Chapter 3: Chapter 3 – Skills!?
*Notice. Assimilation success. Preparing for Skill Transfer.*
What? Skills? My inner monologue doesn't sound like this? and it kinda sounds like the Voice of the World from slime. I thought with a puzzled look on my face. ...am I going crazy?
The village was shrouded in awkward silence once again, the villagers shifting from feet to feet, whispering to among each other in hushed voices. The man who kicked me glared at me, eyes aflame with malice. The woman claiming to be my mother clung to me tightly, her eyes streaming tears down her beautiful face.
...
The standoff seemed to be at an impasse; I locked eyes with the hostile man while the crowd of villagers returned my gaze. The tension was palpable, broken only by my "Mom's" intermittent sobbing and the occasional increase in the villagers' group of people.
Staring at the fiend in front of him, clenched his jaw, his face contorted in anger. He wanted nothing but to rush in and separate Linia from that... thing. He could vividly remember the scene of what happened just a moment ago:
He had been strolling through the village, reveling in his own prowess,, admiring his own abilities as he reminisced on his glory days: leading a ragtag group into a respectable village.
*SCREEEEEECH*
The man, who was also the village chief, whipped his head around, searching for the source of the dreadful noise. His gaze settled on a young boy; Linia's only child. What he saw left him aghast. The boy reared his head backwards, his back bent to a odd curved shape. The kid was an enigma, he never really talked nor go out, always cooped up in his Mother's home. Compared to his peers, he was unusually fair-skinned and had a handsome face; something rare in peasants.
The chief assumed it was thanks to his Mother, Linia. Linia wasn't a founding member of the village, she was somebody who had joined the community quite recently. She'd arrived at the village with horrendous injuries, skin peeling off her body, claw marks present on nearly every part of her body and some oddly clean cuts not characteristic of beasts.
It was thought that she wouldn't survive, deemed impossible by the village doctor. Yet, she miraculously made a recovery, her body was littered with countless scars and some of her skin had been permanently damaged. According to the village doctor, the worst of her injuries were inflicted near her genitals and a crisscrossing tapestry of raised scars that marred her skin.
The village doctor was dumbfounded by this, no person should be able to survive such injuries without suffering an inevitable death soon after, yet this woman had survived long enough to even have them form scars; it just didn't make sense.
And yet, the woman had survived. Despite the countless injuries on her body, she had survived. The doctor couldn't understand why, so she could only say it was a miracle and move on.
Once recovering, the woman was able to easily integrate into the village's community despite her injuries. Even with her injuries, she was strikingly beautiful, possessing a radiant complexion and wavy auburn hair—an anomaly among the village women., and busty hourglass figure.
Her face, mostly untouched except for a few new scars, was stunning. She had entrancing brown eyes and plush pink lips, a visage that defied the villagers' conventional standards of beauty.
Many had courted her, but she had turned down every proposal. The men were left heartbroken until news broke out that she was pregnant. Soon after, she gave birth to a baby boy, and the village witnessed Linia smile for the first time since her arrival.
The child resembled his mother, with his fair skin, black hair and brown eyes. But he was an oddity from the start, never crying or showing any basic human needs, always expressionless.
And now, he had erupted into an eerie shriek? No way, not possible.
The boy's eyes rolled back into his head, replaced by whites , his hair floated as if suspended, and he seemed to detach from reality. His mouth remained agape as he blankly stared at the sky, looking like a maniac.
Then, he went back to normal. His eerie posture straightened, his hair ceasing its gravity defying motion and falling back in place. His eyes returned from his head and stared blankly at the road ahead. His eyes turned into a deadened silver hue, but they had seemed to look dead.
Then, all of a sudden, the boy's body jerked before relaxing. Then, his body seemed to come alive, the light returned in his eyes and he looked around in confusion, before walking up to the chief...
The villagers eyed me with unmistakable hostility, yet their faces were tinged with a reluctant hesitance. Clearly, my self-proclaimed "Mom" was the only barrier keeping them at bay. I turned to observe her. She was in tears, her face flushed with emotion.
I was angry. Why in the world would they attack me? What have I done? Can't they just go away? I don't want to be here either. Leave us out of this... Why won't they just disappear?
*Desire detected. Unique Skill: Nihility acquisition... Unsuccessful.*
Wha-
AAARRRGGGHH
I tried to scream but my mouth remained clenched shut. Agony enveloped me as though my bones were fracturing and reforming, my skin simultaneously tearing and healing. The pain was insufferable.
The onlookers watched the boy suddenly stood completely rigid, his eyes turning hazy as he stared blanky at the crowd. The already nervous group of peasants grew restless, they were on the verge of jumping in and attacking that devil when he suddenly went back to normal.
I collapsed onto my "Mom's" body, the pain was gone but I could still feel a lingering sensation. I thought I was going to die... I thought as I watched my "Mom" stare at me with worry-filled eyes.
*Notice. Evolution successful. Congratulations, you have evolved into a Demonoid. Unique Skill: Nihility acquisition... Successful. Congratulations, you have acquired Unique Skill : Nihility.*
*Extra Skill: All of Creation acquisition successful.*
*Extra Skill: Predation acquisition successful*
*Extra Skill: Appraisal Eye acquisition successful*
*Extra Skill: Thought Acceleration acquisition successful*
*Acquisition of Extra Skills: Predation, Appraisal and Thought Acceleration results in acquisition of a new skill Predator's Eyes... Successful.*
*As a result, the Skill Coercion has been acquired*
A robotic voice spoke to me. A flood of information enters my brain, teaching me how to utilize this new "skills" .
*Would you like to use Unique Skill: Nihility? Yes/No*
Name : ______
Race: Demonoid
Skills :
Unique Skill : Nihility
Extra Skill : Predator's Eyes (All of Creation, Predation, Appraisal Eye, Thought Acceleration, Coercion)
Weekly Power Status
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