One person's world can change in a split second. This quote is usually used for people who have experienced serious events such as accidents that have left them disabled for the rest of their lives or catching their significant other rocking their bed with someone else with their own eyes.
That is a world changing event for other people but not Sakol.
Sakol’s world changing is literal. His world has really changed after waking up. It’s a typical transmigration plot that can be seen in many online novels, it’s good that he wakes up on his own body instead of the body of someone else in this world. Even though it was his body at the age of 18 instead of 28. He was sure that it was his own body because the scars he had had with him since childhood remained intact. Perhaps, whatever sent him to this world, chose an identity with a similar body to him for him to use.
He got a basic knowledge of the world and the linguistic abilities embedded in his head when he woke up, this helped him gain more confidence in living in this world. But what's annoying is that this interpreting ability of his using a combination of Thai and English, as if the ability was primarily working in English and using Thai as a supplement. For example, the names of people and places, which are converted virtually entirely in English.
Sakol is a Thai man with basic education, so the English part is not a problem for him. Some words are better translated into English instead of Thai, but he was still somewhat annoyed.
Sakol Redstone is the name of his identities in this world. He is the son of the sixth concubine in the Redstone family. After his mother's death from a chronic disease, he was driven out of the capital by first madam who wanted to eliminate those who would be vying for power in the clan, competing with her son. All he received was a deed of a small mana goods store in a border town, both land and building.
That's right. This is a world of magic and magical creatures, as well as supernatural ability. For Sakol who are familiar with magic in Western fantasy with knights. Sorcerers and princesses, he had to adjust his mindset for a while to get used to magical powers like Western civilization in an environment like Eastern civilization.
The costumes and buildings in this world have a characteristic of ancient Chinese civilization combined with other ancient Asian civilizations, with a variety of hair colors and eye colors mixed in.
There is no television in this world, there is no radio, no internet, and people spend their time fighting for survival and accumulating power instead of developing art and culture.
Sakol wakes up in a horse-drawn carriage that transported him from the capital to a border town named Stonebark, a magic shop that belonged to him is an abandoned shop without goods. He had to pay workers to replace the decaying shingle because of a long lack of maintenance.
He has 50,000 in Mana coins from the Redstone family. The monetary units in this world are directly based on magical powers. Mana coins are the size of bottle caps but slim. The coin is made of metal that can store mana inside and can be used directly for magic equipment or magic tools.
Although nature is full of mana, it is not easy to extract these manas for usage. Ordinary people have the ability to absorb mana from food and collect it in the body for use, but the mana stored in the body of ordinary people is minimal and takes a long time to absorb. Those who practice mana art can use a technique to extract, absorb, or manipulate mana in nature. This is what people in this world focus on instead of developing art and culture.
Sakol has been living in his shop for a full month, but he hasn't started selling any products yet. What would he sell if he didn't have a way to obtain the goods? The Redstone family is a family that produced mana tools and equipment, but he, who was pushed out of the clan, had no way to buy magic goods from his own family. The first madam of the Redstone family will block out all the way he can grow. Only the Redstone last name that shield him from small fry to cause him trouble. His clan is still a medium size clan in the capital.
Therefore, what Sakol does is to familiarize himself with the environment and exercise to strengthen the body, as well as to research the use of mana. The knowledge he had at the time of arrival is only a basic knowledge for survival in the New World. If he wants to develop a talent, then he needs to do more research.
In the early days, the townsfolks of Stonebark would look at Sakol running around the town walls with weird expressions on their face but seeing him running every morning for several days in a row, the weirdness turned into familiarity. If anyone had come out of town at dawn, they would have seen a short-haired young man running in sweat soaking cloth.
One of the things in the new world that Sakol likes is clean, pollution-free air, whether it's air pollution or noise pollution. A small town with a population of just two thousand people is also a factor in keeping this border town quiet. Sakol’s storefront is five meters wide, but the width of the fence that covers his land in the city is twenty meters wide and forty meters deep, half-hector that is.
The front door of the store is a wide-folding door that can be fully opened, revealing the shelves and the story counter. The store is on the street with good traffic. The founders of the expansion to Stonebark really wanted to expand, but it is not known why it failed.
On the 31st day after arriving on earth. When he was sitting in the toilet, a white-board the size of a 24-inch computer monitor appeared in front of Sakol. On the screen, English text is clearly visible.
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[Game Elements System initialized]
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System? Sakol squint. He is familiar with the System because he has read comics and novels about System. Does this mean he's the protagonist of fiction or comics?
He hurriedly shakes off this idea, because breaking the fourth wall in the novel is no longer a novelty. He pays attention to Game Elements System to see what special abilities he can get from this system. If you look at the name, the talent he's gained is probably about game.
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[Newbie Support Package]
[1 Game Elements ticket (random)]
[1 Item ticket (trash - random)]
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Sakol blinked again. He saw an image of a small paper ticket on the lower-right corner of the screen. Each ticket is labeled “Game Elements ticket (random)” and “Item ticket (trash - random)”, respectively.
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เขาคิดถึงส้วมชักโครกและสายฉีดล้างก้นระหว่างจัดการทำความสะอาดตัวเองแล้วออกมาจากห้องส้วม เขาล้างมือจนสะอาดแล้วจึงเรียกใช้งานตั๋วทั้งสองใบ
He thinks about flush toilet and butt cleaning hose while managing to clean himself and then comes out of the toilet. He washed his hands thoroughly and then activated both tickets with his thought.
