Choosing an element, stats, and cultivation talent

"Welcome host, Dumb luck system means that you will encounter many situations where you can find lucky opportunities, but at the same time, your mistakes can bring you harm. The higher your luck, the smaller the chance of something horrible happening to you. More information available only after you decide whether to keep your system or not"

"So I can decide?"

"You can decide which side of the coin you choose. If the coin lands on your chosen side, you will keep your current talent which is unimaginably high but won't get the chance to step onto the path of luck, and if it will be the opposite, you will lose your current talent but will get the chance to step onto the path of luck."

"Alright! I choose 'head', and you will be 'tails''."

Since Thomas was sure he was still dreaming, he didn't take it seriously and casually decided. After all, both choices will be interesting, right? As for harm, what can happen to him in his dream? He was eaten by zombies already. Could it be more painful than this?

"Alright, let's flip a coin!"

Thomas used his thumb to toss the coin into the air and looked at it attentively as it was spinning. He was excited to know what type of adventure he will face in his dreams today. There were pros and cons to both, so it didn't matter to which one it will be. He was only waiting for this flipping a coin thing to end and to start his journey.

*clink*

The coin landed, and tails won.

"Alright, host, congratulations, you are lucky enough to get the chance of entering the path of luck. Now, you will get a starter pack the host will fall unconscious first so the system can impart it without any problems."

"Again! Wait! Stop I don't need a..."

Thomas was unconscious before he could even get an answer.

"In this pile of books, there is nothing about this so-called htrae, only cultivation techniques, was this guy a madman? What can he do with it anyway? It's not like he can use books for beginners."

While Yu Yan was complaining about lack of information, Zhang Wei in a room beside her was profusely sweating while sitting in a lotus position.

Since they went inside of this inheritance, he just grabbed a book with a fire element and started trying it out.

"I did it! I did it! Hahahahha! I achieved it! Wait, Yu Yan, you were reading these all books! Can you tell me what I've accomplished?"

"We can talk about it later, tell me what is different now?"

"When I concentrate, I feel like there is something inside of me, it's almost weightless like air, or even lighter! Also, I learned this new trick! Look!"

Zhang Wei stretched his hand forward with his palm facing upwards, closed his eyes, let out a breath and then suddenly opened them again, but this time, his palm wasn't empty, there was a small flame swaying on it, extinguishing almost the same moment it appeared. This flame was feeble, fragile and dim, but it was the greatest thing both of them ever saw. It was unimaginable that someone will be able to create a flame in this way.

"H-How?"

"Haha! Of course, it's because of my hard work! Oh, and where is Li Na?"

"Li Na is still choosing what to eat!"

"Really? What's taking her so long?"

"She said that she will eat only certain food and is searching for something edible for her taste buds."

While they were thinking about this peaky eater and wondering what background she came from to have such disgust for average food, the same person who was supposed to be a peaky eater was trying everything that appeared before her. Tofu, pork, noodles, beef, chicken, tea, there was nothing she wouldn't try and then show a blissful expression.

'I haven't eaten so much in ages! Only if my stomach could contain more! There is so much food here! If only me and my mom could get it when we needed it the most!'

Li Na was reminiscing about her past, slightly slowing down her eating. She was already almost full to the point of vomiting, so it didn't change much.

'It's time to burn some calories now!'

This 1,40m tall girl wth green hairs made into two braids reaching her waist, and green eyes showed a determined expression.

'So what that I eat much, I will cultivate to faster exercise and then exercise to burn calories! Thanks to it, I can eat what I want and how much I won't without getting fat.'

This way, one of the few thousand people who lived in this world with such a high talent found an inspiration to start their journey of cultivation only to taste everything in the world.

'Which one should I choose?'

After walking out of the room that they chose as the dining room, Li Na started looking for an element she would like to cultivate.

'Fire was already chosen by Zhang Wei since he said something about having an affinity with it. What can be useful to me? Lightning no, Wind no, 'Voi', Nature!'

Just as Li Na was looking at the book in her hand, she saw another one, which was nature!

'Nature equals free food! Maybe I will even be able to create my food that doesn't exist yet!'

When she thought about so many possibilities in the future, she grabbed a manual about it and started learning on the spot.

"What happened to the two of you? Can't both of you think about what to do after we leave? We have enough food to last a year for the three of us, cultivation techniques I skimmed through will be good for us until Iron Core formation."

Yu Yan couldn't even end her speech because Zhang Wei already started to get confused.

"What's Iron Core formation?"

"Oh, you don't know about cultivation stages yet? There is:

Qi Gathering stage which splits into smaller steps:

from one to nine, and each smaller one has four phases:

Lower phase, medium phase, higher phase and peak phase."

"So many?"

"Yeah. Then there is Foundation Establishment splitting the same way as Qi Gathering. And now we arrived at Iron Core Formation. It's a smaller phase in Core Formation phase, which consists of Iron, Bronze, Golden, Platinum, Diamond, and each one of them is build the same way as Qi Gathering."

"Even more? How long will it take me to achieve it? I don't have so much time!"

"Don't worry. I've learned that at a certain point, your lifespan will increase, for example, after completing the whole Qi Gathering stage, you will be able to live as long as 150 years."

"You sure learned a lot. Have you already decided which path you will cultivate?"

"Until I need to stay here, I will cultivate Lightning since it will be useful in the future for me. I want to write down my actual knowledge before I still can remember it. I want to make this world progress. They are relying on cultivation too much. I think that science can bring only benefits to them. When I write down my knowledge, then I will begin cultivation and will do some research."

"So you planned so much into the future? I think that after living in this place, I will travel and search for strong opponents I can face to improve my fire powers."

'This maniac. I don't know what is so interesting in all this fighting when there is a whole new world of knowledge to explore.'

Meanwhile, the moment Thomas woke up, he was interested in this cultivation technique that he has got from the system.

"Please wait, host, maybe you want to check your stats first, and then you can think whether you want to try and cultivate or not."

"Alright, show it to me already."

After Thomas said it, something like screen appeared in his mind, it was a weird feeling for him, like he had a second pair of eyes able to look only at it.

'Name: Thomas

Race: Human

Title: User of "Dumb luck system."

Strength: 7 (avg.5)

Speed: 5 (avg.5)

Inteligence: 2 (avg.5)

Luck: 20 (avg.5)

If something is not to host liking, you can create new stats. The host can't decide on what stats he would like to have. The system can only show real stats of host.'

"Are you sure it's my real intelligence stat?"

"I already said that I'm not able to show false stats, host."

"Alright, I understand! Now, show me my cultivation talent already."

"So host wants to create a stat showing your cultivation talent?"

"Right! That's what I want."

After confirming the intentions of his host, the system showed an image of a smiling child with a word updating under it. Then, Thomas could imagine his stats in his head again.

"Oh, it's here! Just under luck stat. How much is it? What? System! Tell me, is it true?"