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I had a long way to go to master this body.
The sawing process was long and painful. Figuratively painful for me, and quite literally for Rycer. Twice the poor merc nearly passed out from the pain, and a third time when I finally pulled out the arrow shaft sans its tip.
Bandaging the profusely bleeding forearm also fell on me, Krol having entrenched himself fully in the role of spectator who could do nothing but āoohā and āaahā and grab his head with both hands in horror. When the time came to swab the gaping, oozing eye-socket, I didnāt even bother asking the man for help.
As soon as I finished, something happened that I had never before experienced. The world went dark for a moment, immersing me in a state similar to the one I had entered when looking within.
Words flashed before my eyes, rendered in the same strict font I had used when systematizing all the information that had been revealed to me earlier today.
You have potentially saved a human life! You receive:
Lesser Symbol of Chi x2
Personal Talent Mark, Novice Healer x1
Trying not to betray the bemusement that took hold of me, I left the wounded in Krolās care as I made for the river, anxious to wash off another personās blood and mull over what happened.
So shocking and unexpected was this development that I had forgotten all about my fear of arrows, though Iād make an easy target now for any archer hiding in the bushes. Relax... The bank is fully secured.
The assurance helped. Besides, caution was a luxury now. It was imperative to make sense of... myself.
The fact that I was seeing information presented in letters and numbers wasnāt too far fetched. Simply put, I had converted the visual forms favored by the natives into strict data, which I found easier to work with. It was as natural for the residents of Rock as text on a computer screen was for humans of Earth, only the former didnāt need Wi-Fi to access the network. The same higher forces whose presence permeated every single physical particle in the worldāas well as concepts and events without physical formāneglected nothing and no one under the Rock sun. It was what the locals referred to as āthe Order.ā Truthfully, I found it pretentious as hell. It wasnāt enough to capitalize the word, noāyou had to use all capital letters, and accentuate each letter in a specific way. Alas, I couldnāt think of a way to recreate the unique spelling of the term in any human language I knew.
At any rate, it was the foundation of everything in this realm. It was precisely the Order that kept Rock and all of its constituents from sliding into the abyss of absolute Chaos. My own world was halfway to the same infinite chasm, so this one was somewhat more fortunate.
Now, donāt ask me how something thatās infinite could have an end. The local philosophers could spend days on the subject, throwing around a million theories and conjectures and still not arrive at a plausible explanation.
Even realms of Order had room for Chaos, and my second life was a prime example thereof. Deprived of the ability to interact with the parameters of the Order, from the vantage point of the locals, I was an absurdity to be pitied. Something akin to a harmless circus freak. All of motherās great efforts to fix me had been for naught. She had only flushed the last of the clanās savings down the drain, pushing the Crow past the point of no return. She might have even deemed the arrival of the band of assassins a mercy, allowing her to leave the stage with honorāa fine solution for a noble.
But then something unexpected had happened. Pitiful degenerate that I was, on some very basic level I had somehow managed to connect with the Order. And the invisible controllers that governed this reality had somehow recognized my affinity for processing information differently from the natives, and allowed me to customize my interface not in visuals as they did, but using strictly numbers and letters.
And now, another unexpected development. The higher powers had apparently decided that successfully treating the wounded soldier was a significant enough achievement as to merit a reward.
Turning away from the caravan while leaving one hand in the water, I used the other to find the pouch on my neck. I loosened the string, opened the mouth, then looked inside, giving each item a focused stare. And it almost didnāt surprise me when the world faded once more as information about the contents displayed before my eyes.
Lesser Symbol of Chi x17
Medium Symbol of Chi x4
Lesser Essence of Stamina x2
Lesser Essence of Agility x1
Lesser Essence of Equilibrium x11
Lesser Essence of Melee Combat x10
Lesser Essence of Iron Skin x10
This was Rockās universal currency. And it was more valuable than any coin, which was why it had merited being stored in this clever container. In the good old times, it used to be filled to the brim, but those times were long goneāmother had spent way too much on experiments trying to make me whole. Still, even this was enough to last a few months of living modestly.
Too bad the treasure was of no use to me. If ever I flashed it anywhere, it would suffer the same fate as the coin purse, leaving me with nothing and bringing me a few months closer to certain death.
As soon as the amulet lost its charge, I was a goner,
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