My body was completely motionless and frozen. I was shaking from fear so much, it felt like my heart was beating out of my chest. I could hear my own breathing - so heavy and slow. The sight that had just now played out in front of me... To call it frightening would be the understatement of the century.
It was absolutely horrifying.
I literally just witnessed a human take the life of... another human? I am unsure whether the girl could be called a human, considering her tails and, of course, the fact that she had transformed into that human-like form from a much more beast-like, fox form.
I slowly felt my heart rate return to normal, however I could not force myself to move even an inch forward.
"Maybe staying far away from this side of the woods is a good idea..."
I thought, gulping before finally forcing my body to slither towards the girl's lying body. Moving up to her, I was careful to keep an eye out on my surroundings as well as cautious when getting closer to her, in case she wasn't actually dead yet and was still somehow alive. Upon a closer look, the girl seemed to be wearing an outfit similar to a... Kimono? Wait, no, it's not just similar - it is the exact same as the ones I am familiar with...
The kimono was white with this flame-like blue pattern all across it - as well as some golden accents. It was definitely a bit fancy looking. The girls hair was also white, as well as tied back with a small blue bow - holding most of the front hair on the back. Overall, she looked quite a lot like a japanese woman, just, with some animal-like ears and six tails.
I shed a cold sweat, as I picked up my tail and lightly poked the girl's body - just to check if she really was dead.
And - nothing.
There was not a single response from her. Not that surprising, considering I literally watched her neck get snapped by someone just now, but hey - you never know with fantasy worlds, right? Who could have known, maybe she had a special skill or magic, or something else that allowed her to cheat death.
Call me paranoid, but I like to be safe rather than sorry.
I exhaled in slight relief at the fact that she wasn't going to jump back to life and end me. You could see this thought process as heartless, since it basically meant that I was relieved that she was dead, but hey - I am trying to survive in this world, so anything that poses danger to me I either avoid or is better off dead... Right?
....
Perhaps my thought process has become a lot more like a monster ever since I awoke in this world... I should be careful with how much I embrace a life as a snake - I don't want to become a full on monster.
I remained beside the girl for a bit, just thinking over and processing what I had witnessed. I thought I had gotten strong enough to be able to survive for now... But after witnessing how easily this girl killed that Troll, as well as the insane display of power between her and that mysterious, cloaked man... I do not believe I am anywhere close to being strong enough yet.
Sure - the Troll wasn't too much trouble for me to fight - but I could never have beaten this fox girl if I had stayed to fight her. I would have never beaten that mysterious man. The only way forward for me, the only way for me to survive and avoid a situation like this in the future, is to get even stronger.
I...
I need to get stronger.
I shook my head lightly, before looking at the girl - with a slightly saddened look. Though she was chasing me and would have one hundred percent killed me had I stopped at any point, I still couldn't help but show even a little bit of grief and sadness upon seeing another human die like she did.
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Individual Skill [Devourer] can be used.
Would you like to use the skill?
(Yes) (No)
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....I had almost forgotten about the 'Devourer' skill.
Do I... Do I do it? Part of me is shouting to just do it and get out of here, while another part of me is saying that I shouldn't do it and instead, should allow for the girl's soul to rest - instead of devouring it and adding it to my power.
I thought about it carefully for a bit, before exhaling and closing my eyes.
"I'm sorry... but I need your strength if I want to survive in this world."
I mumbled quietly to the girl's dead body, hoping that perhaps her soul had heard my apology. Then, I selected the 'Yes' option on the window in front of me. A dark red aura exited my body, before engulfing the girl's body. It remained around her body for a second or two, before returning to my body, followed by a bright blue aura, which was absorbed into my body - making me feel very warm and fuzzy inside for a bit, before eventually that feeling faded and I felt normal once again. I exhaled lightly, opening my eyes, as a voice spoke to me.
A Massive amount of Spiritual Energy has been absorbed.
Special Skill [Nykee] has been acquired.
You have gained the ability to utilise Spiritual Energy to perform spirit arts.
Well that's certainly... different.
I guess because it wasn't magical energy I absorbed, I couldn't gain any levels from it. But - I did manage to get a 'special skill' from it... Whatever that means. I was still super unfamiliar with how this world worked - there are common, rare, individual and now special skills?
This is getting a bit complicated...
Though, I can figure it all out as I go. Right now, I should focus on... well, first, getting the hell out of here and second - searching for monsters to fight to get stronger. Maybe even find a dungeon or two to enter... Those seem to give a good amount of experience.
I threw my gaze back down at the deceased girl's body, bowing my head down lightly towards it as well as closing my eyes - showing my respect towards her. Though I had no idea who she was, I still felt like I should show my respect. After all, my parents always taught me that I should always treat the dead and the ones that have passed on with respect - after all, they don't have the luxury to keep living like I did.
