cook-a-doodle doo*

As the sun rose towards the sky, I and my brethren kept digging the soil near those river trees.

The mission is those root-like worms, not only are they tasty they also ease our hunger far better than those bland starbbages. It seems they are harder to find during the day since last night all of us have eaten a thing or two.

As we kept punching our snouts into the ground we unconsciously made a long zigzag trench. Since I first found the rootworm near the bank, my fellows dig for the worms near the bank as well. 

Some hogs fell into the river, but amazingly, pigs can swim so it was fine since the water current is not that strong and the river surface was rather calm.

"AUGH!"

SKILL OBTAINED

BASH - I (COMMON)

STA: 5

 Deals a heavy blow towards a target.

AF: Slight chance of stunning a target.

'shit I hit something' i withdraw my snout from the ground and watched the thing I hit.

"INSPECT!"

NAME: HOLEY MOLLY TITLE: NONE RACE: MOLE SKILL: DIG, ????, ????

HP: ??????

MP: 100

STR: ?????

INT: ?????

AGI: ?????

??????????

'OOOH ', I unconsciously gaped as I saw the status screen. This little guy actually has a name, the very fact that it had one made me excited for some reasons.

"Sorry bout that, you alright", I said as I snout-poked the 'named' little guy.

This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.

< MOLLY POV >

As I was happily digging a tunnel, looking for those tasty sleeping root-worms to bring back home. I was hit by something.

You have been STUNNED (5 secs).

AF: Unable to move, use skill and a temporary loss of consciousness.

Stat UNLOCKED

(END) - enables to resist negative effects and increases defense from magical and physical attacks.

(END) + 1

When I regained my consciousness, I heard a somewhat gibberish-language like noise, I raised my head just to see the illumination of the surface. It seems like I dug too close to the ground and was attacked by this big thing here.

'WHAAAT!' exclaimed by my inner self. I did not speak and did not move, or rather I can't since my life will be lost if I do something stupid as that. Sweat was oozing out of my velvety fur. 

From my squinting eyes, I can see it looking at me, standing still like an idiot. I was in a dilemma whether to make a run for it or continue to play dead. 

PASSIVE SKILL (ENABLED): DIPLOMACY - II

Req: Sense the presence of others.

-20 hostility from others.

AF: Allows you to understand others gesture. 

+ Slightly increases positive impression received from others.

 Then something weird happened.

< END MOLLY POV >

You are under the influence of DIPLOMACY - II

Something within me felt fluffy, the curiosity towards this little guy was alleviated. I looked at it and it was still not moving for some reasons. It seems to be that it was playing dead a natural state of paralysis that some animals enter when threatened. 

The words that I gave earlier was not understood, so I am having a hard time trying to converge my thoughts. So I tried to lower my height by laying down. I hid my front legs, more like I was kneeling while my back legs were raised, my butt as well. I wag my tail left and right to indicate that I meant no harm.

The little guy named 'Molly' seems to get it and started to move. The guy looked at me but I can still see it shivering even though I was still on my 'unhostile pose'. 

The guy nodded at me and gained a little courage as it actually came nearer. It was trying to say something but, likewise, I can't get what it was trying to say. All I can hear is 'Squishy-ish' noises that came from its snout. 

When I was about to open my mouth, a 'ting' like notification sound came.

The ****** recognized your effort and gave you it's blessing

TITLE ACQUIRED: The Multilinguist 

AF: Allows you to understand and communicate with other races. No language barrier can bar your path towards clear communication.

 A weird smile came, 'what a convenient thing' is what I thought.

"Hi there". I said. I was rearing to try it out the title effect that is.

My curiosity that was alleviated earlier rose again when I received the title. So the question and the cause of thy curiosity was the thing called NAME. I really want to know more about it, so I talked to the little guy again.

The little guy was startled. It could not believe what it heard. The big guy who was making a weird pose actually spoke to him.