A single bird sings in the distance as Leif gets up.

To his disappointment he is still in a tent and not in his room at home.

It seems like this is his new life from now on.

He steps out of his tent to stretch and look around.

At least the scenery is beautiful.

He eats a Nutribar and drinks some water.

The canteen was still somehow full, so he looked at the description.

[ Enlarged Canteen (uncommon) ]

[ This canteen is not a normal canteen. It is modified to hold fluid 10x of it's size. ]

That is useful, but he sill needs to find a water source soon.

It would mean going in the monster filled forest, and that could wait at least a bit.

First he should look at the last features that the System offers.

The tab is called 'quests'.

[ Abbot Questline: Pray ]

[ Beeing a Abbot take strong faith. Show your faith by praying to any Supreme Being and hope to get its attention. ]

[ Reward: Simple Small Shrine Set (common) ]

What an unspecific quest. It doesn't even tell what Supreme Being are.

He has never been religious, what made it even stranger that he got such a class.

"So, just sit and pray?"

He half expected for a girl with wings to appear again, but nothing happend, so he simply proceeds to do that.

He prayed for a while and was close to giving up when he heard a ding sound.

As he opens his eyes he sees a new screen.

[ Quest Completed: Pray ]

[ You prayed to a Supreme Being. If your prayers where heard is unknown, for now you can only hope. ]

[ Reward: Simple Small Shrine Set (common) ]

Before he can finish reading the first massage a second one appears.

[ (New)Abbot Questline: Shrine ]

[ You acquired a Simple Small Shrine Set (common)! Time to put it to use. Build a shrine and get chosen by a patron. ]

[ Reward: New Function/New Questline ]

He takes out the set and is immediately annoyed.

He has to build it together by himself!

There is even an allen key included!

A few parts are missing and a screw fall in the grass and is lost forever,

but by midday he has a finished shrine and he can finally finish the quest.

The shrine is rather small and just made up of four wooden beams holding a small wooden roof.

In the center is a stone cube with a square piece of wood in the middle.

Well, he sill needs a patron.

How do you get a patron?

Leif doesn't know, so he decides to kneel down again and just pray, hoping something or someone will hear it.

It is afternoon already as he hears the ding sound.

As he looks at the shrine the wood block in the middle as it slowly transforms into the shape of something bizarre.

It's a spiky and not really round ball.

[ Quest Completed: Shrine ]

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[ You build a Simple Small Shrine Set (common) and a Small Water Spirit Seedling (Lvl.1) made it his new home. ]

[ Reward: New Function ]

[ New Function Unlocked ]

[ You unlocked: Simple Personal Overview ]

So that's how a spirit looks like. It's level 1, so it can improve, probably with more followers.

While he wonders what the water spirit could do, he got a new quest.

[ (New)Abbot Questline: Join Us ]

[ What is an Abbot without a Supreme Being? You found a Simple Small Water Spirit (Lvl.1), but you have yet to choose it as your caretaker. ]

[ Reward: New Questline ]

That spiky ball is a supreme being and supposed to become his master?

He dislikes the idea of serving someone, but it does not seem as if he has a choice.

He kneels down again and pleads to be accepted. And it surprisingly doesn't take long until the statue in the middle starts to glow and he gets his answer.

[ Quest Completed: Join Us ]

[ Congratulations! The Simple Small Water Spirit (Lvl.1) knowledge you as its caretaker. ]

[ Reward: New Quest |

[ (New)Abbot Questline: Faith ]

[ Collecting prayers is the most important thing for a spirit to grow stronger, but you alone can't do much. Have five different people pray on your shrine. ]

[ Reward: New Class Level / New Spirit Level ]

[ New Questline Unlocked ]

[ You unlocked: Job Quest ]

[ Notification: Blessing ]

[ You where granted the Blessing of The Simple Small Water Spirit (Lvl.1)]

[You Receive: Simple Small Water Magic ]

He has skills? Water magic is exactly what he needs.

He immediately wants to try them out.

Meeting other people would be nice, but there won't be many people coming past here.

With a bit of concentration he can create a 2cm sphere of water.

He drinks a bit of the water but it tastes like nothing and he tries to fill the canteen a bit.

It works pretty well, but after a half minute he gets a headache and has to stop.

It's enough to survive, but he needs to find an other solution soon.

He looks at the other Questline he got.

[ Job Quest: First Job ]

[ Building a temple can be hard. Make it easier by choosing a Job and earn new skills. ]

[Reward: New Questline ]

New skills sounds awesome. But how do you get a job?

He goes back in the menu and finds a new button called 'Simple Personal Overview'.

[ Simple Personal Overview ]

[ Name: Leif ]

[Species: Human ]

[ Class: Abbot (Lvl.1) ]

[ Job: None(choose) ]

[ Skills: Multilingual/Simple Small Water Magic/Basic Description ]

It seems like he has another skill, but it doesn't look useful right now.

Maybe later, if he ever meets a person out here.

The rest isn't really helpful so he chooses a job.

Farmer sounds helpful to get food, but it would take its time to grow stuff.

Hunter would get food immediately, but the warning gave a very high danger level which rises the question if he could even kill anything here and it would also mean, that he has to butcher it and prepare it. He doesn't like that idea.

Trader sounds better at first, but he has nothing to trade with and and also nobody that could sell him something.

Cook is pretty useless, if there is nothing to cook with.

Miner is also useless, because he has neither the resources to mine with nor could he do something with it.

He thought about it and hunter sounds like the best option to get something to eat.

He walks to the edge of the plateau to have a look at the forest when he sees something big in the distance. It is massive and slowly crawling past.

It was more a blob with tentacles than anything else.

So that is how a monster looks like.

He imminently regrets his decision and sprints back to his shrine, where it felt safer.

They all had their problems, so he choose farmer, because it was the safest way

and would definitely give him something to eat in a few weeks.

He could survive that, because starving is way better than meeting that monster.