A black abyss swallowed him whole his every sin, secret, and hidden passion exposed like an open wound. Just as he was torn open and read through, he was tossed aside. There was no gravity, but he fell, there was no air, but he gasped, and there was no hope, but he prayed. Fear took hold of him with its rusty hooks and his world shook. His first conscious thought after he the darkness let him escape was to run. He had to get away flee from this prison. Prison? Yes, he was in a prison. A vast infinite prison filled with distractions and misdirection. This prison sentence was well earned according to the owner of this institution. God had condemned Jack to hell.
That’s insane he shook at the thoughts but no matter how absurd they wouldn’t back down. He had been judged and tossed aside for the next poor soul. Worst of all was the awareness. It didn’t fade as most memories did, the knowledge remained real as steel. Where was he?
He felt damp, saw nothing but blackness, and his body shivered from the cold. Instincts he couldn’t understand shouted at him to rest. The time for escape from the egg wasn’t now. He couldn’t accept that. In life he wasn’t one to play by anyone’s rules. Maybe that’s how he ended up here.
Jack beat against the soft membrane of the shell he had developed within for weeks. As he beat against it while thoughts of this sentence whirled through his head. A sensation swept through him.
That feeling was like fire running through his veins. He had received the ultimate freedom from god. That didn’t mean, he was truly free from god’s rules or system. Even as he beat against the membrane separating him from the beginning, he felt the system begin to boot up.
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Welcome to eternity in hell. You are no longer worthy of my image and I’ve stripped it from you. That does not leave you defenseless. The spark that I shared with you upon the creation of your soul has granted you some power. I don’t presume to know how your system may operate but good luck. I wish you the best.
Management
SAT App Loading…
Name: Jack
Age: 10minutes
Species: Eldritch Leech
Mutations: Hormone of the Gods, Fallen, Anarchist, Eldritch
lv1 10xp to next
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Levels Until Evolution 1 of 10
Mutation descriptions
Hormone of the Gods – Multiply all strength gains by three, all skills increase 300% faster from repetition, and 300% xp when competing or crushing competitors.
Fallen – You are no longer a mere human. After being reborn in hell your soul has adopted the SAT App. (System Application Template)
Anarchist – Your skin has been blackened by your will to escape the system and search for true freedom. While others exist, you believe you will never be free. -50% charisma when dealing with people of authority.
Eldritch – The mark of one of the five sentient species in Hell. The eye of insight has appeared upon you head. A sign of your relation to the eldritch. Mutations appear 50% more often.
Attributes
HP 5/5
SP 5/5
MP 25/25
VIT 1
STR 1
DEX 1
END 1
INT 5
WIS 2
CHA 1
LUK 1
Skill Trees: Parasite 0/5, Predator 0/5, Survival 0/6
Skills:
Parasite:
Leech Life lv0
Stealth Feed lv0
Latch lv0
Suck lv0
Stealth lv0
Predator:
Ambush lv0
Consume Flesh lv0
Digest Meat lv0
Swallow Whole lv0
Throat Crush lv0
Survival:
Endure cold lv0
Endure heat lv0
Endure shock lv0
Endure acid lv0
Endure force lv0
Endure poison lv0
Once Jack finally tore his single great eye away from the blue screen, he put his disc like sucker against his egg shell. With the simple application of the skill he popped the egg membrane. Water rushed in and he struggled for a second stunned by the cold and harsh waters. -1HP
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Endure cold lv1 +0.1 cold resistance
Endure force lv1 +0.1% force resistance
After a few precious seconds, he moved through the water and began sucking up the remains of his egg. The tasteless membrane slipped down his gullet and his throat muscles dragged it down.
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Swallow whole lv1 +1% chance to drag in down food
Throat crush lv1 +1% force damage from throat
Consume flesh lv1 +1% xp from consuming flesh
Digest meat lv1 +1% growth rate when digesting meat
He turned his gaze to the other eggs within their little nursery. They were barely moving some hadn’t moved at all. It would be easy. Wait weren’t they his brothers and sisters. Well sure, they were and technically Jack was a he/she now. If he wasn’t mistaken leeches had both sets of genitalia. But that wasn’t the point. The point was he had an easy meal perhaps the only one he would ever get.
