (100%) Mana regeneration 0
Inventory 13/27 Wealth 0 - (22.26€)
As the window appeared, I noticed that my title and my skills were not included. ¡®Skills¡¯
Skill
Mind TinkeringMind shock - Mind whispering
Observe
¡®Title¡¯Okay then
Title
The hurried one
¡®Resistances¡¯
Resistances
Mind - 100%
After some more test, I made a mental note of the thing I discovered.Cool but calling each of them individually was a bother. After a few second of thinking I tried something. After calling two times ¡®Full status¡¯ and ¡®Status¡¯ once more, I concluded that the words didn¡¯t mean anything but the meaning that we put into it did. Now, I could call any combination of window with the command ¡®Status¡¯.Reading on Amazon or a pirate site? This novel is from Royal Road. Support the author by reading it there.
  1. You can change the name of almost everything in the window as long as it¡¯s not a value. Meaning, I can change ¡®Name¡¯ to ¡®Title¡¯ but ¡®Allen¡¯ will stay as it is no matter what.
  2. Changing the name of an attribute doesn¡¯t change what it is.
  3. When it is written that I have 0 mana regen, it literally means 0, I consumed 5 point for waking the two men and 2 points for the whispering and I didn¡¯t recover a single point. By the way, breaking free from the illusion didn¡¯t cost me mana.
  4. There is no disconnect or leave button and I can safely assume that death means death.
  5. There is no guide or help from MaGI, that¡¯s how I named it as system and Magical Game Interface are too long.
  6. My inventory is composed of ten free slots plus the inventory granted by my shoulder bag and my pockets. By the way it removed the weight of the contents which is cool.
  7. The ten free slots can¡¯t contain anything alive which include plants and, I guess vegetables and maybe meat, I¡¯m not sure. However, on the plus side, inventory is out of time and my watch is now a minute late.
By the way I checked my [Observe] skill and it¡¯s a basic skill granted to everyone, the higher the mastery and level, the more information will be given. It synergized with my title and it says that it will grant me more information for the same level and mastery and when concentrating on a skill linked with my title it will provide me additional information if there is any. Even though the title itself is trash, the synergies are quite good. I might gain something incredible from the synergies. I¡¯ll have to experiment with it. Now that it¡¯s out of the way let¡¯s think about how we got here. We woke up almost all at the same time. I just got back from a night of coding at a part time job and was too tired to even change or put my bag down which is a great thing in the end. ¡®Manager, thanks for treating me like a slave and making me collapse from exhaustion, please burn in hell while demons devour your soul¡¯ If I had to guess, I would say that everyone got teleported with only what they were wearing and carrying and forced to sleep to be woken up at the same time. Everyone seems to be from around the world but I guess that magic is taking care of the language barrier. I just hope that no insane murderer has been transported with us. It doesn¡¯t look like anyone has a gun and I think it¡¯s better like that. The rest of the group is starting to organize but I would rather be left out, I¡¯m really bad at interacting with groups. And I have to look at this [Observe] skill. Looking around me, I focus on a berry in a bush. After a few second a window appears in front of me.
Ice berry - (E)
I then look back to my improvised club, I wonder why it doesn¡¯t have attributes. If it¡¯s my weapon, it should have some even if they are shitty.
You created you first weapon You learned the linked skill[Crude weapon making]
Thick branch - Club (-) Attack Damage : 10 - 11 Durability : 5/5 Requirement : 20 Strength A dead branch picked up by Allen and granted the title of weapon. It really is just a branch.
Well, I have nothing to say. However, I wonder how the damage works. Is it static damage that apply every time you deal a blow? Then what is considered a blow? Could you kill someone with low HP by lightly tapping him with a weapon? Or worse would a legendary weapon one-shot you even if it¡¯s only a tiny cut? It could also be a sort of multiplicator, I don¡¯t really know and I don¡¯t think that I want to get in a situation where I get to know any time soon. On their side, it seems that most people have calmed down. They are starting to split the tasks. Even though the selfish guy was ¡­ well selfish, he managed to be part of the leading forces since nobody knows what he did. The girl leader also joined the group which means we now have three leaders. However, I don¡¯t see anyone who prepared themselves to a possible attack. It seems they forgot that they fell half asleep for no reason a few minutes ago. I think that it will be hard to keep the 47 of them alive. I don¡¯t even know if I¡¯ll stay alive until tonight. ¡°That¡¯s why I think we should move and try to find a city before night.¡± That could be a good idea if we weren¡¯t lost in a clearing, in the middle of an unknown forest, in the middle of an unknown continent, in the middle of an unknown planet in the middle of an unknown parallel universe. Well, not like staying here until night is a good idea either. I guess that moving is slightly less stupid. The problem is, even though we managed to avoid whatever put us to sleep ¨C my guess being that it only attacks defenseless target ¨C we may find more aggressive things while moving. ¡°I need everyone to take something from the clearing that could be used as a weapon. We may encounter dangerous thing out there.