Chapter 1- Welcome to survival 101

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The sense of falling continues for an extended amount of time; For how long, I can't say, but it feels like hours.

It continues until it just as suddenly just disappears, and I find myself laying down on the cold hard ground, looking up at the unusually orange, rising sun in the sky above me.

Looking around reveals grassy flatlands for just about as far as I can see. Over to the south, going by the sun and assuming it rises and falls like it did on earth, I can see what looks like woodlands; But otherwise it is flat grasslands as far as the eye can see, with the occasional tree here and there. The weather is temperate, but it is neither hot nor is it humid. The grass around me isn't particularly high either, making it easy to see into the distance.

"God-damned overgrown dog, at least give me warning that it will hurt like hell." I grumble under my breath as I survey my surroundings for anything of interest. Suddenly, the place that Cerberus touched starts burning like someone branded me with a branding rod, as a hot angry pain flares up for a few moments before quickly fading away.

*Ping!*

- Initializing system… Please wait… -

I hear a noise, close to what a microwave oven sounds like when the timer ends, followed by a text window that pops up in front of my eyes. Moving my eyes, the text box follows them, stubbornly staying firmly in place in the center of my view.

"What the hell? What is this? A computer system?" I ask confusedly as I look at the text box questionably.

"Hello?" I ask hesitantly while I warily search my immediate surroundings carefully, the text box staying in the center, but somehow not impeding my ability to see beyond it. 'Ok, that sure is strange…' I note to myself as I take in the surrounding at the same time as I look at the text box.

-Initializing successfully completed-

-Building profile… Error, unknown resources found.

Adjusting parameters... Success. Recalculating… Recalculating... Success!

-Applying new parameters to profile… Success.

-Building new (Variant) profile… Success!

-Launching interface… Failure. Incompatibility detected.

- Reconfiguring … … Success! -Launching interface… Success!

*Ping*

Main menu

Status

Inventory

Map

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A few moments pass without any more blue screens popping up, so I turn my focus unto the the blue screen that is still floating infront of me and ponder the origin of this strange system that has now suddenly appeared infront of my eyes efter that burning pain that came from where that duchebag, Cerberus touched me. "Uhh ok, So… this is my magic at work then?" I mumble aloud to myself as I examine the text window. "Kind of looks like what one of those RPG games menu lists may look like… For now, let's try status then." I say and focus on the Status option.

*Ping!*

STATUS

Name: Kai Yuuki

Race: Human (Earth) [Variant X]

Level: 1

Exp: 0%

Class: none

Special Trait: Adaptability(Cerberus)

Status:

HP: 500

HP: regen 10/h

Stamina: 300

Stamina regen: 2/min

Str: 30 (+20)

Vit: 20 (+15)

End: 20(+15)

Dex: 30 (+20)

Reflex: 27 (+17)

Int: 12(0)

Wis: 15(0)

Willpower: 35 (+25)

Luck: 10(0)

Unspent stat points: 0

Skills & abilities

Active skills:

None

Passive skills:

Active abilities:

Passive abilities:

《Unarmed quick strike》

《Unarmed precision strike》

《Impact suppression》

《Martial-arts training》 (Unarmed) (Adept) {+5 Str, +10 Vit, +15 Dex, +15 reflex}[Damage done while unarmed increased by 50%]

《Unyielding》 {+10 willpower}

《Strong willed》 {+15 willpower}

《Strong body》 {+5 Vitality}

Gifts/Blessings:

《Herculean strength》 (Cerberus){+15 Str}

Clicking things apparently brings up information about a stat or skill, I learned while experimenting with the text box.

The skill 'Adaptability's information, for example, reads: “Adaptability - Makes all skills x100 easier to gain. Learning and adaptation speed is up by a factor of 10”.

It apparently makes it x100 easier to gain skills (lvl 1) as well as lets me learn and adapt 10x as fast as normal, which is incredibly useful, if I manage to stay alive long enough to be able to make use of it…

Quick strikes and precision strikes improve the quickness respectively precision of unarmed strikes, while impact suppression is as the name implies; it lets me divert and suppress impacts to my body.

The passive abilities seems to be as the name implies; Passive abilities that give boosts to related stats.

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After a few minutes of going through the status screen, I close the status screen and come back to the main menu. Opening up the inventory screen, a pop up box appears.

*Ping!*

- Inventory -

You currently have 6x6 slots of inventory space, for a total of 36 slots.

1 slot may hold up to 99 items; as long as aforementioned items are sufficiently alike one another and that the storage may support the objects combined weight and size.

