Pain!
Infinite, immeasurable and unbearable!
Pain.
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The pain disappeared. Darkness surrounds me, I am darkness, I am emptiness.
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“Hmmm? What is happening?". Nobody answers me. There are 2 options, but one is not active, I wait to see if something changes. “Someone help me, anyone!!!” Nothing. I focus on “no”.
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“Hmmm? Somebody? HELP". Nobody me...
Welcome to Dhah'ar! You have crossed the veil and entered a new world, full of wonders and dangers. Here, magic flows through the veins of the land, legendary creatures roam the forests, and destiny awaits you at every step.
What awaits you in this world.
• Adventure: Discover unknown lands, face epic challenges and discover ancient secrets.
• Mystery: Unravel ancient riddles, uncover conspiracies and reveal the truth behind ancient legends.
• Friendship: Forge bonds with other adventurers, create alliances and find journey companions.
• Harem option activated: (yes/#)-choice
yes (mandatory)
• Danger: You will face dangerous creatures, powerful enemies and deadly traps.
• Choices: The decisions you make will shape your destiny and the future of this world.
PPPPPPAAAAAAIIIIIIINNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!
“WTF, FRAK, FRAK! SHIT, SHIT, SHIT.” Little by little the pain passes, the brightness that is my mind becomes an increasingly fine fog until my vision returns. Hammm, my “visions”, my vision is a kaleidoscope of overlapping images in all directions, it takes a few seconds to even get used to a 360° field of view. And what a sight, panic rises to heights at the scene around me.
Broken bodies, spread across a large room, entirely made of carved stone, but which my body almost completely occupies, I count 10 bodies, some whole, others in pieces, blood everywhere, but it is old blood, already black and dry, but Strangely, the bodies are not in the same state, nor are there flies flying around, attracted by the smell of death.
They are humanoid bodies, men and women, old and young, but with scales covering the body and instead of hair, thin and long feathers. The clothes are some kind of linen, perhaps cotton.
I'm surprised that all of this I understand in just a few seconds.
The room has 4 pillars decorated with something in the hieroglyphic style, at opposite ends, there are 4 stairs, 2 going down and 2 going up. My body is in the middle of the 4 pillars, I use my tentacles to move. Yes, tentacles. 3 are like squids, about 10m long and as thick as a person, the other 3 are like anacondas with saber teeth, but without eyes. My body, so to speak, is a sphere 5m in diameter with skin like that of an Asian rhinoceros, like several semi-rigid plates and in the middle of these plates dozens of retractable eyes like those of a crab. Strangely, I don't know why the strangeness happens, but I naturally think of myself as the apex of perfection. Something in the back of my mind tells me that something isn't right, but I quickly dismiss it.
I have to get out of here.
The stairs are definitely very narrow, but even so, I use my tentacles to get out of the pillars and go towards it, my body squeezes between the pillars, but without any discomfort. I start to pass the stairs that go up and my body squeezes even more. It looks like I have no bones, how useful. He came out in a smaller room, but with an opening. Through the door, I see a lake with treetops jutting out over a sea of mist.
It seems to be late afternoon, around 17:30?
FREEDOM.
I extend my six tentacles and realize that my spherical body floats, without me realizing it, about 2m above the ground. It will be???
Yes, I can move by floating in any direction, but it's not very fast, I would say the speed is a good and healthy walk, I can't run. But then I fly FRAK!
I climb to a good altitude, to have a complete view of where the fuck I am.
Below me is a ziggurat of about 100m in base and about 50m in height, half of it is submerged in a sea of fog, everywhere this fog covers everything, sticking out of the fog I see trees. And on the horizon, mountains on all sides.
I take a deep breath to calm down…
“HHHHAAAAAMMMM???” I don't breathe, nothing comes out or enters through my 3 anaconda mouths!!! Using the squid tentacles I look for my pulse. I don't have either!!! Am I dead?
“HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO CALM DOWN WITHOUT BREATHING????” The sound of Harry Porter speaking parseltongue through the 3 anaconda mouths came out, and what's worse, without synchronization. Strange.
"HELLO?" The same kind of sound comes out. Let's try to talk with just one head.
“Testing, 1, 2, 3.” No, either all three speak together or none at all.
Okay, let's go in parts, Jack style.
1° I'm some kind of monster.
2° I don't know where I am
3° I can fly, this opens up several possibilities for me.
4° I don't have a heart
5° I don't breathe, despite smelling it.
6° There are many more moons in the sky than you would normally think. 10 in total.
7° There are people nearby, after all those dead people came from somewhere.
I take off and take a look around the ziggurat. I see that it has 3 other entrances, one of which has a deep can.
No more dark and cramped places.