¡± It¡¯s gorilla, I mean ¡­ Tom¡¯s friend that talked and surprisingly nobody said anything. Except me, which leads me to think that he got a crowd control or a mind control skill. To not arise suspicions, I go get my club. They then dispatch people making sure that the ones that looks the weakest are the best protected. Of course, nobody was willing to tell their stats, not even the leaders. I should be among the strongest based on what I see but due to my thin build and my clothes that are a bit large, I look quite common. I know what you think but I¡¯m not overestimating myself, I just practiced loads of martial arts and combat sports, and I keep myself fit. But playing a lot, taking an almost unhealthy interest for technology and coding and practicing sports regularly led me to have little to no time to connect with people. Or maybe it¡¯s the opposite ¡­ being unable to connect with people made me throw myself at these areas with more might than most people. Don¡¯t start feeling pity or feeling sad for me. I was not complaining. I have a few friends, it¡¯s just that I don¡¯t mix well with people. I actually appreciate being alone, and loneliness is quite comfortable when you know how to see its advantages. Since nobody seems to have the common sense to talk about it and that it will allow me to get off the freeloader group, I call them as they start to move. ¡°I guess you forgot what happened around ten minutes ago, but we were, probably by magic, put to sleep leaving us with no defense. I think it would be common sense to make small groups of three or two that will pinch each other at the slightest feeling of sleepiness.¡± They all look at each other and nod as they find nothing to say about my proposition. But I¡¯m stupid, this decision means that I need to stay with at least one person. I can kiss my peace goodbye. Well maybe they¡¯ll forget me. ¡°Okay everyone, please form the groups before we set out!¡± It¡¯s Tom again but I think it¡¯s go- his friend that makes them listen. In the end, I pair up with a cute girl, she¡¯s not the prettiest but she¡¯s definitely not ugly. Well since we are only us two and that I am immune, I¡¯ll be the only one looking after her. ¡°Let¡¯s go!¡± Surely, it was a very happy start to our soon to be adventure but as soon as he uttered those words, a colorful bird landed on a tree just in front of us. As he opened his beak no chirping was heard. Instead a smooth music that could only come from a top-quality musician and an otherworldly instrument was produced. Fortunately, the window snapped me back.
You resisted[Lullaby]
¡°That¡¯s it! Wake up!¡± I immediately pinch the hand of the girl beside me. There is still seven or eight group that fell asleep. The birds look at me but I doubt that it can do anything to us, it¡¯s level 1 and it¡¯s called ¡°Chanteret¡±, I guess it will go away again. But when I see two black eyes in the forest, I immediately froze in fear. From their position, they either belongs to a humanoid form around the same size of us or ¡­ a beast on four feet. That is the same size as us. I don¡¯t know what is the worst. ¡°GROWWWWL¡± I think I know. Chapter 3 - The choices of the strong As the beast steps out of the darkness produced by the trees, everyone froze in their tracks. The Chanteret flew from its branch toward the beast. It landed on a tree near it and as the beast walked toward us it followed it. Even though I didn¡¯t dare to move the slightest, I still decided to observe it.
Race Silver Wolf Level 83
The wolf was still walking leisurely toward us and the entire forest was silent. Not the slightest sound could be heard. At least until someone spoke. He looked like an American judging by his patriotic cap and the gun he was holding. Since he didn¡¯t use it to pressure everyone and be the leader of the group. He looked like a good guy.I was already immobile but now even my heart felt frozen. The world looked like it was collapsing. Although I don¡¯t know much regarding the levels in this world, I don¡¯t think that an over 80 level difference is something that can be overcome with hard work, tenacity or teamwork. Maybe luck could do something about it. ¡°This really is a game like world! Hehe, I¡¯ll be the first to earn experience guys.¡± Was he stupid? I mean I know that modern armament is very powerful but this is a fucking rpg world. Does he really think he could swim through all of this with his gun? Or maybe he doesn¡¯t know about the [Observe] skill and thus doesn¡¯t know about the level difference. I could warn him, but I feel like screaming in front of this beast is all but a good idea. I could whisper it to him though. ¡®Stop, observe¡¯ I only used two words because I didn¡¯t want to waste my magic points. At least not until I can regenerate them somehow. When he hears it, he turns toward us and scan the group then with a evident disgust, he spits on the ground and whisper a barely audible ¡°Coward¡±. Okay then keep me a place in the afterlife, if there is one. Although I don¡¯t want people to die it doesn¡¯t mean I¡¯m ready to put myself in danger for someone else. When he is around fifty meters from the wolf, he raises his gun and aim for it. The wolf stop walking and only stare at the gun and the little creature