《Adelrams tail》 Body reconstruction [Based on your answers, your new body will be formed. Understood?] [yes] [no] "yes, understood" [Pick:] [strong abdomen] [strong feet] [strong hands] "strong hands, easy choice" [Pick:] [acid] [poison] [gills] "hard choice, but theirs not much point in a human having gills because their are some terrifying creatures down there. I choose poison" [Pick:] [second head] [third eye] [tail] "having a tail sounds pretty cool, I choose tail" [Name a shade and colour:] "black and purple" [body reconstructing....3...2.....1] ********************************************************************************************************* ''Its warm.....this must be a womb....cant wait to see my new body...better be a total ladies man.'' I open my eyes to see a yellowish soft but gooey wall, I do a little stretch to get a feel for my body, pushing against the walls...*pop* Suddenly all the fluid in the womb starts to flow out and walls close in becoming suffocating, out of desperation I reach my hands forward to try a push the wall away but my hand goes straight through the wall. ''Did I just stab a hole through my new mother?'' I quickly pull my hand back but then look through the hole.... ''Is that an egg?'' I then come to a sudden realisation, it all made sense. Why my body felt different when I stretched, why the walls are so weak...The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement. ''Im not a human.....some kind of animal'' I quickly rip through the remainder of what I now know is my egg and climb out to the ground in clumsy steps. I look at what I thought were hands.....pincers. I remember picking the option of having a tail so im not a crab....I try stretching my tail and bringing it forward, it does as I command.....stinger. "some kind of scorpion" [new body discovered] [leveled up] "having a system makes life a lot more pleasant....Status" [Adelram status] species: scorpion larva level: 1 health: 10 vitality: 2 exoskeleton: 1 legs: 1 pincers: 1 tail: 1 venom sac: 1 DP: 5 abilities: {absorb} {poison sting} I notice 5 DP ready to use but before I put it to any use I needed to figure out the best way to kill other animals and level up.....venom sac sounded like the best option, especially with the large number of unhatched and vulnerable eggs. ''First thing is to survive and get stronger even if they are technically my kin'' I then chuck 1 DP into my legs just for some more mobility and the other 4 into my venom sac...which made it so my poison was 5 times more lethal then a normal larvae. I quickly got to work inserting my stinger directly into the egg opposite mine and release poison. I watch as the scorpions health goes down. [scorpion larva] HP: 10 [-1] [-1] [-2] This continued for a full minute before it died...I felt some guilt,but consoled myself by saying it was necessary. when I got to my 5th larva is when I finally leveled up and spread my DP across all my stats equally while leaving out the venom sac. [Adelram status] species: scorpion larva level: 2 health: 15 vitality: 3 exoskeleton: 2 legs: 3 pincers: 2 tail: 2 venom sac: 5 DP: 0 abilities: {absorb} {poison sting} The process of me killing my kin was repeated for an hour and a half....I killed about 70 of my kin with short gaps of rest and eventually reached level 4....Seems like killing level 0''s doesnt help much after a while. At this point my body was noticeably bigger with more fluid movement and stronger poison. [Adelram status] species: scorpion larva level: 4 health: 25 vitality: 5 exoskeleton: 4 legs: 4 pincers: 3 tail: 4 venom sac: 7 DP: 0 abilities: {absorb} {poison sting} I discovered that my ability absorb allowed me to basically absorb my dead prey into my body through my tail and use them as nutrients which was much more convenient then having to eat them. After an hour I came across a much larger scorpion at the edge of a hole where light was spilling through, I went up to it realising it must be my mother but as I got closer and eventually came into contact, it remained unmoving and according to its status.........dead. Dont know what killed it but I decided their was no point in sticking around so I quickly took my leave coming out into an open forest......the perfect hunting ground, trying to stay positive I decided to keep my little hole full of my dead siblings as my hideout. So until I became strong enough to walk into the open forest I would kill small things like myself and hide out in my scorpion cave when it got dangerous, leaving my dead mother acting as a scarecrow. ''now now, what should this one feast on first.....ah look a caterpillar, here I come.....'' Upgrades Caterpillars are generally weak animals with some being poisonous and others having the abiliy to shoot string........seeing its status I could tell it was much stronger then me. [adult poison caterpillar] level: 19 HP: 140 But to get strong fast. Risk is a must. Good thing im smarter then most animals.......no smarter then animals in general atleast. Now I know that through out the past few days of scouting and absorbing larvae as nutrition that animals evolve into a higher evolution around each tenth level depending on the species. So according to my observation this caterpillar will find an isolated area and form its cocoon........thats when caterpillars are at their weakest. Knowing the caterpillar would evolve soon I followed along the black barked trees, for some reason I was also black even as a larva so it was the perfect camouflage. After 12 hours of constant following it headed to deep into the branches and hung