I awaken with a startle, sitting up and thrashing my head about to take in the view of wherever I was. It was hard to see, but I seemed to still be on top of the hay roof of the hut, although my vision might have been swimming a bit too much to clearly tell.

  Hnnn, god, as painful as ever-,,

  Aaand there it is-,, if my memory serves me right, next up is the skills and all that-?

  Awh :(

  Oo, nic-, no wait what the fuck is that

  I don't-, no, wait, look, that's cool and all, but what the fuck is Mind Erase?????

  ...Okay, you won't tell me anything, Mr. blue scene, so I guess I'll have to check the skills myself. But, in accordance to "as you do", I shall first open my general status, since, that's what you do.

  I'm very anxious to get to the skills part, but this actually looks really really good. Considering that the first stats I have were all in the 1-2s, if even that, this is quite the step-up! Hell, even now I really just want to take to the skies to see how well I can fly, especially since I not have an "advanced flight" skill. Hehehehe.

  Oh, shit, the skills-,

  ...

  No, wait... where is it-?

  The-, the communication skill! Telepathy, "talking", whatever, where is it?!? Why-,, please, please don't tell me I've been lied to. I-, let's read it again, okay? It isn't the SRI, it isn't the mind erase, it isn't the mana absorption, it isn't any of that, so... so is it-,,,

  Okay, let's think here. For just. One second.

  The wisp was characterized by the fact that it-, that it whisked people away. It made people walk off into the forest, so, so people started thinking wisps could talk to humanoids. That makes sense. But-, but I guess, that isn't how it happens?

  I guess, the skill people didn't know existed, the one that made wisps do this, was... Hijack?... the one that can manipulate people into,, into doing exactly what the wisp wanted?....

  I... I feel cheated. Sure, I didn't expect the screen to speak all truth, after all it sounded a lot like people just assuming things, but... No, wait, this does raise one question, um. In the description of the skill Hijack, wisps are even specified! So, then... do people here not know of this? Can they not see skills and these kinds of things?

  If so, what kind of creature, thing or person is it that knows all these things about these skills, that knows that this is was wisps does?

  Hrrr. I don't like this. But,, no use looking at the past, right? Regretting things you've done.

  ...Considering I'm regretting this one thing a lot, what with the murder, I guess I don't sound too convincing, huh?...

  ANYHOO, I can't do anything about that. Maybe, somehow, if I use Hijack without the mind erase part (a part I will never ever fucking use like Jesus christ dude what the fuck), I can take over the mind of a goblin-, just, just temporarily, and talk to the goblin girl about what I did-?...

  Yeah, that could work! Maybe. Depending on how Hijack exactly works. Y'know, if it lets me use the goblin's skills and all. That'd be cool.

  Oh-, I almost forgot! I should still take a peek at the spells-, gosh, not only do I now have intermediate fire magic, but also novice light magic...

  ...Interesting. Right, so, probably, the last two are my new Light spells, the three before that are the intermediate fire ones, and the rest is as usual. Right. I'm not sure what to do with this, but I'll keep them in mind for when/if I enter combat again.

  This whole debacle aside, I am kind of curious of how I, well, actually look. I've just been staring at my status all this time, so I have no idea what I look like. Let's have a looksie...

  The first thing I notice is that it is, in fact, night. For one thing, there are no goblins to be seen inside the cave, and the ones I can't see are all outside, huddled around a campfire, clad in armour and carrying crude weapons. Keeping watch. It's really dark out there, but not as dark as the cave I've spent the last (days?) in.

  For my own part, I am... very bright. Well, not bright per se, but I am certainly glowing. That is, my bulb is glowing. By the very end of my body, by the abdomen, if you will, is a large, ball of blue-ish cyan light. It looks almost like fire, and when I touch it, my footsie simply sinks right in. The fiery orb is centred around what seems to be a white, lightly glowing crystal.

  ...I'm going to take a quick guess and assume this to be, well, all of my mana. Y'see, before I evolved, when I felt my mana, it was in my midsection. But now, it is more like, well, right there. In the orb. Or, even, the whole orb. If I will it, I can make the orb act however I want it to, but it takes a bit of focus.

  The orb is connected to my midsection, a part of me which is actually rather slim. On the behind of this midsection, two pieces of armour stick out, maybe to defend my mana just a little-? Either way, my midsection connects to my other midsection, where two of my three pairs of legs stick out. The other pair is by my lower midsection.

  The upper midsection connects to my head, but I can't really see my head since, well, I haven't got a mirror. Altogether, I now look more like an ant, or an actual insect, than a worm.

  Hark, for I hath ascended! Worm no more; insect henceforth.

  Hrrmm,,

  Standing up, I realize that 1, I am indeed still atop the hay roof of a random hut, and 2, Standing with this body is actually quite uncomfortable. Sure, it's not like my mana weighs anything so it isn't heavy or anything, but it's uncomfortable.

  ...Let's test out that advanced flying, shall we??

  Flying has now become second nature to me, and with no need to watch my mana since I don't have Light and advanced flying doesn't consume any mana anymore, I simply rise from the floor, utilizing the wings on my back.

  Somehow, this insect body has become natural to me. Well in the air, I let myself fly.

  Advanced flying is no joke. Despite trying my best not to exit the cave due to responsibilities, I still somehow find myself just at the edge several times. The wind swooshes through my ears, my now-even-longer antennae straightening out behind my head due to the force, and it feels almost like when I was falling, but I control it, and it is good. I'm somehow even smaller than I was as a lightworm, with the mana making up most of my appeared mass.

  When all is said and done and this new body is mine and mine alone, I land by a windowsill, lacking actual glass windows since goblins apparently can't make it, and I peer inside.

  I see the goblin-girl, but she doesn't see me. She's asleep, brows furrowed, and mouth distorted into a deep, tight-lipped frown.

  ...I'm going to need to get the hang of Hijack.