I just lied there, the listening to my raging heartbeat and smiled widely, the widest smile ever. Maybe I can finally dream again.
Then I opened the inventory and pulled out the message
[Dear user, here is the last bit of information you'll need:
-Time is frozen in any unopened room
-Upon leaving, you can never return here
-You cannot raise your level here
-Any raise you do using your stat points will be then set to the new starting stats
-You can get skills, traits and resistances by doing specific actions
-You will not be able to leave the area provided for you nor contact anyone
-The empty room is infinitely large and idesctructable
-After reading this message, every rood involving magic will be inacessible (dissapear) untill properly attaining the needed knowledge and skills that do not use magic]
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Well that's fun, guess I'll be lonely, but guess what, I was always lonely, had at most 2 friends at a time, so that's nothing new
Guess it's time to slowly use my other gift, the resistance books, so I pulled them out
They were 'Poison resistance', 'blunt damage resistance' and 'fatigue resistance'
[Resistance skill book: Poison resistance
Description: lowers the duration and effect of any debuff given by a poisonous, toxic material, gas, liquid, object
Open to use]
[Resistance skill book: Fatigue resistance
Description: Lowers the stamina consumption rate, buffs the ability to focus
Open to use]
[Resistance skill book: Blunt damage resistance
Description: lowers the damage received from blunt objects
Open to use]
I opened them all no question asked
[Congratulations on receiving Poison resistance, Fatigue resistance, Blunt damage resistance]
And I checked their effects in my status
[skill: Poison resistance lv.1
Effect: Lowers the duration of a poison by 1% and weakens the effect by 1%]
[Skill: Fatigue resistance lv.1
Effect: Lowers the stamina consumption rate by 1%, buffs the ability to focus by 1%]
[Skill: Blunt damage resistance
Description: lowers the damage received from blunt objects by 1%]
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What did I expect from the system.
Well, at least I got them. Plus it clearly says 'lv.1' on all 3, meaning their levels can be raised, not sure by how much though.
I guess I increase their levels by getting poisoned, fatigued and getting hit by blunt things…does my fist count?
I raised my fist and hit myself, but it was kind weak
Nope, I don't dare to hit myself at full force…yet, who knows what the future holds for me.
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For now let's familiarize with every necessary resource room in the 'harvesting' section
First I need to find iron, copper, tin ore, also clay, dunno about stone, also I'll need to think about wood too
As I kept thinking, the list increased and increased, but I shook my head and went in.
In each ore room I found a bookshelf filled with books as well as a wall made of stall which was breakable, a system prompt told me that.
As for the clay room, no rooms, I never knew there were so many type of clays, but still each one had a well by the side, well, most, I found a few where the clay was already ready, I just needed to get it out of the ground.
So I did and started using it as my notepad, till I get a better option at least.
Then I went on to read, I went from room to room, gobbling up all the knowledge I could and it was fun actually, for once in my life there wasn't a manager nagging at me or the buzzing sounds that distract me, I even started singing
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Well, more like humming, but still, never knew silence could be so oppressive
But that didn't stop me from enjoying my time here, I never knew I needed this so much.
I mean don't get me wrong, I miss technologies, especially music, especially that, since I sometimes get tired of the constant silence.
As for sleep, my routine is this, I wake up, go to read, after getting bored of reading I star digging clay, using a stick I broke off a tree if needed, then I make flat plates of similar size, go back to reading while writing down a codename for the book and the page.
For example 'HOI4,8, 48' is 'Harvesting, ore - iron, row from the bottom: 4, book from the right:8, page:48', well, that's how the code works, pretty fun.
I use a smaller stick to draw out everything, now I understand how the greek alphabet was formed.
Once I ran out of note space, I get more and pass out reading, before waking up, but I need some cloth, fast.
Why?
Because the damn floor is cold, and hard, and cloth Is the fastest solution to better sleep.
My bed is currently the stone floor, but I put a plank I painstakingly made after an arduous process.
By process I mean I found an obsidian room, managed to get a pretty big piece stuck in my left quad after I tried hitting the obsidian wall to perhaps get a shard, pulled it out, licked off the blood, cut my tongue.
How stupid of me
Then I found a shorter oak tree, which I chopped down after over trying to cut and hit It for over 2 days with the obsidian shard, succeeded in getting a log piece a bit longer than my shoulderwidth.
Then I started to try and separate it into three pieces, tried to use the obsidian piece like a froe, failed, then I used the crack I made to wedge a stick I sharpened, then after a while I succeeded in getting a flat plank.
After that was smoothing, I rubbed the plank against the coarsest rocks I could find, then moved on to rubbing sand onto it.
And after 10 of hard labor I got myself a wood pillow, now I no longer wake up with a sore neck and instead an aching scalp, even started balding there but who cares, I'm alone and naked.
For context, one day is from when I wake up to when I fall asleep
The rooms are always lit, so I built myself a small clay hut to sleep in to block the light, plus if I close it after leaving, I hope eventually it'll get warmer inside.
Just know that my fatigue resistance is lv.3 now, be envious, I use up stamin 3% slower now.
That's now the only boon, I also got 'cold resistance, v1' (lower how much cold can effect me by 1%) and 'pain resistance lv1' (lowers how much pain affects me by 1%).
And my best creation so far, the date counter, a slab collection marking how long I have been here, in my day metric, which is over 40 by now, yes there is a lot of books to read and memorise.
The note taking helps a ton, since when revising, it's easier to find key points, but still it's taking forever.
One thing to share, I still haven't gotten over the lack of technology, though I lost the habit to eat and drink.
After over 80 days of pure grinding and leveling skills, I activated the 150 hour voucher and immediately tools appeared in every room, be it pickaxes, axes, furnaces, tongs, adzes, knives, even stuff like yarn or glue, which I would've needed to make, appeared.
So I started rushing, I didn't sleep as I made a charcoal furnace, made a pickaxe, then smithing tools, those are top priority, which I made in 4 days, trial and error, even if I know the theory, practice isn't theory.
Then I made an axe, a spare pickaxe, clothes for when I forge, sandpaper, knives, dyes, started making fertilizer by dumping plants in big box I made with pieces of dirt in it, waiting to rot.
Most importantly I made two pillows (two pieces of silk fabric sown together and feathers inside each), a mattress (Wood frame, which I covered with a woll, then cotton fabric and stuff it full of wool and a blanked (same as the pillows, but more fabric, and I used cotton).
After the timer was up, I feel into my bed and slept like a baby before waking up and I decided to stay in bed for once.
Time to check my stats I guess.