As I slithered around, getting used to my new body shape, I observed my surroundings.

Sometimes, I would climb up trees by wrapping myself around them and slowly rising up. Then, I would enjoy the view for a while before moving on.

This continued on for a couple hours. During that time, I ate a half dozen fruits, not worried about poison at all due to my ability.

Just as I was swallowing down another fruit, a voice rang in my ears.

"Hello? Is anyone there? I'm Carl. I'm using the transmitter tool in the System. Can anyone hear me?"

I was surprised for a second before I smiled and checked the system, then called out. "Yes, I can hear you. Glad I'm not the only one alive after all."

Another voice rang out right after mine. "Yeah. I can hear you too. Guys, there's a map option in the system. Check it out, it tells where we all are. We should use it to gather up in a specific location. Mrs. Kaiz, could you decide?"

I recognized that voice. It was from one of the shut-in kids. He usually didn't talk much, but seeing him act up and take responsibility made me smile.

After a moment, a female voice responded. "Alright. I'm still confused about everything happening, so I hope you kids will explain it to me. For now, everyone, open up your maps."

I did as she said and opened the map option that I missed before. A huge screen appeared, showing forests, mountains, plains and even ocean. It looked as though it showed the entire continent, but I couldn't tell since the map seemed incomplete.

Several blue dots dotted the map, sparsely spread out. However, they weren't too far away from each other. At most, it was 50 miles between each other.

"Everyone on it? Hopefully. Contact me privately if you need help, and I'll try to provide it. For now, let's gather at the lake near the mountain. I'll see you there." Mrs. Kaiz cut the call as she went back to doing whatever she was doing.

I smiled as I turned towards the direction of the lake. I wasn't in a rush to get there, and now that I knew I wasn't alone, I felt like a weight had been lifted off of me.

Slithering forward, my senses suddenly went into overdrive as I smelled something... extremely succulent.

My eyes darted around as my sense of smell went into overdrive. I quickly slithered over to the location of the smell, and when I got there, my eyes widened.

Several wolves surrounded a large stag. The stag seemed injured, but it was surrounded by a wall of fire, keeping the wolves at bay.

The elements themselves seemed to roll off from around the stag as it slowly retreated, the wolves advancing as it was pushed back.

I checked the map for a second, and my suspicions were confirmed. The stag was indeed once my classmate, although I didn't know which.

Knowing this, I observed the situation for a couple more seconds before striking the wolf closest to me.

Although it wasn't easy for me to camouflage, impossible even, the wolf had been distracted, so it didn't notice me. I saw the stag look at me from the corner of my eyes, and noticed its surprise, which was quickly turned into hope.

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I wrapped around the wolf and crushed it with my body. The wolf tried to bite and scratch me, but my cheat took effect and he could barely dent my scales slightly. Meanwhile, I obeyed my new instincts and effortlessly crushed the wolf.

I left the wolf there and waited to strike at another wolf. From the previous 6 wolves, 4 remained. The stag had managed to impale one with a stone spike from the ground.

The wolves noticed that something was wrong, so they began to retreat. The stag snorted cruelly and sent a wave of fire washing over the wolves.

As the wolves yelped and dodged, I struck out and bit deeply into the neck of one of the wolves. The other wolves noticed me now, but it was too late.

I shook my head side-to-side viciously, ripping the wolf's throat apart. It cried out in pain and was about to bite my side, but before it could do that, I threw it against a tree.

I turned to the other wolves with a vicious smile before heading over to the stag, who did nothing to block me. Rather, it was happy to see me come help.

Together, it didn't take long for us to massacre the wolves. The first one was impaled by a rock spike after I grabbed it and held it in place, the second one was crushed by me after getting hit by lightning from the stag and the third one was cooked to death by the stag.

After everything was done and dusted with, I turned to the stag as it laid on the ground, panting in exhaustion.

I looked at the list of my classmates in the communication tab of the System, but I couldn't determine who the stag was. Eventually, I gave up and headed towards one of the corpses.

I knew what I was about to do was extremely gross, and yet, a sense of expectation welled up inside me as my mouth opened extremely wide and engulfed the head of the wolf. It took me a good 10 minutes to shove the entire creature into my body, where it would be digested.

However, to my surprise, I found that I was still hungry. Hence, I headed over to another wolf and did the same. Then a third wolf. Then the fourth, fifth, and finally the sixth wolf was inside me.

I was extremely bloated and my insides felt like they were burning. However, my body stayed strong, probably due to Oblivion Body, which was probably the reason I didn't just explode.

Each wolf was around 1.3 meters long, and considering there were 6 of them and I was only around 2 meters, it was a surprise I could even fit them in me. Even the stag looked at me with a mixture of surprise, astonishment, horror, and curiosity.

I laid on the ground. Whenever I moved, I could literally feel the wolves in me moving along with me. It was an extremely uncomfortable feeling, but I had brought it upon myself and deserved the pain.

Finally, the stag got up and looked at me with an anxious expression. Using its horns, it carved a name into a small wall of dirt. Elena

I sighed as I read it. I went to the communication tab once more, and after a bit of searching, mentally tapped on Elena's name on the list.

"Hi." I simply said. The stag was surprised for a split second before smiling and answering telepathically, "Good evening, Leon."

I smiled weakly and struggled to get up. A giggling came from Elena's telepathic voice as she said, "You look so fat! Why did you eat all of those scary wolves? You should have left one for me..." Her voice contorted in rage. Obviously, the things she would have done to said wolf corpses would not have been pleasant.

I understood her situation, and I could sympathize. "I'm sorry. My instincts went into a bit of an overdrive..." I apologized.

The stag, no, Elena took a deep breath as she calmed down. "No, it's my fault. I'm sorry for dragging you into this... I just wasn't expecting that these wolves... would attack me..." She seemed somewhat downcast.

I shook my head slightly. "We're in a foreign world filled with dangers. You could have probably handled the wolves, but what if something stronger came along?" I asked. She looked down in shame.

"We were lucky this time. We should head over to the others. The map says there are already 3 people there, and everyone else is heading there."

Elena nodded. She seemed hesitant but obeyed nonetheless.

Seeing this, I added, "I don't want to be the leader. I won't force you to follow me, but if we go together, our chances will increase by a lot."

She smiled bitterly as she nodded. From what I remember, Elena used to be a cheerleader, someone with a bright future and a handsome boyfriend. In short, she used to be popular and privileged, but now, things were different and she knew it.

"Let's go", I said as I got up. We had already rested for over an hour, and by now the wolves had already been digested by at least 90%. However, the feeling of being full didn't go away, and in fact, I felt that I needed to do... something, soon. I had a guess as to that something was, based on the feeling of being restrained by a cage all around me.

Nonetheless, now was not the time. Elena allowed for me to wrap gently around her since she was much faster than me. Together, we ran towards the large lake, our hopes high.