In a secluded jungle, a few rays of sunlight passed through the overhead green canopy of the tall trees. The dense branches and leaves covered the sky.
Jonathan sat blankly on the ground full of tall green grass, letting the gentle rays of sunshine on his surprised face.
The air was sultry and the environment felt like a humid rainforest. The air was filled with the smell of moss mixed with rotten wood. Thick leaves were covered with green and yellow rattans. Some of the roots of a few trees were half above ground. There were strange noises of unknown birds.
After waking up, Jonathan had been in the same place for more than an hour. His mind found it hard to accept everything but finally, he had to accept the cruel reality.
"How the hell did I cross over?"
Everything felt real. His sense of touch felt real, the rich and varied smells his nose picked up on felt real. Even the mosquito he had just slapped away felt real. So many things were working together only to tell him that he wasn’t in a game. Not the game he grew up with but a world he had no idea about.
Why is he so sure? It's just because he realized that what he was talking in not his native language but an entirely different language he had no idea of yet he could clearly speak it or the words that came out of his mouth were of that language.
Not only that, but he also wore something similar to a robe for a novice...
“What kind of situation is this?”
The only thing he remembered was that he and his team had just finished pushing the legendary difficulty dungeon BOSS. He also had successfully obtained the legendary item "Twelve Movements of Dawn". He was reading the "Great Prophecy" in the form of the ultimate archangel according to the plot.
Next thing he knew, the world was getting brighter and brighter until it blinded him. Nothing happened after that but the moment his vision returned, he was here…. He was in this place.
“Not even the game was this realistic.”
Of course, as someone who had traversed into a different world, he was given some interesting things.
[Character attributes: ]
[Character: Jonathan]
[Occupation: Holy Spirit Priest]
[Current Level: Level 1, Experience 0%]
Looking at the floating text of lines, he could only feel a sense of real tragedy.
Not to even mention that crossing into another world wasn’t perfect. The process seemed to be incomplete as he was now a simple Priest. Although the Holy Spirit Priest was a hidden job it couldn’t compare to his ultimate final class of Holy Angel who controlled the world.
The most damning thing was that even the level had to be started from scratch again. All his hard work was for naught.
Because this was the real world, even if he had a Character menu, a lot of things were now gone. The menu button, the sound effects, and the friends' panel had disappeared. The only thing that was displayed was the character menu, skills menu, and his equipment.
Jonathan couldn't help but open the skill panel. He saw the majority of the rows turned gray showing them as unusable which further broke his heart.
Skills:
(Gray) Light Tribute Level 90: Regeneration domain, requires continuous casting.
(Gray) Angel Tears Level 50: Resurrect a target.
(Gray) Omitted a bunch of skills...
(Green) Healing Level 1: Heals the target injury.
(Green) Holy Light Bullet Level 1: Use spells to create a ball of light, causing certain damage to the target.
(Green) Eye of Insight Level 1: Observe the general attributes of the object to be investigated.
‘Sigh… they all need levels. As long as my level goes up, I can unlock them again, and then I’ll be unbeatable once again. I’ll be a king again hahahaha’
Jonathan’s life had a single motto, work smart, and make a fortune.
He found the Lifeskills tab under his occupation and expanded it:
Life skills: material refinement (master-level), magic (master-level), appraisal (master-level), weapon manufacturing (master-level), armor manufacturing (master-level), jewelry manufacturing (master-level)...
Seeing this, Jonathan couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief.
Life skills ignored levels. Each life skill took his blood sweat and tears to unlock to such a high ranking. For example, material refinement was attained to such a level after he had to complete an epic level mission that involved collecting, refining, and transforming the rarest of the rare materials.
He felt relieved to find his life skills still there as trusty support. At least not any place could become his workshop and he could always equip himself with top-notch equipment if he had the right materials and resources.
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Suddenly realizing something, Jonathan hurriedly checked his equipment’s tab.
‘Twelve Movements of Dawn… that was a godly artifact. It had the power to transform me into a Holy Angel. I can’t lose that!
Finding nothing in equipment, he opened the space ring he had equipped. He felt his soul enter the rind and inside he found the magnificent sword. His hands trembled as he reached out to touch it.
Insufficient level!
[The Twelve Movements of Dawn (Legendary): Level 100 is required to be worn. 】
“YOU FUCKER!”
Jonathan swore out loud. It felt like a sudden cold reminder that immediately knocked Jonathan back to the bottom.
’Reality is always reality. I can’t change that.’
It felt like a ruined date he had spent so much money to make it special and when it was time for the date to arrive, they bailed out on him. His efforts to obtain the sword were now useless if he couldn’t use the sword.
‘It's okay. It's totally okay. You’ll be fine. You’re in another world. In terms of levels, it's natural I’ll start from the beginning. Nothing to regret about. I just need a goal and I’ll work my way up. Totally okay. It's totally okay. It's not like I am a “weak” priest.’
In addition to the twelve movements of the dawn, there was an unexplored map in his storage, which was almost equivalent to GPS positioning but on a map. Except for the green area where he was currently standing, everything else was dark.
In addition, there was also a “master key” in his storage that could be used to open treasures and chests like a universal master. As he was engrossed checking out the “master key”, his eyes suddenly landed on that…. That item called The Scared Ankh.
‘Wait… what? I still got the Holy Ankh?’
Jonathan looked up at the sky as tears streamed down his face.
It appeared as if he wasn’t totally abandoned. He still had hope. He still had a chance to survive.
Sacred Ankh: Randomly reborn in a random corner of the world after death, no death penalty.
