*rustle*
What’s this? It tickles. But it’s warming me up.
It feels nice…
Hmm?
Slowly opening up his eyes, Gen Zhiqiang scattered rays of light shining down on him through the branches of some kind of shady tree he was lying under in. The faint smell of damp grass went up his nose, as well as the sound of critters not too far away rang out on his ears. It has a distinct calming feel you wouldn’t normally get to experience in-
Wait, where is it that feels so different from where I am right now? Zhiqiang suddenly felt uneasy, as if he was doing something akin to trying to stop water from flowing by cupping it on his hands. What is that place he was so familiar with that’s so different from where he is?
“Wait, where exactly am I?”, realization dawned upon him. Aside from his name, he knows nothing.
Where is he, what’s his age, he can’t recall anything but his name and that he needs to get stronger!
But why do I have to get stronger? Is there someone out to kill me?
Suddenly a mechanical noise rang out inside his head.
Welcome Owner, please call out your status window to see your current state.
What the heck, who’s there?
Zhiqiang suddenly sat up straight and turned his head left and right. To his right was a spacious patch of land covered with grass and some bushes, while to his left was also a spacious patch of land covered with grass and some bushes, and beyond that is what seems to be a mountain.
Owner, there are no hostile creatures in the area. It is recommended to avoid panicking.
Now Zhiqiang was sure he wasn’t just hearing things randomly. Someone, or something clearly called him owner. But where is it?
* Call upon the system interface? Y/N
Bewildered, as a small light blue panel of what seems to made of light suddenly showed up in front of him, he reached out his right hand without even thinking and tapped the ‘Yes’ option shown.
The panel changed into a slightly wider shape and so did the words shown.
Name
➢ Gen Zhiqiang
Options
➢ Check Status ➢ Open Inventory ➢ Visit Shop ➢ Other Functions
✧ Beginner Guide (read urgently)
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“Holy sh*t… its definitely a system like those from web novels.” Gen Zhiqiang suddenly spoke by himself, but he himself doesn’t understand or recognize the words he just said making him even more confused.
Remembering the words he first heard from the system, Zhiqiang decided to check on his status. Thus tapping the check status from the options.
➢Status - Gen Zhiqiang (Male)
Current Form – Human (weak)
Cultivation Stage – n/a
World Power Stage – n/a
Accumulated Skills – n/a
Demonic Ki – 0
Experience Pts. – 0 Achievement Pts. – 0 Heroic Pts. – 0 Evil Pts. – 0
Attributes
STR – 10 AGI - 10 END - 10 INT - 10 WIS - 10 LUK -1 CHA -5 SP – 8
Attribute Pts. Free – 10
“This seems all so familiar, yet unfamiliar at the same time. Did I have or seen something like this before losing my memories?” Zhiqiang thought silently as he stared at the status panel in front of him.
He just sat in there wondering while leaves kept falling from the tree as it swayed by the wind. Finally making up his mind after accepting nothing could be done to his lost memories for the meantime, Zhiqiang went back to the previous panel and tapped on the [Beginner’s Guide] he saw.
✧ Beginner Guide
Welcome [Owner] Gen Zhiqiang to one of the ancient battle realms. After dying on your previous world, you have been granted another chance at life with a certain condition: Become overbearingly strong. A peerless existence.
Due to the special circumstance you are in, the system will help you cultivate your own prowess through converting [Experience Points] and [Levelling Up], and purchase items and weapons that will help you grow even stronger from the [System Shop]. The system will also hand out [Quests] deciding from the area, situation, and current abilities of the [Owner].
Your current level is a separate thing from your cultivation, which you also have to [Level Up] to obtain more [Attribute Points]
>Experience Points
-There are many forms of experience the [Owner] can absorb from the world, mainly from Combat, Crafting, and Training. The [Owner] receives experience from fighting with strong cultivators and slaying beasts and monsters. The experience you receive will be greater upon fighting with beings of noticeable greater strength than you (Higher cultivation base, Higher racial standing, etc.), while fighting those weaker than you are will have a decrease on experience than you usually would obtain.
[Owner] also gains experience from his creations if they achieve a certain quality, and/or another similar outstanding achievement is born from it.
Lastly, Training comes in myriads of forms, and the [Owner] is residing in a vast world in this battle realm. By learning from someone, or practicing something you have found from this world, experience of varying amounts will be gained. It will be based on the difficulty and rarity of the skill or art which the [Owner] is training. Note that training skills and arts found from the [System Shop] will not give experience while training, but only from breaking through. [Achievement Points] are commonly found this way.
>Levelling up
-After obtaining a certain amount of experience points, [Owner] may absorb it and gain a substantial change in power from it, it means you may level up after absorbing a fixed amount of experience points.
Levelling up brings various benefits to the [Owner], successfully levelling up yourself gives you more [Attribute Points] to freely place in whichever [Attribute] you see fit from the [Status] panel. Also levelling up in unusual ways gives certain [Achievement Points].
>System Shop
-From cultivation arts and different skills, to various weapons and equipment, plethora of items can be found from the system shop. As long as it exists within the realm or it is something the [Owner] has complete knowledge of, it will shop up inside the shop available for purchase.
Items from the shop can mainly be purchased using achievement points, but some items might require [Heroic Points] or [Evil Points]. Other functions of the [System Shop] may be accessed on a later date once [Owner] reaches a sufficient level.
>Quests
-Quests may also be called missions, or system given tasks, since it is given by the system with the intention to help the [Owner] grow even stronger and more capable. Upon completion various rewards may be given in the forms of items, experience, or other forms of rewards currently inaccessible with the system’s level.
✧ For reading up to this point ✧
You have been rewarded:
[1x Beginner’s Lucky Pouch]
[1x Nation Map]
[1x How to Survive in Zephaniah for dummies]
[10x Lunchbox]
[10x Drinking Water]
[1x Swiss Knife]
After spending a few good minutes reading the [Beginner Guide], Zhiqiang was suddenly having a mild headache after trying to process everything. The feeling of nostalgia and unfamiliarity that he feels right now is too uncomfortable for the young man who literally just woke up without any awareness of where he is or who he was. He began massaging the bridge of his nose while closing his eyes.
Taking in a deep breath, “This is really f*cked up in hella lot of ways. It just feels like I’m in a game, but what game exactly was it?”, glancing once more at the bottom part of the [Beginner Guide] where the [Rewards] were highlighted, Zhiqiang once more gave out a deep sigh.
“At the very least I won’t starve for a while, and I got a nice handy tool to work with.”, bringing up the system screen once more and choosing the [Open Inventory] this time, and tapping on the Swiss knife and the booklet for survival, light shown up in front of him suddenly and he laid his palms underneath it which caused the light to disappear and reveal the objects that suddenly came to be that instant.
Silently admiring the finely made Swiss Knife in his hands while smiling to himself, Zhiqiang slowly shook his head and raised it as he looked forward in the grassy space in front of him, “I already died once, apparently this is the second life I get huh. I have absolutely no idea on what to do or where I should be right now. But I don’t want to die again. Gen Zhiqiang, let’s do it! Let’s prove that cockroaches are not the most resilient beings alive! Although I have no idea what a cockroach is…”, Zhiqiang laughed manically without caring on the words he said that just seemed to feel right by him.
As the sun slowly moved towards the west, and now directly above the tree Zhiqiang was in, signalling that it was already noon, the said young man was diligently reading the small booklet titled How to Survive in Zhephaniah for Dummies while slowly chewing on the bread held by his other hand which apparently is lunch for him.
As birds flew from the top of the trees near the mountain he saw, Zhiqiang slowly stretched his body after figuring that he should test some things he learned from the booklet.