I could felt that the wind passing through my body, Then I heard sound of the leaves swaying and a feeling of the grass beneath me.
Breathe sigh of relief, I started to open my eyes and started to look around, I could see a lot of thick huge trees and a sunlight that passed through the gaps in the dense leaves. Most of the tree around me was covered in a green moss. There is also some tree trunk around me, a thick bushes and stone boulder scattered around over this place.
"Rainforest?.." I felt strange that there's no trace of animals, not even insects. This made me raised up my guard.
Looking around for a second time, there's no trace of movement in the forest, no animal, no water source and lastly, there's no other sound other than me and the nature.
"There's no sign of lifeform?... it seem I'm in the heart of the forest... but it's still strange.... what kind of place exactly is this...." I mumbled as I looking down to the grass beneath me, not long after that I noticed that I'm wearing a casual white shirt and a gray pants with a black boots.
'My clothes same as before... but...'
"Whatever... let's try some experiment then.. if I'm correct then my survival rate will be increased..." Then I closing my eyes as I started to imagine the 'power' within me flowing to my right hands.
I kept trying for a few attempts until I noticed that I could feel that the 'power' inside me started to moving to my hand, while suppressing the urge to celebrate, I imagine that the 'power' will covering my right hand entirely while forming a claws, sometimes the energy became chaotic or one side of claw have more energy than the other. I kept trying as I focused all my attention to stabilize the claws.
As I felt it was stable enough, I opened my eyes, I could see that, my right hand was covered with some kind of darkness and extended at all of my fingertips like a long sharp claws with long around 20cm. Seeing this piqued my interest, I didn't feel any discomfort or any pain.
Then I tried to clench my hand, I was expecting a collision between claw, but surprisingly the sharp part of the claws dispersed in the air and leaving a normal sized hand that was clenching while being covered by a darkness. As I began to spread my fingers, the darkness extended at my fingertips until becoming a sharp claws like before.
"I wonder how strong it is... this one used half of my 'power' reserve because of few attempt to familiarize with it.... If my not wrong, I'll just need one eighth of my reserve if I created one efficiently... Maybe I could create two more after this until all of my 'power' depleted..." I mumbled as I began to walk toward one of the tree that was not far from me. Firstly, I will casually hit the tree.
Slash-
The tree was cut in half, I didn't even feel anything in the process, it's like I was cutting air. I take a side step as the tree started falling toward where I stand before.
Bang-
Ignoring the sound of the collision and the clean cut mark in the tree, I began to pondering the next step I should take.
"Maybe I should try it again with stone boulder for sure..." I said as I started to run toward the stone boulder around twelve meter away from me.
'Again... I'll do it casually.. I wonder will the stone break..' I think as I become close enough to the stone boulder, without hesitation I started to hit the stone boulder.
Slash-
Sssss-
My eyebrows raised, the stone was crumbled, and I didn't feel anything like before, but the darkness that was covering my hands dispersed slowly and began to revealing my hands.
"That was around 40 second since I created the claws... now it's dispersed... Am I only able to strike twice... there's also a chance that it will only last for 40 second.... or..." I fall into deep thinking for a second. Then I took one fragment of the stone, after that, I'm back to the fallen tree, taking a deep breath I began to crush the rock.
'It is not too hard but... that was just a fragment.... I could imagine that the rock was a bit harder...' I think as the fragment of the rock became a dust, Then I prepared to punch the fallen tree.
Tak-
There's a mark of my punch appeared in the fallen tree. I frowned immediately.
"It's more or less.. Same... What kind of tree is this.. it's bit hurt... Normally people will screaming after that... Did my body getting stronger or it just my pain resistance?..." Without wasting time, I started to punch the trees around me for a moment.
'Same... all of my punch leaving a mark.. and it felt a bit hurt... so it's the first I guess...' it was what I think as I stopped.
"So my body did get stronger.. and about the claws... there is a chance that...." I mumbled as I came into last conclusion about the claws.
"... it will dispersed depending to how hard the object it is... I'll assume that was including the components of the object..... so which one is right?...." I didn't use the rest of my 'power' to do any experiment again, although I know how to fight, but this was completely unknown lands in the unknown world, so it could be my last reserve to survive.
"Better be prepared than sorry.... and I will just call the power inside me the same as the place where it originated from.... 'Void'... Now it's time for me to find an information about this world.." I sighed as I started to walk aimlessly while making less sound of my footstep.
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After approximately around two or three hours I got a clear sight where I go because this area is having a less trees, It seems I walk from the north to the south according to the sun and apparently this world only have one sun, but compare to earth I think the sun here little bit bigger as far as I could remember. Not long after that, I found a road that will lead me either to the west or east.
I decided that I will walk to the west that 'who-know-where-it-will-lead-me-to' after pondering for a second. As I walk on the road, I sighed for a moment.
"This was a strange forest I should say... I haven't found any lifeform and water source until now...." There's also other problem I need to solve as soon as possible, the problem that giving me a headache.
"My 'Void' reserve didn't increased... how I should refill it..... I hope before I found a trouble I could find the solution for this..." I mumbled as I closing my eyes for a second.
Rustle-
I stopped for a second, I clearly heard sound of bushes rustling somewhere else around me, I began to opened my eyes and started to looking around, but the only thing that greet me was silence. Then I began to turning back while thinking.
'Imagination? there's no w-'
Psstttt-
My thought was cut while my pupil was contracted as I see arrow flying toward my head.
At that moment my brain was forced to work at a rapid rate as I felt the world became slower, my brain was calculating best move I should take without being at disadvantage position after I move. Not long after that, I get my answer as the arrow became closer to me.
I tilted my head Immediately to the left side to avoiding being hit. The world back to normal again in a matter of seconds as the arrow flew passed not far from my right ear. If I didn't guard up all the time, even with my reaction I think it is still not enough.
Looking at the trace of the arrow trajectory, I found a humanoid silhouette not far from me, The silhouette was holding a bow with an arrow that was ready to be released in any moment.