I open my eyes in the mud and stand up. It seems it had rain last night while I was asleep. I walk over to the town and go straight to the adventurer’s guild. There wasn’t that much of a crowd, so I walked straight up to the desk and rang the bell. “Ding!” After a short while, the same woman from last time came over. Strangely, she looked confused like she thought that nobody was there.

  It was then that I realized that I was still using my skill. I deactivated it, and said hello. She jumped back in surprise, and asks in a shaky voice; “He-hello there adventurer! What can I do for you today? May I ask why you're soaking wet?”

  Ignoring that remark, I ask “What are some quests that I could take?” She responds with the following: “There are quite a few quests sir! First is to clear the area from those pesky monsters. There aren't that many, but SOMEBODY-”

  She looks clearly at a guard in the corner of the room “Fell asleep during their shift at the dungeon, and about 13 or so escaped. They are still dangerous and need to be gotten rid of, however.”

  I start to accept the quest before she cuts me off. “Before I can give you this quest, I need to know what your level is.” I answer back “My level is 1” She looks even more annoyed about that.

  “I highly recommend not doing this quest then, because the recommended level is 10! You should do another quest first. Lets see here what are the other quests…”

  She starts flipping through a few papers on her desk before muttering “that can’t be right! No, not that one.” After a few minutes, she looks up at me. “Alright, well, The only thing I can recommend to you is to kill some wildlife, because all of the current quests are significantly higher leveled then the first, and are essenti-l.”

  I cut her off and accepted the monster killing quest anyway.

  I leave the adventurer’s guild and consult my map. It seems there is quite a bit of woodland around the city anyway, and a few farms. Since she didn’t mention any farmland issues, I assume the monsters steered clear of them. Who knows, maybe farmers are secretly the strongest people in this world. I decided to go north, as that went fine for me previously. After a few minutes of travel, I arrived at the edge of town. I continued going for about 10 minutes, at which point I started looking closer for the monsters. After an excruciatingly long time, I finally found an interesting looking rabbit. It had some weirdly red eyes, So I used inspect on it.

  Rabbit: 28/28 (dungeon-infused)

  Well It is clearly from the dungeon, so I figured it would count for my quest. I remembered my skill sneak attack and, since that adds 30 damage to my attacks, I figured I could one-shot it. This hypothesis turned out to be true. I walked up to it and slapped it, and it instantly died. “Well that was underwhelming” I mutter under my breath.

  3 hp gained!

  I decide to use the corpse as bait, and go hide behind a bush. After about 10 minutes of waiting, I was bored out of my mind and decided to use inspect on my status.

  It was mostly what you would think. Class is what my skills are based on, my name is my name, my sub-class is a second class that is worse, hp is my health, inventory is stuff I have in my backpack-

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  Wait

  What is a wild card?

  When did I get one? I quickly use inspect on it to get some info.

  WILD CARD: The rarest item in the world, it can do almost anything. Simply hold it out and say one word to describe what you want, while thinking what you really want. These are almost exclusively given for deeds in past lives or as system-given rewards for big events.

  So clearly, I did something big in a previous life, which gave me a wild card. Unfortunately, I had no ideas on what to use it on. I decided to save it for later. Jolting back to reality from my thoughts, I hear something rustle a bush. I spot a small orange crab with red eyes eyeing the corpse. A target!

  I rush in and stab it with my dagger for a sneak attack. I then turn around and jump up to a nearby tree. I grab onto it, but fail to climb up. I fall down and take damage. While I was down, the crab pinched me really hard.

  I check status for my HP. 13/18. It's not as bad as I thought, and I quickly use inspect on the crab.

  Crab: 7/45

  It's low! I quickly stab it again with my dagger, killing it.

  12 hp gained!

  After that battle, I realized something. I need better mobility. If that crab was more dangerous than it was, I might have died there, simply because I failed to get up the tree. After a long time of pondering, I decided something. I decided to use my wild card for mobility. I pull off my backpack and look through it. I found my map, my money and it. It looks just like a joker from a regular deck of cards, but it has a special shine to it that instantly makes it recognizable as valuable.

  I grab it out and put my backpack back on. Man, that backpack is so light I forget it's there. I hold the card in front of me and say “Acrobatics” While thinking that a few skills to help me out would be great. The entire area is bathed in an orange light.

  After a few seconds, the light disappears, but I feel improved. I open up my status to see the new skills.

  Name: Harry

  Race: Human

  Class: Rogue

  Sub-Class: N/A

  Hp: 40/40

  Inventory: Map, 10$ bill, 5$ bill (3/6)

  Equipment: dagger

  Status Effects: N/A

  Skills: 8

  Recently Gained Skills:

  Acrobatics mastery: allows you to climb anything smaller than 50 ft. Also increases movement speed to allow 2 tile movements every day.

  Acrobatic flip: flip over an enemy while they are attacking you, dealing 10 dmg in retaliation and dodging the attack.

  Zig-zag: allows dodging of bullets and other fast moving projectiles or spells. Mildly confuses the enemy, making any attack they do next deal 5 less damage.

  Jump: allows a jump height of 10 ft

  "abnormal" -Me

  Swift escape: can dash out of the enemies sight and hide from them or just exit combat entirely.

  Odd. That doesn’t math! I had 15 hp, but then I gained 3, and then 12. That's only 30! Did I get extra health from the wild card also? But more importantly, DANG, these skills are impressive. This is going to massively increase my agility and safety. Also, another thought. Who the heck is this “Me” guy? Is that like, a god or developer who is so self centered that they think they need to be called “Me?” I went to sleep that day mostly satisfied, but a little bit annoyed at “Me.”

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  I wake up in the morning and, after a bit of actually “Waking” up, I stand up and check out my finished pick head. It looked quite sturdy, so I spent a few moments looking for a suitable handle for my creation. I grab a stick and use the pickaxe head to chop off all the unneeded branches, and while it doesn't work WELL, it still works enough. I then put it in the hole I prepared in the head for this exact purpose.

  I then use mud to fill in the gaps, and put it over the kiln to dry the mud. It works pretty well. I then went over to that cave I had found before the arson, and found the pyrite again. I then used my brand new pick to break off a few chunks of pyrite, putting them into my backpack. After I had collected 5, It was clearly too full to fit another one, so I grabbed another and held it in my hands.

  I went back to the kiln and dropped the pyrite and pick I was holding. By that point, it was quite late, but before I went to sleep, I made a spoon to separate out the iron from the rest of the pyrite. This took the whole night, and right after I put it into the kiln, I fell asleep.

  — — — — — —

  I wake up the morning after I finished the third house, and then I chop a bunch of trees. Then I go to sleep.