So my name is Saren Quill, and I'm dead. My friends and I were summoned to save another world, crazy right? The people were so excited and happy. Feeling relief for the first time in a while. Their worries of these 5O or more demon lords started coming out of nowhere at an alarming rate. Normal worlds have around 4 to 10.

After leaving the king's throne room to head out on our quest, an unknown group of people ambushed us killing us all with an unknown magic circle. Due to an incredible unknown source of dark power from this new world, the Goddess couldn't foresee this coming. There was not supposed to be extra lives for these heroes. So the Goddess had used up all of her power to bring us back to life. Gods and Goddess can only summon new heroes every 100 years.

We ended up reincarnated into newborn monsters around the Diamond Kingdom Continent. Trying to think back on how life was before this world seems more strange than our lives now.

Ferra Fiore was the most beautiful girl back in high school. It was unanimous among most guys in high school besides myself. Her cold stare had a fiery aqua green Iris. She also had smooth skin and a toned body. She excelled at most sports given the title Ace. She was 5'7". She played with her long hair while she was thinking. Her chest was about medium. Her long silky red hair was always the talk of the girls.

Zander White, my childhood best friend, was a great athlete back in high school. Of course, because he was 6'3" playing football defensive line. Always cracking his knuckles or fingers before a game or a fight. With short groomed black hair and black eyes, a lot of girls found him attractive. He only had eyes for Ferra. She also only had eyes for Zander. She's not the type to admit her feelings publicly without dying from being embarrassed. Being a classic nerd, no one could understand why he still hung out with me almost every day, since he was the king school high school.

Ferra also had a childhood best friend, Izumi Eves, when the guys talked about the cutest girl in school, I thought of her. Her medium straight black hair partially dyed green at the tips matched her perfect bright green eyes. She's a shy type of girl that doesn't want to cause trouble. Ferra always stuck up for her in any situation. She always holds her arm and doesn't speak with confidence. Zander would stick up for me on earth. She was only a few inches shorter than me, around 5'6" with a skinny body. Most parts of her were skinny. (Bigger chest than Ferra)😳 I would think of her as the Queen of my heart.

Then there is me the skinny nerd with poor posture, blonde hair, and blue eyes. I was 5'9". I would tap the tip of my shoe on the ground when I was nervous. Not really good at anything but not awful either. Zander called me a 'Jack of all trades'.

After the ambush trap killed us. Our floating souls were standing in front of the Goddess, just like the day she summoned us from earth. She started to look pale in the face.

" Don't fear now my children."

She's a very tall looking woman with long wavy blond hair appeared. She held a golden staff. She was wearing a pure white cloth dress barely covering most of her chest. She went on to say

"This sudden death of yours was not foreseen. Before your souls dispersed I stopped time in DeRuffel. I'll be able to give you guys another chance, but my powers draining to fast so with your prior blessings intact. You'll be sent..."

The goddess's last words were muffled and static. Her face slowly faded to black. Using up what was left of her power.

A few moments later Saren opened his eyes. Looking around seeing nothing but a shell-like wall in front of him Saren thought

(I'm in egg!?!?)

(I'm in an Egg!? I thought I was supposed to be reincarnated as a human!) Saren thought to himself

Later I realized it was more of a tough sac bundled with others in a mucus-like nest.

[ Goddess!!! What the hell did you do!! Can you hear my thoughts!!]

[... Hehe.. 😅 yeeaaahh... I can hear you.. but only for a very brief time. About a few minutes per month I can only interfere so much in my world. My power will also take a long time to recover from stoping time.]

[So why am I in an egg and not a human!]

[I was basically out of power and your souls were sent randomly to beings born at the same time you died.]

[ Okay so what happened to the others? Are they okay are they close by? Are they even the same species as me?]

[ They are all fine. I talked to all of them already. Zander has been reborn as a lesser golem. Izumi was reborn as a cute light green slimeling. As for Ferra, she was reborn as a baby Phoenix hatchling.]

[ So they are safe and now I know what I'm looking for. That still doesn't tell me where they are..]

[ You should head northeast of your dungeon you currently live in. I've told all of your friends to meet on the north side of the Diamond Continent. Your closest friend,........., Is in that direction...

It seems that you all... it out alive. I'm sure you have many more questi.... but I'm at the end of my time."

