I wake up feeling groggy and an extreme hunger my whole body suddenly felt weak, as if I could collapse any second now. I immediately looked around myself, finding myself at the entrance of a hole with a dead spider body by my side. Seeing the dead spider's body the hunger seemed to overtake me, my vision went red and my body immediately pounced at the unmoving carcass. Not minding, how disgusting the creature looked or the fact that it might contain poison, with my mind filled with nothing but hunger, I gorge myself on the carcass until I could eat no more.
As the bout of hunger seemed to pass, my body felt ethereal, and the world around me seemed to blur out of existence., and then I found myself in a light-filled world in the middle of a myriad of lizard-like creatures, creatures ranging from giant iguanas to ginormous Dragons.
'Wait, what? Am, I under an illusion spell again, what is going on?'
As the thoughts seem to go through my head the myriad of giant lizards suddenly start moving. Expecting them to attack me, I panic and try to jump away only to find out I was transfixed in place. I seemed to be able to move my body neck up, yet for some reason, as I tried to move the rest of my body a force seemed to push against it. I watch in despair as the myriad of creatures all open their mouths, sucking in as much air as possible before puffing up their mouths, as if ready to spit out something, and..... exhaled all the air back out before repeating. Seeing this I couldn't help but stare outwards blankly.
'What in the world was going on!? Had I pissed off some kind of god or something, first the worm chase and now this!?'
Not being able to move, I tried using [Inspect], trying to find out which creature might be the cause of my distress, but nothing happened. Seeing as to how it hadn't activated I tried again, only for nothing to happen again, holding on to hope, I then tried to activate my status screen but to no avail. Seeing this, I started panicking, trying to force my way out of whatever was holding me down only to fail again and again as the force seemed unrelenting.
Calming down after a while, I decided to look around at the group of beasts in front of me, trying to catch any glimpse of hope I could find. I looked around, seeing majestic dragons and lizards of all kinds yet nothing of use. I hurriedly moved my eyes, trying to look for the light at the end of the tunnel, yet despair seemed to be determined on swallowing me this time. I wasn't some kind of cool-headed genius that was able to control all his emotions while easily solving life-threatening problems. No, I was a coward, a coward who tended to panic in dangerous situations, a coward who tended to make lots of rash decisions when panicking, but I wasn't just any normal coward, oh no I was worse, I was a masochistic coward, a coward who didn't know when to give up. And I wasn't going to give up the only positive feature of me being a coward just because of a bit of despair when I had gone through worse.
I continued looking around over and over, persistent in finding a solution when my eyes were attracted to a small black-scaled lizard, just about my size with a pair of alluring ruby red eyes and scales as dark as darkness itself. The lizard wasn't in any way as majestic as the dragons and lizards around it, rather the exact opposite, it looked so plain and small compared to them that it was questionable why it was even among the group of beasts. But for some reason, my eyes seemed to be transfixed to the lizard, I watched on as this lizard continuously inhaled and exhaled at a constant rate just like all the other beasts, yet for some reason, I knew this lizard's breathing pattern was different. It just had a different feel to it yet I couldn't put my finger on what the difference was.
As my focus became transfixed on this tiny lizard, I completely forgot about everything around me, the only thing in my mind was the lizard and its unique breathing pattern. And then a bulb seemed to go off in my head before I too was breathing exactly like the lizard, matching its every movement. And before I noticed, the light around me was gone, the once lit world had been plunged into darkness, leaving me confused as I wake up from my stupor. I look around myself, finding everything had gone dark while I still could not move my body, fear flowed through my body. Panicking, I once again start my futile struggle to break out of my intangible shackles.
'NO, NOT AGAIN WASN'T ONE TIME ENOUGH, I DON'T WANA GO BACK TO THE DARK VOID AGAIN!'
Suddenly in front of me, a face made of red light appears, it looks at me in the darkness and suddenly its mouth curves upwards as if finding pleasure in my misery. Seeing the face, I struggle harder, putting more force into my movement, to no avail, while the face seemed to get closer and closer. An idea goes through my body, maybe the breathing pattern could help? I immediately start trying to remember the feeling I had gotten when staring at the black lizard. When suddenly once again, in front of me stands the black lizard, using its breathing pattern, smiling the eerie smile!
'THE LIZARD IS THE RED FACED CREATURE!'
Suddenly the feeling seemed to disappear bringing me back to the dark filled world with the lizard mere inches from me, smiling its eerie smile.
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Bringing an end to my vain struggles as a red light breaks off from the face coming towards me, floating towards my forehead as if aiming for my brain.
'Hehe, it seems this masochist will now be joining the circle of normal cowards, eh?'
