Dragon Egg:

Delicacy. Everything from it is useful and highly sought after. Fetches exorbitant high prices.

You better eat it quickly while it can not defend itself or it will eat you as soon as it hatches.

Seeking the thrill of the feeling again, Reli rushed towards the egg, surrounding it with its whole body. The shell started to bubble up, way stronger and faster than the other ones. So much that Reli had trouble staying on it. It loved this ticklish feeling of those bubbles rising inside of it even if they were this violent. Content and hypnotized by that feeling Reli was taken by surprise as the small body of the dragon emerged and started to fight and struggle. Its small claws and fangs moved and ripped around in the insides of Reli, almost reaching the outside, ripping Reli open, almost escaping the clutches of death. The scales of the dragon began to melt and blend into the gray goo of Reli, which made it fight even more fiercely. Reli needed to bring up every bit of strength it had to keep it inside. In its mind, it poured all points it had left into strength and pressed down onto the melting body of the dragon harder. None of his brothers and sisters had fought that hard, they had surrendered themselves to their fate easily compared to the dragon. The vibration of the now futile struggles and cries of the Babydragon resonated through Reli's body. More and more of the dragon's body began to melt, scales evaporated and into bubbles, leaving the flesh behind that began to bubble up more and more. Holes appeared in the body of the dragon and the struggle became less, still, Reli did not lessen its grip around the dragon, holding it down as hard as it could. It would devour it, eat it and survive. The dragon had to die for Reli to live.

Finally, after the last piece of the dragon had melted into Relis goo, another window popped up.

Defeated Babydragon

Gained Experience.

Level up gained!

Awarded upon level-up: +5 free status-points

You are the first Demon Larvea to kill a Babydragon!

To congratulate this achievement, a skill is granted!

Choose wisely as you may not be able to gain the others again!

May the Goddess smile for you!

Possible skills:

Statusforgery, Truth, Lie, Space

Reli felt powerless, even though it just leveled up. The struggle with the Babydragon had drained all of its energy. Its blob of goo spread out more than usual as it did not pay any attention to the window in front of it. It closed its eyes and rested. It did not know for how long, there was no telling how much time went by in this cave.

After it opened its eyes again, the same window greeted it, except for an addition at the end.

Slept well, sweetheart?

Reli did not know what to make of the window, whether it was friend or foe was unclear to it. But what Reli knew was that it liked to tease and annoy it.

Looking at the window again it tried to gain any information from of the four skills presented to it. Hoping for any indication as to what would be a wise choice. As an answer, another window popped up.

That would be too easy, wouldn’t it? You already have a clue.

Annoyed, Reli remembered that the window already told it, that others could be afraid of it with its title. Not knowing what the other skills would do and hoping that it could help hide that title, Reli chose the skill ‘Statusforgery with it's mind.

As it chose the skill, the victory window disappeared, making way for two status windows side by side. One was just titled ‘Status’, and the other was ‘Fake Status’. Both looked identical. Reli felt that it could change some parts of the fake status, trying to erase the title from it. To its surprise, the column and its effects disappeared immediately. Adding to that, Reli decided to erase its newly gotten skill as well, then closed its fake window, focusing its attention on its real status. Seeing how he needed to rest after just one fight, Reli decided to put two points into 'Constitution' and the rest into 'Luck', thinking that if it had been just a little unlucky it would have not survived the encounter with the Babydragon.

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Status:

Name: Reli

Species: Demon Larvae

Subspecies: Blob

Level: 3

Strength: 6 (+5)

Constitution: 4 (+5)

Agility: 3 (+5)

Mind: 5 (+5)

Luck: 3 (+5)

Mana: 2 (+5)

Skills: Language comprehension, Identify, Manafeel, Statusforgery

Title: Kineater

Content with its status, Reli wondered what to do now as it wandered across the floor in the cave. When its slimy body came into contact with the Blugrass, it began to bubble and dissolve into Reli. A cold, tingly feeling spread inside Reli. It reminded it of how It felt when melting down its enemies, yet the euphoric almost mind-robbing excitement was missing.

Still, Reli decided to dissolve all Blugrass it could find hoping that something good might come out of it. To its disappointment, nothing of that sort happened. Reli would have liked to take a closer look at the crystal in the pond, yet did not dare to dive into the water. A fear inside of it kept it from diving into the water. A fear telling it, it would die if it would do so.

Instead, Reli decided to move along, searching for an exit. After crawling around the pond, it found one hole leading outside of the cavern it was in. A long and wide passage wound itself into the dark wet stone covered with moss here and there. Water dropped down onto Reli as it crawled on the floor. Ever moving it did not stop. It did not know for how long it kept crawling like that until a slight red light started to shine from the direction it moved towards. The light became bigger and stronger to closer Reli got. After a while, it realized that this was the exit of the cave. It increased its speed, wanting to see the outside, the world of Aver it had been born in. The passage widened more as it got closer to the edge and the outside became much more visible to Reli.

What stretched before it was a barren landscape, devoid of life as far as Reli could see. The gray much darker than his own body was a big contrast to the bright vivid red of the sky. Stone and rock formations were everywhere. Dried trees without any foliage, some still standing but mostly broken and toppled over were sparse. The cave Reli had emerged from was nothing more than a hole in a hill, spiraling down into the ground. It wondered how this was the only life it saw and how it could have even been born at all in this desolate landscape.

It wondered if it should stay here or explore the outside more and as if to answer its thoughts, an urge to move away from the cave, to hide overwhelmed Reli. It moved its blob of a body towards a hollowed-out tree on the ground and slipped inside of it and waited. It did not know why it hid, it just felt right to Reli.

That was until Reli felt the huge amount of Mana coming closer to it. The force of the Mana crashed over Reli, making it shiver in fear. It was sure, whatever it was would kill it on sight. The force became stronger quickly and Reli could make out a shadow getting bigger as it swiftly approached the cave.

After just a moment a huge long snakelike dragon landed on the ground in front of the cave. Its black scales with golden tips, reflected the red light giving it a sinister look. Its golden mane moved around its pitch-black horns. Its paws and claws left imprints of its landing as it crawled into the cave.

Reli did not dare move, realizing that this dragon must have been the mother of the egg it had devoured. It wanted to know more about it, wanted to see if it could get some information about the dragon, yet it was too scared to try its skill on it, fearing it might spot Reli in the process.

It did not take a long time to feel the earth-shattering cry of the dragon resonate through Reli's body. The menacing dragon rushed outside, lifting its body into the air. The already oppressive Mana became a burning sensation on Reli's body. Slowly as the dragon flew away, the force began to lighten on Reli and relief washed over it.

Got lucky, huh? Better get the hell out of here.

A new window prompted Reli to move and this time, it took its advice. It quickly slipped out of the hollow trunk and began to crawl as fast as it could into the opposite direction, never wanting to see this dragon again.

Reli crawled as long and fast as it could away from the cave until it collapsed. Its round goo started to spread out and it needed to stop.

Its surroundings were still the same, only the hill with the cave was completely gone. Now everything was just rocks and stones. After a short rest, it began to move again, this time slower. It was far enough away from the cave and the dragon and so Reli took a closer look at where it was.

In the direction it had crawled off to, in the far distance, it could make out a drop in the landscape. Deciding to investigate what it saw there, Reli kept moving towards it. As it got closer to it, a window popped up.

Entering Dead Kings Canyon

It is said in ancient times when the lands were rich and the Demon Kings wise, this is where they got buried. Riches, treasures, deadly traps and enemies are numerous here.

Proceed with caution. You’re way too much fun.

May the Goddess smile for you!