If egg is broken by outside force, life ends, if broken by inside force, life begins.
Great things always begin from inside.
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Well, that was anticlimatic, did they, or it really just spawn a fucking black hole, an interstellar object that was known as the 'destroyer of worlds' by some. I mean, it is an effective method sure, but it was fucking uncomfortable one as well.
And do you want to know where I am? Well, to be honest, I don't fucking know. I know I am in some sort of a body, or by the language of thee, 'the vessel of flesh and blood'. I also know that I am surrounded, or better described, enveloped in some sort of liquid.
That means two things, one, this thing, which I will call a system, because I have no other words to describe it, either lied to me, and I was reincarnated as a living lab rat, in some sort of a lab that was built by the natives of this world named Mirari. Maybe I am the experiment of Itsasoa Union, which, if successfull, will destroy all of it's enemies.
Or the system was telling the truth, and I was really reincarnated as a dragon/snake-like hybrid, and I am currently residing in an egg, slowly developing my body.
'Hmmm, I am suprised there is no system messages yet, do I have to say 'next' for it to appear? I mean, I was reincarnated, surely this is not the last time I will see the good ol' Flo, right?' If I am being honest, deep inside, unknowingly, I was scared it dissapeared forever. I really liked it, even though the ones behind it, or whatever concept is behind it, left me stranded in the Great Abyss for more than 18 years.
But it is of importance now, because I am alive, once again.
'Sooo... 'Next...?' I said, to which multiple floating windows appeared.
Reincarnation
You have successfully reincarnated !
As decided, you have been reincarnated into a baby body of 'Draco ex Equilibrium' species, in a world named Mirari.
You are still in a egg, which means your body is not developed completely, yet. Give it some time, and your body will soon be ready to break out of the egg. Your new life will begin right there and then.
We wish you good luck
Reincarnation
Due to fusion of two completely different species, the following characteristics, abilities, affinities and body parts have been lost/failed to fuse.
1. Entire body structure of Anguix ex Lumine, excluding the eyes and teeth, which both fused with the Tenebris Draco's eyes and teeth.
2. Light Magic affinity has decreased from LVL 10 to LVL 6
3. The scales of Anguix ex Lumine managed to fuse with scales of Tenebris Draco with 5% efficiency, which in turn increased the durability of your new scales up to 5%, losing 95% increase during the fusion process.
4. Dark Magic Affinity has decreased from LVL 10 to LVL 9.
Nothing else has been lost during the process.
'Hmm... It seems I am in the egg after all, like I didn't know that, but this just confirmed it... Urgh, where do I start with this?'
'... Well, if I am reading this correctly, my body should be of almost same structures as a dragon, since I only inherited and fused the snake's eyes and teeth? Except for that, I should still be mostly dragon.'
'Now that I think about it... the species's name has dragon in it, so obviously I must look like a drsgon, right? Maybe this is what I automatically lost due to species name? Well, can't compain, I would look weird with snake body, dragon head, and wings. Definitely an another word abomination.'
'And about those... affinities, they just confirmed that magic is indeed in existence in Mirari, although if I analyze the wording here... I may only have the affinities, not the mastery of that magic branch itself. Which means I will need to learn them naturally, and that will be hard without any books, manuscripts, guides or whatever. Although the high level of those affinities should help with the learing speed, but who knows?'
'My durability has also increased, which is certanly good, even though it's only 5% increase, those 5% may dave my life one day.'
'In any case, that's only two screens gone, there are more to see.'
'Next.'
Reincarnation
Due to you having reincarnated into your next life, in an unknown world, with many possible dangers, you have been gifted with 1 expendable point.
Expendable points are digital currency used to enchance a certain part of your body. Every being at birth will have '0' points in every stat and every part of their body (eyes, mouth, nose, limbs etc...) You can use those points to increase the specific stat that is related to that part of the body. Stats can be only increased by investing points in that part of the body (A point in Eyes or Nose can increase your Perception stat etc...)
Your future stats can be seen in your "status', along with everything else that is needed to be known. The stats shown are those when you are ready to break out of your egg, hence they will be your future stats
Good luck.
Reincarnation
Time left before you can break out of your egg.
000 : 001 : 000 : 000
'So it seems there is one month worth of time before I can break out of the egg in one month... Hmph, that is nothing, I survived 18 years or pure torture back there, so this is nothing for me. One month will pass in a snap of a finger, or fang for that matter.'
'Anyway, this thing mentioned my stats, and that if I look at them now, I will see my future stats when I break out...'
