Well, how ‘nice’ to meet the scum…er… royal family. It seems that I have found myself in a hole with the black female Leza. Whats her name again? If im not mistaken I think its Ques. Yeah, I’m pretty sure its Ques.

Anyway, when our gazes met we just stood there silently, waiting for the other to strike. I was very cautious about this particular Leza, she is from a the family of royal scum, she is bound to have tricks under her claws. We continued our silent showdown for a while and decided to leave it hanging. She didn’t attack me, and it seemed troublesome if I attacked her, I think we came under the agreement of a temporary truce.

I tried to break the ice afterwards, maybe having an ally from the royal family will reap great benefits. I started off with some simple questions, like when did she arrive at the forest and her status screen. She claimed that she arrived this morning about the same time as the others. For her status screen, she decided to show it to me, which I didn’t know could be done.

STATUSNAMEQuesSPECIESRoyal Black Leza(Female)Level4STRENGTH9DEXTERITY15INTELIGENCE16CHARISMA10SPEED18

Spoiler :

. Thunderclap Draconian bloodline, your blood possesses the unrivalled lightning of dragons while your body carries the resilience of dragons- Lightning affinity is gained and extra stats every level for strength, dexterity, intelligence, charisma or speed.

I stared at her status screen with a daze. Holy shit. Her stats overshot mine in most areas. I even have more buffs than her, and she still is better than me. What the… Then it hit me, the last time I checked was when I was level 2, I am level 4 now. I let out a breath of relief, my stats should have an increase, I don’t need to feel inferior to her anymore.

She asked me to show her mine, so I asked her for assistance regarding how to do so. Turns out that I only need to think ‘show status to (insert name)’, as simple as that. I did as she requested, while I also checked mine at the same time.

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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.

. Body of divinity, you possess a body superior to all peers- grants (current level) of stats to strength, dexterity and speed. Bonus halves every 50 levels.

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STATUSNAMEKainSPECIESRed Variant Leza(Male)Level4STRENGTH15DEXTERITY15INTELIGENCE11CHARISMA10SPEED16

I immediately felt relief as I had better stats than her in most areas, however I also felt nervous, as I am only better than her because I have more buffs than her. However, she did seem genuinely impressed with my stats and started being friendlier than she was before.

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Ques said that she is the physically weakest in her family because her bonus stats from her buff somehow never go into strength. Apparently it all goes into dexterity, intelligence and speed, while her brothers’ all had stat gains in strength only. That kinda explains their heavily built structure. Moving on from our stats, I asked her what she feasted on just now. She said that she ate one of the golden crested eggs and one grey Leza. Although she ate very little, she told me that she hoarded some of the golden crested eggs and brought them to this burrow to eat later. I thought it was a very smart idea and I wanted to go out to collect more now. As I started to run out, she smacked my face with my tail. Crap, I thought she only had 9 points in strength? How the hell did she manage to smack me all across the burrow? I was in a daze and couldn’t get up in time before she stepped on me.

I closed my eye and thought, this is it, she betrayed me. The royal family and their treacherous treachery. Sigh. I would not live long enough to let the great world meet me. I awaited her strikes that would finish me, but all that came was a single slap on my face. I opened my eyes to look at her in confusion. She hissed at me and asked if my 11 intelligence points were for show. She angrily asked me to remember the Empress Golden Crested eagle just now and asked me whether I can even take a hit from her. I stared at her with a gobsmacked expression, how the hell did I not think of that? Furthermore, why did she not kill me? Dayum, she is both smart and nice! I quickly thanked her for her words of wisdom and consulted her for the best plan possible. She said that it is getting quite late now, so we should just eat some food and sleep after that. She also said that she didn’t mind sharing the eggs that she stole just now.

I gladly accepted he generous offer and only took one egg from her stash, I am not that big of a glutton that goes stuffing my face with the food of others. While eating, she discussed our best plan of action tomorrow. She said that the Empress Golden Crested eagle should leave early in the morning and return during late noon, and we will strike at that window of opportunity. From her past experience, it took her that amount of time to bring down 5 eggs from the tree. She said if I joined this operation, it should be at least twice as fast and could collect around 11 eggs. I told her that I will trust her judgement and will give her a third of my share of loot for payment regarding today’s food and advice.

Dammit. I thought she would have rejected my offer because of her kind-heartedness. Well, at least this might build up a relationship between the royal family and me. I dug out a portion of dirt to make a comfortable space for me to sleep in as it was dark outside. Before I went to sleep, Ques told me that we should try to gather as many eggs as possible for tomorrow because we will come back to the same location for the remaining survival courses.

I was surprised with the information she gave me, but I didn’t complain. After all, she is smarter than me, and yet she was kind enough to spare me some information about the other survival courses. Maybe the royal family isn’t that bad at all.

I snuggled down comfortably on my sunken patch of dirt and shut my eyes as I heard she said the words “Good night” to me. I replied her with the same sentence and drifted off to sleep.

Maybe the royal family isn’t that bad at all.

Notes-

Hello. Sorry this one took quite long. I actually finished this for quite a while now, i just couldn't post it until i wrote a few paragraphs of chapter 6. I spent a few days contemplating on my choice of words, not the plot. Just the words.

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