Cramped darkness.

Groaning in pain, I tried to stretch my limbs in this damned place. Nope. The walls have strength that resembles the hardness of titanium and diamonds combined.

Nooo, am I doomed to stay in this place forever? Is this punishment of the gods? What have I done? I try to think back, but all I can recall is a memory, no an instinct? Hunt or be hunted. How the hell do I even hunt if I can’t escape this damned prison?

Ugh, forget that, it’s too warm in here to think about those trivial matters. It’s also very sticky. Something is poking my ribs. I can’t open my eyes. My limbs are cramped. My head hurts. I want to cry. It’s so depressing in here. I can’t even take one minute in here. Have I mentioned that someone is smashing on my prison cell really really hard?

crash

Crash

CRASH

I groaned even louder. Now my migraine is worse, and there is a multitude of cracks all over my cell. Wait. Cracks? I CAN ESCAPE. I bashed with all my strength against the cracks. Once, twice and thrice… again and again. After what seemed an eternity of bashing about, I see light pouring into my depressing cell.

I gave one final push towards the crack and the structure gave out. My body tumbled out from the cell, sick and slimy but ever triumphant. I gave a colossal roar, announcing my glorious arrival to this world. I collapsed with drowsiness after that, satisfied with my release from prison.

Hmm?

There seems to be a gigantic female humanoid lizard in front of me. A glossy brown scaled lizard standing on her hind legs. (Think of charmeleon but crawling, brown and no fire on tail). Unfazed by my glorious entrance. I growled at her demanding her attention. Who dares to ignore me? She looked back me with obvious amusement, and bared her teeth at me. Crap. Her teeth are bigger than my head, is this monster the one that produced me? She seems scarier than me. I scrambled back, afraid of that toothy grin she showed.

Above her head, there was a weird textbox floating above her head.

Level: ??? Hybrid Komodo Leza(Female)

Whoa… what kind of evil beast is she? I looked back towards my cell to avoid her gaze. What shocked me was that there were at least thirty identical cells behind me. What? What kind of devil can spawn so many prison cells? This defies logic. Not long after my release, the rest burst out of their cells with shrill cries and howls. Pathetic. They all look similar to that devil of a mother, smaller and with pale grey skin, a few with different colouring. And slimier. And less teeth. And smaller claws. (Think of charmander, but different colours and no fire on tail.) You get the idea. I took a quick glance at myself, it seems like I’m one of the few that has a different colour. I had a glorious shade of red on me, not as glossy as my mother’s skin, but definitely more striking. I waited for quite a while along with my devil mother and siblings. After another eternity, only sixteen siblings escaped from their prisons, seventeen including me. My mother smashed the other pods with her tail and flung them far away from the cracked dirt that we are at.

She then brought us four dead chicken for us to feast on. I quickly ran and monopolised one whole chicken for myself while the others had to share the other three between the sixteen of them. One of my brothers growled at me, clearly disagreeing with my generosity. He is an interesting one, instead of having the pale grey that most of my siblings had, he had a silver skin instead. He bared his little fangs at me, threatening me. I was more than happy to accept this challenge. He ran to me on all fours, gaining speed rapidly. I crouched down, getting ready to move out of harm’s way. Just as he was about to reach me, he suddenly pounced at me with his jaws spread wide open. I saw this and reacted quickly, smashing my tail against the side of his jaw, sending him back onto ground. He fell and was dazed by the sudden impact of him against the ground. Before he could react, I sank my fangs onto his throat and held it there firmly. He thrashed around wildly trying to get back up and fight me, but it was obvious that he was dying. Each time he thrashed about, I felt a huge spurt of blood gushing into my mouth. I’m not sure whether I like it. After a while, he stopped moving and slumped onto the ground. Dead.

I suddenly heard a mysterious sound.

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*ding

You have killed a Silver Variant Leza(Male) Hatchling. You have gained 20 exp. Remaining exp required to the next level: 30

Oh, seems like me and my fellow coloured siblings are variants. Then the fact that I just killed my sibling just dawned on me. I slowly turned my head towards to the almighty mother, fearing the worst. She looked surprisingly calm and controlled. I guess violence is allowed, who knew. Anyways, it all worked out well for me because my other siblings were too afraid to disturb my meal after than.

*ding

You have leveled up. You are now Level 2.

I gained enough experience points to level up by eating the chicken and my brother, although I gained more from killing my brother and eating him. I guess that killing grants you the most experience points and eating species that are most similar to myself also grants more experience points.

Soon after, my mother taught us how to open our status menus. Mine was like this;

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STATUSNAME(unnamed)SPECIESRed Variant Leza(Male)Level2STRENGTH6DEXTERITY7INTELIGENCE9CHARISMA8SPEED8

Spoiler :

. Blessing of humility, the goddess of humility recognizes you to be a being with little greed and thus a superior life form- grants superior evolutions.

My stats seemed superior in comparison to my fellow siblings, although I have slightly lower strength than them. However, they are no competition for me in the other aspects. Perhaps it’s because I levelled up once before and that I am a variant, I don’t particularly care about the reason. Just as long they all know I’m the strongest. I even have a weird little blessing thing to show I’m a godsend child.

The devil mother hissed at us and told that we hatchlings should go to rest now. I was actually quite tired, so I did as she instructed. However, before I went to sleep I saw something poking out from the remnants of my prison. A blood coloured stone. THAT MUST HAVE BEEN THE PESKY THING THAT HAS BEEN POKING AT MY RIB FOR THE WHOLE TIME. I glanced furiously at that stone and threw it into my moth. As the rock settled in my mouth, it started emitting an intense heat, causing my mouth to become charred. I spat out that damned stone, along with vomiting some of my blood. I quickly dug a hole and threw that stone in to make sure that that stupid stone can trick no one else. I use my bloodied claws to draw a circle and a cross around it to show that it is a danger zone.

The weird thing was that my blood from the circle floated and glowed with a bright crimson. I stared with my mouth agape, unable to comprehend the sorcery happening in front of me. Too bad my intelligence stat of 9 didn’t help me to think about closing my mouth. I should’ve closed my mouth. The stupid blob of blood flew into my mouth, suffocating me and making me fall onto the ground.

I’m kinda curious, what kind of mother doesn’t notice their own child being suffocated to death with their own blood? I gasped for air and tried to alert anyone about my condition. Apparently I couldn’t make a sound. I wasn’t dying either. I silently cried myself to sleep, thinking about the mishaps that happened to me on my very first day of life.

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In this fanfic, I will be creating names for many of my species. When I have quite a number of them, I will put up a glossary. Just tolet you guys know, the MC is of a race called Leza, Lizardmen.