“Everyone please, can I have your attention?”
No, you can’t mister leader. Of course, even with a leader’s aura, people waking up in the middle of nowhere can’t possibly calm quick enough to listen even if it’s the right thing to do. Everyone was talking and asking question without letting anyone answer.
“SHUT THE FUCK UP!”
Well … I guess that if you don’t have natural authority, a gorilla can do the trick. By the way, gorilla is one of his friend, black hair, brown eyes, around 190/195 centimeters. Perfect build to intimidate. The soon to be leader place a hand on the shoulder of his gorilla and take a step forward.
“Okay, I think that most of you noticed but we are not on earth anymore, I think we-“
Are you sure? I thought that the two moons were clearly telling us we were in the rainforests of Australia. Even if he has this leader aura he is incapable of leading. He’s more like a good friend to have. Ever since he said those words ten second ago everyone has been talking even more fervently between themselves. Oh, gorilla is acting again.
“SILENCE!”
Even though it works, I doubt that this type of conversation would be very productive.
“Thanks. Everyone, I’m Tom, Tom Finn. I have several things to tell you.”
By the way Tom is around 180 centimeters and has light brown hair, his eyes are also brown and he has a slender build although he doesn’t seem very muscular. He definitely counts as handsome though. I mean objectively.
“And they are my friends”
His four friend are in order, Gorilla whose name is Al Stones, I don’t know what it stands for bit it’s perfect. You already know what he looks like but man, he looks like a professional bodyguard except for the clothes.
Then there is Martin Palis, the other guy. He looks more like the mental type. He’s around 175 centimeters with blond hair and brown eyes. Nothing special.
And finally, there is the two girls. There were probably the most beautiful from the 48 of us. The first one may not stand against professional model but that’s beside the point. Eleanore was a tall blond girl with deep blue eyes and that’s pretty much all I remember because I was too focused on the second girl, her name was Maël, she literally had fire-like hair, and her eyes were like two round emerald. She had a body with perfect curves and she looked like even if she came here alone she would have been ready to survive for years.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a pervert nor am I naïve to the point of believing in love at first sight. I just appreciate the beauty presented before my eye. Anyway, once the presentation ended, Tom finally got to the main topic.
“Then, I know you’re probably either scared or confused but I need you to try to think ‘status’ in your head”
Before people could start to voice their incomprehension, people started to scream as they saw windows popping before them. At least, that’s what I think happened as I can’t see their window.
Anyway, at this point, I stopped listening as I needed to think for a bit.
‘Status’
Status
Name
Allen
Race
Human
Level
1 - (0%)
Id
0
Health
225/225
Mana
220/220
Vitality
25
Endurance
28
Strength
22
Agility
24
Dexterity
24
Perception
1
Intelligence
24
Wisdom
25
Condition
Well rested
Health regeneration
0.0025 - (100%)
Mana regeneration
0
Inventory
13/27
Wealth
0 - (22.26€)
As the window appeared, I noticed that my title and my skills were not included.
‘Skills’
Skill
Mind Tinkering
Mind shock - Mind whispering
Observe
‘Title’Okay then
Title
The hurried one
‘Resistances’
Resistances
Mind - 100%
After some more test, I made a mental note of the thing I discovered.Cool but calling each of them individually was a bother. After a few second of thinking I tried something. After calling two times ‘Full status’ and ‘Status’ once more, I concluded that the words didn’t mean anything but the meaning that we put into it did. Now, I could call any combination of window with the command ‘Status’.
Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon.
1. You can change the name of almost everything in the window as long as it’s not a value. Meaning, I can change ‘Name’ to ‘Title’ but ‘Allen’ will stay as it is no matter what.
2. Changing the name of an attribute doesn’t change what it is.
3. When it is written that I have 0 mana regen, it literally means 0, I consumed 5 point for waking the two men and 2 points for the whispering and I didn’t recover a single point. By the way, breaking free from the illusion didn’t cost me mana.
4. There is no disconnect or leave button and I can safely assume that death means death.
5. There is no guide or help from MaGI, that’s how I named it as system and Magical Game Interface are too long.
6. My inventory is composed of ten free slots plus the inventory granted by my shoulder bag and my pockets. By the way it removed the weight of the contents which is cool.
7. The ten free slots can’t contain anything alive which include plants and, I guess vegetables and maybe meat, I’m not sure. However, on the plus side, inventory is out of time and my watch is now a minute late.
By the way I checked my [Observe] skill and it’s a basic skill granted to everyone, the higher the mastery and level, the more information will be given. It synergized with my title and it says that it will grant me more information for the same level and mastery and when concentrating on a skill linked with my title it will provide me additional information if there is any.
Even though the title itself is trash, the synergies are quite good. I might gain something incredible from the synergies. I’ll have to experiment with it.
Now that it’s out of the way let’s think about how we got here. We woke up almost all at the same time. I just got back from a night of coding at a part time job and was too tired to even change or put my bag down which is a great thing in the end.
