Awakening (6)
In a tribe far from Sherria village, a green-skinned creature, with scaly. muscles galore was sitting on a bone throne.
"Tell me what happened?"
In front of this creature a boar-faced creature was sniffling and crying incessantly. The giant green monster waited patiently, in its regal clothing made of tiger skin.
"O-our village was attacked! We were *sniff* transferring the resources of the village into the forest, but suddenly the weak humans decide to rebel catching us by surprise.
*sniffle* they managed to break into our warehouse and lit our village up in fire! I just b-barely managed to escape."
The green monster was looking up and down the young orc with its menacing, serpentine yellow eyes.
"Pfft! HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA!!!"
Its laugh roared shaking the trees and ground around them.
"Those humans dare?! We don't attack them and this is how they treat MY subordinates?...
HAHAHAHA~ Oh, oh, phoo~ sorry it's just so funny that you all were taken down by some weak female and child humans!"
The monster's personality switched between menacing glare and laughter with amazing ease. It contemplated while looking at the kid.
"Off with his head!"
"Huh? What?! No please, I want to live, I gave you information please noooo-!!!"
-Thump!
A boar's head was cut clean and blood flowed neatly down its body.
"Advisor!"
""""Yes chief!""""
"Prepare for a raid..."
***
In a desert, a strange creature was kneeling on the ground, with its hands on its newly formed chest!
It felt the palpitations of a heart, and the necessity to breathe. It was confused by this reaction, it didn't have to do any of this before...
"Akh! Akh!"
It choked on its saliva like it was less experienced at living than a baby...
-Gulp!
Till it learned to gulp, it was now stable and feeling out its body. It had a girl's face with no nose, and goblin ears.
A decently muscular torso, without arms, black hands, and thick, muscular brown legs.
Its eyes weren't consistent either its whole body was a strange conglomeration of different creatures. It had a glowing white light in one eye socket and a purple color in the other.
"Akh! Akh!"
It no longer rattled except for in its forearms. Under its robes, it felt a strange dangling thing. It pulled up and poked the strangely shaped body part...
It felt weird so it stopped. It instead began focusing to use its new ability to speak and think.
"Whe?... Am... I?"
It couldn't fully form the words, it knew. It went through the memory of the girl first. Memories of studying complicated shapes, and memories of her friends and family.
There were no names, only the faces of her important people.
"Who... Am... I?"
It was conglomerating all the knowledge it had. It was beginning to remember where it was.
"A tower... Sealed kingdom... Status?"
It spoke the important words it found in her memories. When it said the last one a screen appeared...
[Undecideds status]
Race: Undecided | ???
Titles: Race founder | Unique existence | Tower thief | Thief of Khonsu's treasure | Sinner
Rank: D
Variable stats
>Strength D+
>Stamina F+
>Speed E+
>Perception C-
>Vitality E-
>EP E-
Invariable stats
>Intelligence C+
>Perseverance F
>Luck D-
>Charm F-
{Innate Skills}
Abyss skeleton (Quasi-legendary)
Partial mummy physique (Epic)
Blink (Epic)
Goblins dexterity (Rare)
Hobgoblins Agility (Rare)
{Acquired skills}
Eye of identification (Rare)
Parkour (Rare)
Linguist (Rare)
Intermediate Swordsmanship (Rare)
Beginner spearmanship (Rare)
{Blessings}
>N/A?
{Sin}
Thief sin- Perfectionist
...
Finally something it understood! It could recognize words here! The information was flooding its brain...
It still had a few holes but it was coming a long fairly well. One of the most interesting things the chimera found interesting was skills...
This world has skills, they can be ranked as follows:
Common skills are lifestyle abilities or newbie abilities. Sometimes even the system doesn't update these...
Rare and epic grade skills are found in tombs, can be learned, passed down, and obtained from people and creatures
Percy and Lily's memories only know up to the legendary rank which a person can only have 4 of...
...
The skeleton received all sorts of memories, which these adults treated as important. It even nearly hesitate to kill Percy after seeing Lily's memories.
