VOLUME 1 EGG BREAKING
Part 1 Not a Good Start
He woke up feeling disoriented.
He did not know where he was, what he is doing in this place and the most important, who he is.
Then, he asked because he had a well-developed brain that is functioning and does what a normal brain does, ASKS.
He was in a very dark place and he noticed that his body is curling and floating in a viscous fluid inside a cocoon.
Then, in a sudden a light pop-up in front of him and formed an area with neon color floating text.
Interface
NAME: Qing
RACE: Reptilia (Zuma)
FACULTY
-|+ (1) Cognizance
-|+ (4) Polymorph
-|+ (1) Crystallization
-|+ (1) Soul Forge
-|+ (5) Door
Faculty Points: 5
He did not know what it is.
He was wondering why in a sudden it appears in front of him.
Curiosity irks him.
He tried touching it but he cannot touch it and it would not disappear no matter what he did. It kept on being in front of him no matter where he turns his head.
That is, why he kept on staring it for a longer time because that is the only thing he could do about it.
After time had passed he realized something or his mind began to work and he was able to know what is in front of him.
He was able to read the text on the interface.
“INTERFACE”
He read it aloud inside his head, realizing that his mouth could not speak as viscous fluid submerged him. As he read the first word, the light disappear.
“Where did it go? I read it and it vanished, what happened?”
He asked, “Interface?”
He says it again and the light glows back; the interface appears in front of his face.
He then discovered how to make it appear and disappear.
Reading the interface, he can see his name.
It shows up as Qing but that name does not sound familiar to him. He also read that his race is a Reptilia (Zuma) and he lacks idea what it means.
Staring at the interface he noticed the five faculties and faculty five points. Beside each faculty is a “+” and “-“ sign.
He wondered about the nature of each faculty. His brain only told him some meaning of the few things he had read but not about the faculties.
He also wonders how to choose from his faculties or what the sign plus and minus does
He moved his attention to the floating screen with the “+” sign. He imagined himself clicking since he cannot use his hands on the interface.
He focused on the direct appraisal faculty, the faculty point becomes Four. When, he clicked on the “-“ sign the faculty points returns to five.
Clicking the “+” on the Polymorph the faculty point becomes one.
Clicking the “+” on the Door all faculties available and his faculty points became zero.
He observed that the number before each faculty means the points needed to click the "+" sign.
He also observed that there is more text beside each faculty after he clicked on the “+” sign. Clicking it a word “max” or a number would appear.
Interface
NAME: Qing
RACE: Reptilia (Zuma)
FACULTY
-|+ (1) Cognizance
(Max)
-|+ (4) Polymorph
-|+ (1) Crystallization
(x64)
-|+ (1) Soul Forge
(x64)
-|+ (5) Door
Faculty Points
0
When he clicked on the plus sign beside the crystallization faculty the number thirty two appeared.
He clicked again the “+” sign the number changed from x32 to x64.
He clicked the “-” sign on the same faculty and it returns to x32 again.
The number on his soul forge faculty behaves the same as the crystallization faculty.
He just had to choose among his faculties. As long as he got the faculty points needed.
He can keep on clicking the plus sign to increase the number until the word max appeared.
He wonders if there is a way to increase his faculty points or if it is a fixed value.
There is no description on what these faculties are and how to use them but he had an idea reserve in his mind.
He put faculty points to polymorph and the remaining points to cognizance faculty.
The cogs of his mind begin to work again. It gave him an idea about his polymorph faculty. With it he can simultaneously transform his head, arms, legs, body, and appendages or only a part or two of his body.
He wonders what appendages means.
Since he was confident enough about his idea on polymorph faculty that he can activate it by will.
His curiosity kicks in; he experimented on his polymorph faculty. He activated it by speaking the word "polymorph" inside his head. He then observed that the viscous liquid is being absorbed by his skin like a sponge, entering his body.
He felt more incredible and stronger.
His skin gets harder and thicker. Since he could not see anything he just felt it.
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Extending his limbs and he found out that he was breaking something.
It was the wall, the membrane or the shell around him that separates him from the outside.
Whatever the outside may give him, this makes him excited.
He is finally coming out. He is breaking free he told himself.
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The event may sound short but the things happening inside the egg happened for a very long time. Because the egg itself had its own adventure since it comes to existence.
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No one knows where the egg comes from, it's just happened show on its own a very big shiny egg.
Of course its shape is like an egg , it is big, it is black, it is very hard, harder than a diamond.
It is a shiny black egg, at first.
