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Chapter 11: Surviving

You know that saying, “My life flashed before my eyes”, well I was watching mine, damn I played a lot of video games.

Turns out there was a river at the bottom of the cliff, the ice cold water enveloped me taking me into the depths of the waters, that was enough to shock me awake

From the very first second I was brought to this world I had to fight, I had this mentality of okay this sucks, get over it and try harder. You know what that got me, nothing, ‘I can finally change’, I filled my head with such lofty ideas. Who am I kidding, I don’t deserve to be here.

That's right, I don’t deserve to be here, that damn summoner brought me here on the order of the king and pope for some prophecy.

My memory shifted back to when the knight captain told me “everything's gonna be alright kid, I’ll make sure of it” and that fecken king saying he’ll take responsibility for me oh and how could I forget Bruno and his slave traders.

This isn’t fair, no it's fecken not!

My thoughts are slipping, those bastards get to continue living when, if I make it out of this I’ll make them pay, ya…I’ll…make them…pay

Current Health points:0

Hidden Trait(Otherworlder): You have been brought to another world against your will, you have fought until the bitter end. Take this second chance and continue fighting

Second Chance invoked

All status effect healed

Error….no class given…please select a class

I reached out for anything, my fists filled with loose gravel as I was washed away by the strong currents, I won’t let it end here

I’m running out of oxygen, come on…grab something, there we go, I latched on to a rock, pull, we are not dying like this, one…final…push.

I was out of the water, the skin on my hands were ripped apart, I had scratches all over but I was alive, that was something and from something we can create more of something, I don’t know what I’m saying but hopefully it sounds philosophical.

Cough…cough

As I expunged the water that my lungs I looked around, I made it, I actually made it

“Ha Ha ah ha ha ah”, I couldn’t stop laughing, I literally couldn’t stop no matter how much I tried, I was gasping for air and I just couldn’t stop laughing.

“Those bastards thought I would just crawl over and die, I’ll get them, each and every one of them will regret the day that they cast me aside”, I don’t think I ever smiled so much in my life before

Eventually myself induced euphoria began to fade, "It's so cold”, I was still drenched from the river.

“Think, what do I do, fire maybe, okay let's try a fire”, now I’m talking to myself oh insanity is so much fun.

I walked over and grabbed some sticks, picking the driest looking ones and began rubbing them together.

Fire starting attempted….failed

Damn

Fire starting attempted….failed

Fire starting attempted….failed

“Feck, it’s not working”, I need this or I might really die out

Warning hypothermia risk increased

“Great, just great”

Pick a class!

Pick a class!

Pick a class!

Pick a class!

Pick a class!

My screen was flooded with messages, okay, let's give it a shot

I clicked on the class button on my screen and hundred of different classes were open to me, warrior…no, archer…no and so on, becoming a druid or mage wouldn't help me right now.

Maybe this one?

Craftsmen–You look at the world through the lens of a maker, if it can be built why not build it?, with this class no invention is out of bound no idea to great

I clicked on it

Are you sure? Y or N

Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.

I selected “Y”

Craftsmen class selected

Skills acquired:

Crafting lv1: You gain the ability to make items that may proves useful to you

Eye of a craftsmen: Gain the ability to see the finer details in items and people

Makers own: gain the ability to be proficient in any items you make

Trait obtained: Crafter

Crafter: As a craftsmen you learn skills based on crafting at an accelerated pace

Name

Alex

Health:

Stamina

20

5

Race

Otherwordler

Racial ability: As an otherworlder you are not know to this worlds way, due to this you need to level up fast in the hopes that you don’t die, due to this it’s dangerous to go alone so take this: learn skills at an exceptionally fast rate

Class

Craftsmen

Lv

1

Stats:

Strength

Agility

Intelligence

Dexterity

Constitution

Perception

Wisdom

Luck

5

3

10

4

5

15

5

1

Skills

Language comprehension lvMax

Dagger skills lv1

Pocket sand lv2

Bare handed fighting lv2

Crafting lv1

Eye of a craftsmen

Makers own

Imagine someone grabbing your brain and writing information inside of it, crazy I know, but that’s how it felt picking that class.

I attempted to make a fire again, It was like I knew exactly where to place my hands and just like that….

“Come on…fire!”

Skill acquired: Fire Starting lv1

I quickly added more wood to make sure my little spark of flame wouldn’t burn out, “Yes, I have fire”, I swung my hands up in victory. So now I’ve achieved caveman status.

I took off my clothes and put them by the fire to dry and sat down, besides the running river there was no sound, I looked up and saw the stars

“I wonder which one is earth”

I felt conflicted, do I want to go home, my family? They’ll live on without me, I found myself wondering about Soap, he’ll be fine, my siblings will look after him, “Damn I’m gonna miss him”, okay I’m going off track, I didn’t really want to go home, there wasn’t much of anything for me there.

I wasn’t going to university with my grades, hell I wasn’t even going to finish high school, the plan was to maybe become a streamer…some dream that was but now I’m here.

I piled some dirt to make a makeshift pillow, “What a day”, I thought drifting off to sleep.

Chirp, chirp

“I’m up!”, damn it wasn’t a dream

The only thing that remained from my fire was some embers and ash, I grabbed my now dry clothes and put them, “That is a nice scar”, I said touching my chest looking at the spot that a knife was inside of me.

“Thank you otherworlder race”

Okay…pocket sand check…Now I’m ready to go

“Goodbye first fire”, I said as I saluted the pile of ash

Now which way to walk, probably downstream, hopefully there will be a settlement soon

I had no idea how far I travelled down stream so my bearing were very much off, like I knew the area anyways

You know, now that I think about it, this place is actually very beautiful, a nice green forest with birds chirping and a nice clear river, very picturesque. If I wasn’t in my current situation I’d be quite happy, well I just need to picture that damn kings head on a stake and I’ll be happy, oh the simple things in life.

A few hours must have passed and still nothing

“Damn I’m thirsty”, I thought looking at the river

I read that in a survival situation it’s best to drink water since if there are any diseases I wouldn’t need to worry about it for around three days which is the amount of time it takes to die from dehydration

“When in Rome, right?”

I dunked my head in the river taking the biggest swig of water I could, sure I could’ve use my hands as a cup but I don’t know it felt right to do it this way.

“That hits the spot, okay, back to walking”

I continued to walk for another few hours before I saw the sun start to set, okay I’ll set up camp here looking at a huge to cover me from the wind

Fire starting skill used

“Fire!”, I wonder maybe I could make a spear, I grabbed a big stick and broke it in half and kept the pointiest part

Crafting skill used: Broken stick made–1 durability

Quality: Bad

“I mean, I literally just broke a stick in half, what should I expect”

Crack

“Who’s there?”

I turned around to be met by a huge black wolf

Eye of craftsmen used: Dire wolf

…this individuals level exceeds yours so you cannot gauge their strength

“That’s just great”