The Experiments.

There wasn't much work as they finished most of the preparations and all fields were sown. Roger occasionally plucked weeds, his focus fell about taking care of a coop and getting wood for winter. The surrounding climate was similar to European countries, you needed to prepare warm clothes and wood for a cold season or you would freeze to death. Houses in the village didn't possess any kind of insulation, and sole source of warmth was big stone oven or fireplace.

Aron got a day off from work as old man was focused on dealing with other villagers. You didn't use money in primitive settlements like Amber Village. Primary way of trading was barter or favor exchange, coins couldn't feed your family as closest place to utilize them was Blood City. Traveling vendors avoided such villages as they couldn't return profits. Costs of travel, risk of being attacked by bandits and chance of being ignored by simple villagers made them abandon this area completely.

Aron decided to practice martial arts to obtain the ability to protect himself in dangerous situations. His style comprised a mix of several parts of many techniques, taking the best moves from many styles and fusing it into one style. The idea was extraordinary, still, the result was average. The style had no weakness and what's worse it had no strong points either. It could be described as overly good, however, if you compared specific fields it was average.

[Unarmed Fighting skill created]

[Marcus Mixed Martial Arts created.]

[Adjusting skill to host memories.]

[Marcus Mixed Martial Arts lv.5(0/25K)

'Hmm. Can I alter the names and organize things in the system?'

[You can customize cosmetic parts of the system as host wants.]

'First, categorize skills, traits, and talents. Try minimizing things displayed in the status screen. Conceal things without larger changes.'

'Shorten long names into abbreviations. For example, display 3.M.A. instead of Marcus Mixed Martial Arts.'

[Customizing status screen.]

[Name: Aron (Marcus Reave)]

[Title: White-haired Trash, Parasite, Worthless Bastard]

[Age: 11 Years old]

[Race: Human/??]

[Attributes: STR 1.5, DEX 1.5, END 1.85, INT 5, PER 20, CHA 0.6, ART 0.11, WE 370]

[Profession: Farmer lv.0]

[Spaces: Farming lv.0]

[Talents: None]

[Traits]

[Positive: Hardworking]

[Skills]

[General: Appraisal lv.2(4K/5K), Fieldwork lv.5(Locked), Cleaning lv.5(0.1/2.5K), Running lv.6(0/5K)]

[Profession: Beginner Sculpting lv.0(5/1000), Farming lv.0(145/1000)]

[Fighting: 3.M.A. lv.5(0/25K), Unarmed Fighting lv.3(0/5K)]

'I should experiment with farming space. Getting an unlimited supply of food and plant matter is extremely attractive.'

His thoughts analyzed options of space, generating seeds, analyzing DNA and bizarre currency world energy.

'Do I need to enter space to put things inside?'

[The host can insert objects with thought, and the only requirement is physical contact with objects.]

'Any plant can be valuable. Most of the people underestimate weeds from their own courtyards.'

Knowledge could be weaponized or monetized, and many Earth's cosmetics is made of common herbs as main ingredients. They describe them with their Latin names confuse buyers with scientific gibberish.

[New plant added to the database.]

[New plant...]

[The Farming space level up]

'Ability to level up functional spaces. Interesting. Display changelog.'

[Passive absorption of world energy increased from 1 to 2.]

[Size of space increased from 1 ha to 1.5 ha.]

[Time acceleration increased from 10 to 12]

'Increasing level of space is equal to the improvement of its functions. What are the requirements for advancing levels?'

[Requirements are something that host need to discover by himself.]

'Whatever… Categorize plant database to optimum version.'

[Done.]

'I cannot waste potential of this space. Let's plant something!'

Aron decided to focus on sowing black wheat, grains could be used as currency or seeds. It would allow him to accumulate even more food inside of his space. Improving wealth and strength at the same time was kind of pleasant. He divided an area into smaller parts and worked on them one by one. Plowing entire field would take very long time and during this time narrower areas could bring him many harvests.

