Chapter 226: Our Start |
Weapons... weapons... crap! I don't have one! Argh... I used up all my gold on Dahlia... How do we get out of this situation... I don't have anything. "Crap!" I held Dahlia's hand and began to run away. But I felt a strong tug as I was pulling her hand. She didn't even budge.
The air around her suddenly got stronger. Green light was coming out of her hands and the wind became stronger and stronger the longer it was on her arm.
"Dahlia!" I began to lose grip of her as I was being blown away. But Dahlia's grip on mine wasn't.
Imagine being outclassed by a woman in terms of strength... I told to myself.
But that wasn't the most surprising thing. The wind that was she was... doing something with is starting to take form in a shape of a book. "Nature's Catalyst!" Vines came out of her hand accompanied by beautiful pink flowers with so much petals were slowly wrapping around the book.
I had no clue what was going on. But it was magical... and beautiful.
The vines and the flowers disappeared as if like a glass shard being broken and inside of that was a beautiful green book that was surrounded by the same kind of flowers and vines.
The book opened on itself and hovered in front of Dahlia. "Gale Pierce!" I can see the wind taking shape into a spike like formation. All those spikes then launched themselves into the goblins hiding and revealed in and out of the bushes.
It was such a magical moment. Like a hero protecting his heroine. But in this case, I'm the heroine.
Every goblin was killed within a matter of seconds and the rustling in the bushes disappeared.
Dahlia's knees weakened and shell to the ground. I barely caught her as she was falling. "Hey! Are you okay!" I hope that wasn't one of those final attacks or something...
"Yeah... I am... I am." She sat up and coughed a little. "I just ran out of mana. Those shackles that we wore back there was preventing us from regenerating mana and I'm... a mage. So regenerating all the mana naturally will take me for a while."
"So you're going to be alright?" I still couldn't help but be worried about her health. Well she just recovered and got out from that cage.
"Yes."
"Oh... that's good..." I was so relieved. The first person I've ever seen in years... I couldn't bear to lose her. She's also my first companion so if she dies that's pretty much bad luck.
A bright light then shone through the side of my eyes. And as I looked at the source of the light, it was the su...n? I didn't know if I would still call it the sun since this is a different world. But either way, the star that was far in the horizon was shining. Illuminating the whole place and the whole world with its light.
Dahlia fell asleep on my arms and we're still pretty dangerous being here and dragging her back to the kingdom is impossible... I'm just gonna exhaust myself. And I probably wouldn't be able to drag her there with this weak body. We're like pretty far away from the kingdom.
I placed her body down in the grass and stripped the cloth that was on the bodies of the goblins and used it as a mattress.
"Hmm?" I noticed that my status went up some EXP just for doing that? I ignored it for now and just scavenged the forest for some food. I ignored the fruits that I haven't seen before and just picked the apples that I could find. I began to find sticks and rocks on the ground.
I took them from the ground and went back to where Dahlia was. "Uh... Crap... the only survival guide I know is what I learned from games... Uh..." I needed a weapon, just to fend off the monsters. So I grabbed the thin rock, and grinded it on top of the stick.
Okay... some from the game that I saw... stone axes has like a split on top of the stick and that's where the stone will go.
I spent some time waiting for Dahlia to wake up and making this axe. After a few hours, I finally managed to make a cut deep enough for the stone to get stuck to.
I pushed and pushed and it was pretty difficult to bash it in but it managed to work somehow. I needed some rope or some type of binding tool for me to use this so I scavenged the bushes and ripped it from there.
"Where's the plant fibers or something... I thought they're just in the bushes? Those rope like things... Argh... It seems like I literally have no clue on what I'd do here." I just grabbed the body? Of the bushes and wrapped it around the axe trying to bind it for it not to fall off. Well... its better than nothing. I need to protect myself and Dahlia if those goblins come back here wanting for revenge. I did steal the items of their dead comrades for me to use later. So this axe would be a help. Even though it might break on several swings.
I swung it several times and it seems to not fall off. Good... That seems nice. A system message appeared in front of me but that wasn't something that I was surprised about. I saw something from the corner of my eye
A bright light then was enveloping the whole axe. I immediately dropped it and let it go of the fear that there might be another enemy around us. But when the light disappeared, the axe that was one just a part of a bush, stone and a stick were turned into a full... AXE!?
The handle was perfect for my hand and it felt like it was sanded down by something. The edge was sharp for it being just a stone axe. I swung it at the tree and for my very weak arms, I managed to cut deep. Using a stone axe! I was confused. Until a uh... 'system?' message appeared in front of me.
[Gained skill, Crafting, immediately refines, reinforce and create things depending on what you're crafting.]
"How did I even get this skill... I haven't leveled up yet..." Just as I said that, a new system message popped up in front of me.
[Skill Discoverer, unlocks skills from all classes and undefined classes depending on what you're doing.]
That's interesting! This is cool! This really just feels like a game.
Excited as I was, I entered the forest again and started to chop down some trees. My first tree took me about half an hour as I was taking breaks every swing. My stamina isn't really that great seeing how I didn't exercise and ate that much food in like years since I was just focused on playing and watching stuff.
But with that in mind...
[Gained skill, Logging, dealing damage on a tree is now five times as powerful when using an Axe.]
I won't get EXP to level up or something but I can get more skills. This is great! Now I can discover more skills then just get stronger from then on. I began to unlock more skills that I doubt I'd use in the future but the more I unlock, the more I can use.
So I became a Herbalist and made myself some potion... I don't really do much. I just mix and match and its that easy. I also became a digger and digging things will be fast for me... I don't know what I'm going to use that for but I'll get what I can.
There are so many things to discover that I'd get drowned just by experimenting with this world... And I'll continue to learn more and more and get stronger and stronger every single day.
Good thing I start out the weakest! Of course this'll be a legend when I become a strong hero!
A weak young man transported into another world started out with nothing and became the strongest hero this world has ever seen!
Yeah that'd make a great story.
I went back to where Dahlia was and it seems that she's waking up. She looked around as if trying to figure out what was going on. "Its not a dream..."
"Dahlia?" I dropped the Axe and sat in front of her.
"Oh... nothing much. So I'm free from that cage..."
"Yeah... you're free now." I didn't know what to say so I just said the things that were on the top of my head.
"What do we do now?"
"Let's move. I wanna see more of this world."