Reborn as a Snake! (1.) [REWRITE IN PROGRESS]

6. - Life as a Snake. [REWRITTEN]

  One Week Later. . .

              It was a rainy morning. I was sleeping soundly inside of a fallen tree trunk, coiled up in a spring and having my head sunk inside of my own body. It was such a peaceful and nice silence all around me, with only the subtle sound of rain drops falling breaking it every moment here and there. I snored lightly as I slept, before a small raindrop fell from a leaf above the trunk, falling through a small, small gap in the trunk above me and hitting my head, startling me and waking me up in an instant.

I shook my head as soon as I woke up, looking around in pure confusion before looking above me. Through a small gap in the trunk I could see the rainy weather that was present right at this moment.

'Guess I was woken up by the rain..'

I thought, before looking back down and yawning lightly. Uncoiling my body, I quickly stretched it out in a straight line, before slithering over to the trunk entrance I was the most close to and looking outside. Even though it was practically pouring from the sky, the sheer density of the trees around me managed to block pretty much all of the rain, with only a couple of raindrops making through to the ground itself.

The sky was basically all in all invisible and out of my sight, with only snippets of it managing to break through the thick layer of tree branches and leaves. Through these snippets, I managed to deduce that the sky was basically all grey, with the sun nowhere to be seen - shocker.

Who would have thought that when there is rain pouring, the sun is nowhere to be seen huh...

Exhaling, I slithered out of the trunk and off into the forest once more, ready to start off my day. It has been basically a week since I first awoke in this world - and I will not lie, I had actually managed to slowly get used to and adapt to the way this world functions and how my new life will be like.

First, I figured out the core 'mechanic' behind this world - or atleast, what seems to be the thing that this whole world is based on. It was 'Magical Energy' - something that can only be described as this world's version of atoms and molecules. How did I figure this out? Trial and error. I have been wandering this forest for a while now, avoiding any signs of danger as much as I could, just to stay out of trouble. During that time, I have been using that one skill I got after making the whole 'Essence Vow' with Arabor in order to learn about this world.

At first, the skill gave me very little and very basic information about this world, but with time - as I used it more and more, it began giving me a little more detailed information about this world. I've reached the point where it gives me a full description about the different things I look at using the skill. That is how I figured out the stuff with Magical Energy - by using 'Inspector'.

Learning about the world has been a fun experience I've got to say. I have been finding out what I can and can't eat, things that are safe and things that I should avoid like the black plague and even have slowly begun to 'memorise' the forests layout... or atleast, as much as you can memorise the layout of a forest as dense and thick as this one.

I moved through the forest with the rain continuing on for a while, before it eventually subsided and I reached a small open area where I decided to take a rest. I had been travelling through this place for a while now and still hadn't found anything I could kill and eat. Yeah, on the whole food thing, even though I had figured out what I can and can't eat, there was a small problem tucked onto it - Since I am a snake and technically a 'carnivore', the only thing that can realistically 'feed' me enough to not feel hunger or that my stomach can actually digest was... meat. More specifically, meat from small rodents or insects.

There is no way in hell I would be able to take down and eat a wolf - especially the kind that I was forced to face after I left Arabors grave and started my 'journey'. Actually... speaking of that wolf, I have managed to run into more of its kind in this past week - and while every time I was scared out of my mind and was looking for ways to avoid fighting those things, there were times when I was simply forced to fight for my own survival.