Please use google translate so expect errors in certain parts.
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The first thing he saw was a beautiful blue sky with the sun at its highest point.
"Where I am?" I straighten my body and survey my surroundings. He immediately realized that he was in a lush virgin forest that humans had never been to.
He stood up trying to remember what happened yesterday, but aside from having gone to sleep in his room, he had no recollection of any abnormality.
At the moment when he was thinking about what to do, an inorganic voice echoed in his head.
[Welcome to the Testing Ground, Regulars]
[They may have a lot of questions, but right now they just have to focus on staying alive.]
[The Testing Area is infested with monsters that will insatiably seek out any form of human life]
[To survive you will have to kill monsters to get stronger]
[Once you kill your first monster, you will become an Awakened and gain Skills and access to the Status Window]
[Good luck, Regulars. May courage and strength be with you]
The voice stopped as quickly as it started. Confused, I just look up in disbelief, and with numerous questions brewing in his head.
"This is a dream? No, it feels too real to be fake" he muttered to himself.
He was worried, he was not a brave person, let alone a fighter. If he had to kill or be killed, of course he didn't want to die, but he had never fought in his life.
A transparent window appeared in front of his eyes.
[Choose a Starting Weapon]
1. Sword and Shield
2. Short spear
3. Bow and Arrow (Quiver of 10 arrows)
"So at least they give us weapons" He thought as he chose the Short Spear, he had no mastery over the Bow or the sword. Although he was by no means a master at it, he had learned some basics of the spear in his youth.
Spear in hand, he psyched himself up before starting to walk. He did not know that he would wait for him and he was not willing to die in this place either.
Walking at a slow pace in the woods, it didn't take him long to find something that was very familiar to him.
"Oh really? Goblins? They don't have anything less generic in their starting monsters section" he muttered sarcastically as he looked at the goblin.
This was a small green-skinned creature, with slightly elongated ears, his back was leaning forward, and he had no hair. Luckily he didn't have any weapons, so between the two of us I had the advantage. The goblin was looking around very carefully, so he slowly got closer to it keeping his body low and his breathing controlled. It wasn't too hard to get unnoticed due to the large amount of vegetation, so he just had to get in close until he was within the spear range.
With only a few meters to go, the Goblin suddenly turned back, we both looked at each other for a few seconds.
He opened his mouth to scream and probably call allies, quickly and without hesitation i closed the distance between them and stabbed in the direction of his chest.
The Goblin quickly dodged that, only taking a small cut on his side. He quickly turned his weapon to the side trying to kill him quickly, but the Goblin backed away trying to increase the distance between them. But to his bad luck, he collided with one of the numerous trees and taking advantage of that small margin, he attacked the Goblin as fast as he could. The spear cut through the flesh with great ease, impaling him against the tree.
The goblin tried to scream again before dying, but he quickly punched it in the mouth, slamming it shut and breaking a few of its teeth. I pull the spear out of his chest and stab him in the neck, killing him within seconds.
[Congratulations, you subdued a {Lesser Wild Goblin}]
[First Assassination completed, Starting Awakening]
With the inorganic voice echoing in his head, he felt a warm sensation enveloping his entire body and strengthening him.
[Awakening Completed]
[Granting access to the Status Window]
"Status window" he muttered quickly as he quickly left the place and went back the way he came, he didn't want to meet another one of them for now.
—Status Window—
Name: Gabriel
Level 1
Attributes: [--]
Stigma: [Realization]
→ Skills: [0]
→ Traits: [0]
"What is the Stigma?" he wondered, when an inorganic voice answered him.
[A Stigma is the physical embodiment of an individual's mind]
[These have unique abilities that can adapt and evolve based on the thoughts, needs and feelings of their bearer, acquiring abilities or qualities as time goes by]
"How to activate it?" I ask not surprised by the mysterious voice.
[The Stigma works with the will of the user, whenever you want to use it it will manifest itself].
