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Chapter 2 - Experience

[Body has been analyzed]

[Transferring...]

[Repairing some injuries]

[Completed]

Just as all the process was completed, he started to feel his body little by little; first he took a little breath and moved his fingers. Suddenly he heard an anxious voice.

"He is alive!"

"He's alive!"

"Here, drink this..." 

Suddenly, he felt something brush against his lips and some kind of murky liquid entered his mouth. As the person's voice reached his ears, he subconsciously took a gulp of that liquid.

As the liquid slowly entered his mouth, settling smoothly inside his stomach, he slowly started to feel some heat spreading in his body.

"Do you have another healing potion?"

"Give it to me for now; I will give you the money later on." 

Slowly he felt something getting poured on his head, after that he felt some movement in his head and the pain he felt in his head started to subside slowly.

Feeling the pain subside, he tried to open his eyes. When he opened his eyes, he saw a burly man in front of him, who was holding his upper body with his hand while he was lying on the ground. Some distance from him, he saw a girl with black hair standing and looking at him. 

As their eyes met, she spoke with reassurance, "He seems to be fine now. Let him rest here for now. I don't think the wolves will be coming here any time soon."

Just as she uttered these words, a loud, resounding boom came from the distance. The noise was quickly followed by an urgent voice, "Sir! There are rats coming from underground tunnels and there are close to a hundred of them."

Hearing this, the burly man's and the girl's mood dropped and they looked at the person. The girl then turned her head to look at the burly man and said, "Captain, I think we should leave him here. You can't carry him around in this situation."

The burly man looked at the boy in his arms, seeing him looking at him, he hesitated a little and then slowly took him near a broken house and put him there, leaning against the wall of the house. 

"I'm sorry, but there's nothing I can do in this situation."

"I am really sorry, Neuman."

He then stood up and walked some distance and bent down to pick up two things from the ground. He then walked back to Neuman, who was lying on the wall.

Neuman looked at the things the man had picked up, one was a spear and another was a dagger. The man then put the dagger in Neuman's left hand and put the spear in his right hand and clenched them while his hands were shaking.

He then stood up and without looking back, he said, "Let's go back to the formation, you two."

After that he started to walk in the direction from where the soldier came. The girl looked at Neuman, who was lying against the wall and sighed, then followed behind the man. The soldier who delivered the news looked at Neuman with pity and then ran in the same direction.

Seeing all of them leave Neuman, who was lying on the wall, stared at the sky, the sun was still above his head.

He then looked around and found that he was in a dilapidated area, there was nothing intact around and everything was in ruins.

With this his gaze returned back to his body, he was feeling fine after he regained his senses. Previously the man poured something called healing potion, which made him feel quite comfortable, but he still acted like nothing happened.

None of them noticed that the heinous wound on his head was healed in a moment after Neuman opened his eyes and what was left was just the dried blood. As he was pondering what to do, something suddenly popped in front of him.

[INACTIVE]

Seeing this, Neuman was surprised. "Inactive?"

What's this? From its appearance, it seems to have inherited this from the stone.

He reached out to touch the hologram, but his hand passed through it. As he moved his eyes, he realized that the screen seemed to follow his gaze. Experimenting further, he felt like it was telekinesis, as he could shift the screen with his eyes.

He then positioned it to the corner of his vision, where it wouldn't obstruct his sight.

He stood up and stretched, feeling no problem in moving his body. His gaze shifted to the weapons in his hand; the dagger still had some red blood smeared on it, but it was in fine condition.

Then he looked at the spear and noticed that the iron spear had some scratches on it and some blood on the tip of the spear.

He then swung around the spear for some time, familiarizing himself with the spear. He practiced thrusting for some time and then swung it around. He felt that the spear was quite heavy and he could only swing it around twenty times or so.

He then came out of the broken house. It was then he noticed how chaotic that place was. There were corpses lying around. As he looked around, he noticed some human bodies along with some kind of beast. 

He walked to a nearby body and noticed that this beast looked like a wolf. He remembered the girl talking about getting attacked by the wolves, just as he had been attacked.

He noticed how bloodthirsty they looked. Even if they were dead, they had blood smeared on their paws and mouths. While he was looking at the dead wolf, he suddenly heard a scratching sound.

Neuman immediately became alert hearing the scratching sound, he then remembered that the people he met first were talking about some rats from an underground tunnel. He carefully looked around and followed the scratching sound.

As he looked around a corner, he noticed a small, grotesque figure gnawing on a corpse. After carefully looking at the monster, he noticed that it looked like some kind of mouse. 

Looking around, he confirmed that no other mouse was near the wolf. He then put down his spear and took out his dagger strapped to his leg and began to step toward the line mouse carefully.

Noticing that the mouse still hadn't noticed, Neuman swung the dagger towards the small mouse's head. The dagger went through the skull and emerged from the other side.

[Corpse-eating mouse (Level 1) killed]

[+1 exp]

Looking at the new window that appeared in front of him, Neuman was surprised again.

"+1 exp!"

"Corpse-eating mouse?"

"Level 1?"

As he was pondering over the sudden appearance of the window, he noticed some more small mice gnawing on the bodies. Since there was nothing special in the notifications, he left them as is and focused his attention on the remaining mice.

Just now Neuman killed a mouse in one hit, so no other mice were alerted by his actions. They heard some noise but still continued gnawing on the corpses like they didn't see him. Seeing this, Neuman frowned and thought of killing another mouse, and he was more careful this time.

[Corpse eating mouse (Level 1) killed]

[+1 exp]

Ignoring the notifications, Neuman looked around and found no difference than before, so he continued killing those corpse-eating mice.

After he killed around ten of those mice, a notification very different from the previous one appeared. Neuman looked at it and frowned.

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