Limit Break

In the end, Shien still did not choose to turn around and leave.

To avoid spending the night in the wilderness, surrounded by monsters, Shien chose to endure the smell.

Besides, the stench here was probably enough to cover up Shien's own scent and keep monsters from tracking him down.

After entering the cave, Shien kept his attention fixed on the various monster reactions fed back into his mind by Enemy Perception, ready to notice at any moment if a monster came looking for him.

But as he kept watching...

"Grrr~~~"

Without any surprise, Shien's stomach began to rumble violently, draining away all his strength.

"Come to think of it, I haven't eaten anything all day..."

Although Shien had gulped down plenty of water after finding a small stream in the forest, he had eaten nothing but water all day.

"If this keeps up, I'll starve to death."

He had to find something to eat.

But in a place like this, what could possibly be edible?

"Don't tell me I have to go hunting? Compete with monsters for survival in the middle of the night?"

Just thinking about it made Shien feel awful.

The next second, Shien silently turned his head and looked to the side.

The Demon Dog's corpse was still lying there.

Shien stared fixedly at the Demon Dog's corpse. After who knew how many complicated thoughts passed through his mind, he let out a long sigh.

"This start to my second life is complete bullshit!"

After throwing out that remark, Shien resigned himself to carrying the Holy Sword over to the Demon Dog and cutting chunks of meat from its body.

If he wanted to fill his stomach, now was not the time to be picky.

"Anyway, the Holy Sword can make me immune to negative statuses. I don't have to worry about poison."

Shien was going all in.

Of course, eating it raw was out of the question. There was no way he would eat monster meat raw in this lifetime.

To cook the hard-won meat, Shien left the cave, gathered some dry branches from the surrounding brush, piled them together, and skewered the monster meat.

As for fire, he did not need to worry about that at all.

Before dying, the Demon Dog had unleashed a fierce blaze that ignited the nearby weeds, and those weeds were still slowly burning.

Shien used what was available, successfully lit a campfire, roasted the Demon Dog's meat, and put it into his mouth.

"It tastes awful..."

Shien's face twisted bitterly as if he were chewing wax.

Still, with no salt, no soy sauce, and no seasonings of any kind, it was only natural for grilled meat to taste bad.

And chewing wax was still better than eating dirt. In the end, Shien filled his stomach until he was completely full.

Afterward, Shien put out the campfire, buried the fire pit and the Demon Dog's remains with sand and dirt, then returned to the cave, found a relatively comfortable spot, and lay down.

Perhaps because this was the Demon Dog's den, the temperature was not low. It was actually a little hot, so Shien would not freeze.

With the Holy Sword beside him, Shien looked out at the night sky beyond the cave.

There seemed to be no moon tonight, yet countless stars adorned the darkness.

As he watched the night curtain glitter with dazzling stars, Shien's heart, tense all day, finally relaxed a little.

"This world isn't entirely bad."

At least, he probably could not have seen a night view like this in his previous life, right?

Even though Shien had completely forgotten his previous life, with nearly all memories beyond common sense lost, he still vaguely remembered that stars were rarely visible in the big cities of his former world.

"Besides, I seemed to have been an ordinary person in my previous life. I really don't know why the Goddess summoned someone like me as the Hero."

Was it because he could use cheats?

But hadn't the Goddess given him those cheats?

Shien did not understand.

"Come to think of it, I don't even know that Goddess's name."

Recalling the beautiful Goddess, whose beauty seemed beyond anything of this world in both reality and perception, Shien could not help falling into thought.

Then, without realizing it, Shien fell asleep.

The next day, Shien woke up, left the cave, and continued searching for a way out of the forest.

To avoid losing his direction again, Shien realized that what was bound to happen could not be avoided. Thus, he no longer changed direction just to avoid monsters and began actively heading toward areas where monsters were located.

Thanks to that, Shien encountered all sorts of monsters.

He encountered demon boars that could release poisonous miasma.

He also encountered black snakes that could turn the surrounding terrain into swampland.

He even encountered packs of monsters and suffered wave after wave of attacks.

These repeated encounters put Shien in danger several times, even with the Holy Sword in hand.

However, while facing danger, Shien also gained unexpected benefits and learned all sorts of skills.

When he was eroded by the poisonous gas released by the demon boars, Shien learned Abnormal Status Resistance.

When he fell into a swamp and nearly suffocated to death, Shien learned Immortality.

When he was surrounded by a monster pack, he carelessly let the Holy Sword get knocked away, but in the end learned Limit Break.

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Abnormal Status Resistance

· Passive Skill.

· Increases resistance to abnormal statuses.

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Immortality

· Passive Skill.

· Increases one's own recovery ability and the effectiveness of recovery-type abilities.

· Grants a certain degree of resistance against instant-death attacks and abilities.

· When one's vital signs can no longer be maintained, magic power can be consumed to forcibly keep them going.

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Limit Break

· Active Skill.

· Takes direct effect on the level of life itself.

· When used, it amplifies and strengthens all abilities. The effect is determined by the amount of magic power consumed and the skill's level.

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Every one of these skills was extremely useful.

Immortality and Limit Break in particular were especially impressive. One allowed Shien to forcibly maintain his vital signs even if he were completely submerged in a swamp, meaning he would not die even if he could not breathe. It was the ultimate life-saving skill. The other was the first active skill Shien had obtained. Once used, it gave him a superhuman body, allowing him to leap straight to the top of a tree more than ten meters tall in a single jump. It was astonishing.

It was also because this skill appeared that Shien first felt a kind of power he had never felt before.

That power was magic power.

It seemed to be the power used for skills and magic.

By consuming this power, Shien could use active skills like Limit Break. He could also use passive skills like Immortality, which required magic power to maintain. It was practically a dreamlike power.

And through using magic power, Shien also obtained the two skills Magic Guidance and Magic Recovery.

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Magic Guidance

· Passive Skill.

· Greatly increases magic power.

· Greatly increases the effects of magic.

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Magic Recovery

· Passive Skill.

· Expended magic power automatically recovers.

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The appearance of these two skills finally gave Shien the feeling that he truly was different.

Only after he could sense and use magic power did Shien feel that he had genuinely arrived in a world of swords and magic.

At last, Shien felt somewhat excited.

"I wonder if I can use magic?"

With such expectations in mind, Shien continued onward without any real danger, defeated quite a few monsters, thoroughly adapted to combat, and gradually adapted to life in this forest.

A new day had begun! Here was today's first chapter!

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