Its been about an hour inside the forest and I have to say this world's creatures are scary.
When I ventured further into the forest away from my new home, the cave I was born in, at first I didn't find any living being to kill and take the soul from.
But it wasn't long after that I encountered my first prey or should I say one tough son of a, uhmm anyway yeah I encountered the first being other than the frogs and other beholders.
It was a rabbit, yeah a rabbit and not just any rabbit it was a size of a dog and it had four big long ears, oh and did I mention the giant claws on its paws.
When I first spotted it I hid and observed closely, I looked at its name and to my surprise, it was a normal name, I think "Four-eared forest rabbit" oh and for the first time it showed a level it was level 5.
The easy fight I thought, I am two level's stronger I thought, easy fight my ass now I have a fear or freaking rabbits.
I floated out of my hiding spot and approached it boldly from behind and tried to entangle it with my tentacles.
But the rabbit noticed me a long time ago and I actually fell for its trap, the creatures of this world are not stupid that's the another thing I learned from my experience.
Anyway, the rabbit bounced at me with its claws and managed to take out a good amount of my health I was so surprised that at first, I didn't even figure out what was going on.
I looked at my health "Health: 56/120".
The rabbits attack took out more than half of my health when I saw that I retreated backward.
The rabbit resumed its attack again, it bounced at me like that last time with its claws.
But I collected myself just in time to avoid its claw attack by floating up.
The rabbit had such speed and strength that it couldn't avoid the tree that was behind me when I floated up.
One of its claws got stuck in a tree, I used that chance and coated my tentacles in lightning and fried the stupid rabbit.
A gray light floated out of the rabbit's body, its soul which I absorbed happily.
"Health+10!" a floating message appeared before me, it scared the crap out of me I thought it was another one of those damned rabbits.
Anyway, what does this mean? I looked at my stats and looked at the health tag.
Oh, I see "Health: 66/120" seems that when I consume souls I also recover a portion of my health if it's missing.
That good to know really good.
Well that was my experience with the scary rabbit, after that, I continued to hunt some more, I found other four-eared rabbits, and to my surprise they are stupid they all fall for the same trick with the tree, lucky me I guess.
I hunted for almost six hours straight I may have found a way to kill those damned rabbits but still they are, though, I found another pond with the frogs so....well yeah they are easier to kill.
And so I reached level 10 when I did another message popped out.
"Congratulations!"
"You have reached the required level for the evolution please choose from these three options, also the cost for the evolution will be 50 souls!"
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And I was presented with my choices.
"Lesser Ice Beholder" "Check"
"Lesser Poison Beholder" "Check"
"Lesser Mind Beholder" "Check"
Hmm, what should I chose there is an option check so I guess I can first get some insight into my evolution.
"Lesser Ice Beholder Check!" I chant in my mind and a description appears before me.
"Lesser Ice Beholder evolved from a beholder hatchling, has the ability to control ice at its will, typically for northern areas of the world, does not like hot places caution recommended!" end of description, well I guess this one is a no, I am pretty sure I am nowhere near northern regions.
Let's see next is "Lesser Poison Beholder Check!"
"Lesser Poison Beholder evolved from the beholder hatchling, it does not have many special abilities but its body is highly toxic a normal touch can kill a human within seconds found in swamp regions, also the poison can not be controlled as it is produced on the surface of the beholders body!" I am not sure if I like this one either I mean the poison is cool and all but it can't be stopped so I am hoping the third one will be better.
"Lesser Mind Beholder Check!"
"Lesser Mind Beholder evolved from the beholder hatchling, the mind beholder is a rare breed of beholders that appears very little in the world, its body is weak and fragile unlike the others but the power it has at its disposal is vast, the mind beholder tempers with one's mind, turning controlled puppet and making it fight its own kind, or simply confusing and clouding its mind, there are many possibilities for a mind beholder!" well this mind beholders sure looks interesting, the part about being fragile doesn't sound to well, but I like this one better that the first two.
Okay, I decided I chose lesser mind beholder evolution!
"Lesser Mind Beholder selected!"
A strong light surrounds me and blinds me, after a while the light disappears, hmm I don't feel any different.
"Congratulations you have evolved into a lesser mind beholder, 50 souls were consumed for the evolution, from now on in order to level up you will need 10souls for 1 level good luck!" and the message ends, what does it mean level up again I am level 10.
I open the stats window.
Name: None
Gender: Female
Race: Lesser Mind Beholder
Level: 1
Souls Consumed: 0
Health: 180/180
Mana: 300/300
Skills: Lightning touch, mind confuse.
Well this sucks, I am back at level one and all my souls are gone "sigh" but I am stronger now and I gained a new skill, guess that counts for something.
While I stare at my stats I hear loud voices, human voices coming from the direction of the cave I was born in.
Something tells me this won't end well, for me.
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