《The Ruby Eyes Serpent》Chapter 2 - A bloodbath
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Chapter 2 - A bloodbath
As the white room is flooded with cold waters. Her body starts to slowly grow in size, transforming into a large pale skin fish, with razor-sharp jagged teeth popping outside of her mouth.
With her distinctive ruby-red eyes that have no irises or pupil, making it fully red, whilst giving off the mere illusion that her eyes are made from actual rubies.
Once the cold waters fully consumed her, she unknowingly gasped, as the cold waters then enter her newly formed gills, starting up her newly reborn heart.
"Kuhargh! Kuhargh! (Cough! Cough!)" The sound of her coughing.
'Ow, I'll never be doing that again!'
She then swam her body around, looking for anything that is still of use within the white room, before swimming through the large crack in the ceiling.
As she escaped out from the white room. She then looked back at the sight, all along the white room was actually her own egg.
After learning of this particular fact, she then became slight amused.
'If it was already decided that I will be reborn as a goblin shark, then what is the point of asking me to pick a chosen heritage.'
She then took a quick look at her surroundings. Within her line of sight, there is a swarm of goblin sharks; the same size as her, with pale skin, and glowing white pearl eyes.
To them, their perspective, her ruby red eyes are indeed abnormal but is nothing at all impressive.
Once she took a look more closely, she saw that the goblin sharks are pushing each other out of the way, to get to the corpse of something that looks like a crossed between a black striped eel with a bloated pufferfish.
Her appraisal skill immediately activates, displaying the intended targets skill and information.
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Black-striped venom blade eel Lv.26 {dead} Random skill extraction is hereby possible on the intended target! 100 MP cost per use!
Out of curiosity, she activated the Ruby Eyes skill on the dead 'Black striped venom blade eel' as her intended target. She immediately felt her mana draining at an alarming rate.
Her ruby red eyes start to glow intensely bright, as a piece or fragment of the Black-striped venom blade eel's soul is then ripped out from the intended target dead corpse.
The soul fragment or piece of the Black-striped venom blade eel is then hereby absorbed by her.
System Log You have successfully activated the [Ruby eyes] skill on the dead Black striped venom blade eel! 100 MP is hereby consumed for the activation of the skill! System Log You have automatically learned the skill [Venom fangs] from the intended target!
'Well, sweet! The skill is pretty cool! Venom fangs, huh!' She exclaimed outward in excitement.
30/130 MP
* * * * *
Meanwhile, as the horde of goblin sharks are swarming towards the corpse at breakneck speed.
One of them managed to shove the other into the corpse's protruding spikes, that if she had to guess were secreting out poison because the other goblin shark that was impaled by the protruding spike before immediately stopped moving.
Its lifeless cold body then floats down to the bottom of the sea bed. dead!
Stomach growling!
With her stomach growling, she slowly swam towards the horde of goblin sharks, with her tail fin flapping back and forth propelling her forwards.
'This will surely take me some time to get used to. My first step towards success.'
In her mind, she sees the swarm of goblin sharks all coveting the sole dead carcass for themselves, as a possible hazard. The odds of her dying during a feeding frenzy or getting involved in an accident is extremely high. So she decided to think of another alternative.
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'So if I am going to satiate my hunger with something. It will be something that I have a better chance of surviving.' After having thought of this, she starts to have a look at her surroundings.
Her pair of ruby eyes then landed on the dead carcass of her brethren's; brothers and sisters, that are lay to rest, and lying at the bottom of the sea bed.
She swam to the bottom of the sea bed, readying her razor-sharp jagged teeth out. With little to no remorse for the dead, she began to tear apart at their flesh, chewing and swallowing it with glee.
Munch! Munch!
The sounds of chewing, and tearing of meat, coming out from her mouth.
'This taste extremely horrible like shit. Nevertheless, it's still food. I should be grateful for whatever I get.'
As she finishes her first meal within this world. Several sounds of beeping enter her head.
System Log Congratulations! You have fulfilled the necessary requirements! The title [Cannibalist] has been acquired! Title Conditions Effects Skill acquisition Cannibalist Consume the blood or flesh of a creature of the same race. Plus 5 points to infamy [Herectic magic] + [Heresy resistance] System Log Congratulations! You have fulfilled the necessary requirements! The title [Kin eater] has been acquired! Title Condition Effect Skill acquisition Kin eater Consume the blood or flesh of a blood relative. Decreased reputations amongst family members. Plus 10 points into infamy. None
'Well, that's nice and all it still does not help with my current situation, like I even care about having familial relations with a bunch of ugly fishes.' She made a snarky remark on the goblin sharks.
However, there was a sudden change in the horde of the goblin sharks' behaviour, as the food source is starting to run out.
There are several hundreds of goblin sharks to feed. So they all start to turn on themselves, whilst seeing the other as food.
They began a huge massacre; chaotic red bloodshed that spans across several entire regions of the sea bed. An ethnic cleansing of the weakest in the goblin shark horde.
'This is a bloodbath!' She exclaimed out in great alarm.
A red blanket of blood mist soon covers the entirety of the bottom of the sea bed.
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