"This... this is a status screen!" I say staring at what should be impossible. There is a literal screen floating in my field of vision. The screen moves everywhere I move or look to.
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WOAH!! It has my name, level, class and title! Though nothing is listed for class and title. That means I can level up just like in Fantasy Realm Online! It also appears I will be able to choose a class one day! I also see I have HP and MP values as well. For HP, I wonder if I die or just get knocked out if that number reaches 0. Right now, I don't really care to find that out. That will have to wait until I ask my mother some day. MP is rather obvious as I literally just cast a magic spell that caused this whole screen to become available to me.
My stats look good, well about as good as a toddler should have. My Intelligence and Mind are a lot higher than the other stats. I wonder if that has to do with my having all my memories from my previous life. It probably has to as I have access to knowledge far beyond what a 3-year-old should. It would only make sense that these stats would be higher
Bored with thinking about my stats, I notice there are other tabs on the left side under the current highlighted STATUS tab. I concentrate on the next tab under the highlighted STATUS tab which is the word EQUIPMENT. The tab flashes blue, highlights, and a new screen replaces the status screen.
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"Woah! That's awesome! i wonder why these items are listed in white when every other text is some shade of blue? I wonder if that's the quality of the gear, like how most RPG games have gear-colored different colors depending on the rarity or value of the item. Wait a second, what is this rock I'm equipped with?"
I pat myself down and I suddenly feel it. In my right pocket is a small smooth stone I picked up from the garden earlier in the day. This screen actually registered it as equipment?! I will have to play with this as I pick up other things. Perhaps I could use this as a cheap way of identifying items. Then again, it is classifying the rock as equipment. The only piece of equipment I could think it would be is a weapon. Why would it automatically assume the rock is a weapon? Whatever, I will have to come back to that later. I then concentrate on the tab under equipment that says SKILLS. As before, if flashes, highlights, and opens.
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"Omniscient? What the hell is that?!" I say seeing the rather big word listed there.
I do know what omniscient means; however, I am not sure if it means the same here on this planet, in this language. I run back out to the hearth where my mom is. I don't think it is a great idea to bring this up to my mom, as I don't want her to suspect anything, but I have to know though.
"Um, mom?"
"Yes dear?"
"Um, what does omn... omic... Omnicesent mean?"
"I don't know what you are trying to say, dear."
"It's hard to say. I can't say it right."
"Um, ommmm-nice-ent" I say trying my best to sound like a toddler trying to form a word.
"Oh, Omniscient! It means all knowing. Where did you hear that?!"
"Oh, never mind, I was thinking of something else. Sorry mommy!"
My mom giggles, "ok dear, run along!"
Omniscient... all knowing... what kind of skill is that?! Is it because I have all my knowledge from my past life? Can't be. Even with that I still know jack shit! Even the most educated and learned men and women on earth still know jack shit in comparison to the entirety of the knowledge of the human race. Even that pales in comparison to the knowledge held by the universe itself.
I say to myself, "How can I be all knowing without knowing everything?"
Whatever. I'll figure that out later. I save the existential crisis for another time. There are more tabs to open. I open the next tab with says MAGIC.
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"Holy crap! The spell I just cast is already listed! I already know my first spell just by doing it?! Wait a minute.... does that mean..."
I figured you wouldn't or shouldn't know something without having learned it first, but I really didn't learn it. I just did it, or is that just leaning at its simplest form? I begin to wonder if this means I can figure out other spells just by manipulating my mana correctly and saying the correct spell name. I mentally click the triangle on the lower right and the whole window closes. The triangle remains a transparent blue in the same lower left location of my vision, no longer blinking as it was when it first appeared.
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"Hmm. Let's see here."
I concentrate my mana into my right hand again. I force as much mana as I can until I feel the electrical shock feeling again.
"Ok let's try it. WATER!"
A blast of water gushes from my palm and splashes everywhere, then suddenly stops. I am now soaked, and so is the floor.
"Oh shit! Maybe I should have done that outside."
Magic Skill Acquired: Water
"WHAT!" I exclaim as that message flashes in my vision momentarily. No way it's that easy!
I open the status screen again and immediately open the magic tab.
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"OH MY GOD!!! It's there! I learned that magic just by doing it!!! Wait a second..."
I know I used up MP using the first Flame spell, so how much MP did this spell use up? I open my status back up to evaluate my MP usage.
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"Wow! I only cast Flame and Water once each and my MP is already almost gone. I don't have enough MP to even try another spell."
"I need to level up, but how am I going to level up at this age!"
