บท 1: Snake life start
"Am I finally dead?" I mumble to myself with a sigh. I'm floating around in... what seems to be endless darkness.
It seems the old man really did finish me off...
People used to call me absolute evil. Evil incarnate and various other nicknames they could come up with. I suppose they did it because I used kill whomever I came across for my own amusement, or to further my own goals.
Since I was completely unmatched in strength as well, I could do as I wanted.
I never expected any retribution, as I was the strongest. The world I lived in was a godless world, so who cared?
Who knew retribution would come? That too with irony...
As I grew older, I mellowed out and actually started to view creatures as something to interact with. Murder and sadism can only entertain you for so long. Especially if you live for thousands of years...
It all started when I conducted an experiment, that blew up in my face and weakened me. It was just a new art I was interested in learning. In which I spontaneously failed at.
When this happened, the creator seized his chance and attacked me. That old geezer was too much of a pussy to take me on at my full power and used the situation to strike me down.
He obliterated me...
I suppose he was stronger than me, so no hard feelings. Though if I saw him again, I would choke the life out of him.
So you can see why I am confused to still be concious. As far as I know, my soul should be obliterated.
I move around in the infinite darkness, or atleast I think I do. But whatever I do, nothing changes. So I wait.
I continue to wait for who knows how long. Meanwhile trying everything I can think of to leave this place.
In my infinite boredom, where I play mind games to entertain myself, eventually something happens. A flash of light appears in this infinite darkness, blinding me. Before I know what happens, I seem to be in a room, being stared at by a a bunch of people.
"He summoned a snake, hahahaha."
"A toxic snake? That's like, such trash..."
"As expected from the worst mage."
A bunch of people seem to be jeering some kid. The kid they're downplaying is the kid in front of me. While I say kid, he looks about 16. It looks like he summoned me? He crouches down, while clenching his fist.
He offers me a contract, that basically says I have to fight alongside him as a companion, in exchange for magicules.
A contract? With me? This kid? Such impudence... But well I am supremely bored of that dark place, so I suppose I can entertain myself with this brat for a while. I accept his contract and become his familiar.
A contract forms between me and the young boy. I slither on his hand, up to his neck.
Oh yeah, I seem to have become a snake. I really don't care much for my changed form. I've lost the ability to be suprised or shocked with age. If anything it's a rather novel and interesting experience. Especially now that I'm out.
The boy takes me out of that place and gets to doing his thing. Apparently I'm summoned to a country called the Super Magic Empire. This country is at war with some other magic empire.
The next few days, I simply observe the boy as he lives his life. He seems to be a student in some sort of magical school. He's quite an unfortunate soul. It seems he is being bullied by a lot of people. Though his magical abilities are so so.
This world, I've been summoned to is quite interesting. Many things are different from my old world. I guess I'm in some sort of other dimension. The principles of power and even physics are very different.
For example this world has magic and skills. I also have a status.
[Name]- None
[Threat level]- Low D
[Race]- Toxic snake
[Common skills]- (Poison fang) (Body strengthening)
[Extra skills]- (Steal) (Sense heat source)
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Poison fang and body strengthening are pretty basic and self explanatory. Steal allows me to steal magicules from other creatures and add it to my own strength. It takes time to steal from others and the stronger the creature is, the less I can steal. It also allows me to take in magicules from the air, so I'm becoming stronger bit by bit.
Sense heat source allows me sense any heat source in a 360° radious, up to a certain range. It's a very useful skill.
"Time to train you."
After some time passes, my summoner finally decides to pay attention to me. He takes me to a forest and finds an enemy for me to attack.
My first target seems to be some sort of dull looking rodent monster.
He puts me on the ground and I slither towards my prey. I'm coloured fully black, with dark brown eyes, so I have almost no camoflage in a green forest.
Still I slither near the creature and coil myself up, like a spring. Then I use the created impulse to spring myself towards my prey. I quickly close the distance and sink my fangs in the funky gerbil.
[Aquired skill: (Spring)- Coil your body and use the impulse created by your tensed muscles, to spring forth in incredible speeds.] The voice of the world runs through my head.
'Ho? So I can simply aquire skills like this...'
It starts struggling and screaming immediately, but I quickly wrap my body around it, pinning it down.
Then I activate steal and simply wait for my toxin to kill the rat. In about 30 seconds, it lays vanquished on the floor.
Once It's dead, I stretch my mouth open unnaturally wide and swallow the thing whole. Unlike you would expect, my body does not bulge. Instead the body of the rat is immediately broken down into magicules and absorbed. This is also a feature of the steal skill. I can eat creatures and steal their magicules that way, with an increased rate.
If I had expressions, I would be slightly grinning right now. This snake life... It's fun!
My summoner walks over to me with a small smile and picks me up. "Good job. Let's continue hunting."
We walk through the forest and I take out many small creatures. My summoner brings me to increasingly stronger creatures. I kill everything that he points me at, easily. Eventually the killing becomes rather boring. The brat doesn't intend to take me to face stronger creatures as well.
I get stronger with every kill and manage to aquire more skills.
[Aquired skill: (Choke)- Instinctively choose the weakest points of the target to maximize the effectivness of suffication]
[Aquired extra skill: (Fire manipulation)- Enables you to manipulate magicules into fire magic, as second nature.]
Soon the day ends and we return back to my summoners room. I've gained quite a bit of strength today. Enough to break into C rank I believe. I don't exactly know the difference in ranks and it doesn't matter to me as well. I will forge my own path, no matter what the ranks tell me.
I open my status.
[Name]- None
[Threat level]- Mid D
[Race]- Toxic snake
[Common skills]- (Poison fang) (Body strengthening) (Spring) (Choke)
[Extra skills]- (Steal) (Sense heat source) (Fire manipulation)
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Still D...
It's suprisingly easy to aquire skills. It seems that extra skills are magnitudes stronger than the common ones. I wonder if there is an even higher grade as well?
Once we get back to the room we're staying, I unfurl myself lazyly on a drawer and act dead. There is nothing to do in this place, so I just sleep. I'm not yet strong enough to pick fights with the mages.
I find it weird though, that I'm constantly melancholic. I have no drive and I'm very lazy. It would seem that my soul is damaged and because of that, I'm super lazy all the time. This damage will revert back with time though, so I don't have to worry.
Durning the next few days, the brat who summoned me, who's name I found out is Kyle, standardly attended his classes. I spend most of my time lazying around in his room. However some times I go with him and slither around nearby, stealing magicules from creatures around me.
This academy is populated mostly by humans, but there are monsters as well. It seems that a lot of people use monsters as familiars.
The rate that I steal magicules is quite low, so the creatures I use it on don't notice. Only when I eat a lifeform can I absorb a significant amount of their magicules.
My summoners story is quite a boring one. Kyle was born to a a low class family. Miraculously he had a high talent in magic. He enrolled into a prestigious academy and now gets bullied by the nobles.
He's trying to become as powerful as he possibly can. Currently being rank B.
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