Every thing hurts and everything feels hollow.
Why am I on the floor again? I try to push myself up but my arm won't respond. I try wiggling my toes and opening my eyes. They won't respond.
If I wasn't face down on the cold tiled floor I'd think the past few hours were a dream, but I can definitely feel the floor albeit mutey.
Why do I need to get up again?… Right! The [ Crystal abomination] is chasing me… just need to move… a little…
My eyes crack open letting me see a hallway that looks even more ruined. As if a shrapnel bomb went off , or perhaps a large shotgun? Crystal chunks are now lightly imbedded in walls, floors and ceiling. While the [ Crystal abomination]s limbs and rib cage lay a dozen feet away.
Was that because of my punch? I pull up my energy stats.
[•Health (4>1)
•Vigor (2>0)
•Mana. (1>0)]
Im tapped and worse I see movement.
Slowly the [Crystal abomination]s rib cage begins clicking, and subtly rearranging into a demented sipider! It slowly shifts and stands on its false legs. Giving me full view of a damaged half crystal heat hanging in its chest.
I want to scream! But only manage a dry cough that atracts its attention. The [Crystal abomination] imadiatly takes notice and begins scuttling over.
At first I panic, trying everything to move but no limb is responding. All I can do is breathe, watch and nudge what little energy my body is regenerating…
I'm still regenerating energy? I push my senses deeper ignoring my impending doom for the vage hope of survival!
I finally see it my core! … it looks familiar. Have I seen it before?
Don't matter! What does is I can feel it producing Health, Vigor, and Mana then feeding those directly into my heart. I try taking direct control of everything. But it's both to much and to little. Is that why the numbers read as zero despite me still having some Mana and Vigor, cause it's to thin...
Changing tactics I follow the energy to my heart and try something a bit dumber.
Gathering all my willpower i clamp down all the energy inside my heart preventing most of the Mana, Vigor and Health from flowing into my body.
Almost impossible i begin feeling dizzy as every organ except my heart starts shutting down.
I fight to maintain focus as my thoughts thin. But in also feel the energy contained in my heart building, changing, condensing. With even more effort I let a trickle of this denser energy into my left arm.
After a few moments my fingers twitch, but I know this won't last long. I glance at what remains of the [Crystal abomination] that's scuttling towards me it's horrid hart dangling from that twisted spine all less than 3 feet away.
I push my left arm into position directly in its path, so that it's clumsy rib legs will pass over my limb without contact. I then cut off the flow of energy to conserve it and wait.
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Pain, hollow, need, survival.
Why?
Why prey run?
Why does the cure to its pain fight?
Why has it lost most of its shell?
The pain has grown while it's mass is reduced.
Instinctively it adapts reperpusing what remains in to a less painful shape than what remains after getting so horribly damaged. It moves with its first limbs. Unconsciously decideding more legs are better than fewer and if it can it'll grow around this shape form now on.
SOUND!
It focuses on the sound that broadly apared but it's gone quickly. Its prey could made sounds! It aproches its ware the noise came form warily looking for its prey by casting out its senses for the taste of Mana. It catches very little but slowly the taste builds in the direction noise came from! A small pulsing ball of Mana wrapped in a shell similar but distinctly different from its own.
NEED!
It almost pounces following its instinct ofor growth, but instead it slowly scuttles warily watching out for the what damaged it before. It won't get stuck by such a crude strike again. Not from its chosen Prey.
It's shell eventually touches against something once it's about a foot away from its prey. It hesitates probing the object…
No Mana.
Stabs it's leg down though the object…no motivation. No sound.
Not prey.
It advances now a little less hesitant.
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My vision goes black as the crystal bone pierces through my forearm. I feel my control slip as the Health Ether rages against my control wanting to run to heal the first real injury I've received since waking up in this new reality.
I'd have probably blacked out if my body wasn't already so numb from being dinied energy.
When I've gotten control back I noticed the[ Crystal abomination]s heartis almost in position above my hand. Steeling my resolve i once more let my ethic energy's fill my left arm and grasp the horrid organ! The ingery ironically helps as my vital energy drags my Mana and Vigor into my left arm atomically, letting me redirect my focus to something far more important, CUSHING THIS BUG!
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A TRAP!
PREDITOR TO PREY?
A vice aroud it's core?
Instinct over whelms simple reasoning and the creature protectively curls all of its shell around its core… around the hand… unwittingly greatly increasing the pressure, beyond what a weak human could achieve.
The combined ever escalating pressure crushes hand and heart both until Preditor and Prey lose consciousness.
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I awake on the floor again…I don't like how common this is becoming, or the very insistent flashing dot that's at the edge of my vision.
I glance at my hand finding that it's sitting in a pile of crystal bone shards and clutching a descusting mockery of a heart. It's dead.
I I killed it?
I Killed it!
ITS DEAD!
… why am I not in horrible pain? Even my left hand only looks lightly scarred despite the horrible crushing the sharp and jagged ribs of the [Crystal abomination] was able to exert in its death throes. Even the puncture wound has healed.
I sit up, my muscles aching and bone protesting but responding nonetheless. I shuffle back to the room I was sleeping in before the attack. My pore cart is destroyed, ripped apart along with most of the cloth and food I had gathered.
Even the crystallized person wasn't spared thecreatures wrath and has been shattered into dull chunks that no longer glow.
I salvage what I can. A lone sheet, a half empty water bottle, and a bag of chips, a 3 granola bars and a few pieces of hard candy.
After that I drag my spoils to the farthest room from the hallway's entrance, and sits down to check my Status.
Immediately a few notifications block my view, the feel almost Happy?…
[Title Recorded!- Encore!- +(1) Regen and Regen Sub Stats.-(Fall to (0) Health while below level (5) with out dieing.)
[ First Kill Recorded!- 1 (G) Grade-Crystal abomination]
[Title Recoded- Punch Up- +(5) free Sub Stats-(Kill a creature (1) Grade higher than your self.)]
[Title Recorded!- Underdog- +(5) free Core Stats, +(5) free Sub Stats.-(be the first of your race to kill a creature (1) Grade higher than yourself.)]
[Leveling ERROR Recorded!- Fractured core unable to reach saturation threshold.( Spill over bleeding into…Health, Vigor, Mana…)]
[Title FrActured Progression Recoded!- FrActured- your soul and core have Fractured, preventing it from containing, or condescending Ethic Force for long. Increase sensitivity and control over your Ethic forces.( This is a partial title and might naturally Evolve disapate or be combined with others under the right conditions.)]
[Recoded Life Affinity Grade Loss]
[Recoded Life Affinity Grade Loss]
[Recoded Life Affinity Grade Loss]
"That's… probably not good."