[Your pessimism disgusts the Gods]
'Huh, what is this? Who the fuck cares about what some fake Gods think'
Thoughts were felt rather then coherent substrates of clear thoughts.
Everything was silenced to the point that the only thing left was tiny fragments of subconsciousness.
[Punishment loading ...]
'Punishment? Am I going to hell?? It wasn't my fault that bastard truck driver hit me?!??'
[Punishment Complete]
'I don't deserve punishment'
[Reincarnating to another world ...]
'Reincarnating?'
Quinn read alot of stories about someone reincarnating into another world and becoming OP. He even dreamed of it. Which begged the question. Why was it a Punishment??
[Reincarnation Complete]
'Wait finally something good is going to happen to me. Finally something I deserve.'
Quinn's dreaming of fame, power and girls faded as the blackness of death became even blacker.
...
Quinn felt alive. The energy of a new spirit.
'Ahh, fresh youth... Reborn into a being that defies the gods.'
Quinn opened his eyes to see only black. He tried to flail his body around only to find out that it he was in a slimy cocoon. Or a womb. Or an egg.
'Ohh snap, I'm not born yet. Just need to wait'
So Quinn decided to wait.
However, due to Quinn's overindulgence in Tik Tok and the latter, he had little patience.
1 picosecond later...
'Ahhhhhh!!!!Why is it taking so long'
Quinn stretched his body against the confines of his unknown environment trying to feel his way to the exit unitl..
The walls burst open, and a slimy sticky substance oozed away from in every direction.
'It's still dark. Ick, get this slim off me'
He went to wipe his face with his hands. Only to realize he has no hands. He tried to walk only to realize he has no legs.
'Where are my limbs.... WHERE ARE MY LIMBS (°ロ°)'
Quinn couldn't see it but felt it. His entire body consisted of one large tube like structure. Head to tail-end.
'∘ ∘ ∘ ( °ヮ° ) !! Oh snap, I'm blind and my body is a tail. Fuuck, I'm a snake. So I just quickly evolve into a dragon
But aren't snakes only half blind.
it must be night time.'
Eager to experience the world, Quinn crawled out of his egg. Only to be hit by a wall.
'Well, I'm obviously in a burrow'
Searching around, Quinn discovered that the burrow was quite small and insignificant and littered with a few other eggs. The burrow felt more like the eggs were buried in the soil and Quinn found himself digging through the dirt more than slithering around.
It didn't make sense. All the eggs were soft shelled, more akin to a tadpole egg.
'Surely there's a status window I can check'
So Quinn tried, but he couldn't talk.
'Status' ... Nothing.
'self appraisal' ... Nothing.
'What the heck is this shit!! How am I gonna get stronger if I can't even check my status?'
After a while, Quinn started to smell certain smells coming from inside his egg as well as the outside of the other eggs. And more importantly himself.
He started to feel around with his unfamiliar body, and of course, the first system window appeared.
[Skill Unlocked: [Appraisal] ]
[Awarding 20 Exp]
[Appraisal: [Worm] ]
'W-WORM!?!??! This is bs!! This is outrageous!! Even a slime is better!!!'
...
His tendency to stress eat during times like these caused him to find that he could eat the soil.
[ [Tenacious diet] Activated]
He unconsciously started eating soil that contained debris such as micro pieces of leaves and twigs.
Digging around to find the better soil to eat he activated his next skill.
[ [Dig] Activated]
'Why!?!' He sobbed inwardly. 'Why is it always me?!?' He stopped when he noticed the system windows.
The MC always started weak and feable but become strong after consistent trials and effort. Could he achieve the same thing? But Quinn didn't see it this way. He hated the taste of dirt.
But since he only ate dirt he would never run out of things to eat.
Safety.
Quinn began to eat.
[[Tenacious diet] Activated], [ [Dig] Activated], [ [Tenacious diet] Activated] ...
Gradually, the earth was getting harder and harder to eat. His pallet became more and more off put by the thought of eating dirt.
But Quinn persisted.
[[Tenacious diet] Activated], [ [Dig] Activated], [ [Tenacious diet] Activated] ...
Finally, something else happened.
[Satiety: 100%]
[Growth progresses ...]
'That means I'm fully, doesn't it.'
Suddenly, a sharp pain invaded Quinn's entire body. But as quick as it came, it left. Followed by a cramped feeling in Quinn's body.
'Ow, what was that. I couldn't even react to it.'
Even though Quinn is usually useless, his worm instincts fought the soil crushing him and activating [Dig] to create more room.
[You have Aged:
[Hatchling Worm] --> [Juvenile Worm] ]
[Growth completion: 33%]
[Aged body hosts new skill:]
[Growth Skill Unlocked:
[Internal Compass] ]
Finally he stopped.
Quinn noticed the silence, the peace
The serenity of his situation calmed him as he found it hard breathe.
'I'm so used to breathing. It feels so weird. Like I'm absorbing the oxygen. So why do I feel like I'm suffocating.'
Quinn's new skill gave him a sense of direction. He determined that he'd actually been digging down. Where the soil was less aerated? Quinn panicked as he noticed what this meant.
He was drowning.
Quinn began to dig up only to find out that digging up was like sprinting uphill. He quickly ran out of stamina and fell unconscious.
'I am that pathetic. A worm drowned in soil?? Only i could do such a thing.'
...
Okay, okay.
Activate [Plot Amour]
God dammit Quinn we haven't even finished the 2nd chapter, and you already need this bullshit.
It rained.
With rain came a rush of new oxygen for Quinn to breathe. His buoyancy made him float up an unknown tunnel that he happened to come across.
'Huh, what happened?'
Quinn awoke. Noticing the water around him and the tunnel wider than his body, he flailed.
He tried to swim, but worms can't swim. He only hit the walls of the tunnel he was in.
He was trapped. What's worse was that something bigger had made this tunnel, and Quinn didn't want to find out what.
'Ahhhh... Why is it always me? You don't see Jesus reincarnate into a worm. No, instead, he convinced some people to kill him to create a religion.'
Not realising that Quinn might be in a better situation, he diverted the blame once again.
'I can't swim!! I'm going to drown'
This wasn't because of his body. Quinn genuinely didn't know how to swim. Hence, he started to sink.
Quinn's instincts screamed at him to go up. He couldn't resist. Perhaps he was curious. Or perhaps he was so weak willed he couldn't resist.
Quinn dug into the side wall. He finally had the bearings to tunnel up.
Finally out of danger, Quinn slept, scared of the day of being a worm.