I am on my room, reading the books that my sister Yukii gave. My understanding in this world is pretty shallow and I am oblivious to all of the things. According to my sister, these are all the books my father written and read when he was still a new guy in this world to understand all of the culture in this world. I can say that he was quite a bookworm. I haven"t started rummaging on my father"s things when the system once again popped up and showed me another notification.Alright, fine. I want to get angry and happy and also celebrate with this system at the same time, happy because my workload of skimming these amount of books will be reduced but also angry because my leisure of reading it is gone. Its like watching a movie in a movie theater that you antic.i.p.atedly waited to watch, only to get spoiled by a friend who watched it first, "ya know that feeling?
After that event, I sighed and started touching the books without opening them one by one. The knowledge immediately flowed in my mind but when I was on the very last of the book pile, I felt an unexplainable pain in my head. I felt like my head is about to burst due to that pain. This might be the cause of excessive knowledge entering my head. I copied the last book and the pain grew more painful. However, this pain is nothing compared to the pain I experienced when I was on Earth, suffering from the complications of Leprosy.
I shook my head a bit and the excessive pain slowly receeded and disappeared but my head is in jumble with all the knowledge in my brain being stuffed forcefully. I reorganized this new knowledge in my head and with a few more thoughts, the jumbled things finally came to an organized form.
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The world I was in was called Amora. This world contains magic, magical beasts and constant war that rages every corner of the world is a common place. This world was also being in constant threat of people wanting to annihilate humanity or rule the world for some dubious reasons and as always, they are being thwarted by heroes making the world shaped today and history is quite lovely. I remebered Fire Emblem in this scenario though.
People also follow a certain leveling system in this world and although I can"t see it, there was this list that also got the catalogue of the levels which are the following.
1. Mortal (Level 0}
According to the knowledge I acquired, most people in this world are mortals. They have no levels and have no rank whatsoever in this world. People on Level 0 are called Mortal. Once you gain a level, you are no longer a mere mortal.
2. Mortal Trascedence (Level 1 -20)
In this level, it was divided from three sub levels called [Enlightenment] Level 1-10, [Epiphany]Level 11 - 15, and [Purification] Level 16 -20. Everyone who managed to level need to pa.s.s it to break through the next.
3.Pure Soul (Level 21 -30)
This level is quite harder to gain. Many people are all stucked in Mortal Transcedence and can"t break through. Reaching this level gives this people extra 300 years of their lifespan and they age slower. That is why this rank is also called the first step to immortality.
4. Pure Body (31 - 60)
People who reached this level is quite rare and according to the notes, my father is already level 60 when he was 19 years old. I don"t really know how he did it but he was already that strong when he was so strong. People who reached this level is quite strong and can destroy a kingdom if they want.
Beyond that is not listed on the book. I tried searching on my mind but there are no other list similar to this. Moreover, the history seems lacking. However, now I know that this world is more on revolving around strong people. Unless you are strong enough, you wont get bullied in this world. The strong holds this world. And to do that, I also need to be strong too.
My mind is made up, I need to get strong and for that I need to practice the skills I just learned.
There are many things that responds to my so called system. They don"t just respond on inanimate and unmoving objects, even animals are not safe. I can even learn a few skills from them.
"Gotcha!"
I grabbed the squirming squirrel that is busy eating an acorn into the tree. I was not able to properly hold the squirrel but it gave me a panel.
"Squirrel"
Status: Panicked
Occupation: None
Relations.h.i.+p with the host: None
Stats:
Strength: 5
Agility: 8
Endurance: 3
Intelligence: 3
Dexterity: 9
Skills:
1. Grooming Level 10 : By grooming the fur, it gives the user the ability to keep away from parasites on the body.
2.Steal Level 3: can take items away without the owner noticing. The higher the level, the lower the probability of being found and the higher probability of taking good rewards.