holding it. The man presses the trigger and a ball is shot toward the wolf. To everyone surprise except mine, the wolf doesn¡¯t even move and only the sound of metal against metal is heard. The wolf then continues to walk toward the man and in one fluid movement rip his upper half from his lower half. After a few seconds, we can hear some of the group throwing up. When the wolf proceeds to eat the lower half, it sends and electric shock to the bravest or the stupidest, I don¡¯t know and they start running toward it brandishing their makeshift weapon. The girl next to me start to run seeing everyone doing it but I stop her. I think they are all as stupid as one can be. The wolf that was going to pounce on the fools coming at him saw my action. Then, as if it was a ¡®real¡¯ person, it nodded towards me. Did he appreciate the fact that I acknowledged his superiority? While I was wondering on his reason, he let out a shout. It was so powerful that it stunned me for a second while, the closer they were, the more damaged they received. I think that one of them died while several of them were heavily injured, probably deaf. At that sight, the ones that were the farther and that weren¡¯t stunned fled as fast as they could. They amounted to a little bit more than a third of the group. The wolf looked displeased with that but he returned his attention towards me. It seems that I was more interesting than the rest of them. Well I appreciate but you really shouldn¡¯t. Anyway, we are far from being saved but at least everyone stopped trying to attack it and it stopped retaliating. I should at least thank him ¡­ I think? ¡®Thanks¡¯
Mind whisper has been noticed by the target Mind whisper has been deflected by the target
Huh, I guess that no high-level monster would leave its mind defenseless. But when I tried, I saw that he noticed my attempt. Maybe he has access to MaGI like us or he felt it one way or another. Since then, he looks at me intently as if asking me to try again. ¡®Thanks¡¯ ¡­ Well since there is no notification of failure, I guess it worked? It seems that the wolf wanted to communicate too. I felt a link of some sort forming between him and me and then I nearly passed out from the sheer amount and intensity of information. ¡°Urgh ¡­¡± Letting out a growl, I fall on my knees and try to calm my respiration. The link is so much different than any kind of communication I ever experimented. What was conveyed wasn¡¯t anything like words or thoughts. It was composed only of intents, emotions, and concepts. Some may consider it kind of barbaric or primitive but I felt like it was more truthful.This novel is published on a different platform. Support the original author by finding the official source. The wolf somehow explained me that he thought we were monsters. But once he noticed my sentience he stopped attacking us. Not that it doesn¡¯t want to eat us anymore but sentient beasts were sometimes interesting. The great things with this link is that it¡¯s easy to convey something. As soon as I ¡®asked¡¯ him about monsters and beasts he explained it to me. In this world, they were three kind of existence within the corporal realm. When I started wondering about the different realms he was amused by my curiosity and my eagerness but it asked me to stay focused. The three kind of existence were monster, beasts and sentient beasts. Due to the link, I could see all kind of image of creature that could only exist in books or games. The beasts were your run-of-the-mill existence. They were the equivalent of our animals. When the consciousness of a beast or its resistance was too weak compared to the mana density it turned into a monster. Monsters also spawned from dungeons. Lastly, there was the sentient beasts. They included every group of beast that managed to be given a recognition by the world. It was something like our system. And each sentient beast group had a different one. Regarding beast that achieved sentience without recognition of the world were called high beasts but that was basically a name as it didn¡¯t grant them any different aptitude. In a similar fashion, some sentient beasts called themselves as part of the Sentient or the Races. It was like human back in the old world differencing themselves from the animals. In the end, it was just a name. The Races were mainly composed of humanoid sentient beasts and legendary sentient beasts like dragons, old golems, and other such case. There was so much information that I was overwhelmed. But I confirmed several things, first there were other humans, several species of them in fact. By the way, species were determined by the form of acknowledgement or the system given by the world and the smallest species that could be made was composed of three members. The other thing that I confirmed was the existence of elves, dwarves and most of the fantastical setting races. Adrenaline was once again pulsating through my veins but it all froze when killing intent overflowed through the link. It seems that he wanted to be paid for all the information he gave me. According to him I could either give him ten people, sacrifice myself or find something of equal value. I wondered what was something of equal value and he told me that he wanted to either learn something interesting or see something interesting or beautiful. As he placed me in front of this dilemma, he severed the link between our mind and looked at me eagerly waiting for my decision.
