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After realizing it was a hud that was stuck in his eyes, he started wondering. Actually, the stimulus currently overflowing felt nice, adrenaline pumped through him, his eyes glowed vividly under the growing dreams of becoming a prodigy!

The stimulus wore off after some time, and he returned to a more calm thought process. If he could find out how to level up, would he not be able to overpower everyone? Although he had not seen confirmation of whether or not there were any humans in this world, or if they would accept him with his body.

He had yet to find something to see his own reflection, considering the primal nature of the cave and the one who put him here, the chance of them having a mirror was unlikely. Suddenly a voice so subtle he almost did not hear it, it was his own voice but without his control.

[Mental Awareness skill obtained!]

Skill Level: 0

Experience: 1/100

Description:

The Mental Awareness skill increases the user’s mental ability overall. Ie. better memory, easier handling of thoughts and ideas etc. The skill is trained by thinking.

This sudden announcement made Ling Ru gape. He could not help but laugh in his mind, what the heck is this kind of skill? After calming himself down, another subtle voice spoke in his mind.

[Mental Awareness EXP+10 (Manage emotions effectively)]

Ling Ru cried in his mind after hearing this, levelling this skill was simply too easy. And it might be of good use to him in the future. Mental Awareness if trained correctly, should not necessarily have any boundaries. This skill as a first skill, was truly not a bad one. Clearly he had to appreciate this luck, or wait…

There was still this massive problem, of how to get home … If that was even what he wanted. Maybe, he should just take it with a grain of sugar, turn some stones before deciding. Being away from the family could create emotional friction, but by training the Mental Awareness skill it should not be a problem to manage it completely.

Considering, he had already 11 EXP, or actually, it had increased to 17 just by thinking just now. This was truly a magical skill. It seemed more challenging situations would cause the exp he gained to be a lot higher in amounts. Passively thinking would also give him exp.

He had already accumulated a really good idea of how this skill worked, as a gamer he had actually read something about controlling one’s mental mind before, it was just very blurry since it was not given much thought at that time.

He knew vaguely about at least 7 or 9 mental skills, he just could not remember which ones they were, but knowing that they existed was already of use. Sitting on the cold cave flooring, he noticed that even though he was naked, his skin was sturdier than most clothes on earth.

To experiment, he calmly touched himself a few times around his body, he needed to know more of himself before he dared to make assumptions. It could be, human babies looked different in this world, or that they were simply another colour.

From feeling his face and that he was bald, he had a basic image of what he looked like, but it was not something that he liked to imagine because he had some very weird features. Two small protruding balls where his hair was supposed to be, and it did not feel like hair would grow there.

Permanent bald, what a joke. How could he, someone destined to be a prodigy in this game be bald. He could only laugh at himself, he started throwing away the mentality of him being from another world and snaked himself towards adapting to this weird occurrence as playing a game.

He just needed to value life greatly and think of this as an advanced virtual reality game, that had yet to be launched. Right, act as the best tester ever, discover all bugs and exploits, become the most overpowered person in the game, defeat and obliterate others taking on the leaderboards.

After approximately an hour of thinking and calming his mind and changing his state of perspective, he heard an announcement again.

[Mental Awareness skill obtained!]

Skill Level: 1

Experience: 3/200

Description:

The Mental Awareness skill increases all of the user’s mental abilities. I.e. maintaining focus and concentration, controlling emotions and encouraging oneself. The skill is trained by using the abilities.

After reaching level 1, the skill’s description had changed, and he even had a feeling he could remember more. This feeling was most likely directly connected to the description, it already included 3 of the mental abilities he knew of. Faith, it had to be some kind of faith that his memories felt bound to the skill. For it to already be level 2, maybe he could over level this ability by just thinking everyday.

Dreams of obtaining psychic abilities, if other could see his face, although it was not very humane and did not look very handsome, they would be able to distinguish the happiness etched on his face.

Settling in his mind, he chose to temporarily forget all of the choices he needed to make to move forward if he was going to die it would be worth nothing to think. Observing the cave with a simple glance, he went to the cave tunnel that led out.

His body was still unstable, at least his control of the body was improving rapidly, walking in a stable manner became easier by the seconds. When he reached the part of the tunnel that was no longer reached by the light, he hesitated.

He clenched his fist and was about step out when he picked up some sounds, it was near, it sounded like people. It was inaudible, but he was reminded of when you could hear people behind a wall, mumbling and laughing.

If he was really saved by people, even if they were a bit barbaric and primal, it was still what he hoped for, a connection. He could not help but take a step, then another step, he kept going.

After running for more than ten seconds, he reached a bend, but he increased in speed a little because some light could be seen landing on the cave walls. Hope was flourishing, it felt like ages before he reached the bend, and when he came around it, he fell.

His motor skills were not the best at the moment, control of the body was not stabilized either, but neither was the reason for him tripping. What entered his vision had scared him, shattered his hope but also enlightened him.