May your journey be wondrous and adventure be legendary!

A voice echoed through the forest. Causing small critters to flee. The voice sounded mildly distressed, as the voice rang out "WHY DO I HAVE A PASSIVE AND WHY IS IT ANXIETY"

[Calm yourself quickly, or else you will die. Thankfully you got out of your running spree pretty quickly, or you would have died. The system just matches stats to what it can find. I originally didn't know you were anxious, and now you have to deal with it. At least you have a nice indicator of when you are stressing yourself too much]

A calm, soothing voice rang in his head as Ava sounded different from usual. She seemed slightly worried for him, and instead of trying to bring up negative emotions for her own games, she was trying to calm him down. After a few moments he checked his new fancy Stress stat, and it was at a cool (10/100), which was functional at this moment.

After looking around better he decided to ask, 'Ok, is there a way to stop the passive, since I don't want this forever? Also, there is something weird with this forest right? Since I should be able to find someone or hear some sort of civilization but all hear is general forest noises.mp4'

[I'll let your ghost friend explain the forest and to do that you just need to inspect the fog. For the anxiety thing, you are keeping it currently. You might be able to resolve it later, but not now. I should have expected this because you are pretty much a normal human being. This much change must have triggered distressed and changed the anxiety trigger… Check your anxiety passive now… Also, say passive status to get the status of your passives. Same thing for other things in your status.]

First, he decided to learn about where he was so he looked at the mist and inspected it, as it could be key to his survival.

{{Fog of the lost,

Description: Part of the curse that curses this world. Originates from the Forest of the lost, and the fog has a large amount of mana and magical essence in it. Which has left people thinking this might be a spell. Seemingly to play tricks on the mind.}}

{{The Forest of the lost,

Danger: High

Description: When a forest on the continent becomes foggy, space seems to lose ground and takes whoever enters somewhere else. Most that enter are never seen again, while the few that have survived tell tales of horrendous beasts in thick fog. Keep to the light fog to survive…}}

'Ok, so basically stay out of the thick fog or death. Wait this morning you told me that you felt a high amount of mana coming out from a certain direction. Can you make a direction thingy so that I know I am not going in a circle and I can hopefully travel towards civilization again?'

[I'll answer for him, the mana in the surrounding area is too high right now, If that mana burst is a small star, then the fog around us is like a whole galaxy worth of stars. Making it hard to tell and focus on that small little star. Once we are out of the fog, we should be able to tell the direction of the largest mana source. ]

'Fine, so I am stuck. I guess I just have to survive and move to find a way out of the fog. Then Passive Status'

[[Passive: Anxiety(-): Causes the user to lose some sense of reality. Bringing on the feeling of being crushed, Causes Intelligence to be halved, and Speed and strength to be slightly strengthened, at the cost of your health. (Automatically triggered when stress gets to 85)

]]

'Weird, before it said 50, and my intelligence was a quarter. Why did it change?'

[Due to the distressed effect. When faced with so many emotions, it's hard to keep them in, so it affects passives… If you had the rage passive, then distressed probably would have made you lose your mind while taking more stamina away. It is probably my fault, to be honest. I pushed you too much and played a bit too much.]

'Its fine. I know you meant to lighten things, I think. Anyway, we need to survive this. I guess I am lucky I packed at least a weapon and some water… Or I would have died in less than a day.'

[Oh yeah I forgot, I withheld this because you were having a panic attack. You got a quest and a nice reward.]

[[QUEST:

Name: Survive

Description: The host has entered a dangerous forest with a low probability of survival, which isn't good for an interesting story, So the system has given a quest to help the host. In a dangerous forest that will remain foggy for a month, the host must find ways to survive that long to hopefully see the light of civilization.

Objectives:

- Find shelter(incomplete)

- Get a solid source of food(incomplete)

- Find water(incomplete)

- Train your sword skills by killing 100 monsters (0/100)

- Absorb some mana to increase your strength (0/2)

Duration: 1 month (0/30)

Reward:

- [Hidden]

- [Hidden]

Failure:

-Death

May your journey be wondrous and adventure be legendary!

]]

'Why are there so many requirements and why are the rewards hidden? What type of survival quest is this?'

Then a green screen lit up, reminding Lucras of one thing.

{{Forest of the lost,

Danger: HIGH

}}

'Oh, so this is to make sure I am strong enough to survive… hmmm fine… I will trust you all since you seemed to not want me to die. But I wish you both wouldn't withhold what you know. Just let me know so I don't get blindsided'

He then heard giggling, It sounded like 2 voices, but one of them was almost too faint to hear. As usual, the giggling became distant until he didn't hear them again. Seeing that he was in the middle of nowhere, he pulled out his only weapon, his sword.

Then looking around to make sure he didn't drop anything, he traveled into the forest.