He swam to the smallest egg and stuck his own sucker against it. After the egg popped the occupant slipped in his mouth and into the vice grip of his throat. One contraction later the leech started to struggle. It wiggled and thrashed, and Jack swallowed again. More of the leech feel past his sucker and down his throat. -1SP
Once again, he gained ground when his sibling started to get tangled in their own egg membrane. Jack swallowed again feeling the smaller leech slide past the middle of its body. From there the rest was much faster soon his sibling was down his throat and thrashing within. Jack felt completely full and waited for his stomach to do its work.
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Ambush lv2 +1% chance to ambush successfully per lv
Swallow whole lv2 +1% chance to drag in down food per lv
Throat crush lv2 +1% force damage from throat per lv
Consume flesh lv2 +1% xp from consuming flesh per lv
Digest meat lv2 +1% growth rate when digesting meat per lv
Rinse and repeat, Jack worked after his first meal to consume his meal’s egg and then he went to the next smallest leech egg.
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Mutation acquired: Cannibal
Cannibal – You devour your own kind to gain strength. +50% damage to enemies with the same species name as you.
Level up x 5
AP (Attribute Points): 25
It never crossed his mind to ask where the souls go after a human died in hell. Jack assumed they were reborn again and again forever. Now that he thought about it that made them dangerous. Though none were aware of who was eating them. Jack was certain he could keep eating with impunity.
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Quest
Devour siblings
Rewards:
25% = +1STR
50% +2END
75% +3VIT
100% New Tree: Gluttony
Failure:
Exposed as a cannibal
Possible death
Jack was well and truly on the job. His digest meat skill had continued to lv as he ate his siblings. With a bit of maneuvering he started to eat multiple eggs at the same time. His body had started to grow rapidly with each lv up. The nutrition from his siblings was helping him devour more.
Whenever one of his goals were met the reward flashed green. He sped for the next and the next one until he was alone in the cocoon. There was no telling where he was in the world but at least he was now the largest leach in the cocoon.
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Level up
Jack lv10 max
AP: 50
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Evolution inbound
Apply all AP before Evolution options may be presented.
Jack thought about what he might want and decided that as a leech in chaotic world it was better to be lucky than anything else. He slammed 49-point int LUK to see what would happen.
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LUK has reached 50 a new mutation was acquired
Mutation: 1 in 1000
1 in 1000 – The world bends backwards to accommodate your survival within reason. Your desires can reshape probability. +50% to positive outcomes.
Quest complete
Devour siblings
25% +1STR
50% +2END
75% +3VIT
100% Gluttony
New Tree Gluttony 0/2
Gluttony:
Fast Digestion lv0
Expanding Stomach lv0
Jack tossed a point in strength and felt his body toughen up. The muscles needed to kill things with his throat grew a bit stronger. The skills in the predatory skill tree reached lv10 after his last kill.
Due to reaching lv 10 in all five skills under the predator skill tree STR +5
Just like that he felt the muscles in his body grow exponentially stronger. He swam about feeling himself glide through the water. It was much easier to swim with greater strength and his gills thanked him for it. But it was time to leave the safety of his cocoon and venture out into the unknown.
He should evolve while he was relatively safe. He looked over his stats
HP 20/20
SP 15/15
MP 25/25
VIT 4
STR 7
DEX 1
END 3
INT 5
WIS 2
CHA 1
LUK 50
Evolution option
Spear Tongue Eldritch Leech
Description – A tongue akin to a bone tipped spear hides within your body ready to bleed your prey.
Tentacled Eldritch Leech
Description – Long tentacles cover your body built to allow greater ease of movement on land and sea.
Aquatic Eldritch Leech
Description – Fins sprout around your body and soon you may join the ranks of sea monsters.
He wanted freedom and a bone tongue wouldn’t help that at all. He chose tentacles because he didn’t want to become a sea faring leech in fresh water. Just because his intelligence was five didn’t mean he was stupid.
Once his choice was selected darkness claimed him. He felt his mind shut down and enter rem sleep.
While he was out his home continued to rock and twist in the water, he had no idea where he was. Hours later he came to aware of several new appendages. His body was covered in a sea of dainty tentacles. They moved in their dozens around his body twisting a contorting.
