After the cool wind vapored the sweat away , skinny boy walked towards the tents of the guards . Slowly breathing in a mysterious order he harked if any people are in the tents .
Confirming that nobody is in it, skinny boy sneaked in and looked for some useful objects . His plan is to run away , but with bare hands his chance of surviving is almost zero . Especially in the forest where fierce beasts and monsters live .
However with survival tools like a knife or a bag his survival odds will greatly increase . Since it is possible to sharpen sticks with a knife to build traps for small game or carry healing herbs in emergency situations .
Looking around the tent skinny boy could see a normal straw bed , a wooden desks and wooden barrels to store food .
Without any sound skinny boy crept around the tent . Even if the tent isn't spacious there are many places to hide . Because skinny boy didn't know if the guard will return he only moved near hiding places .
Grabbing a single knife from the table skinny boy rushed out of the tent in direction forest .
Nobody stopped him , a single guard looked towards the direction where the boy left the tent formation .
"Shouldn't we stop him ?" asked the guard while putting down his cards .
"If you want to have more work to do newbie then go for it , nobody will stop you . Maybe you will be the next living target when you disturb the lord . Hahahahaha !" said an old looking guard .
While shaking his head one guard said : "Sooner or later he will get killed by monsters , the nearest human settling from this place is 3 horse riding weeks away . "
One guard casually smiled while putting five cards down : "Haha , five pikas !"
All of the guards groaned while one lamented : "Why do you have such luck today john ? Gimme some so i can visit a beautfiul lady !"
"Hehe , secret ." laughed the guard called john .
While running skinny boy didn't looked back , it would only slow him down . Besides if a guard really wanted to chase him then he would die anyways .
Running past huge trees and dark green bushes , jumping over tree roots and small bushes , skinny boy rushed till his legs felt sore . Stopping his run skinny boy looked for a place to recover his energy .
He found a suitable place under the roots of a huge tree , thicket covering the sides causing it to be an isolated place . It is the perfect hiding location . But since nobody could look into it nobody can look for danger once in it .
However since skinny boy only wanted to recover it is the perfect place .
Sitting in a meditating position skinny boy could feel the cool forest air .
Chirping sounds from birds and rays of sunlight shining through the tree crown created a peaceful atmosphere .
After recovering skinny boy collected sticks for his future plans , he carved portable throwing spears and builded mobile traps for hunting .
Supressing his thirst for water skinny boy carried his entire belonging on his back with a improvised bag and walked out of his hiding place .
After looking to the direction of the caravan for a while , skinny boy walked towards the opposite . He quenched his thirst with water mushrooms he found on tree roots .
Since water mushrooms are created by the tree for cleaning and absorbing water , no shortage existed in a healthy forest . But many creatures use these mushrooms to breed or to hunt other creatures causing skinny boy to fight against these creatures .
However most are weak insects , squashing them with feets or wood logs are enough to cause their deaths .
After defeating the x insect skinny boy collected the water mushroom and mashed it while holding it above his mouth .
Clean water dripped down into the throat of skinny boy , the impurities remained in the mushroom .
While escpaping and resting , the noon became midnight . The now dark forest looked like a forest of horror , but skinny boy didn't seemed to be afraid . Only the howls of some monsters produced a reaction on the face of the skinny boy .
Since skinny boy has two "Minds" he only needed to joggle between them to rest one mind . So skinny boy didn't needed to sleep . It wouldn't be necessary to sleep after a certain magician or warrior level , but under the level sleep is necessary for every single organism .
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Walking for hours skinny boy stopped walking and started to spread his prepared traps out . After the traps were ready skinny boy searched for useful herbs he might needed to defend himself like poison plants or healing plants .
It is quite easy for him to identifiy them , after all he didn't wasted his previous life .
While smearing poison on his wooden throwing spears skinny boy saw weak layer of light shining through the forest identicating the sunrise .
Sitting in the shade of a tree skinny boy smeared himself with the fertile forest earth . Since skinny boy only wore rags he didn't needed to care about his clothes anyways .
After the whole body reeked of forest earth skinny boy changed his tree to avoid enemys who smelled his "human" smell .
Closing his eyes skinny boy lied next to a tree , his body now covered with an earth blanked .
He slept for hours with one mind keeping an eye on the surrounding .
Awaken with an empty stomach skinny boy wiped his earth blanked away and stood up .