It still won't through and it received more knowledge. About their home, the tower, monsters, swordsmanship, and finally the final image of their deaths.
For the first time, this skeleton felt...
Guilt.
...
"Rrrhg... I don't... 'like' this..."
Feeling things like guilt, was like eating shit for the skeleton. Not discussing that it even needed to eat!
-Rumble!
Its new stomach and organs were all requiring sustenance. Being in this desert didn't help.
"Cheh, I~ need to go down."
The only solution to its dilemma was to go down the tower to find food and water. It couldn't stay on this floor...
"Activate key to go to the 5th floor."
It didn't know all the details, but it now knew the basics of the tower.
The tower is a strange existence only available to the people of "Sealed kingdom". However, the skeleton didn't know what a kingdom was let alone a sealed one...
So without hesitation and with all its items in hand, it asked to be warped down the next floor. Its spear was broken so ut took the silver sword the boy had.
It robbed them naked, they had rings, clothes, the stave, and a sword. However, with what little respect it had, it buried them under the sand...
The skeleton... If it can be called that anymore, was now fully kitted out in the light armor, and armor. So activating a portal it went down to the 5th floor...
-Boom!
-Rustle, rustle
The skeleton looked to find a forest of pure red trees. They swayed in the wind like usual.
-Crackle!
In front of it, a new creature appeared! A red mossy-looking creature, groaning and limping like a zombie. The skeleton recognized this creature as a Dearg.
Percy and Lily killed a lot of creatures before they could find the boss at the center of the floor.
Its weakness is mud and sticky surfaces. Lily was useful in this aspect she'd use spells and it caught the creature for Percy to attack.
However, the skeleton had no intention of exploiting this knowledge it obtained. It just needed to tell the system to take it down to the best floor.
Before that, however... It wanted to test out its swordsmanship.
"Graaghh!!"
It growled and its arm morphed into a spherical shape and aimed...
-Boom!
The skeleton wasn't going to avoid it because it felt no danger, however much to its surprise, its shoulder began to sizzle.
-Fshhh~
The red moss was corrosive the skeleton screamed in pain it could feel pain!
"Aghhh!!! Shit! Activate key to go to the 4th floor!!!"
-Boom!
Before it got hit in the face, it managed to portal out of there before it got but again.
"Gahh!!!"
The skeleton, wailed endless tears down its incomplete face. It couldn't take in its new surroundings while it was holding on to its shoulder.
It crouched and covered its face as it sobbed endlessly.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry... "
It apologized ceaselessly as the memories of its kills resurfaced in its mind. It was not just feeling the burn of the moss, it was also experiencing all of its kills now that it understood pain...
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."
In its strange nasally voice the chimera sobbed for hours...
...
-Snore~
The skeleton had fallen asleep from its exhaustion. It was a miracle that it wasn't attacked yet by the monsters on the floor.
Well, it wasn't really the case... Inside the canopies of some short trees, little creatures looked at the monstrosity crying in front of them for hours...
In fear.
The skeleton never caught sight of this it, stood up silently and downcast. It was afraid of such pain happening again.
It looked at its shoulder in disgust and washed off the moss in a miniature river nearby.
The skeleton looked around and I'm with its enhanced earring heard it heard the sounds of the rustling little trees. Its curiosity got a hold of it and with its sword in front of it,
-Slash!
The skeleton cut at the tree to find multiple small, wooden, humanoid creatures falling out while bleeding green sap profusely.
The skeleton crouched down, to recognize these creatures as Groots. However these were supposed to be larger than humans, why is everything here so small?
It didn't know, the answer but what ut did know is that... It's not gaining any memories or physical features.
"What's... Going on?"
It questioned and received an answer from the system.
[New specimen, is being called... True Chimera for the time being. To answer the first chimera's question, once you gained access to the origin panel.
Your innate use of {Sin} deactivated. Would you like to reactivate it?]
"...yes, how?"
[Acknowledged, simply chant activate superbia sin perfectionist in your mind.]
"Okay...
"Activate superbia sin-perfectionist"
[Removing restrictions on [Undecided]'s sin... Successful!]
