After fidgeting with the stone and sticks for five minutes, he managed to sharpen one of the ends on the spear, it was not really perfect or really sharp, but it did manage to fit the description of a spear. When he looked down on the remaining sticks he found a problem.

It could take long before he actually managed to unlock the skill of weapon craft, and he only had so few sticks. Sharpening one end might not be enough crafting work to be sufficient to unlock the skill. Contemplating for a while he looked at the spear in his hand.

‘That is it!’ he quickly found a solution while looking at the end of the spear, the spear has two ends, but he only needed to sharpen on of the ends to make a spear, sharpening both ends would not only be an upgrade, it would be more work.

This might be the way to unlock weapon crafting with few resources, upgrading the weapons should be able to give more experience too. A smile suffused his lips as he began sharpening the other end of the spear.

He had realized something that was important too, while he hid it from himself, the sharp ends of the spears, were not really that sharp, almost blunter. His skills at using the sharp stones to do this was really poor. He did not really mind because if he could unlock the skill, it should improve by just doing it again and again. This was also a way for him to be of use to the male demons for their hunting. If they had more spears they could throw some and then fight when they only had one left, that would give them an advantage and a safety measure to not fight in close combat all the time.

Ling Ru felt quite smart for coming up with this, especially since he was two or three days old in this body, and to be of use to his new community felt really good. He worked hard with his mentality set on finishing the work fast.

After working through sharpening all the ends of the sticks, he put down all the spears on the floor and picked each up to finish them with a bit of review work. After finishing sharpening them some more because he was unsatisfied, he could finally sit down and smile at all the spears. When he acknowledged his work, the announcement he awaited finally came.

[Poor Basics of a Carpenter Unlocked]

Skill Level: 1/50

Experience: 70/100

Description:

Woodwork and wooden structural labour.

His fists clenched, and a slight tear dropped from his left eye. He was in pain, in his heart and in his mind. He who had worked hard to unlock the weapon crafting skill became a f****** carpenter! How would he ever live with himself…

After relaxing himself again, another announcement flickered in his mind.

[Mental Awareness skill obtained!]

Skill Level: 2

Experience: 10/300

Description:

The Mental Awareness skill increases all of the user’s mental abilities. I.e. maintaining focus and concentration, controlling emotions, encouraging oneself, visualisation and imagery. The skill is trained by using and practising your abilities, as well as assessing your proficiency.

This time the skill changed again, and this time the change was more significant, his head was much clearer and he could even control his emotions. Mildly said, that was just an insane ability. To be able to motivate and encourage himself more and more, ignore emotions, use more realistic dreams to gain experience as well as increase proficiency in all other skills, this skill is just too heaven like. It also made him a bit smarter.

With this skill, he suddenly realised something about his carpentering, he could build wooden structures. If he built crossbows with his carpenter skills, wooden slings and cannons, it would most likely unlock the weapon crafting skill, or in actuality, woodwork and metalwork are just different ways of crafting everything.

No need for a weapon craft skill, if the carpenter skill can make something better. He had at most used two hours, so still had a lot of time to level up the new skill, 7 spears with 14 spear ends, each spear gave 10 exp, or rather each spear end he made gave 5 exp. For him to level up he would need three more sticks to make spears out of.

Sadly it was already getting dark outside, so it would be problematic and probably also dangerous to go out. He either woke really late, else the sun is quite fast. That reminded him, he had never seen the sun or the moon, he could not make assumptions about their existence in this world.

Back to the deal at hand, so to get experience, he would need to find sticks. But he did not want to go outside because of the dangers unless the males could help him, but they were still not home yet, hunting takes time. Being in a terrible situation where you just want to level up, but cannot find out how is problematic for a gamer, but Ling Ru was quickly reminded of something he said earlier.

I will just need to upgrade the spears, that should give experience too. He recounted some of his memories of spears, and how spears were also made with stones, he could his sharp stones as a spear head, and by breaking the spears he could make them smaller and have one sharp end, and one stone end. He would only be able to make three of them, but it would be worth it.

With his newfound idea, Ling Ru stood up and went on a search in the caves, what he needed was something he could use as a string, a tough and resilient string. He found out that there were actually only 3 cave-rooms other than the main cave, his current bedroom, the males supposed bedroom and the females supposed bedrooms.

When he noticed this, he had thoughts of the males and females having intercourse, some would like this train of thought, but Ling Ru was a bit scared when thinking of it, especially due to the fact that he kept imagining whatever he thought in better detail than ever.

The imagery was due to the Mental Awareness skill, it undoubtedly increased his mind proficiency, but especially for things like this, it should be stopped. He controlled himself to think of the situation at hand, and kept rummaging through the two caves. When he found nothing, he went to his own room, which only had a homemade bed.

It only took a quick glance to decipher the secrets of the room, one bad, and all nothing. This room was empty, nothing he could use. Before he turned around, he glanced at the bed and realised that grass in this world is different from earth, it might be good enough.

He walked up to the bed and picked out a few straws of good thick and long grass. Bending it a bit and playing with it, it broke too easily. This grass looked really strong and flexible, but it was useless, it’s only use was for vegans to eat, if it is not toxic, who knows.

Ling Ru gave up and just dumped the grass on the cold cave floor, turned around and headed back to his spears. When he sat down and looked at his spears, he felt down. How should he progress in carpentering without resources?

Bordering on depression, although temporary, one day of waste, Ling Ru did not want to accept this, he wanted to accomplish something at least before the males came home. He looked up to ensure himself he would go outside and look anyway.

When he looked up, his eyes automatically looked at the beast they ate yesterday, there was almost no meat left, but there was plenty of skin. There would not be a need to skin the fur, he could use the tough skin from it to make strips that can bind the stone to the spear, it would be perfect.