The Arcane Archer 2 Day 1

Pulling out the bow and quiver full of arrows out of the inventory, I equipped them and thanked my luck for giving me a weapon that I've been practicing my entire life with.

After making sure everything was correctly tightened and wasn't going to just fall off me as soon as I moved, I took a quick look up to the sky to find the time. The quick glance easily told me that it was around noon and that I had a good amount of time before night.

Not knowing where the closest civilization is in this new world, I could only a.s.sume that I would have to survive the next couple of nights out here.

Putting the bow on my back, I started running into a random direction in hopes of finding anything useful that would help me survive the night. After a few minutes of running, I heard something loud fall down.

I quickly stopped running, crouched down, and got my bow out. Before just running into whatever danger the loud noise was, I made sure to prepare everything else I could and pulled an arrow out and readied it.

Finally, being as ready as I could be, I started sneakily making my way over the noise. After about 30ish seconds of my horrible sneaking, the system dinged.

[*Ding! * Congratulations for gaining the skill {Sneak}. At its current level, it will only help hide your presence very slightly. Make sure to practice this skill so that you may one day achieve the level of Skyrim sneaking where you can just crouch down and disappear!]

'Ah, that'll be helpful in this situation.'

Once again continuing, I eventually got to the where the loud sound happened. What I saw when there was a large ish snake wrapping itself around a fox like creature. Slightly nearby was a broken off branch from a nearby tree.

Combining two and two together in my head, I could only a.s.sume that the snake wrapped itself in whatever this creature was and the weight was too much for the branch under them and fell.

Still being cautious, instead of just firing an arrow at them, I instead put the arrow away, threw the bow over my back. Then I started climbing up a nearby tree as best as I could.

With my horrible strength which I now know is from my mutation as the system called it, I struggled getting up but was successful after a minute.

[*Ding! * Sneak is now Level 2., you're now slightly quieter when doing anything while sneaking.]

'Once again, that'll be useful for what I'm about to do.'

In the tree I made my way over to a st.u.r.dy looking branch and prepared myself once again. Aiming my bow down at the snake, I prepared to let the arrow fly at a moment's notice.

A minute pa.s.sed....

Another minute....

The snake suddenly started to spasm. Not knowing what was happening, I just let the arrow go and let the bow do the rest of the work.

It immediately went flying into the snake and pierced right into it.

As soon as I did, red numbers appeared in my HUD next to the words "Sneak Attack!"

The total damage in total was 70 damage. Max damage from the regular arrow (35) but was then doubled because of it being a sneak attack.

[You've killed a {Vine Python} and a {Woodland Fox} you've earned 23 Xp!]

[You've gained 17 System Points!]

[You've successfully levels up!]

[You have successfully gained the skill {Archery}. As you were a master archer on Earth, this skill is currently max level. You gain increased bow damage, increased bow accuracy, and increased range.]

'I killed both? Arrow must've pierced completely through the snake then and went into the fox. Oh well, can't argue with that.'

I jumped out of the tree into a smaller tree nearby and then jumped onto the ground from there. I made my way over to the animals that I killed but made sure to keep my bow ready.

Arriving at the python and fox, I gave it a quick kick just to double check even though the system said it was dead.

Confirming that it was I stashed my bow on to my back and put the fox and python in my inventory.

'System, will things go bad inside the inventory or will it go into a sort of Stasis?'

[Answering to Host, you control the time for each object inside the inventory. If you want it to go into a sort of stasis you can. If you want time to accelerate you can. The only thing you can't do it reverse time.]

I nodded my head in understanding.

With that done, I continued walking in a random direction in hopes of finding a place to stay for the night.

An hour or two pa.s.sed quickly and during the walk I took out a ration and some water to eat.

After another hour, I had to sit under a tree to take a break as I was exhausted from constantly walking and my horrible const.i.tution didn't help.

I rested underneath the tree for an hour while just messing around with the system.

