(Awaken! My son! Awaken!)
Damn, that annoying voice again. Leave me alone. Let me die in peace.
Huh?
Wait a minute. This is not a dream. How could I can hear this voice clearly?
“You, where are you” I shouted out loud.
The manticore seems surprised. It stopped half way while looking at me curiously.
(Just think in your head, my son. I can’t meet you . Only my voice can reach you.)
(Who are you?)
(Does it matter right now? More importantly, do you want to live?)
(Of course I want to live. I’m still a virgin you know.)
(Then, close your eye. Think about what make you angry the most.)
What make me angry the most? Probably the first time Sera hit me yesterday. Thinking about it still make my blood boiling. Still, it sounded like something happened long ago. Lots of thing took place in just 2 days.
(Like this?)
(Sigh, you are not even trying. You have a girl friend who just ran away right?)
(Leave her out of this.)
(Okay. Now, try to imagine her being eaten by that monster.)
A horrified scene enter my head. Lina, her whole body covered in blood. The manticore chewing on her legs while she looking at me with white eyes.
“ARGHHH”
(That’s it. One more push, think about your dad kissing your girl friend.)
Something inside me snapped.
Power surging to every part of my cells. It’s violent, born just to kill, born for destroying. Something’s growing out from my back. No, not just my back, my whole body is changing. I can even feel my internal organs moving around.
The pain spread all over my body, feel like every bones is being broken. After the pain, the pleasure come, like after you cracking the knuckles, it only painful at first.
Soon, the pain subsidies.
I feel … refresh. Can no longer feel the broken ribs before.
Open my eyes, an image reflected from the water surface.
An image of a monster.
With 2 pair of butterfly wings on the back, a horse-like face with spiral horn on the forehead and a lizard tail which keep wiggling around. Black fur covered my whole body, from head to toe, make me look like something come from a nightmare.
If anything, I look even more monstrous than that manticore standing over there, looking at me with curious eyes.
I tried waving my hand, the image waved back at me.
I gave out a cool smile.
Shit!
It was creepy.
Now I know why horse never smile before.
Not just appearance, the mana inside me changed as well. Something was mixed with my mana.
(Fire ball)
“Hieeeergh”
A small-size fire ball appeared in my right hand, covered by dark flame.
Damn, look like I can’t talk well while in this form, but I can still using my spells.
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However, what’s with this dark flame?
Never heard of it before.
The best my father can create is a blue flame, and it took quite a lot of time to concentrate.
I don’t know what this is but it’s … dangerous. I shouldn’t holding this for long.
(Take this!)
“Hieerg”
I threw the dark ball to the manticore. Unlike before, it’s eyes is completely focus on the ball. It can still perceive the threat from there.
“Pffftt”
The manticore tried the same move again but to no avail. The ball even keep getting bigger, moving toward its target.
“Swoosh”
Damn. It dodged. You cowards.
However, the ball keep flying, till it collide with the ground and created a big hole, where earth melting inside.
Just how hot can that ball be?
Even my old man’s blue flame can’t melt the earth that easily.
“Graoooorgh”
Huh?
The manticore is acting strange.
It keep on roaring while emitting a violence pressure.
This is bad.
I don’t know what it is, but this is bad.
Can’t let this continue.
I‘m flying to the manticore. The distance is closing. I can even count how many teeth it has.
Preparing my fist, I strike the decisive blow.
Damn! Missed again.
It so hard to punch while flying. I’m still not used to this body.
Before I know it, my body already fly past the manticore, heading toward a wall made of earth.
Okay wings, slow down. Stop there! STOP! I SAID STOP!
*Thunk*
Ouch! It hurt!
My horn is stuck inside the wall, took me quite some times to pull it out.
Damn! Stupid wings. Never gonna use you again.
Huh?
Why is it so silent?
I turn to the place where the manticore standing. It no longer there but a man instead of it. He has long black hair, his whole body is covered by red fur and a scorpion tail wrap around his waist. He’s looking at me with a fearless smile.
Fuck this shit.
I became a monster and the monster became a man?
When did this world become such a mess?
My mind refuse to accept this reality, but “he” doesn’t give me time to adapt.
“Hello there! Little brother”
The *beep* you want with me!
Oh wait, why is his voice so clos….
*Bop*
“Gyarrgh”
“Sleep well, brother”
Damn, so it can talk.
That’s the end of my thought before my mind fade to black.
(Author's note: Next chap will contain info dump about the world. Think of it as the real prologue. I will update prologue after next chap)