I saw the confusion on Lannah’s face morph into anger as she processed what I said. She looked like a coiled spring ready to launch at me until she grabbed the edged of the chair. Then the anger on her face started to shift to fear.

Lannah’s voice was almost too quiet to hear over the fire crackling and Blink crunching on bones. “You are telling me that you are a champion? Yet, you are too weak, to kill a bunch of goblins?”

I shook my head at the questions. I know I was told I was brought here, but not that I was a champion. I sighed, “No, I am not a champion; I was told that I was brought here. Someone paid for me, but something broke when I came through. I was told that I shouldn’t remember Earth, but I do. I also have messed up levels.”

Lannah eyed me before she spoke again. I could tell just from her expressions that she didn’t believe a word I said. “So, what you are telling me is that you got brought here from ‘Yearth’ and something broke when this happened?”

“Earth, and yes. I was at work one moment and the next I was in this forest wearing this fur and seeing messages!”

Lannah nodded slowly at me and gave me a look that I was sure Blink gave to me in the past. “Right, so you were working, and then someone cast a spell on you, and you moved to the forest. So that explains how you got here.” She leaned back in the chair like the tension that was built up vanished.

“No, you misunderstand. I am not from this planet. Where I come from there isn’t magic, you don’t level up skills, and there are no messages that you read telling you that you can’t read.”

“No magic? Ha! I saw you put fire on your staff. You have magic. If you don’t want to tell me where you are from that’s fine. Just make up a more believable story once we get back to a town.”

I looked at the ground where I was sitting and tried to figure out how I could prove my story to her. I needed her to believe me, at least enough to answer all the questions that I had. I knew that my questions were all basic ones. If I couldn’t get her to believe me, then it was less likely that she would help as much as I needed.

I looked up at Lannah and stared into her eyes, “look, I get it. What I am saying is hard to believe. I don’t know how to convince you that I am not from here. What I do know, is I need help if I am going to survive. Sure, I am still alive right now but I have fought those goblins a handful of times and I was almost killed for my efforts each time. I am a level ZERO. Everything out levels me.”

She gave the most incredulous look I remembered ever getting, “a level zero? Every child is level 5 by the time they are 10 and level 10 before they are an adult. Sure it all slows down once you hit 15 but honestly you expect me to believe this?”

“Is there a way I can show you my stats?”

“You would do that?”

I smiled at her and thought of the most teenager thing I could say. I even almost laughed as I said, “sure I’ll show you mine and you show me yours.”

“I have nothing to prove so I will not show you my stats. That is the most personal thing that can be shown and I won’t show it to you.”

“Fine tell me how I can show you mine and I will.”

Lannah studied me for a moment. “Give me your hand and then will your stats to me. I will accept and then view to see what you say.”

Willing my stats over was harder than I thought it would be. It took a few moments before I got a prompt that asked if I wanted to share my stats through touch. I selected yes. What I didn’t expect to see was that I shared everything and not just my skills.

Name

Arn

HP

20

MP

40

Race

Wild Human Shaman(3)

SP

30

Defense

1

Primary Class: Enchanter*

Level: 0

Secondary Class: Linguist* (ancient languages)

Level: 0

Strength

16*

Intelligence

8

Vigor

15

Dexterity

14*

Willpower

11

Vitality

11

Wild Humans have a plus 3 to strength

Wild Humans have a plus 2 to dexterity

Wild Humans have a plus 2 to all survivalist and warrior class skills

Wild Humans have a negative 3 to all Language skills and can not start as the linguist class

Wild Humans have a negative 1 to all Magic class skills due to low intelligence and cannot start as a enchanter class because of linguist issues

