Using the [Customization Menu]

"I am never ever going to sleep on the ground, fuck this stupid shit!" Adam said to himself after he woke up.

After Adam washed himself by the waterfall, he thought of the [Customization Menu].

Since the previous modifications were too exorbitant he couldn't adopt the changes, so he thought how to use it in a cheaper way as he looked at his body.

'Yea, I'm pretty much a stick. Right, I could use it to build muscles.'

He touched the crystal and launched the Menu, imagining the active cells in his flesh moving to build dense muscles.

'I don't want to look like a fucking mountain, but I still want to have good strength, endurance and speed, so the denser the muscles the better!'

But he noticed that the requirements for such an activity on the whole body was too much for him.

'It seems like I need to limit it to one section at the time. What section should I pick first? Hmm… I always wanted to have abs so I'll go with that.'

After readjusting the active area of effect he saw that the requirements rapidly declined:

[2 000 kJ]

[500 ml Water]

[5 Soul Shards]

[Adopt Changes? 'Yes' or 'No']

He still didn't have any idea what Soul Shards could be.

But through a sudden enlightenment, he thought of something: 'Could it be?'

Taking a stick and digging through the extinguished campfire he quickly found what he was looking for.

A rather large darkish-purple splinter came into his view; he previously injured himself while eating his fish when this thing stabbed his tongue.

Picking it up from the ashes, he inspected it and as he held it next to the crystal at his wrist, it seemingly got absorbed and the requirements changed from 5 Soul Shards to 4 Soul Shards, and after he absorbed the Soul Shard from the second fish the requirement was only 3.

Now that he knew what Soul Shards where and how to get them, he could dedicate himself to the issues of energy and water used for the upgrade. But that was something for the future.

The next thing Adam needs is a bed, but again: How?

He had no clue, Spear fishing and fire starting were commonly covered on the internet but making a bed in those circumstances was rather unheard of for him.

'I mean, I could just use hay but I only have grass and I don't think that is going to be effective, besides I don't want to cut down that much grass as that is troublesome.'

He made his plans to find civilization as quickly as possible so he could live in comfort again.

After spending the rest of the day fishing and idling around, he once again started a fire and sat there.

He was able to acquire 4 fishes this time, more than he needed so he planned on keeping the remaining ones stored in the cave.

But as he was eating and inspecting the [Customization Menu] the requirements for the needed energy changed to 1753/2000 kJ. He continued eating and observing the Menu and when he was finished it was already at 1474/2000 kJ.

'Hmmmm…, so that should mean that…'

He could indeed verify his hypothesis: As he drank from the waterfall the requirement for water changed to 474/500 ml.

After finally understanding so many things, which had been bugging him since he woke up in this world he felt great, he could finally grasp his ability a little bit better.

Naturally, the next things he did was to fill up the requirements for each, the water and the energy by drinking and eating the roasted fishes, by the end he also had 4 Soul Shards, which he quickly absorbed through the crystal.

As all the requirements were now fulfilled he selected 'Yes' and adopted the changes.

Abruptly a sense of soreness and weakness filled his body, his chest and ab area screamed of pain every single time he tried to move, cold sweat appeared on his forehead and back.

"FUUUUUUUUUUAACK. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK. SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIET!!!" he howled.

But as of now, Adam could do nothing but scream and roll around on the ground.

After what seemed like a month and a half for Adam (but was actually just 3 minutes) he could finally relax as the pain subsided a little bit, the soreness remained but at least it wasn't that painful anymore.

Panting and swiping the sweat off his face he tried standing up only to slip and fall back down on his shoulder.

After that he didn't even try doing anything anymore, he just laid there exhausted from doing nothing but yet straining his body until he was broken.