1 day had passed and he was still inside the forest, with red plants all over the place.
"Damn it, what exclusive body, it gets exhausted really fast", Ken ranted in his head.
At that time, a man suddenly jumped from a tree, startling Ken. "Hello there", the man greeted. The man looks as tall as him but muscular, only that his face looked like a butler from a rich family. He carried an estoc in both of his arms, his legs looked too small for his complexion.
"Hm, an NPC? Looked insignificant but let's just try", the man thought inwardly.
"Hey uh, I am Lightning Ranter, I'm here to ask for direction, can I ask you?", the man then asked Ken.
Ken raised his eyebrows and looked at him as if he was a weirdo, but didn't say anything as he was gasping for air due to exhaustion.
"I guess he is just a background NPC without dialog huh", the man thought as he shooked his head and started walking away.
"I.. ha.. ha.. am, the supreme god", Ken said while catching his breath and tried to sound as majestic as possible by decreasing the temperature around him so as to look like a profound aura.
The man then looked back, excitement flashed in his eyes which Ken didn't miss.
"Ha got you, as I thought, something like this exists. luckily I quickly understood his language", Ken smiled while thinking inwardly. After experiencing everything and got his view on the world change, his wildest imaginations appeared one by one, and this was definitely one of them
He then stood up like a king and stood in a majestic manner, "I order thee to show me the way out of this forest!", He said. "I hope he buys this", He thought inwardly.
The man is excited, then he paid attention to his interface, but no mission was showing which made him confused but he still did it and showed Ken the way out.
"To get out from here, you need the crystal of return, here it is. Just break it to use it.", the man gave him the crystal which Ken took swiftly and quickly used it by destroying it, instantly teleporting him outside.
"haaa yesss, I'm out hahahhaa, I don't know why but it was so hard channeling any element inside that forest, not even allowing me to fly higher than five meters as the pressure increased", He said excitingly as he quickly made a slab of rock from solid element, he then stood on top of it like a skateboard then he used wind element below it to make it float and propels it forward. Flying normally needed experience and much body balancing, he practiced for sometime in the forest but he still didn't feel comfortable.
Meanwhile the man in the forest still confused because there were no reward.
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4 hours later, he took a rest on the road, the road around looks like it's from a fantasy world, dirt road with many trees around, he also saw several carriage pulled by horses along the way, as well as the coachmen that was staring at him with wide eyes.
Those hours He spent in his forest made him realize the capability of his own body, first of all, his physical strength was almost nonexistent, He was only as strong as an average teenager, possibly only two times as strong as his body on earth, which was even weaker than an athletic kid, that said, he can still increase his power by coating his arms in rocks and controlling it's weight by air element. His endurance in using the flow thing, or elemene as said was actually quite descent, it can last him twenty hours while using it. He hadn't tested if he were to unleash full power, how long will it last.
Another thing was the versatility of this power. The potential of this elemental power was so strong that he felt pity it landed in the hands of an idiot like him, not that he was complaining though.
After several minutes of rest, He was back at full power and continued his journey, following the road, after seeing many coachmen looking at him with surprised faces, he decided to step off his DIY hoverboard and walked until he reached a big double gate made of wood with walls beside it that looked as sturdy as the door. The door guards then approached him and asked him for identification. I then gave him the identity card that I picked up along the road, no he didn't rob it, it was just a leftover of a bandit raid, he was just following a suspicious trail and ended up there, such a lucky coincidence huh. The identity card only shows the owner's data and not the photo, which pleasantly surprised Ken when he saw it.
The guards opened the gate a little and let him in when he entered, he was once again surprised because there were not many pedestrians, but instead many people just using mounts that looked like a bird, wolves, lions, llama, and many other animal, making it looked like a zoo. There were also many carriages that seemed to be selling goods and buying one.
He then strolled around, he found many oddities like the animal mounts that seemed like it just passed through him if he just touched them a little, some people even freezing in place, and some teleporting with uncertainty. "This...", He was speechless. "This is too typical!", He cried inwardly. One of the people seemed to notice him and approached him, as she moved her hands around seemed to be touching something in front of her, as she finished a dish appeared on her hands and she talked to Ken, "hello try our inn's dishes, if you like, please try our inn", she said and quickly got back advertising to other people that moved stiffly, exactly like an NPC.
"Haa so I'm an NPC here huh", he looked at the advertisement paper, "Well this ain't so bad, I will settle here for a while", he thought as he walked towards that inn.
Several moments later he came out of the inn, "damn I'm poor, I need money even inside a game huh, an NPC at that, the amount of effort these game is making huh", he shook his head and headed towards a building that had a big sign on top of it clearly saying 'MISSIONS'.
Inside was bustling with people going around with four huge boards on the walls, many tables of four, and a few receptionists at the end of the room, the method of picking the missions are simple for the players as they just had to tap the mission they want at the mission board and they instantly got it, the mission board also reset every minute so there will be no shortage of missions, as for the NPC characters, they picked up the mission from the mission board and brought it to the receptionist to be confirmed.
Ken then walked to one of the mission boards and looked around, the players around him didn't feel like a person when they bump, but as if the place where they bumped was given information that it just bump, it feels... unnatural.
After picking the highest paying mission possible, He went to the receptionist and got his mission accepted, as he prepared to leave the mission hall, he suddenly felt like being watched by something, but it disappeared soon after so he just shrugged it off and went to the city gate to get out of the city and complete his quest.