"Just say 'Display menu' and you'll be able to figure out moves and abilities you aquir.. along your jo...ney. If you s..ll need help ... tap the help bu.... if you don't unde.....nd something in y...r ..nu. My powers alm..t ...]

Her voice muffled and faded again.

[ Wait!! Don't go I don't even know how to get out of this egg yet!! ]

(Welp I guess she's gone.. just great. I guess I should try this open status menu thing she mentioned before.)

{Display menu}

A light blue-tinted screen appeared in front of my little eyes. It reads:

Name: Saren Quill

Status: healthy, slight confusion

Level: 1

Hp: 10

Mp: 2

Str: 3

Def: 2

Int: 4

Spd:1

Points:0

Skill set: Enchant (lvl 1), Lower water magic (lvl 1), (???) Adapt (lvl 1), ??? (?).

Title: Variant, Swamp Siren, Newborn.

(Okay so it looks like a basic RPG set up like before, but I should ask a couple of questions just to make things clear.)

He tries to reach to press the help button on the screen to ask about his skill points and the question marks in his abilities but he realized a big issue.

( I don't have hands!! Or arms!! Wtf!.. ugh... I guess I have no choice then.)

He had 2 choices use his tongue or his face to get help. He chose his face. He didn't want to know what these weird clear liquids around him tasted like.

( So I'm basically a tadpole in an egg. Alright then, gonna use my face to hit the button.)

  Not sure of how much strength he had to use and never had a tail fin before. He charged with his little tail fin with all his might. He did manage to hit the help button on the screen but also dislodged his egg sac from the rest of his family's nest breaking open from hitting shallow swamp water below. A throne of some kind was surrounded by pillars of mucus egg sac nests. His menu turned off after the falling.

The environment slowly focused in. It showed a slightly fogged swampland.

You could hear in the far distance some branches breaking, splashing, and other creatures howls in the swamp looking for there next meal.

A women shaped figure slowly approached Sarens little tadpole body. She was a dark tanned skin mermaid with pointy ears like an elf. She was able to slither on shallow water. Saren was calm while she picked him up in her hands pressing their foreheads together. She spoke to him in a soft warm gentle tone through short-range telepathy.

[Welcome to the world, my brave little prince. You seem to be quite strong and very different from the siblings before you. You have blue skin, instead of a dark brown. How interesting.]

[ Um.., are you my mother? For some reason, I'm not afraid of you.. but my name's Saren]

[ Oh my. Able to speak. What a smart strange little boy. Saren you say. I am indeed your mother Queen of the Swamp sirens.  I have no other name. If you must call me something. Call me Mother. Your elder siblings passed away from an adventurer raid recently. I finished off the remain adventures, but one got away. That's why we are the only ones left.]

Saren didn't realize that he was an irregular monster. So he decided to ask a bit about his surroundings and started to feel this undying need to eat.

[ Mother, why am I so hungry? I was fine moments ago in my egg. Also, how can I leave this swamp? I have to find my friends.]

[ The extreme hunger you crave is from your nature as a Swamp Siren Newborn. You and your many other siblings eat each other until one survives. It looks like you'll have the upper hand now that you're out early. What do you mean by friends? You've just come into this world. Also, the only way out is going south up the stairs, which is that way ( she pointed to a large space between the swamp trees.) But I warn you. It won't be easy. You'll have to become much stronger to be able to leave this layer of this dungeon I rule over.]

[ Eat my siblings!?! That sounds gross but for some reason, I'm still willing to do anything to eat something. Sorry if it seems as if I've deceived you in any way, but I'm actually a human mistakingly reincarnated as one of your children. I have 3 other friends out there just like my situation so I need to find them and kill a large number of demon lords. You rule this layer of a dungeon?]

[ Yes, and thank you for being so honest with me. You're still one my children don't worry. Maybe one day you can become king of this level.]

[No thanks, I'll let someone else have it.]

[ Well just so you know each level of this dungeon has a king or queen ruling over it to keep some form of stability in the layers land. No one knows how these dungeons came to be. This was way before my time.]

[ How old are you mother?]

[ 367 years old. We can live up to 1,000 years old]

( I wonder if the years are similar to my own on Earth. But I need something to eat now!)

[ When will it be time for my siblings to hatch?]

[ Any moment now, you have started an early hatching process from leaving the nest.]

The nest that Saren had fallen from started to move from all the egg sacs beginning to hatch. But unknown to him there was something even worse about to strike.

