“Ugg… what the hell happened? Where am I?”-???
Suddenly a window popped up and surprised me.
Congratulations! You are one of the millions that have been chosen as a beta tester for this new world called Eris. Your role in this world is to do your best and survive. We admins will be watching over your efforts and may give out rewards depending on your future accomplishments. We have given all participants a little present to help you all get started. Good luck! And don't die! :)
-T
"What the fu..."-???
As I looked around my surroundings I noticed that I am currently in a vast plain where there is fresh green grass that went on for miles and there were some hills around me, under the great expanse of the blue sky.
'What a minute.... who am I? How the hell did I get here anyway? Did I get kidnapped?'
Various thoughts rushed through my brain and I first tried to get things in order.
'Okay... First of all my name is Daniel... That is all I know. I'm from planet Earth and... and....'
Holy shit... I can't remember anything! Is this a conspiracy from the government? Did I get captured by aliens?
I looked down at my hands... "Why am I naked!!" I yelled out.
'Huh? My hands look smaller...'
I examined my body and saw that I shrunk.
'OMG! My dick got smaller! I definitely know that it wasn't this small before!'
I needed to get a mirror or something to check myself. As I frantically looked around I saw a small black cube that was about 12 inches tall laying right beside me.
Curious, I got up to it and touched it.
The black cube disintegrated into dust and I nearly cussed out loud in surprise.
There were a few items for me laying down where the black cube was.
There was a note there also and I decided to read it.
"Hello Daniel. I hope you are doing well. I am T, the admin that is assigned to look over you. As you can see these items are given to you to assist you along your journey in this world. I hope you are able to make good use of them.
Good luck.
- T"
I looked at the items that were laid out in front of me.
There was:
1 pair of clothes
1 pair of shoes
1 small booklet that said instruction manual
1 small knife
1 container filled with water
And 1 silver ring that perfectly fit my small 10 year old finger.
I first quickly put on the clothes and shoes. The shirt was plain white and the pants were loose cargo jeans and the boots were a perfect fit on my feet.
The sun was still up so I opened the booklet and began reading. I needed to gain as much knowledge of this new world as fast as possible if I want to survive. Knowledge is power after all.
'Hmm... where did I hear that quote from? I don't remember...'
I began reading the booklet:
Hello Daniel,
This instruction manual will help you learn the basics of this world. Hopefully you will be able to utilize this knowledge to your utmost capability in order to thrive in this new environment.
etc. etc.
You can think status in your mind or say it out loud in order to view your status.
"Huh?"
This book must be joking.
"Status." I said.
Suddenly a window popped out of nowhere.
"H-holy shit!" I exclaimed.
Name: Daniel
Status: Normal
Level: 0
HP: 10/10
STR: 5
INT: 5
AGI: 5
DEX: 5
LUK: 5
"Whoa..."
I was stunned by the sudden appearance of my status.
"Wait a minute! This is complete shit! What the bloody hell am I supposed to do with these crappy stats? At least make me OP for God's sake!" I threw out a tantrum and raged for a while before I calmed down and began to read the manual again.
You might be reading a pirated copy. Look for the official release to support the author.
The manual gave me basic information about my stats. Strength is obviously strength, Agility is speed, intelligence is how smart I am, Dexterity is how skillful I am with my body and LUK is basically my luck I guess.
Then the manual went on to explain that I don't receive EXP in this world, which I thought was pretty stupid. I gain levels by my actions and impressing my administrator.
'Fuck... so I basically have to impress some sadistic pedophile that likes to watch children survive by themselves in the wild.'
The booklet told me that I can increase my stats by doing certain actions such as running for a long period of time to increase my agility and etc.
As I kept on reading I found out that there were monsters in this world and that they were apparently quite dangerous and I should watch out before attempting to engage in battle with them.
It also told me that the silver ring that I was given is actually a storage ring where I can store my items.
I thought that this was pretty neat so I used it to store my water and knife because I didn't have a sheathe to put my knife in.
As I finished reading the last part of the book about skills and how I could learn magic (This part really got me fired up.) I found out that I could learn skills by myself but that it is actually really difficult to do and the easiest way is to impress the admin and get a skill from them.
I finished reading the last page of the booklet and suddenly a window popped up again.
"Congratulations for finishing reading the instruction manual! You are the 3129th person to actually finish reading it! 7021 people have already died! For your efforts you have been given the skill [Identify]. Good luck on your journey!"
P.S. This is the only freebie skill you will get so be grateful. -T
I just blankly stared at the screen and couldn't believe that so many people have died already.
I decided to look at my skill from my status.
Name: Daniel
Status: Normal
Level: 0
HP: 10/10
STR: 5
INT: 5
AGI: 5
DEX: 5
LUK: 5
Skills:
[Identify]
What the hell? It doesn't give me a description on how to use my skills?
Che... whatever. I'll figure it out on my own.
I said Identify! out loud and looked at the ground and it actually replied to my surprise...
[ A normal blade of grass you retard... don't use me for something so stupid.]
Aww.. hell no! This bitch ass skill did not just talk trash to me!
I basically cursed at it for a while before calming down.
I decided to begin my travel in this new world. The sun was overhead and I was pretty sure that I had about 7 more hours of day light before the sun went down and so I took my first step on my journey.
After about an hour of walking in the plains looking at nothing but grass I saw something jump.
I cautiously went up to it and took out my knife. It was a light greenish little jelly thing that had no special features except that it looked similarly to one of those slimes in fantasy games.
I used [Identify] on it.
[Acid Slime: LV 2
This creature could be potentially dangerous]
Hmm... I have two choices... A) Engage the weak looking slime in battle and potentially impress T and gain a reward or... B) walk away from this monster and keep on traveling.
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So... I hope you guys enjoyed the chapter.
For the next update I will create the chapters like this:
Chapter 2A and Chapter 2B. Each chapter will have a different outcome and you will get to choose which chapter you want to read. Of course you can read both chapters as well.