I made it! I managed to get to the river side where I first found myself. I let out heavy baited breaths as I walked towards the river to get a drink. Just as I was about to dip my beak into it, I noticed sothing. I looked bad.
I looked at myself in the river. My feathers were a ss and dirty. I looked exhausted and pathetic. Was this how I had looked this entire ti?
Tears started to run down my cheeks.
'Why am I crying? No! Stop crying, it's only been a few days. There is absolutely no reason to cry. n don't cry. W-Why?' I just broke down, the tears streaming down one by one till it beca a concentrated flow of crystalline water.
This had to stop. All this running. I needed to stop it. I couldn't keep suffering like this.
'Ken! I'm sorry! I swore to live a glorious second life, yet look at ! A crying ss! A coward who keeps on running! I'm sorry! Please forgive ! I- I can't do this anymore. I want to die.'
Suddenly I had a mory of a ti before my reincarnation.
I was a kid, just transferred to a new school in grade 3. I was naturally a shy person, so I wasn't able to make friends easily. One day there was soccer practice happening and I was supposed to join in on the action. I did. However, I got tackled and was hurt. Obviously I started to cry.
That would be the normal reaction, right? I scraped my knee and sat up with tears streaming down my face. The boy who tackled ca back and saw my bleeding knee. He then got closer and licked it. At that point, I was weirded out more than in pain so I just backed away and asked what he was doing.
He told that he was licking my blood to stop the wound and that he'd heard that licking would be the fastest way to stop it. The P.E teacher got angry at his statent and knocked him on the head. The whole class laughed as he complained. At that mont I thought he was the class clown. Sobody I could never get along with.
After the day, both of us waited for our parents together. We talked a bit and he told that there was no need to cry on the field. I asked him why and he said, because I was pretending. Confused, I asked what he ant by that.
He told that I was simply a good actor. Rather than getting up and continuing the ga, I cried just because I didn't want to play anymore. At this point I was confused. The boy told that he hated and that that was a stupid stunt.
Being the shy guy and not wanting to get bullied, I asked him how I could get him to stop hating although I clearly wasn't at fault. He told that to earn his forgiveness, I would just have to keep on begging till he gave it to .
So the next day, I went to him, begging. He wouldn't listen. I tried again the next day. Sa result. I kept this up for two weeks, because I had realized that he was popular and with that popularity ant power. I could easily be bullied by him, so I just kept on doing this till the end of sixth grade.
We were to go to middle school, but then he called . I asked if he had forgiven and these were his exact words "Grow a spine and fight. All these years have you even sat down once to think about what you did wrong?" to which I respond "no" because if I said yes, the truth was that I didn't know what I had done wrong.
Then he said the most shocking words. "I can't be friends with soone who is such a wimp. You did nothing wrong. I thought you would have realized that and challenged , but you never did. If you had, we could have been real good friends." Then he left.
That was the most shocking thing I had heard him say. I wanted to cry because of how much wasted effort I put into it, but decided against it. It was my stupidity and cowardice that led to that. No one else's. He just wanted to make friends and I was too stupid to stand my ground.
'Yea… that's right. I won't take shit from others! I'll fight too! Alright then! First step is taking back my nest! This ans war!'
I dipped my head into the stream then shook it, getting my battle face prepared. I was about to formulate a plan of offense, when I heard rustling from the forest. Sothing didn't feel right. It were almost as if I were being watched by soone.
I slowly begun to take so steps back, but then I rembered what I just thought. I wouldn't back down now! I had to take a stand and fight. How else would I grow stronger?
Whatever laid behind that bush, was my opponent for the day. I was going to devour it and grow stronger. Nothing was going to stop now that I was in my full force.
'Bring it on! I'll take whatever you've got!'
A giant centipede appeared before . Its skin was pitch black and its antennae were set alit with dark purple flas. It stared at with its compound eyes and its mandibles clacked as they hit each other with glee.
STATUS
[Na: -
[Species: Devil Centipede 98/30
[Status: [Hungry]
[Age: 2 years
[Rank: C
[Race Rank: ???
