Hardcore OP-ness

Chapter 7: The Adorable Glass Cannon

Inari washed herself off in the shallow river, then casually shook her pure-white fur, sending the water flying in every direction. Afterwards, she lazily walked over to the left side of Michael's head and laid down, almost immediately losing consciousness.

Strangely enough, as soon as she did, time seemed to pass by at a ridiculous speed. Within what seemed like seconds to the floating, pitch-black willow-wisp, the Moon had disappeared from the sky, clouds were flying around at unreasonable speeds, and the birds, bats, bugs seemed like streaks of light; after a minute, the sun had already risen, and it was almost what he considered 'noon.'

The moment that Michael opened his eyes, everything slowed back to normal. He didn't have the 'Bleeding' debuff anymore, and both his health and stamina had reached their maximum capacity.

Since normal humans typically had one or less Vitality and Endurance, they obviously would have died very swiftly under those circumstances, but he managed to survive. In fact, he even received a new passive skill called "Superior Regeneration Level 1."

He couldn't get something for nothing though; it was an ability that automatically drained mana, and he needed to be unconscious, or it wouldn't work. However, considering that organs and bones could be completely restored in merely a few hours of sleep, it was definitely a very useful ability... for someone who couldn't instantly respawn.

Essentially, that meant his appendix had regenerated, and taking another mana-core would most likely cause him to suffer from the same torment again. Michael woke up, feeling as if any sudden movement would make him lose control over his bowels and bladder at the same time; which was completely understandable, considering that he had been unconscious for at least twelve hours, and the last thing that he ate was raw rabbit-meat.

The still-naked man, stood up, and grumbled "Damn it... who the fuck wants to play a game where your avatar still has to piss and shit? Sigh, there's no toilet paper... see, this is why people hate camping. Ugh, my neck, and back, why the hell did fall asleep on a bunch of rocks anyway? Oh yea, I was expecting to die, so that I wouldn't have to deal with any of this nonsense..." There were many large indents on his skin, from where the smooth stones were pressing against his body.

It took him a few minutes to find a suitable place to relieve himself, a hundred meters downstream from where he was before. Since he saw the sun rising, he assumed that, like Earth, that direction was east.

While Michael wasn't particularly amazing at video-games, he still had an abundance of knowledge and experience regarding them. As he was nonchalantly contaminating the river, he decided to open the 'Map' feature.

The first thing that appeared was a 'World Map' which was more like a holographic image of the entire planet, except that it was completely covered in a thick fog and he couldn't see anything. He also managed to toggle it into a low-detail, two-dimensional screen, which looked a bit more like the kind that he was used to.

Unfortunately, it was entirely obscured, and even the area that he had explored so far, looked like a little dot. If it didn't show what he could see from two-miles up, as a wisp, then he probably wouldn't have been able to find out where to zoom-in.

That grassy-deathtrap where he had started out in was called "Ariel's Meadow" and north of that was "Carrabelle Plains." Apparently, he was somewhere in the middle, squatting in a shallow stream.

He muttered "Hmmm, how do I activate the 'Mini-Map' though? Ah, there it is! Adjust size to... yeah, that looks good. Let's see, there's gotta be a way to lower the opaque-ness... shit, it disappeared! Oh, that's better, hahaha! Well, without something like this, I'd just be stuck wandering aimlessly forever; unable to tell where I had been, and just walking in circles until I learned some kind of flying magic... Wait a second, holy shit!"