chapter 4
Born from blood and treachery, you were made, my precious creation, one to bring back the balance that he broke, you are reborn! You ar-
Plop
I woke up, on the cold smooth stone floor against my back, the inconsistent but familiar dripping of water onto the floor, the smell of blood hitting my nose, looking up towards the high ceiling pointed down with stalactites "Status screen"
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| Name: Nameless Race:Weaker Half-Kobold Level: -5/20 Title: None | | Hp:21/21 Mp:7/7 Sp:27/27 |
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| STR: 19 VIT:20 INT: 11 WIS:10 SPD: 19 DEF:13 |
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| Skills |
| 7 stars:LV 1/7 Darkvision:LV 7/50 Scales:LV 9/20 Appraisal:LV 4/10 Weaker:LV 1/1 |
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"Wow, wo, wo, wo, what the hell?!" I yelled in disbelief, out the voice echoing off the cave walls as they echo back, I covered my mouth, in surprise, I meekly yet hesitantly whispered out "I-I can talk.? I-I have a mouth?" I rush to one of the puddles on the stone floor, reflecting off the puddle was a girl, she had a old and scarred leather breastplate, a dirty and stained loin cloth, her thighs and feet were covered in scales, her arms were as well, her hands were more human like and weren't webbed, her face was nearly completely human, with yellowish green reptilian like eyes, her hair was jet black and came down to her shoulder, at the rear of her head were two long horns, my loincloth still there covering up my privates and rear. "H-Hey!" I softly shout out as my mouth moved and out came a voice, my eyes started to widen with relief as I let out a deep sigh and fell onto my knees tears welling in my eyes and slowly falling onto my reptilian legs, with a shaky voice I murmured "I-I can finally cry... hicc I-I am..so happy..hicc" I continued to cry as I hugged myself with a relief, enjoying the moment, embracing the tears.
"I-I...can't f-forget.... b-but I want to enjoy this moment, just a few seconds longer....b-but I can't... T-there's something weird.. Seven Stars? I don't have swordsmanship anymore but I do have this? It has seven levels..? Appraise, Seven Stars!" [Seven stars, a new skill of swordsmanship, Alkaid the white faith] "Hey... what the hell is this?! My appraisal went up two levels and this is the garbage information you give me!?" I scream into my head with frustration as I get up "Also.. I have weaker... That means I have a fatal wound somewhere... but I don't feel anything? Is it because my level is in the negatives? What the hell..? I ain't gonna Scooby Doo this shit! Who do you think I am!? Sherlock Holmes?!" I yet again scream into my thoughts to no answer. "Appraisal, went up two levels.. appraise, half kobold" [Half-kobold, a kobold with the face of a human, the body of a human and kobold, and the skills of a kobold, rejected by both humans and kobolds, can evolve into nothing] "Now that's infor...mation...? Rejected by both humans and kobolds..? Does that mean I won't be able to enter the Kobold home now..? I-I also can't evolve..? L-let me go back.. N-NO! I-I don't want this! I-I want another try!" I screamed out as I bang my fist against the floor with a thud I raise my arms and slam it into the ground again,thud and again thud
A gurgled cry, I look up and around to see one of the kobold guards standing there, It's 2/3rds my size now, it looks at me as it plants it's feet firmly in the ground and holds it's spear forward and charges with a gurgled war cry Gruuaaagggnnnnnn! I pick up my sword and lunge at it with anger. I swing my sword for the neck of the spear, it quickly jabs forward into my stomach teeeaarr, the kobold pushes and forces me into the cave wall thud, the spearhead going through the leather, the wound at the side of my stomach worsens by the minute as the pain grows exceptionally fast, and nearly makes me faint and roll over with pain. "Y-YOU FUCKER!"I screamed out in pain, I go and swing down my sword, Splurt, into his shoulder, deep but not enough as he pushes, deeper his spear goes into my side crack, as I feel something break, my vision is red and fuzzy, it feel's like hundreds of fleas are jumping around my head, I can't stop! I press against the wall and push deeper into his shoulder as he stabs into me my voice filled with anger as I yell back at it's own screaming! I cut down and lop off his shoulder spluurrt, more, I continue and cut down his sides, and against his ribs and across his stomach.
