In the eyes of Infinity

by ZathromX

(This is not a minecraft fanfic, this is an original fic, that I as a writer want to give back to the site after a long time for helping me start out my days as a writer. The story utilizes many other genres than the two listed. VR and litrpg included, so if u don't like them, u don't need to read them. To those who are interested, please enjoy.)

2. Chapter 2

UPDATE 2: New game

I couldn't move, where am I? I took a good look around me watching as people fled away from the village, and as the roaring flames around me consume the house and spread like a wildfire charing everything it touches black.

Right, now I remember, I got blasted by a Succubus.

I turned to my right, seeing my mithril sword just a few feet from my grasp. I tried to reach for it with whatever strength I have left, after a few seconds I halted my struggle.

Even if I could reach for it there wouldn't be any point. I can't beat her...

I was surrounded by flames and the screams of people. I've only got about 5 percent of my HP left and it was still decreasing at a fast rate from a debuff called burn. The house I was shot into was in flames and could crumble any second, the burning pain I'm feeling after that large attack only tempted me to stay down rather than escape. Why did Astral have to add pain to this game?

Suddenly a familiar voice began shouting to me.

"Zach!"

"Zach! Get up!"

I could hear someone calling out to me, but I couldn't get up even if I wanted to right now.

"Damn I thought that my life had some more purpose in this new world, I guess not"

I sighed at myself before giving a horse cough as I slowly looked up at the glowing white moon.

How did this even start?

It started with that day 3 months ago, the day when my life changed forever...

June 13, 2070. 5:21PM.

It was evening, I rushing back to my apartment on my bike from my part time job. It was today that Astral was going to release the final update for the VR Survival MMORPG Infinitus Online, along with that Astral's exclusive server limited to only 5 million people world wide.

I was cycling as fast as I could sparing each breath I took to the point where I could either break my bike or break my legs or both.

Being one of those 5 million players was my driving force and playing on that server was my goal. The reason for this was like I said the server was exclusive, the reason Astral labeled it as such is because that server will be the only server where the new update will be launched, and every other server won't have it.

They said on the forum that the amount of content and data in this was enormously too much to be released for all servers and until they can fix it, this will be the only server that will host the update. Once the limit reaches 5 million only the ones who logged in in time and entered their code would be accepted and its release is 5:30 PM United States standard time, I had 9 minutes to get to my apartment and input my login code I got from the nearest game store.

I finally reached home after 7 more minutes, as soon as I saw the building of my apartment, I threw my bike aside on the sidewalk and ran up to my room.

"I've got to hurry c'mon hurry...!" I bashed through the door and sprinted to my bedroom, turned on the computer, logged on my VR account on my software and immediately input the code given to me. A countdown icon appeared in the upper right of my computer's screen, it was made just for this event. I positioned my cursor on the enter button and prepared myself until the last ten seconds.

10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...0!

As soon as I saw the timer hit zero I immediately clicked my left mouse button.

Another window appeared with a text saying.

Your code has been submitted to our server's system please check tomorrow for confirmation

I exhaled deeply before launching myself back on my chair in relief. After a minute of catching my breath I was able to return to a more relaxed state.

What about me? Who am I? I don't really know, well I guess I wouldn't really call myself as a normal person even before I got dragged into this incident and I at the moment I don't really think it matters anymore, but I'm about to die anyway so why not? My name is Zachary Isaac Fallen.

I know, my name sounds like a hero from a fantasy world, I find people always making fun of me for that every time I fail in something. Not that I cared I still took pride in it no matter who was making fun of me.

I'm currently 18, just graduated from high school. I'm applying to a certain college, but that story is for another time.

I was orphaned at the age of 12 due to my parents being deceased from a house robbery incident that happened back then, I'm lucky to still be alive from that. I was adopted by my aunt and uncle and raised me like my parents would have, though I never got over the incident until now. Ever since that time I learned a truth about reality, our reality at least, sucks. Unfair, cruel, limited, in my opinion the real world can all just go to hell for all I care... I wouldn't say all of it, but if all the world's trash would disappear it would be a much better place.

