Systematic Survival

19 - New Skill

'Well here goes nothing. Mind Palace!'

In an instant, he was in a grassy field, with a blue sky. Strangely, the grass was also blue. There were white clouds in the sky, and it looked very beautiful.

'Uh, what is this?'

He looked around but didn't see anything else. It was just grass and sky all the way into the horizon. Matt was really tempted to activate [Help] again, but he realized that he really is relying on her too much. He had a brain for a reason and he was starting to get a bit tired of her constant yelling.

'Ok, I'll try to figure out how this works on my own and I'll just let her rest for now. If I really can't figure it out, I'll bring her out tomorrow.'

He started walking in a random direction, curious as to how far the space would go. But no matter how long he walked for, he didn't find an end.

'Ok, so, it doesn't seem like there's a limit to this place. Now I wonder, when people talk about mind palaces it's usually for storing information. Maybe I can try that?'

He tried to recall one of the quantum theory books he had read earlier, seeing if anything would happen. To his surprise, a book appeared in his hands.

[Intro to Quantum Physics]

'I kinda didn't expect that to work.'

He looked at the cover and the outside of the book. It looked pretty authentic. When he opened the book, he realized something was strange. It was too perfectly written. He had barely remembered half of what he had read, but it was all in there.

'Wait, so does this kind of work like photographic memory!?'

He set the book down in the grass, and then he tried to remember one of the other books that he really had a hard time grasping. He had barely understood or remembered any of it. The book suddenly appeared in his hand.

[3 Controversial Quantum Theories]

When he opened it he noticed how it was all there. He was shocked.

'So I just need to glance at the pages of a book and I can store it here?'

As he thought that, he noticed how halfway through, the pages became blank. The book was completely blank the entire second half.

'Oh, I forgot I didn't finish this one. So if I didn't look at the pages, it won't save.'

He put the book down and then sat in the grass to think.

'This power seems kinda OP? But also, is that all this power can do? It's kinda lame.'

He looked around at the grass and sky. It was like a perfect place. He could imagine some rich CEO paying a ton of money to vacation here, if there was a house or something of course.

'I have to admit, at least it's pretty relaxing.'

As he sat in the grass looking up at the sky, he suddenly had a weird idea. He thought it was strange how physical it was here. If it was just for storing information, it would've just been a void with text. But he actually made physical books appear. He decided to test his idea.

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||Stats||

Name: Matt Peterson

Age: 18

LVL: 2 [XP 78/120]

HP | 19/20

MP | 0/0

Status Effects: (Physical Strain) [Lesser]

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||Attributes||

[Str] - 12

[Con] - 10

[Agi] - 13

[Dex] - 12

[Int] - 16

[Luk] - 11

[Stat Points]: 0

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||Skills||

Inspect [Lv.1], Map [Lv.2], Help [Lv.1], Storage [Lv.1], Mind Palace [Lv.1]

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||Quests||

-General-

Do Pushups [36/100] [Reward: +2 Strength, +20xp]

Pay the Rent [$223/800] [Reward: +Mystery Reward, +30xp]

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-Daily-

*Daily quests not available in beta*

||Storage||

-Items [3/25]-

Used Bullet [1], Gun [1], Knife [1]

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