‘Manager, thanks for treating me like a slave and making me collapse from exhaustion, please burn in hell while demons devour your soul’
If I had to guess, I would say that everyone got teleported with only what they were wearing and carrying and forced to sleep to be woken up at the same time. Everyone seems to be from around the world but I guess that magic is taking care of the language barrier. I just hope that no insane murderer has been transported with us. It doesn’t look like anyone has a gun and I think it’s better like that.
The rest of the group is starting to organize but I would rather be left out, I’m really bad at interacting with groups. And I have to look at this [Observe] skill. Looking around me, I focus on a berry in a bush. After a few second a window appears in front of me.
Ice berry - (E)
I then look back to my improvised club, I wonder why it doesn’t have attributes. If it’s my weapon, it should have some even if they are shitty.
You created you first weapon
You learned the linked skill [Crude weapon making]
Thick branch - Club (-)
Attack Damage : 10 - 11
Durability : 5/5
Requirement : 20 Strength
A dead branch picked up by Allen and granted the title of weapon. It really is just a branch.
Well, I have nothing to say. However, I wonder how the damage works. Is it static damage that apply every time you deal a blow? Then what is considered a blow? Could you kill someone with low HP by lightly tapping him with a weapon? Or worse would a legendary weapon one-shot you even if it’s only a tiny cut? It could also be a sort of multiplicator, I don’t really know and I don’t think that I want to get in a situation where I get to know any time soon.
On their side, it seems that most people have calmed down. They are starting to split the tasks. Even though the selfish guy was … well selfish, he managed to be part of the leading forces since nobody knows what he did. The girl leader also joined the group which means we now have three leaders.
However, I don’t see anyone who prepared themselves to a possible attack. It seems they forgot that they fell half asleep for no reason a few minutes ago. I think that it will be hard to keep the 47 of them alive. I don’t even know if I’ll stay alive until tonight.
“That’s why I think we should move and try to find a city before night.”
That could be a good idea if we weren’t lost in a clearing, in the middle of an unknown forest, in the middle of an unknown continent, in the middle of an unknown planet in the middle of an unknown parallel universe. Well, not like staying here until night is a good idea either. I guess that moving is slightly less stupid.
The problem is, even though we managed to avoid whatever put us to sleep – my guess being that it only attacks defenseless target – we may find more aggressive things while moving.
“I need everyone to take something from the clearing that could be used as a weapon. We may encounter dangerous thing out there.”
It’s gorilla, I mean … Tom’s friend that talked and surprisingly nobody said anything. Except me, which leads me to think that he got a crowd control or a mind control skill. To not arise suspicions, I go get my club. They then dispatch people making sure that the ones that looks the weakest are the best protected. Of course, nobody was willing to tell their stats, not even the leaders.
I should be among the strongest based on what I see but due to my thin build and my clothes that are a bit large, I look quite common. I know what you think but I’m not overestimating myself, I just practiced loads of martial arts and combat sports, and I keep myself fit. But playing a lot, taking an almost unhealthy interest for technology and coding and practicing sports regularly led me to have little to no time to connect with people. Or maybe it’s the opposite … being unable to connect with people made me throw myself at these areas with more might than most people.
Don’t start feeling pity or feeling sad for me. I was not complaining. I have a few friends, it’s just that I don’t mix well with people. I actually appreciate being alone, and loneliness is quite comfortable when you know how to see its advantages.
Since nobody seems to have the common sense to talk about it and that it will allow me to get off the freeloader group, I call them as they start to move.
“I guess you forgot what happened around ten minutes ago, but we were, probably by magic, put to sleep leaving us with no defense. I think it would be common sense to make small groups of three or two that will pinch each other at the slightest feeling of sleepiness.”
They all look at each other and nod as they find nothing to say about my proposition. But I’m stupid, this decision means that I need to stay with at least one person. I can kiss my peace goodbye. Well maybe they’ll forget me.
“Okay everyone, please form the groups before we set out!”
It’s Tom again but I think it’s go- his friend that makes them listen. In the end, I pair up with a cute girl, she’s not the prettiest but she’s definitely not ugly. Well since we are only us two and that I am immune, I’ll be the only one looking after her.
“Let’s go!”
Surely, it was a very happy start to our soon to be adventure but as soon as he uttered those words, a colorful bird landed on a tree just in front of us. As he opened his beak no chirping was heard. Instead a smooth music that could only come from a top-quality musician and an otherworldly instrument was produced. Fortunately, the window snapped me back.
You resisted [Lullaby]
“That’s it! Wake up!”
I immediately pinch the hand of the girl beside me. There is still seven or eight group that fell asleep. The birds look at me but I doubt that it can do anything to us, it’s level 1 and it’s called “Chanteret”, I guess it will go away again. But when I see two black eyes in the forest, I immediately froze in fear. From their position, they either belongs to a humanoid form around the same size of us or … a beast on four feet. That is the same size as us. I don’t know what is the worst.
“GROWWWWL”
I think I know.