I opened my eyes while feeling extreme pain in my head. I was laying on a cold wooden floor and I felt something wet roll down my forehead and into my eye.

"You better stay down if you know what's good for you! An ugly little shit like you doesn't deserve to eat and take food from the rest of us!"

"Who?" A tall skinny teen was standing over me with a piece of broken wood. Anna... Her name is Anna. Anna is always mean to me. Even though she has a face like a horse she calls me ugly...

Right, she is my main bully here at the orphanage...

She then threw the piece of wood at me which hit my arm.

That hurt!

"You better stay up here Rem; you know how Anna can get..." 

"Maribelle, her name is Maribelle my best and only friend. everyone else here at the orphanage is really mean to me and makes me cry, or ignores me.

Why did she call me Rem my name is Alex...

No, it's Remmi. What is wrong with me? Do I have a concussion.

Wait, what is a concussion?

"Okay Maribelle I will stay up here, but please try to sneak me some food. I haven't eaten in days, and I am starving. Please even some crumbs are fine!"

She nodded and walked out the door.

I grabbed the bed and pulled myself up. I leaned back against the wall and cried out in pain. That's right the matron and director punished me yesterday. I pulled open a cabinet and it fell off, so they gave me twenty lashes for punishment. It wasn't even my fault; it was just rotten.

Isn't this child abuse?

Wait, what the hell is child abuse?

I felt a massive spike of pain in my head and grabbed it, gritting my teeth so hard I could hear them grinding against each other.

Okay...

my name is Remmi, but everyone calls me Rem, even though I hate it.

I am about to turn ten years old and get my status for the first time. I am pretty good at Life Magic, and I can even use the clean spell.

As I tried to open my eyes only one of them opened as the other had been glued shut with blood. I groaned and focused my magic. I chanted "Clean", and I felt like my body was covered in fizzy bubbles that quickly faded away.

Okay, that's a little better, at least now I can see.

Now, I have been at the orphanage for the past... why can't I remember anything before last year.

Oh no, I have amnesia!

Wait, what's amnesia?

Anyway, I have been here at the orphanage, everyone is mean to me except Maribelle. I really love Maribelle.

Let's see here, what else, what else?  I am the only one in the whole orphanage amongst the kids who can cast Clean. Most of them can't even cast dry yet...

I could have really used the dry spell when I was painting and sculpting all those years ago...

I started to cry because I was feeling very scared. I cried alone, trying and failing to remember anything new from my past. I was trying so hard, and I kept remembering things wrong. My stomach growled as it tried its very best to consume itself. The kids here are all mean to me, except Maribelle. She will bring me some food today I just know it. I finally managed to climb to my feet and crawled onto my bed.

"Bed, this is just a wooden board with a sheet over it, we don't even have any... pillow-s..."What the hell am I talking about! How do I even know what a pillow is if I have never had one?"

Eventually, after about an hour of trying to remember anything new about myself, the other girls came in to get ready for bed. I looked towards Maribelle with hopeful eyes. She just shook her head no at me. I started to silently cry again, and Maribelle climbed into her bed next to me.

"Rem you better go to sleep; you know you have to meet the director tomorrow so he can read you your status."

I just nodded and rolled over to face the wall. I was a little mad at Maribelle because she broke her promise.

She is right though, not one of us orphans have been taught to read. So, we have to show our status screen to the Director so he can read it to us...

All the kids are scared to do it though because sometimes kids disappear after that meeting. One of the older boys said if you have something good you will get sold as a slave. I am really scared because I am good at life magic. I don't want to be a slave!

I heard the breathing of the other girls even out and I wanted to fall asleep as well, but I was just too hungry. My stomach growled loudly, and I wished I had something to eat, just a piece of bread was fine. As soon as I had that thought something hit my head right on my cut. "Owww!"I said that pretty loud I hope I didn't wake anyone...

I listened but I didn't hear anyone move. "I'm safe" I whispered aloud. I grabbed the thing that hit me and was shocked to discover it was a small loaf of bread. I looked around but didn't see anyone who looked like they threw it at me. Nobody would ever give me this anyway. Not caring anymore, I scarfed it down so fast I choked for a moment. I grabbed my cup and whispered "Water." A small glob of water fell into my cup.

