Four feet trampled the forest's undergrowth as me and Elena sped along. I was wrapped quite tightly around her, doing my best not to fall off.

"Jesus Christ, you're fast!" I yelled as she ran at a speed a speed only a car could usually match. Elena laughed as she answered with a telepathic yell "I know right!!! This is awesome!"

Apparently, Elena's ability was that, as long as she was on the ground, she could run at 300% her normal speed, but only if there were no aggressors. Furthermore, her senses were quite sharp, so she could avoid trees or other possible collisions.

I had no clue how she had gotten pinned down by such slow wolves before. She admitted that she had wanted to observe them or even touch them, but unfortunately, they too wanted to touch her... aggressively.

Now, however, she revealed the true power of her Cheat Ability, Wild's Daughter.

In less than a couple hours, we traveled the distance it would have taken days for me to do alone. as we sped through the forest, Elena and I chatted and exchanged experiences.

Apparently, right she had chosen to be reborn, she had felt a female voice filled with a sense of... wilderness, as she described, speak to her. This voice had given her the choice to be reborn as an Elemental White Stag, a mythical creature that was a mixture of elemental beasts and the legendary white stag.

I explained a bit about myself too. She seemed fairly impressed when I told her about my various skills, and she even went as far as to mumble how unfair my cheat was.

I had to agree with her, to be honest. Her cheat ability gave her maximum affinity with all elements and the ability to be extremely fast on land, but even then, she felt as though my cheat was better. In my opinion, it was debatable, as both of us seemed to be specialists.

Finally, we broke through the foliage and entered an area without huge trees everywhere. I checked out the map and helped Elena go the right direction.

On the map, there were already 8 dots gathered in a single location. Hence, I directed Elena towards that spot.

She did as I said and, finally, after another couple minutes, we reached what could only be considered as an infernal gathering.

Several monstrosities sat together, presumably chatting through telepathic connections. Elena's eyes widened but she quickly smiled and ran even faster.

The monsters there noticed us and turned towards us, some 'smiled' and others shrugged us off.

When we finally reached them, I slithered off of Elena. Before I could say anything, one of the monsters, a titanic wolf over 10 meters long raised a paw to stop us and scribbled something on the ground.

Join the 'Lake Party (no alcohol)' party

I snorted at the name. Even Elena let out an exasperated huff from her nostrils as we both joined the party through the System.

"Hi. I'm Leon, the small snake. Sup' big guy." I said as I slithered next to the wolf, who for some reason, instantly backed up and seemed on the verge of freaking out.

"H-hi, Leon. I'm Mike. Please don't come closer, I... I don't really like snakes..." Mike said as he quickly turned tail and ran away. Seeing this, the others all laughed, and I could hear their voice in the group chat mechanic.

Other than the huge wolf, there was platitude of different beings. After greeting them all and telling my race, they told me that, since Mrs. Kaiz hadn't gotten here yet, we were mostly free to do whatever we wanted.

I silently thanked the gods for having such an intelligent group. Of course, I had been in honors science when tragedy struck, so the people in it weren't hooligans, but even then for them to realize the implications and danger of everything that was going on made me smile.

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As I was about to doze off under a tree not too far off from the others, we all heard a shrill shriek as we saw a beautiful naked woman darting toward us. She had long, black wings and two ram-like horns, as well as a long leathery tail.

Behind her, a large bear was chasing right on her trail, seemingly blinded by hunger.

Seeing us, the woman cried out in joy as she darted toward us as she shouted "HEEEEELP MEEEEEEE"

As she ran, the bear seemed to be gaining on her, however, it suddenly stopped as he saw 10 powerful beasts charging towards them.

A giant wolf, a silver snake, a mythical stag, a panther with fire all around it, a skeleton with robes and a staff riding a giant asura, a flaming bird, a warrior with dark armor and spikes all around it, a dragon with three heads and finally, a living shadow.

Just as the bear was about to turn around and escape, the Skeleton snorted and aimed its staff at it as he yelled in our chat "Magical super-duper cool attack! Witness me, brothers and sisters!"

At that moment, several skeletal hands reached out from the ground and grabbed the bear, holding it in place. The bear struggled and cried out as more and more hands grabbed it, but by then, it was too late.

The dragon arrived first and it's three large heads bit down into the bear, tearing it apart. He spat it out tho, apparently disgusted by the taste.

After it, as everyone else arrived, the bear didn't last for long, torn apart by both magic, claws, and bites.

After the bear was done and dusted with, we turned towards the demon woman, who was currently panting as she recovered.

Seeing our gazes, she smiled weakly as she said, "I'm Monica, I'm an Incubus, and thank you all for helping me..." She said as she fidgeted.

