It's getting dark out so I'll have a rest.

PAIN AAAAAHH shooting up from the bed I clean all my cuts with water as best I can, Ignore all the screaming and crying, Huh, It seems I regenerate faster if I clean the wound than if I just let it be.

Can I get infected? I know I can't get scars thanks to the character creator title but how far does that extend? Can I chop off my arm and regrow it like nothing? Can I become immortal if I max regen? That’s something the future me has to test out but for now.

Vitality up Regeneration levelled up Endurance up

Slowly regenerating cuts really tire you out. is this the ‘cost’ for regen? Healing costs stamina, Running costs stamina; Do my sharp claws skill require stamina? All this yet there are no indicators like the hp bar ‘’hey identify is there a stamina bar?’’

No, What’s the point of a stamina bar if you can feel it yourself without looking

‘’Same thing like the health bar where you know how close to death you are even without looking’’

People can’t see just their health bar in battles anyway. The only way you can see it is through status, in your case, asking me

‘‘Why don’t they just say status during battles?’’

Because only stupid people rely on a screen to see how alive they are and get distracted in front of an enemy, Normally you do it before and after a battle

OH! Good plan! I will do that from now on, Or not since I will start and end at full health ideally

Cheat skill succ levelled up

Oh finally, I’ve been using it all this time and its only lvl 4, ‘’status health’’

Health 294/294

Perfect! That’s enough stalling and waiting for my hp to regen. I have some food to hunt!

Tying the now dry wolf skin around my waist in a makeshift loincloth (so I'm not completely naked under my cloak) I jump out the window and start dashing through the forest, Doors are for plebs anyways.

I've been mentally preparing myself for some time, trying to get that gamers mentality so I won't break down today.

Searching around the forest for another lone wolf while sneaking around the packs I spot something that isn’t an animal

A small green humanoid with pointy ears, Horizontal eyes (like a goat), Hunched back and carrying a wooden club, Is that a goblin? ‘’Hey identify what is that?’’

Lesser goblin lvl 2, threat 20%, The lowest rung in goblin society

Oh so it is a goblin, I always wanted to fight one ‘’Hey Identify can I eat it?’’

I wouldn’t advise that Goblins are known to taste horrendous no matter the dish, and even worse if you are the one making it

Aw, Too bad, I casually walk up to the goblin, Clench my fist to punch OW or not, Stupid nails, okay, Scratch the goblin in the face,

The goblin jumps back and readies his club,

Rude just let me kill you and it would be easier for all of us,

I run towards the goblin as fast as I can stabbing it through the stomach with my hand,

The goblin crumples down like a puppet with its strings cut hanging from my arm,

Now that I'm this close you really get to notice things that you don’t pay attention to from afar, Like the smell, the smell is what you’d expect from not bathing your entire life and rolling around in filth every day,

The height, being that it’s only half a head shorter than me and the feel of its skin, Rough like sandpaper. I fling off the goblin as I wash my arm of its blue blood

Level up

I only levelled up once? Granted I didn’t have a mental breakdown from killing it or was the fight in any way difficult but still, That was my first humanoid kill at least give me some bonus stats.

I resume wandering around the forest until I stop at a certain tree radiating an indescribable pressure, The tree is bright blue with pink leaves crackling red lightning with a single purple apple dangling from a branch, ‘’Hey identify what is that?’’

The great tree of power, Only bears fruit once every 100 years on a random day with no signs, Fruit is a is a powerful medicine that can boost your strength immensely

OH is this my fortuitous encounter? Do I get a 1000-year-old wild ginseng too?

I jump up to reach the apple to no luck, jumping a few more times while flailing my arms in the air also produces negative results

d-do I have to climb the tree? it looks pretty intimidating. I lay my hand on the tree only to get zapped silly by the red lightning all around.

option two down, I wonder where I can get a long stick, maybe whack it down

deading back to the forest to find a suitable stick I find a bunch of fruit bearing trees and nuts so I fill my inventory along the way

is it that season? do fantasy worlds even have seasons? I wonder if they have some crazy impossible seasons too because of magic

AH! perfect! this will do. a nice long and thick tree branch that's light enough for me to handle with a little effort

I drag the branch back to the tree of power and ready my baseball swing

doing a few practice swings to get the feel right I take a deep breath and swing the branch full force at the purple apple

CLANG CRACK

a metallic ring followed by the loud snap of my stick breaking echoes out

following the momentum of the branch I fall face first into the ground

man that sucks, how am I meant to get it... wait, sucks? aha!

I stand below the apple thing and use suck

nothing happens

alright, how about another suck, and another and another and ano...

gradually with some painful creaking sounds, the branch lowers

painfully slowly it lowers to the point I can reach. finally!

clasping my hands around the apple I give a forceful tug... it won't budge

I try cutting the stem with my nails but not a single scratch shows up, what is this thing made of?

holding onto the apple with my whole weight I hear a snap, yes!

wait... it wasn't the apple

walking my line of sight from the apple to the branch and resting on the tree I see whats snapping

the lightning disappeared and the tree is bathed in a tinge of red, like a bow drawn taut the branch I'm dangling on suddenly feels a lot less safe

before I could make sense of anything I'm sent rocketing through the air and flung across the forest

BANG, crashing through the canopy and tumbling for who knows how long, I receive a forceful stop thanks to a friendly boulder

brain rattling and vision spinning I decide this is a good place to rest for a bit

Level up

I open my eyes to collect my bearings, where am I again? I look around in search for something to eat

THERE another straggler wolf, I pounce towards the wolf and cut its throat during the struggle accidentally, Well works for me as I pocket the wolf into my item box,

Or not since its completely full of fruits and grass,

I try spamming item box a few more times ‘itemboxitemboxitemboxitembox’ ugh I’m really tired

Item box levelled up

Placing the dead wolf in the newly expanded item box I make my way home following my instincts since it seems to know how to do everything somehow.

Arriving home after an indeterminate amount of time I make my way to the ‘kitchen’ and start dismantling the wolf, Ugh I will never get used to this

Level up

I cook the meat on skewers, Bury the guts and bones and wash the skin, I'm getting better as it has fewer holes than the other one. Eating 4 skewers and placing the rest in my item box for later I jump through the window into my room and take out the real prize I got today, The purple apple. ‘’Hey identify show me its description’’

Apple of strength, A very potent medicine said to increase strength by threefold

Holy shift that’s pretty op, Placing my 10 unspent points from the recent level ups in strength I eat the apple.

My body is tingling as a warmth appears in my stomach,

This is pretty pleasant,

The tingle increases as my body numbs making me fall face first,

That would hurt If I actually felt anything, Is this meant to happen?

The warmth in my stomach in heating up,

Oh god, not this! ANYTHING BUT THIS! My stomach now housing a pyre as I huff a soundless scream in pain,

it'shappeningit'shappening my body shaking as the pain spreads little by little, I'm crying NOPENOPENOPEIDONTWANTTOEXPERIENCETHISAGAIN is all that I can think of as my vision cuts and I black out.

Level up Level up Level up Vitality up Endurance up Strength decreased by half

I open my eyes and focus on that last notification ‘strength decreased by half’ a full minute of silence as my brain tries to process what is going on ‘strength decreased’…’by half’’… decreased … half …

WHAT!