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[Game Elements: “Snapping” acquired.]
[Snapping]
[Type: Feature]
[Genre: Building, Crafting]
[Description: Allow user to measure a distance, assign a grid, place an object that snap to a grid or perform action snapping to a grid or a flat surface.]
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[Trash: “1 Half-finished Candle” acquired.]
[Half-finished candle]
[Type: Item]
[Genre: Crafting]
[Description: The gamer replaced the half-finished candle with a new one before throwing it away.]
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Sakol felt that both Snapping and Half-finished candle is equally trash. How is he supposed to use this Snapping ability? He is not an engineer or mechanic who can make use use of this kind of ability. He tested and saw a grid line that can adjust to his liking, either a distance or degree, a mild force will push and pull object to snapping or the grid nicely.
He then laughed when he saw a new message pop up on the white-board screen.
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[Quest: Make use of Snapping.]
[Type: Plot driving.]
[Description: To progress the story, user must do something. Make use of “Snapping” in significant way.]
[Reward: 1 Game Elements ticket (random), 1 Item ticket (trash - random)]
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‘Interesting’
He can see that System wants him to apply the Snapping ability to real-life scenario if he wants to get another Game Elements.
But how will he implement this skill? how the system will judge his use. Many questions pop up in the heads of Sakol.
The young man shook his head and went out to buy breakfast to eat instead of wasting time thinking about solving problems in the house.
The majority of Stonebark's cuisine includes meat. Hunter who goes into the forest to hunt mana beast will bring the carcasses that got mana core extracted back to the town. These carcasses will be sold for cheap so the cuisine in the town consists of grill, braise, and roast meat.
Sakol paid a coin for a large bowl of stewed boar meat to eat with steam bun. The minimum wage of the low-skilled working class in Stonebark is 3 coins a day. The fact that he paid one mana coin to buy breakfast was therefore considered extravagant in the view of the low-skilled working class. But for ordinary people with higher wages, it is not considered excessive spending.
While gulping the breakfast, Sakol saw people pushing carts dragging large wooden barrels of water to deliver to the restaurant. The cart used in Stonebark is a bulky, low-quality wooden cart. Sakol still remembers how much his body ached after months of travelling in this kind of carriage from the capital to arrive in Stonebark.
'How about make a road?' Sakol asked himself. He has snapping ability. He can make straight roads with a smooth surface and good functionality. The cart that passes through this road will run smoothly with a lighter push. He had worked in road construction before and had some basic knowledge. Making roads should be significant enough to the System.
Once the decision was made, Sakol went straight to town hall to ask the officials in charge of Stonebark. The officer questioned Sakol again and again to make sure that he would not collect tolls after the road was completed and would not cause problems for those who traveled back and forth during construction. After the confirmation he drafted a contract for this special case.
Sakol’s goal was to build a two-kilometer road from the town to a lake that the townspeople used as a source of water. The water cart he saw in front of the restaurant got the water from this lake and sold it.
Building a two-kilometer-long road is no small thing. Not to mention that he was alone, but Sakol had plenty of time and saw this as a exercise to strengthen his body. He spent a full month clearing the bush, cutting wood, opening a path parallel to the road that the townspeople use today.
He can check the height of the ground with snapping ability then fill the low ground until it is flat. Having finished preparing the area, he searched for dry wood, which is common in the forests near the city. Cut and plane the wood with the help of snapping ability until he gets a sharp-tipped wooden wedge with a smooth head.
With the assist of snapping skills, he can hammer a wooden wedge into the ground, beautifully arranged and leveled.
A hundred days passed with the hammering of wood to the ground, he successfully built a straight road connecting the town of Stonebark with the lake. If the townsfolks hadn't helped him collect dry wood for him to make a wedge, he might have had to take twice as long to make this road. But the townspeople, seeing the benefits of this magnificent road, work out their efforts to find the right size of dry wood for Sakol in their spare time. His patience and dedication were also a part of what impressed the townspeople and reached out to help.
On the day the road was completed. The town workers, who worked as water carrier for the townspeople, were grateful to Sakol, but what made Universal smile was a message on the board informing him that he had completed his mission.
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[Quest: Make use of Snapping.]
[Completed]
[Reward: 1 Game Elements ticket (random) ,1 Item ticket (trash - random)]
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Upon returning home, he immediately activates both reward tickets.
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[Game Elements: “Wall Slide” acquired.]
[Wall Slide]
[Type: Feature, Skill]
[Genre: Platformer]
[Description: Allow user to slowly slide down smooth wall.]
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[Trash: “1 Orange Peel” acquired.]
[Orange Peel]
[Type: Item]
[Genre: Adventure]
[Description: After the gamer ate an orange, this trash is produced to create a nuisance, so the gamer must clear the inventory.]
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This orange peel is real rubbish, but Sakol doesn’t know what to feel with the skills “Wall Slide”. He couldn't really figure out where to put this skill into use, but at least the quests derived from this Wall Slide skill weren't too complicated to complete.
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[Quest: Wall Slide Proficiency.]
[Type: Plot driving.]
[Description: Slide down a wall in accumulation of 10 km.]
[Reward: 1 Game Elements ticket (random), 1 Item ticket (trash - random)]
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Ten kilometers of wall sliding. This mission is not difficult to complete, but he may have to find the right area to complete the mission because there are no cliffs, chasm, or ravine in the vicinity of the town. He would have to make his own wall if he were to complete this mission.