His body emitted the smell of forest now , it would be hard for any predator to smell him as long as he doesn't leak any blood or any obvious signals like shouting .
After eating the small animals he caught within his traps , a small rabbit , two lizards and many insects he kept walking in a certain direction .
Naturally he ate every animal raw . To satisfy his hunger he even looked for bird eggs and slurped every single egg he found in nests .
Carefully avoiding the stronger beasts like monster boars or giant hawks he walked for about half a year .
His skinny body gained a little bit of weight , but wasn't much .
One day skinny boy encountered first signs of civilization , a rotten sign with a warning symbol painted on it .
The sign should prevent people from entering the forest , since the warning symbol is painted on the side where skinny boy emerged .
Glancing at the sign for a little while skinny boy looked at the weed surrounding the sign . Nobody maintained the sign for a long time .
Looking at it for a last glance skinny boy continued to walk . After walking for a few minutes he found a field road .
Thus he stopped to roam on forest soil and stepped on the solid earth path .
Walking along the path for a while , skinny boy could see a small village with a little more than 100 houses .
Ducks and chickens runned around while pillars of smoke ascended to the sky .
Nearing the village skinny boy could see an old man casually sitting on an bench . With white hair and wrinkled face he looked like an harmless old man enjoying his last year of life .
But skinny boy didn't walked past him , he grabbed his knife and walked in front of the old man . He stood there with a distance , preparing to strike .
"So , why do you visit this little village ?" asked the old man .
"Food , clothes and water ." replied the skinny boy with a childish voice .
"I will ask someone to bring you one cloth set as well as one bottle of water and some food . Please leave after that ." said old man .
The old man stood up and shouted towards the village : "One set of clothing , a bottle of water and some food . Bring everything in a bag !"
After waiting for a while a middle aged man with brown hair walked out . On his side a longsword .
He carried a small bag and threw it towards the old man .
Turning towards skinny boy the old man said : "Here , and now leave ."
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The bag landed in front of skinny boy . Touching the bag skinny boy pulled out a set of cloth , a piece of bread and a bottle of water .
After putting on the cloth and eating the piece of bread skinny boy nodded towards the observing old man and left the village .
This happened quite often as skinny boy traveled through the lands , sometimes the villages would give him an apple or a small piece of bread , sometimes the people would even drive him away with throwing stones or using sticks .
But the major food source for skinny boy is the small game he would hunt with his traps or wooden spears . It wasn't much but skinny boy slowly accumulated fat . His former skinny arms and legs appeared to be more healthy , his visible rips changed to invisible rips .
One day , 3 months after escaping skinny boy arrived at a small city . The population wasn't much , maybe around 1 or 2 million .
Nobody stopped him walking through the city gate , mostly because he looked like a child with dirty clothes .
Why should the guards stop him ? If he does annoy anyone just kill him to get a good image . Else just ignore him .
Skinny boy walked towards the small city alleys , sitting in a remote corner he closed his eyes . It is true that humans are sometimes way scarier than beasts , but only if they desired something . Nobody would desire a dirty male child .
Maybe some weirdos , but there are enough male childrens for them to choose , so the chance isn't high for skinny boy to get caugh .
Skinny boy looked at his now two spiritual power balls .
(AN: I know kinda weird , but just imagine two light balls of magicial power , mana or spiritual energy. )
Guiding one of the two balls into his head skinny boy could feel the pain of his entire body splitting . Sweat poured out of his body . However skinny boy didn't cried or shouted . He endured the pain .
Soon a third mind of skinny boy appeared . But one of the two spiritual light balls disappeared .
Repeating this with the second spiritual power skinny boy now has 4 minds . But no spiritual power left . Out of breath skinny boy leaned on the alley walls .
After taking a short nap skinny boy converted his fat into spiritual power . It would be easier to absorb the surrouding spiritual power but the splitting won't work with external power , it has to come fom the inside . Like Fat or the slow regenerated spiritual power .
But skinny boy knew from the start that he will be extremely weak in the beginning , even normal talent 1 would be growing faster than him .
However after a certain amount of minds it would be possible to "clean" the external spiritual power , thus making the creation of new "minds" way easier .
(AN: Imagine toilet water . Would you drink it after one time cleaning ? Most of you won't , but i think many of you would be willing to drink it if it is cleaned 100x or 1000x . Same principle with the "minds")