Day two - How to survive? (Ch. 3)

Hm... Hm.... Hm...

The sun was shining in my eyes. It was a hard one to open my eyes. Eventually, I did. Wait... It's not morning... So... Hm...

Yeah, I think I passed out. Not sleeping a whole night is surprisingly tiring. The Guide was walking near the house doing something. So I stood up, rubbed my eyes and walked outside heading to the Guide.

"Hey, can I ask you something?" — My shy voice said.

"Yeah, what do you want to know?" — Replied the crouching Guide, not even looking in my direction.

"Uhm... So you said there was the 'Natives' of this world. I have yet to see one, are you sure they are still alive?" — I asked uncomfortably.

The guide snorted — "Yes... They are still alive. You know how I said they can't really fight the monsters? Slimes too. They don't leave their villages in the first place. You can go out and find some town, but I don't know how they would react seeing a player, because there were some vicious ones".

"Oh..." — A disappointed sound came from my mouth.

I simply left to the house and crafted a furnace. I need to smelt this ore I have, ya know?

And so, I now have 16 copper and 16 iron. I decided to store it away for now, since a full set of iron armor needs around 60 bars.

I saw the guide jump from his place and run to me. I flinched a bit and grabbed my bow from inventory, ready for whatever he noticed.

"Sorry, I forgot to give you this" — Guide stuffed his hand in his pocket and gave me... A star? No, wait, multiple stars!

"Those are fallen stars, with them, you can craft mana crystals and star in a bottle. If you want to be a mage, it would be really useful for you" — The Guide said, not even letting me say something. Now I have 16 stars in my inventory.

I walked to the workbench and crafted 3 mana crystals. "And... What do I do now?" — I asked the guide. The guide chuckled.

"My god. Just crush them!" — The Guide laughed.

I did what he said. Crushing the crystals, I felt something flow in my body. A warm feeling that strengthened my body. And then I felt pain. No... A FUCKING AGONY!

I vomited with blood and strange black goop. I felt that I could faint any minute. But something pulled me from this.

"You'll get used to this. Don't worry" — I heard a distant voice. My vision blurred. I couldn't breathe. Fuck.....

Suddenly, all of my pain vanished. I saw a large pool of black mass right next to my face. I crawled to a nearby wall and rested a bit.

Oh man, I can feel my body being stronger and more mature than ever. Not only that, but I can see my developed muscles. Mere minutes ago, there were only bones and flesh!

"Already feeling better? Ha, you are a strong one. Normally, this continues for 10 or 20 minutes" - The Guide gave me a helping hand. I stood up.

"Never again..." — I said with my faint voice.

"Anyway, I recommend you building some more houses, as I am not the only one that wishes to help you" — The Guide smiled.

My body was feeling great and all charged up. So I chopped down some trees and built a couple of houses. Also, a wall surrounding the area. It took me a couple of hours to do so, but the result was great.

"Looking goddamn good" — The Guide complimented my architectural skills.

I decided to check my power on the slimes that wandered outside the walls. Surprisingly, I got hurt only a couple of times! And now I have a lot of gel from those slimy creatures.

I decided to light up the place a bit. The wall was now surrounded with torches, and the inside area was lighted with Tiki torches I crafted using normal torches and some wood.

Man, was this looking good.

And then I went exploring. God, I HATE SLIMES! THEY ARE EVERYWHERE!!!

But then, we have chests and caves. Now I have some climbing claws, a radar, some copper, and iron bars, arrows, shurikens, potions, etc.

Happily, I walked back to my town. Well, it was until I stumbled into them. The natives. Damn... This is my first time interacting with someone besides the Guide...

So there is a group, I think? Four men in heavy armor and some swords, two archers and an old man with some magic looking staff.

They were killing slimes. Oh boy, was it fun to watch. A group of seven professionals struggling to kill some slimes. Was it a show.

Until they noticed me...

I knew this was getting nowhere good, so I ran to my village. And they pursued me. I tried to shoot them with my bow, but it didn't work. Looks like I'm in a big trouble...

I stopped and got grenades out of my inventory. The group also stopped.

"W-what d-do you w-want from me!" — I yelled

"Nothing of your business. You are coming with us, or we are going to kill you!" — The group yelled back.

Well, I didn't want to do it. I threw a couple of grenades at the group. They didn't even flinch. Looks like they don't know what these are.

Then... I don't want to talk about it... Blood and guts everywhere... I quickly retired to my house.

"Hey there, you're looking like you just saw a ghost... What happened?" - The Guide approached me.

"Natives...." - I replied.

"Oh... I understand..." - The Guide stopped approaching me and turned around.

"Well, just don't think about it" - He said and then entered his house.

I killed seven people.... Seven.... No... I KILLED SEVERAL HUMANS!!!

Shit, shit, shit!

My heart was pounding, I felt like I could vomit at any moment.

And so the night fell....