Water is another life magic spell; it can't make much at once, but it makes about a cup full every time. I gulped it down and continued to eat my bread until the whole loaf was gone. I even ate the crumbs off my sheet licking them up like a dog...

I sighed in contentment, finally having got something in my stomach is great, but my tummy kind of hurts even more now. Ah I probably ate too fast after starving for an extended period of time? How do I know that!

I groaned and tried to go to sleep but right when I was feeling sleepy a small transparent screen popped up in front of my face. It was floating in the air, so I tried to grab it with my hand, but it went right through...

"So, this is my Status!" I heard a noise to my left and snapped my head in that direction. Maribelle had just rolled over in her sleep... "Wait I can read this...

How can I read?" 

Name: Rem

Race: ?

Occupation: Orphan

HP: 65/100

MP: 500/500

Str: 3

Dex: 3

Int: 100

Vit: 3

Wis: 50

Luck: 4

Skills: 

Observe Lvl 1

Storage Lvl 1

All Magic Aptitude

Life Magic Lvl 6 (light, ignite, water, dry, clean, First aid)

Creation magic Lvl 2

Pain resistance Lvl 4

Hunger Resistance Lvl 5

Fatigue Resistance Lvl 4

"Ah even the Gods call me Rem" I pouted with my cheeks inflated as far as they can go."

Well, if the Gods say so it must be true. Gods huh, even though I was agnostic?... Ignore the nonsense Remmi, you just have a hurt head...

"Ah! My Race says a question mark! Does that mean I am not human!" I heard Maribelle roll over again and I froze, my heart threatening to beat out of my chest. I really need to break my habit of talking to myself out loud!

After a while I continued reading. All M-magic apt-it-ude. All magic Aptitude? Does that mean I can use any of the branches of magic? Isn't that like, really amazing? 

Oh, my Life magic is really good, huh... After focusing on Life Magic, I got a mental list of all the spells I could use, and it had one I never used before. I focused my magic and tried it as it sounded really useful right about now. "First Aid."

 My whole body glowed a bit and it felt like all my wounds got a little better... I meant ouchies, my ouchies got better... I touched the cut on my head that was still oozing blood before, it was completely scabbed over. Pulling up my shirt, so were the wounds on my back. Amazing...

I'm not completely healed but everything is closed up and all my bleeding stopped. They hurt a little less now too. I will try to cast it again a little later and see if it helps even more.

Let's see what else, Hmmm, Cre-ation Magic, Creation Magic what is that?

I suppose it implies that I can create things from nothing, is that where the bread came from! I thought Maribelle threw it at me... I felt sad as I went back to thinking she broke her promise.

"Ah! I have Observation and Storage magic as well!" Doesn't that mean I can get a really good job!

I heard a soft gasp and looked over to see Maribelle staring at me with wide eyes.

"Maribelle please, pleases, please don't tell the other girls, they will just be mad at me that I got something good, when they didn't!" I whispered pleadingly.

Maribelle just nodded her head and rolled over to go back to sleep.

I waited a while until her breathing slowed and sighed in relief. I am just glad it was Maribelle who heard me and not the other mean girls. I can trust her not to tell. I nodded sure I was right, I will never doubt my friends, or my name isn't Alex Anderson!

I meant Remmi! Who the hell is Alex Anderson anyway! As soon as I angrily thought that I saw a mental image of an old man smiling wistfully through a window at me. No not a window a mirror...

What the heck is happening to me? It's really scary like I am becoming someone else. I don't want to fall asleep, what if I am somebody else when I wake up?

I don't want to disappear... I started crying again, and this time, I cried myself to sleep. 

As I slept, I dreamed, I dreamt of another life, of a bitter old man who devoted his life to creating beautiful works of art, trying to add a little brightness to a dark world.  A man who, like me was born an orphan. A man who the world continually betrayed and lived his life bouncing from one tragedy to another.

As more and more of Alex's memories played out, Rem cried silent tears in her sleep for the tragic life she was reliving in the quiet of the night. 

Hearing talking Rem woke up, her eyes however remained closed as she tried to consolidate herself. As I lay there remembering everything I had seen in my dreams. I realized that I was Alex, and he was me.