Now I realized, the room where I woke up had no windows or lights, but I still saw everything clearly.
8° Night vision.
Let's go through the basics: shelter, food, fire and water. Shelter the ziggurat serves temporarily. Water, I smelled water nearby. I float down the steps of the ziggurat and enter the cold fog, the vision drops to about 5m and using my octopus tentacles I feel around before I see anything, until I reach the “base” of the ziggurat that ends in water. Dark water with a swampy smell. It should be drinkable if there's a fire. I go back to the top of ziggurat in the body room to see if I can find anything useful, like a flint, lighter, documents or anything else.
We squeeze into the room and search the bodies.
I find canteens, flints, the clothes are made of linen and hand-sewn, I don't find any type of documents, leather bags with silver and copper coins, with strange symbols printed on them.
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For a few seconds I am paralyzed. I don't remember who I am, where I came from, or what I am, much less how I know things like; Jack, documents, flint, canteens and various objects that shine (rings, necklaces, scepters, knives, belts and tiaras). When I try to remember the only thing that remains is a total blank. Until I taste meat in my mouth. Realize with horror that my 3 mouths attacked, during these moments of despair, and ripped chunks of flesh from the corpses... and it's delicious!
SPECIAL ABILITIES - Copy(Su)
A True Core can copy any creatures/material/item, identical to those it has physically consumed. Each copy possesseseven the learned abilities and characteristics (such as class level, skills, and spells known) of the original but retains only dimmemories of its former life. Copies can be of any size and origin. Copys are fanatically loyal to the True Core that spawned them and willingly fight to the death to defend it. Copied materials and items can never be used or cause damage to the True Core. After spawning, a True Core must wait 4d6 days before doing so again.
Superior ability detected, override.
SPECIAL ABILITIES - Improved Copy(Su) Same. After spawning, a True Core must wait 4/ days before doing so again.
Copy? Copy what? One person. Lawful Evil, that's an RPG thing. Am I in a game? I was Isekai'd!
What is Isekai? I know but and I don't know how I know. That's very frustrating.
One less mystery, so I'm a True Core, whatever that is!
SPECIAL ABILITIES - Improved Copy(Su)
Analysis
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Registered entities:
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1-Furrelle Wystongjiir, Lawful Evil, Female serpent-folk Cleric 5
2-Hethress Grmballhyst, Lawful Evil, Female serpent-folk Cleric 8
3-Dazzazn Beryntolthropal, Lawful Evil, Male serpent-folk Cleric 7
4-Findex Hshhsstoroth, Lawful Evil, Female serpent-folk Cler
5-Kaladan Wivvyrholdalphiax, Lawful Evil, Male serpent-folk Cleric 5
6-Ghesh Ghaallixirn, Lawful Evil, Male serpent-folk Cleric 6
7-Eggren Clethtinthiallor, Lawful Evil, Female serpent-folk Cleric 5
8-Ruloth Xephyrbahnor, Lawful Evil, Female serpent-folk Cleric 6
9-Aasathra Imbixtellrhyst, Lawful Evil, Female serpent-folk Cleric 7
10-Bidreked Xephyrbahnor, Lawful Evil, Male serpent-folk Cleric 6
Copy; yes/no
yes
Choice of: 1-10
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Hethress Grmballhyst, Lawful Evil, Female serpent-folk Cleric 8
Personality: She is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of her strength. She works very hard to maintain that gentleness. She is a ruthless woman, a trait she acquired from her father.
STR 10 (+0) DEX 17 (+3) CON 12 (+1) INT 12 (+1) WIS 16 (+3) CHA18 (+4)
New copy in: T -4/days
I choose “yes”. Choise: 2
She is the highest level cleric and is a woman. I feel masculine and looking at the menu, it says that it has CHA 18, in addition to being gentle and calm, as a flaw it is ruthless, which I don't know why, I think it's correct.
Soon I start to feel contractions in my body, as if I were going to vomit. And that's what actually happens, I vomit an entire person out of one of my anaconda mouths. She is covered in a fluorescent bluish goo that smells like cinnamon and is completely naked. After the last contractions, I spit out the remains of the goo from my mouth and observe the body lying on the stone floor. She breathes softly, with one of the tentacles I poke her. She wakes up, sits up and turns towards my body.
She looks at me with yellow reptilian eyes and asks me in a gentle voice.
"Hello?"
"Hello. Do you know your name?" I ask in my 3 out of sync voices.
“Of course, my name is Hethress daughter of Grmballhyst – Champion of Hylasis, Goddess Of Rivers” She bows.