'Why am I so scared, I just need to say it...'
'...Status...'
Name: William
Age: NONE
Status: Normal, Developing
Titles: NONE
Health: 90%
Stamina: 5%
Mana: 10%
Status Points:1
Strength: 0
Endurance: 0
Speed: 0
Perception: 0
'Alright, first of all, those stats are insultingly low, second of all, what the hell is wrong with my health, stamina and mana? Shouldn't this be in numerical values, like health is 100 etc... but all I get are percentages... Well, now that I think about it, those are pretty much the same thing, yet different package...' I also quickly noticed that there is a second screen showing me other stuff.
Body Parts
Status Points: 1
Brain
0 (+)
Eyes
0 (+)
Nose
0 (+)
Mouth
0 (+)
Ears
0 (+)
Limbs
0 (+)
Body
0 (+)
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Organs
0 (+)
'Uhhhh... This now got more complicated... I mean, the UI is simple and all, which I like, but what stat could I gain from boosting organs and such? I can see the stats that exist can be gained from all of those options, but the "Organs" are complicated... Do I gain everything or do I gain nothing in stats when I upgrade my organs?'
'Well, I will learn everything regarding that in due time. Onto the next screen.'
Abilities/Resistances/Affinities Abilities/Resistances/Affinities Description
The All-Seeing Eyes LVL 1
[ Unique Tier ]
Increases your Visual Perception, your sight is sharpened, you gain Mana Vision (LVL 1), Heat Vision (LVL 1), X-Ray Vision (LVL 1), Night Vision (LVL 1). Each can be activated and deactivated at will
Poison Bite LVL 1
[ Low Tier ]
You produce paralysis posion inside your mouth, which let's you posion your enemies upon biting them with your teeth, which are enveloped in poison that weakens your enemies perception, along with the paralysis poison. Automatically gives you Poison Immunity (LVL 2) so you don't posion yourself
Claw Swipe LVL 1
[ Low Tier ]
Let's you swipe your sharp fangs at your opponents with more speed than normal.
Dark Magic Affinity LVL 9 [-1]
[ Epic Tier ]
Makes your learning and understanding of any Dark Magic Arts and spells easier and faster by 90%.
Light Magic Affinity LVL 6 [-4]
[ High Tier ]
Makes your learning and understanding of any Light Magic Arts and spells easier by 60%
Drak Dragon Scales LVL 2 [+1]
[ Low-Middle Tier ]
Your Drsgon Scales are hard, not easy to break through, they are the proud parts of the dragon. Increases durability of your scales by 5% per LVL (10%)
Posion Immunity LVL 2 [+2]
[ Low Tier ]
You have endured through many things, but you seem you have expecially endured many posions that damaged you through your life. Decreases the efficiency of any poisons that are inflicted to you by your own enemies by 20%. Does not include self-made posions.
'...Ha...Haha... It seems... it is not so bad as I thought... I mean, I can't breath fire, at least not yet, but I should also be able to fly, if wings even develop when I am a baby dragon. Even if they do not develop right away, as I grow as a Dragon, they will surely.
'Magic Affinities were as I expected, although they do give some huge bonuses if they are high in LVL. It also seems the quality, or Tier of the ability is determined by it's rarity, what is the effect of that ability and the LVL of that ability. For example, my Eye ability, which is fucking overpowered, no question about that, is Unique Tier, which means I am the only onle that has it, or that is what the definition of Unique was on Earth. I shouldn't be using Earth's values and Earth's definition of normal...'
'...This is a new world, a world which is surely in some aspects different than Earth at least. I am in unknown territory, and I will do everything I can so I survive, even if it means killing. I don't care about others right now, the only important fact is that right now, I am alone and weak, which means I need to become strong...'
'And I will do whatever it takes... to survive...'
'Back to the topic, I also got Posion Resistance due to unique nature of my body, which produces a variety of posions in my mouth. Can't complain, that may be a saving grace against some enemy who specializes in poisons.'
'Rest of the skills are what you would expect, you can swipe your fangs, you can bite bla bla bla... Nost of them are someehat normal if you exclude my Eye skill, which lets me activate and deactivate any vision skill within this skill at will. Thank god It's not forcing me to have al lof them activated at the same time, it would be a fucking nightmare to orient around.'
'And... that is it for the screens it seems. I will test the system and it's capabilities when I break out soon... What to do now? Do I sleep?'
'Alright... I will sleep then... I hope I wake up before I need break out...'
Then I fell asleep, inside an egg.