Nodding, he thought about wanting the Stigma to manifest from him. Followed by a small flash of light, a Thick Book with a black and white pattern on the cover appeared in his hands.
By taking the book, he was able to feel instinctively pull the capabilities of this and how to use them. Sensing his features, he could only put on a complicated expression.
To put it simply, the Power of Realization is the ability to manifest entities from his imagination, giving them his own abilities and strengths. However, to create them he has to sacrifice a part of his life force.
"Do all Stigmata consume Life Force to function?" I ask slightly curious.
[To some extent, yes. But some stigmas consume more than others]
"It's a good thing to know" He said as he thought about whether to use his ability or not, in the end he couldn't win over his curiosity and decided to create something small to start with.
He thought of something small, like an ant, not something a little bigger, a butterfly? Yes, that would be good. Can I give them skill? But what kind of ability should he give her? Since it is a butterfly, why not the ability to control other butterflies? I haven't seen butterflies around here though, so it sounds a bit pointless.
After thinking and doing numerous tests, he finally ended up creating a small silver-white butterfly that manifested from a small sphere of light in his hand.
Looking at the butterfly, he felt an inexplicable bond with it. Without even thinking about it, I caress the little butterfly and look at it with affectionate eyes, like looking at your favorite pet that you raised since it was little.
He knew that feeling was created by his Stigma, but he couldn't care less about it.
"It's probably because this entity was created using my life force" He deduced as the butterfly flew around him and other butterflies were created from it.
In the end instead of the ability to control other butterflies, he gave her the ability to create butterfly-shaped spectra of light that she can instinctively control.
Having tasted the Stigma, I examine the new strength of it. Earlier it had taken him a while to pick up the Short Spear, but now unlike before it was extremely easy to move and required virtually no strength to wield.
"If I've already gained this strength just at level 1, I wonder how strong I'll become at level 10?" He wondered as he smiled.
"Butterfly, send your clones to look for Goblins, if you find one alone to return" I ordered the Butterfly.
The butterfly flew around it a few times, before stopping and from its body a few more spectra of light appeared, these flew in different directions leaving faint trails of light.
Watching the illusory butterflies leaving, he decided to practice with the spear for a while, this continued until one of the illusory butterflies returned and reported its findings to the main Butterfly who informed Gabriel.
"It's a bit far, but it's still worth it" He thought as he indicated that he should lead the way.
After walking for a while they arrived at where the Goblin was, the place was currently empty, but traces of someone being there not long ago could be seen. He ordered the Butterfly to search with the clones of her around the place since it should not be far away. Summoning even more Illusory Butterflies, they scattered in all directions, in less than five minutes one of them returned and went in its direction. The Goblin was walking aimlessly, this one was similar to the previous one, but he was carrying a worn sword in his hand. Controlling his breathing, he silently followed the goblin as he pondered what to do, when an idea occurred to him and he informed the butterfly. He is creating a few Illusory Butterflies surrounded the Goblin who confused started trying to attack them only for the sword to pass through them without taking any damage.
The Goblin was confused and kept attacking the illusory butterflies, some of them landing on his eyes and bothering him to irritate him more and more. Taking advantage of the fact that the Goblin was distracted, he slowly approached him and pierced the Goblin's neck with an accurate blow, killing him instantly.
Unlike above, no removal message appeared.
I suppose it was just to indicate that my awakening was complete" he thought as he retracted his spear from the goblin's neck, his body fell like a puppet with its strings cut, falling to the ground. He approached the Goblin Corpse and took the sword from it. "This is hardly useful, but it's better than nothing for now"
"This was easy, look for another loner" I ordered the butterfly and in this way we continued the hunt for Goblins.
Killing the lone ninth Goblin with a Sneak Strike, he watched the level-up sign in his eyes.
"As soon as I go from level 1 to level 3 after killing nine Goblins, lone Goblins are also getting harder to find and farther apart." He sighed resignedly. "I'll have to start fighting small groups." Sighing again, he walked through the forest following another butterfly, entering the depths of the forest to become stronger and survive this hell.