Right after distributing the stats.
My vision was filled with white light.
A long ti passed where I couldn't see or hear anything.
Then, I heard a voice.
「Your ntal Strength is 20. You gain the unique trait 'Indomitable' as a bonus.」
「Your Potential is 20. You gain the unique trait 'Perseverance' as a bonus.」
I inwardly rejoiced.
It sounds extraordinary, doesn't it?
I had a feeling since I was told to distribute stats, but it seems I've been reincarnated into a world with status windows.
I didn't know what effects the traits 'Indomitable' and 'Perseverance' would have.
But given they're called unique traits, they must be exceptional.
What would happen now?
As I've seen in web novels, would I be born as a baby?
I might grow up being called a genius from a young age, with my reason and mories intact.
How long did I spend pondering and imagining?
At so point, my body started to form.
Perhaps in my mother's womb.
A warm feeling.
Ti passed, and finally, the mont of birth arrived.
With pain, light entered my still immature eyes.
I was thrown into the world.
I was born.
Just as I had prepared, I was about to cry out "Waah!" with all my might.
"Saak!"
That's the only sound that ca out of my mouth.
Slowly, I could see ahead.
The first thing I saw wasn't my mother's warm smile.
No, it was clearly a woman's face, but not human.
There wouldn't be a person with such a huge body or smooth scales.
Around were thousands of eggs.
Babies were being born from the eggs in real-ti.
Little snakes slither out of the eggs along with mucus.
My body trembled.
Could it be that 'background' didn't simply an social status or spoon color?
Did it include species too?
10 ant an average person, they said.
So, is 1 a snake and 20 a dragon?
... Is that how it is?
In the dark cave were countless babies and that monster-like mother.
I looked up at my mother.
Is that monster our mom?
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[dusa Serpent lv89]
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As I stared intently, such a na appeared above the snake's head.
The mother quietly watched her babies hatch.
It was the mont when most of the individuals had broken out of their eggs.
A purple tongue flickered from the mother's lips.
Shriririt-
The noise of wind passing through a narrow place echoed.
And as soon as I heard that sound, my whole body stiffened.
They say your knees weaken when you stand before a beast, and that's exactly how it felt.
Although, having beco a snake, I didn't have parts like knees...
Sure enough.
All my siblings, who had been crawling like insects, also stopped at once.
So were trembling with fear and soiling themselves.
And I too, terrified to the point of ntal collapse...
「You've been exposed to the Serpent's Fear. You're protected by the trait 'Indomitable'.」
I didn't soil myself.
I was scared enough to wet myself, my body was shaking, but sohow it wasn't to the point of truly going mad.
I, an ordinary citizen, had been reincarnated as a snake, becoming the son or daughter of such a human-faced monster.
Isn't this a terrifying situation enough to really drive one mad?
Yet sohow, I seed to remain calm.
'Is this the power of 20 ntal Strength?'
There was no other way to explain it.
It was indeed a good choice.
... No, allocating only about 5 to background would have been the really good choice.
Chut chut!
Then the mother made a strange sound.
I kept calling her mother, which didn't feel right, and I absolutely refused to call her mom, so I decided to call her dusa Mom.
At that mont, my siblings started crawling towards dusa Mom all at once.
It was hard to believe they had been trembling with fear just monts ago.
The baby snakes crawled up that huge body and settled on dusa Mom's scalp.
Sohow, my body beca firmly fixed to the scalp.
I hesitated, then followed. I had a feeling that staying still here wouldn't be good.
And my choice was right.
dusa Mom's scalp was carved with grooves so densely it was creepy.
When I inserted my tail there, my body was firmly fixed.
In other words, thousands of siblings beca the wig for our bald mother.
Hair that ripples as if alive, no, actually alive.
Hair that sways glamorously, no less than a shampoo comrcial.
Mother, seeming satisfied, raised her head and looked over the children who were still stiffly frozen.
Children paralyzed by fear, unable to obey orders.
Mother raised the rod of love for them.
In other words, she swung her tail.
Pububububuk!
As the massive tail passed, all that remained was blood and flesh.
Hundreds of siblings turned into bloody pulp in an instant.
dusa Mom seems to be extrely strict about child education.
All my fate, born under such a mother, must be thanks to my background of 1.
... I couldn't tell if I was crazy now or in a normal state.
I swayed like that, attached to my mother's head.
I think it wasn't even a week since I was born like that.
Who would have thought that the armored man called Gunter would chop off dusa Mom's head?
My monster-like mother died.
As I worried when distributing stats, I beca an orphan who lost parents early.
This too must be thanks to my background of 1.
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Wow.
I really crawled my tail off.
My body was covered in dusa Mom's blood.
I was so out of it, I don't know how I escaped.
I entered the cave and turned my head to look back.
That monster-like knight had disappeared, but village folk were still guarding the entrance.
"Light several fires. There might be so trying to escape!"
"I'll go report to the castle."
The villagers, who were trembling just monts ago, now seed a bit excited.
They were the first people I had t since being born here.
For so reason, I could understand the language they were speaking.
