Chapter5

"Haah... haha... okay, okay, I need to stop," he muttered, pressing a hand against his ribs, feeling like laughing might kill him.

"I seriously need to find somewhere to rest before I bleed out next to this thing and before more-"

A golden light bloomed in front of his face, making him flinch back and smacking his head against the tree behind him.

"Fuck, I can't seem to catch a break today," he said, rubbing the back of his head while his eyes looked at the floating panel.

"Am I hallucinating from blood loss?" He asked, reaching out to touch it but stop halfway after text began appearing, "just what am I looking at?"

[Conditions met]

[System activating...]

He stared at it, forgetting the condition he was in, "conditions met," he said, scratching his head in confusion, "and what's this system activating stuff?"

[ Soul Energy: 0 ]

[ Scanning host... ]

[ Host identified: Hajin ]

[ Bond initiating... ]

A few hours later when the sun went down, Hajin sat by a camp fire, with deer meet cooking on a makeshift spit. Just the site of it turning brown and the smell was enough to make his stomach rumble, showing just how hungry he was.

While he waited, he sat by a tree, wrapping his ribs with strips torn from his shirt, 'hmm, I think I get most it now,' he thought, finishing tying his ribs and shifting his attention back to the system.

He'd been reading it for the past hour, cycling through the different sections by tapping them with his finger, and every new screen filled his head with a lot of information.