The strings

I woke up, with full energy, and my arms and legs have recovered along with the shadow manifestation. I went to the herb specialist to check if he is good or not. Once I went in, I was greeted with a huge thanks from the herb specialist, I wondered how he knew I helped him. Then he showed me my bag, I left my bag here after giving him the healing salve.

He gave me some healing salve, and I said I didn’t need it, since I am dead, but I didn’t mention that. I just decided to say, it is fine, I don’t need anything. He insisted that I take it, I just decided to take it anyways.

I went into the forest to get more herbs to sell, hoping to not get ambushed again. I safely gotten the herbs and sold it to the herb specialist. I got a lot of cash now, even though I don’t know what to do with it. I decided to train myself when it comes to energy consumption or either increase the amount of energy I have, because stopping time takes a lot of energy. I can mostly stop time twice and pass out. I can possibly stop time three times if I force myself. I tried stopping time, and asked Arthur to count how many times, Arthur can’t see me in stop time, so I decided to do it this way.

There are 5 cans on the table, every time I stop time, I will push down 1 can. Arthur will count how many cans I will push. I so far pushed down 2 cans, I redo the test about 5 more times, the last time, I got 3 cans. I finally manage to stop time 3 times in a row, but my energy still makes me tired. So I can mostly stop time twice and then I have at least seven minutes of energy left before I pass out. Without stopping time, I can last about 1 hour and a half, but now I can last about 2 hours and 45 minutes. So it seemed that Arthur said “Stopping time takes 79 minutes of your energy, you should try to use stop time as your last resort,”

I also decided to train my strength, since my shadow manifestation doesn’t have much strength. Arthur calculated for the most part to seem what it should be an accurate result. Even though we should have done this a long time ago. So from what Arthur calculated, it seemed my strength is more of an average strength. My speed is quite fast, my range was about 20-25 meters, but it can increase if I only use 1 shadow arm, it can go up to 50-75 meters, but I didn’t want to risk my actual body getting hurt. The precision is like 2-5 cm off the target, so its quite accurate for the most part. It has almost no defensive attribute, since it is just a shadow manifestation.

The speed is also very fast, if its scaled to about 1 to 10, its about 8 or 9. This is the most part of the calculation to my shadow magic stats. The only thing I had to work on is strength, defense is kind of gone, since it doesn’t have a body to work on, quite literally as well. I decided to go travel a little bit, since I never gone out of the safe zone in a while, that saying safe zone in “safe zone”, since I got ambushed twice.

I went out to check for better herbs or better materials in general for either selling or using it. I found a knife inside a rock, its just the handle that is visible. I pulled out the knife, it looks like a knife that has seemed that as if it was just made. Looks shiny and also sharp. I also found the same exact knife, quite identical, in a tree nearby. I was wondering if this was someone's lost collection of knives even though both of the knives looks the exact same, even the number on the knives are the same.

I seen many things with the same numerical code, so I didn’t think much of. It was about 3 or 4 pm. I was getting bored, so I decided to just return back and sell the herbs I found, I didn’t find anything new, except for this herb which looks like a combination of the bon flower and the Perli flower, I was wondering maybe it was due to cross-pollination. I gave the herb to the herb specialist and he asked me where did you get this. I answered outside of the gate about 5 kilometers away. He replied, “WHAT, Perli flower, those are from the other countries, they can also be used as like a mini smoke grenade,”