I'd like to go over there and at least talk to them.
I'm actually not a snake, but a person... Please help a little. My body is like this. That's what I'd like to say.
Of course, the only sounds I can make are 'Saak!' or 'Shiritshirit', so it's impossible.
"We need to wipe them all out."
"We have to kill them all now while they're still immature. They could beco dangerous if they grow up."
And it was clear that these villagers were trying to kill and my siblings.
As far as I know, there's no way out of the cave... This is big trouble.
Right, anyway, it seems I can't escape alone right now.
I need to assess my situation a bit more objectively.
I closed my eyes while hiding my body behind a rock.
When I squeeze my eyes shut and concentrate, I can see sothing interesting.
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[Little White Snake lv1]
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That's right! I wasn't a dusa Serpent lv1.
I'm a different species from my mother.
It seed likely. Looking at my siblings, none of them had human faces.
I didn't have the ability to shoot eye beams and turn prey to stone either.
If I had to guess, maybe I could evolve soday if this thing called level goes up.
Or since snakes are creatures that shed their skin, maybe sothing will change that way.
It wasn't just my species I could see.
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[Traits]
[Indomitable], [Perseverance]
[Skills]
[Venomous Fang lv1], [Quick Crawling lv1 (new!)]
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These are the resources I have.
The trait Indomitable is related to ntal Strength. I couldn't quite grasp what Perseverance was about.
The skills I could actually use were things like crawling and Venomous Fang.
Although it wasn't in my skills, maybe because I was born in a cave.
I could see clearly inside the dark cave.
If I couldn't, I would have died long ago.
Seeing Venomous Fang, it seems I am indeed a venomous snake.
But honestly, I'm not sure how much I can use it, or how strong the venom is.
It doesn't seem to be of much help for survival yet.
The skill I gained this ti was crawling.
I acquired it when I crawled with all my might earlier.
The na was unimpressive, but it seed important.
Shouting 'crawling!' in my mind didn't activate the skill.
'Is this how to use it...'
So I crawled with all my might.
Slurp, my body moves.
... It seems a bit faster, maybe.
To be honest, it didn't get incredibly fast.
When dusa Mom rested in the cave, she let her children loose.
I tried crawling around diligently then, but I never gained such a skill.
Then why did I gain the skill this ti?
Isn't it because I crawled fast with all my might?
That was the only thing I could think of.
So I tried crawling once more with all my heart and soul.
Slurp, slurp.
Slurp, slurp, slurp.
Being a cold-blooded animal, I couldn't sweat, but I crawled like my life depended on it.
Then there was a change.
「Due to your great Potential, your skill proficiency increases rapidly.」
「Quick Crawling lv1 has beco Quick Crawling lv2.」
Quick Crawling leveled up to lv2.
I could feel that it got a bit faster.
Still, it's much slower than a person running.
Even so, if I train hard like this and raise it to lv10, maybe I can survive sohow.
Nope, not possible~
That wasn't possible.
I was exhausted after crawling with all my might.
If you're a week old, isn't it amazing to even babble, let alone walk?
Hurray for Potential 20.
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[Status] Hungry, Exhausted
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Damn, I'm hungry.
dusa Mom would regurgitate her prey and feed it to her babies.
It was half-digested and utterly disgusting, but I diligently ate that mush-like at every day with my strong ntal fortitude.
It was a growth period where my body grew day by day.
But now I've starved for a full day, so I have no energy at all.
Crawling hard made even hungrier.
First, I need to go deep into the cave where my siblings are.
If I move together with thousands of snakes, sohow the chances of survival should increase.
In my previous life, I was an only child. Now I have many reliable siblings.
Such naive expectations of mine were soon shattered.
In the dark inner part of the cave, my siblings were tangled with each other.
They weren't hugging intensely to overco a difficult situation.
Surprisingly, they were biting each other.
As soon as dusa Mom disappeared, they were acting on instinct.
These pathetic ones!
Snakes usually swallow and digest their prey in one bite.
But the teeth of and my siblings were dense and sharp like those of a shark. They seed to have evolved to be able to tear apart prey.
They were tearing each other's flesh with those teeth.
Change of plan.
It seed better to wait until those guys satisfied their hunger.
Just as I was about to turn and hide in a crevice.
"Shiririt."
A snake bigger than blocked my way and flicked its tongue.
Uh, bro, could you move aside?
I flicked my tongue too, but he didn't seem to have any intention of moving.
I concentrated on my eyeballs to observe my ferocious brother.
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[Little Green Snake lv3]
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Co to think of it, I'm the only one with a white body, so I must stand out.
My brother's level was two higher than mine.
When did he secretly eat insects or bats without mom knowing?
No, looking at the blood around his mouth, it seems he just ate another sibling.
Looking at the traits and skills of this dostic violence perpetrator.
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[Traits]
[Ferocity]
[Skills]
[Venomous Fang lv2], [Quick Crawling lv2], [Bite and Tear lv1]
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He has better skills than .
Could my brother also have Potential 20?
Instead of answering, my brother lunged at with a 'Saak!'.
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