I awoke to darkness, I don't mean to say I'm blind, it's just night. As I was about to start looking around at my new home, a screen blinked into being in front of me.

  The message disappeared as quickly as it had popped up, and I finally managed to take a look around. I seem to be inside some sort of weird forest, with huge tree-like things growing out of the ground. They are about 4 times my height, completely green, and seem to be made of a single leaf.

  'Oh well, new world new vegetation, right?'

  I was about to poke one of the strange trees when I finally noticed my hand wasn't really a hand. It looked more like a lump of stone with little stone fingers. I looked down at my feet and noticed they also seemed to be made of stone.

  'I should really check my status I think.'

  As soon as I decided to check my status 2 new screens popped up in my view.

  'I'm an earth elemental and the goddess named me Raak, ha ha very funny.' I thought, a wry grin on my face, well, what passed for my face anyways. 'At least the skill I wanted is there, Along with another skill that seems to be based on my race.'

  Speaking of race, earth elemental doesn't seem like that weak of a race if this skill is anything to go by.

  It was at this moment that I felt something lumbering through the forest. Soon after I could hear the thumping of feet nearing where I was. I decided, seeing as how weak I seem, that I should hide. I scrambled behind one of the trees just in time as the large beast had come into view.

  'Holy FUCK that is a HUGE FUCKING RAT' I screamed internally. The thing was taller than the trees, it looked like a furry transport truck as it barreled right past where I was hiding. It didn't even slow down enough to get a look at me.

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  That was about the time that my eyes turned back to the trees and I finally realized what they were and sighed, they weren't trees at all, they were grass.

  'Son of a bitch' I thought. ' I am about 10 centimeters tall.' I finally realized why I was an earth elemental, the goddess never said that I would have a weak race, she said that I would have a weak body.

  'Why bother calling me an earth elemental, you should have just called me a pebble' I grumbled.

  'Haaaaaa, well I should probably figure out how this skill actually works before something decides to eat me and I have to find out whether my crystal core can survive a digestive tract'

  I pick up a small rock sitting beside me, which considering my size would likely be classified as sand.

  'Bottom's up' I thought as my stone mouth crunched down onto the piece of sand.

  'Right, earth elemental, eating rocks makes me bigger, I guess I should have seen that coming.'

  I continued eating sand for what seemed like half an hour. They actually didn't taste too bad, which was probably either because of my race or the glutton skill.

  All In all my body size had increased by a little more than double making me about 21 centimeters tall, I was still only half the height of the grass though.

  'Ooohh, I wonder what happens if I eat the grass.' I thought as I walked up to one of the definitely not-trees. As I am now I don't think I'm large enough to actually pull out the grass that happens to still be twice my height. Thus I decided on a different approach

  Crunch

  I took a bite out of it. It tasted like grass.

  'What did I expect really?'

  A small buff to hp and mp regeneration while in sunlight. Not a bad skill, but useless in caves or buildings. Or at night, like it currently is. The 'novice' next to the skill name makes me think it can be upgraded though.

  I guess that proves my theory correct. The small stat gain doesn't seem to do much, it might make my thoughts slightly more cohesive, but it's hard to tell with such a vague stat as wisdom.

  *click*

  It was at that point I noticed the sound

  *click click*

  I whipped around as fast as I could, only to see an ant walk into the small clearing in front of me. It was up to my chest in height, huge black mandibles clicking as its antenna moved around searchingly. I took a step back out of surprise at the pony sized insect. As I did, however, it seemed to face towards me, clicking furiously. Until I moved, I guess I was simply just another rock to this thing.

  “Nice ant, I'm not going to hurt you,” I said as I slowly backed away from the advancing ant. The ant seemed not to care, of course. It hunched down slightly lower, and before I could react, it lunged. I tried to move out of the way, but I couldn't keep up with its speed. Its mandibles clamped right onto my left arm, grinding off small pieces of the stony flesh.

  “AARGGH” I screamed as the ant bit into me causing me to lose 8 health. “Okay, I lied, I'm Definitely going to hurt you!” I growled as I punched it right in its compound eyeball with my stone fist.

  *skreeeek*

  It released my left arm with a screech, but the thing had practically chewed right through it at this point. The ant tried to back up but I stepped on its left foreleg before it could retreat.

  'Seems like its lunging speed is much higher than its normal movement speed.'

  With its leg held under my own, I managed to get another hit in on its eye, completely destroying it. I then proceeded to grab one of its mandibles with my good hand and slammed my head right into its face, knocking both of us back slightly from the collision.

  My health was dropping slightly low and was now at 15 after the initial bite and the head on collision. The ant itself was looking far worse, however, with one crushed eye, one crushed mandible and a large dent in its head. It did not, however, seem to be backing down. Its legs lowered it once more, and I could see another lunge coming. This time, I was far more ready for it, I pulled my fist back and just before it lunged I punched forward. The ant crunched its own face right into my extended fist and splattered what was left of its head.

  I fell to the ground, completely exhausted. Finally, the ant was dead. The fight felt like it lasted forever, but it couldn't have been more than a few seconds.

  'I can't believe an ant almost killed me'

  That was my last thought before I fell asleep leaning against a partially chewed up stalk of grass.