Chapter 2 : The Adventurer

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.)

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