Day 1
I was surrounded in darkness as the terms Puca and shape shifting ran through my head, as far as I know I should have died during that surgery yet if I was still alive I should have woken up by now yet neither happened therefore their were two possibilities 1. I somehow fell down and knocked my head hard causing me to hallucinate or 2.I died and reincarnated to some new world now no matter how hard I wanted to just declare all of this a hallucination it seemed that it wouldn't be this simple.
Though what I needed right now was information and information I would get.
'Just my luck reincarnated to some weird new world with not even an explanation to all of this well at least I wasn't sent to some hell with zealous priests attempting to rip out my soul but jokes aside I need to figure out what situation I am in and if I'm near any other people weather if they're friendly or an enemy.'
With that resolve I forced my eyes open bit by bit what was in front of me were ugly little creatures not quite resembling Goblins from my world but they weren't even the least bit less ugly with black skin and demon like yellow eyes with tiny horns poking a bit out of their skull covered by their pitch black hair, some had a few differences for example a few had markings surrounding their bodies or some were in the shape of a goat or horse but the majority had bodies resembling that of a combination of an imp and Goblin enchanting their dark skin was the cave hosting all of them outside the door you could hear footsteps going all across the place.
'Imp/Goblin like creatures with a few goats and horses what kind of monsters are these?'
Seeing the differences I inspected my own body even though I didn't have much strength in my body due to resembling the stage of a newborn I could see that my skin was a combination of a pale gold and purple with the purple slightly consuming the gold.
What happened next though shocked me one of the creatures near me body started to glow pitch black as an oil like substance started to surround it's body and within 5 minutes it had taken the shape of a goat only then did the words shape shifter make sense it seems that this race that I was reborn as possess the terrifying ability of shapeshifing yet I couldn't help but to hold a bit of curiosity in my heart wondering why they only took the shapes of goats and horses.
The Skill Shape Shifting allows the user to transform into any thing they have eaten for a short period of time that increases the higher level it reaches.
Without any warning a warm sounding voice that was neither male nor female was inside my head, looking around I couldn't find anything expect a few of them fighting with each other for food.
'Who was that?'
I serve the one who summoned you to this world my name is Cilec at your service
'The one who summoned me? Who is that person and what do they want from me?'
..He is the strongest God of them all the mighty meatbun!
'It seems that who ever made this thing forbid it from revealing their identity and gave it the ability to use sarcasm.'
'All right then what can you tell me about this world.'
Long ago in the plane of Mortals Deities descended down to earth such as the likes of The God of Terror Egon or even less famous ones such as Aki The God of The Sky no matter where they came from or what their mindsets were with their followers, armies, and legions they fought for centuries all for one item and that was The Sword Of Perpetual told of in legend in many planes was said to be an item of unimaginable power that could wipe out a person's very existence as though they never existed even if someone were to have multiple bodies stored the sword would trace that persons birth and erase them completely ignoring any magical or physical defenses destroying all lives within them.
The bringer of this news was The Earthbound Kain known as a trickster who was one of the Leaders during The War between The Gods and Earthbounds a battle that lasted for 10 years straight, he was loyal to the side of Earthbounds into they refused to use trickery in battle during which he deflected to the side of the Gods 12 years later he revealed information about The Sword Of Perpetual stating that the Sword Was broken into pieces sent all over the Mortal Plane usually The Gods would be skeletal of such News from Kain but seeing proof in front of their eyes was a whole another story the Purple Shard wiped away any doubt seeing the powerful energy from within it bought out their Inner Greed, many gods present wished to gain that sword for themselves but had to conceal it since Egon was present, still due to Egon gaining this Shard it would spread all over The Planes bringing Gods who were long forgotten back in view even certain black sheep would rise out from among The Humans to gain power called The Champions Of Chaos.
This Conflict was known as The Birth Of Flame And Chaos the shards were never gathered due to all the wars waged among god and men alike therefore most of the gods of the planes and chaos warriors died or went missing leaving only a few traces behind and those warrior decadents are the beings who roam this planet today even your newly granted race Puca is related to either one of the chaotic humans or gods besides that five major continents are known to men and elf alike inhabited by either the dwarven, elven, demons, demi-humans, or men that is all the knowledge that my creator granted me to share.
