Chapter 58. New world

POV: Unknown player

It was a beautiful day outside, the sun was up in the sky keeping life going, and calming sounds danced through the branches of the tree.

Then all of a sudden, the peace was disturbed by a white portal appearing in the middle of the clearing.

Out of that portal, a screaming person was thrown out, it was a woman with green eyes, blonde hair, pink shirt, and red pants.

She looked around her with horror and confusion.

"Wha-what just happened? Ok, let's calm down and think. I was in my economics class and I was a little bit tired so I must've fallen asleep. But this feels too real."

I tried to pinch my arm only to realize two things.

One, I didn't have fingers or palms, and my whole body had edges like I was made with geometric shapes.

Second, even without fingers I somehow manage to pinch my arm and to my horror feel the pain.

"This can't be real! I'm in another world, I don't know if I should be excited or scared about this new opportunity."

I looked around me to see the new world and it was... Something I did not expect.

Everywhere In my sight looked exactly like me, made of squares.

"Well, I'm not in a fantasy world with elves and dwarfs that's for sure. This feels more like a game world. Maybe I'm the chosen one and I have to defeat the evil lord?"

I like to read more from novels than to play games.

But the usual plot for most games is pretty similar with the book's. You are the chosen one and have to defeat the bad guy.

I looked around once more but no pretty lady or handsome man was in sight to tell me that.

"But this feels familiar, I've seen it somewhere else for sure."

And then it clocked.

"Yes! This is the game that my nephew played, I think it's about building and exploring. I don't remember too much."

The only things I do know are the nights are dangerous and I can build anything I put my mind to.

Well, I can go and search for a town to ask for more details.

Seriously, why did I have to be transported into a game instead of a book, that's my specialty after all.

"Well since this is a game let's see if I have a System."

I waited and nothing happened.

"So no overpowered system to help me take over the world. How about Status?"

Suddenly a gray window appears in front of me.

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                               STATUS

Name: Merry Paper

Health: 20/20

Attack: 1

Defense: 1

Speed: 5.6 blocks/sec

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"Yep, my full name that got me bullied in school, some other stats that show me how weak my body is, this feels legit. Next, you're going to tell me I have a sleeping Skill as well!"

And to my horror, another gray window appeared beside the current one.

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                               SKILLS

_Crafting lvl 1

     0/100

_Enchanting lvl 1

    0/100

_Brewing lvl 1

     0/1.000

_Trading lvl 2

    0/1.000

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"Ok, so I don't have a skill related to sleeping, that's good. Are those all the skills that I have or can I get more?"

I guess I'll find out with time, while I'm at it, I looked over at what I have.

The first one is crafting, which is something good to know, I wouldn't want to be a support character, but from all I've read, it's that you never underestimate the one that makes your weapons.

The second one is enchanting, which sounds more fun than crafting, and usually, I get more money plus the additional magic.

Just the fact that in this world has magic makes my blood boil for adventure.

The third one is brewing, which makes me wonder if I have to make different types of alcohol or if I can make potions.

I hope it's the potion one, it would look good on me a belt full of neon potions, a long robe, and a pointy hat.

The last one, and the only one that I have a level in is trading. Probably related with the fact that I'm at a business college. But this one would be my last choice since I don't want to be stuck behind a desk with mountains of paper.

I only chose this path in my old world because It's one of the safest ones to live off.

But not here, why would I bother studying for a business when I can get the money through punching stuff?

I looked around me to see if anything caught my eye, and there was only one thing.

A stick under the shadow of a tree, and I picked it up.

"This is a weird-looking stick, it's cut so precisely, for sure I can use this to craft something. Maybe I should gather some more."

I walked around and found three more identical sticks, but when I picked the last thew, they disappeared from my hand. So I had two sticks in my hands, but the other two were missing.

"Do I have an inventory or something like that?"

When I said that, another gray window appeared before me, it had a lot of squares, and in the top left I could see my two sticks that disappeared from my hand.

"So this is my inventory, I think the ones with a shield icon are the armor pieces that I can equip, and those four separated squares have to do something, I'm guessing crafting?"

I tried to put a stick inside it, but no results showed, no matter which square I put it in.

Maybe I need to use something else besides the stick.

I tried to scoop some dirt underneath me, but surprisingly a pixalted crack appeared. I hit the ground a few more times and a perfect cube disappeared and was transported to my inventory.

"Well this is an interesting system, I can see how this would be a sandbox game. Can I craft with it?"

I tried alone, but nothing, I tried with sticks, but no results as well. I then looked at the tree close to me and hit it with a stick.

Two things happened when I did that.

One, the stick broke after a few hits.

Second, when the block did break the tree didn't fall, it just stood there like there's no gravity!

"I'm truly in a different world."

I chuckled nervously while looking to see if I could craft something with this.

Low and behold, I could!

From one Oak wood, I can craft four planks.

I tried different recipes but the only ones that showed results were the two planks recipe resulting in more sticks or pressure plate, and the four planks resulting in a crafting table.

Another fun thing was the placing option, wherever block I broke I could place it down, and when I placed the crafting table I was impressed by the complicated design on it.

Unfortunately, the tools besides the edge couldn't go further than one block away from the crafting table.

This block also greatly expanded my slots of crafting from four to nine. I didn't even know what to start with.

I didn't have enough wood so I was back to chopping Trees, or was I breaking them?

