‘What happened?’ was the first thought 115 had after waking up before he once again grabbed his head as it started to hurt again.

All of a sudden 115 heard a voice in his head.

‘Would subject 115 like to initiate the rest of the protocol?’ (if not, it will initiate by itself in 1 hour)

‘Yes’

‘No’

Staring at the prompt now seemingly floating in his face he sat there for a few minutes in a daze before he decided to just go for it as he really had nothing to lose.

Clicking yes 115 saw more prompts start to appear.

‘Initiating… success, welcome 115.’

After that, one final panel appeared in his vision this time with a bunch of information/stats.

Status:

‘Name: [redacted] (115)’

Level:1

Race: [redacted]

Title: [redacted] [redacted]’

‘Age: 200 years’

‘Bloodline: [redacted]’

Class: N/A (Reach level 10 to select a class)

stats:

Health:500

Mana:1000

Strength:250

Agility:250

Defense:200

Intelligence:1000

Perception:200

Willpower:200

After scanning over all the stats he focused on the ones with [redacted] in them. ‘Why is some of the information hidden? Or “[redacted]” do I have some special type of blood or something? Also, why do I have titles? Not to mention that my name itself is hidden…’

Before he could continue to try and make sense of everything the system started talking again

‘Subject you have 1 month before the system will initiate with the rest of the world.’

Hearing this 115 decided to try and ask a question to the system to see if it would respond

“Can you respond to me?” he said aloud.

‘The system can indeed hear you subject’ it responded inside his head.

Pausing for a few seconds with an intrigued look he asked his next question.

“Alright then, what happens when the system “Initiates” with the rest of the world?”

‘Well, the rest of the world will get the prompts you have been given today and the world itself will start change on different levels. For instance, animals will start to become a lot bigger and stronger and some can even develop intelligence and the ability to speak like a human.’

Taking a second to process this he asked the question he wanted an answer to.

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“Who am I… Like where did I come from? Also, what am I, the other humans on the beach needed to eat and drink but I've never had the need why is that?”

‘Unfortunately, I can't answer questions about the subject that is something you have to figure out yourself.’

115 looked down at the ground with a look of disappointment on his face before sighing and asking his next question.

“Why did you appear now? Like what caused the system to “initiate” in the first place?” 115 asked. After all, he had done was eat a petal of a flower.

‘The reason the system did not initiate sooner was because the subject had not taken in any mana and the flower has mana in it causing the system to initiate the starting sequence.

“The flower has mana in it? Also, what is mana? What can it be used for and what are the benefits of taking it in?”

‘Yes, the flower has mana in it, if the subject looks at the flower again now that the system has started you should be able to use the system to identify it.

‘As for what mana is and how it benefits the subject, mana is everywhere and within almost everything, it is an energy source, and taking in mana can allow you to do things that without it are not humanly possible. Mana also can be used to reinforce and strengthen the body.

Hearing this 115 decided to ask how to take Mana in to see if he could try what the system was talking about.

‘There are many different ways for the subject to take in mana such as a technique that you learn or a certain way of breathing but the simplest way is to sit down and mediate and try to ‘feel’ the mana’

115 immediately sat down to give it a try.

After about 30 minutes of sitting there, 115's skin felt prickly, taking this as a sign that it's mana and feeling a bit excited. Quickly, though, he calmed himself down and kept himself focused, and after about another hour, he got a prompt from the system.

‘Congrats subject has created an ‘inferior mana breathing’ skill.

Switching his attention to the skill he sees a description.

‘inferior mana breathing’ - Allow the user to take in mana while meditating and slowly increase his maximum mana capacity. (Note - this skill is of shallow quality and would not be advised for actually increasing said capacity)

After reading the description, he felt a bit bummed out but it was to be expected that it was not going to be a suitable method he could not even use it to increase the durability or strength of his body or attacks.

Deciding to finally move on and ask another question he switches his attention to what the system mentioned earlier.

“Can you tell me what I should be doing within the next month then?”

‘Certainly, within this next month, the subject should try and level himself up as much as possible that way once the system fully integrates with the rest of the world you will be well ahead of the curve.’

‘As for how to do this, well there are many ways to level yourself up such as killing things for XP or even crafting things such as weapons. You can also discover locations that have never been found before, there should be quite a few on this landmass and that would be my suggestion.’

115 had a surprised look on his face as he had never seen any of the locations the system was referring to even in his 150+ years on the landmass

“Could you tell me the location of some of them?” 115 Asked

‘While I can't tell you the location I can point you in the general direction of one of them’

Before 115 could say anything in response he saw a compass-like arrow appear in his vision pointing him deeper into the forest.

‘I should head back.’ he thought before remembering what the system said about being able to identify things.

Looking down at the flower a prompt window appeared.

‘Rose of carnation - A flower with edible petals that restore a tiny amount of mana, the stem itself is also edible but does not restore mana like the petals’

A smile formed on 115’s lips thinking how useful the system's identify was.

‘Interesting’ he thought before finally standing back up and collecting a bunch of the flowers before heading back to the beach.

Back on the beach, Aaron looked worried. They had been searching the forest for the entire week or so they had been here but had not found anything edible even after so long.

Looking up he saw 115 walking over with a bunch of flowers in his hands and a faint look of hope appeared on his face.

“Here these should be edible I tried eating one myself and the petals are pretty good the stem is also good and should be edible as well.”

The captain looked at him unsure about that as it looked just like a flower and well most if not all flowers were inedible but he decided to suck it up and give it a try as it was their only hope of survival for now.

Reaching over, he took one of the flowers from 115’s hand and plucked a petal off before hesitantly smelling it. The smell itself reminded him of a bit of a strawberry, which was a good sign.

Popping it into his mouth, his face instantly lit up in surprise for a few moments before he scarfed down the rest of the flower's petals.

“I’ll take it; you also believe it's edible,” 115 said, almost laughing a bit as the captain looked quite funny eating it so fast.

After Aaron had eaten the flower petals he called over his crew to let them know that they had found a food source getting a bunch of cheers

“Finally some food, good find 115,” one of the sailors said while eating one of the petals.

After a while of sitting around the fire while they ate the petals, the sun was starting to set, and everyone was getting tired, so they all returned to their quarters on the ship, and 115 laid down under his tent before falling asleep.