Growing up I was the shy and unsociable nerd who loved to play games to escape reality. Unlike the world I lived in playing games made me have a purpose, a goal, an objective on what to do in life whether it be saving the princess or saving the world you actually have a purpose and even if the game doesn't give you one it's not limited to real life you can act and live a life not bound to the limitations of the real world.

I first found Infinitus Online when I was 10 years old through my parents since they worked at Astral, that was also the time I was introduced to games as well as VR and became addicted to it. It was ironic though that I got my first VR set when I was 14 due to safety requirements of the gear.

Once I logged into Infinitus I felt like I could do anything. I played it day in and day out non stop. The unlimited possibilities that can be done was extraordinary it felt like heaven, building castles, slaying mobs, going on adventures and discovering new things, I loved the world and I wanted it to live on, well it did just not in a way I thought it would.

When I finally turned 18 I inherited my parent's fortune thanks to the support of my parent's friends in Astral and a couple of lawsuits and am living alone in my apartment.

Enough about me though let's get back to what is actually happening.

I leaned back on my chair for a few more minutes imagining the new content that was added into the game. My mind flooded with numerous ideas, the more I think the more I excited I got. I was like a little kid jumping up and down on Christmas Eve. However, there was one setback that I found annoying to this update and probably the only reason I am like this, its the fact that most of the details or all of the details to this update were entirely disclosed from the general gaming community using "Surprise" as their excuse. I don't really understand what their doing in general, but I'm guessing this was a marketing stunt persuading people to buy their new content, I mean it worked on me.

The only thing they did say is that we don't need to use our VR gear to join, more or less even play. I never understood what they meant by that, it was so vague that everyone all over the world not just in gaming as well as others in VR companies and other people were raising questions, all with no answers. The ones who probably had them were Astral's head executive chairman [Arthur] and probably the VR company chairman, but [Arthur] has never showed his face to the public and have since lived in secrecy and the VR chairmen weren't budging either.

Questions and worries filled my mind.

Did I make it? I wonder what new things they added this time? What should I do first? God I hope I made it!

I did all sorts of things to calm me down, but no matter how hard I tried my mind was fixated on the game. So I just decided to go to bed. I finally fell asleep after some time later that night.

June 14, 2070. 9:01 AM
I woke up in my bed the next day and drowsily raised myself up to a seated position. I rubbed my eyes and yawn, I turned my head towards my computer and suddenly remembered.

"Right the game, I gotta know if I got accepted in the server!"

I jumped out of bed and rushed to the computer seat. I closed my eyes and prayed that I got in as soon as I opened my personal email on my VR software. I slowly opened my eyes and immediatly widened and my mouth gaping wide open with amazement.

Congratulations Zachary Isaac Fallen! You are the 5000000th player to join the server!
"Yes...Yes! Oh my God Yes! I got in!"

I mean it's 5 millionth, but that doesn't matter!

After about 30 minutes of yelling and rejoicing I soon settled back into my chair. After I closed the first window and another one came.

Would you like to join now?
Yes/No?
I obviously clicked yes. I cracked a smile thinking of all the different things I should do when I start, I felt like a little kid again just like the time I started playing. I had so much expectation of what the game would be, but no one could have expected what happened next. My screen immediately turned black.

"Huh? What happened?"

I raised an eyebrow and was about to do an examination, but the next thing I knew, a bright flash of light filled my apartment. My eyes widened in surprise and only began raising questions, what followed was a horribly painful headache. I gripped my head and soon began shouting and wailing in my pain.

"AAARRGHH!"

I continued to shout in pain and fell on the floor succumbing to it, I was dead frozen.

I can't move what is this?

I felt my vision slowly fading into darkness.

It's not really a problem, somebody should have heard me scream earlier, help is probably on the way by now anyway.

As I lied there, another thought jumped in my mind.

What if nobody comes?

Is this it? Am I going to die? Well, if I do, I guess I never had any real purpose in this world and no one is going to regret my death anyway.

