Chapter 1: Escape
The Eternal Research Facility is the only facility who researches monsters. They captured monsters and began experimenting with them. The experiments are cruel and inhuman but no one bats an eyelid. Non-humans for them is like trash anyway, ready to be disposed of any time.
In the first level room, something unexpected has happened. A ghoul has escaped from the room.
“Shit! Who did this?” shouted one of the researchers
He knows that no ghoul is capable of escaping unless someone freed her on purpose. “Let’s us search for her, he can’t be far!”
A ghoul escaping from the Eternal Research Facility is not a disaster. A ghoul belongs to the weakest type of monsters, even when escaping he shouldn’t become a threat against a group of humans. However, this ghoul is stronger than an average one because of the small modification the researchers has done.
In the end, they don’t manage to find the escaped ghoul and the one who is responsible for freeing her.
The most dangerous monsters are residing in level seven, Espers. A beautiful girl with blue hair is smiling in her cell. She has a melancholy look on her face while smiling.
“Poor thing, you are now free.”
“Go, and live your life to the fullest”
“Don’t forget about me, you saviour.”
The blue haired esper is using telepathy to speak to the ghoul.
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Five days after the escape
“Hungry.."
"Meat, more meat and guts. How many have I killed? 1...5….14...26..”
“Still not enough!”
In a small town screams of villagers could be heard.
One for one they are attacked and eaten by the ghoul.
Their own attacks are ineffective because the ghoul's wound is keeping regenerating on its own.
“What the hell is this thing? Why doesn't he fucking die!” The attacking villagers shouted
Escape!
That’s the natural thing to do of humans when they face something stronger than them.
The ghoul who now has consumed human meat is getting stronger and faster. Her intelligence is also increased capable of thinking at the level of a wild animal.
She chased and chased, killed more villagers in the meantime. Eat their fles and became stronger and faster.
A few villagers who manage to escape warns the other villages.
But they laughed off as a joke.
“Ghoul? You guys are scared of those low-level monsters? Stop joking please.”
The mocking villagers instantly feel regret about their statement when they saw the ghoul.
In a few moments everyone is slaughterd by this monster.
No survivors.
One month has been passed, the ghoul has eaten 461 villagers. Slowly fingers are forming within her hand. Black hair is growing from her head and two round small black balls resembling an eye is popping out her face.
“I’m not satisfied yet, need more meat and guts.” the ghoul said
Her speech is resembling that of a female human, it means she is becoming smarter.
While the ghoul is travelling suddenly a swift arrow appeared aiming at his head. The arrow punctured the ghoul’s head, blood spilling over his face.
The shooter is a man with wearing a green cloak with X symbol on the back. He is someone from the Eternal Research Facility.
The people from Eternal Research Facility has no idea that the ghoul killed so many villagers.
Immediately they send a hunter to track the ghoul down and kill it.
A hunter is someone who is specialised hunting monsters. The hunter who is attacking the ghoul has one star which means he had the lowest rank .
The Eternal Research Facility underestimate the ghoul and though a one star ranked hunter is enough for this task.
Using a special ability called [hunter sense], The one starred hunter is tracking the ghoul scent from one of the villager's corpse.
After searching for a few days, he finally founds his target. Immediatly he launched an arrow towards the ghoul before he can react.
The ghoul pulled the arrow from her head, in a few seconds her wounds are healed and the blood is gone.
“Impossible!” shouted the hunter
“He regenerates her wound in a few second?! A normal ghoul cannot to this."
The ghoul charged at the hunter, using her deformed hand to grab his neck.
The hunter already set up a trap before him, when the ghoul is in the detonation radius, it will explode.
“Come closter, you monster!"
“15…”
“10…”
“..5..”
“That’s right!”
Boom! The trap exploded and the ghoul's body is catching fire.
“This is my victory, ghoul!” The hunter smiled
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“Graaah!”
The ghoul screamed from the pain, he rolled on the ground. The fire around her body is getting intense, the heat is too much.
After a few minutes, the fire has stopped. Seeing the ghoul laying motionlessly the hunter walks towards the corpse of the ghoul with confidence.
“Let’s take your head so I can get my reward.”
When the hunter is about to cuts the ghoul's head, he suddenly feels something wrong.
"How the fuck you are still alive?! This regeneration isn't normal!"
The ghoul immediately jumps on him biting the neck of the hunter and rips his flesh off.
“AAAH!”
A pitiful scream of dead is resonating in the place. The hunter is caught in surprise.
“Meat!” The ghoul consumes the flesh of his victim rapidly.
The ghoul killed him by biting half of his neck off. Blood is splashing everywhere on the ground.
A few moments later, a feeling of relaxation is running through the ghoul’s body. It’s the first time he is experiencing this. Eating this one hunter is better than eating thousand of those villagers, that’s what the ghoul feels now.
