Waking up in the morning, Lucien was greeted with a nice warm sunshine. The weather was so good. He felt anticipated of his new gonna be a happy day. Going to the bathroom, washing himself up, he said cheerfully. “Today is a good day. It feels good living life-”

Roarrrrrrrr

Clank~ (The sound of reality breaking)

“Yeah, I’m still in this sh*tty world.” Waking up from both sleeping and reality, Lucien stretched himself on the tree branch. He was still wearing the same cartoon shirt and brown shorts with a black hoodie on him. The blood stains were already dried a long time ago making his hoodie looked normal.

However, his smell was unbearable. “No more training today. I need to find a river and have a nice shower.”

Before climbing down from the tree, he opened his path menu to put his point into heavy blow path 0/30. Next to it was a new path he hadn’t seen before sleeping yesterday, Wanderer Path 0/20.

With his 54 PP, he could finish both of them straight away. Moreover, he got a feeling that wanderer path might be survival path related.

Congratulations! You have completed Heavy Blow Path! +15 stamina points, +1 stamina regen, +1 strength, and agility. You have got a skill, Empower lv1

Empower lv1: Boosting your body movement with more power and speed slightly. Cost: 25 stamina

Empower skill seemed like an upgrade of Heavy Blow. What made it different was that he could use it with another movement as well, not being restricted to attacking anymore. Most importantly, this skill could be stacked with both Heavy Blow and Wind Reinforcement.

Aside from completion rewards, he got a total of 2 physical stats, 2 strength, 20 stamina points and 2 stamina regen.

The physical stats could be put into strength, agility, vitality, and endurance. He put both in each vitality and endurance.

Vitality gave him 2 health points, 3 health regen, and 1 stamina regen. Endurance gave him 5 health points, 3 stamina points, and 0.25 health regen.

Then, he poured PP on his next path.

Congratulations! You have completed Wanderer Path. +1 all stats, +3 health, and stamina regen

This path didn’t give him any skill but the stats were tremendous. The pure stats alone were already much higher than the Heavy Blow path. He also got +10 health, mana and stamina points and 3 vitality from the path. His another 4 PP were left alone for now. He was thinking of doing the Luck path next.

Back to his goal of finding a river, he chose to continue the town direction. “There should be at least a river or a water source near the town right?”

As he traveled, he also trained his skills, mostly one with stamina cost. Lucien felt he should save mana for unpredictable events on the way. He only used gale manipulation which consumed low mana and used empower to jump forward and sprint. As a result, he got sprinting skill and leap skill. His empower also leveled up a bit.

After an hour of walking and training, he could see a town in front of him.

“This town looks normal. The feeling of beginner town is spreading out from it. Yep, I can hear a BGM just by looking.” He said to himself, judging the town.

He was now in the border of the forest and was a vast plain surrounding the town. He could see people walking in and out of the town. Not just human, there were some weird races as well. There were some weird livestocks in the long fence. Feeling curious, he tried to check its level.

[level 53]

“Damn it! I can’t even fight these things.” Feeling exasperated, Lucien saw the river.

He just didn’t feel like walking to the town yet so, along with the forest border, he walked to the river.

Searching for the secluded location, he washed himself up. Drinking some water and eating berries, he started to feel relaxed.

Crack~

“Who?” Lucien quickly turned back. In front of him was a black teeth grey boar-like boar. It just looked like a boar with a weird color, one of the livestocks he had seen on the way.

[level 56]

What’s making him serious apart from its level was that the boar was stomping the ground, ready to charge at him any time. Moreover, its eyes were bright red, looking scary.

Lucien swiped a drop of sweat on his forehead and unsheathed his dagger. His eyes narrowed, however, his legs were trembling slightly.

Moarrrr~

With a moar, the boar charged toward him with extreme speed, hard to track with his eyes. Already activating his wind reinforcement and calculating the direction, Lucien empowered his legs and jumped to the side.

“Success!” He yelled in joy.

Instantly, his vision blurred. He flew into mid-air, unintentionally. Before realizing the situation, a system message greeted his eyes.

[Ding! The title effect ‘Will of Survival’ activated! You have survived one lethal attack!]

‘Sh*t’ He couldn’t speak anymore as he flew straight into the river. His head hit a rock and his vision blacked out. Before he fell unconscious, ‘Ah… I… don’t….want… to die….’ that was his last thought.

---------------------------------------------------

“Is this… a heaven?” Lucien slowly opened his eyes. He felt his body laying on something soft. The feeling was a very nostalgic one like, ‘yeah I remember, a bed.’

‘Am I back to Earth now?’ His confusion turned into anticipation as he slowly widened his eyes and saw a wooden ceiling. “Yes! it was all a dream.”

“Are you alright?”

Along with a high pitch voice, a pink hair figure popped out in his vision. Lucien was shocked, he hurriedly got up.

“W-who are yo-”

Bang!

His head hit the wall. He couldn’t help but cry out in tears. “Ouch!”

It’s hurt so much, too much to be just a pain from hitting the wall. He touched his head, feeling the blood flowing out. He also felt a bandage wrapped around his head.

