Author notes:

Hey guys, chapter 2 here. :D

Gonna go to bed right after ensuring that the tables work, and sorry if it cuts short, I'm insanely tired and have work tomorrow morning.

Hope you enjoy it, oh, and please answer the poll above. THANKS! :D

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Chapter 2: Information and Status Windows?

I woke up at sunrise as usual, even though we’re partially nocturnal, most of the tribe are using nearly the same sleeping schedule as humans do. There are some who stay up at night, and sleep at day, but only the strongest of the tribe. This is due to the strongest beasts being nocturnal as well, so since the beasts are stronger, only the strongest Lizardmen in the tribe are hunting at night. Well, that’s at least what my mother told me after me inquiring about the fact that my father slept either half or the entire day.

As I got up, I stood on all four and stretched. It was a habit I picked up after spending a weeks time on all four, and to be honest, it felt way better than doing it like I would do as human. This was probably due to us being humanoid, but still having out body build in a way that makes it possible for us to easily move on all four.

Walking to the workshop where my mother was, I was about to ask for some food, when I found something weird, instead of just meaningless hissing, I made sounds. Noticing this, mother told me that I was now developed enough to learn to speak, and that she would start teaching me after breakfast, if you can even call it that.

After my slab of meat was consumed, mother and I moved to the living room. First she explained me that usually a newborn would be taught for a day, two in rare cases, and then be allowed to go outside. First, she taught me how to speak, it wasn’t really that hard, just had to get used it my new mouth and tongue, and thanks to whatever blessing that God gave me, it looks like learning the languages of this world is easier.

Done teaching me how to talk, we moved on with the lessons, this part was quite simple, she explained that she won’t teach me, but I will be asking questions, and she will be answering them. This is apparently to save time, and to not teach something the newborn in question won’t need. Of course, if there’s something I want to know later on, I can just ask then.

Me: “Mom, first I would like to ask why you and dad are calling me ‘little one’, and not a name.”

Li’Hiet: “That’s quite simple, little one, many newborn die before becoming 1 year old. There’s many reasons for this, but to summon it up, is that this swamp will weed out the weak ones from the start. Starting from tomorrow, you will start hunting yourself, of course, if you come back empty handed, we will feed you, but we won’t, if you don’t even try and go hunting. This makes mages a bit rarer, since some of them die before they even know magic. However, most parents notice their children being mages before they turn a month old.”

Me: “It still didn’t answer my question, mom, and what’s so special about becoming a year old?”

It didn’t sound like she tried to avoid answering, but more like she thought that it would be answer enough. It did explain that they don’t name their newborn, since many die so early. I have a feeling it has something to do with the 1st birthday, but I want to be sure of it.

Li’Hiet: “When you turn a year old, you get recognized as an adult. You will have the body of a 13-year-old human at that point, and be capable of taking care of yourself, or die trying. It’s actually quite normal that it takes 5 children before a family has a child that survives to become 2 years old. Back to the 1st birthday. As I said, when you turn 1, you’re going to become independent and you’re recognized as an adult. But it’s also where you get your name, which is given by the elder council, for the things you’ve done in the first year of your life. Take my name, Hiet, for an example. It means ‘Grey Maiden’ in the Ancient Lizardman tongue. I got that name for being chased by all the boys back in the day.”

As she said that, she looked to the horizon with a dangerous smile, clearly reminiscing about the past. All she had given me were more questions, and I wanted to get the answers sooner rather than later.

Me: “So, what does dads name mean? And what is the Ancient Lizardman tongue?”

Li’Hiet: “Sle means something along the lines of ‘Brat’. Let’s just say that he was quite unruly when he was young. And the Ancient tongue is easier to explain if I explain this worlds history and the Lizardman race history, want to learn about it?”

To this, I nodded without hesitation. It was without a doubt, the two things I wanted to know the most, what kind of world I now live in, and about how the Lizardman race came to be.

Li’Hiet: “Well, let us start with the worlds history. This world is called…”

After that she used hours on explaining me how a group of Gods, one of them being Dreqz, the God of Law and Order, created the world and how the Lizardman race came around. Since it would take hours to explain it all, and no one really cares about that much ancient history, so I will sum it up.

The world was created who knows how long ago by a group of 10 Gods, they were:

Rinia, Goddess of Love, Beauty and Fertility,

Lirte, God of War, Combat and Strength,

Synd, Goddess of Intellegence, Wisdom, Insight and Knowledge,

Asgal, God of Hunting, Crafting and Farming,

Ciak, God of Decieving, Theft, Greed and Gambling,

Virian, Goddess of Death, Murder, Hatred and Darkness,

Haez, Goddess of Afterlife, New-life and Light,

Dreqz, God of Law and Order,

Astlan, God of Justice, Freedom and Righteousness,

Regaia, Goddess of Creation, Life and Judgment.

