Reborn

There was no sense of wakefulness or enlightenment as I came into existence. There was no epiphany, or fancy gods looking over me. There was nothing. I was greeted by a vast abyss. Looking back, perhaps a normal person would have been scared by the vast sea of nothingness, but for me, this was the first image I had every experienced. This was the dawn of my life.

I stayed in the endless abyss for an unknown amount of time. For me, time was a concept that I was vaguely aware of, something that should have had meaning, but ultimately didn't. The concept was like a memory of a dream, that was slowly fading away.

I knew that this was not my first life; that my first life had ended pitifully, but I did not know the details. I had no attachment to that life, it was not even something that I could remember. I did however have a hunger for this new life. I could vividly remember tails of people being reincarnated into different worlds. In these stories the main characters were always bad asses, and even if they started off in a weak form they would evolve into something monstorous.

This is something that excited me. The idea of power. The idea of growing incredibly powerful. The idea of endless adventure, as I battled to reach the peak of existence. THIS is something that I wanted, this was my one true desire.

As the abyss swirled around me, I could feel my conciousness being pulled, and an immense pressure building on my body. The dark Abyss soon disappeared from my vision, replaced by a sudden dim light. The dim light was all everywhere, bright enough to be annoying, but not enough to allow me to see anything.

I could only curse in frustration. How was I to dominate this new and exciting world if I could not even see it? I let out a soft growl in my frustration.

My anger slowly dimmed as memories of the many Isekai novels I had read resurfaced in my mind. Most of the people who had transmigrated had been given a system. A system that they could access with their minds. Hopefully my story would be similiar. With this thought in mind I excitedly screamed "Status" in my head.

My excitement wavered as nothing happened. There was still nothing. Only the infinite dim light that constantly assaulted me. Again I let out a growl. My ears twitched as I heard a soft, low pitched growl. The sound was so faint that I almost missed it.

The sound was foreign to my ears, and yet oddly familiar. I swore I had heard it before, but it was not something I could immediately place. I quickly moved my hands to my face to explore my new body.

My arms moved weakly, each inch they moved was a struggle, but thankfully they did not have far to move. Through my hands I could feel a slightly elongated portion of my face that seemed to contain my nose and mouth. on either side were long, and kind of stiff hairs. There were not many, and I could only think that it must be some sort of after birth.

I opened my mouth, but could not feel any teeth. This did not surprise me, as I could already guess I had just been born. What did surprise me, was that my hands did not feel like well hands. I could feel joints at the ends of my palms, but they were not long and slender as they should be, plus they seemd to be a lot smaller.

I put the oddity to the side of my mind as I let my odd shaped hands further explore my face. As they ventured further upwards a portion of the annoying dim light suddenly disappeared, quickly followed by the other. I was left in pitch blackness.

I was not scared by the sudden development, but rather let out a sigh of relief. It seemed my new body only had two eyes. The dim light must have come from my eyelids, that I was not yet ready to open.

The dim light returned as my hands slowly explored further up my face. I did not find much, until my hands reached the top most part of my head. On either side of my head I felt soft triangular shaped ears.

Shock filled me as I felt this. Things slowly began to add up in my mind.

"System" I screamed mentally "Show me my status."

Like magic a video game like display appeared before me. The page was simple, and reminded me of a character sheet from certain table top games.

Name: None

Race: Hell Cat (Unevolvable) (newborn)

Trait: Devour

Hp: 10 Mp 10

Strength: 1

Dexterity: 1

Constitution: 1

Intelligence: 5

Wisdom: 5

Charisma: 8

Devour: Once per day user can devour a non living target, gaining attributes or abilities. Results vary.

If I could open my eyes I would glare at the system. A non evolvable creature. My stats were pathetically weak. I could Only imagine that 5 was average, as I do not remember being an exceptionally bright person. If anything I was incredibly average.

My charisma stat was the only stat I had that was above average, and I could only imagine it was a racial bonus from my race. After all, kittens were always seen as adorable.

My trait however seemed to be rather powerful. The ability to absorb something to make myself stronger was an incredible talent, and perhaps was the only thing that made up for the body I was given.

All of this left me with only a single question. How was I to become a being that stood above all others, if I was in the body of a cat??