“Ah!” A pink haired girl exclaimed cutely. “Don’t be scared, little boy. It’s safe now! Don’t worry, I won’t hurt you.”

Her voice was soothing and kind as she tried her best to calm the boy down. Only now did Lucien managed to look at a woman in front of him clearly.

She had a pink shoulder length hair with a pink pupil. She looked young and cute, wearing a priest-like robed. It’s like she came out from a fantasy book.

“Good boy, good boy. Let this sister heal you.” She said softly as she cast her magic.

Lucien could feel his pain subsided. After a few seconds, his injury was gone. However, he still looked at the girl in front of him in distrust. Afterall, the first person he met was a bad guy, he just couldn’t expect the second one to be good right away, right?

Looking cute? Nonsense, Lucien was still in his 14 and didn’t know the concept of love yet. Good-looking had no effect on him judging people.

Seeing the boy still hadn’t let his guard down, instead of getting angry, the girl looked at him with pity. ‘This boy must have experienced something terrible.'

She tried to be as gentle as possible. “It’s fine little boy. It’s fine. I won’t hurt you and I won’t let anyone hurt you. Come, let me hug you.”

Before he could refuse, Lucien was dragged into her arm. He couldn’t even struggle. ‘What’s with this strength!?’

“It’s fine. Everything’s okay, alright? What a good boy!” The girl was feeling happy that the boy didn’t try to escape her hug.

‘I...can’t...breath…. What...are..these..weapons..’ Suffocatingly, Lucien's head was struck into the girl’s big, ahem, chest. However, he gradually calmed down. ‘She is probably a good person. She should be my beginner guide here in this beginner town.’

After a whole minute, the girl finally released Lucien from her blossoms. She smiled sweetly, “You can call me Ruby! Little boy, what is your name?”

“Lucien..” The boy replied timidly from what she saw. ‘What a cute boy! I want to have a little brother like him.’

“R-ruby, can you-”

“Call me Sister Ruby, Lu-kun!”

“S-sister R-ruby”

“That’s right, good job!” said Ruby happily. ‘Awwww, this boy is so cuteeee!’

‘This girl is so pure. She looked kind and nice but she is a shotacon!’ Lucien looked at the girl, who looked to be around 20, pitifully. ‘At least, there’s someone helping me now. I can finally relax.’

“Sister Ruby, can you tell me where is this place?”

“Sure, this is our home in the Panam city. We found you floating on the river near the near so we saved you!”

“W-we?”

“Right, I’m an adventurer, you know? This is my party home. There’re 4 more of us living here.”

‘Wow, there are adventurers in this world as well. Right, this is a fantasy world.’ Lucien thought to himself. “How long have I been passed out?”

“I’m not sure. We found you in the evening while we were walking back home. Now it’s morning.”

‘I was hit by that damned boar around noon. That means I was floating unconsciously on the water for half a day and stayed unconscious a whole night? Woah! It must be my endurance and vitality keeping me alive.’ Lucien found it amazing staying alive till now. Right when he was to ask another question, a sound of footsteps came from outside.

knock-knock! click!

A short brown hair middle-aged man appeared walked into the room with a bowl of soup. “Did the boy wake up?”

“Yes, he’s good now.”

“Here’s soup for the morning. Ruby, let him eat and lay down a bit. He has just recovered and needs some rest.” The man looked well-built. He had a warrior appearance and a kind smile on his face. He passed the bowl to Ruby.

“Okay, uncle Tony!”

“After you finish, come to eat breakfast. Hildan should come back with information by then.” Finished speaking, a man called Tony walked out of the room.

“Come, come, let your beautiful sister feed you!” said Ruby cutely.

Lucien sighed and laid down on the pillow, being spoon-fed. ‘This shameless shotacon. Like mom had said to me before, shotacon is everywhere!’

After eating the whole bowl, Ruby left the room. She looked hesitated while she was leaving. “I-I’ll be leaving now, just rest okay?”

“Alright,” Lucien answered normally.

“I said I will be leaving now, okay?”

‘What’s wrong?’ Lucien was confused. “Sure.”

Ruby jerked her brow a little, looking a bit unhappy. “Do you want me to leave that much, huh?”

‘What the heck is wrong with this wahman? Fine, I’ll act cute then!’ Lucien’s face turned ‘hesitated’ as he looked at the girl ‘purely’ with his clear dark blue eyes.

t’chi

Seeing his face, Ruby felt like her heart was shot by an arrow. Her face turned red as she started to pant. ‘I can’t bear it anymore!’

Her body blurred and vanished from Lucien’s vision.

Muahhhh~

Feeling his forehead suddenly turned wet, he realized that he had been kissed. His face turned red in an instant. He couldn’t help but stuttered. “S-Sister R-ubiee?”

“Awwwwwwwwwww So Cuteeee!”

Little did he know that his reaction struck the girl right to the heart.

Muah! Muah! Muah! Muahhhhh!

All his face was now covered in the girl’s saliva.

“Huhuhuhu” The girl gave him a weird laugh as she quickly left the room in embarrassment.

“What has just… happened?” It took him several seconds to process. He exclaimed in his heart.

‘That girl’s just sexually harassed me!’

A weird feeling formed inside a little boy’s heart.