Staff Training

Four hours later Seth woke up. He found his position adjusted to a comfortable sleeping position.

With a thought, Seth was about to stand but he fell back. He tried again but he failed. He frowned before he smiled ruefully.

Ha calmed down as he began to move gradually the way he was used to whenever he woke up from sleep.

Thanks to the thought of his mother, he saw his usual pill on a table beside him. He took them and in 10mins he felt energetic and walked to the bathroom to relieve himself.

"You wake up?" Sarah asked. 

She tried hard to stop herself from frowning as she saw him struggling to walk normally.

'So, it was a temporary effect! But what causes it?' She thought.

After preparing, Seth met with his mother's good friends. They had come to see his Workshop Gallery and wished him success.

All this happened because Sarah couldn't help but boast about her son's capabilities.

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As Seth opened his eyes in the game, he quickly jumped up, he felt stronger here than in real life. He then called his window, his stats were the same.

"So what happened?" 

Seth's strength yesterday in the real world was comparable to a normal human. But after spending 5hrs, his body collapsed again. 

Now, he was confused. He didn't know what made his body rejuvenate in real life. Unable to come up with anything, he dismissed the thought. 

Seth grabbed his staff and walked out. A refreshing cool breeze blew on his face. He felt energetic and free of any negative emotions.

His next thought was, that being left alone in the wilderness might not be too bad, right? 

Seth activated Aura Sight and looked around.  His colourful sight changed to green as usual. Though the more he saw it the more weird sensation increased and that put his mind at ease. Three seconds later, Aura Sight was deactivated.

"Today will be a training session. I will activate Aura Sight every five minutes. And then during that 5 minutes, I should look at the staff fighting style I bought." 

Seth has prepared to train himself but with a low Constitution he failed to do it, that was before the world mission. However, with the additional 1 in his attribute, he felt now he could keep up. He just has to be patient and take it easy.

The training wasn't anything grand but just to build muscle memory. He had seen Anna and others trained with their respective similar weapons in the real world and they say it improved their mastery in the game.

Staff Training Session and Aura Sight During 5m interval. After 1hr Seth dropped down and gasped.

It was not straight up for 1hr. Nevertheless, the fatigue did load over.  At the very least he felt his connection with Staff deepened. 

"So, there are these hidden features. The more I use my weapon the more connected I feel with it. I think it has the same training path as Body Traits…"

Seth drank from Soothing Gourd and in just 3 minutes he felt himself again.  After that, he brought out the Womb and checked its details.

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[The Womb]

Status: Dormant and Empty

Stage: 1

Attribute: Distant Charging

Health: Normal > Good

Capacity: 1 Fetus

Stimulation Force: Charged (100%)

[The Womb is ready to be fertilised with a Dragon]

[Proceed To Stage 2 (Yes/No)]

[Mental Fortitude Requirements: 300 points]

[Activating the stages will give unexpected surprises]

[Note: Defeat a Dragon and throw the womb at it. The womb will automatically be fertilized by the defeated Dragon]

[Note: There will be a Mental Tug Of War between the Dragon and the Stimulator. Win the War to successfully have Reign over the Fetus]

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"The only sad truth about these was, there is no way I can defeat a Dragon. If only I had this Womb when I struck that Six Wing Dragon during the First trial things would have been amazing."

"Let's see... The Womb is in Good Health? Does that mean normal isn't optimum health for us players?" 

"It's understandable. I did assume my Health will read Weak or Sick, but it only indicates Normal. It means that I am my normal self."

"Distant charging is self-explanatory. I can charge it when I was far away from the womb and maybe when I store it in the inventory, right"

"Well, I truly have confidence in myself regarding the Mental Fortitude but the only trouble I have was to defeat a Dragon. Anyway, let's continue charging."

"Proceed to charge!"

Awe!

Seth winced as he felt something drilled through his back head. His ears become disoriented later; it's as if he immersed his head in the water.

"That was annoying!" 

Seth drank from Soothing Gourd and then he was back to normal. The reason he did not panic despite the sudden stinging pain was his health status did not change.

