I awoke at a three hundred odd meters away from the forest, it seems that I was lucky again (though my luck should be zero), but let's stop this kind oh thing, or I'm sure I'll regret it.

  Getting rid of my after-sleep dizziness, I started to recollect yesterday events; I was lucky that when that fucking ghost appeared, I was at only thirteen meters above the ground and the fall damage was low, or I wouldn't have lasted enough to kill that thing.

  Well, this could also be associated with my lack... more like non-existent of preparation; I have no safe shelter, no back-up plan, and very little planning ahead... now that I think about it, this is the least it could have happened, if there were stronger, or faster kinds of undead, I would be the one who gives experience and not on the receiving end.

  For now I need to review yesterday gains from when the ghost appeared.

  "Show status window and skill window"

  So it seems that by leveling up, I gain three stat points, well, for now let's even the physical stats, at 20, the remaining 7 points should all go in agility, this way my ability at evading and escaping will go up; as someone once said: run to live for the day you kill them.

  Immediately after selecting which stat each point should raise, I felt my body change; muscle density, bone hardness, tendons elasticity and a lot of other changes appeared. This could be interesting, it seems that in this world, the system does not give superhuman power to the ones using it, but directly interferes with the beings constitution.

  In other words, if someone goes all out in strength, he will become bulky thanks to all those muscles, agility compress those muscles and gives elasticity to the body, while stamina increases the hardness of the bones, internal organs, and skin, it also increase the recovery rate of HP, SP and EP.

  And this is the confirmation I needed, now, as far as the skills go, there is not much to say, apart from becoming a human... ghoul compass and the forest map, the other skills will need time to get accustomed to, and I also need to increase their mastery.

  What intrigues me is that during my previous fight with the ghost, while I was in Instinctual combat mode, apart from darkness I could feel another element, the earth element, though it was relatively weak compared to the dark element.

  Oh well, nothing ventured, nothing gained, I decided to sit on the ground, while letting the mana flow trough my body into the soil. The experience was very intriguing, as the range of my sensory perception increased to seventyfive meters, I could also everything touching the earth in my range.

  However, my mana was drained in only five minutes, but would this stop me? If I could fell the earth element just by pushing my mana into it, can I not do the opposite? In Earth there was a saying: we came from dust, and to dust we shall return.

  If what I did right now was , now I should ; it shouldn't be too much of a challenge, undead and earth have a very close relationship I think.

  After what seemed thirty minutes and various try, I was able to collect the mana from the earth into me, it was at this moment that various windows appeared in front of me.

  This world will never cease to surprise me, will it? It seems I can now cultivate the elements, though it will surely not be as easy as it seems, if I can persevere there is the possibility of a way out... or so I hope.

  For now I need to go back to the forest and create a shelter, a simple burrow in one of the tombstones should be pretty easy to do now that I also have the earth affinity; after that I'll have to restart my hunt.

  Though from now on I'll welcome ghosts should they ever appear in front of me, let's be a bit more careful this time around.