AN: Last “introduction” chapter
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After opening my full status I looked at the informations displayed carefully. Some of the informations displayed confused me a bit, and by concentrating on them I would sometimes get additional informations.
First, the age displayed wasn't a number, and it was due to the race “Demi-god”. It gave me 3 racial skills which were listed as “Special abilities”. The ability “divine body” made us ageless, we wouldn't grow up or get old. I wondered if those who chose very young appearance would like it. The ability “divine tongue” gave me knowledge of the languages in my continent, and “divine aura” would let people feel that I'm a special being.
Apparently there was a class system, and the reason why there were 2 subclass cases was because I could get a subclass after advancing my primary job, and another subclass after advancing my secondary job.
The most important things concerned the divine rank, the divinity points and the faith. The divine rank could rise up to 5. At that point, one would be able to ascend to godhood. The divinity points were like a special currency to acquire things from the system, including divnity ranks. I could use divinity points to acquire items, skills, special abilities or improve current kills. In fact, I could use the 200 divinity points given to me to get basic clothes, equipment and weapons.
Faith would be the name of my cult or religion, and the amount of faith people would have in me. The higher the number of followers or the stronger their faith, the higher my amount of faith would be. Faith could be traded for divinity, but not the other way around, and trading faith would have consequences.
My attributes were differents from what I chose at the beginning, but the cause was the skills I chose. The skill “spear mastery” gave me 5 bonus points in both agility and dexterity. The skill “arcane magic” gave me 5 bonus points in intelligence and willpower, and the skill “prospecting” gave me 5 points in wisdom and luck. For the elemental attribute, the first number represented the affinity, and the second number represented the resistance.
It looked like by raising my spear mastery skill, I would be able to learn spear techniques. My level 1 “arcane magic” skill only gave me the spell energy dart, which used 10 mana points to cast. The “prospecting” skill gave me the subskills “ore identification level 1”, “rock identification level 1” and “soil appraisal level 1”.
After making sense of what was shown in my status window, I spent some of my 200 divinity points to get rid of my nakedness. The only thing available were basic items:
Male underwear (10d), Female underwear (15d), Short leather boots (15d), Long leather boots (20d), Leather pants (20d), Leather vest (20d), Shirt (10d), Leather belt (10d), Hooded cloack (20d), Short dress (20d), Long dress (25d), Dagger (20d), Short sword (25d), Hatchet (20d), Lightt spear (20d), Club (20d), Short bow (20d), 20 arrows (10d), Small wooden shield (20d), Leather backpack (15d), 3 days rations (20d), First aid kit (30d), Camping tent (30d), Cooking tools (25d), cleaning set (20d).
I used 160 points for clothes, the spear, the leather backpack, the rations and the cleaning set. The shirt and leather vest were adapted for winged people so I didn't have any trouble putting them on. Same for my tail with the underwear and the leather pants. The cleaning set was made of a towel and a piece of soap. The rations were dried meat and hard bread with a pouch of around 1.5L of water.
The items purchased in the system appeared in front of me with a small light show. After dressing myself, I put the rations and the cleaning set in my backpack. The spear was made of light, thin wood and the head was made of bronze.
“... Before moving I should get used to my body. When I was dressing myself I had little control over my wings and tail. Besides, it's still early.”
I got some distance away from the forest before starting to exercise my body. The trees could hide a predator or a bandit and leave me with to little time to react. I first tried to move my tail around. In the first place, I chose it not for aestetics but as a back-up means for fighting or something else.
After getting used to move my tail around, I tried to move the spear around with it. It was harder than I expected, and it would take a while before I get good enough to fight with it. At the very least I could whip opponents with my tail or grab them and pull them. I believed the tip of my tail could pierce unprotected skin, but my control wasn't precise enough.
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After spending more than 30 min training my tail, I warped it around my waist and tried to move my wings. In the first place, I chose wings to have a high mobility from the beginning. After thinking about it for a bit, I wondered if I could really fly with these wings or just be able to glide. One way or the other, I wouldn't have to fear height anymore unless my wings were to be impaired.
Getting used to my wings were harder than using my tail. It took me around an hour to reach a decent level of control over them. After resting for a bit, I finally tried to fly. First, I bent forward and furiously flapped my wings, trying to lift myself from the ground, with no success. Next, I tried after running, but with little success. I didn't get more than 10cm above the ground and I didn't last more than 2 seconds. Still, being able to fly, even for 2 seconds, felt really good.
“... Maybe it's because my attributes aren't high enough? Maybe I lack strenght to lift my body, or agility and dexterity to properlly move my wings for flight? I'm still level 1 after all. Maybe I need some affinity with the wind element. Well, I'll have time to deal with it later. Next on the agenda are my skills.”
I picked my spear and made some tentative thrusting and sweeping moves. I realised I already knew the basics of how to handle a spear. Within 5 min I already had a good grasp on it. Then came arcane magic. The only spell I knew, energy dart, requiered a short chant and a hand sign, and turning one's raw mana into arcane mana and gathering it where the spell would be activated. The mana conversion and gathering was a bit complex to achieve. The chant consisted of just one word, “Yol”, and the hand sign was quite simple, having the tip of my thumb, middle and ring finger touch each other. I casted the spell 3 times and rested for a bit.
“Magic in this world is harder than what I saw in games and television. It require chanting, signs and mana manipulation. If it's already like that for a basic spell, how would it be for an expert level spell or a master level spell? … Sight... Right now, I need a full second to cast the spell, once I find a place to settle, I should train to reduce that time to half a second, it's my only mean of long range attack after all. For now, let's move toward that small town I saw when I was descending.”
I gathered my belongings and started to walk. I decided I would try my third skill on the way on places without grass like the plain I currently was in. Reaching the town would require me to travel through the forest, which made me anxious as it was supposed to be the territory of monsters, a danger zone.
The trees of the forest were at least twice thicker than those of an ordinary forest from earth, and they were also taller. However the lowest branches were around 2m in height so I could easily climb on a nearby tree if necessary. It was also darker under the morning sun. I advanced in a slightly crouched position, being carefull about where I put my feet and keeping my ears strained to catch any suspicious sounds.
It saved my life as I caugh the sound of something cutting the air above me, and the sound was rapidly getting closer. I hastly threw myself away from where I was standing.
BANG!!
I glanced toward the place I previously was as I hastly stood up and took a defensive stance. In front of me was a terrifying being. A yellow and green snake monster, as thick as my hips and several meters long. It was trashing on the ground. That sight almost made my blood turn cold. Ever since I was little back in Africa I've been afraid of snakes becauses of stories I heard about people getting eaten by constrictors snake. Also, once in a while people would find venimous snake in the area where I lived.
Because of that, there was even a period where I often had nightmares about snakes, either being crushed to death or being biten. The worst of the nightmares were those where there weren't just 2 or 3 snakes, but dozen of them swarming toward me as I tried to run away or climb on the roof of the house. And now, after being reincarnated, right in front of me is one of my worst nightmares.
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AN: These first 3 chapters were a little like the teaser of the story, so the fllowing chapters won't appear so soon. Still, please do tell me what you think about the premise of the story