At first, I hesitate, wondering exactly how I am going to do this, or if this is even a good idea. I mean, I'm like 3 years old. I'm a literal toddler and I'm seriously considering going outside and trying to kill a monster to level up. I take a minute to weigh the pros and cons of what I'm seriously considering doing. I make my decision and I get up and run out my room, headed toward the back door. I have to try.
"Mom I'll be outside!
"Ok dear, be careful!"
I rush outside and smile as I see what I'm looking for. The bunnycheetaunicorn thing. They are everywhere. I'll just call them bunnies. It's too much to say bunnycheetahunicorn.
I grab the rock out of my pocket and hurl it at the bunny, missing by a mile.
Ranged Weapon Skill Acquired: Throw
"There it is again!" I say seeing the message.
That pretty much confirmed why the status screen considered the rock as a weapon, but did it really need to unlock throwing something as a skill? I walk around and gather as many rocks as I can hold. I wonder what it will say now that i have gathered so many rocks. I open up my equipment screen again and I see there is a (10) next to where it says Rocks.
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"Woah it even counts how many rocks I'm holding?!"
I counted the rocks and sure enough, I was holding 10! Ok, well, let's do this! I start chucking rocks at the same smallish bunny I threw the last rock at. After 2 throws I finally hit the bunny.
Agility +1 flashes in my vision
"NICE!"
I continue throwing rocks at the bunny that's hopping away. After expending all my ammo, I resort to picking up rocks as I chase after the bunny, throwing them as I get them.
"Yeah, another hit!"
Agility +1 flashes on in my vision again.
"Ok! Now we are getting somewhere!"
After a while of running around and throwing any rock I came across, I'm unable to find any more rocks, so I pick up the next best thing, a stick about 1 inch in diameter. I start running faster to catch the bunny. I swing and was able to strike the bunny with the stick.
Weapon Skill Acquired
Single Hand Weapon: Bash
I giggle at the words flashing in my vision. Apparently it does consider simple actions as skills. This is amazing! I continue running after the bunny, my legs starting to get tired. I hit the bunny several times more. My hits don't seem to be doing much damage to the animal. I mean I am three years old, and I have a strength of 1. I doubt there is anything that's going to take much damage from me.
Strength +1
Make that a strength of 2. I swing again and hit the bunny right in its spiral horn, snapping it clean off. The bunny falls and curls up in pain. I stand over it, raising my stick over my head and swing down like an axe splitting firewood. I bash it over and over and over. I hit it in its head and in its body but concentrating most of my blows on its head. Its skin splits open in various areas and blood begins gushing from its head, blood is flying everywhere off my stick with each swing. My stick suddenly snaps, leaving me with just a short, jagged stick. I'm out of breath. My arms feel heavy. I'm exhausted! I have to finish this before i pass out from exhaustion!
I take the stick and jam the pointed broken end into the bunny's chest as hard as I can. Blood spurts out of the wound around the stick. The bunny twitches a few times, and then finally stops moving.
Weapon Skill Acquired
Single Hand Weapon: Stab
New Level Acquired!
There it is! I actually did it! I leveled up! That's what I wanted! That's what I was hoping for! I open my status screen.
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"Woah! It worked! I actually leveled!!!" I say as I pump a fist in celebration.
What I really wanted to test was to see what happens to my HP and MP. I wasn't sure if a level would refill all my MP or just increase my maximum possible MP. It looks like the only usable MP that is added to my available MP is only whatever MP I gained by leveling. I'm still down the 40 MP from the two spells I cast earlier. I also can't believe how exhausted and weak I am. That was just a bunny, and I was barely able to take it out. I notice my Endurance stat is 20/100. That must be why I am so exhausted.
After I calm down from my discovery and excitement, I look down at myself. My clothes are completely covered in blood. My heart starts pounding. I really didn't put much thought into what would happen when I killed something. Did my stupid little mind think it would disappear in a cloud of pixels or something?!
"Oh shit!"
I look down at the bunny. It's a bloody mess, almost no longer resembling the animal it once was. I start shaking as the realization of what I had just done sets in. I killed something. I killed a living creature. I mean, sure I killed bugs and spiders in my room in the past, but this was different somehow. This was a good size animal. An animal that was just living its life and wasn't doing anything wrong! I have never hurt anything or anyone in my short life, not even in my previous life. Even in my video games I always chose healing classes, because I didn't like hurting things. I preferred to heal and ease suffering, not create suffering. But here I stand before a mutilated body, a creature dead by my hand. The gory scene in front of me permeates my mind...
"What have I done..."