After getting her to join the group chat, people went back to doing their own things. Some chatted, some practiced magic, and some slept.

Looking around, I noticed nobody bothered to take the bear's corpse. I smiled evilly as I silently slithered next to it. Several chunks were scattered around, so I first ate them quickly.

After it, I called out in the group chat. "I'm hungry. I'll take the bear if you people don't mind." I said and my mouth opened to an almost impossible degree as I latched onto the corpse and slowly dragged it inside me.

Everyone turned at me for a moment. Some people were horrified, others curious, but the skeleton was the strangest of them all.

"Oh my god, that's so cool. That's some serious vore porn right there!" He shouted as he ran towards me and poked me and the bear as I ate.

"Wow, how do you do that?? Wait, can you like, eat everything? Oh my god, that's so cool! Can I help, can I help??" He asked incessantly. With a grunt, I answered.

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"Leave me alone or I'll eat you next, creep," I said as anger and shame began to boil inside me.

The skeleton seemed to want to say something more, but the tall Asura laid a hand on his shoulder and shook his head with a wry smile as he dragged the skeleton away.

As the hours passed by, more and more people came. However, Mrs. Kaiz still hadn't shown up. After checking the map, we saw that everyone was coming closer at their own pace, Mrs. Kaiz presumably one of those slow ones.

After another 2 hours, I finally gulped down the legs of the bear. I truly felt like I was about to explode, but I was satisfied anyway. For some reason, I had developed a strange desire towards meat.

At this point, some of us were starting to get hungry. I was an exception, sort of.

It was decided to send out some of the faster and more armed people to hunt for something and to gather fruits and berries for the herbivores.

There was a small debate in the party. Some of us wanted to forsake the name of 'people' and become monsters true and through, and they had good arguments. Humanity had forsaken us, after all, abandoning us to a serial killer and not even notifying us of his coming despite him having obviously entered the school armed.

However, a part of the group refused the idea. They agreed that what transpired wasn't fair, but they still thought it to be possible for cooperations between us and 'other' humans. Eventually, it was agreed that a vote would take place once everyone was gathered.

As the gatherers were sent, which included the three-headed dragon, the asura, Elena, and finally the fire panther.

It didn't take more than 4 hours for them to come back, each of them having caught several goodies. The dragon had been particularly successful, using a mixture of sheer strength, flight, and it's three heads to decimate and capture an entire herd of strange creatures that resembled bisons but had stone carapaces and sharp horns on their heads.

The Asura was kind enough to catch a small crocodile creature for me, which I profoundly thanked him for before beginning my comic attempts at swallowing the thing. Yeah, the bear didn't last long.

Finally, Mrs. Kaiz reached us. It turns out she had taken a long detour due to having found some adventurers on her way towards us and had trailed them for a while to find out where a city might have been. Her attempt was successful, so she told us all the location.

She was as domineering as ever, and even her race showed it. She had become a Ghost Queen, a humanoid ghost with increased affinity for ghost, darkness and soul magic. Furthermore, she had an ability that allowed to form bonds with fellow monsters, and in exchange for their promise of mutual support, she could always sense their location, health, and various other attributes.

She was very adamant that, although it was clear that this skill was given to her by those gods in order to make her the leader, she would only do so under our approval.

There wasn't a soul who denied the opportunity. After all, to be able to have someone know if you're hurt or in danger while outside of the group was a godsend for all of us. Literally.

After all the bonds had been made, everybody started explaining their own skills to the group, and more importantly, their cheats. There was a total of 18 people, 19 if Mrs. Kaiz was included, so there quite a few cheats to go through.

First, she explained her own cheat. Apparently, it allowed her to pass through the ghostly world at will, become immaterial and immune to everything and everyone for as long as she wished.

After her, the Asura went. He had two abilities, both of which gave him a significant boost when wielding weapons, and his cheat skill, Asura's Martial Way, gave him mastery over all kinds of weapons, and that as long as he was using a weapon, his damage could increase by 200%.

Elena was next, and she explained her own skills. After her, the skeleton went. He had a couple abilities that could boost undead and one that allowed him to summon them as long as he had either corpses or enough mana. He was quite pissed off when he explained that, without a corpse to work with, the cost of making an undead was 10 times more than when using a corpse.

The dragon went next. His head had different abilities, one could blast lightning, the other fire, and the last poison. His cheat made him able to summon 9 heads if he wanted, each of which was extremely powerful. He said that his previous heads wouldn't disappear either, so he could have a total of 12 heads. Quite impressive.

The Fire Tiger could, well, wield fire. However, he could use that power so well that it was honestly scary. He could turn into a blazing inferno in an instant, but when he tried to he was shut down by Mrs. Kaiz.

