When Jack was roaming the plains he finally happened to find an enemy!

'My first enemy.. I need to be careful and observe it first, I need to notice if there's any physical limitations, it's mental capabilities, and from what I'm aware I'm quite weak compared to others in this world..' Jack thought to himself as he slowly creeped around the Monster.

It seemed to be a large insect-like creature, it was quite similar to a praying mantis, but gigantic and red. Jack especially noted how sharp it's claws were and made a point to himself to be wary.

'I need to find out how long it takes my HP to recover.. The system never showed me that vital piece of information.' Jack thought as he got a bit closer to the monster.

"Curse!" He shouted out as he ran away, the system resounded out "Enemy Cursed! -10 Hp on self!" This confused Jack.

"Why did it only seem to do damage to myself?" Jack was audibly confused and he also began to count in his head. It was a monotonous tedious process, but a necessary one. After 5 hours he regained 5 hp, this worried him even more.

'Let's see.. I have 50hp, 5 hp per 5h, 24h in a day, if I attack multiple times and then hide for 24h I can do 4 curses.. Leaving me with 10hp.' Jack took off for a better area, this plain wasn't cutting it.

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'I can't stay in this area too long, it'd be too easy to see me..' Jack then heard another system notification.

"Enemy [Level 1 Mantis] Cursed! -5 MaxHp! Mantis attempted to shake off Curse by Will! Attempt failed. 95/95 HP remaining!"

'Thats very interesting.. It seems the system was incorrect and this ability is far more useful than expected. It actually has the ability to take away Max HP. ' Jack thought as he continued on his way.

He walked in one direction until he found what he could call a "town" in the distance, he ran towards it in a desperate attempt to find sanctuary before nightfall.

He soon arrived near the town, it was quite shabby. There were small wooden walls that went around the entire town and there seemed to be guards from what Jack could see, but they were barely armed so they weren't even qualified to fully be called a guard.

Jack approached a guard and said "Hello! I'm a traveler looking for a town!", the guard gave him a strange look and he began to yell in a strange language.

Jack was unsure how to respond and just stared at him.

'I don't know the local language! I was never given a skill or anything for this..' Jack thought, the guard's then pointed their weapons at Jack!

Spears and swords were near the face of Jack as he put his hands up near his face, clearly trying to show he wasn't a threat. He was then "escorted" into the small jail in the town, thrown in without a thought.

The jail was quite small, so were the cells. It was also quite full however, and he was shouted at by the other people in the cells.

After around 30 minutes of waiting his cell was approached by a man in a brown cloak, he seemed to be a magician.

"So.. You're the foreigner huh?" The man said, Jack's eyes lit up.