I don't know if it was a past life or if his soul merged with mine somehow... But I still only remember the past year of this life. And I now have many, many years of his memories in my head. Am I still me?

Am I still Rem when I have so much of Alex?

I think so, just because I have more memories doesn't mean I am no longer Remmi. As I lay there, I got distracted from my existential crisis by Anna talking loudly. 

"Damnit Maribelle! did you have to tell the Director what you heard her say so early in the morning? Now he wants me to head over to the slave market right away and get a price! I hate going there by myself every time. What if they decide to just keep me there?"

"Don't worry Anna I will get a couple of the older boys to go with you, no I will even go with you myself."

"Still, you sure are cruel Maribelle, making her think you are her friend all this time. Playing the good friend but eating her food and stabbing her in the back. Even I am starting to feel a little sorry for her."

"It was your idea in the first place, you hurt her a bit and I convince her to stay up here in the room, and we split her food. It was a good deal. As for feeling sorry for her she is getting everything she deserves. Honestly thinking she can act like that just because she was born with a cute face. I hate her! I am going to try to get an even better price by telling them how cute she is. That way she will get sold as a sex slave. Then she will have a reason to have puffed out cheeks." Hahahaha.

"Shhhhh, you will wake her up, it's best she just stays asleep while we get breakfast and leave. We will just do the usual and tell the Matron she is not feeling well and split the food before we go."

"Maybe we should save it and offer it to the boys? It will help convince them to go... us to...market.

As they continued talking while going downstairs all I could do for a whole minute was panic in disbelief. Tears were streaming down my face, but I felt a part of Alex rise up.

He had been betrayed before. He had been betrayed many times. He grew up in something called the foster care and people were mean to him too.

He ran away many times...By the end of his life, he had become a complete introverted misanthrope not trusting anyone but a few close friends whom he considered an exception.

I was still crying silently but I felt a spike of white-hot rage flare in my chest.

I turned to my bag that contained my few clothes and touched it with my hand. I said storage and sure enough the bag disappeared. I focused on the skill and got a mental list in my mind of the storage contents.

As I walked over to the window, I saw Anna's nice cloak sitting there.

Nobody knew where she got the money for it, so everyone assumed she stole it from somewhere. Now it made sense, she was probably sent like before to provide payment or something and skimmed some gold off the top.

It was a nice cloak, made of waterproofed leather and had a bit of embroidery. It was a very nice item. I grabbed it on my way out the window and put it on. I will be taking this as compensation!

It was way too big for me, and it went all the way down to my ankles. 

I stopped and glance at the door. I walked over and quietly shut it.

I then placed Maribell's bed into storage and took it back out in front of the door to block it. Storage is really big inside; I wonder how much can fit? I grabbed her bag of possessions on my way back to the window and placed them in my storage.

Stopping to think for a moment I went ahead and took all the girls belongings. I opened the only window in the room and climbed out on the roof that was over the porch.

I reached my hand back through the window from outside and held it by the blanket of the nearest bed. "Ignite", I chanted darkly.

A small stream of fire spurted out from my hand and the blanket caught on fire.

The dry old wood was quick to catch as well. I smiled thinking that they will soon get what they deserve.

As I stood there thinking it was getting hotter, I coughed as smoke hit me in the face and I breathed it in.

I looked over the edge and hesitated wondering at the best way to get down. I felt the heat searing into my back, and in a slight panic I looked over the edge and jumped.

I hit the ground hard on my side, and I felt my arm snap. But I crawled back up.

There could be no going back now. No rest until I was away from here. Looking at the only door into the building, I glanced at a wheelbarrow full of firewood. I walked over to it and grabbed the handles. I strained as I tried to lift it and my arm flared in pain.

But I felt a streak of vindictive pleasure as I placed it in storage and then took it out in front of the door, blocking it from opening. Let's see you trash sell me as a sex slave now!

Still crying I angrily wiped my face. "Now is not the time for crying Remmi, I have to be strong, I have to be strong enough to defeat any trash humans that try to harm me.

I don't know what I am, but I am definitely not a human! I could never be as cruel as them!"

As smoke was starting to billow from the top floor, I turned around and walked away...

The Orphanage was near the south gate in the slums, there was a secondary inner wall that I had never even seen past.