[3 levels Acquired] [Scales has acquired 2 levels]
"It hurts... It hurts!" I scream and thrash my legs around as the tip of the spear breaks off as I fall to my knees, the pain creeping across my body filled with a coldness, I look towards the corpse of the kobold I once knew...Chomp...riiipp..splatt... My face pressed against the body ripping it apart...biting into it's scales and into it's flesh.. I ate.. I ripped it apart, one bite, crunching bones, blood splattering against my face and hair, as it ate the corpse of the enemy.... I shakily sat up, the wound that was in my stomach slowed down... The wound covered in a small and thin layer of scales.... My head clearing, my eyes focused.. the kobold was nothing more then a pile of scales, bones and organs..
[Scales has acquired 3 levels] [Darkvision has acquired 2 levels]
"W-what..? I-I didn't gain any levels to myself.. but I did gain skill levels..? Could I eat other Kobolds to gain more skill levels..? Is it by eating them.? Why didn't I gain echolocation from the bat..? Is it because I didn't have it in the first place..? Did it's skill get turned into my levels..? Why is my wound healing so quickly after eating..? Why won't anyone answer my Questions?" I murmured to myself as I slowly got up and grabbed my sword and wobbled over to the kobold's home "Status screen"
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| Name: Nameless Race: Weaker Half-Kobold Level: -2/20 Title: None | | Hp:19/21 Mp:7/7 Sp:9/27 |
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| STR: 20 VIT: 21 INT: 11 WIS: 11 SPD: 19 DEF: 14 |
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| Skills |
| 7 stars:LV 1/7 Darkvision:LV 9/50 Scales:LV 14/20 Appraisal:LV 4/10 Weaker:LV 1/1 |
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"My stamina is down.. I thought stamina was only needed for running.. Did my it hasten my regeneration? Is stamina different here..? The other kobold guard is still there.. I'll kill him.. I'll eat him... I'll be free of Weaker and... and then what..? No.. I'm here.. I'll kill him now"
As I hid behind some stalagmites I waited, and waited, the dripping of the water ticking like a clock a broken clock, as the kobold got up and started to approach the path where it's fellow kobold guard went, it approached with blissful ignorance, closer, meter by meter until it was right there. I jumped above the rocks and onto the kobold pinning him down onto the rocks, it tried to scream, I shut it up, I cut straight into it's throat and kept stabbing, and stabbing as the blood spewed out and onto my body, I wanted to scream with pride, but the other kobolds were still inside, so instead I kept stabbing it.
[2 levels acquired] [Weakened will now slowly dissipate over the course of a day]
I dragged it's lifeless body away, the blood leaving behind a putrid yet refreshing scent as I dragged more and more until I couldn't see it the kobold's home anymore, I looked down on my prey and sat down next to it, panting, sweating, drooling, as it drooled over the body it had killed, I grabbed my sword and cut off it's head and hands, and started to eat, the blood filling and overflowing from my mouth, my nose deep and pressing into the flesh, a desire to continue rose in my body as It chewed away at the food in front of it, devouring it like it's friend before it.. not leaving anything behind this time
[Scales has acquired 2 levels] [Darkvision has acquired 3 levels]
I stood up, my wound fully healed, my vision normal, my hunger sated, and I ran, deeper and deeper, into this prison and hell, I ran for safety, but I have already abandoned what was keeping me safe, I abandoned it like I did before, because of how pathetic I was, and now I'm running again.. as I ran I felt the weight of my sins crawling on my back because of my own mistakes, it's because of me and always is because of how pathetic I am... As I ran deeper into the cave the echoing of screeching and screams made by my mind or by the monsters here grew louder, until it all fell silent.