A couple of minutes have past, still slightly conscious, able to think at least. Nobody seems to be coming, and I can't do anything, not even my voice can pull through.

Who knows someone might be coming, but I guess this is it. If this really is me dying, I do regret not playing the Infinitus Online content before this unfortunate event happening, but I can't really do anything about it anymore.

Just before I saw the darkness a voice called out to me.

"Your purpose has yet to be completed Zachary"

Those were the final words before I blacked out.

I slowly opened my eyes. In the darkness of my minds thoughts I saw two worlds one being built the other being destroyed. I was confused and began to raise questions.

"What is this...?"

A mysterious feminine voice sounded the area.

"It is up to you to decide the fate of this world"

What did she say?!

"What...who are you?! What do you mean!?"

I continued to shout out my questions, but to no avail.

"In time you shall know the truth."

Then the two worlds clashed against one another and a flash of bright light filled the area. I didn't understand what those words meant under all the confusion I was in on the moment but they sounded important. I soon woke up.

I took deep breaths as I placed my hand over my forehead trying to understand what I just saw.

"What was that?"

I soon took notice that I was breathing or even moving for that matter. My eyes widened in shock and thoughts began to fill my mind as I looked down at my hands.

Wait I'm alive? I'm not dead yet? I thought that I died, did that voice was the one that saved me. Purpose huh, maybe I do have a purpose to live, dammit if only she told me what it was.

No, I'm probably over exaggerating this. Well I guess being alive is a good thing, but not knowing my purpose after being told is a bit frustrating! At least I can start playing now.

But before I could do anything a sense of heat welled in my left hand.

"Gh!"

I turned my hand around to look at it and on it was a glowing blue symbol of some sort, a picture of a woman with her hands positioned on her chest as if to hide something. I continued to daze mystified by its purpose.

What is this...?

But before I could examine it further it disappeared.

Never mind I guess...

I decided to leave that weird occurrence as it may and settle it another time.

I turned my head upwards to find myself in a lush green forest.

So I spawned here? Where's everyone else? Guess I bugged out huh? Dammit I knew that being the 5 millionth player had a catch to it. Whatever I guess, I'm here and that's all that matters.

I stood up and looked downward to examine what I was wearing.

Hm, lets see. Starter shirt, Starter pants, Starter shoes, well this is how we start after all, though... why are all of them color black? I don't really mind, but is it random of how they chose the color scheme?

I started looking around my vision to see my hud. There are only listed a few details on my hud, Name, Race, Level, Experience, then HP, MP and SP gauges.

Zach Fallen Race: Human LVL:1 EXP: 00.00%
50/50 HP
20/20 MP
65/65 SP
50HP, 20HP, 65SP? Something's not right, I should go to my Character profile.

I proceeded to checking if my UI works by testing the avatar.

"Character profile."

Name Zachary Isaac Fallen Strength 6
Level 1 00.00% Fortitude 9
Gender Male Agility 13
Race Eximus Dexterity 11
Age 18 Intelligence 13
Health 50/50 HP Mental Strength 5
Stamina 65/65 SP Mental Constitution 4
Mana 20/20 MP Mental Recovery 0.001 MP/s
Vitality 0.005 HP/s Points Remaining 0
Endurance 0.03 SP/s Status Normal

What kind of race is that? Eximus...

In Infinitus Online there were already numerous races to choose from the start, around 20 if I can remember, and in a span of 50 years Astral has made a very diverse set of races for players to choose from and have long since past the hundreds. The game has combined monsters from numerous mythologies to form most of the races, Demi-humans, Elves, Dwarves, Angels, Demons even Undead can be found, though I've never seen this race before. Maybe it's apart of the update.

Well it hell of a lot better than getting a boring human as a race. Though it would be nice to know the benefits of this race. Maybe that symbol is apart of it, but I'm not sure.

What got me stumped on this is that there is Age. That has never been mentioned before in any VR game that I have played, and it shows my exact age as well, it must be some scan they did or they just copied it of from the info I gave them, I don't really know.