Indeed, squirrels are thieving animals. They have the Steal skill. I was a bit conflicted but then I decided to learn the [Steal] skill. It might help me in the future without me knowing.
"Extract [Steal]," I commanded.
"[Steal] was learned."
Before I was elated by the new skill, I was suddenly bitten by the squirrel.
"Ow!" I released the squirrel and look at my wound. Blood flow from the tiny wound and I am wounded. I got stunned but not due to wound but due to the next panel appearing after the wound appears on my hand.
"Pa.s.sive skills unlocked by the host from hidden circ.u.mstances that was activated. [Auto-Recovery] was learned."
Wow, who would have thought being bitten by a squirrel would result me to a new skill. I check it on what it really do.
"Auto-Recovery"
Level: 1
Type: Pa.s.sive
Mana Cost : 0
Description: Recovers automatically from wounds. Although it can"t automatically recover any wounds, its better if you want to get healthier from the wound as soon as possible.
Wow, for some reason, I feel like this system is getting better and better as time goes by. I think getting enough money later would be going to be easy.
My sister currently bring mother to the Healers so they won"t be back for a while. I can"t just do nothing at all since the books that should meant me to skim longer is already imprinted in my mind.
This world is inhabited by monsters, so if I want to earn easy money, I need to hunt monsters and sell their carca.s.s to the market. And to hunt monsters, I need to gain enough mastery to a weapon.
I got a skill from that lanky guy earlier and it was dagger mastery. Although sword skills should be more practical, we don"t have sword at home but in cases of daggers, the house keep them as kitchen knives.
The daggers should belong to my father in the past and since no one will use it anymore after father died, daggers are just a commodity not being used at home and mother just decided to use it as kitchen knives.
Its still pretty early. The day is longer here than on Earth since it is twice longer, therefore, it won"t be going to be nighttime. Practicing the dagger will do.
I quickly rush inside and check the kitchen knives placed in the tools section on the kitchen. I am quite short so I can"t properly grab it. Therefore, I have to climb up into a chair. Ugh, I really miss my normal height.
With a bit of struggle, I managed to climb up and saw the daggers lined up. I grab the medium length one and climb down from the chair before I check the dagger that I took. The panel also helped mW determine its power.
"Swash Dagger"
Durability: 23/40
Attack: 13
Description: A normal dagger that has been used as a kitchen knife after being neglected. Its sharp but not that sharp enough. However, you can still kill monsters with it.
This is enough I guess. I don"t really need a very sharp weapon to practice. Also, this dagger also came with a scabbard which is useful if I want to carry it with me.
I quickly swish and swash the dagger into the air. Somehow, I can"t really imagine much of this properly. I lunge a bit into the air and repeated my actions. What I didn"t expect was that after my countless of movements, a panel appeared.
"[Dagger Mastery] level up to level 2."
I was momentarily stunned before I grinned widely. My random slas.h.i.+ng and lunging in the air managed me to level up my [Dagger Mastery].
With that, it triggered my motivation to practice more.
I spent the whole afternoon doing a few slas.h.i.+ng motion but for some reason, the [Dagger Mastery] is still stuck to level 2. I am already exhausted and I am still not used to this body at all. Its been two hours since I have done my practices. Mother and sister would be here sooner or later.
After a few minutes of waiting, I saw mother and sister walking on the distance. I opened the gate and saw mother is crying. I look at my sister for explanation and she gestured me to go inside.
Mother locked herself to her room refusing herself to go out. I never saw mom this emotional.
"Why mom is crying?" I asked.
"We discovered that the lanky guy earlier just made up that debt thing but since he has a higher status than us, we can"t refute any of his blabbering about debt that we don"t have. n.o.body can help us either since no one wants to offend that guy for some reason," Sister Yukii explained.
Hearing that, I gritted my teeth. Is he that bored for us to be dragged into this mess that he made by himself? I made myself resolute to my decision.
"Sis, let me touch you again."