Everything was a haze, I couldn't see, I couldn't hear, I couldn't feel, all I could do was exist but even that was difficult. It felt like if I didn't resist, even for a moment, I would vanish into nothingness, forever lost. A part of me wanted to give up, to let the nothingness around me to consume me, and it was exactly what happened. I felt that small part of me that gave up breaking apart like a sand castle when the tide is high, leaving nothing behind but fragments of what once was a thought. It only served to solidify my will to not give up.

It kept going for an untold amount of time. And just as I felt that I would never leave this void, a warmth spread through me. I didn't know what it was, but I could tell it was not there to harm me in any way. I began losing focus as this warmth filled my body though I still managed to understand a sudden presence appearing around me. It was so big it felt like it encompassed everything, yet it didn't feel suffocating, at least, not more than the black nothingness I was floating through was already.

[ Restarting reincarnation cycle previously interrupted ]

It wasn't a voice, nor a floating box of text in front of me, but I somehow still could understand what the presence was saying, and not because it was speaking to me, no, I was conscious enough to know that, it was merely speaking out loud and I just so happened to hear it.

[ Soul energy cannot be extracted. Repurposing energy. ]

[ Soul harmonization in progress… Excess soul energy has been condensed into Unique skills [Genetic Dysphoria] and [Knowledge Library] ]

My mind began to drift away again, it was hard to focus on anything. As I slowly lost consciousness, I felt the warmth that spread throughout my body starting to shrink inside me, as it slowly condensed into something inside me, I felt that the majority of its energy was leaking from me and into the nothingness until just a fraction of it was left inside of me.

[ External energy has been forcefully condensed into Unique skill [Spell Planner] ]

And just like that, my mind faded to black.

----------------------------------------

I don’t know how much time had passed, but my consciousness slowly came back. I still couldn’t see, but this time it was different, it wasn’t the nothingness I felt before, where all I could do was to exist, no, the situation I was in was lightyears away from the nothingness I was. Even if everything was still dark, I could feel my own body, hear the birds chirping in the distance and smell the sweet fragrance of the flowers…

I opened my eyes slowly for them to adjust to the light that was so strong it was assaulting my retina, but they eventually adjusted. The first thing I saw was a butterfly right next to my face. It had light blue wings that almost looked like it changed colors as they slowly moved. I could become mesmerized by it if I let it, but I soon noticed where it was resting upon. Beneath the butterfly there was what looked like white scales so small I could mistake for skin if I was looking from some distance away, but the thing that caught my attention the most was how it was somehow connected to my face as it was so close to me I should be feeling it touching my nose and mouth, yet I couldn’t. I tried to move my head, the sudden movement causing the butterfly to take flight and fly away, but the thing right in front of me followed my head movements with perfection.

As I stood there on the ground, trying to understand what was happening, as my mind was still somewhat a blur, I began feeling something between my legs, or better, I began feeling something alongside my legs, almost I was having the sensation of a body part that shouldn’t be there…- I stood up quickly, using my hands to propel me backwards and tried to use my legs to stand up, but I suddenly feel a strange weight in my back and fell backwards, hitting my head in the soft grass.

This book's true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience.

As I stood there on my back for a few moments, the world upside down around me I noticed that a feeling that I felt my whole life wasn’t there anymore. The feeling that there was something wrong with my body wasn’t there anymore, and everything felt just… Natural. I moved my head to look at the sky. It was blue and I could see the clouds high above me slowly moving from left to right and the sun was shining right in the middle of the sky, meaning it was noon in wherever I was. I took a deep breath, the fresh air calming me down. I pulled my hands up and took a look at them. I was waiting to see a pair of normal human hands, but when I saw a pair of scaly hands with small claws at the point of each one of the four fingers I now had I was surprised.

“Okay… this is new,” I said as I opened and closed my hands. It was weird only having four fingers after years of having five, but I couldn’t say it bothered me that much.

I lifted my head and looked at the rest of my body, that still was laying on the ground. If it wasn’t obvious for my arms being covered in white scales and having only four fingers, I somehow wasn’t human anymore. My whole body was covered in scales and my legs now looked like the hind legs of a dog. That’s why I fell, I thought as I looked at my legs. I looked at the ground behind and between my legs and I saw something long and white.

“A tail?!” I exclaimed. “I have a tail?” I moved my newly discovered tail across the ground, feeling the grass touch it as I dragged it in an arc, finally understanding where the sensation was coming from.

There was one more sensation that I was feeling that was new to me, it was on both of my sides and I had a feeling of what it was, but to make sure I turned my head and took a look. Sure enough, I was right, spread on the ground on my sides were a pair of membranous wings. It took me a moment to let it sink it, but I wasn’t human anymore, I somehow turned into a dragon after whatever happened at my class-

I rolled on the ground and got up, but instead of trying to stand on my legs like normal, I had to stand using all of my four limbs. I was sure it would feel weird, standing up on all fours, but it was a surprisingly natural thing to do. I looked around, trying to see where I was, but everything I could see around me were trees and bushes, and considering there wasn’t a nest or egg pieces around me, I wasn’t born here but just popped into existence like a transporter would do in those sci-fi novels.

“I wonder what happened to them” I thought outloud, not expecting to receive any kind of answer as I was just trying to accept that I wasn’t in my class anymore, and considering the forest I was in, I wasn’t even in the city anymore. For all I knew I could be somewhere totally different, like the middle of Asia, or worse, another planet altogether.

[Information not currently available] A voice echoed in my mind and I jumped in the air as it scared the hell out of me. I looked around, trying to find the source of the voice, but the only thing I saw were more bushes and more trees.

“Hello?” I asked, but no one answered. “Who’s there?” I asked again, but again, no one answered. “Who spoke just now?”

[Answer: You] The voice answered again. I turned around, but there was no one there.

“Then who are you that I’m hearing?” I asked.

[Answer: Unique skill [Knowledge Library] ] It answered me.

“Unique what?” I asked dumbfounded like I just heard the most ridiculous thing ever, even though I was a literal dragon

[Answer: Unique Skill] It answered me with an emotionless voice.

“The heck is a skill?” I asked. I had my suspicions, but I wanted to make sure. I could be a dragon now, but I needed to be sure the things that appear in games or novels were real. I knew that it was kind of hypocritical of me to ask to confirm what skills were considering I literally wasn’t human anymore.

[Answer: A Skill is the culmination of all the effort, knowledge and energy into an etheric core etched within the soul]

…I didn’t know what I was expecting, but it wasn’t something like that. At least it confirmed to me that I had been “isekaied”, as Leo puts it, to another world.

Suddenly I heard a rustling sound coming from one of the bushes near me. As I turned my head in its direction, I saw a massive black snake appearing from the bush, and it clearly saw me as it lifted its head and opened its jaw and hissed, revealing multiple rows of massive teeth that easily were the width of my arm. I froze in shock at the scene and didn’t know what to do, then the snake lunged at me