3 The Memories.

He ripped part of his shirt, wetted it with water and started cleaning the wounds... The leg wasn't looking good, the bone was broken and it needed to be stabilized or it would mend incorrectly.

(When can I find something to stabilize this leg?)

He examined his surroundings, and he didn't notice anything fitting for a stabilizer. There was some light but not much. Boy relied mostly on touch and sounds to move around.

(OK. I have a source of water and I need something to eat. I am underground so let's look for roots. Cave shouldn't be deep if I am still alive. It doesn't taste good but it's enough to secure my survival in next days.)

He started digging into the wall after a few minutes he found some roots. He put it into the mouth and chewed it. It had a bitter taste, and he almost spat it out.

(Food source secured. Water source secured. Let's think about how to get out of this hole and come back to the city.)

He was pondering for a moment about the problem.

(There must be some kind of exit other than one I created. I should rest here for a few hours.)

He decided to take a nap to regenerate some energy.

A few hours later.

(Name of this body is Darius. I am Derek but both of us are dead now. So I will be Neo from today onward. New life, new body, and a new name.haha)

(Hmmm.AI it's possible to recover rest of my memories in smaller parts?)

[It's possible if parts are not too big brain should adapt but you need to take breaks between every absorption to let brain adapt itself.]

(Hmmm. That's good how long I need to wait before next memory absorption?)

[At minimum 2 days. It was around 5% of your memories and it created many neural connections in your brain. We are lucky that you didn't die during absorption.]

(I got some random memories and some of them are weird. It's like remembering the poem but not remembering the language that it's written. At least we had some memories about trips in mountains and first aid.)

He spent time resting and understanding his own memories. Memories was his but not his at the same time as some of them out of context. Feelings and reactions, he couldn't understand without rest of experiences from his past life.

(Ok. My body is slowly healing but this diet is not good for my body. It's already malnourished and weak. I need to take another part of memories. Let's take a smaller part that won't overload my brain like before.)

[Safe amount is around 1% and break between these absorptions will be 8 hours. Do you want to initiate such absorption?]

(Let's play safe. None will save me from this hole. I am on my own. )

[Starting absorption....]

Inside his memories...

It was in the middle of the weird hall. He was a boy around 10 years old in training suit. It was an important day for the boy. Every clan in the clan after 10 years old is taken to the clan to receive teachings.

A moment later a muscular middle-aged man entered the hall and said.

"Kid from today. I am your teacher. You will follow my every instruction. Don't talk when you are not asked and don't break rules of the hall." He scanned boy with his eyes and after a few seconds, he handed him the book.

"This book contains the rules of the hall and a basic set of practice stances. Memorize all its contents."

The boy was a little scared, but he didn't know yet that he had great talent when it comes to memorizing things.

"It's all for today. Go back to your room and start reading!"

He ordered the boy and left. The boy came back to his room and started reading the book.

There were many rules that were related to many fields of life. Kid skipped the rule part and started reading the practice stances. It was set of moves that allowed to body to embark on a road of martial artists.

Days passed and the boy found out about his talent when he memorized an entire book after reading it twice. His days were split into 3 parts first was the martial practice that was at the morning, and he was instructed by one of older clan members, the second part was education sessions that were related to clan's history and many fields like economy, math, foreign languages and many more. The last part was self-study, this time was for things that you were interested in but you could use this time to practice martial arts too.

A few months later.

Kid's body was finally prepared for its first steps on the martial road. In a few days, he will receive another set of techniques, and he will be considered as a martial apprentice from this day onward.

...

These memories were interesting to Neo but it couldn't help current him in any way.

(I am too young and my body is not ready for this kind of exercise. This sucks! Let's wait and absorb another set of memories.)

A few days later.

He absorbed memories of entire childhood in the clan and his previous life was quite sad because he had high comprehension but low potential. After some time he started getting neglected by clan and by age 16 he left the clan to travel around the world. He thought that there must be someone that knows how to improve the body potential. His travel started from Asia the country with rich inheritance. It was the truth that there were many clans but most of them were already in a state of ruin, or they didn't want to share their secrets with outsiders. It didn't stop him from trying to get them anyway. He stole Chinese medicine inheritance manual from one of their clans. He remembered it contents and gave it back, but he wasn't welcomed in China anymore, but he didn't care he learned many interesting things from this manual. His clan was blind in meridian opening actually there is the medicine that can strengthen meridians. It was quite complex, and he knew that that clan wasn't able to concoct this medicine either. He decided to practice this method and after two years of hard work, he finally could consider himself as alchemy apprentice in manual standards. He decided to come back to China and ask this clan about cauldrons. Derek needed first to donate them a big amount of money. It wasn't easy because his status in the clan was low, and he wasn't allowed to take so many resources. He became mercenary to make some money. He made many friends and enemies during his missions. It was his 21 birthday when he retired from being mercenary and went to China to ask for forgiveness. The dignity of the ancient clan disappeared and only greed for the money left. It's quite a shame that most of these clans fell so low but it made things easier for Derek...