Chapter 6: Evolving rocks!

Chapter 6: Evolving rocks!

So evolution.Witness the debut of this chapter, unveiled through Ñôv€l--B1n.

Evolution

A monster's ability to change shape or form, while also increasing their rank. Evolution choices are controlled by the monster's skills, strengths, lineage, and other conditions

Alright. So, what can I evolve into?

Evolution

[Young Dragon]

[Young Drake]

Young? What does that mean? What is considered young by System Voice, anyways? My race is "Dragon Hatchling". It's clearly describing me as a newborn, so does a "young" dragon mean that I will grow up?

Young Dragon

A young dragon that has no specialization. Possess immature wings and the potential to evolve freely. Rank F

Young Drake

A young dragon that chose to forgo wings for a highly specialized body for traversing the land. Rank F

The description didnt mention it anywhere, but if I evolved now, could I grow taller and larger? Evolution would sound pretty amazing if it could turn me from a gecko into a proper dragon.

This world honestly keeps fascinating me. I wouldn't be surprised if races like elves and dwarves existed in this world. To be honest, I would be displeased if this world only had humans. Well, of course, if there are any humans at all cause I literally have no information about this world.

Hold on, what the hell am I talking about, there is a skill called [Humanization]. Its description literally tells me that I can transform into a human with it.

Y-Yeah, lets forget about that lapse of memory. Lalala, Im just rambling, nothing to see here~

In any case, my evolution offered me two choices. Either stay flexible with a chance to evolve into a winged dragon or commit to being stuck on land.

From its description, becoming drake didnt sound too bad. It explained how maneuvering on land would be its selling point, a trait that could become invaluable for my current situation. There were advantages I could benefit from becoming a drake. If they cant hit, I wont die nor feel any pain.

In comparison, I would keep my door open to future evolution options with [Young Dragon. I would receive wings, which probably will be useless until I grow up and thats pretty much it, right? Of course, it would be dumb to just leave it at that, after all, the ability to feely evolve might come in handy. Since I had no idea about this world, having options to evolve into might be better.

However, the question is, will I lock myself out from any flying options if I choose drake? What evolution choices does a drake have? So, many questions.

So, this is a dilemma between a massive short-term advantage over a, supposedly, long-term one.

What will yield the most advantages? Should I just go with the versatile evolution? I can develop my status and skills, regardless of the choice but not opting for the [Young Dragon] could exempt me from flying. If I wanted to run faster, I could buy some of the agility or stamina-based skills. The [Young Drake] could give me those skills naturally, but I have no proof of that

Pfff, yeah, right. Shouldnt the choice be clear enough?

Will you choose to evolve into [Young Dragon]?

Hell, yes! Give me to power of flight. Aerial supremacy, here I come!

Evolution choice decided. Commencing evolution of [Dragon Hatchling *]

Oh my gosh, who turned up the temperature? Oh wait, its just me. Kidding~

Joking aside, I was feeling a sudden warmth inside me circulating through my whole body, invigorating every single cell. A cycle of destruction and growth was progressing inside me, and while the pain wasnt noticeable, I could kinda imagine it with how much was going on in there.

So, this is what evolution feels like?

It reminded me of my growing pains just without the pain itself. I wasnt sure how I knew this, but my body was telling me I will become stronger soon and that I should just relax while it happened. It gave me a good feeling, you see. Knowing results were happening was good.

I can Mhmmmwwaaaaaaaah. Oh shit tired.

I began to feel sleepy. I still kinda wanted to imagine myself becoming strong enough to take those kobolds down without an issue after evolving, but I quickly reminded myself to not be so conceited. They were just two low-leveled kobolds, and they almost defeated me.

Maybe I should see if there are any protective skills

And then I lost consciousness.

Hmmm? Mhmm, yeah, that was a good sleep. Looking in the sky, it seemed I woke up at dawn. I slept through the entire evolution process. Is that suddenly feel of drowsiness part of the process? If so, then I should really be careful next time and find a more secure place. Some random bush won't protect me when I'm all alone and vulnerable.

Regardless, I shouldnt beat myself up too much. This was my first try. I didnt die. Gotta stay positive. If I remember to be more careful next time, everything should be forgiven. And, frankly, I feel so incredibly refreshed right now, Im really not in the mood to scold myself!

So, how do I look like~

First impression: My body was slim and lean from my tail up until it reached my chest, which seemed to have gotten bulkier. Two horns grew from my head, while my neck has turned quite slender.

I actually looked like a dragon now! I didnt just mean my appearance, but also my body mass. This bush used to be able to cover my entire body. Now, it couldnt hide my head or tail. I was still quadrupedal but from the looks of it, I might have grown to the length and size of an iguana.

In just a matter of days, I grew up from a puny lizard into an acceptable baby dragon. I could make an advertisement for how crazy this sounded.

By following my training regiment, even your newborn can turn into a dragon just like me.

Haha, gosh I sound so dumb. Hiehie.

Huh? Now that I had some time to adjust, I could feel something moving on my back. Are those my wings? Moving my long neck around, I touched my newly formed limbs with my head. Y-yup, this foreign sensation, exactly like the one I felt when I touched my own tail. Very ticklish but the webbing felt soft.

Now I wondered how much my stats had grown. Profile.

Profile:

Name: *

Level: 0

Race:

Young Dragon

Age: 0 Month

Status:

Health: 100/100(+20) Mana: 302/302(+50)

Strength: 46 (+15) Intelligence: 39 (+20)

Vitality: 26 (+10) Wisdom: 30 (+15)

Agility: 66 (+20) Stamina: 47/47 (+15)

I tried changing the status board to improve the legibility of the skills and spells on it, due to feedback. It might make the board seem to be big, so I'm not sure if this is ok.

Let me know if you guys know a better way to display that information. Thanks for reading.

Edit: Readers have pointed out a logic failure on my part. It's now gone...reduced to atoms.

Edit 2: Edited to fit my current writing style.

Edit 2.0: I copy-pasted the wrong skill list on the status board, so I fixed that. I also put it in a spoiler tag, to avoid reading flow disruption. I might as well when I'm here, right?

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Saturday, January 11, 2020 1:02:21 PM Germany [Member of Zard Skwad]

Bio: Hey there, AbyssRaven here. I'm just an avid Light Novel and Fantasy story reader who randomly thought of a story and began writing about it.

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