***
-Creak!
The door creaked and a silhouette appeared.
In a warm bathtub, Serus was contemplating the day's events till he heard the door creak open...
'Did I not unlock the door, who is it?'
He thought that maybe it was a drunk Scarlet coming to tease him or just another drunk that couldn't find their room...
The day's events also made him assume the worst, like a break-in. He picked up a dust broom that was on the floor. With the most powerful of weapons in his midst, nothing could harm him!
-Creak
This time the bathroom door creak and he stood wearily... Broom in hand. Expecting some sort of intruder he was surprised to see... A practically nude figure.
"H-hello?"
A brunette stood in front of the door and awkwardly waved her hand. A slight blush on her face.
"Estella?!"
The girl, who's Estella, was surprised by the sight of a soaked, naked man holding the most powerful weapon in the multiverse...
Serus noticed he hadn't wrapped a towel around himself...
"W-wait!"
He lightly pushed her out of the room and wore a towel. Outside Estella's face was burning a beet red.
'W-why is she here, a-and wearing something like that?!'
Outside in thin lingerie, Estella the woman he promised to save and fulfilled said promise was sitting thoughtfully on his bed...
-Creak~
'Damn this door is creaky, can't they oil it up or something!'
Serus thought of something useless, and like a soldier, Estella stood straight.
"Umm, so Estella why are you- hmm?!"
Estella aggressively pressed her lips against his, and Serus' eyes widened.
'Soft...'
More than one part was softly pressing against him, but he couldn't allow himself to be lost in the feeling. Even though it's his first kiss at least in his memories...
He held onto her shoulders and separated from her,
"...Sigh why are you doing this?"
Estella wouldn't listen however, she kept on trying to forcefully smooch him...
And use force she did, Serus sensed something warming up her hand and she overpowered him pushing him onto the bed.
Serus was seriously alarmed by this move, and his common sense was thrown out the window from being forced down.
In front of him, a small blue sphere formed in front of him and splashed her in the face!
-Splash!
-Bump
She fell on the wooden floor,
"Ow!"
She shouted with a controlled voice, Serus meanwhile was surprised by his own move and profusely began to apologize.
"Shit, sorry! I didn't mean to l are you alright?"
He brought a towel and wrapped her in it. Serus couldn't see her face as she was covered... However, he saw her shivering body whether she was cold from the water or something else he didn't know.
"Are you alright?"
-Sniff!
He heard her choke up and streams of water droplets reached the floor, and suddenly...
She passed out.
"Estella?!"
...
Serus sighed and princess carried Estella onto his bed, and then dressed up. Dragging a chair he sat next to her.
-Tap
"Hmm... Doesn't seem she has a fever or something. Was she inebriated?"
Serus had many questions going through his mind but he just gently watched over the sleeping figure. She had slightly sunken cheeks and a birthmark on her chin.
He didn't rudely look love their body and now she was completely covered. He put a shirt he had on her...
"Sigh why would she come to me? Was this some sort of form of thanks... She could've heard about me saving her.
I doubt she'd be comfortable sleeping with anyone after what she's gone through..."
Minutes passed and Serus just took care of her. He brought a glass of water for when she awoke and didn't disturb the others passed out downstairs.
'This sort of reminds me of something...'
He felt like there was a familiar image in his head of a girl lying in a bed but couldn't put his finger on it...
Before he could delve further into his thoughts however he heard a soft groan.
"Huaam~ where am I?"
Estella's eyes fluttered open and Serus with water in hand waved.
"Umm... You're in my room."
Estella heard his voice and smiled in a drowsy way. However when she laid her. Eyes on his blue eyes hers opened wide.
"No! Please no!"
She took off the cover and dashed towards the window and vaulted out immediately.
-Crash!
A few things crashed down when Serus responded quickly and pulled her back in by the waist.
"No, no please let me go! I don't want to live, I don't deserve to! Let. Me. Go!"
Serus with all his strength held onto the surprisingly strong lady. He patted her head gently while she sobbed.
"Shh, it's okay, I'm here... everything will be ok..."