Thunk!
Alex's mind was thrown into disarray suddenly. It was like he had just received a punch to the head.
Alex's hand went to his butt out of reflex since he felt so pain coming from it.
That's when he felt grass.
'Grass?' Alex thought.
Alex opened his eyes and looked around.
Forest.
This was the only word that appeared in his mind when he saw his new surroundings. Thick pine trees were all around Alex. Alex could hear so birds chirping, and he heard the buzzing of insects. The sll of nature also imdiately assaulted him.
'Sure enough, I have been sent sowhere, probably that God's main world or sothing,' Alex thought as he looked around.
Alex stood up, and while doing so, imdiately noticed sothing peculiar.
'Standing up is easier than before,' Alex thought.
Alex looked down at his body, and his brows furrowed.
'My big belly is gone,' Alex thought.
As Alex looked at his own body, he noticed that he had a slim build. On top of that, he wore different clothes now.
Right now, Alex wore black cloth pants and a black shirt.
Surprisingly, the fabric felt rather nice.
However, Alex noticed sothing else that he didn't like one bit.
'I'm smaller,' Alex thought with narrowed eyes.
Previously, Alex had been 187 centiters tall, but now, he barely reached 160 centiters, according to his estimations.
Alex touched his face and noticed that it was also rather slim.
'I'm smaller, my unnecessary fat is gone, but my muscles are also gone,' Alex thought. 'This is either the body of soone that only does cardio, or I'm in the body of a teenager. I don't think that this God would send into a grown body that's only 160 centiters tall. After all, he wants to beco powerful, and height is an insane advantage in physical combat.'
'So, I'm probably in the body of a teenager. Assuming that I will reach a height of above 180 centiters in my adulthood, my current height of 160 centiters ans that I still have quite so growing to do.'
'This ans that I'm probably in the body of a 14-year-old,' Alex thought.
Sothing on Alex's head tickled him, and he moved it to the side.
It was hair, and when Alex noticed so strands of his hair, he also noticed a different change.
'Well, seems like my blonde hair is gone,' Alex lanted as he saw his new black hair.
After getting familiar with his new body, Alex looked around himself and noticed two things.
One was a bulging sack, and the other was the black cube the God had given him.
Alex opened the bag and looked inside. These were probably so basic things that the God had prepared for him.
'Clothes, three red flasks, a survival knife, shoes, and so at jerky,' Alex thought as he looked at the sack. 'Basically, the bare necessities to survive in the wilderness.'
Alex took out one of the three red flasks and looked at it. The color of the liquid in the flask was a vibrant red, and the liquid was rather viscous. 'Could these be health potions? I an, I kind of am in a fantasy world.'
Alex wasn't sure, but he assud that he was right.
After checking his inventory, Alex picked up the black cube and put it in the bag.
However, his hand halted as he realized sothing else.
'Did the black cube beco lighter?' he thought as he moved the black cube around a bit. 'Probably not, but it does feel lighter.'
Alex frowned as his mind tried to find the reason. 'My old body was out of shape, but I still had quite so muscle. Yet, this untrained teenage body can easily carry the cube.'
Alex scratched his chin in thought. 'Is this normal? Is this the effect of being in a world that's bathed in this mysterious energy that's all around in the air? The guy said that most people call it Mana, so I should probably also get used to calling it Mana. I don't want to appear out of place.'
'Possible,' Alex thought. 'I should test that. The guy said that I can't push Mana into my soul, which ans that sothing in my body is different from a normal human body. The inability to do sothing that everyone else can do basically ans that I'm disabled in a certain sense.'
'However, the God wouldn't send into a body that can't beco more powerful. He also said that most of my Mana will end up in my body.'
Alex quickly shook his head. 'Now's not the ti to think about these things, Alex! First, you need-'
Alex stopped thinking as his head was suddenly droning. It felt like he had gotten a migraine.
'What's going on now!? Can't you give a break!?'
However, the headache only increased, and Alex fell to his knees as he breathed heavily.
His mind was going through everything that the God had told him, and Alex quickly found the answer.
'Really?' Alex thought with frustration and anger. 'You won't even allow to think of my true na?!'
No answer.
'Fine, fine. I'm Shang!'
And just like that, the headache had vanished.
'So, it really is like this,' Alex thought with a bitter expression. 'Fuck, this is so annoying! Can't even retain my own na!'
However, there was nothing that Alex or Shang could do.
