I started looking at the item description of the Sage's Candlestick.
"Sage's Candlestick: A combination of a candlestick and a weapon that every sage in the Great Archives possesses."
It is said that the undead who forged the first Sage's Candlestick was inspired by the tail of a fire-breathing dragon and crafted it from its teeth.
Special Note: The Sage's Candlestick will automatically light in darkness. Once the candle burns out, it will consume one point of mana to create a new candle. Additionally, it is said that the Sage's Candlestick can enhance spell power. However, testing has shown that the Sage's Candlestick only enhances soul and fire spells. It has no effect on grass, water, or lightning spells.
"This is outrageous!!!"
Chapter 4 - Wilderness Survival (Please follow)
The woods were pitch black and quiet, with nothing but the sound of the wind and the hooting of owls.
Lu Ming struggled to weave a slingshot tied to two large trees beside a campfire lit by candles from a bunch of sage candlesticks. He didn't want to come into close contact with any of those terrifying insects, spiders, centipedes, or other such creatures that often crawled across the forest floor.
The firelight flickered slightly, illuminating the surrounding trees and making them resemble an eerie forest from a horror movie, which frightened Lu Ming, a shut-in.
From the initial excitement of time travel to the current fear, this truly reflects the situation of a time traveler. Only after burning the rabbit meat did Lu Ming think of his parents. The thought of never being able to go back still left him somewhat dejected.
However, now is not the time to think about these things. How to survive is what he should be thinking about most.
Using the blade of the Sage's Candlestick, he swiftly severed the excess vines and climbed onto the hanging mat. Although it was his first time weaving a hanging mat from vines, and the weaving wasn't very good, it was still usable for sleeping.
He lay down and covered himself with his tattered robe, shielding his head and hands from mosquito bites and other insects. Hiding on his small, uncomfortable bed, Lu Ming began checking the system on his phone.
Because of missions and achievements, Lu Ming now has a total of 3 skill points. His biggest problem right now is how to use these 3 skill points.
Should I learn those weird Grass-type Pokémon moves, upgrade my Seed Machine, or keep them as a backup?
"The maximum level for the Seed Machine is 10, while my Seed Machine is only level 1. This means that even if I put all my skill points into this initial skill, I still can't upgrade it to its maximum power. And based on my many years of gaming experience, this level 3 upgrade doesn't provide much of an improvement."
Inside his tattered robe, still smelling of sweat, Lu Ming stared at the skill tree on his phone screen, muttering to himself as he pondered.
Suddenly, he noticed a new message in the information bar.
Upon opening it, he discovered that it wasn't from ymxk or the system Pikachu, but rather a message from the will of these worlds. This gave him quite a fright.
"Welcome, traveler from another world! Welcome to this world. I hope you have a great time and find your other half here."
However, since I took a skill from you and gave you some plants, I've specifically added a map function to your system. The map will be installed by the time you finish reading this message. Hope you reach a safe area soon.
Sender: The Will of This World: Puru~
"What am I supposed to say? As expected of the will of the world, does taking something come with a reward? Or rather, taking my skills is one thing, but why give me some plants too? Am I now equivalent to a plant? And what the hell is this Pulu? Is it a system app?" Terrified by this message, Lu Ming loudly complained as he exited the message bar and opened the suddenly appearing map application.
Looking at the large expanse of green representing forests on his phone map, Lu Ming swallowed hard and kept swiping the screen until he finally found the location of a small village inhabited by intelligent beings.
"Uh, what should I do if I don't recognize these words?" He had found a place with people, but Lu Ming couldn't understand the name of the small village on the map.
Since this is another world, it's impossible for them to speak English and Chinese, right? So the language problem was also thrown to Lu Ming by the will of the world.
But for a top student like me who's extremely sedentary at home, it's just a foreign language! I'll learn it quickly!
"Learn what?! Nobody's teaching me, I don't have any translations or textbooks, how am I supposed to learn? Am I supposed to be taught by the locals, like a child pointing to things one by one?!"
Lu Ming's strange cries startled the owl and the sleeping birds, causing them to fly away in panic once again.
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Lu Ming lay on the uncomfortable hanging bed, and despite the owls' unanimous protests, he slept on and off until dawn.
After shaking off the tattered robe, Lu Ming put it on and prepared to head towards the small village on his phone's map.
Although language barriers are a huge problem, what is the embarrassment of not being able to speak a language compared to struggling to survive in the forest?
"There's no comfortable bed, no warm breakfast, and no internet. How did those characters in novels survive?" Lu Ming, holding a sage's candlestick in one hand and a phone in the other, began his first step in his otherworldly life, searching for his initial starting village.
