Haahhh! This is impossible!" The little lizard dragged himself on the ground.
[Your vitality is being replenished]
"I haven't been running for five minutes, why am I so weak!?" He squeaked taking deep breaths and licking his nose to cool himself. "Couldn't I be something cooler, like a skeleton?"
[The skeleton genre is overused and quite repetitive, your struggles will gain you far more merits]
"I'm so close to the bitch, why is this so hard?" He asked, staring at the giant lizard that had tried eating it. "Why don't I get rewards for my struggles?"
[Your strength will naturally increase with hard work, keep at it pitiful little-]
"Oh shut up!" He snapped silencing the voice. "I have to kill her, I'll do whatever it takes, I'll eat her right back, she tried to kill me!" He growled forcing himself to crawl across the cold floor slightly scraping his soft underbelly against the terrain as he did so.
[You currently have no means of killing the brood-mother, all attempts will result in failure, you also have a very high likelihood of getting crushed; approximately 90%, your vitality has returned]
"I won't die, she will." He stood again when he felt a surge of energy enter his legs and abdomen. "I absolutely won't die to this overgrown lizard!" He burst into a sprint again running with all his strength and then leaping when he was close enough.
[New skill discovered; Pounce LV 0]
"Aaargmm!" He opened his mouth as wide as he could and bit her, unsurprisingly his teeth all shook and snapped rightboutbofbhis gums leaving him screeching quietly in pain.
[Your teeth have not evolved enough to be able to penetrate this armour, you are a tier 0 monster trying to harm a tier 3, impossible... Hey are you listening?]
The voice asked when the little lizard opened his mouth wide a second time, feeling the rapid regrowth of his teeth before he slowly locked his teeth onto an individual scale and began chewing at it.
"If I can't break it, I just need to cut it!" He grumbled rubbing and grinding his teeth across the hard scale until they started breaking again. "My teeth never stop growing and sharpening, one of the few useful traits I have are sharp teeth, so I'll grind them until they're strong enough to cut through anything and everything in this dungeon!"
[That is absurd] The voice commented, but remained silent and observed as the little lizard lost teeth over and over again, bloodying his face until it was getting hard to see as he tried gnawing at the scales of his mother.
Several hours later and he finally stopped, his vitality had been lost and regained so much he stopped getting notified by the voice, and he had lost thousands of teeth by then.
"Finally." The little lizard stared at the cut in the scale. "It took so long, I'm so hungry now, I feel like I'm gonna starve to death." He mumbled and opened hisouth over the scale, biting into it and holding it, sinking his teeth into the cut and flashing from side to side with all of his strength.
"I studied my own scales and spent all this time working for this." He flashed harder, growling and tugging until a crack appeared in the cut and began opening up rapidly.
[Impossible!]
"It's not!"
[This should not be possible]
"I'm doing it, I'm doing it right now, this is my first step to not dying a miserable death!" He squeaked loudly and tugged with the remainder of his strength, breaking off a small piece of the scale and holding it in his mouth.
"I won't die a miserable death, I refuse to die in this dungeon, I'll eat and eat, whatever I can every chance I get, just you watch!" He stuck his tongue against the scale shard and swallowed it whole.
[You have levelled up from eating a small fragment of a much stronger monster]
Hp- 2
Str- 1
Vit- 1
Stam- 1
Fortitude- 2
Lv- 2
Mp- 0
Int- 0
Skills- Pounce lv1, Bite lv1, Devour (passive) lv1.
"Oooh look at that!" The little lizard ran in circles on his mother scales squeaking as his newfound strength gave him higher mobility. "I will continue, as long as she doesn't wake up-"
*Grrrrrr." He heard the sound of a beast, and at the sound the white scaled mother beneath him shifted and stood, growling as well while he clung to her scales and held on for dear life and watching the ground grow more distant.
[A fall from this height will kill you.]
"W-what's going on?"
[There is an intruder in the nest, unless the white-scaled brood mother can scare off the intruder a fight will start.] The voice a swered him and the little lizard began fretting.
"I have to get off-"
[A fall from this height will kill you]
"I just need to jump onto the wall when she's close to it-"
[You currently do not have the stamina to safely make it to the ground regardless of what means you use, you will die regardless, you do not have enough stamina] the voice answered him again and the little lizard stared in disbelief as a pair of red eyes opened from opposire of his mother's head.
"No, I'll make it, if she fights I'm gonna die for sure!"
[If you jump you will die for sure-]
[Oi!] The voice snapped when he began hightailing it down his mother's back, crawling around her erect glowing spines and toward her arse and tail.
"I don't want to get crushed in some random monster fight that has nothing to do with me, stop trying to tell me what I can and can't do already!" He leapt and held on to one particularly large spine sticking to it as his stamina ran out and began replenishing. "I want to live, I'll do anything if it means living!"
[The intimidation tactic has failed, the brood mother will fight the unknown intruder - oi!] The voice snapped at him once more when he leapt with
"I won't die! I have already nearly died three times and I don't think I've been alive for that long of a time!" He squeaked watching the scales of his mother Xoom beneath him as she started charging forward the intruder shrieking and snarling menacingly.
"I want to live!" He grabbed at her tail right beneath him as his stamina returned, but the tail which was right beneath him suddenly vanished as the full length passed leaving him flailing and screaming as he fell through the air. "Waah!"
"Noo!!"