You have learned[Mind link] [Mind link]has been added to[Mind tinkering]
My mind was currently overclocked at least two to three time and I¡¯m sure one could have seen smoke rising from my ears if they paid attention. I doubt that a wolf would find beauty in Mona Lisa or the profound concepts that any of our philosopher established. Not that I could myself. Then, the beauty of nature maybe? Something like fractals? Or one of the landscape conceived by an fantasy-author of earth? Well it might not work that well here since we¡¯re already in a fantasy setting. Then the beauty of the immensity of the universe? Since it¡¯s a sword and magic world they shouldn¡¯t have started their race to the stars, right?Something of equal value, if I repaid with knowledge, I needed to use the old world¡¯s knowledge since I knew close to nothing from this world. No giving such knowledge without knowing the development of technology in this world would be stupid. Then something interesting? But most of the things I found interesting were related to technology ¡­ Then the last option is something beautiful, the problem being: I have no sense of aesthetic. Whatever, I¡¯ll propose several of those choices and he will decide on his own. Looking back toward the calm yet terrifying beast in front of us, I resolved myself and contacted it via [Mind whispering]. ¡®I have made my choice.¡¯ When he reestablished the link he immediately asked me how many I would sacrifice. It seems like it didn¡¯t doubt an instant that I would sacrifice everyone. Although I like being alone and I enjoy the peacefulness of the solitude, that doesn¡¯t mean I¡¯m heartless. As they fellow human beings I would rather have them live than letting them die, much less sacrificing them. Plus, surviving alone or with a small group might not be the smartest idea. Since there doesn¡¯t seem to be a shortage of food here, the more, the better. Anyway, I explain that I will present him with three things that I consider ¡®interesting¡¯ or ¡®beautiful¡¯. Starting with the fantasy landscape, I show him several floating Island linked together by moss and vine-covered giant chain. On the main one remains of an ancient kingdom can be seen. I just made the most fantasy-like picture I could. However, it seems it somehow looks like a wall picture in some abandoned temple. Well shit. Trying my best not to think about the coincidence that just happened, I think about fractals, that is a big gambling since even amongst humans some people doesn¡¯t understand the beauty of fractals. I imagine the rules and the creation of some fractals, I make a mental (and inaccurate) zoom of a Mandelbrot fractal, I even begin to put some three-dimensional fractal but I cut short as he finds it boring. Oops ¡­ Well then, third try''s the charm, right? I imagine the void of space, then starting from human scale I zoom out again and again, trying my best to put the most impressive memories of space pictures I saw. Putting nebulae and galaxies while insisting on their immensity. The wolf shows happiness and decide to let us go but somehow, it doesn¡¯t look like he has been moved by the beauty of space or its immensity. Now that I think about it, if our group¡¯s survival had based on my personal aesthetic then in any normal situation, we would have been dead already. Even though it bothers me that I did something unknowingly and that it is enough to compensate for a starter kit for world travelers, I¡¯m just happy we¡¯re alive. The wolf parts way with us withdrawing his overbearing aura, he Chanteret looks at us a last time and then follows the Silver wolf. It seems like they are helping each over. If I had to guess, the Chanteret provide easy preys with his [Lullaby] and the Silver wolf provides security. In the end the result of our first encounter is 12 people that ran away, 8 people with buzzing ears or minor injuries, 4 people with heavy injuries and 2 dead. I think it was the way for the world to tell us ¡®It may look like a game or a novel but it¡¯s certainly isn¡¯t one.¡¯ Looking around me, I knew that the following day would be anything but calm. Chapter 4 - The expedition party After a few minutes, people start to snap out of it. And most of them starts to break down. I guess that losing two of us to a random beast is a bit too much. The problem is if nobody take care of the situation we will die. As much as I would like to let the leaders take care of the group, I have information that they don¡¯t have. Well it looks like I can kiss my loneliness goodbye for now. Moving, I gather the three leaders. I would have liked to leave mister greed out of this, it¡¯s better not to create any form of tension in the group. I told each of them to take one or two people and to follow me. Greed took two of his friends, Tom took Stones and the girl took two of what seems to be her classmates, a boy and a girl. It seems the shock prevented them to even try to reject me taking the lead. While they choose who to take I went toward the heavily injured people but fortunately, the injuries weren¡¯t that bad. Since they were already lying down, I let them be. I still checked by using [Observe] but they only lacked between 1 and 2 third of their HP. They all have a maximum of 100 HP like me. Some of them were already starting to recover their HP by a small margin. But the most important was that none of them suffered from a continuous loss of HP. Well at least if HP have a real impact on physical condition. I don¡¯t think that they were in danger. Not right now at least. I then moved to the two dead bodies. The first one had his upper half completely eaten. I couldn¡¯t do much for him but I promised I would ask the others to bury him. I still took his firearm and the ammunition he had on him. I know it¡¯s corpse looting but survival is the first priority and this will help greatly. If we have the time to use it. And no I never fired a gun but I would rather misuse it myself than being shot in the back by someone. By the way, the girl followed me since the wolf accident and doesn¡¯t look like she wants to leave my side. Well I guess that since I prevented her to run straight to her death she is a little bit thankful. Anyway, I then head toward the second corpse. Blood leaked from his nose, mouth, and ears. His eyes are red from the blood vessel popping and they are wide open. I close them and head toward an empty place. On the way, I ask a seemingly less shocked man to bury the corpse with the help of other people once he has completely calmed down. Even though they don¡¯t have shovels, they can use stones or something. After a minute or so the three leaders and their friends finally get there. And I began to explain how everything happened. I omit my skills and only talk about the actions of the wolf and what I learned from him. It seems they have a hard time believing that the wolf let us be because he wanted to. Once they finally accepted everything I told them, I moved to the main point. Which is, to set up an expedition party. They all begin asking questions, each of them trying to prove their idea was better. Oh man ¡­ I wish I had the leader aura. Seeing as they don¡¯t plan to stop bickering, I simply raise my hand signaling them to stop talking and they listen to me. Or not. They don¡¯t even notice me except go- I mean ¡­ Stones, I totally did not forget your first name. ¡°Hey!