'Anyway, I should first look around for a safe spot. I don't know where I am, and if I start training now, unwelco visitors might suddenly appear.'
Alex looked around. 'There are no leaf trees and only pine trees. Does this an that I'm in a colder climate? Now that I think about it, the sun is high in the sky, but it's a bit chilly. I can still deal with this temperature, but it will probably drop significantly in the evening and night.'
'I have food for about a day in my sack, and I can use my spare clothes for bedding and a blanket. However, I should still find a safe place where I can sleep.'
'Let's check from above,' Alex thought as he looked at a tall tree beside him. 'With this body, I should be able to climb this tree.'
Alex put his sack down and went to the tree, but he quickly stopped.
Then, he slung the sack over his back.
'Animals might sll the jerky in there,' he thought.
After that, Alex went to the tree and slung his arms and legs around it.
'Sure enough, I can easily support my own weight. This body is quite powerful and still pretty light. I don't want to admit it, but this body is probably even better suited for survival and combat than my old one.'
The first couple of ters were a bit difficult, but after Alex reached the height of the branches, it beca far easier. The needles of the pine tree were a bit annoying, but they didn't injure him.
Around two minutes later, Alex was relatively high up and could see around him.
'Fuck!' Alex thought with gritted teeth. 'Forest everywhere!'
Alex was on top of a sea of green.
'Well, at least I can sowhat make out the terrain.'
Alex noticed several mountains on the horizon, probably 20 kiloters away or so. According to his estimations, the mountains were probably about a kiloter tall on average.
Alex turned his head and noticed that the mountains were encircling him from quite a distance.
'Is this a basin?' Alex thought. 'I can't see anything higher behind the mountains, which probably ans that I'm probably not below sea level. I'm probably just surrounded by mountains. Quite an interesting starting location.'
Alex got an idea, and a skeptical expression appeared on his face.
'Is this supposed to be so kind of tutorial area or starter location?' Alex thought.
Alex scratched the back of his head awkwardly when he had that thought.
This wasn't a ga, but the God sure as hell structured it like one. Alex even got three healing potions.
'I an, at least this makes things easier,' Alex thought. 'He told that I should try surviving in the wilderness, and when I no longer feel any danger, I should go further in. I guess he ant this basin.'
Then, Alex noticed sothing.
'Smoke!'
There was smoke coming from behind one of the mountains! It was hard to notice, but if one looked hard enough, one would see it.
'That's probably a village, and they're living just beyond that mountain!'
This did a lot for calming Alex's anxiety.
At least he knew where he could find humans.
Rustle, rustle.
Alex heard the sound of rustling coming from a distance, and he looked over.
Alex blinked a couple of tis in confusion as he tried to process what he was seeing.
Were these trees… moving?
Yes, sure enough, about a hundred ters away, about twenty pine trees were moving from left to right.
One peculiar thing was that these trees were all very close to each other, even closer than the other trees. On top of that, so of them were slanted at an angle.
Alex squinted his eyes as he tried to see what was going on over there.
Trees couldn't just move like that.
'Wait, are these actually trees?' Alex thought.
After a closer inspection, Alex noticed that these "trees" only resembled trees. They weren't actually trees.
pᴀɴdᴀ nᴏveʟ They looked more like green spires with so green spikes coming out from their side.
This picture reminded him of sothing.
If these spires were straight, had no spikes, and were black…
Alex took a deep breath in shock.
'Is that a green hedgehog!?'
Sure enough, the moving mass of green looked like the back of a hedgehog.
However, just how big was this thing!?
'If that's a hedgehog, it ans that it's so big that its needles are nearly as tall as pine trees!'
Alex remained quiet as he watched the mass of green spires moving past the trees. Sotis, they were caught on a tree and bent backward, but after a while, they simply bounced back to their original location.
If this was a hedgehog, it was probably just as big as an elephant without its needles!
BANG!
Suddenly, Alex heard the sound of sothing heavy hitting the ground, and it sounded like it ca from a long distance away.
Alex looked towards the direction the sound ca from and noticed a dust cloud at the bottom of one of the mountains in the distance.
There, Alex noticed a brown lizard biting down on so large, brown animal. Alex wasn't sure since it was too far away to see it clearly.
However, Alex did notice one thing.
'I can see that lizard from here!' he thought with a deep breath. 'Then, how big is that lizard!?'
For a while, Alex only remained silent as he tried to co to terms with the things he had witnessed.
'Are you sure this is a tutorial area!?'
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