Chapter 4: Chapter 3 – Fruits of my labor

It is currently Wednesday. It’s been 5 days since the start of my Otherworld training. True to my cheats I'm showing astounding growth. I don't just train my combat skills, actually, I was more focused on learning as many skills as possible. Once a skill is learned, training it is pretty easy, learning a skill is like discovering a muscle for the first time in a sense.

[Assimilation]: Like in the novel I learned this by imagining to be one with my surroundings, it’s a stealth skill. I also tried to learn Stealth but somehow that didn't work. Meditation really helped me with this one.
[Fast reading]: I read as fast as I could... somehow it worked. Thanks to my high intelligence stat I can even remember almost everything now!
[Voice change]: I used my phone and PC to listen to myself as I tried out different voices, high, low, thin, thick, falsetto, etc.
[Charming]: This was pretty embarrassing. I stood in front of a mirror and spoke to myself while striking different poses. If possible, I don't want to repeat this experience...

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[Acting]: A much less embarrassing experience in front of the mirror.
[Body Control]: To not kill people in the real world accidentally I did my best to control my strength, slow movement, half power punches, etc.
[Sense Control]: This too was aided a lot by Meditation. When I learned it, it was fused with Body Control. But I can still feel its effects. I can shut off outside noise easily when meditating and strengthen it when trying to find monsters or listen to someone far away.
[Presence Detection]: I got this by always checking for monsters nearby.

As I said learning a skill is like discovering a new muscle, now that I have the skills, I can use them easily without having to concentrate on them. I can now train Charming by talking to people for example. The Social Skills all fused into [Social Mastery], this makes it much easier to keep up with my status. When I checked [Social Mastery] with my Appraisal, it showed me each skill that went into it, I assume if I learn more social skills, they would also get added in this, it’s a bit similar to the martial art skills.

I spent most of my time in the barrier of my fantasy world house. This way I could hunt any stray monsters while training my skills, I had no real reason to leave my spot yet. My training is going well and learning the skills has been pretty efficient so far. My body transformation is also going well, after 5 days I can proudly say I have not only reached a normal weight but on some parts, you can see some muscle definition! I planned to go back to school at first since the changes weren't as drastic, but going back like this would really cause me major problems so I let the school know that I am extremely ill and can't return to school this week. This is most likely thanks to our lord and savior the acting skill.

Among my various prey, some of them dropped a decent set of armor for me to use thanks to my high luck stat. The armor is dark red and looks somewhat menacing, but it’s pretty cool. It's exactly what you would imagine a fantasy demonic dark knight to wear. I am finally thinking of leaving the barrier and sneaking to the outer parts of the forest and train properly. I can somewhat guess which way is leading me outside due to monsters that appeared. While they were all too strong for me, the stronger ones came all from the same directions while the weaker ones from the other. Though it wasn't much of a difference.

I concentrate on my hearing to see if there are any monsters nearby, I could kill from inside my barrier before leaving and...

"--aah!"

I hear a scream? It came from the direction I deemed as the way outside. I couldn't make out if it was really human though, but just in case I want to check it out. I have (maybe) a basic to a decent level of proficiency in Assimilation so I shouldn't get noticed by any monsters on the way, I also go around them with Presence Detection, I am still a bit scared... Maybe I shouldn't have left?

After a while, I can hear the source of the voice again. Now it’s just some huffing and puffing. She seems to be a woman and very out of breath. Oh, I found her! She just ran behind a slightly bigger tree and fell to her knees, leaning back on the tree. 6 Goblin have been chasing her and it looks like she can't run anymore. Oh, she closed her eyes and put her head between her hands, did she maybe give up on her life?

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