Booooom!

.....

Huh, where am I?

Walking through my cracked prison, I wondered.

Minutes previously, I had crashed to the ground, falling to my death. There was a large explosion when my prison hit the ground, and I fainted right afterward. Somehow I was alive. I don't remember anything more though.

I peered my head outside and was met with what looked like some sort of forest. Though not a green one. It was red.

That is not to say that the trees themselves were red. Their branches were filled with ruby orbs, to an enormous degree. Blotting out the green trees with their size and copious amount, they illuminated the forest. And I mean literally illuminated.

They shined even more brilliantly than the sunset in the sky. Giving of their own luminesces.

(Leaving protection of the???)

A sentence entered my mind, consuming my focus with every word. No voice, just pure information. Like being forced to read a text message the moment you get a notification....Wait, what is a text message?

It sounded familiar. Certainly, I knew what it was, or at least its purpose, but where I had gotten that information from eluded me. I had no recollection of ever getting one of these "messages", though I knew that to be false. The experience was there, just not the knowledge. As though a veil was placed over my brain, leaving only my body to remember.

My head hurt thinking about all this. The pain growing in tandem with my confusion.

I tried to exclaim my grievances, just for me to let out a growl instead.

Finally, I decided to let go of my thoughts. No use thinking if it only brought pain, right? To begin with I was never the sharpest knife in the drawer....or at least I thought I wasn't?

Headache

A- anyway! This was a problem for another day. Can't diagnose myself after all. Better get someone to direct me to a hospital. I did fall a long way down, so I should probably get a check-up. I did not feel any pain though...

Looking down at my hand, I scanned it for potential injuries. My hand was not damaged though, rather it couldn't be. After all, in order to have an injured hand, you first need a hand.

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A jade-white appendage, splitting in 4 at the end. Sharp obsidian points at their end. Translucent but hard, like crystal. An unearthly visual.

Huh, that's weird. Was it always like that?

I wondered for a moment....Until I realized it was perfectly normal. Yes, as normal as can be.

My mind is just in a jumble right now. Why else would I be confused by something so obvious.

I'm lost right now, so I should just focus on what is right in front of me and save these woes for later.

Deciding on a course I directed my attention back to the notification.

Level:(-1)

Name: ???

Species:(Premature evolution; demoted from draconic hatchling to lesser hatchling)

Bloodline:(Undecided due to premature evolution)

Class: (none)

Birthplace:(Divine realm, Mortal realm, Demonic realm)

Affinity:(Undecided)

Skillpoints:(17)

Skills:

Personal skills:

Divinity (lesser) (learned!)

Mortal climb (learned!)

Demonic essence (lesser) (learned!)

Soul of another world

Combat skills:

Holy magic(lv.1)

Elemental magic(lv.1)

Demonic magic(lv.1)

Egg cracker (learned!)

As the information entered my mind, instead of being confused by their foreign contents, I somehow understood what they meant. However, in contrast to the previous case, where I had experience, I understood this status by Instinct. This was clearly a part of my being. Something inherent, that defined who I am.

That is not to say that I wasn't confused at all. After all, what even is a negative level? I might not consider myself the strongest, but isn't this a bit too cruel, world?

(???): It is a penalty for forcing an evolution (premature birth). Normally you would start at lvl. 1 like every other life form.

Huh? Why is there a voice in my head?

Excuse me Mr...or Mrs.? Anyway, can you please get out of my head, I'm a bit too young to go loco.

....

...Seems like they went away. Or maybe I was just imagining them as a coping mechanism for my inherent confusion. After all being told you are lvl. (-1), literally 2 levels below a newborn, will make anyone turn to a bit of escapism, right? Right? Yes, I am definitely normal.

It is a bit confusing though, could swear my level was even lower before.

I remembered the first time that notification entered my head. It said I was lvl. (-5). How did it rise by 4 levels in such a short span of time? Definitely something I'm not getting here.

As I wondered about this mystery, my face turned to the ever-red sky. Then I closed my eyes walking stressfully down the hill where my prison laid on.

Yeah I don't get it

Until I landed on the bottom of the hill and felt something wet at my feet/claws. Staring down to look at what it was, I saw red. Not the burning red of the sunset, nor luminescent like the fruit, but a dark crimson one. Blood.

Realization hitting, I turned my head a final time, looking towards the hill my prison stood on. Except it was not a hill at all, it was a corpse.

Level: 5

Name: None

Species: Wonderbeast (youngling)

Affinity: Darkness

Ah fuck!