After hearing all this information it was much to take in but it gave me much more knowledge about this planets history therefore I decided to push all that other information back for later as I fell asleep to think about it more and with that the darkness embraced me.
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Day 2
Waking up I could hear the sound of the entrance opening up as I started to sit up with that I also noticed that my kin and I grew in size not as much as those who were able to transform but at least now we aren't the size of small kittings, heading into the room were creatures the height of a child they shared the rest of my kins glowing yellow eyes and pitch black skin with hair that went towards their back.
One stood out the most and that was the tallest one with long claws I'll refer to him as Elder Puca for now but he had proceeded to inspect each Puca one by one this went on for minutes into he eventually reached me mumbling to himself for a few minutes into he spoke out loud.
“Your fur reminds me of one of those cowardly bats that had almost killed me in that cursed forest while your eyes give off intelligence therefore I'll name you Wyl.”
Congratulations! You're now named Wyl.
The Elder Puca nodding at the name he proceeded to name the rest of the Pucas.
When the elder Puca confirmed that each Puca was named he waved his hand at one of the smaller Pucas as they took command.
“Listen up hatchlings! Rest time is over the king has called all Pucas to the outside those bastard Goblins are attacking us again since our change in leadership.”
With that the Pucas surrounding the tallest one started to push my kin and me towards the outside what surrounded us was a forest with a blue sky on top of us.
Being surrounded by all the other Pucas was a red eyed Puca with an axe in it's hand with a few cracks in between it giving out orders.
Puca King > “Send the runts towards the Goblins in the frontline, keep our strongest men hidden in the trees the shitty Goblins won't even notice that they fell for our trap as they're deceived by our weak attack power by then it'll be too late.”
Some of the senior Pucas showed expressions of praise on their faces while the younger ones were clearly afraid this was the same for me of course I who had no experience in a brawl let alone a death match between monsters was in a troublesome position but if I was able to survive this battle then I'm sure that I can gain much needed experience from this battle that would ensure my survival besides that I'm also interested in testing out my transformation skill while I don't have any forms right now if I'm able to steal a part of the foes body it should be possible to obtain, as I was lost in thought one of the senior Pucas started to yell.
“Get over here and receive your weapons brats you'll need it!”
Hearing this I ran over as a line was quickly formed between the Pucas some received swords and bows that seemed like they could crack any moment while others had only gotten weapons that were half way together when it was my turn I received a spear that was in normal condition though it looked like it would snap if too much pressure was applied I saluted the elder Puca as he nodded in response.
This had went on for 10 minutes into....
“Boom! Boom!”
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Sounds that resembled that of bombs ringed out.
Puca King: “Shit those god damn Shaman send out the runts quickly! Quickly!”
With that we were forced into heading towards our doom as the older Pucas sent bloodlust towards our direction, I could only shake my head as the Pucas ran around in chaos during times like this I could keep my calm by just singing to myself even when looking at the overwhelming odds of our forces losing against theirs I had this one though In my mind it was live live and survive for another day fix all the mistakes you made in your past life with this one.
“The Cats Chases The Rats as they try to flee yet even with it's insignificant strength it clings to life with all it's might.” ♪
Slash
“The group of cats keep killing the Rats like flies yet no matter how many times they slay them their desire to live inspires them to keep fighting for another day for one thing and that's hope!” ♪
Slash
“And with that The Rats prepare their claws as they fights with all their might!” ♪
'The Goblin slashed down upon my spear I could feel it starting to break and I would have no chance of resiting with my minor spear skills but even so even so I fought, fought as hard as I could I wanted to live and I wouldn't let this monster prevent that, I teared and bit at his shoulder as pieces of his flash were ripped out yet even so the Goblin wasn't fazed if anything it only served to anger it as it sent me flying.
boom!
My spear broke as the club was coming towards my neck yet unseen to me were the other twenty Pucas supporting me as they shouted out my song.
“Die! You Trash!”
“The Cats Chases The Rats as they try to flee yet even with it's insignificant strength it clings to life with all it's might.” ♪
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“The group of cats keep killing the Rats like flies yet no matter how many times they slay them their desire to live inspires them to keep fighting for another day for one thing and that's hope!” ♪
Slash
“And with that The Rats prepare their claws as they fights with all their might!” ♪
click
Instantly one of the female Pucas hiding in the forest shot her arrow towards the Goblins head slaying it though in response revealing it's location but succeeding in giving us the advantage of Morales.