Getting up I stretched and continued walking. Luckily this time, after around a half hour, I came upon a small cave. I looked inside the cave while standing at the entrance but wasn't able to see that far into it.

I prepared my bow and arrow, then grabbed a rock while holding the bow in my off hand. Throwing the rock into the cave as far as I could, I got into position to shoot anything that came out.

I stood for a solid minute before slowly starting to get out of position.
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Seeing as nothing came out, I decided that I would make this my temporary home.

Turning around to a tree, I grabbed some loose branches and other stuff to make a fire. I stuffed a bunch of them into my inventory and sat a couple of feet inside the cave.

Taking another quick glance at the sun for the time, I noticed that it was actually starting to set and that my original time that I predicted was wrong.

Seeing it motivated me even more to prepare for the night so I started doing what would be the hardest part of the night. Starting a fire.

On earth, I never made a fire without matches or a lighter but I did watch a couple of survival things on the internet the one time.

Pulling out a decent sized piece of wood and a stick, I started to twirl the stick on the piece of wood as fast as I could in an attempt to cause enough friction to start a small fire.

After ten minutes of doing so and hurting my hands countless times, I threw the stick outside the cave in a fit of anger.

It only went outside the cave by a couple of feet and was generally embarra.s.sing as I was that weak.

I sat down with my back against the wall of the cave and started thinking about what I could do to start a fire. I was able to stay on task of thinking about how to do it for a solid 5 minutes before my mind drifted off to what happens this day.

Most of what I thought about was just the constant walking and stuff like that. A small part of it the skills and other stuff that I got.

At that point, I remembered getting some points or something.

'System, I remember earlier when killing the snake and fox that I got some point. Can I use that in a shop or something?'

[Affirmative! In the shop there is everything in existence and then on. However, because there is practically infinite number of things, there isn't a shop menu. All you have to do is ask me to purchase something with a set amount of points and I will personally search if for you. If there are two choices are both good, I'll tell you them and you can decide which one you want.]

I nodded my head once again.

'Can you use around 10 to 15 points to search for something to help me make a fire?'

[Affirmative.... Searching.... Searching.... Found. You have 2 choices. You can either get the {flint and steel} for {10 Points} or a {Introductory for Fire Magic} for {15 Points}.]

'Fire magic, no question!'

[Deducting points... You now have {2 Points} left.]

After buying it, a book with only a couple of pages appeared in my lap.

Picking it up, I opened it up to the first page and started reading. Most of what it talked about was feeling the flow of energy around you and inside of you, combining it into a singular place, and then just saying, "Fire".

Closing the book, I sighed to myself as it barely listed how to actually search for the energy and move it.

Throwing the book carelessly into my inventory I closed my eyes in an attempt to find this energy that it was talking about. I searched for a couple of minutes before I felt a weird lukewarm feeling.

It originated from inside of me and when I looked around me with my eyes closed, I felt a weird warm and cold feeling. a.s.suming that this was what the book was talking about, I attempted to move it onto the small piece of wood nearby.

It took a couple of attempts but I was able to eventually get a small part of both my inner energy and the world energy to gather onto the piece of wood.

With that done, I did the final step.

"{Flame}"

Upon saying this, it felt like a lot more of the internal lukewarm energy left my body and went to the piece of wood.

Opening my eyes, I noticed a very small flame on the wood. Before doing anything to celebrate, I pulled out some leaves and stuff to help fuel the fire.

After a minute of doing this and seeing that it wasn't going to go out instantly, I sat down in exhaustion.

[Congratulations to host for successful casting a spell and for learning how to do it without the help of the system!]

I smiled at the message as I was proud of myself for doing it.

[You have successfully learned the spell {Flame}. It uses 10 mp to light a object within 5 feet of you on fire slightly. This is currently level 1.]

[You have successfully learned {Mana Manipulation}. You are now able to move very small amounts of mana. This is currently level 1.]