After paying my respects to the girl, I looked around before propelling myself over her body and quickly slithering off into the forest scape, disappearing amongst the trees.
After Faofa left the scene, a tall humanoid figure came out of the forest, just beside the rock formation that Faofa was pressed up against - looking at the laying girl, sniffling and tears dropping from her eyes. The figure ran up to the girl and grabbed her into her arms - hugging her tightly, as her tears fell to the ground, more and more.
"Oh sister... don't worry..."
She stated, before picking up the girl's body into her arms and standing up, looking towards the forest into which Faofa had disappeared into with a slightly more wrathful glare.
"I will make sure that monster doesn't go unpunished."
She finished before disappearing into a blue flame alongside with the girl's body, leaving the field barren empty once more.
One...
Week...
Later...
A Loud, ear-piercing shriek filled the room, as a giant bat fired multiple black arrows down towards the ground. I rapidly dodged all of the incoming arrows, before leaping up into the air and firing off a barrage of Venom Bullets at the bat. The giant monster dodged the initial barrage, however I quickly looked at some shadows below it, my eyes slightly igniting as many dark appendages fired from the shadow and quickly wrapped around the bat, allowing me to fire off another barrage of Venom Bullets - only this time, one with a clear shot.
The bullets connected to the beast, causing it to shriek out in pain, however not killing it. Instead, I propelled myself towards the giant bat - sinking my teeth into its neck and activating 'Harvester' immediately, easily piercing through and ripping out a part of its neck.
The bat shrieked once more, before flailing for a bit, only to cease its movement a moment later and fall down to the ground - crashing into it as I removed the appendages that were wrapped around it.
Experience threshold has been reached.
You have risen to level 48.
I breathed a bit heavily for a second, before exhaling and laughing lightly. That wasn't so bad - though the stupid boss kept himself in the air, so it was a bit annoying to fight it, but definitely wasn't the worst thing in the world.
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+ Congratulations +
You have cleared this dungeon and defeated its boss.
Would you like to receive the rewards?
(Yes) (No)
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"Of course I would like to receive the rewards. They're the only reason I am doing these places."
I almost instantly selected the 'Yes' option from the two.
Rewards distributed.
You have risen to level 50.
Nice! I reached level fifty!
Not bad for only a week worth of grinding for levels... At least, I think that's a decent amount I have gained in a week. Anyways - I managed to reach the same level that sixtails I saw last week was - so I will take it.
= Attention =
All requirements for Evolution have been met.
Commencing evolution to 'Greater Serpentine' immediately.
Ah...
I felt my head spin a bit, as I fell unconscious onto the floor, with a strong warm feeling inside of me being the last thing I could feel before I fully went unconscious.
Thankfully, I wasn't unconscious for too long, as an hour or two - at least, I think it was less than two hours - later I woke up and the evolution was completed. My body had grown in size, with me becoming not only longer but also overall larger. My green scales also turned a much darker tone and I also gained these yellow patterns across my body - reminiscent of tiger stripes.
Other than that, much didn't change due to evolution.
I made my way out of the dungeon immediately after I woke up again, before slithering off into the forest - hunting down and killing a Horned Rabbit to eat. Now, I was under a tree's shade, with a rather large Horned Rabbits corpse in front of me, as I slowly bit off chunks from it and ate them. I believe I have completely gotten used to eating the raw meat of other creatures by now - Partially because I doubt I could eat anything else as a snake, but also partially because I had no choice.
I had tried eating some berries the other day - but they were inedible.
No, seriously - I couldn't bite through them no matter what I tried.
Anyways... I think this could be a good time to check on my stats and skills. Last time I checked was around two days ago, so I think while I am chomping down on this horned rabbit, it was worth checking them.
"Status Open."
I said out loud after swallowing a large chunk I had bitten out of the Horned Rabbit.
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Name: Faofa Shin
Species: Greater Serpentine
Level: 50
Rank: E
Stats:
Health; 12900
Strength; 2200
Defense; 2090
Magical Energy; 11800
Stamina; 2090
Intelligence; 200
- Overall Power; 5800
Skills:
-Speech; Active Skill
-Venom; Passive Skill
-Nykee; Special Skill
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Hey, not too shabby - I think. My stats are looking quite high and healthy and my skill list, while not really having grown in size, still looks decent... I think. I should probably now mention the new skill I had gained while hunting down monsters and dungeons this past week - the Rare Skill known as 'Fractured'.
It is a very interesting and unique skill.
I gained it after killing a Great Spirit Wolf inside of a dungeon around five days ago. It's a skill that allows me to fuse two skills into one more powerful one - like I had done with 'Shadow Call' and 'Shadowman' - which I combined into the Individual Skill 'Shadowlord' - which basically has the functions of both skills and even more. 'Fractured' is a bit difficult to use at first, but once you get the hang of it, it's actually pretty easy. All you have to do is imagine the two skills you want to merge... merging together.
