My eyes filled with greed, I eyed the surrounding eggs. I moved to the nearest on then opening my mouth I tried to swallow it whole. Near the tip, my mouth was fixed unable to go further than what seemed like one-fourth of the egg. I had heard snakes can expand their mouth to twice their size so, I didn't think before trying to shove it inside my mouth.
The result? I am stuck neither being able to swallow it nor cough it out. I struggled like that for a few minutes then, it came to me.
'I'm an idiot. I could just cultivate it all.'
'Chaos Cultivation'
Upon noticing the surrounding eggs, you decided to cultivate them. Mission: Absorb 100 eggs. Time limit: 12 hours Reward: All attributes +10.1 Failure: No consequences> [Cultivation Initiated] [Progress 0.00%....100%] The egg completely disappeared from my mouth. [Attributes gained from devour 0.00] 'I guess that didn't count as a low being?' Then I started my eating spree, I mean cultivating spree moving from one egg to another. Within a few minutes I had absorbed 100 eggs. I felt power coursing through my body, an explosive strength that I had once at my peak in the previous life. 'So, my stats in last life were close to this?' 'Now this is way too easy. Status.' [ Age- 17 hours Species- Fanged Horn Snake HP- 161/161 MP-162/162 'Innate' [ {Upgradable- Kill 1000 low beings(intelligence higher than 1) 102/1000 } Upon noticing the surrounding eggs, you decided to cultivate them. Mission: Absorb 1000 eggs. Time limit: 12 hours Reward: All attributes +101 Failure: No consequences> 'Eh? This doesn't look good. Wouldn't I have to work myself to death fot those attributes if this mission continued.' I looked around the sea of eggs, surrendering my desire to strengthen myself I started cultivation my ass no, my tail off. Moving about absorbing the eggs, I realised I was growing not just my attributes but my size as well. Now, I could fit almost half of an egg inside my mouth. Gradually I noticed, I could absorb other eggs around just by the touch of my body. Enlightened by the discovery I felt rejuvenated. Absorbing around dozen eggs at once, about an hour later I had completed the quest. About one-hundredth of the sea of eggs was now empty. And as expected, I received another similar quest after the completion. No, something was different this time. Upon noticing the surrounding eggs, you decided to cultivate them. Mission: Absorb 10000 eggs. Time limit: 10 hours Reward: All attributes +1010 and Bloodline -??? Failure: No consequences> I was startled by the discovery that I could gain bloodlines as well. I fortified my will and continued my quest for egg absorption. A few hours later, I had grown to the size of about a few metres, a gigantic frame compared to my previous size. Now, I could cultivate around a hundred eggs at once, speeding up my development by a lot. Finally at 9th hour of my final quest I completed it all. It took me so long as the eggs were far apart compared to the previous closely compacted eggs. Clearing around the one-tenth of the sea of eggs I laid satisfied by my hard work. Then, the completion notification arrived. I leaped up in joy to look what sort of bloodline I gained. I excitedly opened up my stats. [ Age- 29 hours Species- Fanged Horn Snake HP- 11272/11272 MP-11271/11271 'Where's the bloodline?' Just as I was about to open my Innate menu, I received another notification. (You gained the bloodline of Fanged Horn Serpent.) (Do you wish to evolve into Fanged Horn Serpent?) (Yes/No) 'Yes, absolutely.' (Affirmation Confirmed) (Evolution initiated Time required: 38 minutes 21 seconds) 'Wh...' Before I could think anything, I lost consciousness. 'Ding' (You've successfully evolved) (Tristar World has noticed your fast development) (You've been granted a name by the Tristar world.) Just as I woke up, I received a series of notifications. 'Huh? Atleast inform me before sending me away bro!' 'So a name? By the what was my name in the last world? Bleh! Who cares let me check out this one.' [ Age- 30 hours Species- Fanged Horn Serpent HP- 15000/15000 MP-15000/15000 'Sae? That's it?' 'The abbreviation sounds cool though. The stats increased so much? Anyways, they finally evened out, it was such a hassle with decimals and uneven ones.' Finally, after collecting my thoughts I noticed. 'I've become smaller?' My body was currently just a metre long, a lot different from the previous gigantic frame. It felt more refined and strengthened. It wasn't just the strength. I felt I could act a lot faster than compared to the species. My vision also got way more refined. As I was lost in thoughts, I started sensing cracking sounds all around me. 'So, it's time.' Focusing on my surroundings, I noticed the hatchlings around me and prepared bring forth my carnage once more. Just as I was about gulp the one nearest to me, my vision contracted as I saw a gigantic frame about hundreds of metres long. In the dim the light of the unknown location, I saw the largest being that I had ever scene. I shuddered, as it was looking precisely at me, with its red eyes and dark shiny scales all over its body. Flipping out its twin tipped tongue. "Mom?" I blurted in a hissing voice.