Celia: After Dying in the Apocalypse, I Live Once Again!

IllyasArt

Hello! This is my latest novel! Unlike my other novels, this one isn't finished yet. The first volume is finished, though. And you can buy it on Amazon here. If you would be so kind, you can also get the first volume(and anything else I've made.) on my Patreon for donating $10 or over that, here. If you wish for updates, the $10 and over tiers will give you access to chapters when I actually finish them. (Maybe one a day? Idk, as I will be mainly working on other novels as well. But, there will at least be one new chapter every few days.)

Chapter 5: Unfair!

*Celia’s POV*

So, it is kinda cool that these cells are see-through. Also kinda weird that I survived being eaten… I mean, I am inside of it, but like, I am still alive.

Welp, I guess that I have to get some eating done! And that is exactly what I did NOT do. At least, not yet. Before the world went to shit, I did play my fair share of games, and a lot of them were RPG games. As such, I just NEED to check out this huge cells Status.
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:Status:

Name: None.

Race: Random Cell.

Level: 125.
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A hundred and twenty five!? What the fuck! How the hell am I supposed to evolve!? Assuming that I can even do that when the rest of these cells are so high level... Fuck… Maybe I should just really give up?…

I mean, I think that I’ve had a good run so far. I was just never in to those hard core RPG games, where you have to spend thousands of hours just grinding out your levels or skills…
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*Ding!*

System: “User, Celia, is heavily advised to NOT give up on living. Small hint: Reach Level 10.” She said.
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Reach level 10, huh? Fine… but if nothing good happens, I will still be pissed the fuck off. And probably just end it. No. Why don’t I just give up here?

I doubt that anyone would care… And besides, isn’t everyone else dead by this point anyway? Assuming that I do evolve into something else, would I even have anything to look forward to? That is, if this world is the same as the one that I came from… Even so, I was thrown into a pit of deep depression…
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*Ding!*

System: “User, Celia, kill this cell, and you will be given the amount of Exp needed to get to level 10.” She said.
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Wow! I fucking knew if I played a depressed little girl, they would give me alms. With that being said, it seems that someone or something, really wants me to live for some damn reason.

It does irk me to not know, but I guess I’ll just go along with it for now. With that, I started to eat this big cell from the inside out. As this cell was, I don’t really know… maybe, 80 times bigger than me? This will take an even longer amount of time than the other cell…

*A Very Long Dinner Later.*

Well… it should be fully dead by this point. This process most likely took me several hours, considering that I would have to stop for around an hour, so that I could get hungry once more. Huh… System? Where is the *Ding!*? Ah, there it is.
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*Ding!*

System: “User, Celia, gained ??? Exp from killing a Random Cell, and gained six levels. User Celia now has access to the evolve feature.” She said.
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Oooo! Now I can evolve! Awesome! Now I can finally stop being a stupid fucking cell! And then I can wander the ruined world by myself!… Ah, that’s not really that big of a benefit… Oh, well. I thought about looking at the evolve menu, and it popped up.
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Possible Evolutions:

Bigger Cell: A Grade.

Requirements: Reach Level 10.

Fast, Strong, and Big Cell: C Grade.

Requirements: Reach Level 10. Have the Kin Eater Title.
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Fuuuuuuuuck! I was scammed! What’s the point of evolving if I will still just be a stupid fucking cell!? And what’s with the grades? Is this a new feature that I have access to, or something? System, please explain, I am completely lost…
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*Ding!*

System: “User, Celia, Grades are given to denote how good something is. With Grade F being the lowest, and Grade SSS being the highest.” She said.
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Ah, that’s cool, I guess? But what about my reason to exist? I know I said that I wasn’t suicidal, but you fucking try being a cell…

*Ding!*

System: “User, Celia, it will be some time before you have a human-like form once more. Until then, just evolve as you please.” She said.
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Okay, it is really good to know that I will EVENTUALLY have a human form, but what are the criteria of evolving? I need to know what I am working towards, after all.
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*Ding!*

System: “User, Celia, each evolution has its own requirements, and level required to evolve once more. A few evolutions from now, you will see the required level to evolve next to your level in your status.” She said.
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Fine… I’ll keep going, I guess. Thinking this, I chose the Fast, Strong, and Big Cell evolution. Once I selected it, I felt even more pain than when I get an upgrade. And then I super blacked out…

When I woke up, my body felt to be in great pain… But I could now see properly! Woohoo for vision! Ah, now that I can see more than a few micrometers in front of me, this microscopic world is quite beautiful! I guess that the upgrades from my previous form, got back dated? I hope that is the case.

Oh, by the way, I fucking lied! This is even more horrific now that I can actually see… Yeah, I went to college, so I have seen cells under a microscope, but this is miles worse! I mean, they just look all wiggly, but it is quite terrifying to see millions of them all at once…

As for me, I looked even more terrifying… Rather than a cell, I look like a space horror… Let’s… let’s just look at my Status, shall we?
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:Status:

Name: Celia.

Race: FSB Cell.

HP: 50/50.

AGI: 4.

STR: 6.

DEX: 2.

INT: 25.

Hunger: 0/32

True Level: 10.

Race Level: 1.

Current EXP: 0/30.

Skills: Inspect: Level: 2.

Titles: Kin Eater.

Self Improvement Points: 12.

Upgrades Available: 2.
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Oh! Now I have AGI, STR, DEX, INT, Stats! If you have played a game before, then I do not need to explain what those are abbreviations of. I do wish to check out my potential upgrades, but I am absolutely starving!

Now that I evolved, I am around the same size of the cells in this area. Which means, I now have some food to eat. Though, it seems that once you evolve, you, or rather, I, have to eat. Since my Hunger Stat is zero at the moment.

Without further ado, the feast shall commence! I swear that I will kill, and eat every cell that I can get my microscopic mouth on!