I walked towards it and pulled up the hood on my new cloak. I could hear shouting coming from behind me. Suddenly I saw the gate guards run past me leaving their post at the gate.

Alot of people were running that way, "I wonder what's got them so hot and bothered? hehe"

I walked by a cart that was selling apples and casually placed the whole thing in my storage when I saw nobody around. I then continued towards the gate trying not to draw any attention to myself. 

"Hmmm?"

"Lucky."

I quietly snuck through the unmanned gate and started walking down the path to the southern mountains. I guess all the guards had run off to help with the fire.

I looked ahead at a trail that supposedly went to the next town... I think so anyway. A map would be nice.

Also, the name of this town...Which I can't remember at all. Or maybe I never knew in the first place.

Asking too many questions at the orphanage earned you a beating so everyone always just kept quiet and mostly to themselves. 

I walked as quickly as I could until I went around a bend and the view of the city was blocked by trees. I kept walking feeling elated at my successful escape, until I absolutely needed a break.

Even then I only stopped to eat a few apples, and a loaf of bread I made appear from nothing with Creation, I then made another glass of water and guzzled it down messily.

Hmmm, did I really make it appear from nothing? Maybe it just converted the air...

I really need to figure out what I am going to do, if they catch me, I will be in really big trouble for what I did. I have to get to the next city fast...

"Or do I?"

Do I really need to go to another human city?

If I can make food and water appear with magic...

After putting away my cup, I went to get up but fell as my broken arm flared in pain. I started to silently cry again but instead took some advice from Alex's life and laughed through the pain.

Ah I could really use a hand right about now Hehe.

I managed to get up using my right arm this time, and not the wrong one.

I continued walking until it got dark.

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My feet hurt; I didn't have any shoes like many of the other orphans did.

I decided to look through the bags of stuff I took from those evil human girls.

Hmm, no shoes, but Maribell's bag has a wrap for her breasts in here. As I don't need that yet... I ripped it along a frayed seam and wrapped them around my feet.

I then whispered, "first aid". I held in a scream as I felt my arm shift back into place a bit and the cuts on my feet close shut.

I next used "Clean" to clean all the blood and dried tears off of myself. I got up and continued walking gingerly through the night.

Well, I say walking, but it was more limping.  I finally came to a group of large boulders that were a little off from the trail. I decided to try and sleep a bit.

I heard the noises of the night, crickets and a wolf howling.

It took me some time to fall asleep. 

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I got up and continued on my way.

My body really hurt so it was a slow process.

I had dreamed of Alex's life once again last night. he read a lot of books.

I can probably read as good as a noble now after seeing all those memories.  He was an old man who wasted his whole life trying to become an artist, but that came with a really great education.

He read so many books, especially the ones that were all the same but slightly different from each other. Fad-Fiction. No Fanfiction!

A lot of them were about magic too, even though his world didn't seem to have any magic. Or maybe only certain people could use it or something...

And so, I continued on walking for long stretches. Finally, I came upon a large wooden sign nailed to a tree. It had a large skull on it...

That doesn't seem promising. 

Danger! Great Beast Forest ahead. Recommended to take eastern detour from Crayton towards Tamaratha. 

I sat down while staring at the sign trying to figure out what to do.

I ate a quick lunch while I was thinking.

I guess Crayton was the city I was just in huh?

Are beasts any different from humans? They are as bad as beasts in my eyes.

I tried to stand but my arm was still broken...

I could really use a friend to strong-arm me into remembering my injuries...

At least it wasn't my leg that broke, that would have made escaping much more difficult.

I wonder if they managed to escape. Probably right, everyone was running there after all.

They would have unblocked the door and let everyone escape.

Too bad!

Well, I bet at least the building still burned down. Now they will all be homeless.

Maybe those shitty girls will end up selling themselves for a meal, I thought darkly...

You better hope I never see you again Maribelle!

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Right, so this area is known as the Beast Forest because it is filled with...well dangerous beasts.

Normally people avoid this route at all costs, because you never know what will appear to eat or kill you.

"Well between being eaten by a dragon and becoming a sex doll for a creepy, fat, pervert the decision is surprisingly simple...

Into the forest of death I go!

You may be saying, "Rem how could you be so cold and heartless to try and kill a bunch of orphans?"

