The bronze skinned boy had many cuts all over his body and he was covered in blood of both his own and the snakes. The golden eyed snake coiled around his arm and seemed to be resting. While the rain washed away the gore around the boy, he thought about the box that displayed most of the information.
[ Name: - ]
[ Race: Chimera - Rank G Monster ]
[ Level: 5 ]
[ Class: - ]
[ Experience: 0 / 160 ]
[ Titles: - ]
[ Health: 8 / 50 ]
[ Strength: 5 ]
[ Agility: 5 ]
[ Constitution: 5 ]
[ Intelligence: 5 ]
[ Luck: 5 ]
[AP: 20]
[ Skills: DNA Assimilation, Dark Vision, Common Language, Poison Resistance Lv 1, Iron Stomach ]
[ Blessings: DNA Evolution, Gluttony ]
[ @#%!&: - ]
The boy didn't know much about what this information meant, he would need some sort of teacher for that. However, he did notice the various changes that occurred to the previously static screen. Turning his focus to the differences, a new box came up explaining the details of each of them.
[ AP: 20 - Points gained from leveling up that can be assigned to stats such as Strength, Agility Constitution, Intelligence, and Luck. ]
[ Poison Resistance Lv 1 : Due to constantly being afflicted with poison during a hard fought battle, you have gained small resistance to the effects of poison. ]
[ Iron Stomach : Due to eating poisonous and uncooked meat from many creatures, you have gained an iron stomach capable of digesting most things. ]
[ Gluttony : Due to constant over-eating, you have gained the blessing of Gluttony. You may now eat anything and gain sustenance from it. ]
The boy was still trying to process most of the information that came with these new boxes. He learned that it was now possible to eat anything, which he felt happy about because of the feeling he received before when he was shoving the corpses of the purple snakes he killed into his mouth. Thinking about the feeling he had while absorbing the dead creatures, he remembered that there seemed to be a sort of progress bar that went up each time he devoured a snake. So, he decided to think about the DNA Assimilation skill that showed up at the time of absorbing the snakes.
[ DNA Assimilation : Due to being a Chimera, a being of both creation and destruction, you may absorb the essence of other creatures to combine the best parts of them with yourself to make you stronger. ]
[ Purple Snake DNA 100% Assimilated ]
[ Due to the Purple Snakes DNA being 100% Assimilated, you may now acquire certain traits of a Purple Snake. ]
[ Traits Acquirable: Poisonous fangs, Purple Scales, Dark Vision ]
[ Would you like to acquire these traits? ]
[ Yes / No ]
The boy felt like it was a good thing to say yes, so he mentally chose the 'Yes' option. As he did, an itching feeling came across the back of his hands, his shoulders, along the tops of his feet, his knees, and underneath his eyes. He started to scratch at his face only to feel a hard contrast to his soft bronze skin. Purple colored reptilian scales started to emerge in the previously mentioned spots on his body. After that transformation process that seemed to last only a few minutes, the golden eyed snake that joined him in the massacre of its brethren seemed to have a smile on its face as it looked toward the boy, its killer in arms.
The boy looked toward the golden eyed snake and felt both a feeling of fear and excitement at the very disturbing scene of a grinning serpent. As they looked into each other's golden eyes, a strange connection started to form between them. A strange golden glow started to form in their eyes and another box appeared in front of the boy's eyes.
[ Through a battle of life and death, you have formed a special bond with this purple snake and it would like to become your familiar. Do you accept? ]
[ Yes / No ]
The boy didn't know exactly what was going on, but he smiled and chose the 'Yes' option. Another box appeared in front of him that seemed to be in the same format as his big box that outlined his statistics.
[ Name: - ]
[ Race: Purple Snake - Rank G Magical Beast ]
[ Level: 3 ]
[ Class : Familiar of "-" ]
[ Experience: 0 / 160 ]
[ Titles: - ]
[ Health: 20 ]
[ Strength: 5 ]
[ Agility: 11 ]
[ Constitution: 5 ]
[ Intelligence: 8 ]
[ Luck: 2 ]
[ Skills: Dark Vision, Poison Resistance Lv 1, Iron Stomach ]
With this new box appearing in front of him, the connection between the boy and the snake strengthened. The emotions of the boy and the snake seemed to resonate with each other and a strong form of communication through them manifested.
The emotions coming from the golden eyed snake were of gratefulness and satisfaction. The snake slithered up the boys leg and then around his torso. Once the snake got to his shoulders, it wrapped around his neck like a scarf and happily licked the boys face. The boy smiled and started to walk away from the pile of small purple bodies of the snakes.
Suddenly, he remembered that there were 20 points that he could assign to his attributes. He liked the feeling of strength he had when he crushed each snake to death, as well as how the intelligence stat seem to increase his comprehension of the world around him. So, he decided that he would split the ability points he gained into each of them. Thus his new stats were 15 in strength and 15 in intelligence.
Smiling to himself, he continued to walk down the path in the forest patting the head of his new companion as it rested upon his shoulders. As the rain fell upon his figure, the blood and gore washing away, somewhere in the forest not to far away was a fallen hollow tree. The surrounding area was eerily quiet except for the quiet sobbing of what seemed to be a small child emanating from inside.