30 Back to life, back to reality (2/2)
He stored away four droplets of lorazepam into different slots before using one.
'Goodbye nurse Finkle.' Were his last thoughts before he faded away.
Closing the energy recovery notice, he was greeted by the masochist and spearmanship leveling up. Masochist reached level 11 and spearmanship stopped at level 10.
He checked his energy, and he only had one single unit left.
”Ahhh damn you Rogun.” He yelled when he figured out the masochism skill took most of the energy he got by crossing over.
He checked his skills.
Lumberjack : Level 6 | Carpentry : Level 1 | Masturbation : Level 1 | Archery : Level 10 | Swordsmanship : Level 10 | Mathematics : Level 10 | Fitness : Level 9 | Swimming : Level 1 | Masochism : Level 11 | Firebug : Level 1 | Cooking : Level 1 | Meditation : Level 7 | Running : Level 5 | Herbology : Level 2 | Geography : Level 5 | Zoology : Level 12 | Polyglot : Level 1 | Spearmanship : Level 10 |
He did the same for his attributes.
Strength: 11 | Wisdom: 13 | Intelligence: 17 | Dexterity: 11.5 | Perception: 12 | Agility: 11.5 | Water element affinity: 10.5 | Pain tolerance: 12 | Vitality: 10.5 | Fire element affinity: 10.5 | Energy: 11.5 | Willpower: 15 |
With one unit of energy he was finding it even more risky to return and with no sleepiness whatsoever he started to meditate.
As the morning broke he recovered 23 out of 115 units of energy and reached level 9 in meditation.
After sitting the whole night in a Buddhist posture when he stood up his joints made cracking, but he was feeling refreshed instead of fatigued.
Harrison quickly put his things into the inventory, although it cost him some energy he would recover it again by the time he got to the town. He climbed down the cliff and started running.
The rustling of leaves being broken under his feet and the wind rushing to his face with an occasional branch hitting made the running in the woods even more exciting.
As he ran he noticed his body was moving a lot faster than before. The added stats in agility and strength boosted his speed by a lot. He totally forgot he was not in a safe environment when he suddenly ran into a large deer-like animal drinking from the creek.
The animal was at first surprised and wanted to bolt but seeing his small size it decided to defend his drinking spot and pointed his antlers at him and decided to rush him.
Harrison barely avoided its charge and ran behind a tree as he stopped. Looking at the deer-like animal he remembered it was a herbivore that was extremely aggressive and dangerous when you encroach into his territory. The locals called it ormash which basically translated to ”thorns of death”.
”Looks like I found lunch.” Harrison exclaimed as he watched the ormash turn around after missing him, giving a loud bellow and running towards the large tree he was hiding behind.
It rammed its antlers towards Harrison but Harrison was circling the tree and the stupid animal could not reach him and only hit the bark. As he was out of its sight most of the time the ormash made loud intimidating bellows trying to assert its strength over the intruder every time he hit the bark.
After once again hitting the bark it was greeted by Harrison's hand swinging downwards towards its head as it bellowed for the last time. Harrison's battle axe hit the middle of its head right between the horns and blood with brain matter splattered out like a small waterfall before the animal even figured out it was in danger.
With a loud thud it crashed on the ground.
Energy -1
Energy +3
'I guess I get energy back by killing. And it's a passive process too.' That is quite convenient.
Harrison looked at the notification of energy gain with a flabbergasted expression before trying to store the carcass into his inventory. Sadly the system informed him it was too big.
The carcass was around 2.5 meters long and 2 meters high and 0.4 meters thick with half a meter long antlers on its head. Harrison tried lifting it, but he could only lift its head.
Thinking about cutting it up he came to an idea.
'System, join four inventory spaces together.' He said in his mind and imagined the space he needed.
Looking at the grid he saw four inventory spaces merged into one long one.
Energy -8 notification also popped up.
”So even this is possible.” He exclaimed with joy before he put the ormash in.
Energy -4 notification.
”Ahh damn. Now it costs more. Well at least it costs only when I need it.” He exclaimed before also storing the axe.
Harrison noticed he made the space too big as the image displaying the ormash in the grid only occupied a bit more than three quarters of length.
”So one grid space is approximately 1 meter.” He quickly calculated.
He continued to walk towards the town but this time he was being careful not to encounter any more surprises. As he reached the road he breathed out with relief since from now on it was almost a guaranteed smooth journey.