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Chapter 4 - I Vaguely Know What's Happening

I woke once more, still beside my two siblings, this is real, not some figment of my imagination, as I was silently wishing, 'please let this be but a dream.' No, this is real and I guess I better start to accept that.

{You have learned the skill; Sentient Intelligence.}

What are those 'skills'? I have so many questions now, what do you mean I learned {Sentient Intelligence}? Wasn't I already sentient?

{Sentient Intelligence: unique skill to monsters, grants the owner the ability to overwrite monster instinct.}

'The Fuck was that?' I was still half asleep and worried, about me and my new family, so I'm not in the right mind. Maybe it was just my imagination

After I calmed down I bit more I thought about my other skills, {World Truth}, {True King}, seeing if a similar message came up for them.

{World Truth: Skill given to those who have learned how the world truly is, allows for more potential growth, also protects from unnatural phenomenon.}

{True King: Granted to you and you alone, allows you to check the status of followers and your skills, gives you the ability to gain followers, enhanced leadership ability, skill for magic, and allows for much more potential growth for you and your followers. Truly a gift from a God who is watching over you.}

... Okay so it's not just stress. {World Truth} must be what I got from my reincarnation and meeting with that man. On the other hand {True King} is his gift for me I'm guessing. Wow I did not expect to start off this well, but now that I look upon them once more I can now see that neither of them help with combat and fighting, let us hope that we don't have to fight. Finally. Magic, what is magic!?

{Present Time: magic is cool, sit down and think on it for a while and I'm sure something will come to you,

Love, God's Bane}

'Da fuq was that!?' I checked my status and skills, but they didn't change. That was like the description messages early, but nothing changed, what was that?

{Hints: Given by Gods to those who show potential, number and content given upon birth, cannot be changed nor accessed again. 3 Hints Remaining.}

'What the Fuck?!?!' I was confused by how exactly this world works but that man planned this out very well for me, my only questions where about the world not who, what, or why I was.

By this time I was fully awake, as where my siblings who woke up shortly after me. They walked over to me to very naturally despite a odd body, as I suspected, we're bipedal (walks on 2 legs). The walk was bipedal, but just, they where hunched over pretty low with they're hands near the ground, if they decided to run I would think they would do it on all fours instead of with just their hind legs. I was still laying down though, and seeing them walking so naturally encouraged me to stand up. I wasn't a natural like they where, I tried standing up many times, but I couldn't get used to the small feet and heavy, forward leaning upper body, I kept falling on my face. My arms where not that useful for catching my fall, they where skinny and weak, but I could move them fast, a little to fast actually, I hit my face mostly instead of catching my fall.

It took a full hour before I managed to stand and start walking, it was only a few steps before I fell down again, but it was walking. This progress gave me another question, why do we grow so quick, not even dogs and cats can walk and stand in just a few days? This lead to another question, dogs and cats come from parents, but yet I don't see any with us, why is that? These questions where left unanswered causing a small hole to form in my heart, when I get the chance I'll ask someone who would know.

While I was standing I did try talking, but it was gruffy and more like barks and growls, even if no one else would understand it both me and my siblings could barely make out what I was saying, not the full message but the basic idea got across. Least to say they where not good at conversation, all basic things like 'why was I struggling?' or 'where is food?', I tried to ignore that first one. This circular conversation that was almost as strenuous as learning to walk.

{Your level of Kobold Language has gone up,

Kobold Language Lv.3}

Just like that I got a message and suddenly my talking with these dog like barks suddenly got better, I also got more of what my brother and sister where saying, it wasn't much better but anything that stops a conversation from going in a circle is a massive improvement.

One thing I noticed while we where talking is that they both wanted food, almost like they where hungry. It was odd for me, I didn't feel hungry at all.