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In the beginning there is only a single village for all reptilian race.
The village of the remnant race that is almost hunted to extinction by human race.
They are the survivors that cower themselves into hiding.
This is a sentient race of intelligence that evolve from the snakes and lizards. They believe to be cold-blooded when they fight with their foe and they can live in every kind of environment. That is the reason why the humans fear them.
In this single village starts the creation of the Queendom of Reptilia.
The village is led by a Lamia. Lamia is a variant of a Reptilian Race which have an upper body of a human but its lower body from the waist below is of a snake. They are the most hunted variants among the Reptilian Race.
That is why there is only one Lamia left in this village.
The Lamia became the leader because she is the oldest, wisest and strongest. She is the one who lead the exodus.
This Lamia's very first decree is to make a central hatching den.
All female reptiles who would lay egg should lay an egg in the central hatching den.
All should offer their offspring to the Lamia leader no matter what or who.
There should no one who would own an egg. A parent is not needed to every hatchling.
Every hatchling should serve the leader and in turn serve the village.
The village is in copulation frenzy because the leader required it to everyone. The goal is to reproduce more snakeman and lizardman.
Within a short period of time the village population increase so much. The village cannot sustain everyone.
The Lamia ordered an expedition to scatter in four directions.
The expedition's task is to find a habitable place to form another village.
With the scattered villages turns into a town then into a city. The central village or the original village became the Capital City the Queendom .
The DECREE of having a central hatching nest for every village is still followed.
These villages founded by the explorers became a den of each reptilian variant.
Only a few villages had different reptilian variants and it is rule by the strongest reptile.
Each village turns bigger and their population increases exponentially. There comes a time that a reptilian dens becomes larger and dens turns into clans. Its leader rebel against the queen. Their leader think that their population and strength is enough to go against the queen.
They build their own force who will then be against the queen. They don't want the Lamia Variant to lead them they want their own variant to lead the Snakeman race.
Their rebellion against the queen gains moral when they are able to defeat the forces sent by the queen. They grow conceited and they try to conquer other village and try to control other dens.
Until such a time they grow big enough and the Queen gets fed up by them and she personally confronted the rebels
It makes the rebel happy because they believe that they could defeat the Queen. This confrontation would make them realized their dream to rule the Reptilian Race.
The queen thwarted the rebels within a day.
She only executed the leaders and never annihilated the rebels.
It is her goal to multiply the race not reduced them.
This event starts the founding of many secret groups. They are not satisfied with the queen but they can only scheme and plot against their monarch.
It is the start of the assassination era. The era where there is always assassination happening everywhere in the Queendom.
It is a time even the Queen is not exempted in assassination attempt but every assassin turn up dead. No assassin ever succeeded, with this it shows how powerful the queen is.
At that time everyone is wondering why the queen is so powerful.
The queen made the laws for the Reptilian Quendom and she is the LAW.
~<--------(^_^)-------->~
It was believed that the egg was found thousands years ago by the ancestor of a Clan Imoogi.
The ancestors don’t know whose egg it was. They found it after the great catastrophe hit the Queendom.
There was a major earthquake that terra-form the land. This made the valleys, hills, and mountains.
There was typhoons and floods which made rivers and lakes
Then a rain of fire which made the desert in the west of the Quendom.
Before this catastrophe the Queendom is a big forest land.
The egg that the Imoogi ancestors found is much bigger than a normal egg of a Snakeman. It is three times more than the average.
And its egg shell is harder than diamonds.
At first, they believed it to be an egg of a dragon and they consider having the egg in secret. They are hoping to raise a dragon. They dreamed of ruling the land with the help of the dragon.
Their dream never came true. The problem is not about raising a dragon but hatching the egg.
It has been generations after generations but still nothing happen on the egg. They never found any progress on their effort to hatch the egg. Until their beliefs dwindle in time they disregard it.
After a certain hundred of years the clan forget about it. Some wonder why is it around. They start to believe that it is only a big chunk of rock that serve as a decoration. Some tried to break it but they no one knew how. Some tried to become a blacksmith or hire a blacksmith to process it as they consider into some kind of ore. They believed that they can make something out of it but they for no matter what they had done they still failed.
The Captain even believed that he was given a "big trash" by his senile grandfather. Out of his respect for his grandfather he considered it to be a memento. His grandfather died as soon as he accepted the egg that is the only reason why he accepted on keeping it.
No one in the family would accept it because it is a big waste of space and it diminished the beauty of the surrounding. The egg became dull, ugly, and ominous as time pass.