¡± Wow, Stones uses ¡®Hey!¡¯ It¡¯s super effective! Anyway, now that I have their attention I need to know who was able to stay calm during the whole event. ¡°Okay, I think we need to go back to the clearing and setup a group of people to search for a place for the night. The party needs to be made of quick and discreet people. And another group need to take care of the situation at the clearing. We need to set up some basic defense there in case the-¡° ¡°Are you stupid?¡± Wow surprise surprise, Greed thinks he has a better plan. ¡°I certainly don¡¯t but I do want to know why you¡¯re thinking otherwise.¡± ¡°Duh, we have just been attacked by a fucking monster and you want to stay right where other monster could attack us? Obviously, we need to flee as far away as we can!¡± ¡°Okay, can anyone tell him why it¡¯s better to stay here?¡± I turn toward the rest of the group expecting at least two people answering but they all look at me agreeing with Greed. Maybe I should learn his name. ¡°Did anyone observe the wolf?¡± ¡°A wolf? Really? I didn¡¯t see it, are you talking about the one who killed two of us?¡± *sigh* ¡°I¡¯m asking if you used your skill.¡± Hearing my words, they all visibly tense. I guess they thought I was talking about the bonus skills. Huh, If I can bait them correctly, I can make them say they have secret skills and thus learn what they are. I wait for their response and Greed is the first to talk. Of course. ¡°So, you are the first user?¡± Okay I learned several thing, I¡¯m guessing that a skill has been given to the IDs 1 to 10. Greed doesn¡¯t know of the existence of user 0 (me) and It¡¯s also a guess but I don¡¯t think Fatty knows about me either. Well now, time to play dumb.If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. ¡°First user? Did you get a secret skill or something?¡± ¡°Stop screwing with me, the screen said I was user 2 that means you are the first user!¡± Ignoring him I turn toward the other. ¡°Did you guys get a skill too?¡± After a few seconds, Tom nods while the girl leader shakes her head. ¡°What is the lowest rank?¡± ¡°It¡¯s Ma?l, she¡¯s tenth.¡± ¡°Hey, you¡¯re ignoring me? They basically told us you were the tenth user or more like the first one.¡± ¡°When I talked about your skill, I meant your observe skill. But if I had to guess, that means that your two friend are probably part of the ten first user and that the one you talked to before is the ninth one. And sorry but I am not the user number one.¡± He looks doubtful but when he checks his skill list and see the [Observe] skill he almost turn red from anger. I guess that he didn¡¯t want people to know that he had a skill. Too bad. ¡°Anyway, these skill could be useful, we need to know all of them to maximize our chances of survival. Back to the point, if you had used this skill, you would have noticed that the wolf was level 83. Which either means that we are in a high-level zone in which case we are doomed whatever we do or he is the overlord of this zone meaning no high-level creature will attack us here.¡± ¡°That doesn¡¯t prove that you are not the first user and that means that you let these guys die without acting.¡± ¡°Can you tell me again what you did when he released his aura?¡± I didn¡¯t need to know because everyone had the same reaction they were frightened and so was I. Plus I did warn him but he made his choice. Anyway, it seems they are ready to carry out my plan. ¡°Okay we need the stronger people to stay here to start to build defenses and choose people among the rest that will carry the expedition. They need to be quick and nimble. I will lead the expedition¡± Seeing as they immediately agree, I guess they consider me as a weakling. I don¡¯t blame them as I am not ripped but that¡¯s because I¡¯m wiry. However, that doesn¡¯t mean I am a weakling. In fact, I think I can take on most of them without difficulties. After all, after several years of practicing several martial art and combat sports, I have almost no difficulty fighting one on one. Stones might be a problem since he looks like he knows how to fight too and Greed looks too crafty to my liking. And as usual when I¡¯m in crowded places, I don¡¯t stand straight and give off an impression of a pushover. I¡¯m not breaking their expectation though as I would rather rely on myself to find a shelter. While we were planning, the others took care of the corpse and gathered beside us. They buried them and even made two tomb stone but after thinking about it I would rather cremate them. I don¡¯t know if it¡¯s possible but I would rather avoid zombies attacking us at night. Well it¡¯s not like I¡¯m going to ask them to dig them out. Our group turns toward the rest and I wait for them to explain the situation. Which never happens. It seems I need to make my own speech. Yeah, I love talking to large crowd especially when the topic is survival against supernatural creatures! Hum sorry my mind wandered. Anyways! ¡°Hum ¡­ Hello. I know it¡¯s a bit abrupt but we need to prepare our survival. Regarding the wolf incident, basically he will let us be without interacting with us. As for his reason, it¡¯s because he can and he wants to. Some of you may know but you have an observe skill. And when focusing on something, you obtain basic knowledge regarding it depending on the level of your skill. When using it on him I learned that he was level 83. He leaves us alone because we don¡¯t pose a threat to him. But that means that this place is safe from other high-level beast as it is likely his territory. We can still encounter low-level beast against which we can do nothing. That¡¯s why we need to find a shelter. We decided to make two teams. The first one composed of the strongest, will start to build defenses here. That¡¯s in case the second team, the research team doesn¡¯t find a shelter before sunset.¡± ¡°¡­¡± Okay that¡¯s what you call leaving your audience speechless. ¡°Okay everyone! Please start to form groups according to what ¡­ he said. We only need around 10 people for the expedition. For the construction team, we need as much people as we can. Those who can¡¯t do either of those tasks go talk to each other and take note of everything important like allergies, sickness, special condition, anything you can.