Inwardly, Reli cursed out at the window. It did not want to be eaten and the information of it being tasty was rather disturbing. At least Reli was now sure, that it needed to be cautious. If that was what the voice of the window wanted to achieve, it certainly succeeded.
Reli dismissed the windows again and finally looked around, taking in its surroundings.
It first had thought that the coldness it had felt was because of it being in an egg, yet the Demon Larvea noticed that it hatched inside of a moist dark cave. Stalactites and stalagmites were all over the place and a particular big stalagmite was responsible for cracking its egg open. Luckily that one was covered in spongy moss. Reli did not want to picture what would have happened if the moss would not have been there, it probably would have died and splattered its goo and shell all over the rock.
A cold shiver ran over Reli's body. It was a horrible imagery that it wanted to forget quickly, so it decided to focus on the moss on the rock.
Moss:
Ordinary moss, green and soft, what did you expect?
Feeling a little disappointed Reli kept looking around as it explored the cave it was in. The egg it was in just before must have fallen down from that one hole at the top of one wall and fell onto the spongy huge pile of moss beneath it, softening its fall good enough to save it from breaking but not slowing its momentum down enough to safe it from crashing into the stalagmite.
Reli had no idea how to escape from this pit it was in. Looking around it found no way, except the hole. It moved its body over the floor towards the wall, feeling every little pebble under its own slimy body. As it reached the wall, it looked up, wondering how it could climb up. Reli reached out with its body and to its own surprise stuck towards the wall. Rolling and sticking on the wall it climbed slowly but surely up and squeezed its body through the hole it came from.
In front of Reli stretched another cave, way more spacious than the pit it had fallen in, the rocks were spares and almost no moss was around, still the cave was way lusher than the pit was. The ground was covered in blue grass and in the middle of it was a small pond with a blue crystal inside of it. Small sparkles emerged from the pond giving it a serene look.
Fascinated by the crystal and pond in front, windows popped up.
Manacrystal:
High-quality Manacrystal. Huge. Used to turn springwater into a spring of healing if exposed long enough to a Manacrystal. It is said to be the reminiscence of highly magical creatures. Very rare
Blugrass:
Grass which was exposed to huge amounts of Mana for a long period of time. Can be used for potions. Not easily findable.
Reli dismissed the windows with a simple thought and kept looking around. A little to the side of a big patch of Blugrass were some eggs Reli recognized. These were probably brothers and sisters of it.
Demon Egg:
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Delicacy. Its shell is said to be a strong aphrodisiac. Fetches a very high price if fresh.
You better deal with them before they hatch. They will devour everything, even you.
Reli did not want to be devoured, and so it began to move closer to the eggs, wondering how it should ‘deal with them’, as the window put it. It had the option of pushing the eggs down the hole it came from, hoping that the impact would kill them, but seeing as it did not kill itself, it quickly let go of the idea. Putting the eggs into the pond was another option, hoping they would drown when they hatch. As Reli pondered about it, it realized that it itself did not breathe, so how would its brothers and sisters drown if they would not breathe as well? This idea was a failure as well. Remembering its own description, Reli could just devour them. It moved towards the egg closest to it and sat its gooey and slimy blob of a body over it, engulfing it whole.
The shell of the egg began to dissolve slowly, bubbling in the process. The bubbles tickled the insides of Reli making it feel good. A feeling of euphoria and triumph washed over it as the bubbling stopped and the goo inside tripped out. It struggled for a moment but being born suddenly and being in a fight of life and death without warning was too much for it. The struggle began to slow down until it finally stopped.
Defeated Demon Larvae
Gained Experience.
You devoured your own kin. I bet it was tasty!
Fancy another one?
Reli felt a warm sensation enter its body as soon as the window popped up. It felt exhilarating, making it thirst for more of this feeling. This feeling of empowerment was drowning and controlling Reli as it moved from one egg to another, devouring, killing, eating its own brothers and sisters. Reli ate and ate, ignoring the windows as they came, since they contained the same as before, dismissing them as they popped up. But it stopped dismissing the window that arrived as Reli ate the one before the last.
Defeated Demon Larvae
Gained Experience.
Level up gained!
Title gained!
Awarded upon level-up: +5 free status-points
Title: Kineater
You’re a ruthless one, aren’t you?
May the Goddess smile for you!
Reli was ripped out of its trance by the powerful feeling of leveling up and looked confused at the window taunting it. It had gained a level from killing its own, even got a title, whatever that meant. As if the one responsible for the window read its mind, another window popped up with an answer.
Kineater:
A title awarded to those that eat all and every last one of their brothers and sisters merely to advance themselves.
You gain +5 in every stat
They were tasty, were they not? Others might find you disturbing if they see this title though.
May the Goddess smile for you!
Reli dismissed the two windows and wished its status window in front of it, wanting to see for itself what the window had meant and sure enough, the window with its status popped up as Reli wanted it to.
Status:
Name: Reli
Species: Demon Larvae
Subspecies: Blob
Level: 2
Strength: 1 (+5)
Constitution: 1 (+5)
Agility: 3 (+5)
Mind: 5 (+5)
Luck: 1 (+5)
Mana: 2 (+5)
Skills: Language comprehension, Identify, Manafeel
Title: Kineater
Unused status-points: 5
The Demon Larvea felt good seeing all these numbers rise. It wanted more of this feeling. Luckily there was one egg remaining. As Reli moved to the last remaining egg, it stopped and became startled. A thought crossed its mind. It had gained a title for killing all of its own kin, so there should not be an egg left, yet there was one.
Reli looked more closely at the egg. It was slightly bigger than the ones it had devoured. The shell was of a yellowish hue, unlike the muddy gray of the other ones. Wanting to know more about the egg Reli moved closer as another window popped up.