Chapter 3: Adventurers

Chapter 3: Adventurers

Aaaaaargh, aie, aie, aahhhh, that hurts, that really hurts. Who said that reincarnation was painless, I bet he didn't experience it. Well, I guess not a lot of people have done that. But, like every part of my body hurt, my head hurt, my hands hurt, my legs hurt, my Wait for a second, what is that thing, on my back. It's moving??? Ok calm yourself, open your eyes before, to see the situation and it's all dark and a little cold. Like really dark, I can barely see some stone wall, natural stone not a stone refined by men in a building for example. So I am in a cavern or a hole? The part where she said something something something can't choose where you are born is a total lie. Well, I guess my blackmail was a little too much so I forgive her because I am a just and noble future Hero. But let's go back to the "thing" stuck at my back. Even if I am in the dark I can still see my hands and WHAT THE HELL!!! My hands! My poor and human-looking hands! Where are they? Instead, I got some weird claws. Hold on, so she could choose where I would have been born AND in what form I would have been reborn? And she chose a dark cave and what looks like a rat? Yes, that weird thing moving is my tail. Ok calm yourself, it's not a big deal, you just have to survive as the first trash mob met in every good or bad RPG that you know about. Not really hard. Not really hard your mother!

"Aria, you dirty daughter of a "

(After a few minutes of intense and rude insults, our hero has recovered his spirit.)

"I will fu"

(I guess it was too soon, but now it is time for him to adapt to his new condition.)

So I am now a rat. Wonderful. What are the advantages, small, quick, resistant to disease and poison, can eat nearly everything I guess? For the disadvantages, it's easier. Weak, weak, less dangerous than spiders or bats alone, the prey of everything, not enough strength to kill something bigger than itself. But I have something special, behold the mighty SYSTEM!!! Not working? SYSTEM!!! System? Character? Inspect? Open? Personage? How do I open it? Normally I would click with my mouse or use a keyboard shortcut. Wait, my mind is the computer, my name is Marc Cassidy so open Marc Cassidy?

"System launched"

"User: Marc Cassidy"

"Attributes:

Name:???

???

???

???

HP:1/1

???

I can see them beginning to retreat and Did it get colder? Yeah, it's really colder all of a sudden. Is it a Boss? Please be a Lich, please be a Lich. And it's a LICH! Finally, something scary. And now, the adventurers are fearing for their lives. They will make mistakes, maybe even split up. Great, Great, hold on. Why are they fighting? Why is the lich losing? Seriously, they are winning? No, no, no, don't, don't win. And they won. Like that. Was it a trap? Like "we are weak and tired, one attack and we will die, I hope that no monster will try to fight us"? And now, all the undead are dead, for good. All the skeletons disappeared.

So they are leaving like that, without casualties, without even a near-death companion. They took something from the chest of the lich, it looks like a crystal. So there are the monster cores in this world. And the priest is taking the bag of the lich. Probably some spell scrolls, manuscripts, parchments. All the rest are a bunch of broken armors, swords, and bones from the skeletons and the lich body.

What should I do with that, I can't eat bones, and a lich body, just the number of curse on it will not be low. But there is nothing else. To eat or not to eat, this is the question. If I was a normal rat, I would probably not do it but I have the mighty System. So let's try.

"[Curse of the dead] activated, reduce all attributes by 50%"

Great now my HP goes from 1/1 to 0,7/0,7. That's just 30% decrease, not 50%. Is my System broken? Or did I gain HP? So I eat a part of the lich body, I get a curse and I gain more life than before. So let's eat again. Bless you mighty System! Bless you! Eating make me gain more HP after each bite. From 0,7 to 40,5 after eating all the lich body. So I have gain attributes, but no Exp I guess? Still, from losing against anything to survive and maybe beat some animals, that's a great day for the rat race. However, the System didn't change at all:

"Attributes:

Name:???

???

???

???

HP:40.5/40.5

???

???"

How ignorant I was, thinking that the legendary encounter has failed me. There is no way that it didn't work. But still, I don't really know if it's enough. I should probably leave before the adventurers come back, I ate that undead corpse for a very long time. Just one small question, where is the exit? Updated from novelb(i)n.c(o)m