Yawning herself awake, Akyia, the Dark Hero, stretched her arms and stood up out of her bed.
Although the effects of the magic boosting potion she had poured over the egg were supposed to take a little more than a day to take affect, the egg had already cracked in some places, showing it was reaching a stage in which it was ready for the world.
“O-ooh! It’s already happening!” Running over to one of the many shelves that lined the walls of her ‘room’, she grabbed a blue potion and chugged it, which caused her body to glow a icy color for a few seconds before dispersing.
“I love these energy potions…” As a look of satisfaction formed on her face after chugging the energy potion, she snapped back to reality and turned her head to look at the egg.
‘I can’t leave it here… if it hatches while I’m off doing something…’ Frowning, she picked up the egg and cradled it in her arms, quietly chanting some magic that caused the egg to glow blue, before dispersing the same way it had when Akyia glowed.
As if reacting to the sudden burst of energy the egg had received, a tentacle… no, a tendril (size difference, tendrils are smaller and thinner than tentacles) slowly exited through one of the cracks in its shell, and was soon followed by two others.
Wrapping around the top of its shell, it began to crush the roof of its own egg, and then followed the crushing with the ripping of the roof of its egg, throwing it to the ground while still cradled in Akyia’s arms.
“Aren’t you a ferocious one..?” Sticking her finger down into the now opened shell, she was met with the biting down of the beast. “Aw… are you already trying to consume things..? You poor thing.. Haven’t the smallest lick of intelligence in you… I guess I could give you a brain.” Setting egg down and then forcefully pulling the beast off of her finger, she pulled a jar down from a shelf which sat above the table the egg was sat on, and popped it open.
“Since I want a lust demon, and not specifically a lust beast… I’ll be giving you the brain of an incubus. Be grateful, these creatures are vile and difficult to kill, so of course they’d be extremely valuable, so don’t take my kindness lightly…” Setting the dark red brain down next to the egg, which managed to lure the beast out, the light pink, one eyed, three tendriled creature attached itself to the brain, wrapping its tendrils around the brain and using the mouth located on the back of its eye to eat away at the brain.
Slowly, as half the brain was devoured, the light pink color the tendril beast retained became a dark purple.
“Analysis..” Chanting a short spell, she began looking at the stats of this newly formed Lust Beast.
“E-Eh…? So wea...k?” In disbelief, she looked over the stats time and time again… but still…
Level 1 | 85/100
Race: Tendril Monster (Old), Lust Beast (New)
Skills: Tainted Intellect (Level 1),Camouflage (Level 1), Bite (Level 1)
“After all this trouble… I get a crappy start monster.. it's not even a Lust Demon... a level one piece of...” Closing the appraisal window with the swipe of her finger, she fell backwards into her bed while the Lust Beast continued to chew away at the brain.
“Haha… Ha… Haha… Hahaha…” Seeming to drift off into a state of temporary madness, she clutched the sides of her head, and as she did, her cruel and heartless expression she had worn during the castle raid returned to her face.
Standing up and walking over to the shelves, she pulled down a worn book and pushed it onto the Lust Beast, and just by simply opening the book and saying 'Dungeon', a bright light emitted and with the light it took the Lust Beast with it.
"Now that my plan was just destroyed in an instant... I might as well go look for a wild beast to tame... instead of raising it myself..."
Why was Akyia so depressed that she couldn't raise her own beast? The answer was fairly simple.
Beasts, no matter what kind, would usually feel as though they owed a debt to their owners for protecting them and raising them, if they were raised by their master since birth, and with the protection they usually received, they were frequently around the ten to twenty level range, which was not a level one would scoff at, even if it was a simple monster such as a Horned Rabbit. But a tendril monster... not only did they hold the most potential, they had no natural lifespan since they were manifested via mana, or the impregnation of another girl by a tendril monster that had learned how to produce eggs, which would range in size depending on the power and desire of said tendril monster.
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But not only was a tendril monster never aging, all tendril monsters held the skill 'Absorption', which was why the spell 'Appraisal' didn't list it in the 'Skills' section on the appraisal screen, since it was seen as a race attribute and less of a learnable skill.
But the reason that this tendril monster, the one that had formerly been trapped inside a purple egg, was kept under such guard was because of the abnormal success rate in absorption.
The chances of a normal tendril monster learning a skill on the first try was around five percent, but with this tendril monster, that chance increased every year by five percent.
While that may not seem like a lot, considering it was kept in that prison for who knows how long, and it was kept from hatching via metal pins, the time it had to build up the absorption rate made it so it had a non-zero chance at failing with absorption... meaning it was almost guaranteed a skill learned from whatever it killed.
And due to the brain it had just consumed... it's intelligence was already at the level of sentient thought...
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Thump
A single, purple being dropped from the ceiling of a beginner dungeon.
What was this creature?
A... Tentacle Monster? No, perhaps.. a Lust Beast?
Yes, that's what had fallen into a beginner dungeon, on the third floor, in an empty room, by itself.
Although... it cannot see in the dark, so perhaps it isn't entirely alone?
The slithering of snakes... clicking of spider legs... growls of orcs and goblins...
All these sounds echoed throughout this cave and into the ears of the lone Lust Beast.
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Skills Unlocked: Basic Demon Language Comprehension, Human Language Comprehension, Night Vision, Steady Libido
Basic Demon Language Comprehension: Understanding of basic conversations in the language of the demons, does not allow the owner of this skill to speak the demonic language.
Human Language Comprehension: Understanding of conversations in the common language of the humans, does not allow the owner of this skill to speak the common human languages.
Night Vision: Allows the user to see in the dark, varies depending on level.
Steady Libido: Libido increases every few hours or minutes, effects vary.
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The sudden unlock of these skills... All of these from that one brain... what was the success rate with this beast..?
Activating the Night Vision skill subconsciously, the beast blinked slowly a few times, before lifting itself with both tendrils and then moving forward.
Spider... After... 'walking' for a few moments, the tendril beast encountered life.
How would it react?
It couldn't... rape it... simply because it's body was so tiny that it'd just end in a gruesome sight that no one wants to see.
It hasn't seemed to notice the beast... so naturally, its predator instincts kicked in and it slowly moved towards the spider, dropping itself on its own mouth so it didn't take up so much space.
Although the tendril monster was quite small in terms of human size.
Slowly... the tendril monster finally met its prey, and lifted itself over the motionless spider...
Fwap
The sound of a rubbery substance hitting something hard echoed quietly throughout the cave as the tendril monster crushed it's squirming prey, which was desperate to escape the clutches of the beast that had already ripped its abdomen off.
Of course, realizing it had no hope, it shifted from the defensive to the offensive and tried to desperately bite into the tendriled creature that had latched onto itself, but the pressure kept it from successfully getting its teeth into the flesh of the beast.
And so, the first victim of the tendril monster was killed, its abdomen torn off, body crushed, and head eaten, the tendril monster quickly picked up the remnants of the spiders body and finished eating, burping afterwards.
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Skills Unlocked: Venom, Spider Silk Production, Multiple Eyes.
Skill Failure: Eight Legs
Substituting Eight Legs for extra tendrils...
Success.
Eight Legs: Substituted for extra tendrils, making for a total of eight tendrils.
Venom: Allows the skill user to produce its own venom. The method of injection varies with the skill users own race.
Spider Silk: Allows the skill user to produce its own spider silk. Method of extracting varies with the skill users own race.
Multiple Eyes: Allows the skill user to have multiple eyes. Eyes are fully functional and will require time to heal if damaged. Positioning of the eyes changes with the skill users own race.
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