The rodent from earlier poked its head out of Books’ pocket once again, blinking and sniffing the air curiously. Its ears perked up as it started to come to the conclusion that the huntress was gone, leaving it alone with the unfamiliar girls. Learning this, the tiny creature crawled out of Books’ pocket, scurrying down her body and onto the dirt bed, its butterfly-like wings unfolding and stretching themselves out in the neon light of the chamber, revealing a hot-pink color on top and a deep blue underneath. The small mouse of only about an inch or two tall cleaned its face the way rodents do as it looked up at the two girls, blinking curiously.
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After the ‘holo’ button was pressed, the light of the screen shined harshly into Leon’s eyes — the 3D hologram mode reactivating, but left at an odd angle as the laptop wasn’t sitting with both halves lying flat on the ground, as it was when GM used the hologram mode earlier. The hologram mode was still usable, though, even if askew, and so the screen buttons that floated in the air would still react to a good poke like a touch screen of some kind.
After Leon switched to the “Basilix (mod)” tab, the image of the wolf that occupied the screen space previously was replaced with a 3D model of what seemed to be some sort of reptilian humanoid, donning scaly green skin with some black, tiger-like stripes. The creature was mostly human in shape, though certain features added to its non-human appearance, such as his slightly clawed fingertips, snake-like eyes, and, most distinctly, the tail tat hung idly behind him, reaching down to his feet. It certainly wasn’t GM’s dragon of the same name. In fact, it didn’t look much like a dragon at all, more like some sort of… lizard. Beyond that, it didn’t look nearly as beast-like as the dragon Basilix, as this Basilix seemed far more… human, for lack of a better term. Sure, his yellow eyes glared back at Leon with a sort of cruelness that suggested a rather ruthless and predatory nature, but aside from that, its face suggested that a rather human brain hid behind it, as the rest of the face carried a very human-like shape, and the head was even topped with a scalp covered in messy blonde hair. He dressed in a somewhat more human-like manner, too, wearing dark pants and a leather vest that still left some of the creature’s yellow reptilian underbelly visible. The clothing, plus the lizard-man’s muscly build, made it very clear what sort of player he would be in the fantasy world he seemed to be from — a warrior.
If Leon’s mind was sharp enough, he might’ve been able to recall when GM pulled the file up in the first place — which was when he gave Leon the respawn ability, and copied some text out of Basilix’s raw coded file in order to share said ability with Leon. Other than that, though, GM had seemingly never mentioned him, despite having a green dragon of the same name. The model of Basilix floated in the air in front of him, glaring back at the boy with his yellow, reptilian eyes, almost as if he were waiting to see what Leon would do. While no editing options seemed to hover in the air next to him, perhaps Leon could recall that GM seemed to be able to conjure up such displays and modify a creature just by touching and interacting with the design’s hologram. Additionally, two small tabs were visible in the bottom-right corner of the display. The current tab was labeled ‘Form 1’, the other, ‘Form 2’. (Spoiler alert: Form 2 is not Basilix the dragon.)