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In an underground cave, just below the surface, there was a rabbit-like creature with demonic horns and vampiric teeth. It was gray, with green eyes that showed eternal desire for eating. The collectively accepted name of this species across Argia by scientists was Viridi Sanguinem Leporis, or Viridi rabbits by uneducated ones.
Right now, it was doing it's usual business, looking around the dark cave with it's green eyes that enchances the rabbit's vision in the dark.
Some time has passed, and it still hasn't found it's new prey, to eat on it, to mangle on it, to satisfy it's everlasting hunger. As it moved around without any regard where it moved, it suddenly ecountered an pure black, egg-like object laying in a secluded part of this system of caves.
It looked at it confusingly, since it never saw anything like this before. But the hunger quickly returned, making the creature slowly but surely reaching the object.
It started looking at it very carefully, making sure it was not one of those creatures. When it got it's confirmation, it starter scratching the object with it's fangs in quick succession, but found out it's actions didn't even leave a scratch on the object. Not a single one.
Angry at it's unsuccessfull attempt, it started attacking it again with it's fangs even faster, and after a while, it started punching, kicking, and even biting into the object, but the object never even budged, let alone damaging it.
It started moving faster and faster, unyil it got tired and stopped very close to the egg. As he closed it's eyes for a second due to slight fatigue, it heard a cracking sound, along with noticing a hand that stabbed through the creature's torso.
Congratulations, you have died.
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2 minutes before
'Urgh, what the fuck is that noise.' I cursed inside my mind, quickly making a deduction that someone, or something was scratching my egg. Quickly after, it started punching, kicking and who knows what he did to that egg.
'Urgh, it seems I have 1 minute before I need to break out of this egg, and look at my luck, something is trying to kill me, and possibly eat ne. It seems it is moving fast, with it's attscks occuring in quick succession. Sadly, that's what I can deduce from the noise made. My new eyes does not give me 'see through walls' vision, sadly.'
'The least I can hope for is that I catch it as I break out of the egg, but that may be hard considering how fast this thing is. I either do that, or this creature suddenly stops, probably due to it being tired, and that is when I strike back.'
'Hmmm, but I will probably need a skill to do that, and I have one that may help, but how do I activate it? Do I just think of it?'
Immediately after, I thought about using the skill, and I felt some weird sensation around my hand. 'Is this mana?' I thought, but there was not much time left, because the timer on the screen finally reached zero, just as the creature outside my egg stopped it's frenzy on my egg.
'Prepare yourself, motherfucked. You touch no egg that I am in !!' I inwardly shout as I move my claw fastly towards the creature.
As my claws break the egg easily, it quickly moved towards the creature. It stabbed through it's body, killing it.
Extremination !
Congratulations, you have killed Viridi Sanguinem Leporis.
Parts of the body improve :
Ears (+0.2)
Limbs (+0.1)
Expendable points (+0.1)
'What !?' I mentally say, suprised on how easy it was to kill this creature, with a weird name, latin I presume, or maybe a similar language? Anyway, I killed this thing, and I don't even know what it looks like, since Most if my body is still in the egg, except my right claw.
'It also seems that I gained "points" in mentioned body parts? So, since I used my ears to track the creature, and I also used my right claw to land the first, and finish blow. I gained 0.2 points in "Ears" category, and that is okay I guess, for "Limbs", it's only 0.1, but I guess I only used my right claw, which explains the low amount, plus it landed a killing blow, if it didn't, who knows if I would get the points at all.'
'I also got 0.1 expendable points added in my grand total of 1, which results in 1.1 points... Status...'
Body Parts
Status Points: 1.1
Brain
0 (+)
Eyes
0 (+)
Nose
0 (+)
Mouth
0 (+)
Ears
0.2 (+)
Limbs
0.1 (+)
Body
0 (+)
Organs
0 (+)
'... It seems the points updated immediately. I got the exact amount as I was told. Anyway, time to get out of this egg.'
As I said that, my whole body broke through, leaving the top part of the egg in shatters. As expected, it was dark as it can get, so I activated the Night Vision ability of my eyes and found out that I am in a cave, or precisely, in one of the rooms that this cave may have, since I see the exit right ahead of me.
I then look at the creature that I killed, and it seems to be a hybrid of a rabbit, a demon and a vampire, with it's horns on it's head, huge teeth and... green eyes? Then I notice the open torso of the unfortunate creature. I can see the guts inside, and many other abnormal organs that I am not able to recognize.
Immediately, I felt unease in my body and vomited. Although there wasn't much of it, because I was just technically "born".