The next morning, the ghoul appearance altered again. The fingers are fully formed now, her eyes now have pupils. Her hair is growing longer, he looks more human now.
Eating the hunter increased her power once more. The hunter has something the villagers lack, "Raiki"
It’s a mysterious internal energy born into a few humans and high level monsters.
The highest ranked hunters, who has nine star has about the same amount of Raiki as the Mystical beasts.
Mystical beasts are Ancient Beings, extremely powerfull, even Espers cannot touch them.
The strongest hunter in the world, Cadrus Elestro manage to kills a Mystical beast, the thunder kirin in a life and death battle. He created his new weapon “Amarus.” from the thunder kirin, becoming even stronger.
This legendary battle lasted for weeks and is the most famous story in the central continent.
Ghoul Pov
It’s have been three months since I escape from the facility. My intelligence is now on par with the humans. After eating the hunter,my desire for human meat is completely gone. Instead, I try to eat other monsters in the environment.
By eating harpies in the in wilderness grants me the ability to grow wings on my back. Those wings are hard as steel, I can use them to attack or to shield myself. I named this ability [Wing Enchantment]
Eating the crystal lizards that are crawling on the cave grants me the ability to shoot crystal spikes from my hand palms. So the ability [Crystal Spikes] is born.
I can make layers of from my mysterious internal energy to harden my body and I called it [Steel Enchantment]
Even my body went to a drastically change, my hair keeps growing and breasts are growing on my body. When I pass by a village, many eyes are staring at me. I don’t understand it what they are staring. Perhaps they recognise I'm a ghoul?
From now on I will live as a human. Living as a ghoul is tiresome. It's more peaceful to live as a human.
I named myself Agni, it’s a name from a girl I have eaten.
I initially don't feel any remorse killing children or women in villages. I did it to survive, that's a natural instinct from a ghoul.
But one I became a human something is different, A emotion called guilt is dwelling inside me.
I still have many things I don’t understand in this world. In order to understand this, I continue to observe humans in nearby towns learning things from them.
Several villagers are approaching me when I stared at them. Those stares again, it's uncomfortable for me. Did they know I'm a ghoul?
“Pretty girl, why aren’t you wearing any clothes?.” they asked
“I don’t have any clothes.” I responded
A girl with short brown hair is walking towards. “Just take it,” she said with a red face.
I wore the the girl’s white dress and blue underwear. “I don’t want shoes.” I give back to the girl.
The girl asked, “Why?”
“I love being barefooted,” I said while smiling at her
The girl stared at me from top to toes and muttered;
“You look really pretty in those clothes.”
I guess the current me it’s what they call beautiful. When I was looking at myself in a river, I have black hair till neck. Large eyes with red pupils, snow white skin, delicate mouth, and slender legs.
The villagers invited to stay but I refuse to bother them. “It’s ok, I’m already accustomed to traveling alone.”
“Thank you for the clothes,” I said to the girl with a friendly tone
I bid the villagers a farewell and continued my journey. Suddenly I remember my life at the research centre.
Terrible experimentation and torture, those memories make me sick.
Humans aren't neccesary better than ghoul's. Hmph!
Aah!
I suddenly remember a girlish voice, she is one who freed me from my cell, I think.
Going back to that place it's suicide for me. That place is full with hunters that are stronger than me.
My current strength is equal to a level four monster.
But, I need to save this girl even though it will cost my life. It's that what a human feels like? Having a desire to rescue and protect someone?
I need to become stronger in order to save her but just eating humans are normal monsters doesn’t increase my strength anymore.
The only way to become stronger is eating monsters who are stronger than me. I need to find them.
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Agni is walking in a crowded path, she has no idea where to go. Since the death of the hunter, the Eternal Research Facility send more hunters to hunt her down. But her ghoul sense is completely gone. It’s impossible to track her down now especially when she gained a human appearance.
“Have you heard about Zeus Academy? Suddenly a black haired boy is talking to another boy
“Of course, I have. It’s a pity for us we can never join such school. Ah, I hate it so much, why don’t we have raiki?” the boy said
“Because we are unlucky!”
Agni interest piqued when she hears about the conservation.
“You two, can you tell me where the Zeus Academy is?”
The boys seeing such beautiful girl is talking them, immediately blushed and said: “It’s not that far from here you basically need two days walking north-east from here.”
“Thank you.” Agni said in cold tone
“Hey, are you planning to join the academy?” one the boy asked
Agni ignored his question and run northeast to find the academy. In order to become stronger, she decides to join this "famous" academy
“What a weird girl.” the black haired boy said
“She is pretty.” the other boy said
“Stop daydreaming we need to go back to work in the farms.”
The boy sighed and said, “I know that.”
The boys return back to farm to live their ordinary lives.