Skill: Diviransformation (Copper); The default Skill of the Neophyte Css. This active Skill allows Neophytes to transform part or all of their bodies to better reflect the divine form of their Bloodline in. As a Partit with the Bloodline of Kukulkan, the Copper level of the Diviransformation Skill transforms you into a coatl, a feathered serpent. As yress in potency of your level of Divinity, your Diviransformation Skill will improve. If yress to the higher tiers of Divinity, beginning at Ruthenium, you will be able to adjust your Diviransformation in accordah your will.
Remaining time for Diviransformation before forced reversion to Human: 12:07
Though there was so much to unpack from what the Skill and System were telling him, TJ couldn’t help but ask, “ I ge the bels for Divinity? They make no seo me, and I’m never going to remember all that.”
As you tiress towards the Divihrone, you mind will advand allow you to better retain all information. heless, you add a numeric to the rankings of the Divinity.
“Do that then.”
The different levels of Divinity have been assigned as follows: Dirt (0), Copper (I), Silver (II), Gold (III), Ptinum (IV), Paldium (V), Rhodium (VI), Ruthenium (VII), Iridium (VIII), Osmium (IX), Orichalcum (X).
“And why is my Diviransformation Skill of a higher level of Divinity than I am?”
As a Neophyte, your Diviransformation Skill will always remain at a higher tier of Divinity than your own. The other Csses eventually gain this Skill, but ress beyond their current tier of Divinity until they reach the higher tiers.
Ied, TJ looked at his Status to see how everything had ged
Status Sheet
J (Thiage) Harris IV
Race: Coatl – lvl 1
Css: Neophyte lvl 1
Occupation: Savage lvl 2
Level of Divinity: Dirt (0)
Divine Bloodline: Kukulkan
Health Points (HP): 280/280
Mana Points (MP): 110/110
Stamina: 260/260
Attributes
Strength x2: 20
Agility x1.5: 14
Endurance x2: 32
Vitality x2: 34
Toughness x2: 30
Wisdom: 12
Intelligence: 11
Perception x1.5: 18
Willpower: 16
Fixation: 7
Free Points: 3
Titles: Irregur
“My transformation doubles my attributes? Damn. I made the right decision.”
Every Css has its strengths. By dint of their Css Skill: Diviransformation, Neophytes often enjoy an immediate advantage over the other Csses in their physical attributes. However, sihe Css does not, at the Dirt tier, provide any both ility, Zealot and Acolyte Cssed Partits quickly outpace them in both. The Disciple Cssed Partits gain access to their Divine Ws earlier thaher Cssed Partits.
Even so, TJ was happy to tihinking of himself as the superior Css. After all, he wasn’t cold any more. In fact, he was toasty, and actually fortable for the first time since he’d been teleported or phased or whatever out here. For a moment, he wao just rex in this form, but that timer he’d seen before reappeared in his mind’s eye.
Remaining time for Diviransformation before forced reversion to Human: 10:38
The timer tiig down, and TJ refused to lose this life-saving Skill’s avaibility because he was cold. Before he could even think to ask the System how to disable the Skill, he felt something almost like an internal switd flipped it.
TJ’s whole body seized up as the cold struck him like a hammer. He was he front of his body coated with drying rattlesnake blood as well as his own, and he felt his extremity attempt to turtle into his torso.
“F-f-f-f-f-f-f-fuuuuuuuuuu–” he shivered as he struggled to get bato his clothes. The coyote hides were too much of a hindrao easily shrug into, and instead, TJ pulled his boxers and shorts up before shrugging on his jacket as quickly as he could. The clothing had already chilled oone, and TJ fought to pull his shoes and socks ba with wildly trembling fingers. After too long, the sneakers were ba, and TJ began his journey back up to his camp from the night before.
“Why did I lose my clothes when I used my Skill? Kukulkan didn’t in my dream.” TJ asked at the System as he hiked. “I mean, it should be the same Skill, right?”
Kukulkan had already reached the Osmium (IX) tier of Divinity. He was able to do many things beyond your prehension.
Though the tone was the same as always, TJ could feel the mockery. He sighed and tinued putting one foot in front of the other, but was blessed with additional information from the System.
As you grow to greater heights, you will learn many applications for your Skills. In addition, as you practice with individual Skills, you will gaier flexibility in your usage of each Skill.
“How will I get new Skills? How I progress my Divinity? Hell, I feel like I just get more and more questions and fewer answers.”
To know all is the realm of the One who sits on the Divihrone. However, you will gain a new Skill every five levels in your Occupation and Css. All Csses and Occupations gain the same Skill at level one, ie, Diviransformation and Primitive Craftsmanship respectively in your case. From there, eadividual will be offered a different Skill that reflects the Path that they are taking towards the Divihrohe ier of Divinity is typically achieved at the Race level 25. However, there is no guarantee, as it is depe upon the individual’s growth and acquisition of the divine.