Even with that we were barley able to hold off one Goblin as we fought with all our might hundreds of us were slain while a few of us including the twenty who helped me with 2 dead were able to escape as we got to a safe location my group could only constantly repeat these words as cheers rung out.
Puca #1 “We survived! We survived!”
Puca #5 “If not thanks to that weird noise he made back then I don't think I would have been able to get over
my fear like that.”
Puca #8 “Te..teach me how to make noise too!”
There were eighteen Pucas near me but the ones who stood out the most were the two boys who were obviously much older than me yet I still wondered why they were on the frontlines, the younger Puca girl with the bow though seemed to be closer to me in age shown by her inability to speak very well, as I was thinking about this I could see some windows that I didn't look at yet.
Title Gained! Survivor
Level up! Level up!
Puca Language Skill Gained!
Skill Upgrade Goblin Transformation Gained!
Seeing the Goblin Transformation skill pleased me greatly as I looked at the other windows.
'Cilec what are titles for and how does leveling up benefit me?'
Different titles are created according to how you respond to a situation in this world there are many benefits but also negatives that come out of gaining certain titles, as to leveling up they're used to raise your stats each stat makes you more powerful the higher they're the stronger you'll become as you explore this world you'll see many individuals with different levels and stats that will require you to respond in different manners.
'I see, I'll save the points for later then you never know when they might become important.'
With all the greetings out of the way the more intelligent Pucas started to introduce themselves.
First was the sword boy who always had a smile on his face which was creepy when you realized what creature he was exactly.
“The name granted to me is Xhondo nice to meet you!”
Next was the boy who gave off a scholarly aura.
“Mine is Malthar it's a pleasure.”
The blow girl with strange markings around her body spoke next while still cleaning her used arrows that she slayed some of the Goblins with.
“..I'm Lucy noise you made during battle helped me overcome fear thank you.”
In response I only smiled as I said.
“There's no need for thanks after all I would be the same if I didn't have my singing to distract myself with.”
“So that's what you call noise singing?”
Lucy seemed to be fascinated with singing but I pretended to ignore it as I turned towards the strange looking Puca hiding behind Xhondo who started to introduce herself.
“I..I'm Alice n...nice to meet you.”
Hearing that name made my heart go numb as I forced myself to separate the two different persons from each other judging by the way she spoke either she was shy or afraid of me I don't have the time to confirm either of the two right now therefore from the way they introduced themselves Pucas seem to not have surnames in this world so I had just decided to use the one given to me by that elder puca.
“My name's Al..I mean Wyl a pleasure to meet all four of you.”
With the greetings over we three had talked about how they landed up at the frontlines when they were clearly older than the rest of us.
“Well it's a strange story but I'll sum it up quickly that old bastard who leeches off the younger Pucas work he calls himself The Pucas King but in truth is nothing but a puca who's overrun by power he had even gone and killed our father the former chief of this clan silencing all those who opposed him even the other Puca chieftains don't even have a tiny bit of thoughts about rebellion especially when we're facing war against the Goblin and Orc clans since our change in leadership giving him the opportunity to send more of us to our deaths by putting us two in the frontlines while making use of our deaths.”
“I see, what do you plan on doing then I'm sure that if you head back there then he'll just continue with his tyranny I for one am not going to stay in that deathtrap especially after this experience.”
Xhondo with a smile on his monstrous face said.
“I can't face him right now but I'm sure that if we follow you that we'll eventually become strong enough you may be weaker than us right now but it was shown to me during our battle against the Goblins that you have potential after all your voice cleared away all doubt about risking my life to save you.”
'While I'm not looking to become some sort of monarch in this world I won't mind if someone chooses to join me during my travels and plus in this situation I'll take any help I can get.'
“I'm not against it if the rest of you agree then so be it.”
Malthar only gave a slight nod and Alice quickly said yes.
While Lucy gave confirmation in her own way.
“Hn.”
With that Xhondo as the rest of the Pucas translators gave a slight gesture as he said.
“Please take care of us Wyl.”
Title Gained! Upstart Leader
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