In the game, Roland could feel the presence of a lot of magical elements in the air, but in the real world, he couldn't feel them at all.
Were there no magical elements in the real world, or anything like them?
This was most likely the case.
However, there was another possibility!
Roland thought that maybe his attributes in the real world were so poor that he couldn't feel the presence of magical elements to begin with.
After all, in the game, his attributes were much higher than in reality.
After pondering over this, Roland felt that if it was the first possibility, then there wasn't much else to think about.
However, if it were the second possibility, then he had to start to consider how he would raise his "attributes" in reality.
After pondering over this, he still had no idea how to go about it.