It has been 20 days after the event, the hogs who were simple creatures easily adapted to their new lifestyles. They worked hard and assisted one another in creating an environment where they can have food, water and a sense of security.
But peaceful days are only a seasoning of life and the world that they are living is a big cauldron that holds them as they are being cooked slowly in the fires of fate.
TING!
ASSIMILATION PERIOD COMPLETE
INTEGRATING THE NATIVE LAWS WITH LAWS OF F*&÷×#^N
UPDATING #1224 WORLD DATABASE
WAITING RESPONSE FROM THE SERVER...
As we are celebrating the completion of our defense fortification. The time has stopped ticking and all things and beings no matter what they are, stopped breathing even the fallen leaves and the river flow has stopped. The sun and clouds stilled as a foreign yet familiar feeling aroused within me. This feeling is what I felt during the 'event', an unexplainable feeling, an itch that you can never itch kind of feeling.
TING!
SYSTEM SCANNING - COMPLETE
EVALUATING RACE SCORE AND STATISTICS
RACE RANKING (TENTATIVE)
1. DRAGONS
2. HUMANS
3. ELFS
4. DWARFS
5. GOBLINS
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54. TIGERS
55. ELEPHANTS
56. BULLS
57. CONSTRICTORS
58. SHARKS
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194. HOGS
195. DEERS
196. SHEEP
197. LLAMAS
198. GOATS
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555. RABBITS
556. MOLES
557. BADGERS
558. OTTERS
559. RATS
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998. ANTS
999. CLAMS
1000. STARFISHES
BEEP
BEEP
SCHEDULE FOR THE NEXT SCAN:
360 days
BEEP
RANKING LIMIT FOR THE NEXT SCAN:
500 SPOTS
BEEP
WARNING:
UNRANKED RACE WILL RECEIVE SENTIENCE REMOVAL
BEEP
INITIATING REWARDS DISTRIBUTION
TING!
REWARDS:
RANK 1-200
+ Racial Trait
+ Patron God
+ Race Mutation (2)
+ Improved acquisitions (Skill and Stat)
RANK 201-500
+ Racial Trait
+ Patron God
+ Race Mutation (1)
RANK 501-1000
+ Racial Trait
+ Patron God
The information was too much, it made my pig brain cramp. There are many things that I did not understand, from the word "System" until the word "God". As I looked around it seems everyone was having a hard time too. 'I need to understand and analyze this 'event message,' is what I thought inwardly.
The useful Fig came to me and clarify things about that "System Notification". Though I get the important parts, I certainly still don't get the things called Gods and System, not that I'm stupid or something its just that Fig's analyze skill is low so don't blame me. He informed me that Gods are powerful beings that us 'mortals' must revere.
"I don't get it, never seen them and why are we called mortals anyway?" I asked Fig in a half-believing, half-doubting tone.
Of course, Fig can't answer that. So we just brush that aside and talk about other things like - REWARD.
"REWARD".
REWARDS:
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+ Racial Trait
+ Patron God
+ Race Mutation (2)
+ Improved acquisitions (Skill and Stat)
Fig said that 'Racial Traits' are special abilities or powers granted to an individual based on its race.
"RACIAL TRAIT".
RACIAL TRAIT OPTIONS AVAILABLE:
1. SOLID SNOUT - Improves snouts. making them comparable to steel.
2. PIG EARS OF THE WIND - Improves ears. enhances hearing making wind whispers audible.
3. SMELL-FOCUSED-SNOUT - Improves nose. making noses bigger that can capture the faintest scent.
4. SPEAR-TAIL - Improves tail. Adds a spear at the end of the tail. The tail can now shoot and retract.
I personally want our 'Trait' to be 'Solid Snout', but even as the Chief, I cannot be selfish here so I talked about it with Fig. He said that this 'Trait' thing is VERY important to us because this decision may change our lives forever. He also said that there is a chance that our race name will change after picking one of those. He also said that we never know how this will affect the other hogs who are currently not here with us and many other reasons. I admit that this hog is smart but he thinks too much. We gathered all the members of the 'horde' for a meeting.
Well, Fig was right. This decision will change our lives forever.
NAME: FIG RUBBERNECK TITLE: MULTILINGUIST RACE: (HOGS) SPEAR-TAIL HOGS SKILLS: SKILLS: INSPECT, BASH, CALM, BEMUSE, ANALYZE, IMPALE
HP: 1120
MP: 240
STA: 330
STR: 20
INT: 25
AGI: 45
END: 10
WIS: 35
VIT: 20
PER: 30
LV. 7
ATK: 60-70
DEF: 15
M-ATK: 12.5
RES: 5
I don't know if I should be happy with this or sad. There are just way too many things that changed, the most eye catching is the race name. There are also changes in my stats, there was a huge drop and also major increases. A skill was given as well. To simplify things I got an increase in HP, a decrease in MP and a major boost in stats, especially in AGI stat.
"IMPALE". I cast my new skill and my latest feature which is the SPEAR-TAIL, it struck a wriggling rootworm. It hit and impaled the poor worm. I controlled my tail towards my mouth and swallowed the worm, whole. The tail which was way too long compared to the previous one was rather easy to use even though it was only there just a while ago.
The Chief and the horde decided that the best option would be the Spear-Tail. As to why the horde decided that. Having a shooting and retracting tail will become handy in many cases and in terms of usability, it is the best among the rest since we lack ways to attack long range, even though Solid Snout can increase our attack and defense power. We still need to go close quarters in order for it to be useful. Though the PIG EARS OF THE WIND and SMELL-FOCUSED-SNOUT are good too, in the end of the day they are just support skills. There are already hogs that have the smell and hearing skills so we really don't need every member of the horde to have superior hearing and smell. Though having them is an advantage, we can only choose one trait and Spear-Tail is what we really need right now.
Having been informed that there are many races that can potentially become our enemies, the Chief and the horde decided to arm ourselves. Making the final decision to have spear-tails.