upside down, started shining until a purple pulsing cocoon wrapped around it. ''nows my chance'' I quickly sprinted to the cocoon and directly stabbed my stinger into its but as I tried to inject my poison the caterpillar also injected its poison into me, However instead of feeling pain my skill [absorb] activated and I felt the poison being broken down, transcribed and translated into a poison that was compatible with my venom sac, the newly translated poison interlaced with my original poison and created a stronger variation. [lowest level poison obtained] [venom sac has increased my 3 points, You may now choose an upgrade. Would you like to pick?] ''yes yes quickly!!'' Even though caterpillars arent made to have strong teeth, this was a level 19 adult so I was rapidly losing health and perhaps soon my tail. [pick:] [squirting] [corrosive] I quickly chose corrosive since squirting didn''t seem like It would do much without it being corrosive first. I quickly released my newly corrosive poison into the sack and removed my half chewed stinger, seeing its HP dropping at a slow rate of just 1 every 3 seconds was gonna take too long and the poison seemed like it wouldnt last that long so I decided to pincer the stalk of the cocoon but instead found how durable it was. I looked down seeing the caterpillar biting through its cocoon trying to climb out and attack me. My mind was racing, I quickly stabbed my stinger towards the stalk releasing more and more poison. seeing the stalk still standing firm, panic was starting to seep through but just before it did I noticed the brand below my feet. I quickly put my all into pincering and stinging the branch. Just as the caterpillar made its was out. The branch snapped and fell.Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere. [you have leveled up] [you have leveled up] [you have leveled up] [you have leveled up] At 9 HP remaining I killed the caterpillar. I quickly healed due to the levels up and checked my status. Noticing 20 DP, and distributed it according to what I thought best. [Adelram status] species: scorpion larva level: 8 health: 50 vitality: 10 exoskeleton: 10 legs: 7 pincers: 6 tail: 7 venom sac: 10 DP: 0 attributes: [lowest poison] abilities: {absorb} {poison sting} [exoskeleton has reached 10 points, would you like to choose an upgrade?] ''yes'' [pick:] [bronze] [rubber] Harder or more impact absorbent huh, while rubber does seem like a good choice......it felt like a dead end and it couldnt block the bite I suffered. ''bronze'' Suddenly a heat was escaped the very core of my body and into my exoskeleton, not causing pain but instead cause a comforting cracking and hardening sensation..........it was weird. [lowest metallic armor obtained] Though I thought I my change to the colour bronze, it seems my worries were for nothing as it was just that my body took the attributes of bronze. After returning from my hunting trip and resting through the night I came up with several hypotheses. One being that absorb was much more then it first seemed, able to absorb not just nutrients but also attributes. Two I would probably evolve at level 10. Finally three, unfortunately my only option was to find and attack more cocoons due to weaker animals being guarded by parents. However this time I was a bit smarter only keeping an eye out for poison and attributeless caterpillars and staying away from things I had no resistance against like dark and flame caterpillars. Yes it seemed attributes as such were common in the animal kingdom with fire foxes and water mice. Thinking mice were easy targets was a big mistake since they had strong teeth, very fast legs and quick reflexes. Luckily predators generally only went for their specific prey, rarily attacking other creatures unless through self defense or because of territory. I had rare few predators, not because I was a scorpion, but because I was a black scorpion, seems like my black exoskeleton, purple eyes and purple tipped stinger gave off danger. My predators were rare because only if they were poison attributed would they be willing to risk attacking me. I got away from them through camouflage and hiding under rocks during my scouting time. This time I followed an attributeless caterpillar and instead of bothering to sting its cocoon, I directly cut the branch from the bark, killing the caterpillar. Not risking a fight. [leveled up] [leveled up] I quickly distributed my DP so that all my stats reached 10. [tail, legs and pincers have reached 10 points, would you like to upgrade them?] ''yes'' [tail-pick:] [flexibility] [double stinger] ''damn both so tempting, but the idea of being able to bend my tail the other way and use it in unorthodox methods is tempting................I choose flexibility'' The same heat from before that upgraded my exoskeleton spread to my tail, reconstructing it......I moved it around, it had more segments and moved more like a monkeys tail. [legs-pick] [firm] [spring] I easily chose spring since being able to jump away in battle sounded perfect, the same warm current ran through me and into my legs. I jumped and..........it was disappointing with only a few inches of height, but it was a vast improvement. [pincers-pick] [grip] [pierce] the pincers struggled to cut through the wood earlier since they acted like a blunt knife on wood but I imagine grip to be a more jagged pincer so it would do a better job. ''I choose grip'' As I predicted my pincers gained a jagged structure which acted like a saw but also a powerful grip. [you have reached level 10, would you like to evolve?] ''yes''