Book 1: Chapter 3: Painful Coconuts and Teleportation

Book 1: Chapter 3: Painful Coconuts and Teleportation

Seeing as how Sophie had calmed, Lone' carefully placed her down on the beach. He let her continue to squeeze one of his tails half to death as she lay there.

Tails I have fuckin tails. He held his face in his hands as he chuckled. This is totally nuts, whatever this all is.

He flopped down, letting his back rest against the shore. If nothing else, at least his new fluffy limbs were easy to control and didnt actually get in his way at all despite being massive.

"Ive got nothing else better to do while I think so I got other skills, right? Show the skills The Summoning Room, Creation Magic, Basic Regeneration and Growth Accelerator? My status too if thats a thing. It wasn't in the game though so I'm not really expecting much," 'Lone' said a bit uncaringly.

He was still trying to wrap his head around everything that had literally just happened to him and this weird doll-like girl.

Almost instantaneously, five tables popped up in front of his eyes, so he read them all very thoroughly.

The Summoning Room was identical and just as it was mere minutes ago. Looking it over again gave him no further insight, sadly.

He did find it oddly satisfying though seeing the floating words simply appear at his command. I wonder if I can do that mentally instead of verbally? Ill give that a try later.

The Summoning Rooms information disappeared and was quickly replaced by that of Creation Magics.

Unique Skill: Creation Magic

A skill unique to the host, Lone Immortus.

Grants the host the ability to create anything existing on Altros or anything that can exist on Altros at will with MP.

Grants the host the ability to repair things by creating the missing parts and directly replacing the broken parts.

Cost:Relative to the desired item and the host's knowledge of the desired item. Mastery: N/A

Okay, thats pretty fuckin amazing. Altros is the name of this place then? The island? Country maybe? Heck, could even be a new world. I dont remember any fox folk back on Earth who werent just legends, Lone thought as he ran his fingers through the sand and continued reading.

Unique Skill: Basic Regeneration

A skill unique to the host, Lone Immortus.

Grants the host the ability to passively heal injuries at a slow rate. The healing rate can be increased in exchange for MP.

Cost:50 MP (per second per 1% increase in healing rate) Mastery:Beginner Level 1

Oh? Lone raised an eyebrow curiously. One, that sounds super helpful but at the same time I have no plans to go get injured. Two, Beginner Level 1? So some skills can level while others cant. Interesting. Thats different from the game, for sure. I wonder how it works Improvements per level-up or only when it gets past the beginner stage?

The only real way to find out would be to test it and right now he was busy lounging on a tropical island beach as he supervised an unconscious kid. Perhaps another time.

The next and final skill was actually super interesting. More so than the ordinary though certainly useful Basic Regeneration was.

Unique Skill: Growth Accelerator

A skill unique to the host, Lone Immortus.

Grants the host the ability to learn any skill and level them to the highest possible level (does not apply to species, race, or bloodline specific skills). Allows the host to learn any non-unique skill directly used on them instantly.

Passively makes it easier to grasp all learnable things including those not related to the system.

Allows the host to tell if a person is using equipment perfectly suited for them (works on the host as well).

Grants the host the ability to consume some stats from killing, though the host cannot earn stat points through any other means.

Cost:N/A Mastery:N/A

That is a lot to unpack, Lone thought.

For a start, different species was apparently a thing. He could only assume that meant sapient creatures and not animals though he could be wrong.

She was acting almost like a baby animal who knew instinctively to avoid anything but its mother yet still wanted to approach the strange human that wasnt trying to eat it.

Lone tried his best to ignore her actions, adorable as they were, but he'd be lying if he said it wasn't a struggle. After all, the girl wasn't being discreet in the slightest and she kind of reminded him of his sister, Hazel.

Perhaps she pegged herself as something of a master sneak though anyone with eyes and ears would have been able to notice her actions like Lone had.

His attention was forced away from the girl by several large, green-skinned balls that sat atop the tree Lone was standing under. "Coconuts?" he mumbled.

He was never very athletic before and the only exercise he ever got was when he cycled to work. However, he had noticed that his new Golden Foxkin body was, to not mince words, very fit.

'There's no harm in trying, right?' he convinced himself before he grabbed the tree and started to madly shake it.

A few minutes and a sweaty body later, Lone's head started to throb with pain after a large coconut had smacked him right in the forehead.

The melodious sound of a child's laughter rang through the air. He glanced over towards Sophie who wasnt trying to hide now.

Instead, she was grasping at her stomach and hunching over while tears welled up in her closed eyes.

'Was it really that funny? People have died from that before.' Lone frowned and grabbed the coconut that had attacked him before he returned to the beach and found a palm-sized rock.

He sat down on the sand and smacked the coconut with ease after peeling its green skin off. It split perfectly into two halves so Lone threw the rock away and placed one half of the fruit on the sand carefully to make sure what was left of its unsplit water didn't also trickle out.

Lone then, with an annoyed expression on his face and whilst grumbling to himself, drank the coconut water in his half before he began to carefully eat the coconut.

A loud rumble reached his sensitive fox ears. Turning his head he saw Sophie staring at her own belly in utter confusion.

You dont know what hunger is? he teased in good spirit.

She glanced up at him no less confused than when she was looking at her stomach. He picked up the other half of the split coconut and gestured with it towards her.

"Here," Lone said as he looked away from the blushing and perplexed girl who was holding her belly, "It's for you. Don't be shy, I won't do anything to you. Just sit and eat if youre hungry. Hows that sound?"

She seemed reluctant but ultimately, it seemed her growling belly had gotten the best of her.

Sophie slowly walked towards Lone and sat next to him before picking up the coconut and investigating it briefly. After she had confirmed that it was fine, she gleefully drank its water and then started to nibble on it.

"Earlier," Lone said in a quiet and relaxing tone, "Was that teleportation?" he added.

Naturally, Lone was referring to how she had disappeared and suddenly reappeared behind a tree. No matter how much he thought about it, there was no way for it to be anything except teleportation, right?

Sophie lightly nodded her head and avoided replying directly. As she ate she had unconsciously opened her eyes, giving Lone his first chance to get a proper look at them.

"I thought so... Anyway, you have amazing body coordination and a great sense of spatial awareness for someone who's visually impaired," Lone praised as he looked at Sophie's pure grey and lifeless eyes.

"T-Thank you..." Sophie squeaked out in response.

Lone grinned and stood up, startling the poor girl. "I'm gonna build us a shelter. Nothing fancy, but we can't really sleep out in the open tonight, now can we? Just stay within my line of sight, please. I don't think its wise to split up given our circumstances," he requested.

Sophie continued nibbling on her coconut and meekly replied, "O-Okay..."

Smiling, Lone moved away a bit to build two small teepees. While he wasn't physically fit back home, he was deeply knowledgeable and had spent a lot of his time learning new things on the internet between his usual gaming sessions.

So while it might take him a few hours, he was confident that he could build a place for them to sleep and avoid any rain or wind in the night.

Lone, mid-building, heard Sophie finish her coconut half and then mumble, "... Those tails look so fluffy and soft..."

Yeah, definitely dont like this new advanced hearing, he sighed mentally.