They created a world with 3 continents, with only a small sea to separate them. The 1st continent was covered with forests, grassland, hills, and mountains. The 2nd continent was covered with jungle, forests, and mountains. And the 3rd was deserts with mountains and hills. The Humans were created on the 1st continent, which was later named the Human continent, the Fae and early Beastmen were created on the 2nd continent, which was later named the Wild continent, and lastly the Demons were created on the 3rd continent, which was named the Demon continent.

Later Humans started wars with Fae, Beastmen, and Demons, which was later named the First Great War. They didn’t win the war, nor lost it, and they managed to get a lot of slaves from all the different races, thus creating Demi-humans as their off-spring.

Humans, Fae, Demi-humans, Beastmen, and Demons are all classification for the races. Humans are only the human races, white, black, brown, every kind. The Fae are the Elves, Dwarves, Fairies, and Spirits. Demi-humans are Half human, half Fae, Beastman, and/or Demon. Beastmen are humanoid beasts, but mother said we would go into detail with that when talking about the Lizardmen’s story. And lastly Demons, they’re all the leftover races, like Orcs, Ghoblins, and every other kind of demonic monster you can imagine. Mother said there’s so many that no one knows the exact number, and it was nearly the same with Beastmen.

Then we came to the story of the Lizardmen. Lizardmen is a race of Beastmen, but some Lizardmen are still only considered as beasts or monsters. The difference between the Beastmen Lizardmen and the beast/monster Lizardmen, is that the Beastmen version is sentient, meaning that they can think for themselves.

Lizardmen were created together with all the other Beastmen, and every Beastman race was just humanoid beasts. That was until the Humans started the First Great War, where the only way for Beastmen to survive was to evolve, and thus some tribes became sentient. Over time, more and more Beastman tribes starting following in the tracks, so these days there are only few tribes that a still beasts.

Our tribe of Lizardmen is a mixture of two monster lizards, a huge snake monster race and a tiny earth Dragon race, which were shunned by other Dragons and referred to as huge lizards instead. (AN: For those who wonder, I’m referring to them being a mix of Pythons and Komodo Dragons. They have the head, tongue and eyes of a Python, and the rest of their body is that of a Komodo Dragon.)

And yes, there does exist Dragons, if I’m to believe what mother told me. They belong to beasts, but it’s said that they hold far more wisdom than any Sage from any of the races.

We are the strongest, but the least venomous Lizardman tribe there is. We have a lot of friends and enemies, but there’s no war right now, so even if we have enemies, they don’t bother us, for now.

Our society is build up in a very simple way. We have a tribe leader, who’s the strongest among us, then we have an elder council, with all the oldest and strongest tribesmen, who is supposed to help and advice the tribe leader. Every year there’s a tournament to decide the new tribe leader. Killing is not allowed, unless it’s announced that it’s to death before the match has begun, and acknowledged by both those who’s going to fight, and the elder council.

There’s a caste system in place, but nothing with noble’s and serfs, but only if you’re a warrior, hunter, mage, or some variant, which I discovered a few weeks ago. It gets revealed to the entire tribe on the newborns 1st birthday.

Well, on to magic, I might not be able to use it myself, but who knows? I’ll find out later.

Magic uses mana, which is in everything, from the grain of sand to the Dragons. Magic is split up into 6 categories.

Elemental magic, which is fire, water, wind, earth, lightning, and ice magic. They all kind of explain themselves, fire magic is magic that uses fire, water uses water, so on and so forth.

Light magic, which is light magic, where you manipulate light, and holy magic, where you use a bit of whatever ‘good’ God you worships power to either heal, bless, cure, or damage undead.

Dark magic, which is dark magic, where you manipulate darkness, shadow magic, where you manipulate shadows, and corrupted magic, which is the opposite to holy, where you use a bit of power from an ‘evil’ you worship.

Life and Death magic, which is plant magic, where you manipulate plants, necromancy, where you revive the dead and create undead, blood magic, where you manipulate and uses blood as a medium for different magic, and restoration magic, which heals the body through natural means by increasing the cell production.

Mana magic, where you directly manipulate mana to use different pure mana with no element in it.

And lastly there’s Ancient magic, it’s magic that Dragons, Gods, unknown races, and extinct races uses, and it can’t be reproduced by weaker races.

There also exists a power called Ki, which warrior uses. There are techniques that uses it, but they are not classified the same way as the magic is, since they don’t use elements.

All magic and Ki-techniques are split into rankings, first they go from 1st to 10th rank, then after that they go to Ancient, Immortal, Demi-God, and God rank. When one becomes able to use Immortal or above, they can’t die of age or sicknesses, and God rank allows them to ascend to another realm.

All of this is apparently basic information in this world, which is taught to almost everyone, as long as they’re not slaves or worse.

Li’Hiet: “Did you understand that, little one?”

To this I just nodded, it was certainly a lot of information, but it fit some of the light novels and such that I read in my previous life.

