Improving Steadily

Wow our mc dealing with trauma constructively couldn't be me.

Sidenote I had to rewrite the chapter due to me accidentally deleting it pAiN

also "masks" will appear only in select encounters and in white chests

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Waking up after what felt like forever you feel like shit but ignoring the ringing in your ears and water marks on your Teepee floors you push onward for the day.

Still feeling quite demoralized from the previous day you tear through your food reserves until you couldn't eat anymore

Now with a food child in tow you realize you haven't bathed in 3 days, you used the bathroom sure 'those leaves felt like sandpaper' but never bathed

Having this realization you sniff your armpits "JYAT DAYUM THAT WAS A BAD IDEA" immediately recoiling from the sour smell you decide before any exploration you need a bath

Your not quite sure how to build a proper bath given your current surroundings, however you have a plan.

You move quickly digging a 5 by 5 ft circular hole in the sand after digging with your arms for 20 minutes next you slightly turn facing the ocean

you make a smaller hole about 5 by 3 inches really ment to soak up water when tides rise, as water slowly slides in this hole you start splashing water into the hole

as It overflows it follows a line made by your fingers in the sand, you repeat this process until the pool is filled about 3 inches

Happy at your achievement you get some leaves and wet them making them extremely soft ' wait...WHY DIDNT I USE THIS FOR THE BATHROOM ' dumbfounded at your own idiocy you get back on track immediately taking your clothes off

you jump into the water with the leaf towel ' towleaf, leafowl, leafto? ' you start just rubbing water on your body while just enjoying the cool water

getting out 30 minutes later the water seems murky, slightly disgusting at how dirty you were you get back on track mentally, leaving the water to dry out

"hey as a plus might even solidify the sand for my bath" happy with your developments, you shake your body like a dog until you feel somewhat dry.

Satisfied you put on your 3 day old clothes '4? 5? eh time is kinda hard to note when you pass out most of the time' with that though you move onw.ard to the field where you saw that slime.

Slightly weary you grab a stick ready for a just in case scenario, however after you reach It 5 minutes later you see nothing.

embarrassed at your unnecessary caution you drop your stick and look towards the spire you ignored before in fear

In a severe lack of caution you decide to try and see what's up with it, making your way to the oddly colored spire.

3 Minutes later after a short walk the spire was there as suddenly your intrusive thoughts came in ' hey wanna know something that would be fun, touching it. Look it even has a whole center imagine the satisfaction it would bring to touch a perfectly level spire'

Not in the right mental state you in a lack of fear touch the spire as suddenly furious winds surround you 'oh fuck' Snapping back to reality you realize that probably wasn't the smartest move you could've made

However you weren't in the right situation to regret your decisions as the winds rise you above the air.

Bones snapping in your body in and out of place as a pain like nothing you ever felt controls your body, but surprisingly you never felt anything break.

Your Grunts and Screams of pain seemed to do nothing but expedite the process as slowly, and extremely painfully your body seems to get aquatinted with the winds as you feel less pain.

Your frantic movements and screams, slowly became grumbles and fluid movement. As the element slowly floats you down you feel extremely lightweight as if you lost a couple of pounds.

Before me as if rewarding my surviving the experience I see a brown skinny sword, with light brown and black highlights floating in front of me.

I Immediately snatch my first form of defence in days with clear happiness. "I don't know what ever god decided to do this to me but Fuck you, and thank you"

Knowing this feeling of lightweight would disappear I attempted to run back to my beach but stop myself as I see a hoard of slimes just staring at me

'oh fuck' My body tenses up as I slowly move backwards to see if I can gain enough distance to run, however the slimes didn't seem to keen on that idea as a big green one with wings fly towards me like an untied balloon

I immediately instinctively jumped out of the way but with surprising strength I'm sent over 20 feet away I immediately fall on my back unaware my body changed

Noting how I took no damage from a pretty strong jump and how strong my legs were I immediately booked out of that situation largely leaping out of the encampment I was in

With newfound speed I made it back home in a record 3 minutes not even breaking a sweat I go inside my cone shaped glorified sleeping bag

Feeling extremely cynical about this whole situation a frown covers my face. 'aight yep definitely getting a therapist if those aren't suicidal tendencies I don't know what is'

Determined to try and attempt to leave my hermit lifestyle I stand up only for the exhaustion from my bones literally being torn to shreds hit me as I immediately slam my

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"AH SHIT NOT AGAIN" I scream as I wake up in front of the food truck with Igor smiling at me

"Quite the experience you had today no?" I stand up quickly maybe even faster that before saying "no shit Sherlock I nearly fucking died"

His smile seems disappointed 'how did he manage to smile and make me feel like shit' as he suddenly says "Died is an extreme word, after all you were never in any real danger"

A lightbulb goes off in my head as I clench my fists "MOTHER FU-" I am once again cut off being hit by a stick, though this time I wasn't knocked over

"Please valued guest we would much rather this language not be used in the velvet room" Caroline says in a slightly annoyed tone "personally im enjoying just hitting him on the head with a stick"

'ah physical affection as if my family didn't use this on me before' "I assume we also have limited time again Igor?" "You would be right in this dear contractor, although this limit will soon be broken by the looks of things"

I pause confused at his choice of words before I look around and see 7 lights in the distance with a green light floating above a house 'sweet brain home'...

' WAIT THE FU- '

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I really thought hard about how I was gonna include the elements but playing the game helped me in this regard alongside some wiki searching (btw if I saw kamoshida in real life I swear these hands are gonna be stained in blood)

Apparently visions are just blessings from Celestia and I assume it arguments your soul to use those elements, there is a plot reason why his body was affected thought gonna have to wait for that