Chapter 5 - Surviving

As soon as he pressed the Yes button, he saw the rabbit evaporating, and a small dust grey circle started levitating towards his stomach.

'I am not sure what this absorb is, but I can not keep on staying this week, maybe it will give me experience this way.'

What happened next, both confused and excited Kyle. The grey energy started accumulating inside of him, creating something tiny inside of him. He tried closing his eyes to fully feel what it is, but he wasn't used enough to this new world and the way his body was here to understand the inner workings.

'So I can grow, I can feel that grey energy interacting with my blood and with my spine. I can do this." Kyle clenched his hands.

Also, in place of the bunny, there was a small purple crystal, the size of the rice grain. Kyle would have missed it for sure if not for the reddish-blue glow it was emitting. This crystal was for sure, a monster drop, and he couldn't just leave something that could be rare on the ground. Kyle put that crystal into his jeans pocket. 'I know that there is some type of interface here, I already used it when answering yes and no questions. I need to figure out how to use it later. '

His clothes were already dirty, and jeans were ripped with bloodstains.

'This can attract predators. I can feel that my blood is editing some type of energy into the air' he ripped the jeans unto his ankle and threw them deep on to the tree.

After this dear situation with the rabbit was over, he found himself on the open patch of land which had the forest where he came from on one side and unbelievable grassland on the other.

Grassland seemed less dangerous, but there were no trees or anything, which meant that Kyle would be out in the open, not very smart thing to do if you are looking to survive. Kyle carefully headed back into the forest and decided to stay on this outer perimeter so that he can always recreate into the grassland.

Kyle was also very hungry. He was searching for any food that he could find, as bunny evaporated into the air, leaving Kyle with energy but no meat. He suddenly stepped on a branch which he broke and instead of just walking further, his leg went through the ground and dragged the whole body with it.

Not sure what happened, Kyle found himself in the underground cave, it was very dark with only light from the hole Kyle dropped from coming through. The worst part is that he was lying next to the large pile of bones neatly stacked into the pile. This was horrifying, and Kyle stopped breathing to see if he was alone.

'I can hear something breathing, but it seems that thing hasn't realised that I am here.' Kyle stayed still, trying to figure out where the breathing sound was coming from. Kyle wanted to shift away from the light, but any more noise might alert that creature.

Finally, Kyle had a guess where the creature was. He wanted to attack, but that encounter with the bunny really taught him that using his bare hand was a bad idea, he started looking around for anything weapon-like. He saw that one of the bones that were lying next to the light and the pile of bones had a metallic lustre. It also had one side broken, making it look like a dagger. Without thinking any further he had to take this chance, 'I better strike first than to get killed later.'

Kyle grabbed the bone, and with all of his might that he could master struck right at where the sound was coming from. All that he heard was a clanging noise. The same noise you would hear if you smashed a sledgehammer into the steel slab. Kyle didn't understand what happened, his bone dagger broke, and he had only the topmost part still in his hand. His blood was pumping, and he had the pulsating noises of blood flowing in his ears.

'What has happened? I struck right at it with everything I had, why have my dagger not went through?!' Kyle started panicking.

He stayed there not moving as he had no idea what is going to happen. Kyle stayed like that for the good 20 seconds.

Nothing happened.

'Did I kill it? No, I can still hear breathing. Did I NOT WAKE IT UP?!' Kyle started panicking even more. His full out strike didn't wake up this beast he couldn't see. He was worse than a mosquito.

'I have to get out while I can.' Kyle decided that it was his only option, get ours as fast as he could.

He saw that from the ceiling, there was a liana hanging down that could help him escape. Without any hesitation, he ran to it and started climbing as fast as he could.

'I have always failed my PE classes, $%#^ I have to get to the top.' Usually, he was able to do 1 pushup only. Now he had to climb good 10 metres on the roap. Kyle's hands went above, and beyond his normal ability, his whole face was red, and he pushed and pushed through.

Once he finally was out of the hole, he breathed out.

'Out all of the places, I had to drop to some powerful beast to the liar. That could have only happened to me…' Kyle thought 'I hate my luck, I just wish that my luck was better in this world…'

[You have discovered your scouted benefit Number 3]

[Trait:]

[Improved Luck: lvl 1]

'Wow,' the interface that appeared in front of Kyle really caught him off guard, 'finally I have some advantage. I get it. I have to discover things in order for the system to start working properly. Okay, that just makes things more interesting.'

'I also hope that this luck trait doesn't suck like in all other games I played, and there are no bugs that actually lower my luck instead of improving it' Kyle prayed.

'Time to find someplace that I can call a base in this forsaken forest, I have to improve my strength before I can travel further' Kyle started searching for some type of uninhabited cave.

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At the same time, in the forests all around the Gameworld, many human figures started dropping, some of them wore clothes, others were butt naked. The main difference from Kyle was, they were ready and trained to survive in this world.

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Catter all this time was clicking her tongue and looking at the screen in front of her. It was a recording of Kyle striking down with the bone knife in the underground cave. The light was increased, and if Kyle saw this video, he would drop dead from fear. What he was striking was a leg of a 50 metre green Dragon wyvern, sleeping.