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[The Womb]

Status: Dormant and Empty

Stage: 1

Attribute: Distant Charging

Health: Good

Capacity: 1 Fetus

Stimulation Force: Charging(1%)

[After 100% stage 2 will be unlocked]

[Activating the stages will give unexpected surprises]

[Only at Stage 1 and 50% Charging should you fertilize the Womb]

[Note: You can deactivate the Stimulation connection at any time]

[Note: Charging will be disconnected after 100%]

[Activating the stages will give unexpected surprises]

[Note: Defeat a Dragon and throw the womb at it. The womb will automatically absorb the defeated Dragon.]

[Note: There will be a Mental Tug Of War between the Dragon and You. Win the War to successfully have Reign over the Fetus]

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"The old information and the new one were displayed minus a few of them. But the only difference was that the charging has to reach 50% before I can fertilize it"

Seth didn't understand why but it doesn't matter, he will see all the stages and study the womb gradually for future purposes.

"Maybe, I might become a Dragon Tamer in the future!"

From then Seth proceeded to experiment with the single Attribute the Womb obtained.

Distance charging!

What Seth understood was that the more stages it passes the longer the time to charge it.  And that will eventually make the Stimulator become a sitting duck but if one can move around while he keeps the womb safe somewhere and still charging, it will be better.

Seth held the Womb and tapped his t-shirt Pocket and stored the Womb in it. The connection with Womb was reduced and the rate of charging also was halved.

"Okay, that was informative!"

Seth brought it out of the Womb and placed it in the cottage. After he looked around confirming there was no predator or anyone that may take his Womb, he walked toward the forest to test the actual distance.

Groan!

"Well… understandably, I'm hungry?! Yesterday, I did not eat anything despite the tedious running and the communication with Nanncy."

Seth was in an excited state yesterday and that was why hunger evaded him. But now he was much more composed. 

He left the town surroundings and walked around the forest looking for edible fruits. And in no time he gathered a lot and he then filled his basket with the different fruits. Some he knew while others he didn't.

With a smile, he came back and brought a water container and placed it before him. He poured water from the Soothing Gourd and washed the fruits.

But when he took a bite of one of the fruits that looked like a Peach, Seth felt… not comfortable, almost disgusted. His attention was then dragged toward a wandering Gizelle.

"You gotta be kidding me!"

Ding

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[Womb Stimulator Preferable Diet Is Meat!]

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"If I had not been imposed with these issues, I would have said the game has softened… why the hell everything has to be fucking complicated!" Seth complained.

"Wait, does that mean I'm pregnant? And do pregnant women even really need to eat meat?" 

Seth frowned as he gazed at the cottage that the womb was in. "Am I really pregnant?"

"The game said the Womb is self-sufficient so, why am I being influenced to eat meat? If I'm vegetarian that will be a problem!" 

Tsk!

"Even in the game vegetarians don't eat meat, right?" Seth complained before he stood and entered stealth. He was going to hunt the only animal he saw.

As Seth hid behind a bush and watched the Gazelle grazing the grass he held his staff.

~Short Sword!

Slick

He unsheathed the sword, then he aimed the sharp tip of the sword at the animal. It was then he thought, is he really going to kill the only animal with him?

Grumble!

His stomach grumbled again and that answered and he...

Shoot!

The short sword extended faster than the eye can see and pierced the neck of the gazelle.

The animal didn't even react to it. Blood sprouted from the neck and the gazelle began to run, but it only took three steps before it fell down.

~Increase Perception!

Seth checked to see if there was anything that changed in his surroundings. He was hoping the smell of blood would attract a predator or something.

But there was nothing!

Apart from nothing showed, Seth did not hear the game notification. There was no EXP for him or the staff. There was also no notification announcing the death of the animal.

"This game has a Pride System in it." That was the only conclusion he arrived at. What that meant was when one surpassed certain feats there would no longer be a notification for those feats.

Seth took the game back to his cottage and began to dissect it; he was engrossed in that by following the guidebook he received as a gift and then he looked toward the north.

An Antelope was standing around the periphery of the forest, looking at him! Meeting his eyes, the Antelope jumped back, and ran!