What about the others? Well, they've received your gifts. Good, I hope they'll spin something beautiful for me
CRUNCH....Crunch...drip...Crunnch....
It feasted upon a corpse of ice and flesh, it's blood splattered against it's body and across the cave floor. I looked on through eyes that weren't mine anymore, they belonged to the eyes of a monster. I could still feel the ice against my body and the soft, gushing flesh against my face, the nauseating flesh against my mouth, the smell of vile and putrid monsters dead and frozen, a sight filled with the gnawing and chewing of the bones and flesh apart, the taste of stinging flesh against my tongue, sour and iron. I couldn't do anything, it was in control now, the monster, the owner of this body. Feasting upon a corpse mountain of goblins and ice. I didn't have the feeling, the sense of hurling, gagging or crying. I only felt it, eating and devouring. As the blood splattered I thought, and with the thoughts came a disgust of these creatures, the goblins, a worthless mind, a weak body, only strong together.
I finally stopped and pulled away from it all, 23 goblin corpses, some devoured, others frozen, and most mutilated. I've killed them all, I survived, I'm stronger than them, I won. I stood up and turned away from the pile of dead goblins and to the darkness where they emerged from. "Status screen"
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| Name: Nameless Race: Half-Kobold Level: 14/20 Title: None | | Hp:6/27 Mp:7/7 Sp:34/34 |
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| STR: 28 VIT:24 INT: 11 WIS:12 SPD: 22 DEF:21 |
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| Skills |
| 7 stars:LV 1/7 Darkvision:LV 22/50 Scales:LV 18/20 Appraisal:LV 4/10 |
| Alkaid:LV 6/70 Cold resistance:LV 17/100 |
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"I've become much stronger...I could take those greater kobolds on now.. I wonder if those other kobolds I was with have started to hunt... I should take a break, I'm low on hp.. I thought I was dead so many times, I only lived because every so often a level up increased my hp...So I lived...I won! Bastards tried and failed to kill me.." I feel warm, as I see the pop-ups of my hp going up. [HP 17/27]
As I saw the goal of my little journey my mind wandered of what could be in there, a small castle front made of wood from who knows where, stained with blood, poorly constructed, and soon to be exterminated for good. As I walked in I saw tents around a fire, and one big tent beyond it all. I pushed open the cloth which acted as an entrance for the tent, inside was a chest on a rock pedestal and baskets on the ground, followed by the wails of infants. As I approached the baskets I saw small little green goblins turning around on their stomach and back on a ragged cloth, around 4 and in the next I saw the same. "There's no need to appraise, I already know what they are" As the cloths of the basket dripped with blood and the wails soon fell silent. [2 levels acquired] What I saw was left was the chest. As I opened it all I could see was a small pile of scales, gray and rough, the other side was smooth and slippery. "Appraise" [Scales of a lesser weaker wyrm, quality poor, can be used to make equipment] "Now how'd a bunch of scrawny weak goblins get their hands on this? Though, maybe it's not all that rare? Maybe they just attacked some thing that already was carrying these?" I picked the scales up as they fell out of the holes between my fingers and clicked against each other and on the chest as they fell back down.
"So what could I possibly do with these? It's a material right? Well I don't have any sort of crafting skill... It's part of a monster, could I eat this..? No it'd rip my mouth open, so what do I do with this?! I have no way of carrying it, I don't exactly have pockets. I can't use it since I don't have anything or know how to craft... Eating it is risky... The goblins didn't eat it so..... Well goblins don't exactly have any skills to gain from eating scales.. but I have Scales, so maybe. It's too sharp and big, it'd rip my throat a new one if I tried... Alkaid" I feel the cold, but I'm already used to it as the scale slowly starts to freeze, I hear the silent pops of the ice freezing the scale solid, I swiftly put it into my mouth and crunch down.
Snnaap
I feel it slowly crumbling apart in my mouth, despite being frozen it's still hard, I feel it snapping more and more, the cold ridged scale against my teeth, until it finally snaps it half, but it's still too sharp, I have to grind it into a mush, as my mouth cold from Alkaid, the scale doesn't have a chance too cool as it snaps, and snaps, and finally I swallow it down. "Alkaid" I feel the coldness retreat down into my body with the scale as I finally feel like I've digested it
[Scales has acquired 7 levels] [Scales has met the conditions to evolve into "Tin Scales"] [Tin scales acquired]
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| Name: Nameless Race: Half-Kobold Level: 16/20 Title: None | | Hp:23/27 Mp:7/7 Sp:26/34 |
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| STR: 28 VIT:24 INT: 11 WIS:12 SPD: 22 DEF:21 |
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| Skills |
| 7 stars:LV 1/7 Darkvision:LV 22/50 Tin Scales:LV 5/25 Appraisal:LV 4/10 |
| Alkaid:LV 6/70 Cold resistance:LV 17/100 |
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[Tin Scales, reduces damage taken by 0.4 and magic damage by 0.4] "Is the system getting used to me already? I didn't even have to say anything and it did everything for me! So Tin Scales? At the max level it's gonna reduce all damage by 10%? Man... whoever is in charge must love reptiles or something because this is amazing.. I still have a lot of scales left to eat... Well it's not a time to stop! Alkaid!" Snaaap...pop...crack...snnnap..cccrrrack... As the frozen scales went down into my body I felt the scales around my body grow lighter and more flexible
[Tin scales has acquired 6 levels] [Tin scales has acquired 5 levels] [Tin scales has acquired 5 levels] [Tin scales has acquired 4 levels] [Tin Scales has met the conditions to evolve into "Copper scales"] [Copper Scales has acquired 3 levels] [Nameless has acquired "Draconic" from eating a form of dragon and acquired the necessary strength to proceed]
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| Name: Nameless Race:Draconic Half-Kobold Level: 16/20 Title: None | | Hp:19/27 Mp:7/7 Sp:19/34 |
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| STR: 31 VIT:27 INT: 11 WIS:14 SPD: 28 DEF:33 |
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| Skills |
| 7 stars:LV 1/7 Darkvision:LV 22/50 Copper Scales:LV 3/30 Appraisal:LV 4/10 |
| Alkaid:LV 6/70 Cold resistance:LV 17/100 Draconic:LV 1/1 |
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[Draconic, a buff given to those who possess the potential to become a dragon]
[Draconic has allowed "Dragon born" to be an evolution option]
[Copper scales, reduces magical and physical damage by 0.5]
"A-A-aaauuuugggghhh??? W-What the hell is all THIS!?! Have I been blessed by whatever gods live in this world?!" As I collapsed to my knees in shock and hope I heard something, shuffling and the confused but much heavier grunts of a goblin as I got up, the chest frozen to the small rock pedestal and the ice around me I jumped out the entrance to a large goblin, no this wasn't a goblin, it has much grayer skin, a taller hulking figure, a large club and a small little hat. "Appraise"
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| Name: Nameless Race: Hobgoblin Level: 18/30 Title:None | | Hp:33/33 Mp:3/3 Sp:30/32 |
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| STR: 36 VIT:32 INT: 7 WIS:5 SPD: 12 DEF:19 |
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| Skills |
| Darkvision:LV 19/50 Strength:LV 18/100 Commander:LV 12/20 Intimadate:LV 3/15 |
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"Oh...shi-"