ngIn a mountain valley, away from civilization, there laid Jake beside a riverside, in front of him were 2 people.
"Do you think he's dead?" One of the two asked, she was a woman with beautiful long light brown hair that reached to her waist, With soft lips, Light blue eyes, and a gorgeous face, She was wearing what a traditional mage would wear, a long purple robe with a dark blue wizard hat with some beautiful sandals, she was approx 18.
"Of course not, just unconscious, I will wake him up right now, Hopefully, he isn't an NPC but rather a Player, We need some information if he has some." The other person replied she was a beautiful girl as well, with short but breath-taking amber hair that was on the tip of her shoulders, She had deep sapphire eyes that looked like the sea from afar, She had 2 daggers on her waist and wore what an assassin would usually wear, A black body tight suit that was complimenting her beautiful curves, along with matching Black shoes, she looked approx 20.
The assassin girl shook Jake hard until he coughed up some water and eventually opened his eyes, he looked dizzy but shocked at the same time.
"Blegh...Who are you both?" Jake threw up a bit of water before questioning.
"Amilia Stone, I'm an assassin" The assassin girl replied in an expressionless tone.
"I'm Heather Mars, A Mage, Nice to meet you!" The mage girl said, with the way she said it you would think she was a young girl 8 years of age, so enthusiastic.
"I'm J- Diablo Eriath" Jake said He didn't want to say his real name in case they were not normal human beings from his world.
Amilia noticed the stutter, thanks to the assassin class's increased concentration, "Are you a human?"
Jake was surprised, "Indeed, are you both as well?".
"Yup, But why do you talk like that? Like a college professor or something." Heather asked.
"Oh uh, sorry, It was just out of politeness," Jake said, it wasn't, while he did want to sound polite, that was his normal way of talking.
Amilia helped Jake up and then explained what happened, every person who has played games before was transported into this world through a horrifying panel, Whether they wanted it or not.
Heather and Amilia were sisters who got transported into this world forcefully, without their consent, though, they didn't age, unlike Jake who aged by five years.
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It was now night, and the three people became familiar with each other, Jake didn't say his real name, nor did they. Jake was responsible for hunting and a few minutes ago, he successfully hunted a wild boar that they were cooking right now.
Jake kept looking at the food before realizing he hasn't eaten anything since he got here, and he was pretty hungry. His top priority right now was to maintain a good body and find power.
That's when Jake remembered something, before he died, he could briefly see a panel that contained "unlocked" and "congratulations" on it. He opened his stats to find that just below his mental strength, and words couldn't describe how excited he was. He had unlocked Water breathing.
Now, being a cultured man, Jake immediately knew what Water Breathing was, Clicking on it, he saw all the forms, even the one created by Giyu, lullaby. There were even detailed descriptions of the forms.
" Hey guys, I'm going to go into the forest for a bit," Jake said.
"Sure, but come soon as the boar is almost finished," Amilia said.
Jake wanted to try out his new powers," if this was a power, then I guess other breathings and anime power systems are too." Jake thought.
He went to the center of the forest in a wide-open plain, then started testing out his powers.
"Mizu no kokyo, Ichi no kata, Minamo
Giri."
Jake said after taking a deep breath, he chose to say it in Japanese to enhance the flavor of the breathing, but in English, it translates to Water breathing, first form, water surface slash.
But instead of doing it, instead Jake felt his ribs being broken. Every single piece of bone in his ribs shattered, causing him to become unconscious.
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Ughhh...
Jake woke up to water dripping on his face, ice-cold water. He opened his eyes to see a worried Heather and a worried Amilia.
"What were you doing?" Amilia Asked, to which Jake replied, "Training."
"What kind of fucking training makes you break your fucking ribcage?" She said anger laced in her tone.
Jake only chuckled while giving it his all to not cry, while his body is indeed 16, he is only 11 inside. Jake stood up and asked, "Don't worry, it won't happen again. Anyways, Where's the food!".
Heather pointed at a cooked boar with delicious smoke coming out of it, Jake sat down on a mattress and started eating.
"Diablo Eriath, You are indeed a demon, I mean, What human being is able to walk around like that with only half of their ribcage restored?! Hmph!" Heather said worryingly.
Amilia only chuckled at Heather before both of them went to bed, leaving Jake alone eating boar meat.
Jake glanced over at the 2 ladies and saw them completely defenseless, but he knew it was wrong anyway so he just tried to focus on the meat, but to no avail. He knew it wasn't working so he took one last big bite before standing up and heading to a valley, where he started training until a new day was introduced in the story.
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Jake was still training, it was already morning yet the 2 ladies were asleep, so Jake decided to continue training. Besides training, Jake also explored the power system a bit and found out that when he masters a certain power, he can create his own power. Though it must be only a few levels higher than the users, the user's body must be prepared for it, and it has to be of the same category as the original power. For example, Jake has water breathing, he needs to master it then train his body until he can achieve the level of power he wants, then he can create his own breathing, not other powers.
Jake was training for 7 hours, so there was obviously a backlash. Suddenly, he felt extreme pain in his hands and ribs, He knew he had reached his willpower's limit so he decided to stop his training, he sat down on the ground and looked at his hands to find them chapped and with a slash in the middle.
A perk of learning a breathing was to be able to keep calm, and Jake knew that that's what the pain he felt came from, he tightly bandaged it using bandages he got from Amilia yesterday. He removed his shirt and found a medium slash in the middle of his ribs too, so he did the same with his ribs, bandaging them.
Jake took his shirt, or what was left from it, and headed over to the place where they resided, which was the riverside. Jake realized that he was going to a place with 2 women, shirtless, but he shrugged it off seeing as men go to the beach shirtless normally, so this should be normal.
When he arrived, they were still sleeping, So Jake cooked some leftover meat and started eating it.
"Gulp" Jake swallowed the last bite of boar meat, he was getting worried since Amilia And Heather still haven't woken up, so he decided to check on them. He stood up from his seat on the ground and first headed over to Amilia, where he kneeled down and lent over to her mouth to check if she was still alive, He felt her moist and fragrant breath on his lips so he concluded that she was alive, he decided to check her pulse too, because they were in a fantasy world and anything goes, he held her hand and touched her wrist, to find no pulse at all.