Li’Hiet: “Actually, I told a lie earlier. There’s actually one kind of Ancient magic that we’re capable of using, and not just us, but every sentient being. It allows us to see our strength, and a lot of other things. All you need to do is think ‘Show status’ in your mind, and it should show up. Only you can see it, unless you think ‘Share status with’ and then the name of the person you want to show it to.”

So it’s like that, huh? Just like my novels, oh well, here we go. Show status.

Status WindowName:Li’???Race:LizardmanTitles:Little OneLevel:1Class:???Age:0Gender:MaleBody and Mental Condition:Stamina Points:Current:585Max:585Stamina Regen:1,11/SMana Points:Current:200Max:200Mana Regen:0,55/SKi Points:Current:430Max:430Ki Regen0,61/SStats:Vitality:10 + 1Strength:10 + 1Dexterity:10 + 1Agility:10 + 1Wisdom:5Intelligence:5Insight:5Presence:25Magic Amplification:Casting time:-0,015%Mana cost:-0,015%Effectiveness:+0,015%Other:Racial Trait:Lizardmen get 2x Vit, STR, AGI, and DEX from leveling up.Blessing:Increases all stats by 10%.Blessing:Increases learning new languages by 1.000%.God Magic Skill:Identify: The ability see the information on any item, as long as it’s considered weaker than the caster.

(AN: I use the European way of using ‘.’ and ‘,’. 4.000 means four thousand, while 4,000 means four point zero zero zero.)

So, these are my stats, but it doesn’t explain much. I’ll try asking mother about it.

Me: “Mom, is there a way for me to see the description of the different stats and such?”

Li’Hiet: “Yes there is, little one, you just need to think ‘Show status window description’.”

I did as she said, and new windows popped up in front of me.

Status Window Description:Here you can see all the descriptions for the different stats in the Status Window.

Stamina Points(SP):Your stamina, all actions costs stamina. Below 10%, you will feel exhausted, when it reaches 0%, you pass out from exhaustion.

Mana Points(MP):Mana is used to cast spells, blessings and curses, can also be used to strengthen ones body. When you have below 10% mana, you start feeling dizzy and can't think straight, and at 0% you pass out.

Ki Points(KP):Ki is used to strengthen ones body, and is more effective than mana, and is also used use certain abilities. When ki comes below 10%, you become sluggy and heavy, and when it hits 0%, your body falls asleep while still conscience.

Vitality(VIT):Represents your durablity, meaning your skin is tougher, flesh more compact, and bones harder, and also increases your pain tolerance and stamina. Greatly increases SP(+15 SP) and SPR(0,01 SP/S), slightly increases KP(+5 KP).

Strength(STR):Represents ones strength, you hit harder and can carry more. Slightly increases SP and KP(+5 SP and KP).

Dexterity(DEX):Represents ones ability to handle a weapon, both increasing speed, accuracy and flexibility with your arms. Increases KP(+10 KP), slightly increases SP(+5 SP).

Agility(AGI):Represents your flexibilty with your entire body, also makes you move faster, making every complicated movement easier. Increases SP, KP(+10 SP and KP), and KPR(0,01 KP/S).

Wisdom(WIS):Represents your knowledge about mana and makes you able to cast magic with less mana but still achieving the same result. Also, due to the knowledge in mana, it helps cultivate your manacore. Greatly increases MP(+15 MP), increases MPR(0,01 MP/S),reduces mana cost of spells(+0,002% reduction per WIS), slightly reduces cast time of spells(0,001% reduction per WIS).

Intelligence(INT):Represents your intelligence, in other words, your ability to learn, think, and improve, helps you cultivate your manacore a bit and makes you improve on your magic. Sightly increases MP(+5 MP), increases effectiveness of spells(0,002% increase per INT).

Insight(INS):Represents your insight into mana and magic, it means you know how mana becomes magic, decreases your cast time, mana cost, and the effectiveness of your spells. Reduces cast time of spells(+0,002% reduction per INS), slightly reduces mana cost(+0,001% reduction per INS) and effectiveness of spells(+0,001% increase per INS).

Precense(PRE):Represents your overall presence, if it's high, it means people will easily notice you, and it will be easier to make them listen and follow you, if it's low, it's harder for people to notice you, but few will follow you. Levels has no effect on this stat, but training and your personality has an effect on it.

Level Up:When you level up, you will recieve 1 point in all stats, some races and classes have increased gains from leveling. Also gives you +20 SP and +10 MP and KP, but certain races and classes change these gains.

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Author notes:

Hope you liked the tables, please tell me if you see anything i should change.

Btw, question for the quick, will remove this after I get it fixed, but that might first be in 12 hours time Tongue

So the question: How do I make a new line in the tables. I want to do it to the part with the identification skill part. Thanks.

Hope you enjoyed the chapter, all feedback is accepted, so please don't be a lurker like me! ;D

EDIT: Hey guys, just noticed that I forgot to add the 10% stat bonus blessing and changed it so that it has no effect on Presence, so did that. All equipment, blessings, statuses, etc. will be added as +'s next to the base stat.