Without saying it aloud, worried what might happen if he did, TJ wondered if he could just… not go to the Throne. He just wanted his son back, and being God didn’t much matter to him. Let someone else do it, just let him get back to his boy, safe and sound.
TJ’s search to find the rattlesnake had taken over an hour, but iy, he hadn’t ranged more than half a mile from his camp. He pushed through the pokey bushes, the peak nearly in sight. Something, maybe the slight upgrades to his Perception from the levels he’d gained, or just a primeval instinct, warned him that something roag. Having been bitten more than enough by supposedly not dangerous wildlife enough already, TJ didn’t hesitate to el his Diviransformation.
As his body seamlessly shifted to have scales ahers, TJ slithered out of his clothes as he left them behind. His tongue flickered, tasting the air. Mammal. Warm. Nearby. His head whipped to the side, the heat of the sneakily approag coyote drawing him closer. With a hiss of warning, TJ lunged forward. His scales scraped along the ground with a pleasant sound as the coyote yipped in surprise and fear. His mouth opened wide, TJ struck. His fangs sunk deep into the coyote’s front leg, and bones snapped in response. He worked his jaw, pulling the unwilling creature deeper into his maw.
At his tail, a sed, and then a third coyote struck. Their fangs scraped and fought to find purchase in TJ’s flesh, but his scales turhe sharp teeth from tearing into his body. The coatl raised the coyote it was biting into the air before smashing it down into the ground and stunning it. Though it was loathe to, it left its prey there as its tail whipped wildly behind it. One of the assaints pulled back, afraid. The other was foolish. The serpent’s tail ed around its nebsp;
With a burst of movement, the coatl stricted the coyote’s windpipe and ed it in folds of its coils. It crushed its prey, ign its cries for help and mercy. The coyote whimpered and wheezed, a silent as the coatl broke its neck. Even with the fshing of a System notification, it wasn’t fihe third prey had long since fled, but the first was only now stumbling to its feet. The coatl rushed the struggling coyote, its jaws finding the e’s throat. It ched down as, again, it ed its prey in its coils. g of bone was music to its ears, and as the coyote succumbed to its fate, the coatl disjois jaws and began the process of swallowing its prey whole.
Though it had already eaten its fill today, in times of plenty, one o fill its belly. With a pleasant flexion of its muscles in its throat, the coatl swallowed its prey inch by inch. The hair tickled its nose, and the coatl forced itself to swallow more quickly than it wahree mier, the coyote’s corpse was fully hidden in the serpent’s gullet, and TJ returo himself.
Remaining time for Diviransformation before forced reversion to Human: 2:52
Disgusted, TJ flicked the switch to return to his human form. He was on his hands and knees, buck-ass naked, again. The cold settled into his bones as TJ gathered his clothes in one arm and the remaining coyote body in his other. Without b with socks, he thrust his feet into his untied shoes and tromped up to his camp. Unsurprisingly, there were still plenty of banked coals in his firepit, and with a minute’s ministrations, the fire was bad r.
TJ rubbed his hands fiercely over the fire and tried to warm himself as he pulled his shorts ba. For now, he didn’t bother with his jacket, instead rubbing his torso with his arms vigorously as he stomped io keep his blood pumping as his mind raced.
While he had transformed into a snake, or coatl, or whatever, he had truly bee that animal. He’d acted like one. Hunted like one. Fed like ohough he wao ask what had happened, since he absolutely couldn’t digest aire coyote and rattlesnake like the ones he’d just eaten in quick succession, that wasn’t important.
Swallowing a rattlesnake and coyote whole was, admittedly, disgusting. He could still taste the fur and blood and dirt. It turned his stomaember his teeth breaking boJ loved animals, and this had been the final straw. He never wao do that again. Even so… he forced himself to look at his System notifications.
2 Coyotes, Level 1-2, Sin. Experience gained.
Css: Neophyte has advao level 2. Attribute points allocated: Endurance +3, Vitality +3, Toughness +2, Wisdom +1, Intelligence +1, Perception +1, Willpower +2, Fixation +2, Free Points +1. Additional Free Points currently avaible.
Race: Human has advao level 2.Attribute points allocated: Strength +1, Agility +1, Endurance +1, Vitality +2, Toughness +1, Wisdom +1, Intelligence +1, Perception +1, Willpower +1, Fixation +2. Additional Free Points currently avaible.
This world wao kill him. And, it was getting stronger. If he didn’t he would die, and Juniht too. He couldn’t allow that. So, he would kill. And he would devour. And he would grow. Until TJ could save his son.
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