Though other than that I am actually a bit happy and sighing in relief.

I was told and it was mentioned on multiple sites that Astral might have added Classes into the game.

This game never had Classes to begin with it was mostly just through what ever weapon or magic that a player could get skills on, however with classes there are limitations, example an archer can only use a bow and can never use a sword if the person tried. That was how it used to work before and I am happy that almost all RPG's stopped using it. When Astral first introduced it into the gaming world I was clapping joyfully in my mind as if I had seen a major achievement, and it really was.

Ever since they removed classes everyone has wanted to be what the community calls as Magic Swordsman. It means a person who can use both weapon techniques and magic spells, it sounds pretty interesting and powerful, but it was a very hard build to maintain.

Specifically in attribute points, there are only so many a player can get at the start and during the latter parts of the game so players have to choose between physical and magical stats. Increasing both of these need to be very precise to make the build work. There was also the issue of combo's using Weapon techniques along with the spells the player had, but since there were no classes there wasn't really any skill that was specified towards the build and most people dropped it.

Even I had trouble when I was experimenting on the build and my god that was hell. However the update may have changed some mechanics so I want to try it out again to see if it will work out.

So new goal: Magic Swordsman.

I went to my Attributes.

There are a lot of Attributes, there are some new one's I'm seeing, Mental Strength, Mental Constitution, Mental Recovery those Attributes were never there before.

Are those supposed to represent magic stats? Then what's the use of Intelligence then? That's weird, I'll explore onto that on a later time.

What's even more peculiar is that all my stats are in an erratic arrangement. It used to be 50HP, 50MP and 75SP as starters for humans so why are they less? Then for the Attributes it should all be 5 each, why are they numbered like this? Also what's up with those regen. stats? isn't that a bit too low?

The racial benefits of the human race were that had a body a bit tougher than some races, it was for those who were looking at physical and melee combat, what's more is that it's a race that offered balanced stats, compared to other races like Elves who had higher magic base stats or Demi-Humans depending on the race would boost specific stats whether physical or magic. However that was back then I'm not sure how it is now, as a human race I would say that my beginning stats are a bit low.

This may be a problem since this game is a numerical system maybe it's changed, but are these just random? I'll figure that out later, lets just check if everything works fine.

"Skills"

Active
None

Passive
Hand to Hand Combat Mastery LVL 3

Support
Language Comprehension

-English LVL MAX

Mathematics

-Simple Math LVL: MAX

Special
Awakened LVL MAX

Magic Perception LVL 1

5 skills. Well that's not normal, also how do I have Hand to Hand Combat Mastery as a passive skill? Its logical at the very least, but anyone can do it before and this skill never popped up, it was more of Martial arts that came through rather than this. And why is there a level should'nt it be based on strength? On that note there isn't an EXP meter, so how is it exactly supposed to level up?

Another thing, why do I have Language Comprehension and Mathematics as support skills? This doesn't make any sense, usually support skills are skills like crafting or fishing, I've never seen these as support skills before.

I put some time in thought to think of a reason, but my reasoning seemed to have failed in giving me an assured answer to this.

Seriously when Astral said that this update was going to be huge, they should have at least told us about stuff like this. What's Awakened and Magic Perception supposed to be? I've never seen any of these skills before and what are Special skills supposed to be?

This is giving me a headache, I'll look into it later.

"Equipment"

A window appeared with a 3D model of my body placing info on all parts that could be equipped with an item, as it looks I can equip every part of my body. That's a good feature, however as of now these are the only equipment I have.

Body part Upper torso Lower Torso Feet
equipment Black shirt Black Pants Black shoes

They are not giving me a stat value, that's weird, is it bug? It's a new server after all so its probable that some bugs may have slipped along with the update. Other than that I suspect that its low level so I'll be sure to get much more better equipment in the future. I vowed in my mind. I continued to scan through, however when I called the next one, it didn't appear.

"Inventory"

It didn't appear. Confusion began to linger in as I began calling out to it several times.

