stranded: no way out [vol:1] Chapter 2: Chapter 2-:yes it can

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I had woken up but my condition was far from ideal , in fact I was on the verge of getting unconscious again , I also found the reason for why I was feeling like I was about to die a very deep gash on my chest that was still not healed and judging from how much it was healed i was here for at least a few hours. I also figured out that I did have the memories of this body and some of my deductions were right. But more importantly to my surprise It wasn’t that the memories came to me. They were already there. Like normal memories I could just remember them ,this felt much more anticlimactic than I had imagined. Well keeping that aside I found some interesting things. So first of all my name even in this world was Ray Umbra to be exact. I am the second son of the assassin house Umbra, and am currently in a succession race with my older brother and 2 younger siblings, a sister and a brother who are teens, I also have a older sister but she has forfeited the succession race. Also, my memories are well memories so its hard to take out useful information between the 16years of this body’s and 14 years of mine. But this world just like other fantasy web novels runs on mana, and surprisingly i am considered a generational prodigy, but the good things end here. Unfortunately for me this world does not seem to be from a novel or game I know about but has a plot from what I can tell similar to them, but the most worrisome part is that my family or house as they call it has the most insane rules and customs a person can think of. The trial as they call it which left me in this state. Is an examination that members of the house must take after they turn sixteen to become a full fledged member of the family and get the right to apply for the academy examination which will happen next month. This ‘trial’ consists of abandoning children in a forest full of grade 8 monsters and after coming out of that they must return ,alone ,back to the patriarch’s residence. The first trial is to check the strength of the members second is for finishing them off, why? Because the coming back without any assistance only applies to the successors so that the rivals can kill the weakened contender, so only the eldest survives and the house can also boast ‘merit and potential’ based successor race as anyone can join this but rarely anyone else but the patriarch’s children do it. I was thinking about everything that had happened and was currently attempting to segregate my memories into pre and post reincarnation, this turned out to be surprisingly easy as this body’s memory were like that of a book, I knew that he liked nature, but could not feel it, it was very distinct. This was both a good and bad news for me, good because it could prevent identity crisis and jumbled memory, bad because the people who knew him could potentially figure out I was not Ray, due to mine and his behaviours being very different. But the thing i wanted to test out the most: “Status” I said but nothing happened “System” nothing again “Skills” no avail “Open” still nothing- huh? A blue screen materialized in front of me, I sighed in relief. To be honest I was about to panic, what would i have done without a system? It’s the soul of reincarnation. Now its time to.. run away. We will check the system later , I have checked I have a mobility skill ,right now we run. I am not stupid, admiring my powers in a danger filled forest is stupidity and I am not going to do that knowing it. This could have been a great opportunity to stay and improve my skills but the thing is I am uncertain and injured. I can’t wait I don’t have luxury to do so, this place is dangerous , i know it , so why bother? My affinity is darkness and sub affinity is shadow. The shadow affinity gives me access to skills mostly for hiding, I have only one skill in darkness, which is also my unique skill. Wisps of darkness- this skill if used right is broken. This skill allows me to produce gaseous darkness, it seems un