Although the priest of the Holy Spirit had the resurrection technique to save people at his level but he couldn’t save himself if he was dead.
It seemed like if there was some kind of god, he still favored Jonathan a bit. The idea caused him to burst into tears again. Although Ankh was terribly expensive that had nearly made him bankrupt he was still relieved. If he had the choice, he would have brought dozens of more Ankhs so that he could live with no fear.
Speaking of the skills he possessed, it could be said that at level 100, whether in the game or maybe in this reality (he wasn’t sure but was still applying game logic to reality), was the ultimate self-resurrection technique where one could completely repair their body and bring back their soul. The only drawback was that it required a long period of time to be ever used again and it couldn’t resist god-like powers.
Even then, as long as he reached that level then he would have no worries. For now, if he could reach level 50 and learn the resurrection technique Angel Tears, something unique to Holy Spirit Priests, he easily forms an unkillable party.
Other than the few things he found, the entire storage was empty.
Once done with the checkup, Jonathan nodded to himself as he took his first steps in this world. He knew there was only one thing he could do and that was level up.
‘Wait a moment… the question is how do you level up with a priest whose attack power could be almost nearly ignored?’
Lost in his thoughts, he soon stumbled across a lake. There he found an iron horned rhinoceros covered in a steel plate like armor. With his Eye of Insight, he looked at the creature.
[Iron Armored Rhinoceros (Level 25): 800 HP】
‘It really pays that my skills are useful right now. I can at least plan things out.’
He knew that reality was different from games. In a game, the only way to beat a creature was to have higher attack power than the creature’s defense value. And to defend against an attack you needed to have higher defense value than the attack value. The game was all about numbers but in reality levels or numbers didn’t matter that much. They could only serve as a reference. There was always a possibility of a level 1 person killed a level 100 person as both were human and both bled like normal in reality. There was no point in underestimating anyone.
Jonathan felt that he could easily be killed as he was a priest who was weak characters. His basic spell of the holy light bullet would only tickle the monster by the lake. If he did a direct confrontation, his end would surely not be good.
He needed to find another method to hunt monsters.
Jonathan opened the map and could see a very intuitive topographic map being displayed in front of him, something only he could see, Jonathan carefully observed the scattered red dots just recently displayed on the map, until in the end he couldn’t help but start to sweat.
Each dot was a monster and each was stronger than him.
The 20th-level demon ape, the 23rd-level jungle python, the 28th-level jungle firefox...
Similar monsters were fine in the game but seeing them in real life was terrifying. These were all-powerful monsters that could kill him in seconds!
‘What place did I come to? Why are there all monsters between levels 20-30, none of them can be hunted? Why didn’t I start from at a beginner place like the Novice Village, which I started at level 1 in the game? This doesn’t make any sense!’
There was not a monster he hadn’t fought before but that was before everything went crazy. Even if a Holy Spirit Priest was buffed by attributes and skills, he can’t leapfrog and challenge dozens of monsters, especially at this level. Looking at that pile of experience, Jonathan felt a tinge of regret but there was no changing his reality. It was wiser to be smart than to attract tragedy.
After wandering around for a long time and being careful not to agro any of the monsters towards him, Jonathan became even more desperate. He needed experience if he could grow stronger.
Something at the map caught his eye that surprised him. He saw a few brown dots on the map.
‘It means someone is here! I can finally leave this damn place.’
Jonathan strode towards the five brown spots on the map. He kept his hands hidden and his movement slow but firm. He was ready to escape if anything went south. Jonathan was close to them, just a few tall bushes separated them. Just as he was deciding on appearing in front of the group, a sudden uneasy overcame his mind as his experienced gamer mind rose its vigilance, causing him to forcibly turn his body sideways.
Whoosh!
A sharp arrow passed just above Jonathan's ear as he held his breath in anticipation. The strong flow of air left behind the arrow broke him out in a cold sweat as his body couldn’t help but getting unbalanced, causing him to fall. He was forced to take a mouthful of grass and dirt in his mouth.
Not far away, the sound of steady footsteps could be heard as a figure in red came through the bushes.
"Huh, it wasn’t a wild boar……”
A surprised female voice could be heard in response. The voice was clear and graceful that made people feel refreshed just hearing it.
‘Your sister! Have you ever seen such a handsome wild boar?!’
Jonathan couldn’t help curse in his heart as he got up from the ground embarrassed.
The moment he looked up towards the person responsible, Jonathan was blinded by the bright sun. He raised his hand to shield himself and got the chance to look at the young girl standing there.
He saw a girl that looked eighteen or nineteen years old. She was a few inches shorter than him. Her eyes were like autumn water and her nose straight. Her smooth skin glowed like a full moon and her face appeared soft.
She had her silky brown hair tied in a braid while her pretty figure was wrapped in crimson leather armor. Even he could see her delicate hands as they held onto a bow. For him, she appeared heroic.
Jonathan stared blankly for a long time, but he didn't expect that the first person he saw in another world would be such a beautiful girl.
When the girl looked at Jonathan staring blankly at her, she frowned and said:
“Why is there someone here?”
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‘Well for the sake of your beauty, I won’t make a huge fuss over the shot you just took at me.’
Jonathan put on a harmless and flattering smile as he finally spoke:
"Hello, I am a poor lost traveler. I don't know how to get out of this damn forest. I would appreciate if you would help me out.”
“Can someone even get lost in this forest?”
The girl raised her brows, obviously not believing him.
At the same time, four men walked out from behind the bushes.
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