13 Color

AKKKGHH I HURTSSSS!!!

THIS IS MORE PAINFUL THAN BEING STABBED AND RUN OVER A TRAIN DAMNN IT!!!

Not managing the pain anymore I blacked out.

...

Ugh and now it´s getting tight as if the pain wasn´t enough. I´m feeling like I am nearly bursting out of myself.

Waking up to a similar familiar tight feeling I had a déjà vu.

*Crack*

I think something broke...

*Crack* *Crack*

After the cracking sounds, I heard a hissing sound, as if gas were released.

Hope my next evolution won´t be as painful as this. My body still hurts, and I feel like an old man, well old snake that had a few too many tequila shots.

*Ding*

Right afterward a chain of notifications assaulted me, giving me a throbbing headache. Despite the pain and all, I ignored it for the moment as my itchy skin and eyes are worse than the pain.

I wiggled my body a little to scratch it on the stone floor and rubbed my new eyes with my tail.

...

While wiggling I looked up. My mind instantly stopped working as the sight overwhelmed me. There was only one thought that I had right now, 'It´s not grey anymore'.

Ever since that incident, I stopped seeing colors and from then on everything was grey to me, figuratively and literally. I even went to a couple of doctors but they couldn´t find anything wrong with my eyes or brain.

Tears clouded my vision as I looked at my surroundings.

Looking around I could see that I was still on the rock where Sahra was. Next to me is the steaming hot spring filled with light blue water. Surrounding the hot spring are pink rocks looking as if this is artificially made. In the surrounding, I could see many different tall trees. Never in my life could I have imagined waking up and see something like this. The sight was very mystical and soothing, as a light wind brushed my scales.

Why mystical?

Well, because the trees are unnaturally tall and there were constantly dropping small leaves. As the leaves are being carried by a gentle breeze and touch the ground they turn into green low glowing orbs that floats back to the tree and forming into a leaf again, in an endless circle.

While marveling at the sight for a few minutes I sensed something moves behind me and quickly turned around.

Standing a few meters away from me near one of the tall trees I could see a familiar humanoid creature in the form of a young girl. Her whole body was covered by a layer of white sand making her look incredibly pure. On her face were only two black dots and a small slit where her mouth should be, if not looking carefully one would have overseen it. Her right hand is covered in dripping blood that held a small green crystal that is also smeared with blood. In her other hand, she held a blood-smeared transparent dagger that had a slight curve to it.

Seeing me stare at her she immediately dropped her things and rushed to at me and hugged me to her chest, smearing a little bit of the blood on me witch I ignored.

'I missed you too Sahra.'

After a few minutes, she let me go and looked at me with a slight smile showing her sharp needle-like teeth.

Seeing her smile I tried to smile as best as I could and realized that Sahra got a little bit smaller.

No, that isn´t right. I just grew. Inspecting my body again I realized that I am now more or less half a meter long doubling my size and thickness.

Sahra meanwhile walked back towards her dagger and crystal.

Finished with my inspection I wondered where the other two went, but quickly focused my mind on the notifications that I received.

[Congratulations, due to immense experience overloud your evolution was improved!]

[You leveled up!]

Now that I think about it, it now made sense why I only got 5 levels. Guess it capped at level 5 and only got the experience after my evolution. Puh, nice that it didn´t disappear, but instead got the remaining exp afterward.

Wait, didn´t I get five notifications?

[Title unlocked: Limit breaker!]

Ah, there it is. Oh, that´s nice, but what does it mean or do? Meh, will investigate that later but for now…

'System, show me my status please.'

*Ding*

[Status]

Name: ???

Species: Hatchling grey snake (???)

Level: 8

[Stats:]

Strength: 13 --> 20

Agility: 21 --> 26

Intelligence: 23 --> 30

Mentality: 23 --> 30

Hp: 80/80

MP: 0

Title:

1. Limit Breaker (increases stat gain from evolutions)

[Skills: Venom Fang lv2, Launch Attack lv 2, Slither lv 2, Swimming lv 1]

[Racial Skill: Grey Out lv1]

[Evolution Path:]

[Grey Scales]

[Venomous Fangs]

[Colorful Movement Sensing Eyes]

[Danger Smelling Tongue]

[Vibration Sensing Ears]

Holy smokes, I gained more stats from leveling up from level 5 to 8 than level 1 to 5. Guess that is also due to the evolution overload or something. And that title 'Limit Breaker' is a huge boon for me. Well, I still don´t know if my stat gain is much or not, as I don´t have anything to reference with, but I´m staying positive for now.

*grumble* *grumble*

Oh!

After all, that stress I guess I haven´t had a single meal since being reborn in this life. Only had the tasty glowing spring water.

Hearing my grumbling Sahra approached me and handed me the bloodied green crystal indicating that I should eat it.

I looked at the crystal in front of me and flicked my tongue.

*flick* *flick*

So that was the green smell, so that means green really means save or food…

Still hesitating to eat the crystal Sahra went towards a stone where a dirty backpack was and rummaged it for a second before pulling out another green crystal before biting it with her sharp teeth like an apple. As the crystal shards touched her mouth it immediately dissolved and turned into a green fluid.

Seeing her eat it without any care I gulped and opened my mouth as wide as I could and swallowed it whole.

Not long after it began to melt, and I could feel a slight tingling feeling inside me as my body heated up. To my surprise, it did taste quite tasty, too tasty to be exact. It tasted like candy with nature flavor and filled slightly my stomach. But it wasn´t nearly enough to satisfy my hunger, and I looked towards her with pleading eyes as if asking for more.

Seeing me look at her she put her hand inside the backpack again and pulled out another crystal, but this one was deep purple and threw it in a long arc at me.

I opened my mouth as wide as I could and caught the crystal midair and swallowed it with a blissful smile on my face. This time it tasted like what I could only describe as 'sweet release'. Ah, this feeling is so intoxicating I could get addicted to this taste.

Right when I saw Sahra threw another green crystal at me, I heard the system notification again.

*Dinge*

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