Inventory space increases proportionally as the magic power of the user increases.

*Attention! Time is suspended for stored items. Available storage is relative to the stored items weight and dimensions, the bigger and/or the heavier the object, the more storage is used to store said object.*

"Well that is a potentially super useful ability, if it is as good as I think it is…" I ponder aloud as I read through the explanation. "Alright, now to try the map then." I say and switch to the map interface.

Opening the map interface, it brings up a pretty standard game map in the top left corner of my vision; You know, the kind you could find on most games nowadays. It includes all the basics such as a general overview of the surroundings and a option for zoom said surrounding, a perspective indicator (which shows where you are looking) and of course the headings written at the edges of the globe formed map, showing where north, south, west and east are continually, even as I turn my head this way and that.

"Well, at least I won't get lost. ...Well, technically, I am already lost, since I don't know where to go, or where I am… But if I can manage to find something to track, then I will never again get lost." I mutter as I look at the more or less dark map. I notice that it has updated my surroundings, but only the things that I've seen. Anything behind trees or behind hills where I can't see, only show up as darkness on the map. "A slight problem, all things considered…" I mumble as I refocus my attention on the surroundings and try to decide which way I should go.

Anything that would imply civilization would be a good sign.

'… I sure hope that it is people who live on this planet; I really wouldn't like it if they were giant sentient spiders. Or giant sentient birds of prey… or giant sentient insects. Actually, I think we can conclude that I don't want any giant things at all, now that I'm thinking about it.’ Shuddering at the thought of potential giant beasts that may or may not want to prey on me, I shake my head vigorously as I try to make the images go away.

Slapping my face, I refocus on my first task: Finding a settlement.

Not having any particular clue as to which direction I should go in, I shrug and start south.

'People need something to build houses with, right? Then it would make sense to build it close to a forest, right?' I muse as I start walking towards the woods far off in the distance in the south.

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After walking along for an hour or two, I get a prompt from the system.

[Passive skill:《Hiking》 acquired!]

“Huh… that will be useful“ I comment as I dismiss the screen and continue my trek up the small hill I am currently climbing.

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An hour later, I spot a small river in the distance, which I promptly make my way towards. Arriving at the river I kneel on the beach bank and inspect the water.

It's crystal clear and seems fresh. Looking around the immediate area reveals no dead wildlife and while searching a few minutes upstream I find some shallows with fish swimming around.

The water seems safe enough to drink so I take a sip and taste the water. Hands down the best tasting water I've had. ‘Though that may have something to do with walking almost all day and it's been quite a while since I last drank anything…’ shaking my head slowly I cup my hands and drink the fresh water greedily. Once my thirst is sated, I promptly try to store some water in my inventory.

After a bit of trial and error, I manage to figure out the gist of the rules of the inventory.

I can store things up to a meter away from me; However, I quickly noticed that I couldn't store living beings in my storage, as nothing happened to the live fish I tried to store.

Hours later, after I managed to make a makeshift spear; And then managed to use said spear to spear a fish, I confirmed that dead fish work just fine. Yay!

That said, I try spearing some more fish, but it's quickly getting darker as the sun had started setting a while ago now. "Damn, I got too focused on the fish… I need to find shelter for the night!" I exclaim and quickly start searching for a suitable place to camp.

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After an hour of frantic rushing around, and another hour of trying to light the campfire, I wearily slump down next to the campfire that I just managed to light, and read the prompt that I just received for said feat.

[Passive ability:《Campfire starter》 acquired!]

“I could've used that half an hour ago!“ I yell at the prompt angrily. Shaking my head, I sigh and promptly dismiss the prompt. "What am I doing, getting angry at a text box…" I mutter to myself quietly as I stare at the now quietly burning campfire.

After a while my stomach growls and I am reminded that I have a fish in my storage of which I promptly pull out, spear it on my makeshift spear and grill it over the open flames of the campfire.

After letting the fish grill over the open flame for half an hour or so, just to make completely sure that it is well grilled and, consequently, any potential nasty bacteria or strange organisms that may or may not inhabit this world is eliminated.

Grabbing the makeshift spear, I gingerly take a small bite out of the now, ahem, quite well grilled fish.

The fish tastes fine, not exactly the best fish I've ever eaten; Especially considering I have no seasoning to speak of, but it is not at all bad tasting or anything. It may even be quite delicious, when combined with the right spices.

When I am almost done with my food, I hear a deep low growl coming from behind me that makes me whip my head around to look at the source of the growl.

"Holy fu$#!"

End of chapter 1