My first memory of existence is the cold, dead void of the world. Well, to me it was my world. To others it might be a room, but there aren’t any others here.
Slowly unlocking my ability to think, wondering at what lies beyond the shadow. It was a wall. Turning my body around, I could feel the scraping of scales on hard rock, the sound echoing throughout the area. I was in a room, which seemed to be made of stone, but what stone was, I did not know.
After turning enough, I attempted to see myself. I saw black scales, glistening in the night, on a body thin and long with no protrusions or limbs. Tasting the air with my tongue, I detected something metallic that seemed foreign to my surroundings.
Suddenly, a light appeared, and a message was broadcasted into my vision.
Monster #562951413 has achieved sapience.
Assigning name…
Midnight has achieved sapience.
Due to being a non-humanoid race, options are limited.
Thinking to myself, I wondered as to what these options were. Wait, since when could I think? Oh, right. I had previously done that earlier.
But what was the light, some figment of my imagination? It seemed to be changing, growing, and rearranging.
======= Status =======
Wayfarer: Midnight
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Race: Subterranean Serpent
Size: Small
Strength: 1
Agility: 2
Mental: 1
Charisma: 4
Evolutionary Progress: 0.7%
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Oh, the light appeared to be a form of display, about what I believed to be myself. It said it was a status, so that is what I will call it.
“Status”, I thought to myself. That was a cool word.
Suddenly, the text appeared again.
======= Status =======
Wayfarer: Midnight
Race: Subterranean Serpent
Size: Small
Strength: 1
Agility: 2
Mental: 1
Charisma: 4
Evolutionary Progress: 0.7%
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It seemed to be linked to my thoughts. I don’t know how the light could read my mind, but what do I know?
I started to focus on my status, and read it. Physical probably related to how well I could move around, and fight. Mental was likely related to my mind, but that seemed weird. Would increasing my Mental make my brain larger? Would increasing Physical make me bigger, or just more capable? These thoughts were discarded as I read the last stat, which was Charisma.
Charisma was an unknown factor. I didn’t understand it. Maybe it was related to something else about my body that I didn’t understand. Anyways, I diverted my attention to the “Evolutionary Progress” bar at the bottom.
======= Evolution =======
You are 0.7% of the way to evolving to a new form.
Your actions and accomplishments will define your evolution
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That appears to be the goal I have, to acquire a stronger evolution. But first, there are pressing matters to attend to. I still don’t know where I am.