Jack would have laughed if he wasn’t a stupid leech. He had the makings of the perfect hentai monster. Just a few more transformations and who knew what he could do. Thoughts of grandeur aside he needed to get out of here and hopefully not die to a giant catfish or bass.
That would be bad dying to a catfish after eating all his possible decoys. Still, he couldn’t complain he was much stronger than before. Why did he hesitate to leave the safety of his cocoon? He was as strong as he could possibly become considering the circumstances. Why couldn’t he rip away the white cocoon and free himself?
Instead of remaining there like a pussy and waiting for something to eat his home, he gained some nerve and ripped open the white curtain. The world opened into a black murky lake under the moon. Realizing he had no way to detect predators he kept his body closely packed together and slowly made his way out into the unknown. His parent had placed the nest beneath a log on the bottom of the lake. Jack swam upward towards the moon.
Jack heard the splash before the trout swam for him. It rammed into Jacks side before the fish opened its mouth and sucked. Jack barely managed to extend his tentacles into time to stop his body from getting sucked in. The fish turned sharply, and Jack used his grip to slide under the fish before applying his own suction. He managed to attach his sucker under the fish’s lip and wrap his tentacles around the fish. Luck was his answer all along. Without it, Jack wouldn’t have seen the fish coming. But all luck runs out eventually. Jack felt the fish’s blood slid down his throat.
The fish moved about and even leapt out of the water to shake Jack. It was futile, Jack had a death grip on the fish and soon the fish would die.
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Leech Life lv10 +1% feeding rate per lv
Suck lv10 +1% force of suction per lv
Latch lv10 +1% chance to latch per lv
Due to increasing three skills in the parasite tree to 10 DEX +3
It was like his body became more elastic. His tentacles pulled tighter finding new places to grip. He flattened himself against the fish while he fed lowering his drag on the fish. Overall, he was doing better. The fish on the other hand was doing much worse. Jack continued to suck in the fish’s delicious blood and quick digestion worked. The fish was slowing down and soon it would go belly up.
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Level up x 10
AP: 50
Luck 100
Mutation: 1 in 10,000
Description – You gain more loot, win more poker games, and stay alive in the wild. +100% positive outcomes. Fate is much kinder to those born lucky.
It was a weird feeling being lucky. For once Jack felt his worries slip away and that scared him more than anything. The world wasn’t built on luck. This was a world of merit.
The fish he was latched on to finally gave up the ghost. Jack continued to hold on even as it floated to the surface. Once there hid grasping on to the fish for dear life.
Jack had never eaten a fish whole and he would keep it that way. Fish were boney creatures and the Eldritch leech didn’t like the idea of passing such a large creature. Yet, he was compelled to consume. It didn’t make sense, but he wanted to consume the fish. The thought of adding the large trout to his own bulk was tempting. There had to be something wrong with him. Bloating up with a fish would make him a target. The pond shook, and a feather fell beside him. Jack dove next to the fish for cover.
Only the fish was the goal all along. Water, the fish, and Jack were taken into the bill of a pelican. Jack moved about thinking quickly. This was not going to work. If he tried to escape the old-fashioned way. The bird’s beak would slice him in half. He looked back to see the pelican’s throat open as he and the fish were about to take a ride. Jack positioned himself atop the fish as they took the plunge.
The pelican’s throat wasn’t precise enough to squish him and he ended up atop the fish in the crop of the pelican. The crop was a food storage area for birds. Pelican’s were no different. There was a lot of fish fathered around him and stomach acids splashed dousing him and the fish.
Pain shot through him as he let out a silent screech. There weren’t a lot of options. He placed his sucker against the side of the bird’s crop and began sucking. His saliva killed the feeling and soon he tasted delicious blood. The acid was eating away at his skin but perhaps a little bit of blood would help. Jack’s saliva opened the veins of the pelican.
Acting quickly, he rolled in the flowing blood before latching on again. Jack kept his body small as he fed off the bird.
