NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter 2: What am I?
With great difficulty, Danye opened his eyes.
What he saw was not the room he was used to waking up in.
He saw nothing.
Feeling frightened, he put his hands down in search of support to get up.
But what he felt was not the softness of his bed.
He felt something hard and relatively cold.
Feeling confused and afraid, Danye applied force to his hands and made an effort to get up, but due to the absence of his sight he couldn't keep his balance and fell to one side.
Danye felt that he had fallen on something and felt a sharp pain right where he had felt the thing.
He quickly made an effort to get up and off it, but as he did so, he felt something bump into the edge of his legs.
Trying to move away, he fell to the ground again and despair took over his mind.
What had happened?
Where was he?
Why couldn't he see anything?
Was there an animal in this place?
Was he in danger?
These were questions that filled his mind, which by then was completely out of control, and then...
[DING! - Strong mental instability detected]
Danye heard a bell-like sound inside her head followed by the words of a strange robotic voice.
[DING! - Low degree of host adaptability]
The bell rang again, and once more came the voice, Danye couldn't understand what it meant, but he began to feel even more frightened by everything that was happening.
[DING! - Activating host assistance system]
[DING! - Stabilizing the soul with the body]
At that moment, a warm sensation filled his whole body, for a moment he felt that maybe this was just a dream and he was about to wake up under his blanket in the next instant.
[DING! - Performing mental stabilization]
After hearing this, it was as if all the chaos in his mind had been swept away at once. Danye felt a little strange to see his mind so empty, but it was too empty, so he couldn't bring himself to despair.
After some time lying on the ground, that warm feeling slowly disappeared, and Danye's vision began to function.
What he saw was a cavernous environment.
All he saw around him were rocks.
Due to the absence of light, everything had a slightly bluish tint to his eyes.
Remembering that something had touched his leg, Danye quickly slid his eyes around looking for any living creatures, but found nothing.
Feeling a little confused by the situation, Danye put his hand to his chin and began to think.
He tried to remember what had happened before all this, because he was sure he had lain down to sleep the day before.
While Danye was thinking, something started to shake behind him...
Danye put more effort into his thoughts, and remembered that he was very angry about some new neighbors.
And the thing began to sway more intensely...
As he followed her train of thought, it became increasingly difficult for Danye to remember what had happened the day before, which required more and more effort and concentration in her mind.
The thing was already swaying from side to side with great intensity until it hit the ground.
"Ouch!" - Danye felt something hurt behind his back.
The memories he had slowly begun to gather dispersed, and his attention was directed to the site of that pain.
As his perception traveled through his body to that direction, Danye felt strange.
What were these muscles that he had never felt before?
Danye exerted a little effort trying to move these muscles that he didn't know.
Slowly, he could feel something rising up behind him, Danye felt that this thing was responding to his efforts on this new muscle so he slowly tried to push it to the side of his body so that he could have a look at what it was.
After a few attempts to understand how this muscle worked, he finally managed to get the thing where he wanted it, and then he looked in that direction.
What Danye saw was a tail very similar to that of a snake, just like the whole environment before his eyes, it was slightly bluish.
Looking at it, Danye's heart raced a little, for some reason he wasn't too shocked, but the strangeness still existed in his mind.
He moved his hand towards the tail to touch it, but then he realized that his hand was different from what he remembered.
Although it was very similar to the hand of a human being, it was a little scaly, and its nails were slightly sharp, much like the claws of a wild animal.
Danye wanted, but couldn't bring himself to be shocked, he could only feel strange.
Had he turned into a creature for some reason?
In his mind Danye asked himself - What am I?
[DING! - Opening host profile]
This time, after hearing the bell, Danye could hear the message perfectly, and then a semi-transparent screen appeared in front of him.
Danye was startled when the screen suddenly appeared in front of him.
He read what was written.
...
Name: Danye
Age: 3 days
Race: Lesser demon
Lineage: No lineage (Selection available)
Spiritual Cultivation: None
Body Cultivation: Body Strengthening Level 2 (3 days to advance)
...
Throughout his life, reading had never been one of Danye's hobbies, so he had never read a novel.
When he read the words on the screen, he didn't understand a thing.
He already knows his own name, he didn't need to be reminded of it.
3 days old? He's sure he's already lived for a few decades.
Lesser demon? He's sure he's a good person, how could he have become a demon? An inferior one on top of that?
Lineage? No lineage? I'm a baby demon who was born three days ago and is an orphan?
Cultivation? What is cultivation? Should there be plants to grow in this cave?
Danye was full of questions in his head, and then...
[DING! - Activating Tutorial System]