¡± Hoho, don¡¯t worry, I won¡¯t hold it against you, in fact I don¡¯t think I told you my name so it¡¯s logic you don¡¯t know it. Plus, you thought of important things I overlooked. Well then, after thanking him, I start to walk toward the clearing without waiting to see if they follow me. Man! It¡¯s tiring to order people around ¡­ On the way, I notice that the girl I paired with is still following me. Could it be! My first harem member? Well that¡¯s probably what any protagonist would think at this point, except if they are the thick-headed type. I personally don¡¯t long for a harem. In fact, I¡¯m more of the romantic type, you know not necessarily true love but there needs to be some sort of connection at least. Well that¡¯s all assumption since I¡¯m still single. Maybe I should use this situation to my advantage? Well I will think about it once we¡¯re safe. Once at the clearing, I wait for the rest to arrive. After a few minutes, everyone is here and they already made the groups. 8 boys and 2 girls come toward me. They are obviously the research team. Among them is one of the lackey of Greed, thus I guess that he wants to monitor me. There is also Eleanore but the rest are unknown to. I look at each of them and immediately kick out two boys and the other girls since I don¡¯t think they are nimble enough. They try to protest but quickly stop once they see I¡¯m ignoring them. In the end, they go back to the rest of the group. The rest of them start to introduce themselves but I cut them shorts explaining we don¡¯t have time. Well I think they introduced themselves regardless when I climbed to the top of one of the giant trees surrounding us to have a better view of the place. I doesn¡¯t work that well since we are surrounded by bigger trees but I do see a mountain to the north. Well it is to the north only if the sun is still rising from the east. It is at around 2 hours of walking which means 6 hours to go once, come back and return with everyone. And that is only if we find a shelter immediately. We could end up finding nothing. I do think we¡¯ll find something though. Let¡¯s add an hour or two of searching. That totals to 8 hours with enough luck. The sun rose for less than an hour. Which means that we can hope to get around twelves hour of sun if the days are similar to back on earth. Maybe more which would be better or maybe less which could pose a problem. Well we¡¯ll see depending on the time it is when the sun is at its highest. We head out in direction of the mountain by walking. We take a litter of water for two people from the small rations we have. Fortunately, they have already set up a second expedition to find a spring or a river. We will also need to find food. But I guess it is secondary. Anyway, leaving behind the clearing we head to the mountain hoping to find a shelter before the night. Chapter 5 - Finding a shelter
Status
Name Allen Race Human
Level 0 Id 0
Health 225/225 Mana 225/225
Vitality 25 Endurance 28
Strength 22 Agility 24
Dexterity 24 Perception 1
Intelligence 24 Wisdom 25
Condition Well rested
Health regeneration 0.0025 - (100%) Mana regeneration 0
Inventory 0/10 Wealth 0 - (22.26€)
Okay it¡¯s been ten minutes since we set of and we already came across a river, at least we are safe regarding water. I just hope that nobody has needs for specific stuff. I¡¯m talking about vital needs. During this hour, nothing much happened. At least not with me. They are following me and talking between themselves. Only ¡­ this girl did not take part in their discussion. Not taking part in their discussion allowed me to think about several things. First, my mindset isn¡¯t adapted to group survival. I mean, yes finding a shelter is important and should be priority when taking care of yourself but with 30 to 40 people that needs to drink and eat, food and water should have been the first things I thought of. Well water at least since we don¡¯t know what¡¯s edible here. Hell, even water could be poisonous. Anyway, it¡¯s good Al had actually thought about it. Yup, I remembered his name. After several minutes, we finally encounter our first monster, I think that beast are actively avoiding us. It the iconic blue slime! The emblem of the weak monsters. Well not really since it¡¯s around a meter high and seems to have awareness. It way different from the small jelly you can step on. If that thing is impervious to physical damage we¡¯re f¡­inished. Lackey 1 starts to laugh maniacally and, taking his improvised weapon (a slightly thinner branch than mine) he starts to walk toward the slime. I guess that two death isn¡¯t enough for most people to understand it¡¯s anything but a game. The slime is quite slow and Lackey is walking towards it. That means I have around 10 seconds to avoid another disaster. First I use observe on the slime.
Race Blue slime Level 8
[Observe] has reached beginner mastery
Cool. That means I should probably use it again, right?
Race Blue slime Level 8
Health 10/10 Mana 540/540
Huh, I only got health and mana. Is that the level difference? It¡¯s probably because I¡¯m level 0. Now what would be smart would be to first test its resistance to physical damage and second its possible corrosive properties. ¡°¡­¡± Shit, I don¡¯t know his name. ¡°Get back here man, I¡¯m sure you don¡¯t want to turn into a slime snack, right? Did you even observe it?¡± The moment I say those words I want to slap myself. Now, he will use [Observe] it and when he sees the single digit level he will be overconfident and go right at it. ¡°Pfff it¡¯s only a single digit, I¡¯m sure I can take care of it easily!¡± See, what did I say. Anyway, while he is showing off how brave he is, I try to get as much information about it as I can. The grass where he passed isn¡¯t dissolved or anything so, at least, it shouldn¡¯t be corrosive. Lackey is already in front of the slime and swings his branch at it. The result is the slime completely absorb the blow and the branch without losing a single HP. The branch starts to dissolve inside it which makes me think that it can dissolve matter but only dead organic matter. Startled by the physical immunity, he freezes in place and get absorbed by the slime, he is now floating inside it while he immediately brings a hand to his mouth and nose. I think that it¡¯s trying to drown him. To save him we need to kill that thing. I just hope that it has a core and that it¡¯s not only killable by magic. Otherwise we won¡¯t be able to save him Observing the slime carefully, I finally spot the tiny gem floating around Lackey. Readying myself, I signal to everyone else to stay still. I then leap at the slime and while scooping with my hand through its body I send him a [Mind shock]. The core that was trying to get away stop for a second, just enough for me to grab it and pull it out. As soon as it loses its core, the body flatten and Lackey slide off of it. Great, although it saved him, that wasn¡¯t my main purpose, what I wanted was its core.