Well trust me when I say this is a world where life it treated very carelessly. If you are not willing to kill, you will have a bad end eventually.

Just look at my current situation.

Plus, every one of those "innocent orphans" had abused me in some way. Every human I could remember had!

It's amazing how quickly I can disassociate myself with humans thanks to that little question mark in my status...

I am using really big words now as well. I shouldn't be able to talk like this at all...I have gotten lot's smarter. 

Thinking back over the past few years, I could use some life magic when others could not.

Maybe I can learn some magic that Alex read about in the other world.

Ah, I always wished this would happen to me, I mean Alex always wished he could be born in a world like this one. Being reborn in another world with magic. Hmm what do I know about magic?

I first cast "Clean" to refresh myself while imagining all the dirt and bacteria being removed.

"With magic, you have to have a strong visual of what you want while chanting the name of the spell."

You can also just think of the name if you are proficient enough.

Clean is part of the Life Magic category. These are fixed spells that are used to make life more convenient. Cleaning your body or even making a glass of water are possible.

So maybe I can use other magic with the imagination method from my memories.

Method...

It should be to first concentrate and find my magic, then learn to control it or move it, then use imagination and willpower to bring forth what I want. If I can learn to feel my magic maybe...

I heard a roar in the distance and a mist was setting in. Beast Forest indeed.

Let's try to get somewhere safe first...

For now, "First Aid".

Ahh... that hurt. My arm shifted in place again.

Luckily, I didn't scream, I have always had a rather high pain tolerance or rather Alex did, if not for him I probably would have laid there crying until I was collared and sold...

I am very thankful for that too, Thanks Alex!

Right now, nobody knows I am here. Maybe they will assume I died in the fire. 

Checking my status as I had not done it since I first got it.

It only takes one MP to move things in and out of storage, that means...

I heard some angry growls a lot closer this time.

 I took off at a light run.

"The trees are really large here, like the forest is ancient. Well now that I think about it, it probably is." Nobody in their right mind would enter this place to cut down a tree after all, its certain death...

Ah look at that tree it is blue!

I heard the sound of growling again and prayed I wouldn't meet any monsters.

As I entered deeper into the forest, my body was embraced by the thick mist as it seemed to pull me in like it was devouring me.

I could still hear the sounds of animals and birds, along with the occasional grunt or growl but I couldn't see further than a few feet in front of me.

I ran for what felt like hours before the pain of my broken body became too much. My foot hurt really bad now.

Leaning against a tree behind some thick underbrush, I slowly slid down onto the ground. I was panting and breathing heavily, I really need...

to rest...

I might have a slight fever as well.

Crap, this is not good news...

I looked at my ankle and it was purple and about twice its normal size.

I decided to experiment with my magic for a bit to distract myself from my pain and exhaustion.

I looked around me and realized I had wandered off the path at some point.

I'm lost, aren't I...

I wonder if I will survive this.

  No, I have to survive, this is all of my... Alex's dreams come true.

There is no way I will give up now!

First thing first, I looked at the way the oversized bags of crap from the girls flopped by my feet, as I casually yanked them from storage.

If Creation worked like some of the novels Alex read, I can't just make anything.

What was it?

Laws of equivalent exchange?

Snapping and making a tornado? No, I meant Alchemy...

It is really too similar. I got out some of their worst spare clothes, they were full of holes anyway, I grabbed a fallen stick. I set them all together in a pile and tried to focus on what I wanted.

I tried to imagine boots, nice and snug and warm. I imagined them being the perfect size and shape for my tiny feet.

In my last life I was an artist after all, so I am quite good at visualization.

Ah, I meant Alex was an artist...

Whatever, I will just count us as me from now on. I am Alex and Alex is me. 

After getting the mental image of the size, look, and feel of my new boots, I slowly and clearly said "Creation".

It is hard to see with the bright light, but the materials look to be flowing into each other.

The merged clothes and wood immediately flashed in bright white light and shrank to perfectly form the boots I was just imagining previously.

I put them on, and they fit my feet perfectly.

I next tried again and made some socks with another old shirt.

Thats when I finally noticed something strange.

The soles of the boots, they are rubber. Where did the rubber come from?

Sap from the wood?

No there wasn't nearly enough...

