"Huh?" He mouthed before dying.
The man was familiar, and his face looked almost identical to the one I had right now… though I wasn't coated in as much despair as the one in front of me.
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"*gasp*... HUFF HUFF HUFF HUFF… HUFF… HUFF,"
I awoke from my dream, and felt as if my stomach itself had been cut open, but thankfully, I had already prepared for this.
I walked over to the four green seeds a few meters away from me and devoured all of them, their soft and bitter flavoring already staining my breath.
Then, after feeling my hunger subside, I glanced up at the panels in front of me.
[A few gods pity you]
[A few gods want to donate to save your cause]
[A few gods smile sadistically at your pathetic struggling]
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[You have unlocked the Main Wisdom Page: Past Life]
[This page has replaced your first page]
[This page is immovable]
[Calculating Scale…]
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[A few gods raise their eyebrows in confusion]
[A few gods roar in anger at their comrades]
"What the hell is all of this?" I muttered, but without any warning, a familiar book appeared in the center of my hands.
The urge to open it spread through my arms, all the way to my hands, and then fingers, where I completed the motion, revealing a few panels on the first page that confused me.
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[Wisdom: Past Life]
[Description: Do you remember it? The feeling of sharp light piercing through your darkness and abyss tempered body? The feeling of being consumed by darkness yet trying to run in the light for the rest of your life?]
[Weakness: Light Magic]
[Strengths: Dark Magic]
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[Wisdom Buff: Partial Past Memories | Affinity With Black Magic]
[Wisdom Debuff: Weakness To Light Magic]
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I was so confused by everything that I stumbled back onto my ass, trying to decipher each and every detail given.
"So, let me get this straight… I had a past life?" I muttered, still trying to process everything.
Also, it seems I was proficient in dark magic as the strength that came with the wisdom page is dark magic…
Dark Magic: A type of magic that normally results in the use or collaboration of demons: creatures that are a sin to life itself.
They go against XP, the blood of the world, and use XP to grow their innate power…
Also, that means I am weak to light magic as the weakness is obviously, well, light magic… meaning I was definitely an evil magician back in my past life.
Light Magic: A type of magic that normally results in the use or collaboration of angels: creatures that are the guardians and overseers of life itself.
"It would be useful if I actually remembered other parts of my past life instead of just seeing some events from before I died,"
And as if the gods had finally done something to help my tragic situation, a new panel appeared in front of me.
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[Scale has finished calculating]
[Gauge has been determined]
[Please Class Up in order to gain new memories of your past life]
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"And… how exactly would I do that?"
Too many questions. Too little to no answers… So, I'll just continue what I'm doing and,
"Survive,"
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A few days have passed, and a strange sense of boredom has overcome me despite my terrible situation.
As I sat on a pile of yavern corpses, I continued to sharpen a new bone that I had found, and it was the tail bone of this lizard-like monster.
This tail had about two joins in it, but the length was probably only as long as my arm, so using it as a type of sickle that bent like a whip was interesting.
Each time I swung it, I immediately began to formulate this blueprint in my mind that would help make up for my weak speed and strength.
I sharpened the longest section of the tail, which was the very end of it, turning it into something like a strange bone sickle whip variant.
The whipping motion would help make up for my strength as it built up a bit of momentum, and the stiff joints would cause the whip to snap back, creating an even stronger and faster attack that easily ripped through the soft bellies.
[Level: 1/10] (38/100) XP Needed
"I've killed so many of these things, yet they give such little XP that I won't be leveling up anytime soon," I muttered.
I was already sick of this monotonous task to discover my past life, and the scenery around me wasn't helping… until a few weeks later when I received a burst of motivation.
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[Side Quest has been revealed]
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[Side Quest: Discover the Underground Mountains]
[Description: Your motivation has died out, so this will serve as just a bit of motivation to reach the next part of this seemingly endless labyrinth.]
[Reward: +2 Strength]
[Penalty Upon Failure: Death]
[Time Left: 25 Days]
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A new feature of this strongly modified system that I have has revealed itself, otherwise known as the side quest feature.
And seeing that if I didn't discover this new place soon, I would die, I was motivated once again to get off my ass and run as fast as I could.
So, after another two weeks, the flame within my eyes began to die out, but suddenly I heard the loud cry of a bird coming from down the hallway.
When I first heard it, I thought I was hallucinating, but after traveling down the viny stone hallway, I reached it.
A large expansive cavern that had tall and skinny mountains that shot straight up towards the ceiling of the cavern.
CAW
It was… beautiful.
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[You have completed the Side Quest: Discover the Underground Mountains]
[Reward has been granted]
[The next Side Quest will be revealed once ready]
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『Status』
[Name: Atlas]
[Race: Human]
[Level: 4/10] (12/100) XP Needed
[HP: 15/15 MP: 15/15 SP: 15/15] - Normal Human
[Strength: 4] - Sub Human
[Speed: 1] - Sub Human
[Magic: 1] - Sub Human
[Wisdom: 2] - Average Human
[Intelligence: 5] - Average Human
[Skills: [Book of Wisdom]
[Passive Skills: [Calm Mind] [Dead Nerves] [Poison Resistance]
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