What the...? Its not appearing. Is there something wrong?

I continued to call out the other windows just to make sure, and almost all of them had the same result.

"Map"

What's wrong is the system in a glitch or something? Continuing on...

"Mail"

It didn't appear either.

"Friends list?"

Nope, none of the 4 appeared.

What's wrong is this really a glitch or something? Wait! If these 3 did'nt appear then-!

Hesitant to say the Menu name, I said it stuttering, worried that it wouldn't appear.

"O-Options..."

It appeared. I sighed in relief. I began scanning through it and noticed something peculiar.

Wait something is wrong. Where's the logout icon?

Cold sweat began to pour down from my cheek.

Oh no this is bad! I've heard incidents where the players logout icon didn't work and sometimes ended up getting stuck in the system for a while, however this time it's not even there in the first place! What the hell is wrong with this?! Where's the GM assistance icon? Shit its not here either! The only thing that is here are Notifications! Like that's going to help me.

I scratched my head trying to think of a reasonable explanation for this, besides the fact that this system is totally broken in terms of the features of a player's avatar.

After a few minutes of thinking I sighed in frustration and patted my pocket. Surprisingly enough I felt a hard rectangular object in it, curious I took it out, though I wish I didn't.

It was a small purple flat rectangular item, much like the appearance of an smartphone without any visible buttons to press.

What is this? A window appeared

Audio Recording
Title: A message from the Admin
An audio recording? Why would I have this? A message from the Admin? Is that supposed to be Arthur? What does he want to tell us?

At its center was a play button. I pressed it and what appeared after was a holographic screen, at its center was a man whose face cannot be seen through the video.

The holographic image began to speak.

"To start of I want to introduce myself. My name is Arthur, the creator of Infinitus Online. If you are hearing this message then that must mean you are one of the lucky five million to have made it in to our exclusive server. Congratulations on your entry. However, rather than a priviledge I would honestly say in your case that this is a death sentence."

Death sentence? What, does he mean by that?

"You must have some questions as to what I mean by this. You may or may not have already checked your options menu before you have watched this recording and sooner or later you will discover that the log out feature is gone. Do not worry, as this is a special feature added to the new update. There is one last special feature that our update has combining the technology we have with the latest VR tech we call Infinity."

They did this intentionally? What? I am so confused.

I began scratching my head again, after a few seconds I stopped after hearing his next words. The following words made my eyes slowly widened to form a blank expression on my face, the words sent chills running down my spine like shockwaves and cold sweat began to pour down as I continued to listen. Those words were...

"In this world you only have one life, there are no respawns, once you die its game over. There is only one reason all of you have been summoned to this world and that is to play my game, as such I decided to make it have a much more thrilling experience. Dying in this world means death in the old world."

What did he just say?! I continued to listen intently as I held my trembling hands.

"When you first logged in several hours ago, our system released a systematic electromagnetic wave similarly identical to your brain waves, sending your mind into a state of comatose, we apologize if there was any harm in that process, the bright light you saw before you fainted was disguised as a virtual scanner, scanning your entire body. After we transmitted it into the game, your avatar as of now is a replica of your body, well what it used to be. Now allow me to go back on my statement of how death in this world is the same as in real life, to put it bluntly your body does not exist in the real world anymore. It has been virtualized as another part of our system consisting a billions of ones and zeros. Once you die you will be erased from our server's system, once that is finished there is no way from coming back. In conclusion to this your body is not in the real world, it is here reborn in my world."

Is what he said really true?! No wait can this even be done in general?! No way! No, no, no this can't be happening...

"Don't believe me? Here are some of the latest news events."

Another window then appeared with a newscaster on it. Its main caption was "5 million missing! Newest VR technology deadly?"

"5 million people worldwide have disappeared without a trace, currently we are still clarifying who are missing. Witnesses claim to have seen their disappearance after seeing a bright light flash from their computer. Investigators believe it is the fault of the newest VR technology, currently scientists all over the world are trying their best to solve the situation."