Then the red light hits my forehead, sending a chilly feeling through my body, it was as if my body had been thrown into a frozen tundra. My body immediately screamed out in pain, when suddenly a hot feeling spread through my body from my chest. Then suddenly from my forehead, a beam of light shot out extinguishing the tiny red light and flying towards the smiling face, smashing into it, causing both to explode outwards, lighting the world up once again and forcing me to close my eyes.
Forced to close my eyes from the bright light, I immediately try to open them again, sending me in a daze for a bit before my vision comes back. Confused, I immediately look around myself, fearing the worst, only to find myself in a lit up world, once again and a small lizard in front of me. A small black lizard stood in front of me once again yet different from before it had a beard its eyes were emerald green rather than the previous ruby red. The small black lizard looked at me and then opened its mouth before once again inhaling and exhaling air. I looked at it weirdly for a bit before moving my eyes around myself and seeing nothing else but a lit up world.
"HAHAHAHAHAHUWHAAHAAHAAHH UWAAHAHAHAAAH"
I broke down crying and laughing, glad to be alive at first, but crying at my misery, I didn't want to go back into the ethereal void, I didn't want to float in nothingness again. I wanted to go back to the happy days of my previous life, hanging out with my friends and family, I JUST WANTED TO FEEL SAFE AGAIN. Why did I have to be a fu**ing hero when I didn't have to?!
"UWAAAAH UWAAAH"
The mixture of laugh and crying turned into one only consisting of only crying, as I broke down completely, crying like a baby. I wailed on and on till I couldn't anymore, trying to cry out all my troubles and complicated emotions, trying to fully face the reality of my situation, of how I had to once again go back to the lightless world with that monster laughing at my misery.
"Sniff, sniff, ahh that feels better, now where was I, Sniff?"
Finally, after crying myself hoarse, I finally looked back towards the lizard who practicing the breathing technique. Then around myself, making sure that there was nothing around before finally steeling myself to once again perform this dangerous action and putting all my focus back on the lizard's breathing. Suddenly, everything but the lizard in front of me disappears, as I once again begin ingraining a breathing pattern into my brain. I stare and stare till finally, a light seems to go off in my head and suddenly I was once again breathing just like the lizard yet for some reason this time a feeling of pleasure seemed to go through my body.
And suddenly the world was dark again and in front of me was a floating green light. Unlike the red light before this green light seemed to send a sense of tranquility through my body, calming it down. Yet, just like the red light the green light too started moving towards my forehead, getting closer inch by inch. Having steeled myself for what was about to come, I simply stare at the green flame as it comes in my direction with the whole of its body, unlike the previous red light and touches up against my forehead.
~SCHWP~
And disappears, poofing out of existence as if it was never there, leaving me confused, was there no danger all along? Was I just being an idiot this whole time? What did I cry all those tears for? WHAT WAS THE POINT OF ALL THIS????
And suddenly I was back in front of a half-eaten spider carcass, seemingly confused and incensed at what had just happened.
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Name: n/a Race: Baby Bearded Lizard Level: 1/15
HP : 10/10 Stamina : 3/20 (4/hour) MP : 2/14 (2.8/hour)
Strength : 3 Vitality : 10 Intelligence : 7
Wisdom: 5 Agility: 5 Luck: 83
Status: Tiredness (Severe)
Special Skills:
[Lizard Scales: Lv--]
[??? Breathing Method]
Resistance Skills:
[Physical Resistance: Lv1] [Fall Resistance: Lv2] [Solitude Resistance: Lv2]
[Fear Resistance Lv3] [Mana Poisoning Resistance Lv3] [Pain Resistance Lv3] [Mental Resistance Lv2]
Normal Skill:
[Inspect: Lv4] [Mapping: Lv2] [Rolling Lv1] [Jumping Lv2] [Dodging Lv1]
Title:
[Born Killer] [Walking Egg] [Survivor] [Lucky] [Exceptional] [One Who Does Not Cower] [Touched by Mana] [???] [???]
Bloodline:
[???]
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Seeing the new influx of information I was startled, so what had happened to me was dangerous? How did I get the mark of some God of Light? What was this bloodline fiasco and how was something almost able to take over my body just like that? What was that error fiasco and what exactly had happened? I had hundreds of questions going through my head and no way to get any answers.
I tried asking the status some questions but it seemed to ignore me. It was acting like the ???'s never existed yet seemingly describing all the other skills, stats, and titles properly. As I continued researching what had happened seconds ago, I finally noticed where I was standing with a dead carcass filled with blood nearby. I immediately grabbed the carcass and took it inside the cave with myself.
As I pulled the dead carcass inside the cave, I got hit by a wave of tiredness. Barely managing to pull the carcass far enough into the cave, I immediately collapse onto the ground due to tiredness, feeling my eyes closing and not seeing any merit in staying up any longer, I let myself drift to sleep. I had gone through enough despair in one day, to last a lot of people a lifetime and I deserved some rest.