I checked my MP to see how much it took to make the boots. It only took three loafs of bread worth. I then chuckled thinking how dinner rolls are now my currency.

I then grabbed another balled-up shirt and imagined the socks again. I used Creation and I suddenly had a pair of white thigh high socks.

I checked my MP again and saw it took much less to make the socks than it did the boots.

As a test I imagined a ham sandwich and tried to make it with creation magic from nothing like I do bread, but all I got for my efforts was a blinding headache.

"I guess my level isn't high enough or something, or maybe I do need all or most of the base components first.

" Would it have worked if I had a piece of pork?

I tried again but went for a loaf of bread again, only this time I tried to make it toasted.

One toasted loaf fell right into my hand.

This is amazing, I just created food from nothing more than air and my imagination.

So maybe I just don't have enough Mana to create complex things from nothing yet, but having the base components makes it cheaper or more efficient.

Yeah, that makes sense. And as I get stronger and improve, I will probably be able to make better and more complex things even without the ingredients so to speak.

I wanted to experiment more, but I suddenly heard a load roar echoing in the distance.

Scary, scary...

I better conserve my mana for now. I checked and it takes a whopping one hundred mana to create a loaf of toasted bread. I guess it would be cheaper if I had one of the components like fire already on hand.

Actually, thinking about it how did it toast it without fire. Did it use Fire Magic somehow?

I checked my status and like I had thought, Fire Magic was on my skill list. 

 After eating and drinking a bit more I grabbed a couple of sticks from beside me, and another old ratty shirt out of my storage. I then looked at them and imagined a splint on my arm.

After chanting "Creation", the whole mass flowed together before my eyes, like they had changed to a liquid and were flowing into each other.

"Cool."

When the glow faded a perfect splint and sling appeared on my broken arm.

Whew... that took a lot out of me.

Continuing my rest, I saw a nice-looking plant on the ground right beside me. It had broad green leaves ringed with blue.

I stared at a plant intensely for several minutes then chanted "Observe".

Suddenly a small holographic screen appeared over the plant. It just said herb... 

Hearing another roar in the distance I decided I needed to find a safer place to rest and recover. Before leaving I used Creation one last time to create a tight wrap on my ankle, I then put on my new socks and boots.

The first I ever owned!

I tried to stand but my whole body hurt. I cast "First Aid" again and the pain dulled a bit allowing me to stand back up successfully.

I started walking, well hobbling, again and used my new observation skill on everything I saw.

Finally, I saw additional text appearing.

I saw another herb on the ground and looked at it while thinking observe. 

Hippokte Herb: A basic component in healing potions and primers. 

I tried putting it in my storage and it went right in.

Roots and all huh, how convenient.

"I really am glad because bending down and digging up a plant might be too high a hurdle for the current broken me."

I may have done more damage than I thought after jumping from the roof.

Since I could repress it easily, I had underestimated how hurt I was.

I started to gather as many herbs as I could as I walked, I found several new kinds as well.

I even took the poisonous herbs just in case they had a use later on. 

After walking several more miles into the forest the light was getting dimmer out. I found a hollow in a massive old tree.

Thinking this would have to do, I managed to crawl inside with much grunting and tears silently streaming down my face.

I heard a wolf howl in the distance and looked at the space I had just crawled through.

The sun was setting, and that means more predators.

I imagined the hole closed except for a tiny space for air and used Creation to seal the opening.

The wood seemed to expand until the previous opening was almost completely filled. I tried to do it silently this time by chanting it only in my mind. It had worked so I should try to make all my future spells like that.

I wanted to get much further from the humans and find a safer place to build a safehouse after I made it passed the forest. But I got lost in the mist and wandered off the path.

This forest is a bit too scary for the ten-year-old injured me. I hope I can find a nice cave or something later.

I wanted to continue my experimentation with magic, but my body hurts too much, plus with the sun setting I have no choice but to sleep.

I'm just glad I found this tree in time.

I started to think about my current situation which was basically a survival game.

 I can't go back to town. I shivered in disgust.

I can't really go to any town. I am still a child, and I won't be able to get a job or support myself. I would probably end up as a slave after getting kidnapped.

The age of adulthood is twelve in this world huh, how very Medieval of them.

So, I need to survive in this forest for at least two years...

Maybe four years...

