"I don't wear a hat so my brains must have melted and flowed out" Jin was lying on the floor lazily.
"Sometimes I'm terrified at my stupidity. On the good side - I feel a bit better." He tried to move his body, and to his surprise, it felt comfortable.
"I think some tiny dwarfs smelt something inside my head. Please, not the One Ring, I beg gods!" attempt to cheer himself failed, but at least he did his best.
"On the bright side, I still have food for one and a half days! On the dark side, I suck at keeping myself calm and meditation doesn't work on me. Maybe I really lost my brains, cause thinking of meditation when I don't even know where to go and what to do"
"So the plan is – I'm going to find any settlement, get some basic information about this world, not knowing where's north or south is kinda inconvenient. Now that I think about it I never thought about it on Earth, I wonder if I knew how to navigate there without a compass. Righ! Compass! I need one. Back to step one. I need to gather some resources, find a settlement, try to sell or exchange them there, then come back here, find the damned tree, and go down to north camp. Sounds easy peasy! It also sounds like I'm going to be rapped by this world over and over before I'll be able to stand my ground."
"First thing first! I need to hunt some game, so many hours in survivals should not be wasted!" After making plans his mood improved considerably. He tried to stand up slowly and found no issues with standing or moving, albeit slowly, then he picked up the sword and took it out of the scabbard, checking the sharpness.
"Ouch! My kitchen knives have never been that sharp! That's good so, let's cut our way of here! Hia!" Jin swang the sword as though it was a machete, cutting his way out of the bushes, then picking up his bag and getting out.
"Free-e-e-e-edom!" He acted as if he shouted, but whispered instead.
"Now let's catch some game!" He cut some strait branches out of trees nearby, then cut them into 15 cm pieces and sharpened them up.
"God! It took me about two hours to just make the most basic preparations. Now I need to make a spear and to dig a hole." He cut the young tree, about 6 to 8 cm in diameter and 1,7 m long, sharpened both ends, and made some cuts for better grip in the middle of it.
[Carpentry leveled up]
"Nice! Let's look at stats"
[Name: Jin Kurogane
Race: Dark Human/D
Class: Black Swordfiend (Locked)/ Footman
Title: the dark gods' joke. The exile. The stubborn. The oddball. The maniac.
Level: 0
Str: 2/5
Con: 2/5
Agi: 3/5
Int: 6/5
Wis: 6/5
Skills:
Self-harm lvl 9
Running lvl 1
Carpentry lvl 0]
"Ehm, I guess the system calculated my real stats and now I can see how close am I to the class stats cap, but what the hell is with my wisdom and intellect stats? Nevermind, there's no one to answer anyway. Carpentry levels up to level 0? It was at -1 previously? I suck that hard? Godsake why I have self-harm at level 9? I hate the pain and have no mental problems, I would never harm myself of my own volition! Stupid system! Whatever let's continue."
He put the stakes in the bag, sheathed the sword, and walked down the ravine, hoping it's more secure to go this way. Soon he found out it was getting dark. "Guess I wasted too much time with making equipment. Let's head back for now." He didn't get far away from his resting place, to begin with, so the road was not long. He took some dead leaves down the road, hoping he would have something to warm his bed up.
"It's better to be safe than sorry" Jin muttered and stuck some stakes in the passage in the bushes which he carved, then he put some more stakes near his makeshift bed, and then stuck the spear diagonally towards the exit from bushes.
"Sure, no one is that stupid to jump at me right from the exit when I sleep?" He laughed.
After finishing preparations he took some food and started eating as slow as he could, thinking of meditation practices he read about.
"First comes the mindfulness, then let's try death meditation. Start with something I know about"
When he finished eating his body and mind were already quite relaxed. He laid down on the bed and started thinking.
"First I must imagine that my corpse is blue and swollen. Some parts of my body are starting to fester. Disgusting." His imagination ran wild, he imagined hips of images of death he scrolled down on the web, his mind refused to agree to show his own dead and rotten body. All kinds of dismembered, rotting and festering bodies surfaced in his mind. Time seemed to thicken and flow more and more slow. Each image he found in his memories started to slow down and be shown individually, they unfolded slowly, new details were uncovered making him think of the ways those people died.
Jin's mind become numb, he tried to focus, feeling that he was near the target, but the endpoint kept slipping out of his reach. Soon it was his turn to slip down to nothingness and he fell asleep.
[Self-harm leveled up]
[Self-harm ranked up]