[Titles: -
[Blessings: -
[Level: 70 Exp: 7/920,000
[Health: 10000/10050 Stamina: 4590/9900 Mana: 1530/2950 Strength: 2250 Speed: 9200 Defense: 4120 Dexterity: 4500 Intelligence: 890 Magic: 1150 Luck: 1950
[Skills: [Antennae Sight], [Poison Bite], [Acid Spit], [Radar], [Fire Affinity], [Dark Affinity], [Twilight Affinity], [Probability Manipulation], [Undetectable Stealth], [Great Deception], [Universal Detection], [Super Thought Process], [Demonic Form Transformation], [Hell fire], [Soul Consumption], [Hellish Bite], [Hellish Gaze], [Temptation], [Herculean Strength], [Devastation], [Magic Absolution], [Investigator], [Teleport], [Contract], [Life Absorption], [Unfazed], [Night Prowler], [Shadow Travel], [Dark Magic], [Dark Magic: Illusion], [Dark Magic: Dark Shot], [Twilight Magic: Twilight Shot], [Twilight Magic: Dawn's Ti], [Twilight Barrier], [Heaven's Inspector], [Fla Barrier], [Auto Health Regeneration], [Auto Mana Regeneration], [Possession], [Appraisal], [Modifier], [Fla Form], [Fire Magic: Purgatory], [Fire Resistance], [Poison Resistance], [Ice Resistance], [Pain Nullification], [Water Magic Resistance], [Magic Attack Resistance], [Aura Resistance], [Exhaustion Nullification]
'W-What the hell?! I-I can't do this!!! What is with today and the crazy scary monsters?! First the two kings and now this guy!'
I cried as I turned to run away. To be honest, I don't know or rember what the centipede did to . All I rember was the blood from my body flying all about as it was being broken apart and I passed out.
***
The devil centipede looked over the golden chick. It had never seen such a creature before and was intrigued. It was about to eat it, when suddenly [Universal Detection] was set ablaze and it was alard. It tried to run away, but it was too late. Its opponent had already appeared.
The bear gave a low growl that killed all the weaker creatures that heard it. Birds fell from the trees and insects just dropped dead. The bear was already giving off an aura that would give the best of the best trouble breathing.
It had mid-night black fur with tiny white spots spread all over it. Its eyes were just as white and it would tower over any ogre easily. With each step the titan took, the ground shook mightily and its footprint was left embedded in the ground. Its tail swayed from side to side causing shockwaves that destroyed all the trees.
Ursula Minor.
A creature that has been deed too dangerous to be disturbed. They mostly hibernated for months, never actually trying to do anything, but when they woke up, that period was terd the 'Ursa Month'. Fortunately, it wasn't that ti of the year yet. So what was this bear doing awake?
Well that was because of the Devil Centipede. It stumbled into the Ursula Minor's cave and attempted to possess its body. This caused it to go on a rampage and now it was here to destroy the centipede.
The devil centipede tried to activate its teleportation magic, but the Ursula minor used its skill [Sky Block] to prevent access. It then activated its skill [Nyx Claw]. A move that allowed for complete and utter destruction of the opponent, including their souls, unless they had so form of counter asure.
The devil centipede did not possess this counter asure. The streak of black from the monster's claws ca at the centipede and broke it in half imdiately, disintegrating the body.
The Ursula minor turned around and left almost as soon as it was done. Sleepily, it stumbled back to its cave to go rest.
The devil centipede then reappeared out of a subspace it had been hiding in and collapsed on the ground. Half of its body had been torn off. It had utilized [Undetectable Stealth] and [Great Deception] to lie to the Ursula minor and escape death. However, this was useless as it wasn't able to dodge the full attack.
The thing about [Nyx Claw] was that if a target got even a single scratch from it, the effect would slowly spread like a disease till the target had been wiped out. The demon centipede had only bought itself a few minutes till disintegration.
It looked around, looking for a ans to survive. Normally death in this world would have just sent it back to the Devil realm, Hell, but it stood the possibility of dying. It used the skill [Probability Manipulation] to increase its odds of survival then looked at the golden chick. It was weak and dying. It didn't have an ego that would have been able to give it problems. It would simply take over and continue with its contract like it was originally supposed to.
The actual devil left the fading centipede body. It appeared in the form of a shadowy mass with massive red eyes and it looked at the chick gleefully. It sward the body and activated its skill, [Possession].
When the devil tried to take over Hinotori's body, it t a firewall. This fire wall was in the form of the unique skill [Evolver]. The devil was confused, but tried to bypass this ever upgrading firewall. Then there was the light.
The weird light that literally destroyed the devil… no, it wasn't destroying the devil. Sure it was tearing it apart, but it wasn't necessarily destruction. It was more like collection.
That's when the devil realized what [Evolver] was doing. The skill was morphing Hinotori's body to a state where the devil couldn't possess it. Normally this wouldn't have been possible, even with the unique skill [Evolver]. Fortunately, the very world was backing up this process.
The devil realized that it had no chance at surviving so it looked around for an escape route. It tried fleeing the body, but it wasn't allowed to. It was restricted and chained down into the body. So it did what it did in tis of crises. It experinted.
It looked for a way to survive. When it found one, it took it. The devil just needed to get to that hole of escape. [Evolver] was tearing away at its very being, but if it got to that hole, none of that would have mattered. It did everything it could. In a few seconds, [Evolver]'s process would be done.
The devil knew this so it went all out. It wouldn't die now. It had been in other life threatening situations before yet here it was. It couldn't wait to see what kind of power boost it would receive after trying this.
The devil got to its hole. The devil survived.
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