The paths in the woods were mostly animal trails made by wild animals, while other areas were rugged grasslands overgrown with weeds and infested with insects. Every step here required caution, lest you be bitten by something.
Looking at the map and walking step by step with difficulty, Lu Ming soon learned what it meant to "look at the mountain but run to your death."
It was a small village that wasn't far from the map, but he walked for more than three hours, and on the map, he had only moved one square closer to the survivors.
In addition, hunger and thirst began to attack his will.
Left with no other choice, he started hunting the rabbits he often saw in the woods, while also completing the main quest. Why not do something that provided him with food and allowed him to finish his mission at the same time?
But while his idea is good, will the little rabbits agree?
Whenever Lu Ming quietly approached them, the little rabbits would always spot him and hop away quickly, not giving him a chance to make a move.
Once, twice, three times...
"Third time's the charm! You forced me to this!" Lu Ming roared angrily as the little rabbit pounced on him again. He took out his phone and gently upgraded the seed machine.
Glancing at his stats—only 8 points of magic power—Lu Ming grinned maliciously and reached out his claws at a little rabbit hiding in the grass. A series of seed attacks, more than twice as powerful as when it was level one, instantly knocked the rabbit to the ground.
Although the little rabbit still had no visible injuries, the enhanced seed machine had actually broken some of its fragile bones, preventing it from escaping.
The injured little rabbit, its large, red, teary eyes wide, watched as the giant-like Lu Ming slowly approached, brandishing a strange weapon, and with a sinister grin, stabbed at it...
But just as he ended the poor little rabbit's life with the extinguished Sage's Candlestick, he suddenly remembered that he was out of flames and couldn't start a fire for the time being. He also forgot to put the embers from the campfire into his inventory.
"Eat it raw?" Lu Ming, who was starving, looked at the little rabbit that was already kneeling. After struggling with his conscience for a moment, he put the little rabbit back into the pack. "Never mind. I'll go find some vegetables instead! So I won't be unable to eat meat later."
Suffering from hunger, Lu Ming sighed softly and continued his slow journey. However, as he made his way towards the small village, his eyes constantly scanned the surrounding trees, hoping to find something to eat.
However, it wasn't until several hours later that he found an apple tree with only a few apples left. Before that, he hadn't found anything to eat.
"Apples! Apples! Apples~!!" Lu Ming was incredibly excited the moment he saw the apple tree. He hadn't eaten anything decent or drunk anything all night and all morning, and he was already itching to get back to his pre-pregnancy state.
Lu Ming ran quickly to the apple tree, reached out and picked an apple that looked ripe, and took a bite without hesitation.
"A little sour. But I like it!" Lu Ming crunched on the apple from the other world, plopped down on the root of the apple tree, and muttered to himself as he ate.
Although apples aren't a staple food, they're plentiful and juicy. So after eating the first apple, Lu Ming picked the rest, eating the ones he could and putting the rest into his inventory.
But just as Lu Ming patted his full stomach, which was full from eating several apples, and prepared to continue his journey, he looked back at the apple tree, thought for a moment, and then dug a hole in a nearby spot where there were no other trees. He buried the apple cores in the hole and even urinated on it.
"Tree, oh tree, although I picked all your fruit, I also helped you plant those seeds. So please don't blame me!" Lu Ming casually picked a leaf, wiped his hands, and patted the apple tree with a smile. Then he set off on his journey, continuing his advance towards the small village.
After he left, eyes and a mouth that didn't belong to a plant suddenly sprouted from the apple tree. Looking at the apple core that Lu Ming had buried, the seemingly sentient apple tree smiled slightly. Then, things resembling carnivorous plants grew from every branch.
Of course, Lu Ming didn't see this scene. Because he had already walked far away.
"We've been walking for most of the day, how come there's still so much to go!" Lu Ming, who had been walking all morning and into the afternoon, stood under a tree, wiping the sweat from his forehead and looking at the map on his phone, which showed that there was still more than half the journey ahead, complaining about how long the journey was.
"Huh? A rabbit?" Just as he stopped and took a slight breath, a small gray rabbit suddenly ran out of the grass beside him.
The man and the rabbit stared at each other for a long time, as if neither had expected to encounter the other. Then, Lu Ming was the first to react, drawing his Sage's Candlestick, pointing it at the little rabbit, and laughing loudly, "I never thought waiting for a rabbit to run into a tree stump was real! A rabbit really will come to my door... Run!!!"