Wild Humans are all illiterate

Skills

Racial skills

Level

Spear**

7 Locked

Survivalist**

7 Locked

Tracking**

6 Locked

Primitive Runes

16

Ritualistic spell casting

14

Ritualistic healing

9

Animal empathy

15

Plant empathy

12

Starting class

Enchanting

15

Script*

0

Ink making

14

Etching

16

Power imbuing

14

Socketing

5

Secondary Class

ancient languages*

0

Non class skills

Hiking**

18

Climbing**

15

Primitive tool**

12

Natural Shelter**

10

Spear Fishing

18

Primitive cooking

15

Herbalism

12

Stone Knapping

12

Staff

17

Taekwondo

17

Running

14

Fitness Training

15

Tumbling

16

Rope making

17

Basket weaving

10

Primitive Tailoring

8

Trap

17

Conditioning

14

Escrama

2

Iaido

9

Nunchaku

5

Ki Focus

7

Swimming

6

Pole fishing

2

Net fishing

2

mathematics

18

Throwing Knife

3

Paddling

9

Archery

4

*due to Wild Human starting restrictions of being illiterate this skill can not advance until Intelligence is higher then 12

** Racial Bonus for Wild Human, effect levels of all Survivalist class and warrior class skills plus 2

Racial skills of Wild Human that are not part of your racial class are now locked. Further racial class change may unlock these skills for progression in the future.

Spells

Communication spells

Level

Mana usage

Beseech a greater knowledge**

1

50

**Once per day powered by sunlight

Fire Spells

Level

Mana usage

Fire Fist

1

2-20

Shaman magic

Level

Mana usage

Stone to dirt

1

20

Start fire

1

20

Call rain*

1

20

Growth

1

20

Lay to rest

1

40

Fire Fist

1

2-20

*works only if there are clouds in the sky. The closer the clouds the stronger the rain.

Necromancy Spell

Level

Mana usage

Cast time

Raise Skeleton

1

5 per 100 pounds

4 seconds

Turn Zombie

1

3 per 50 pounds

7 seconds

Steal Health

1

3 per health pt

3 second

Festering Wound

1

2-10

1 second

Drain Mana

1

2

3 second

Claim Undead

1

1 per level of target

4 seconds

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BONDED

Name

Blink

HP

10

MP

25

Race

Ropola*

SP

42

Defense

5

Ropola are large chameleon type lizard. The eyes of the Ropola are some of the best as they can match their skin to whatever they see or have seen. Ropola have body sacks that they can fill to make them appear bigger and a thick boned head.

*Bonded: As a Bonded Ropola Blink will be able to grow, level and change faster. As the bond deepens so do the benefits to both sides.

Strength

13*

Dexterity

10**

Intelligence

6

Willpower

12

Vigor

14

Vitality

14***

*Strength is relative to size. As Ropola’s grow the negative modifier will be removed for DMG. Until young adult size or level 15 is reached DMG is figured at half total round down.

** Dexterity is relative to size. For all movement dexterity uses figure at 3 times normal. Once young adult size is reached all Movement Dexterity uses figure at 2 times normal.

*** Health is relative to size. Until young adult size or level 15 health points figured at half total round down.

Nature’s gifts

Scales

+3 defense

Claws

+2 Attack Slashing

Mouth

+3 Attack Impaling

Natural skills

Level

Pounce

17

Stealth

18

Tracking

13

Imitation

7

Skills

Pounce: The Ropola no longer has to pounce from elevation. This attack is Weight Divided by 5 plus claw damage.

If done from surprise it triples damage

Stealth: Ropolas are apex predator not just because of their power but because they so hard to see.

Tracking: At low levels tracking requires the proper area to track in and can easily be thrown. At higher levels the hatchling know the tricks to hide tracks as well as see tracks. This skill will help to identify what is being tracked.

Imitation: The ropola has learned to imitate its surrounding and the creatures in it. This skill lets it adjust its stealth from just hiding to appearing like creatures that it has seen.

Blink had gotten smarter again. If I didn’t find a way to level my class, then my bonded was going to be more powerful than me soon. Not that it was a bad thing not to be the most powerful. More like, I just wasn’t pulling my own weight.

I heard Lannah suck her breath in, “gods and goddess how did you never level?”

“I told you that I was brought here, I wasn’t born here.”

“Then who did you make mad?”

“What do you mean?”

“You claim you were brought here, but if so you had to have made someone mad to be given two advance classes without the ability to level.”

“I don’t know if I made anyone mad before, but I am sure that I have now….”

Lannah gasped again and then started to back away from me. She stumbled out of the chair, and all the color that had come back to her drained out at once. She yanked her arms up like she was trying to keep me away.

“You’re a Necromancer! Please don’t kill me!”