Slithering through dreams (Snake Isekai ?)

Reisinling

Previously, on Snake art Online: 

Spoiler

Our hero snek has a problem with his mind becoming completely open for anyone nearby to wander in. He hoped to survive by learning some kind of mind magic, but it appears that he cannot form mana core, which seems necessary to control mana, before his moulting (which will happen in 1-2 weeks). Noticing more and more strain on his mind, with every time someone walks inside him, he decided to risk it all instead of just waiting, and tried to practice his defences on weak sleeping fish - only to end up seeing dreams of a moonfish knight, discovering dark secrets of underwater society, as well as learning basics of soul and mana manipulation. Eventually MC woke up, due to the other knight shooting at him with a water bullet, which led to another discovery - mind-trips, especially soul power infused dreams can affect reality. Using all this knowledge, as well as some blood dripping from him, he found a way to manipulate mana without mana core! By using his blood!

The question is- what will our protagonist do now?

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I woke up fresh and dandy, full of optimism about the coming days, knowing that this will be my day. 

‘Ssss Sss Sss’ - I laughed to myself, I’m so funny. The amusement nearly made me forget about the pain in my tail. Nearly. I was inside the nest, next to my egg. It no longer provided any protection, but an emotional one, giving comfort of one’s family home. Or maybe it was more like an old childhood blanket? Anyways, my body hurt, my head hurt, and, while it’s hard to tell due to it being something that didn’t seem to exist the same way in my old life, my soul hurt. Status seemed to agree.

As you might notice, the “Damaged mind” part does not have “mildly” before it. Also, it’s “slowly” recovering.

SSsssshit. No more mind diving for a while, unless I want to risk learning what adjective the scope uses as the opposite of “Mildly”.

(“You know what helps with sadness? Some window shopping!”)

But there are no shops here.. Well, a snake can dream. Window dream ohohoho.

Great. So the mysterious ability

Why the sssour face you might ask? Oh, because of this little detail: “more malleable to your will when you are calm”. And when I’m not calm, due to the emotional echo created between my and connected persons mind, things tend to increase in intensity VERY quickly. Moreover, I have this strong feeling (most likely judgment skill) that the more emotional things get, the stronger they are going to affect my physicality. (“But that means with higher level I might be able to kill through dreams!”) (“When did I get so bloodthirsty?!”)

Hissing of blood, time for the planned experiments. Discovering new things should be enjoyable! Some success is what I need right now! So, let’s get some of that life-liquid out of the wound, and let’s look again at what happens with it…

...  The wound closed. It’s now covered with a scab. Damn. It feels wrong to hurt oneself, especially when I’m worried about the viruses and bacteria (“Do you think viruses and bacteria in this world also gain levels? Is there like a legendary version of HIV or cancer?”), but still it has to be done. I don’t know when it happened, but I’ve noticed that I’ve started becoming more and more numb to making myself do things that would be considered self-harm or self-abuse in my previous life. I scrapped part of the scab off using my fang (“Ughh gross”)(“Ughh it hurts”)(“... I think I like it in a weird way”)

(“...”)(“...”)
(“Hey, I am you! Don’t pretend you didn’t also feel this way!”)

The blood started flowing, sacrifice to the greater gods of knowledge. (“For science!”)(“For knowledge!“)(“For survival!”)

Reisinling

Multiple chapters today. Small reminder that in our setting Scope is a gift/test from god of knowledge.