Maybe I can just stay here permanently, I really don't want to live around humans anyway.

I would say it's impossible, but I can make food and water, so that leaves shelter, and a way to defend myself from the vicious monsters.

After spending some time thinking I fell asleep, my young body too injured and exhausted to remain conscious.

After waking up the sun was just rising, and there was a gentle sunbeam shining through the small hole I had left in the tree.

I really did come to another world or rather reincarnated into one after my death.

No wait... I meant I am really lucky to regain memories from my past life.

I am Remmi after all...

I will even compromise and call myself Rem, but I am going to stay me!

Going through all the memories I had from this world, which was still only the last year and a half in the orphanage. I remember how slavery is a common thing, I saw slaves being treated horribly in the streets from my bedroom window sometimes.

People getting whipped or lynched in the streets while people laughed and jeered.

The beast kin were especially mistreated. I even watched as a wolfman looking slave stumbled and bumped into someone. That person then pulled out a knife and cut off his ears right in the street!

I had nightmares about it for a long time.

That's right, there are even cute and fluffy cat and fox girls.

Well, there are many different kinds of beast-kin, but I will focus on the cute and fluffy.

This makes the giant ominous question mark beside my race in my status really concerning.

Now that I am thinking about it, wasn't that human city I was in a really terrible place?

I don't know if it's all cities though or if I was just in a really bad one. I hardly left the orphanage in the few years of memory from this world I have.

I also received no education at all. I don't even know the name of the town I was living in until I read it off that sign...

Still, I have magic! A seemingly rare one too.

I don't know for sure, but I am going to assume Creation Magic isn't a common thing...

Now that I am thinking about it, all the buildings in the human city were uneven and made from wood. Why wouldn't they just use earth magic?

Ah I do have that skill, what was it again? All Magic Aptitude or something...

Maybe humans usually can't use much magic. 

I tried to sit up, but I was in a lot of pain, I started coughing and felt something wet in my hand...

It's blood huh, that doesn't seem very good at all. I lifted the hem of my shirt, and my entire side was a deep purple bruise, so dark it was almost black in places.

Internal bleeding huh, maybe damaged organs, at least I don't seem to be hemorrhaging blood, otherwise I would have died in my sleep. I need to figure out a way to heal and soon...

Suddenly the pain lessened, and I managed to sit up. "Status"

Name: Rem

Race:?

Occupation: Orphan

HP: 52/100

MP: 500/500

Str: 3

Dex: 3

Int: 100

Vit: 3

Wis: 51

Luck: 4

Skills: 

Observe Lvl 4

Storage Lvl 6

All Magic aptitude

Life Magic Lvl 6 (light, ignite, clean, dry, water, First aid)

Creation magic Lvl 3

Fire Magic Lvl 1

Water Magic Lvl 1

Pain resistance Lvl 6

Hunger Resistance Lvl 5

Fatigue Resistance Lvl 5

So, my pain and fatigue resistance went up, and my wisdom increased as well. From all the thinking, I guess...

So, stats can increase through training...

My HP didn't recover at all though, it even went down. I got several different herbs out of storage and was about to try eating them when I remembered the fantasy staple. Health Potions!

I decided to try to use my creation magic to turn them into a health potion. I don't know the process or even know the ingredients, is it really not possible?

After trying I feel that it could have worked but I didn't have enough MP. After thinking, I got out double the number of herbs and tried again.

I had been collecting them as I walked yesterday and stored them almost subconsciously after a while. A bright light shone, and the potion was successfully made!

Unfortunately, there was no container and it splashed onto the ground, quickly soaking into the dirt. Ahhh...Sadness.

After looking my MP dropped by 200.

Sigh...

after getting a wooden bowl from storage I tried again, and this time I had a bowl of low-grade health potion. I checked and my MP only dropped by 100 this time.

Why? "Status"

Name: Rem

Race:?

Occupation: Orphan

HP: 52/100

MP: 300/500

Str: 3

Dex: 3

Int: 100

Vit: 3

Wis: 51

Luck: 4

Skills: 

Observe Lvl 4

Storage Lvl 6

All Magic Aptitude

Life Magic Lvl 6 (light, ignite, clean, dry, water, First aid)

Creation magic Lvl 4

Fire Magic Lvl 1

Water magic Lvl 1

Alchemy Lvl 1 

Gathering Lvl 3

Pain resistance Lvl 5

Hunger Resistance Lvl 5

Fatigue Resistance Lvl 5

I see, my creation skill went up by one and I learned the alchemy skill.