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Endure acid lv4 +0.1% acid resistance per lv
Stealth lv10 +1% chance to remain hidden per lv
Stealth Feed lv10 +1% chance to remain hidden while feeding per lv
+2DEX
Jack was a freaking genius and he knew it. No one else would think to wrap themselves in the pelican’s sticky blood to protect themselves from the acid. He had lucked out and now this bird was his to kill. The acid still fell on him from time to time, but the acid damage was negligible. He managed to raise dexterity again and his health regen thanked him. Every 10 points of DEX was another point in health regen but until he reached 10, he would only have 1 point in health regen. Drinking blood healed the damage to his body.
Blood Drained +50HP
Acid damage -10HP
Endure acid lv 10
+1END
The most he could hope to gain from the skill at lv100 was 10% protection from acid. That was true for every skill. He didn’t have enough information to make himself truly immune to something like a pelican’s digestive acid. For all he knew these skills might go up to lv999. Still some acids may do enough damage to make 99.9% acid damage resist pointless. The only way to evolve this skill was to experience the worst acid had to offer.
Jack felt when the Pelican landed and then the upheaval began. The crop upturned and only his suction kept him in place as the fish rose up and out of the pelican’s throat. The pelican continued to squawk and shake but Jack was stuck in place. Eventually it settled down to leave Jack to feed in peace.
The pelican must have had one hell of a HP regen because Jack wasn’t holding back. He was swelling and drinking more blood than ever. The pelican was stopped wherever it was, and Jack was going to drain it dry.
When the pelican’s heart began to give out Jack knew he was winning. The leech had expanded like a balloon bringing both of his gluttony skills up to 20.
Expanding stomach lv25
Fast Digestion lv 25
+6VIT
Hours had passed as he drained away the bird’s blood. It was night again and time was passing by. The pelican’s heart finally stopped. Jack watched the muscles above him go slack. He crawled out of the now loose throat and came upon an interesting sight. Pelican chicks shivered beneath the mother pelican. The mate of the water foul was nowhere to be seen. Jack wiggled his tentacles in anticipation.
The first chick had been easy enough. They were soft, weak, and freshly hatched. Jack had opened his mouth over the bird’s beak and then used his tentacles to restrain the creature. From there it had been a simple matter to guide his prey through and crush its bones with his throat. His stomach bulged even as he levels his stealth and added the other chicks to his expanding form.
Jack had become a creature of nightmares. He was a black leech with a great purple eye on his head. He was nearly a foot and a half long and as thick as a child’s hand. Dozens of tentacles covered his body moving of their own accord. Some twisted and made sturdier legs while others moved about ready for action.
Unfortunately, the mother wasn’t on the menu, she was too large. Instead Jack slithered down the high rocks where the pelican made its nest. He stood up and walked down the mountain walking on tentacle legs.
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Level up x10
Evolution ready
Do you wish to evolve?
y/n
AP: 50
From here on out, he needed speed and dexterity. Looking around with his great eye, he saw a myriad of nest situated in the cliffs over looking what he thought had been a small pound. Now high above the body of water he could tell it was a mighty lake. With a quick guess he thought he had been rather close to the cliff face. There wasn’t a current. Further on the lake, he could see the algae flow steadily into the current and get swept away.
Minimizing the window allowed him to hold off his decision for now. His guts were bloated and full of pelican chicks. If he had a tongue, he would rub it over his sucker right now. All around him there were pelican nests ripe for the taking. He hid near a larger rock and watched a few of the larger black feathered pelicans prowl around looking for predators.
Quest
Upward Ascension
Devour a fully-grown Pelican
Bonus Devour a 2nd evolution Pelican
Bonus Devour a 3rd evolution Pelican
Bonus Devour a 4th evolution Pelican
Reward
+10STR
Bonus????
Bonus????
Bonus????
Time limit: 3 months
Failure possible death/reincarnation
Ok not now but maybe soon. He needed to find a safe place to sleep, evolve, and prepare. He looked around finding a few small cervices but nothing that would contain his bulk. That is until he found a larger hole.
Ping!
Digest Meat lv20
Quick Digestion lv30
+2STR
+3VIT
Every time he brought a skill up 10lvs he gained stats. He was constantly growing more powerful, but he was worried. His instincts told him to grow, feed, and hunt. Nothing else mattered to him and that made things dangerous. Jack wanted to dive head first in what could be a snake hole. He had no idea what was within the dark hole. Some force drove him against his will. It could have been his luck, it could have been his desire to grow, or it could have been external. He could only be cautious.
