'Observe'

Effect: Improve all physical Stats by a random amount inferior to 10. Improve Spirit by 5 points. Give the Host an enlightement regarding the Stars. Random after-effect.

Description: A fruit condensed from the energy of the Stars. Legend said that eating it is a necessary step to evolve your species.

Note of AS: That's good stuff! But Host still too weak.

Reading the effect I was over the moon. But when I got to the part of AS I became angry.

'Fuck even when talking about a fruit, she can't stop from making fun out of me! And apart from me there isn't even anyone to listen to it!'

"Wasn't I right? Host is dumb and weak."

"Fu...."

I was on the point to go at it again, fighting against a voice in my head, before the Cataclysm that would be pretty strange but thinking about it I am sure I aren't the only one fighting with it now, but I finally understood what she mean by that. But even so I asked:

"Too weak for the fruit?"

"Not only, but yes for the fruit."

Yes, I already know she would make fun of me. But still, too weak for a fruit... That make me what, the equal of a worm? But still I needed to know how much I was lacking even if my honor would take a blow. After all this fruit can pratically make my Stats double if I had luck. So:

"What are the prerequisite?"

"Host need to have at least as much as the added Stats, so Host need to raise all physical Stats to ten. Otherwise if one Stat is added more than Host already possessed... Let's say that's your corpse won't be pleasing to see. Furthermore the mysterious after-effect can be everything including dangerous disease. It can also be a sneeze thought."

... I won't eat this thing. Really I won't die at something I don't know. But even so I can keep it as a last chance object. And so without paying it any further attention and returned my focus on the gash on my thight. Even just the view of it made me gnash my teeth. I mean, when you are alone in a forest full of monster would you like to have an injury, what if furthermore the wound is deep and on a part necessary for you to move. I mean I could see my muscle in the wound, also it was left untouched by the claw, having them take in some fresh air wasn't the most pleasant or enjoyable scenery. So I think that what I had done after that was necessary but still it didn't left me a pleasant memory. I took a short branch from the tree and thinned it with my sword. After that I used my sword to cut a part of my pant and put it around the thinned part of the branch. Then I used my lighter to ignite it. Also it won't be as good as with a metal thing it would still cauterize the wound. And so I applied it. It was more painful than when the sloth made the wound itslef. But still it worked. But I was aware that sneak attack would be the way from now on. In all this I managed to get a good news from AS.

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"Seeing Host difficult position due to his weakness, I am truly sad. So as a gift here is an adive, during the 10min following a level up the regeneration of cell will greatly improve. Seeing your injury, in 2 level up it should be resolved."

I'm sure she was ironic. But even so I was thankful, so with that great news in mind, and after the pain from the cauterization stabilized, I got on my way but I wasn't the courageous young man anymore, no now I was the gimp young man.

***

1 day later.

In a clearing inside the Amazon Rainforest was a little camp with a bonfire in the middle. On top of the bonfire was a skewered giant peccary that was slowly roasting. And on the side was a black-haired, grey-eyed young man looking in a daze at the Stars.

"Show me my Stats"

"Name: James Black

Race: Human(Low)

Level: 2->4

Stats: Strenght: 9->10

Agility: 11->12

Endurance: 9->10

Vitality: 8->10

Spirit: 7->8

So that's how my Stats changed in this 2 days(from yesterday morning to the present day were he is already in the evening). Apart from hunting I investigated a lot of thing from AS. Also I got no answer to all question concerning the information on my race or the signification of the Low. But still I discovered something major that make all other thing pale in comparison. The Skill Formation Window. It is something that you can see any time after you got a formation of skill atop 10%, it give you a list of all the skill you are currently self-learning. And when your comprehension got a 100% it is like a natural Skill Source is formed from what AS said. And so my windows is currently like that:

Skill Formation Window:

[Basic-Martial Arts(Taichi): 7%] : [Basic-Footworks: 9%] : [Basic-Lightning Magic: 0,5%] : [Basic-Sword Arts: 79%]

From this window, I learned a lot of thing. First, Magic existed and can be self-learned by watching natural phenomenon. I asked if it meant that if I go burn a city I would learnt lot of Fire based Magic but AS just told me that I was dumb because I couldn't understand the meaning of natural. But my first reaction when I got to see this window was to say that learnt skill wasn't that big a deal. After all in 2 days I got to 79% of the Basic-Sword Arts. At that she only said that I was decently talented. I don't know if she mean it or if she was being a tsundere. But naturally I just wanted to know how much I was talented, I know it isn't easy after all I practiced Taichi for 3 years and I only got to 7%. But I still wanted to evaluate it because after all under constant fight for life and death it was logical for me to improve faster.

So to resume the whole, in this two days I adaptated myself to this new Era that Earth was going through. And also I was in a rather dangerous situation, I must say that it was a lot more fun than before. I mean it will be a period were everything was decided by the people who had the biggest fist and also I wasn't a disturbed bastard, for an orphan like me being able to have some weight in my word was more easy now than before. And so in this idea I got up from my seat and resumed my training.