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Chapter 4 - A New Beginning

I experience shortness of breath; I feel I am in a confined space filled with a thick liquid. I attempt to open my eyes, but I could not perceive anything. But on attempting to move my body, I sense a wall-like object in front of me. I attempt to touch but it is rough. And liquid surrounding me it is like that I am trapped in container full of sugar syrup, I even attempt to have a taste but it does not taste sweet, and have an acidic flavor.

I don't know if this place exists but I am at least feeling my body it is still good compared to that endless void, having this thought in my mind I attempted to strike that wall with my hand but my hand did not move but overlookin that I attempted to strike that wall with my head and due to my actions that wall developed a crack after noticing light coming from that crack I further increased my activities and finally the crack broad enough to go through opened in that wall.

I slithered my way out of that wall then I realize something crucial I don't sense my hands or legs attempting to access the situation I shake my head to view my body there I notice a thin black tail and long snake like body viewing further I notice the wall I emerged from that wall is a colossal egg with a colossal crack in it processing the scenario I realize that I am currently snake.

A snake who just hatched from his egg shell, that system reincarnated me even though I instruct it to send me back, hell even if I reincarnate it must erase my memories now I am trapped in this snake body with human mind and soul.

Sigh! after finding myself in my situation I attempted to enter my situation I am in a wet cave surrounded by eggs of the same kind some of the snakes began hatching out of there egg some snakes that made it out of there egg beginning to consume there egg shell obviously hungry attempting to mimic them I also attempted to consume my egg shell filling up my stomach, the egg shell was crunch to eat but it didn't satisfy my hunger.

After consuming his egg shell, he once again concentrates on his environment. Some of the snakes have consumed their full share, some are still in the process of eating, some are still in their egg, as horrible as they are, some snakes begin fighting the moment they are born, some snakes shove their brothers around and consume their eggshells.

Looking at this turmoil in this cave, I attempted to leave this location, because I do not want to wait for the snake mother to come; maybe she is hungry and she will eat her children, as snakes are notorious for doing so.

After crawling over the damp rocks of the cave for a while, I was finally able to see the entrance of the cave. From there, I can finally see the sun. Stepping out of the cave, I observe a bright, clear sky with lovely clouds wandering across it. Stepping away from the sky, I observe a forest before me full of verdant trees and foliage, reminding me of the Amazon rainforest. Did I get reincarnated in Amazon? This can be fine, since I will be far from human society, and with my intellect, I can think and devise a method of coping in this existence.

Walking out of the cave I walked among grasses eventually resting in the shadow of a rock after that I begin to think about my life for a person who has died and been reborn in the form of a snake I appear to be too calm but that is due to my tendency to stay calm in dangerous situations due to my experience in life and my learning from studying about sages and scholars, the one thing that I realize is that, "we should accept life as it is" this makes many things easy.

Considering myself, I shift my attention from my condition, I look at my body, my skin is as black as it appears to be, with minute scales on my body, I am 30 cm in length roughly, from appearance, I must be a type of python.

Now I must consider what do I do as a snake, first I must stay away from predators, secondly get accustomed to hunting and most importantly must find a safe place as I don't feel that this is safe.

As I was contemplating everything about this all of a sudden I feel movement turning my head to the movement I feel I see big shadow approaching that cave after getting clear vision on it I finally see big panther as big as car in front of the cave roaring towards the cave after what looks to be 5 minutes of roaring a hissing sound is heard from the cave then a big snake with a length of 15 meter slithered out hissing furiously against the panther that snake is completely black with glittering black scales all over.

Observing that black snake slithered out of the cave I understood that perhaps this is to be my snake mother now fighting with this giant black panther, and was thinking like this the snake began to move her body toward panther with lightning speed clearly attempting to strangle him but panther dodged her attack easily gliding to the side, observing this the snake became more furious and straighten her body moving towards panther now to predators are staring at each other's eye one is aggressor and other one is attempting to defend its territory if you overlook their abnormal size then this scene is regular happening in jungle and can be termed as law of jungle.

As I was gazing at this scene something unusual occurred the snake opened its mouth and some sort of mist begin swirling out from its mouth and instantly it form a icicle and shot it towards panther this scene was something that never crossed my mind in my dreams at all but fight is still continuing the icicle instantly hit panther on his left shoulder gouging a cut in his body but instead of retreating it roar towards snake along with tiny sparks of lightning flashed in his body it moved in zig zag manner towards snake and after coming near he shot his claw in lightning speed towards snake's head and with a splash! The noise snake's head became detached from her body, and upon this snake's death, her body still careening around in a wild way wriggle in ground but panther disregarded it he proceeded toward cave opening after standing before the cave he opened his mouth and with it lightning sparks emanated out and entered the cave obviously killing anyone that entered in their way.

Watching all this, I suddenly got the goosebumps all over my body. Even though I am a snake now standing before me, my so-called snake mother and siblings are slaughtered by a panther, and worst of all, my mother and the panther both possess some sort of elemental ability.

This revelation struck me suddenly that perhaps that accursed system did not send me back to earth, but reincarnated me in a different world inside a snake's body. Now I am left stranded here with nothing to depend upon and a jungle full of hostility against a tiny creature like me.

Sigh! sighing once more, I attempted the most crucial thing, I shouted, "system are you there?"

No response I kept dialing, "hey idiot system are you here"

No response after trying once again for a while, I realize that the system or whatever that thing was didn't accompany me.

Sigh! That is better, because I don't want to play according to the plot of any higher power now. First, I shifted away from that location as a panther, and now it has shifted inside the cave, climbing up a tree at some distance from that location. I stayed and decided to first arrange my survival objective, because that will make everything convenient for me.

First, I have to choose a new name for myself as my previous name which will be gone with my previous life which should be the case, as now I do not want to live in the past for the name, thinking lots of times I could not think of a better name I thought of using first three letters of my name, "Vik" should do as this is a small name and easy to spell and from now on I should be addressed as "Vik"

Choosing his new name, Vik, now embarked on a new path of leaving his old self behind and becoming something legendary, something that would be known and dreaded under many names like "Saintly Scholar Snake," or "Master of all Villains", "the creator of Uncertainty" but that would come later.

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