Before Lu Ming could finish speaking with a smile, dozens of little rabbits ran out of the bushes, all staring at him with their mouths glowing.
Seeing this, it goes without saying that Lu Ming took off running without a word.
Chapter 5 - A Glimmer of Hope (Please Follow)
Apple: The fruit of the apple tree, which can slightly replenish energy and water.
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It's unclear whether it was because he killed too many rabbits that the rabbits became enraged, causing them to start chasing after Lu Ming, the rabbit-killing maniac.
But at this moment, Lu Ming had no other way out but to escape.
Although it's not very presentable for a grown man to be chased by a bunch of rabbits, Lu Ming felt it was better to run away than to be eaten alive by a group of magical rabbits.
But how could he, a shut-in, possibly outrun a large group of rabbits living in this huge forest?
He had only been running for a minute or two when the rabbits were almost catching up with him.
Seeing that the rabbits were about to catch up, Lu Ming gritted his teeth and put all the skill points he had reserved for other skills into the Seed Machine. In an instant, he leveled the Seed Machine to level 4.
Taking advantage of the opportunity to leap over a fallen tree, Lu Ming hurriedly drank a bottle of Elemental Ash to fully replenish his mana. Then he used a move called Horse, catching the rabbits off guard. They could only be knocked away by the seeds from the Seed Machine while they were running.
A level 4 seed machine is far superior to level 1 and 2 machines. Those seeds are practically real!
Any rabbit hit by the seeds will be riddled with holes, its body covered in wounds. Although these wounds are not deep, and would have little effect on armored rabbits, they are still quite fatal to these unprotected little rabbits.
"Hey! You stinky grass-eating rabbits chased me, now you know how powerful I am!" Because the level 4 seed machine killed several rabbits in an instant, Lu Ming's confidence soared, and he mocked the little rabbits.
The little rabbits, startled by Lu Ming's seed machine, opened their adorable big eyes and looked at their companions who had been killed by Lu Ming. Then... they all let out a series of very sharp screams.
"Ah! My ears! My ears!" The sharp cries of dozens of rabbits at the same time pierced Lu Ming's ears, causing them to ache terribly. He had to cover his ears to feel a little better.
However, after a while, Lu Ming saw even more rabbits swarming towards him.
"What the hell?!" Looking at the rabbit tide that was almost as big as ocean waves, Lu Ming yelled and ran away.
"Why? Why are there so many rabbits in this forest? All the carnivores are dead... Ah~! Uh~! Ah~!" While running away and complaining, Lu Ming accidentally slipped and fell down a slope. He tumbled and rolled before landing in a calm lake: "Splash!"
Unlike Lu Ming, who was so careless in his escape, the rabbits didn't miss a single step. They scrambled down the slope one after another, stopping at the lakeside to wait for Lu Ming to come ashore.
"Pfft!!" Lu Ming, who had fallen into the lake, struggled to the surface and spat out the lake water from his mouth.
"Luckily, I learned to swim before, otherwise I would have drowned this time." Lu Ming chuckled, wiping his face with his hand. Looking at the rabbits who seemed unable to swim, he laughed, "You rabbits are really stupid! You can't even swim! Now you can't catch up, can you! Hahahaha~!"
But just then, something that looked like a man-eating flower suddenly grew on a willow tree by the lake.
Seeing this, Lu Ming was startled. He opened his mouth wide and stared at the man-eating flower-like thing on the willow tree, slowly, slowly approaching the rabbits that were glaring at him menacingly, as if waiting for him to come ashore.
"What the hell!?"
Then Lu Ming saw a series of seeds shoot out from the carnivorous plant, like a trap, which wiped out a large number of rabbits.
Looking at the willow tree's seed machine and then thinking about his own, Lu Ming was so ashamed that he almost couldn't face anyone and drowned himself in the lake.
Floating on the water, he hurriedly pulled out his phone, glanced at the message from last night, and yelled, "What the hell?! Are you kidding me?! Why are those tree seed machines stronger than my level 4 seed machine?!"
Of course, he received no response.
Because of the willow tree and the remaining rabbits, it was impossible for Lu Ming to reach the shore from this side. He could only cry and complain about the unfairness of the system as he swam further away.
It's worth mentioning that he had already reached level 2. Even the journey to the small village was shortened by more than half because he fell into the river.
After finally managing to reach the shore in a sparsely wooded area, Lu Ming immediately opened the attribute panel without hesitation to check his upgraded attributes.
And this is the information he received.
Name: Lu Ming
Sex: Male
Race: Human (temporary)
Rating: 2
Experience required to reach the next level: 170
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