"Uh... uh... uh..." Were the first sounds that I made in my new life.
'...Calm down William. You must calm down...'
'YOU MUST CALM DOWN FUCKING DAMNIT... It would've killed you without a second thought... This is your reality. Yes... this is your reality now... So... calm down... and fucking look...' I told myself multiple times in a span of 5 minutes. Finally, I looked at the creature, laying therez looking the celling of this cave.
'This is your... reality now...'
I activated my Heat Vision, jist to make sure this thing is dead, and sure enought, it was dead. It's body cold, but not colder than the cave around us.
And that was, when I noticed that it was unbelivably cold. Like, really cold.
'This is no mere -5°C. This is fucking -20°C ! Where am I? Closer to the poles? In the northern hemisphere of the planet?' I asked myself, sensing the coldness increasing ever so slightly in my Heat Vision. I quickly deactivated it, because if I left it activated, it would only add to my anxiety I am feeling right now.
Sometime has passed, and I was sitting on the ground. I have learned some things. First, my fear has come to pass, and I can look at the body of the rabbit-like creature, without vomiting and looking away. Second, if this rabbit is the size of a normal rabbit on Earth, then my baby body would be the size of a slightly larger dog. Nowhere near the body size of a tiger as I expected, but oh well. Can't gain everything you wish for.
Third, it seems that the mana from this creature is dissapearing somewhere. I don't know where, I just know it does. And I even activated Mana Vision, but I still couldn't see where it did go. First time, I felt it dissapear gradually, then I looked, and it still is dissapearing. Also, the color of mana... is gray-ish? It's the inoy eay I can describe it. It feels, and looks like it is devoid of any color.
Fourth, and final point, the body of the creature... does not rot... I don't know the reason behind this... Maybe here bodies do not rot, maybe it is because of the temperature? I mean, it's still bleeding from that wound, the blood... is a mixture of blue and yellow, resulting in green markings in blood...
'Quite interesting creature... If this is common, then I ca-'
*Rumble*
'...Do I really need to...?'
*Rumble*
'... Okay... you can do this... you can...' I thought to myself, as I moved towards the body. I stood there with my four limbs, looking at the body with uncertainty in my eyes. Then, I closed them. Mentally chanting in my head.
'You can do this... you can do this... you can...'
'...What are you waiting for William? You will die if you wait. You will die if you don't... eat...'
'Eat... Eat... EAT... EAT YOU FUCKING CUNT ! EAT !'
'EAT !' I screamed inwardly as I opened my mouth and quickly biten off a part of the creature' chest. Quickly swallowing it. I took another bite.
'Eat.' I ate another part of the creatures chest.
'Eat.' Then the part of it's leg.
'Eat.' Then the part of it's head.
'Eat.'
'Eat.'
EAT.'
'EATEATEATEATEATEAT.'
'Eat so you survive...'
'Eat...'
'And eat...'
'..until... you can't eat anymore...'
'Eat...'
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On the ground, in a cabe, lies a creature, currently asleep.
It is truly beautiful one. Although it is small now, it will surely grow to become extraordinary being.
It is small, at a size of a normal dog on Earth, with a little bit of fat. It has a small tail that barely extends out of the creature's body, at around 10 centimeters (0.39 inches). It is completely black in color, like it was born in darkness itself. It also has some strange extensions on it's back, with no apparent purpose. It's claws white, like they were made out of pure light from the sun.
Besides it, lies a skeletal remains of a unfortunate creature that may have been killed by the sleeping creature. It's mana long gone, and with huge cracks on the bones, this creature surely wouldn't rest in peace.
Finally, the creature opens it's eyes. They are pure yellow. They are so full of energy, yet so tired. When one looks at them, they would the most beautiful eyes ever born in Mirari, the eyes that look like they see right through your flesh and soul.
The creature finally gets up, and starts it's new journey.
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'Urgh... How long was I asleep?' I ask myself. Not getting the answer, I look around myself, noticing the skeletal remains of my unfortunate prey.
'... At least you helped me, in many ways. For that, i wish you rest in peace in the Great Abyss...'
After a minute of thinking, i finally look at my egg, the egg that brought me to this world, the one which gave a second chance at life.
Finally, I look at it for the last time, as I start to walk on my four legs towards the exit of this cave. I quickly notice that I must be deep in this cave system, but I didn't care about that at the moment.
There was only one thought in my mind, which I have been thinking about ever since I broke out of that egg.
'...How good it is to be alive...'