If I can get named, my essence will become something independent and separate from everything else?
{Indeed. You shall become a named monster and will be seen as an independent being, far removed from Edirup.}
Let's try it right now and see what happens!
I slithered back to Edirup quickly.
My grey fleshy body was flowing and rippling across the leveled stone floor with surprising speed as I moved.
Believe it or not, I could slither fast these days after getting more comfortable and familiar with controlling this unusual form.
I explained my entire analysis to her in careful detail and how I planned to slip out of the seal by becoming a named monster so the enchantments would no longer recognize me as part of her essence.
"Ah, that is true," she held her chin in remembrance, her long sharp claws lightly touching her pale smooth skin as she thought back on the details. "You are an unnamed monster... And already this strong? Terrifying."
Huh?
Does being named add to strength or something beyond just changing how others perceive me?
{Answer: a named monster can evolve into a higher plane of species, and would receive a Special Skill.}
Uhhh, I have a special skill already though, so I wonder how this will work on top of what I already possess.
"Kivuli..." Edirup's feminine voice resounded clearly and powerfully in the large cavern space, echoing off the high jagged ceiling rocks and the ornate carved walls all around us. "Kivuli-maji will be your new name, are we clear on that?"
As she mentioned the name with deliberate emphasis and clear intention, I felt myself begin to melt and reform speedily.
My entire grey form elongating and folding into a creepy, eye-filled ball for a brief intense moment.
Then with swirling grey and black mist that rose around me like living smoke and tendrils, I was normal again in an instant.
Normal, except I had limbs now; small hands and legs like a person that had formed naturally and smoothly from my previous blob-like mass.
And with Magic Perception active I could see myself from a third person POV; so I could clearly see the wriggly tentacles for hair on my head moving slightly on their own as if they had a mind of their own.
My sclera was pitch black and my golden pupils had that octopus, or goat's, slit. That flat line in the pupil.
I felt it'd be more like a serpentine slit instead.
The moment I thought that, the slits scrambled and turned into vertical ones, like a dragon's, adjusting exactly as I had imagined in my mind.
I see... I can alter my body in that case with just a simple thought and intention.
I was nude, of course, having the overall look of a grey-skinned small boy... or girl(?) with no nipples, no sexual organ and dark claws on my small fingers and toes.
If anything, I think I looked very much like Edirup in miniature form, a smaller version of her majestic appearance.
{Congratulations: you are now a named monster. Kivuli-maji has evolved from a [Common shoggoth] into a [Super shoggoth]
{Abilities have been evolved and heightened. [Lord of Flies] has been acquired.}
"Ohhh!" Edirup's eyes twinkled with sudden childish wonder as she leaned forward on her massive throne with clear excitement. "You morphed into something adorable! And resembling me too in such a striking way!"
She went down from the throne and knelt before me on the cold stone floor, cupping my small new body gently and carefully in her large warm hands and playing with me like I was a precious doll, turning me slightly from side to side with obvious delight and fascination.
Damn, she was big.
I don't just mean her cup size, I mean in a humanoid state, she was still so towering that her presence completely dominated the entire space around us and made everything else feel small.
"As a reward, I will give you my authority," Edirup said cheerfully, her deep voice filled with unexpected warmth and generosity. "I will not need it here after all, since I am trapped. And I can replicate its effects through magic whenever I want. You said you wanted to conquer the world, no? I believe you can do it with all these power..."
{Notice: Kivuli-maji has been bestowed the Special Skill [Pride]. Mental infiltration excellence, temptation, allure, charisma, God Haki, are products of the Skill.}
"Oh?" I muttered, now in a cute small child's voice that sounded surprisingly light and clear coming from my new form. "First Gluttony, now Pride?"
"What?" Edirup's eyes went wide with genuine surprise as she paused in her playful handling of me, her golden-starred red eyes widening noticeably. "Surely you jest... Are you saying you possessed the authority of my sister, Ynottulg?!"
"Don't know who that is, but I do have three Special Skills now, including Gluttony."
I answered in a calm but slightly proud tone while trying my best to pull off her hands that were still holding me firmly by my small shoulders.
After a moment of struggling, I successfully slipped off from her grip completely.
It turned out to be a kind of high fall from where she had been holding me up, and when I hit the ground my whole body splattered outward across the hard surface.
It was like thick grey goo spreading everywhere in a messy puddle.
Before I could even feel embarrassed about it, I quickly started reforming myself back into the shape of the small kid I was supposed to be.
My eyes were all disordered and spinning around in different directions from the impact until I consciously pulled them back into their proper places with a bit of focused effort.
Yep. Not human anymore.
Edirup stood there completely lost in her own thoughts for a long while.
Her face was showing clear confusion as she kept wondering why exactly her sister's authority was now somehow with me of all people.
She seemed to be thinking deeply about whether her sister had been killed...
Or if maybe she had known something about my reincarnation and had done something special with her power on purpose.
But after thinking about it for what felt like several long seconds, she soon shrugged the whole complicated matter off with a casual movement of her shoulders and said in a relaxed voice—