Ning arrived on a small island of… somewhere on a planet called Astoria. He had absolutely no grasp of anything about the planet aside from its name.
After all, right after arriving, he had asked the system to remove any knowledge he might have had about this place, its people, and its power.
Ning looked around at the island that had a few coconut trees, but other than that, the island was a small one with nothing really in there at all.
"What do I do now?" Ning wondered. Of course, he could fly around the world in a matter of seconds, but he didn't feel like doing that.
He was on an adventure, and as Nigel had said, it was better to experience it all by yourself, without using any of the system's help.
"I really should do that," Ning thought. He created another body next to him, one that looked just like his. However, unlike the other bodies he had, he didn't give this one anything else aside from making it acclimated to every single energy out there.
The only thing he added was a slight talent in everything. Not a whole lot to not have to work for it, but enough so that he wasn't trash.
"How much energy do you think this body can handle?" Ning asked.
<About 200 Quintillion>
Ning was surprised. "That's more than I would have imagined. Are you sure?" he asked.
<Yes.>
"Alright, I guess that's something," Ning thought and switched bodies. He took back his other body and was now on the island, waiting around with a weak body.
"Did I make a mistake?" he wondered. "Should I have maybe changed my body after I arrived in a place with civilization?"
Ning wondered if he should just teleport away, but that felt like cheating so he didn't. He looked out into the deep blue ocean with not a single thing in sight.
His new body had nothing in its stomach, so Ning felt incredibly hungry. "Urgh, that's such a bad feeling," he thought. It had been so very long since he had felt the hunger of this level.
"I should eat the coconut," Ning thought and turned towards the coconut trees. He went close and searched for some coconuts that might have dropped to the ground.
He did find a few, but…
"Wait, those aren't coconuts," he thought. The tree looked like a coconut tree, but the fruit most definitely was not.
Ning looked at the fruit and instead of being something that had an outer shell that needed to be cut through, it looked like this fruit was something that one could eat just as it was.
Just by the touch, Ning could tell the fruit was incredibly soft and it felt like it could tear at the slightest touch. He could also tell that there was a lot of juice inside, which would definitely help him stay hydrated in this ocean.
Ning tried to puncture the fruit with his fingers, but he found that the fruit was rather elastic. No matter how much he tried to puncture it, the shell would simply stretch, but nothing would get torn as he expected.
"Dammit, I can't open it," Ning thought. He tried some more, but his fingers started hurting instead.
"Screw it," he thought. "Let me find something sharp."
He looked around for some stick he could use to poke, but there wasn't anything like that there. These not coconut trees didn't have any branches in the first place.
Ning then looked for some stones, but it was more sand than anything in there.
"Dammit!" he thought. He thought of what he could use, aside from everything else he had in his storage at the moment. Opening the fruit itself was an adventure, and he didn't want to ruin the experience.
"What is sharp in an island?" he thought as he looked around. As he searched for things, he realized that he was surrounded by the ocean.
While he wasn't sure how dangerous the ocean was exactly, he was sure there would be fishes in there that would have died and most likely been swept up by the tides to this island.
He would have to check the shorelines to see if there were any dead fish. More importantly, he would have to see if he could find some sharp fish bones he could use to puncture this thing. If he could, that would be definitely amazing.
Ning walked around the island and was surprised that it took him longer to go around than he expected.
He searched for fish or fish bones the entire time or even anything else that was hard and sharp, but he didn't seem to have any luck today.
'Damn, am I going to have to give up on my systemless adventure on the very first day?' he wondered. That would be incredibly sad, but Ning didn't know what else he could do.
He definitely didn't want to go around hungry any longer.
He walked around, slightly depressed for a bit more when he stopped in his tracks as he saw something.
Something long was moving along with the foamy waves on the side of the beach. It moved up with the waves that hit the beach and would get dragged back toward the ocean.
It did that multiple times, but the object remained in the same place overall.
Ning's eyes went wide as he couldn't imagine his luck at all.
"A Sword?!" he shouted in disbelief. There was a sword in front of him. It looked rusty from what he could see, but Ning didn't worry about rust.
As long as it could puncture the fruit in his hands, he would be very happy.
He ran up to the sword and got down to pick it up. However, when he tried to, he nearly broke his spine because of how heavy the sword was.
The waves still moved the sword around as easily as if it were made up of styrofoam, but to Ning, it held the mass of a thousand elephants.
"What the hell?"