The Wolf, Mike, went next. He could summon hundreds of smaller wolves to aid him, and he could also dominate minds if given the right circumstances.

He was quite unclear about the dominate minds thing, but I realized that he didn't know himself. The matter was dropped and monster after monster went.

None of them were particularly impressive. Sure, each one of them was impressive, but overall, we all seemed to be around the same level of power.

However, one person shined out from the rest. Not because of power, but because of utility.

He was a giant floating eye, and he said he was a Divine Eye. His cheat ability was called 'The Great One's Workshop'.

Apparently, in that workshop, he could sell things there, and in return, gain points that he could use to spend on whatever he wanted. However, the thing that he tried to sell, including trees and some corpses were worth extremely little.

When Mrs. Kaiz heard this, she went nuts with joy. She had been extremely worried, because none of us here had much experience, nor the appropriate bodies, to do things like build, write, or even just the most basic necessities. She had made it clear that she wanted to first make a base here, where we could always come back to in case of need. However, the how had always remained.

But now it was solved. Sort of. The Divine Eye, Noah, explained quite bluntly that he needed extremely expensive stuff to shove into the a-hole that was the shop. Apparently, he felt that his cheat was quite inferior to others, but I would disagree.

I chose to go last, simply because I felt as though was about to happen. Something I desperately tried to suppress but knew that I couldn't for much longer.

Finally, Mrs. Kaiz turned to me as she nodded, but then she frowned. She slowly floated over to me, as everyone watched with interest.

"Leon? What's going on? Are you ok?" She asked nervously. I knew that she could feel my strangeness right now. Finally, I decided that perhaps it was time...

"Mrs. Kaiz... Please... Move away..." I said desperately. Mrs. Kaiz instantly moved and hissed at everyone to do the same. They did, some with confusion and others with interest.

I wasn't the biggest of them, nor the scariest looking. I wasn't the prettiest, but I was shiny, and I was a snake. I am a snake. I am the Ouroboros. I am the evergrowing snake.

An almost religious poem formed in my mind and my whole being began to sing it. I am the Ouroboros, I am the Evergrowing snake, I am the Ouroboros, I am the Evergrowing Snake...

At that moment, my scales all cracked. I let out a huge cry of pain as it felt my whole skin was torn apart. Everyone watched in horror as I screamed and screamed, pain ravaging my mind and body.

My scales cracked, then my skin did the same. Veins wriggled under the skin as they threatened to explode. My screams only intensified as the seconds passed, much to my horror.

Only after an entire minute of this torture did I suddenly feel like something clicked. A bright light shone out of my body as, for the first time, instead of pained cries, I let out a roar.

My body grew, and grew, and grew. My old skin fell off, as did the old scales. A whole new body was formed for my evergrowing body and the feeling of being suppressed vanished.

When the light shining out from my body finally faded, I looked up to see a lot of wide-eyed creatures looking at me. They all seemed... so small.

I looked down at myself and judged my body to be around 20 meters long now. From the previous 2 meters, it was indeed an incredible growth. I could easily swallow a human now...

I looked around, and after a moment of staring, I murmured in embarrassment, "Hey... Don't stare... Have you people never seen snakes shed?"

After a few moments of silence, laughter slowly broke out. Even Mrs. Kaiz started laughing so hard she seemed to roll over. No, she definitely rolled over as she laughed.

"H-hey, it's not funny! Stop!!" I yelled as I felt my embarrassment spike.

The three-headed dragon placed one of its feet on me gently, getting my attention. "We were just worried for you. It sounded like you went through a lot... We thought you might have died. That would have sucked." He said with a sad smile.

People finally stopped laughing and all of them seemed gloomy now. I apologized and then started explaining my abilities.

"I'm sorry. I knew something like this would have happened, but I didn't expect it to be so... intense. Well, I have the Devour ability, which lets me grow forever as long as I have something to eat, and I also have Major regeneration, Poison Immunity, and Magic Resistance. My skill is Oblivion Body, which reduces all damage I take by 90% and increases my regeneration by 500%" I stated.

The skeleton yelped as he pointed his bony finger at me and furiously yelled, "You! Wow, that's stupid strong. Basically, you're like immortal. Just wow." He shook his head. Most people murmured in agreement.

However, someone suddenly began laughing again. We all turned towards the source, who was the Divine Eye, Noah.

"Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god! We're rich! Rich!" He constantly yelled as he laughed. We stared at him in confusion and he explained, "Each one of these scales is worth over 10.000 points, and there are thousands of them! We're filthy rich, Leon, you're a heck of a living treasure!"

I nodded. "I know. Praise me."