You reached level 1. You are now fully recognized by MaGI.
You reached level 2.
And I finally leveled up. Opening my status, I can now add points to my stats, ten to be exact. I guess that it is 5 per level. Anyway, I close my status window and open my inventory. There¡¯s only a bottle of water and a second branch in case the current one break. We took one bottle per two people but seeing as there is a river next to the river, we could have taken more.This story is posted elsewhere by the author. Help them out by reading the authentic version. Anyway, I open it but before emptying it on the ground I turn toward the girl who stuck with me since the wolf incident. ¡°Do you want to drink some? I¡¯m going to empty it.¡± Seeing as she doesn¡¯t understand, I point toward the slime. She thinks for a moment and finally understanding, she holds her hand out to get the bottle. She drinks half of it before giving it back to me. I guess that it¡¯s better than wasting it by throwing it. After emptying it, I look at the puddle of slime.
Slime remains - F The corpse a dead slime left behind. It contains large amount of mana. As it is, it will quickly lose its properties. Can be used as crafting material.
I then look at the slime core.
Slime core - E The core of a dead slime. It contains smallamounts of mana and life force. Can be used as crafting materials.
I guess I will be experimenting with this latter. I then proceed to fill the bottle to the brim with the slimy substance. I would like to try and consume it but I could be dangerous, so it will need to wait until we¡¯re safe. Once done, I put the bottle back in my inventory and continue to walk toward the mountain. I hear the sound of one person, probably the girl but I soon stop as the others don¡¯t follow my lead. I turn back to look at them. Lackey is already back on his feet but he is looking at me ready to explode at any moment. ¡°What?¡± ¡°You!¡± ¡°What?¡± ¡°I almost died fucker!¡± ¡°Yeah, I warned you and even saved you despite you ignoring my orders, so what¡¯s the problem? You¡¯re alive, aren¡¯t you?¡± ¡°Orders? Why should I take orders from someone like you!¡± ¡°Because it would have prevented you to almost drown in a slime and be digested?¡± ¡°I¡­¡± First I need to thank him as everyone seems to have forgotten that I may have earned something from killing the slime. That will also allow me to make something clear. That is, I¡¯m in charge of this group. ¡°I think you misunderstood something. If you followed me that means you are ready to listen to my orders. If not, it¡¯s the entire group you¡¯re putting in danger. So, if you¡¯re unable to listen to my instruction, go back to the clearing.¡± ¡°Who said you were in charge? I could be the leader of this group!¡± ¡°Says the one who almost died.¡± That comment wasn¡¯t from me but from one of the other guy. I guess that completely consolidated my position as a leader. ¡°Thanks, could you accompany him back to the camp? It is at 20 min from here when walking. When running you should be back in 20 minutes or so.¡± ¡°What are you deciding by yourself? What about the opinion of the group?¡± I sigh mentally as he is already bound to leave. After all I proved that I had the ability to protect them. It would be stupid of them to side with him. While Lackey starts to understand that everyone is siding with me, I take a piece of paper from my bag and start to write several information on it. First the river next to the clearing, then the existence of low level monster, the fact that most beast seems to avoid us. I also put the way I killed the slime and my ideas to kill it more efficiently. I also talk about the full recognition of the system and the bonus stats and advise them to try to make everyone level one as soon as possible but to refrain from spending the points. I then give the sheet of paper to the guy who supported me. ¡°While you are back there, give this to Al and take two more bottle. We will wait for you here.¡± He nods and then look at Lackey. After a few second of mumbling from him, they finally start to move toward the clearing. While they are gone, I think about the way I was going to distribute my stats. One way would be to make a class like build and team up with other people. The problem is, I don¡¯t work well in group and if I¡¯m separated from my team I won¡¯t be able to deal with certain situation. The best way would be to make a Jack-of-all-trades. Well I still need to know how each stat effect people. As of now, I can add points to each stat except perception. I don¡¯t really know why. Maybe it¡¯s a special stat. Anyway, I will play with the stats once I¡¯m safe. While I was thinking about my build, Lackey¡¯s guard finally got back. Everyone get up to continue walking toward the mountain but I signal them to sit back. ¡°I think we should introduce ourselves and make the basic strategy against monsters.¡± ¡°Okay, my name is Josh Bale, I¡¯m 18 and I guess that it¡¯s all that matters right now.¡± The names are: Josh, Ahmed, Niko with a k, Marc, Baptiste, Eleanore and Shiro. Shiro is the girl who¡¯s sticking with me. The ages are either 18 or 19. ¡°Okay, my name is Allen and I¡¯m 18. Regarding monster, each of you need to kill one of them as soon as possible. When levelling up, you will earn points for your stats but I advise you to keep them for now. Regarding the monster, I can¡¯t help you with the slimes but at least when confronting other monster or beast, recognized people will help unrecognized people to level up. I¡¯ll take the front. Make sure to keep an eye on the surrounding.