I don't know anymore, this world is wired but fun.

For the next few minutes, I got some wood and tried a few items to craft. It was hard since I could only do it by trial and error but I got a few interesting results:

- Staircase

-Pressure plate

- Button

- Doors

- A chest

- A boat

- Stairs

- Slabs

Everyone looked interesting when I placed it down, especially the chest.

That thing had a subspace in one block!

How cool is that!

Unfortunately, I can't carry it after me, otherwise, I'll be the most famous merchant in this world.

Another useful item was something that I did not expect, the boat. Not the boat itself but the peddles used for the boat, I could use them for breaking dirth more easily. I even tried to chop a tree with them, and it worked, it wasn't a comfortable experience but they were more resistant than the sticks.

But I had to stop for now, since my stomach started to complain and wanted some food. I had a few apples from the trees that I chopped but I needed some water to drink, so I had to look for some running water.

I took all the items that I crafted, even if some of them were useless, and walked in one direction hoping to get lucky.

Hours passed and I can say with confidence that I'm lost.

I didn't know where I was before, but now I'm only surrounded by trees and it's starting to get dark.

"I think I should get to a higher ground."

I made a small staircase with dirt towards the leaves of the trees, and with a careful step, I sat on top of the tree.

The leaves cracked under my weight but surprisingly held, so I could walk on top of the trees for a better view.

The sun was setting, letting the darkness take its place, with my only source of light being the moon.

I continued walking while stress-eating from an apple until a growl made me stop.

I could hear steps walking under the trees. With a speed that I didn't know was possible I was at the edge of the tree and looked towards the noise.

Under the shadows of the tree, it was hard to see, but I could see someone with a humanoid shape.

"Hello, can you understand me?"

The shadow stopped from wandering and looked at me. I couldn't see the face of that person but its look alone sent shivers down my back.

I quickly moved from there and took the paddle from my inventory ready to attack.

I could hear the painful groan from the ground, but nobody came up. So with careful steps, I got back to the edge to see what was happening.

The shadow was still down there, only looking confused about how to get to my location. Looks like I'm they don't have the same abilities that I have.

But before I could have a sigh of relief the sound of a string being bent to its full capacity caught my attention.

Quickly I got back as the sound of an arrow just passed me.

"I'm not safe here, I have to move!"

I started to run on top of the trees, which luckily didn't have any of the monsters, or so I thought.

While I was busy running and looking down to not accidentally fall. I almost crushed myself with something that I only saw in nightmares.

I know Australia has a lot of weird spiders, but I think this one takes the cake.

A black spider at least one meter long was hissing at me while getting closer.

"S-stay back!"

I ready my pedal while trying to get away from it.

The spider jumped and in panic, I hit him with my improvised weapon, and I could hear a painful hiss.

It's hurting him, and that's good, maybe he'll decide I'm not a worthy prey.

But no such luck for me, he looked back at me, and I could feel the anger in its many eyes and made another jump.

I hit him once again, this time two of his eyes were closed for good.

The adrenaline was running through my veins, I felt like I could do this, but the spider seemed to learn a lesson and got closer to me.

And instead of jumping towards me, he sprayed my weapon with his web, getting stuck with the leaves of the tree.

He didn't wait for me to struggle and jumped districtly at me.

I let go of my weapon and rolled to the side to not get hit, I then took the other pedal from my inventory and hit the confused spider.

I could feel his exoskeleton cracking under my weapon, but I heard another sound that brought me horror.

My weapon broke, and the spider in one last attempt jumped at me.

Panicked I just shaved the handle in his head right as it was about to touch me, and I could feel him getting limp while letting a final hiss.

My breathing was rough, but I won the battle.

Unfortunately, I couldn't stay for too long, the noise of the battle attracted the attention of the others, and I didn't want to deal with another spider anytime soon, especially without a weapon.

I started to run while looking for any place that could be safe, and after a few minutes, I finally saw something different.

I saw light, not from the sun, but from a settlement.

So with a newfound speed, I ran towards the light until the trees stopped and I could see a huge wall surrounded by what I could guess were zombies and surprisingly walking skeletons.

When I studied them more closely I could see that they had a bow, one of them probably shot at me.

I don't know how this is possible, but I don't have time to think of this. I need to get past the wall and get to safety.

The monsters seemed more interested in the light after the tall wall than me, so I could walk around the walls until I saw the entrance of the compound.

I was careful not to attract attention to me, even if I was on top of the trees.

And I had to say that the defense was pretty solid, I even saw a spider climbing over the wall but got poked by a weird spike and the monster hissed in pain giving up.

I took a deep breath and waited for the perfect moment to take action.

A few minutes passed and the monsters walked around the walls to find a hole that they could use.

I dropped from the trees and sprinted towards the wired-looking gate, there was nobody to stop me, and I pressed to open the gate, only to hit my head on the upper half of it.

"What the- why is this only made with fence gates?"

And how did it keep the monsters at bay? It didn't matter I opened the other gate as well and closed everything behind me.

I let out a sigh of relief and looked around the new place.

There was a small river of water with what I could consider crops.

Some fenced areas had cows, chickens, and a sheep. All cubic shaped of course.

But the most impressive part about this was the house in the middle of the compound. It was made with wood and planks, but it looked good.

"I didn't know you could make something so beautiful only with blocks."

I went to the door and knocked with force.

"Hello, is anybody home?"