I admire her for a few moments, she is beautiful, her body is slender and well proportioned even though she doesn't have breasts, she is clearly a female. Its skin is covered in tiny emerald green scales, with the chest, face and abdomen being lighter than the limbs. Long, thin feathers with bluish dots cover its head up to a palm below the shoulders, they are glued to the body because of the remains of the blue goo.
“Aren’t you scared of me? Of my appearance?”
“No, why? Are you going to do me any harm?”
"Of course, not! You are beautiful!" Big mouth, 3 damn big mouths. I change the subject quickly. “Do you want to wash up before we start talking?”
A smile on the corner of his mouth appears with a flash, and then disappears. She rises with the grace of a ballerina, or better yet, that of a priestess. “Yes that would be nice.”
We leave the inside of the ziggurat and go down to where the water touches. She kneels and begins to wash. Very erotic.
“What is this place we are in?” I ask to divert my previous train of thought.
“Ziggurat of Aunnas.”
In a flash, images of the ziggurat come to my mind, of the nearby village where she and her group came from, Kebury is its name, unfamiliar scenes of the group performing a ritual.
SPECIAL ABILITIES - Link(Su) True Core can connect with its copies, on the same plane of existence, regardless of distance or position and but is limited to the copy's sensory capabilities. Through this connection you can see, hear, feel, smell, taste, speak and detect thoughts, read if the copy is capable of that. There is no limit on simultaneous connections.
She is an open book to me, she also feels and knows this and through the link I feel that she is ecstatic about it.
“It could be my impertinence, sir. But I still don’t know your grace.” She looks at me with big anxious eyes.
“Strange as it may seem, Hethress, I do not know, not my name, nor where I came from, nor why I am here. What do you think about giving me a name?”
The face she makes is a price in itself. Its mouth opens in a perfect mute “O”, in which I see a mouth with sharp teeth and fangs.
She takes 4 deep breaths before speaking.
How envious.
“My lord, nominating him, it is an honor” She puts her fingers on her forehead and thinks. “Would Crixus be acceptable, my lord?”
“Crixus, yes. I liked."
She smiles. “As for what you are, I don’t know either, where you came from and why you’re here, I might be able to help you.”
“What do you mean Hethress?”
“My group and I were performing a ritual to conjure a Goddess Champion to help us against frequent Mantis attacks, but something went wrong.” She looks up at the sky towards the moons and says. “Hutag, Bawmoh and Uksal, the 3 biggest moons of Dhah'ar are in summer, when the ritaul was made, there was a month left until the change of season, I don't know what powerful magic my lord did, but I saw my body and it was as it was when I died. I don't know how this is possible. I’ve never heard of magic like that.”
“Explain, I don’t know anything about magic.”
“Magic of raising the dead is divided into 2 types; The most common way to bring people back to life is to “raise the dead” but it has a limit, which is the time since the person died, which the most powerful priests can only do up to 20 days after the death. I certainly died more than 30 days ago. No one in the region has this level of power. After that comes Resurrection or Reincarnation and True Resurrection. All of these were only performed by the most powerful priests and even then for important people. But in all of them, the body is reestablished, in my case it was recreated or copied. That’s why I said I’ve never heard of magic like that. The second type is the one that creates undead, which obviously I'm not, my heart beats, I breathe and my body is warm.””
“Hmmm, from your group, do you want me to revive someone?”
“No my lord, they, like me, do not deserve this blessing, we failed the ritual, that's why we died. I'm grateful that my lord brought me back to life, but neither of them nor I deserve this. Let the worms feed on the failures and let me, through your gift, give my body and soul to your eternal service.”
Calm. Very calm at this time. This is part of SPECIAL ABILITIES-Improved Copy(Su): Copies are fanatically loyal to the True Core that spawned them and willingly fight to the death to defend it.
“Do you have a family? Where is your home?”
“I don’t remember, I know I have all this, but I don’t remember.” She says after a while, takes a deep breath and says. “But that’s the past and it doesn’t matter. Only serving him matters.”
FRAK...Suddenly something comes to my mind I see the image of a being from the Hethress race, the image of what she thinks is the perfect male and in a flash of light I see myself in the body of that image in her mind.
“FRAK, FRAK, WHAT THE FRAKIS THIS???” I extend my arms and legs, I have legs, I feel my skin, covered in small scales, my heart beats and now I feel cold. Hethress looks at me open-mouthed, she promptly kneels at my feet and extends her hand in a gesture that means marriage. Using the link I know what I should do.
“Get up, you belong in my house now...wherever that is.” She gets up and looks at me anxiously.
“First we need clothes, it’s cold and I don’t want to walk around naked.”
She lowers her head to hide her face, but the link doesn't hide her disappointment.
"After. First we have to provide food, fire and water. Then you will help me decide what we should do.”