Yeah - as simple as that.
I have no idea why it took me an entire day to figure out how to do that.
Anyways - the skill is very useful in my opinion, as it basically has given me limitless options to gaining skills... as long as they are sort of similar. Yeah, it has a rule, where it can only be used to merge together 'compatible' skills, which in my experience, means every skill that is somewhat similar. If there is even one skill that doesn't share any similarities with the others, you can't merge them.
A bit of an annoying rule, since it means I can't just combine two skills that could be extremely powerful together, but hey - I can't exactly complain about its rules and limits, considering that even with them, the skill is actually really good and strong.
Another thing to mention is that Special Skill I gained after using 'Devourer' on the Sixtails a week ago. While I haven't been able to figure out how to use it or what its functions are, I have a suspicion the skill might have transferred the girl's soul into me, as whenever I sleep, I keep seeing that girl in my dreams like she was physically there. And I don't know about you, but that was very ominous to me.
But then again...
It's a lot better than seeing the nightmares that I've been having ever since I awoke in this world.
Anyways - I think that's enough sitting around.
I closed my status menu, before finishing up the Horned Rabbit, leaving behind only its bloodied bones and some organs, which I did not want to touch - I may have adjusted to eating raw meat, but adjusting to eating raw liver, heart or lungs... Yeah, no thank you. I'll skip over that.
Stretching out a bit, I quickly slithered off into the forest again - leaving behind the remains of the rabbit I had just devoured. Not going to lie, it feels a lot better to go out hunting for experience and monsters to fight after a good meal - I am feeling quite energised and ready to face anything I encounter.
And almost like fate itself was listening in to me, not too long after resuming my movement, a pack of Greater Direwolves led by a much larger wolf like monster appeared in front of me. I quickly used 'Erudiotion' onto the larger monster, just to see if it was a monster I've encountered before or something new.
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Name; {Unnamed}
Species; Greater Shadow Wolf
Level; 45
An evolved form of a Direwolf. These species creatures are able to enter the shadows and launch sneak attacks from them, however they are quite frail.
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So basically a faster and more agile Direwolf with the same ability as my 'Shadowlord' skill. Shouldn't be too hard to beat. I dashed out of the cover of shadows and towards the group with high agility and speed, using 'Shadowlord' to summon large appendages from some nearby shadows to tear through the direwolves, before leaping towards the Shadow Wolf, my mouth wide open.
While the Direwolves all looked confused and were powerless against the appendages, the Shadow Wolf turned its gaze towards me before sinking into its own shadow. I closed my mouth, before flipping around and quickly firing off a barrage of Venom Bullets as the Shadow Wolf leapt out of my shadow - aiming to get me with a sneak attack.
Luckily, I managed to predict this and the Shadow Wolf was hit by my Venom Bullets at point blank range, sending it back. After landing I used 'Shadowlord' again and leapt into the shadows myself, approaching the Shadow Wolf rapidly as it slowly rose back to its feet.
Before it managed to do anything, I leapt out of the shadow below it and sunk my teeth into its neck, activating 'Harvester' immediately and tearing apart its neck, sending blood pouring out from it as the Shadow Wolf flailed around for a bit, before falling to the ground. After a bit, all of the Direwolves were also torn apart and defeated, allowing me to make the appendages disappear.
"No level up? I guess I need more experience than a single high level creature and a group of low level direwolves..."
I thought before exhaling in slight disappointment.
Then, I managed to hear what sounded like the sound of footsteps off to the left - followed by voices. Humans? Perhaps...
But... surely not this deep inside the forest, right?
I mean, I don't know how deep I am, but I assume I was pretty deep inside the forest.
Should I go and check out whose footsteps and voices those are? It's not a super good idea or anything, but I am very curious as to who else was here. I thought about it for a bit, debating the choice before exhaling.
"Screw it, let's go and see what those footsteps and voices are all about."
I thought and after quickly absorbing the souls and magical energy of the deceased wolf pack with 'Devourer', I began to slither to the left - following the sound of footsteps and voices I could hear. I couldn't help but wonder what kind of humans I would encounter. Perhaps those students again? Maybe some other humans? Ooo, maybe some classic fantasy group such as knights or something?
That would be pretty cool to see.
But I suppose I'll see what they are all about after I find them.
My curiosity grew by every second as I slithered towards the footsteps and voices I could hear - and eventually, I slithered out of the treeline and onto a small, very overgrown and faded pathway.
It was clear as day that this pathway was old and that nature was beginning to take it back by now. The path was made from what looked like stone bricks pressed into the ground - with their surfaces being covered by vegetation and grass by now. I looked
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