Saren was starting to get nervous but at the same time excited to finally be able to eat. It's not like he wants to do it but he needed to be stronger.

The egg sacs start to break as other little tadpoles with razor-sharp teeth begin to start swimming frantically at each other trying to eat one another.

Mother spoke with a soft voice

[ Looks like it's time. Good luck, I know you'll make it. My brave little prince.]

She placed Saren back into the shallow water. He quickly swam toward the carnage that start to begin between his siblings. As he started by eating some scraps of a sibling left behind in a fight to gain a level.

He turned around because of an unfamiliar dark shadow covered him. 

It was an adventurer with long braid blond hair and a long scruffy beard. Like a Viking with an ax and shield.

Saren screams in his mind.

[ Mother look out!! Runaway!!]

  His mother turns in time to dodge most of the man's attack. Slightly putting a gash on the left shoulder. She started to slowly bleed.

  She smiled with a face saying I'll be fine. With some relief, Saren went back to the frenzy before him. He had gained at least a level or 2. Now at level 3, he was at least big enough to start eating his siblings without fear of others interfering. He saw 2 siblings fighting it out. Saren played it smart by eating scraps until he could overwhelm his siblings.

  There are around a hundred others from this one nest. At least a third has been eaten already. Two more singing began to fight to the death in front of him. He raced over to finish both of them in there weakened state to make sure he wouldn't fall behind the bigger siblings starting to form. After finishing them off he gained enough experience to reach level 5.

He felt a strong pain come from his body, he went to a place to hide for just a moment till he could return back to the fight. After the pain went away he realized after he finally grew some small arms and legs with tiny claws.

(Thank God!! Finally!! I have ARMS AND LEGS!! It feels like a miniature evolution happened automatically.)

Now Saren was able to take on some the stronger siblings that were in a large plump state or gaining arms and legs like he did. In the middle of his thinking, another sibling with arms and legs tried attacking him while he was off guard.

He quickly dodges and in one motion grabbed and threw his siblings into the ground of shallow water biting his throat till they died.

He heard a ding noise in his head showing on a screen in his mind

[ New skill: Spacial sense squired]

( I'm guessing that makes it so I have an environmental sense of my surroundings. It seems to be for only a small range.)

Finishing his siblings he gains 2 levels from that there seemed another third of his siblings died out. Now Saren has reached level 7 and what was left of the swamp sirens siblings had arms and legs and some started getting taller than Saren. Saren was close to an inch in height. He also noticed his hands and feet were webbed and started growing a fin on his head and the spine of his back. In the back of his mind, he was still concerned for his mother's well being, but he knew he would only get in the way maybe after winning this death battle between his siblings he could figure a way to help his mother.

He went back into a frenzy mode based on natural instincts. Gaining 2 more levels from 2 more siblings. Now at level 9, Saren thought to himself.

( It seems to be getting harder to level up in like after I started the fight. Now it's taking hours instead of just a few moments. I wonder if I'm close to reaching a bottleneck or a level cap.)

By the time he reached level 12 a couple of days had already past. Now it's at the point of 10 siblings left. Some of them also had different colors to the but not as much as Sarens blue skin and yellowish-orange fins, but still noticeable. 3 of his siblings had yellow and black stripes. that made him curious if the color had any meaning to it. He finally decided to take a break to recuperate. So he gave himself some great distance between himself and the others. Saren said in his own thoughts.

(Display menu)

He didn't have time to look in between the battle he was having with his siblings. His status menu read:

Name: Saren Quill

Status: wounded

Level: 12

Hp: 10 \=> 34/60

Mp: 2 \=> 24

Str: 3 \=> 9

Def: 2 \=> 8

Int: 4 \=> 10

Spd:1 \=> 7

Points: 12

Abilities: Enchant (LVL 1), Lower water magic (LVL 1), Adapt (LVL 2), Spacial senses (LVL 1), Appraisal (LVL 1), Water-resistance ( LVL 1), ??? (?).

Title: Variant, Swamp Siren, Newborn, Carnivore, Bad Blood, Momma's boy.

( Hey what's up with these titles... I'm not a 'momma's boy'. I'm not a fan of the other two as well. It looks like I acquired a nice new skill from eating one of my siblings or from leveling up not sure how this system works still. Let's see what these yellow striped siblings have to make them black and yellow.)