The Captain brought it to the place where his station is.
He placed it together with the eggs in a central hatching den
~<____________(^_^)____________>~
Blinding light charged in front of his eyes which made him see white all over, together with an aching head.
When he woke up he found out that his sight is not that clear. There are glowing spheres in each corner of the room. These spheres serve as light source in the room, giving him a blinding illumination.
He found out that he had sucked some air and the need to release them.
"I’m breathing. I can feel the air moving, rushing through me, through my lungs. It feels like that should have come first, before I woke up. Have I been holding my breath all this time?”, he talked to himself.
"Hello!” he shouted.
Then, he smiled because he found out that he can talk.
He wasn’t sure if the words are comprehensible or maybe, he is just happy because sounds came out from his mouth.
No one answered but he heard noises from the outside the room.
“Ears are working.” he muttered.
He sat up from lying down and tried standing and he was able to stand up.
"What happened?
I was inside on something that is a dark place but now I am outside.
What did I do?" he asked.
And then he remembered.
"I activated the Faculty Polymorph."
As he spoke he felt that something change from his body. He also felt that everything from his surrounding is rushing towards him. He felt his head is going to explode and then he lost his consciousness.
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After a certain time.
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"What happened? Again!" He wonders why he passed out.
"Maybe, it is because of the faculty that I had activated. Which give a shock to my mental capacity", he hypothesized
"Huh?, Why did I know of this? What is that faculty do? I thought I was back into that dark place again."
To test his theory he activated his Polymorph gain and then he saw stars again.
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With an exploding headache and an agonizing muscle pain He woke up with a conclusion.
"I swear I will not do that again. What is this? What is happening right now?"
He found himself so hungry and it the very first time he felt the hunger. Hunger so unbearable that all he could think is to get relive from it. He is so hungry that hunger made his eyes focused so that he could see better.
He looked around and he could see the shells where he came from. And what happened next is that two python heads moves so fast to munch on the scattered debris of his egg shells. He discovered that the pythons are connected to each of his shoulder blades.
His hands then moved so fast to grab some to put it in his mouth.
He was so hungry. Together with the two pythons he kept on devouring his shells until there is no more leftover.
He felt so hungry that he hated being outside from the place he was before. This the first thing he did not want hunger.
He felt that he is still hungry and discovered that something surrounded. He didn't know what are these things until he broke the one he picks and he found out that they were eggs.
Without any thought at all this python heads devour this eggs one by one.
He also took the broken egg towards his mouth and he sipped and drank the liquid and bite on the shells.
He heard some sound but he did not mind it because he was so busy devouring the surrounding eggs.
He did not know that someone came inside the room he was in.
~<--------(^_^)-------->~
A guard come in to check on the eggs if some had hatched for that day. This guard found out something. And this something is doing something opposite of the guard's duty which is to watch over the eggs.
This guard looks humanoid with a head of a giant boa. Its body is cover in snake scales and its has claws on four of its limbs. The spear and the claws are its weapon and its scales is its armor
He shouted to stop this something at first but it never listened. It never stopped from consuming the eggs.
He kicked this something to move it away from what it is devouring. Right away this something bounced from the wall and angry because it was disturbed from its meal. Thus, it tried to attack him back.
He the guard was so surprise and he stabbed it with his spear on the abdomen.
This something look at him with a lot of question on his and once again he found his world turning black again.
"Oh, fudge! It's a hatcling. Fudge! Is it dead?"
~<_______________(^_^)_______________>~
“Hiss, hiss..hisss..”
A giant snake with hood in front of him is hissing when Qing woke up. It is like Giant cobra is standing in front of him hissing as if trying to say something.
Looking down at him and poking with its tail.
"Hiss, you're finally awake! I said"
Qing don't understand all he could hear is hiss sound.
"Oh yeah! you still could not understand me."
The giant cobra made a bite on a part of its body that is on the ground. Squeezed the wound with its tail so that blood would come out and it made the hatchling's head closer to drink.
"Alright here take a sip." The hatchling follows and take a drink of the snakes blood.
"Now can you understand me?"
The hatchling nod.
"Try to say something, to check if I could also understand you?'
"Hello?"
"You are a Snakeman alright, Since we could understand each other. By the way I am the captain."
“After waiting for five hours,” he continued. “I thought you are one of those detestable humans from the legends but I was wrong until I see your appendages. That is why I give my blood to you so that we could understand each other.”
“What appendages?” he asks weakly.
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