[Farmer Level Up. Farmer lv.1(1/2.5K)]

[Farming Level Up. Farming lv.1(1/2.5K)]

His body became little stronger as attributes grew, naturally you wouldn't be able to increase strength or dexterity in short span of time. System changed its host into non-logical being, and impossible things became possible and his potential soared.

'I want more professions!'

The most interesting thing was he didn't need to provide the entire plant. A small fragment like a leaf was more than enough. The system needed an only a genetic sample of the plant, so it wasn't necessary to bring entire thing. It was quite convenient for bigger plants like trees, bringing entire tree inside of space would be troublesome.

'Let's work inside of space four hours every day. Night hours will be perfect for this task as my body is healthy enough to minimalize sleep.'

The central direction of his skill acquisition was strength and ability to survive. His focus was on getting out of poverty, so he focused on current era professions.

'I can obtain any skill... I don't possess any weapon…I possess martial arts to defend myself on close quarters…I need a way to protect myself on higher ranges.'

The most straightforward way to strike from distance without any weapon is throwing. Simple rock can take life, if it hits the vital spot on opponent body.

Tossing rocks for half of hour granted him new skill from system.

[Throwing lv.0(1/50)]

[Desc: Skill boosts accuracy and gives knowledge about throwing techniques.]

[Level cap: 10]

[Boost:+1% accuracy per level.]

'Archery? I can't think of anything better for a medieval world. I can obviously hurl javelins or knives, however, it was possible to learn from hunters.'

'It would be useful to possess some kind of shop with tools... It wasn't easy to get metal or rare goods in this shit hole.'

His schedule for few next days looked like this:

[From dawn to afternoon(probably). — Working with Roger/Trying to get new skills.]

[From afternoon to dusk. — Training (Running/Throwing/3.M.A.)]

[4 hours after dusk — Working inside of farming space.]

The boy came back to Roger's farm and decided to repair the old broken bow. The string was still in good state, the problem was the damaged stave. Aron didn't know a lot about a bow making and it would be more or less reverse engineering.

The concept behind the bow was fundamental. A user exerts force with his muscles and creates elastic energy that's in fact potential energy. It's used to launch an arrow when string is released.

[Roger's Broken Bow.]

[Materials used: Linen string, Yew wood]

Searching a Yew, required going to forest as there wasn't such tree around the village. Another possibility was obtaining material from the carpenter.

'I can practice wielding a knife. There was small dismantling knife inside of my room. It will be perfect practice tool.'

Was wielding knives simple? It in fact was really primary action. Difference was handling knives effectively in battles. His practice focused on simple action of stabbing and cutting air.

1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours and finally.

[Beginner Dagger Mastery]

'Who said you needed a teacher? It's definitely effortless to acquire technique from someone with vast experience, though…'

[Beginner Dagger Mastery lv.0 (1/1000)]

[Beginner Dagger Mastery]

[Desc: Ability to wield a dagger efficiently in many situations. Mastering a skill isn't equal to becoming the master of dagger arts.]

'I should acquire some knowledge about the world.'

His choice was to ask Roger. Man was quite old and experienced, so he should possess some knowledge about a world.

Boy approached old man, who was sitting on bench in front of his house.

"Good Afternoon. Can I ask you a question, old man?" His voice was filled with curiosity, and man looked at him with annoyed expression.

"What do you want a boy? Speak!" Farmer knew it's something troublesome as if question was simple, kid wouldn't bother him.

"I am interested in an outside world! Can you describe it for me?" Asking specific questions would arose suspicion, so Aron asked about overall question.

"What? You want to go outside? I don't recommend leaving this place as outside world is filled merely with pain and death!" His voice indicated that he experienced many terrible things outside of this village.

"People in a village hate me and I have no future in this village! You should already know it…" It was truth, besides Roger and Rose. Most of people ignored or despised him, it was partially blacksmith's fault. His own actions rather didn't improve his popularity.

Roger groaned and rubbed his head. Explaining entire world wasn't easy thing, so he needs to gather thoughts.