Gathering as well. Even though I just made it with Creation Magic, I still got the alchemy skill?

After concentrating on the Alchemy skill, I had a mental list of several recipes and the process of how to make them. I could only make three at my level, low-grade health potion, low-grade mana potion, and low-grade beast repellant.

I focused on beast repellant and the basic recipe and manufacturing process appeared in my mind.

Not that I have any equipment to use it, but my creation magic seems to work like an advanced form of alchemy. If I use the materials necessary, it lessens the MP load drastically when I use it, so I should still be able to make everything.

The beast repellant will be my life saving grace right now, at least until I can learn how to defend myself. 

 I then coughed more blood, so I quickly drink the potion I made, and looked at my stats.

My HP only improved by ten.

I felt a bit better but not fully healed. I guess that is the low-grade part of the potion.

Feeling a bit better, I again started thinking about magic and how it worked in the stories and fanfiction from my past life.

I guess I start with that huh?

I leaned against the wall and closed my eyes trying to empty my mind and feel my magic. After some time, I felt a ball of warmth in my chest.

I tried to move it through my body by imagining it following my blood. Suddenly I felt it coursing through my body.

My entire body suddenly felt energized. I felt stronger the longer the magic swirled along my blood, warming and boosting my bodies strength.

It felt really good, like being in a warm bath or getting a hug from a loved one.

After enjoying the warmth for several hours, I lost my concentration, so I checked my status.

Name: Rem

Race: ?

Occupation: Orphan

HP: 62/100

MP: 350/500

Str: 4

Dex: 3

Int: 100

Vit: 4

Wis: 51

Luck: 4

Skills: 

Observe Lvl 4

Meditation Lvl 1

Storage Lvl 6

All magic Aptitude

Life Magic Lvl 5 (light, ignite, clean, dry, water, First aid)

Creation magic Lvl 5

Fire Magic Lvl 1

Water Magic Lvl 1

Alchemy Lvl 1 (basic health/mana potions and primers, monster repellant)

Gathering Lvl 3

Magic Circulation LVL 1

Body reinforcement Lvl 1

Pain resistance Lvl 5

Hunger Resistance Lvl 5

Fatigue Resistance Lvl 5

So, meditation I guess helps recover mana, magic circulation appears to increase my mana pool and body by refining it, I think...

I wish the skills gave descriptions...

I even tried using Observe on my status to see if it would change anything, but I didn't get any more information.

My STR and Vit both increased by one as well, probably thanks to body reinforcement. Okay now we need to get healed then find a somewhat safer place to live for the next few/many years.

Feeling a bit impatient, I tried imagining the warm feeling in my chest to move through my body to my hand and said "Heal".

I opened my eyes and saw a soft greenish glow on one of my fingers. I touched it to one of the scabs on my leg and imagined the flesh healing via cell division. The cut healed before my very eyes.

"Well one scratch down and about a million to go."

I looked at my thin wrist and lifted my shirt and looked at my side again to try and figure out the extent of the damage. My ribs are showing, so malnutrition?

Makes sense after my shitty choice in friends.

Probably a few fractured or broken ribs, damaged kidneys, internal bleeding, broken arm, sprained ankle and too many scrapes and cuts to count. Concussion? I do have partial amnesia after all.

Feeling overwhelmed at how damaged my body was I suddenly had a flash of inspiration, I again started circulating my mana, Once I could feel my body once again suffused with warmth, I decided to try Healing Magic again.

But this time instead of directing the magic to my hand, I imagined all of it currently circulating through my body being converted to healing magic and healing my entire body at once.

I screamed "Heeeeeaaall!" out loud.

I just wanted the pain to finally stop.

I am hopeful that Healing my body from within will take care of at least my most serious injuries. My whole body flashed with a gentle green glow.

The glow began to get brighter and brighter, and I gritted my teeth trying not to lose focus, as I could feel all my Mana rapidly draining.

The last I saw was my bodies glow shifting from green to a blinding white. Then my Consciousness drifted away...