As it got brighter and brighter I opened my eyes to see that I was falling at an increasing speed. Although the view was nice, I was scared of falling to my death.

  As I was falling I saw a mountain range pocking out of the water. It looked like small islands composed of mountains surrounded by an endless ocean.

  I don't know how but as I hit the ground, I was able to leave a small crater from the impact.

  "Darn... why couldn't I have fallen into water? It would have been a softer landing." I murmurred to myself.

  It actually hurt quite a bit. Though I was amazed that I did not die from the impact, guess it’s what the welcome screen calls it "placed". Perhaps this was also a wakup call so people try to avoid getting hurt.

  "Now that I think about it these islands in total don't seem to be more than 400 kilometers across." "Just great seems I am marooned on this large island by myself for sure."

  As I got up from my soft landing, "Are you for real"?

  To my surprise I landed not far from an apple tree and not only that there seems to be a small water spring next to it. I also noticed a bag next to my landing. Since I was hungry I ate an apple of the tree and tried to drink the water to test if it was salty or not. Luckily it was fresh water.

  Then I decide to open the bag to see what’s in it and a window in midair popped up.

  "Rope, axe, and huge waterproof sleeping bag." It was weired that I chose that as if by instinct since I could not remeber anything.

  As I was still looking in to the bag, I now saw the items I asked for perfectly compacted within the large backpack.

  The current Island I landed on was no more than 200 meters in diameter. Barely outside the massive mountain range bordering the ocean.

  I took out the sleeping bag since it was taking most of the space in the bag and placed it under the tree.

  I had decided to go exploring, I gathered 35 apples that now took the place of the sleeping bag.

  As I was leaving the island by means of swimming from one island to another with a full bag of apples, a rope, and an axe, A sudden gust picked up and I saw the sleeping bag near the tree fly off, due to the strong gust.

  "aaaaaaaa..... Darn there goes my essential item...."

  "Stupid sleeping bag...."

  "stupid"

  "stupid"

  "This world is way too realistic."

  As the sleeping bag flew I was able to see it get caught in the branches of a tree on another island.

  "I better go get it. I don't want it to be lost forever since I bet I’ll need it to sleep on."

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  Trying to swim the best I could with a full bag was not easy. After I swam for about 30 minutes I was able to take a breather on a small island of no more than 5 meters wide. There was another 3 tiny islands between me and the sleeping bag.

  "I better hurry!"

  It took me 4 hours just to get to the sleeping bag. Luckily there were no more strong winds in that duration.

  This time I took the rope out and tied the sleeping bag to the tree on this island since I didn't want to chase after it again.

  As I sat and ate one of my apples I got up and explored the new Island I was on. This island was no bigger than 1 kilometer in diameter. Since there were no monsters on this island I decided to make it my home. It had more room with many trees. Some trees had bananas on them although they were pretty high up I was not able to reach them.

  I tried climbing the tree, but wasn't able to climb even close enough to reach the bananas.

  I then realized that even though there was a fresh water spring on this island too, this island didn't have food I can access to just yet. So I decided to head back so that I could once again swim and go get more apples.

  Being in a hurry to retrieve my bag, in the beginning I didn't notice the word "information" with an exclamation mark flashing on the upper right side of my vision.

  "Information Window" I called out. [th_096_K.gif]

  Then I called out "Status Window." [th_096_K.gif]

  "Skills Window" [th_096_K.gif]

  "Swimming Information" [th_096_K.gif]

  "Breath Hold Information" [th_096_K.gif]

  "Wow so I can raise my stats mainly by swimming. Wonder how many stats I need in order to force my level to increase."

  "Well it’s time to get swimming."

  As I swam this time I focused on different styles to make it easier to swim.

  After another 4 hours I was on the island with the apples. It also seemed my stats and skill experience had doubled.

  Since the sun was past the midpoint and going down soon, I had to hurry back before sundown I assumed. However, this time I stuffed as many apples in the bag as I could. 30 apples fit inside the bag with no rope and axe in the way, which I left near the sleeping bag.

  By the time I swam back it was getting darker and darker. Luckily I knew the rough direction in which to swim towards. The information window was so irritating while I was swimming that when I got back I turned off the notifications until I became LVL 5. After shuffling in the dark I was able to find my sleeping bag which I unfold and went to sleep, since I was so exhausted. I hung my clothes to dry as well, while I slept.

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