Chapter 2 - Despair

'Where am I?' I ask myself in my mind, I can see, yet my eyes aren't open, nor are they closed. I look around, hearing a squelching sound, I notice how high up I am, if I were to fall I would die.

Yet I'm not on a cliff or anything, I'm simply suspended mid-air, I struggle, look behind me and noticing strands of what appears to be muscles, suspending me in the air by digging into the walls and ceiling.

I pay closer attention to my surroundings, staring in awe at the beauty of the room. I feel like I could live forever, simply off of how the room looks.

I smile, noticing streams of colorful particles entering my body, giving me strength. A mouse skitters across the cavern, my instincts scream "Infect it!", not understanding what that means I lose control over my body for a second.

A muscle-like tentacle jumps out of the wall, wrapping around the mouse and forcing itself into the poor mouse's mouth, 'What is this, Hentai?!' I think the mouse stops moving as I feel my conscience fading again.

I wake up, looking around again before I notice how tiny I seem. I stand on two legs, looking at my pink fuzzy hands, I skitter over to a waterfall, looking at a rough reflection in the water.

I can see enough to tell, I'm a mouse now. I look around the room, seeing a large pink thing made out of what seems to be muscles, hanging off of tentacles burrowing into the wall.

'Was that me a second ago? I wonder if I have some sort of 'Status' like in all those light novels.' I think, at that exact moment, a status board pops up, saying:

(editing the chapter after I picked this back up, such a cliche lol)

----[**Status and Information**]----

Name: None

Titles: Genius, Dungeon Master

Race: Infected mouse

State: {Weakened (due to the poor connection between the main body and infected body. (You may only explore parts of the cavern in which your tentacles have gone).}

Level: 1

Strength: 6

Agility: 10

Luck: 13

Dexterity: 16

Charm: 3

Wisdom: 120

Charisma: 17

Intelligence: 1,065 (due to your past lives memory's and intelligence, this stat may be high.)

Skills: [Slash], [Pick-Pocket], [Sneak], [Deceive], [Infection], [Enemy Detect], [Appraisal]

----{**END**}----

'What the hell is up with my intelligence?!' I think.

I try to yell, but it only comes out as "Chuuuuu!"

----{**ENEMY DETECTED, SPECIES UNKNOWN**}----

A board pops up in front of me, a hear pitter-pattering coming from beside me, up above a cliff a green humanoid stands with a crude stone club.

'Now's my time! [Appraisal], go!' I think,

----{**Appraisal**}----

Name: None

Race: Goblin

Level: 45

STATS UNKNOWN

----{**END**}----

"Chu!" I squeak in surprise, immediately turn around to run away, but the goblin suddenly stands atop my tail.

'Damn! I'm done for!' I think as I lower myself, '[Slash]!' i think as my claw lashes out at the goblin, it was in the middle of charging for a strike, but it jumps back a little, allowing me to run away.