More and more began appearing just like it, all in different languages, reporting the same thing.

"I will not be revealing the reason I take such actions, however there is still hope in reclaiming your former body, the only way to do so is if you complete my game. Once the game is completed all your bodies will be recreated through Infinity, though only those who survive long enough shall be able to witness their freedom. It doesn't matter how you do it, this is my world after all."

"As such I wish you all the best of luck."

END OF RECORDING

The holographic screen then shrunk back into the purple rectangle.

After the message my mind was blank, I didn't know what to do. Why is this happening? How did this happen? The same questions kept coming back to my head. I looked towards my hands, they were shaking I was scared, of course I was. To destroy and recreate our bodies here and back, our world currently has no such technology to accomplish this!

I felt a pain grow in my left chest and I began to take deep breaths. I fell to the ground struggling to calm myself down.

My chest! Why does it hurt?! Is this my heart? There was never any pain added in this game before, this is the first time I've experienced it in the VR world. So this is what he meant by thrilling...

It took me some time of constant struggling to get my mental state and reasoning back on track. I began to breathe more easily and my hand gripping my chest has also loosened and I was able to stand back up.

Ok, I've managed to calm myself down. This is real, all of it is real.

So if this is my real body then...

I went towards a nearby water hole, bended down on my knees and looked in the water and saw a face. A face hiding behind long black bangs together with a unique hairstyle, beneath were gentle round black eyes with a round face which set me aside from the other guys my age making me look younger from the rest.

The face that I designed was gone. It was my face in the real world the face that I wanted to escape from, the sight sent a chill down my spine. I began touching my face all over just to double check, but unfortunately it was real.

There's no doubt about it that's my face. They really paid attention to the detail, I wish I designed my own appearance, but I guess seeing my real face is better than something the system would have designed for me if there ever was a feature.

Since this world is the same as real life, then the reason a number of the features not working is because [Arthur] is following the rules of the real world. Then that would mean the reason there was age and my stats were erratic was because they measured me and how I was entirely? I really was a weakling back in the old world, though I did get some pretty average to good grades so that must explain my Intelligence, I still don't know about MS and MC. In terms of my erratic stats there must be a way to counteract that. Inventory then must only be limited to how much I can hold. I guess having a portable mail system and mapping system in this world would be counted as illogical, but if I know anything about [Arthur] and this game is that there is always way.

Hand to Hand Combat Mastery... Ah, that must be from me trying to defend myself against the bullies at school, I don't want to remember those days.

As for support skills, I understand the english language well enough and if I were to guess why its registered as a support skill is because its practical. The requirements from my understanding to be counted as a skill is both knowledge and practicality so Language Comprehension and Mathematics fit those two and is the reason why none of the other subjects like Science and History are registered here because its just knowledge without any practicality.

Also Language Comprehension doesn't mean that I can write well using the english language it just means I understand how the language works from reading to writing to speaking. Math though... well not my best subject, I can't even remember any of the theories they taught me back then, not like its going to matter to me especially not in this world.

I'm surprised Gaming wasn't here, but now that I think about it, it's not really specific plus all I did play are VR games so I'm not sure to call that gamin or fighting.

I don't know how I learned Magic perception and Blessed, but I guess I have it.

For learning and understanding the rules
+1 INT

What the heck? For learning and understanding the rules... How did I get Attribute points from that?

I put a minute of thought to understand what that window meant, and I found a reason, in my own definition.

Ah, I get it. Since I learned something new, I got INT because it increases my ability to learn. So will the other Attributes work the same way? If that's so then that means it's a grind type system of training not numerical. I guess that's why there weren't any EXP meters in the skills menu since one would need to train and if there was an EXP meter it wouldn't really be as accurate from person to person since experience would vary, so how exactly is it supposed to level up?

If INT, MS (Mental Strength), MC (Mental Constitution) and MR (Mental Recovery) are of the mind, then that would mean STR, FRT, END, AGI, VIT and DEX are of the body. However I am still uncertain how Mental Strength and Mental Constitution are increased.

