I started wiggling my swimming appendages. It was rather tiring I must say. Kind of hard to switch from legs to see-through microscopic bio-sticks. Still, I managed to work it all out.
After a few minutes of wiggling though the water and pretending not to see how bad my technique was, I stumbled upon a moving reddish spot. It was smaller than what I perceived myself to be and slowly moving towards me. Whatever, let's get this over with. I readied my last pair of appendages, which was to say my mandibles for the upcoming encounter. The spot creeped closer and closer. I could now make out that it looked extremely similar to myself. It was probably one of my brethren, though I highly doubted that would stop the incoming cannibalism.
PUSH and SNAP!!!
I jerked forward and caught it before it could catch me. One of my mandibles got stopped slightly but the other continued. I guess I found its eye. The guy suddenly started thrashing around madly, well, as much a living piece of dust can anyway. I still didn't let go.
[Congrats on your first kill. 1 XP and title "First Blood" awarded.]
Finally! That took way longer than necessary. Anyway, inspect title.
[First Blood- a time-limited title awarded for the period of 1 week. It lowers the XP needed to level up skills by 25%.]
So a boost. Interesting... Well, I definitely do need one so good for me.
Status!
[Name: Arthur
Level: 0 (1/10 EXP)
Body status: Healthy, Larvae
Race: Copepod (unidentifiable exact species); Grade Z
Endowment: Smarter
Age: 16 minutes
Title: First Blood (temporary)
HP: 0.05/0.05
Stats:
STR 0.0001
INT 0.001
AGI 0.0001
VIT 0.0001
Skills:
None
Free skill points: 1
Free stat points: 1]
System, how do I spend the skill point?
[The user can use the skill point to either advance a skill e.g. Novice->Basic, or buy a skill in the shop.]
Nice. Open the skill shop, I want to buy some.
[Host has opened the basic system skill shop. There are 7 skills available for hosts current body:
Deduction (1 SKP)
Power bite (1 SKP)
Bigger "stomach" (1 SKP)
Swimming (1 SKP)
Mind map (1 SKP)
Stealth (1 SKP)
Sense (1 SKP)]
Buy deduction and define it.
[Purchase successful. Deduction helps you deduce things faster, in other words, instead of thinking and subsequently realising what things are this skill does it for you.]
Neat. Now it's time to finally identify my now limp and slowly disintegrating prey. I turned my eye towards the thing.
Deduct!
[Dead organism, probably of the same species as host.]
Well, that was underwhelming. I'll need to level it up otherwise I just spent a point for no reason. Anyway, I slowly started taking the thing apart and eating the pieces. Unsurprisingly there was no taste. It took me like 4 minutes just to finish the goddamn thing.
[1 XP acquired. Title "Kin eater" received.]
That was unexpected. Define "Kin eater"!
[Kin eater- a race-limited title. It gives extra XP when eating your own kind.]
It feels wrong yet right at the same time. You know what, I'm an underwater bug right now, I don't need to think. Just raise my race/stats and swim around. Anyway, status!
[Name: Arthur
Level: 0 (2/10 EXP)
Body status: Healthy, Larvae
Race: Copepod (unidentifiable exact species); Grade Z
Endowment: Smarter
Age: 16 minutes
Title: First Blood (temporary), Kin eater (race-limited)
HP: 0.05/0.05
Stats:
STR 0.0001
INT 0.001
AGI 0.0001
VIT 0.0001
Skills:
Deduction (lvl 0)
Free skill points: 0
Free stat points: 1]
Great! I wiggled my appendages in glee. It was time to go on a killing spree. After all, the sooner I evolve the sooner can I get to eat something tasty, not to mention improve my sight.
And so I began the purge of my part of the ocean.