¡± After the encounter with the slime we got back on our way to the mountain. We encountered several more slime and I took them out using the [Mind shock] to stop their core long enough to grab it. We also filled several bottles with slime remains. The water wasn¡¯t a real problem as the river we encountered wound through the forest from the mountain. As we were nearing the mountain, we already crossed it three time. I reached level 4 but it started to get hard to level up just from the low-level monster. By the way, the level 8 slime was a single time encounter, most of the monster were around level 4. And counter to games, you need way more of the same level monster to level up and lower level are almost useless. The observe skill also only shows species, level, health, and mana. Now that I am not level 0 anymore I also get a small description of the monster I observe. We encountered 2 other types of monsters, some kind of serpent and some kind of crow. The serpents were the easiest way to make people reach level 1. One of the recognized immobilizes it at the base of the head while the non-recognized kills it one way or another. The crows were a problem, they attacked in crowd and stayed out of reach most of the time. We also found traces of a big monster or a big beast. Maybe a bear, well its equivalent in this world. Anyway, in the end the levels now ranges from 2 to 4. There were only two level 4, me who was around 60% of it and Shiro who just reached it a few moments ago. It¡¯s because she found a way to take out slimes by herself, they were the higher leveled one. Anyway, we finally reached the mountain and started to search for a cave or a group of caves big enough for everyone. As we search through it I finally notice something. The sun is way lower than it should be. It looks like days here are longer. I think it¡¯s a good thing since we won¡¯t have to face the monsters of the night. It¡¯s only a guess but I think that they are more dangerous. After several minutes of searching we listed six caves. Three of them seemed to be inhabited and I didn¡¯t want to know by what. One of them was too narrow for all of us to fit in but the last two were next to each other. There was a giant cave mainly occupied by a crystal-clear lake. I guess that this solves our problems of water. The second one was a problem. It was big enough for all of us to fit in but it was made of rooms and tunnels. It wouldn¡¯t be a stretch to consider this cave as a dungeon. The only element that didn¡¯t match was the lack of monster. Well the lack of alive monster. There were traces of fight everywhere along the paths and from time to time a corpse could be found. There were spiders, there were lizard-like monsters. All the cores were already taken out so there was no benefit. My conclusion was that this dungeon had died recently and that it left its shell behind it. ¡°Okay everyone, I think we found our shelter. The first few rooms are sufficient for us to live. And we have a huge supply of water nearby. However, we will need to verify that this dungeon is really dead. Anyway, we¡¯re going back to the clearing to get everyone here.¡± Everyone nodded. Looking a last time toward the dungeon we set off to the clearing. Announcement (already) Okay here is the main information : I''m going into hiatus(for now) The problem is that I went into writing this story without actually thinking about it and about how hard it is to do quality writing. I noticed the incoherence and all the little detail that I thought about but didn''t mention in the story. All the small things that are not clear or at least not the way I want them to be. And while writing what should have been the sixth chapter, it all made less and less sense compared to what I had in mind.If you discover this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation. That''s why I decided to stop for a momentand think a bit more about the story (more like think about it at all), the charachters and the universe (everything up until now was basically made as I wrote it). Anyway, it is not dropped, I will probably some of the ideas but I will work more thoroughly on it so that you can enjoy quality content. I will probably write everything from scratch. I''m really happy that some people enjoyed enough to follow and favourite and even review and that''s why I want to put up quality content. I hope that you will bear through this hiatus and that you''ll still be there when I return because be assured, I will return. The return of ME Yeah second time writing this hurah ... Anyway, I''m BACK! I finally finished reflecting on the story and how I wanted it to evolve. When before I was writing as my mind created the entire universe and every elements of it, now it will only create a path toward a destiation while passing by some predetermined points. Something like a GPS. In other terms, I prepared the environement but I still don''t know how the characters will react to it. but it''s still better than before when I prepared nothing and it went in all directions.This text was taken from Royal Road. Help the author by reading the original version there. Regarding posting rythm, I hope to maintain at least 1 chapter a weak. As my writing improves and my writing speed rises, I will increase the number of chapter per week. Here is the first chapter and I hope to get another one out before the end of the week. Also I will be starting from scratch because I can. Regarding the first new chapter, it is close but different form the original altough I took the liberty to copy some sections that had a good flow anyway read it or don''t you''re free to do whatever you want. So whithout further ado, here is the link to the first chapter since I already posted it:https://royalroadl.com/fiction/13174/the-creator/chapter/150818/001-lucid-dreaming