So if this is a grind type system then why are there points on the character profile, shouldn't it not be there since attributes can now be trained naturally, this world has so many contradicting features.

Well, putting that aside. What should I do first?

I then felt a disturbance in my stomach region, the sound of grumbling came to my ears as I placed my hands on top of it.

I guess its food. I didn't eat breakfast after all, alright first I need a weapon. Since this world is real they didn't give us any starter crafting recipes to help us and once I do learn a crafting recipe it should appear on my Crafting skill list.

Guess I'll craft a flint knife, it was the very first weapon players had to craft once they entered the game. Alright let's do that.

The materials for this crafting recipe are simple, first obviously a piece of flint, next is rope and lastly a stick. Now it doesn't seem complicated, but in this world the process of doing it is a bit tedious.

After another few minutes of searching I found my materials.

I don't have that nifty crafting system anymore, before it used to be that the system would do it for us once we get all the materials, but now its different.

Lets see, I guess I should start with this, I got a nearby rock and started smashing it on the flint to form sharp edges. After a few minutes of continuous pounding, I made into a shape much similar to the edge of a knife. Windows began appearing.

New skill: Crafting learned!
Crafting will be added to support skills!

New sub skill: Flintknapping learned!
Flintknapping will be added to Crafting support skills!

New sub skill: Tool making learned!
Tool making will be added to Crafting support skills!

New Crafting recipe: Sharpened Flint learned!
Crafting recipe: Sharpened flint will be added to crafting recipes

You have crafted Sharpened Flint!
So this already counts as crafting? Huh, that's convenient. Wow that's a lot of skills just from doing that, all are very specific too. The game never had those before, essentially it was just crafting. I'll check out how that works later.

Thats done, how am I supposed to make rope with grass? After a few attempts of trying to tie it to the stick it ended with me knotting it into a thick rope about a few feet in length enough for me to use. A window appeared.

New Crafting recipe: Grass rope learned!
Crafting recipe: Grass rope will be added to crafting recipes
Afterwards I took my stick and sharpened flint and tied it together with my grass rope. A window appeared.

New crafting recipe: Flint knife learned
Crafting recipe: Flint Knife will be added to crafting recipes

Cool, but its not giving me the skill... usually it would give the skill when a player touches the weapon. Hm... maybe I should swing it a couple of times? This is a real life system after all so just touching the weapon won't really give a skill.

So I did.

I took a deep breath and concentrated my strength into my swing. I made a horizontal slash using my right hand and quickly made a thrust forward after and shouted.

"HAAAHHH!"

Taking some breaths I waited patiently for the window to appear, but it didn't. My expression turned embarrassed as I scoured the area around me to see if anyone was there even though I'm sure there weren't any.

Well that was a bit embarrassing... I hope nobody heard that. I shook my head moving on.

Its not giving it to me, maybe a couple more...

So what I can only tell was a few minutes of swinging and stabbing into the air until I felt comfortable. On my final thrust the window finally appeared.

One-Handed Dagger Mastery obtained!
One-Handed Dagger Mastery will be added to Passive skills.

Ok, so I have to attack a few times before I get the skill, but it only gave it to me once I had gotten a hang of it, though I said this, it does not mean that I am adequately skilled with using it. It just means that I have used it enough for me to have a basic understanding of how to use it.

Now I wonder how the techniques are going to be learned. Before if I remember correctly it was more of a skill tree like system, so if I continue to use it I should be able to learn them right? I'm not so sure. The skill tree wasn't of course the only way to get skills, there were of course ways like the book system or the teacher system to learn special or relative skills. Ányway I should be able to judge if its still here once I start fighting.

Now lets see the stats. A window appeared.

Name Flint knife
Range Very short
Status Sharp

Its not showing me all the details, right I can't calculate the weight and durability of an object just by looking at it also its the same with the defense value I can't see its attack value, this is real life after all so I guess it's reasonable.

It's probably weak too... Well even if it is, a couple stabs with this should be enough to fetch me some breakfast.

Lets go hunting.

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