Know my mercy. I felt bad about that cliff, so I wrote this chap sust so you could hold up to the Monday without your nerves in pieces.
They did it! Ha! How long has it been since she felt this excited? Um, ah, three weeks ago, never mind. But that made her heart skip a beat, beasts were not that powerful and died after one blow, B or even C rank adventurer would have no greater problems killing one of them, the only problem was the number and stubbornness.
She put Nyx down. And yelled
* “Zari, could you please heal a little Nyx? Just so would feel better? Hm Zari? Where is he?”
She began to look left and right.
* “Someone saw Zari?”
* “Gisele…” one of the students said “… I am afraid that he stayed behind… He didn’t manage to walk past the door…”
Smile vanished from her face
* “What do you mean… there was lots of time! Who shut the door this quickly… Why… WHO SHUT THE DOOR!?”
Al’targor stepped forward
* “I didn’t see how far monsters were, this was a unfortunate ev…”
Fist landed on his face. And then another. And yet another
* “YOU FUCKING MURDERER!”
After one more blow beast-kin started reacting. He blocked two more strikes but third hit his solar plexus, forcing air out of his lungs, blow in the chin followed next.
Someone jumped between then and tried to separate them. He got hit two.
More and more adventurers jumped in to stop the brawl. Many got bruised, but within the minute Gisele was pinned to the ground by almost dozen of bodies. One less, and she could broke free.
* “I WILL GET YOU, YOU FUCKER! THERE WAS NO NEED TO SHUT IT THIS QUICKLY! YOU DID IT ONLY BECAUSE DAMNAGED YOUR PRIDE!”
* “You are wrong! It’s just unfortunate coincidence! I would never put my honor and name for such possible…”
* “YOU HAVE NO HONOR! YOU ARE NOTHING BUT TRAITOR! A BACKSTABBER! NOT ADVENTURING SUITS YOU BUT BEING A FOREST THUG!”
* “Silence! Silence!...” archmage walked in “… it’s horrible to see such a young life to perish so quickly. Mr Al’targor made a choice. Maybe he did it 4 seconds to fast, but in such extreme situation one could make a mistake. If you have such a wish, I may inform both your and his guild branches about what happened, then it will be their job to find if Mr Al’targor is guilty…”
* “ARE YOU FUCKING JOKING?! He is an S rank! The investigation will last three minutes before it would be abandoned! They simply won’t discard someone of his skills!”
* “And who would better bring justice? You? With your fists? It’s nothing but lynch. Lynch made without evidences but presumptions! Miss Gisele, if you won’t hold your emotions, I will be forced to terminate our contract.”
* “I get it… I get it…” They let her go. For the final time she came closer to the tiger-kin and said “… I will forever and ever tell right and left that you are nothing but backstabber and murderer… and if you would ever cross my path, I will kill you, separate your head from body, and send the corpse to your family with note attached, that I would find every possible shaman, pay them every possible amount of money, to have your spirit cursed so you could never find a rest.”
And then she moved back to her team.
It’s bad. It’s seriously fucking bad! Atop of that my face hurts!
DAMN IT ZARI! STOP BITICHING ABOUT YOUR FACE! SOON REST OF YOUR BODY WILL HURT TOO, IF YOU WON’T PERFORM SOME KIND OF MIRACLE!
… the things that are impossible I do right away, miracles takes some time… I smiled weakly after remembering my favorite quote.
Think, Zari, think. Without thinking you are no one. What can you do, what needs to be do… Blood magic? Not this time. Simply too many enemies…
Fighting? Ha-ha, there is more than 100 monsters, and fighting with three at same time was already exhausting… Now as I am alone I can use shifting, that would empower me a little… But then maybe I would kill 10, 90 more to go… FUCK!
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THINKTHINKTHINKTHINKTHINK! DAMN IT!...
What if… no, it would be possible, but I am lacking time… then I would have to but some more… crap,crap,crap,crap,crap!
Ok, I have ran out of time. I won’t think anything better. Those are animals, they follow pheromones, and may take orders from queen. Queen may be far more intelligent, but those are still oversized bugs. If you can’t outsmart someone beat them! If you can’t beat, outsmart them! Let’s, fucking, do this!
I summoned all of my familiars
* “Gregory! I am sorry, but I think you will have to suffer a little for me!”
* “I… am… not…in pain… no… since… I have… meet… ma…ster…”
* “Listen to me Greg, soon, very soon, lots of angry insects will come this way, I want you to stand on their way, I will separate you and me with wall of fire. I have only one request. Stop them as long as you could, every time you would kill someone, try throwing their bodies through the flames, to me. I will need few corpses, literally few! Two, three, maybe four or five, but not more! Then just keep pushing them away, as long as possible, will you do it?”
* “Yessss… maa…ster…”
I am sorry for using you another time.
As soon as he walked away , from behind the corridor first group of monsters came, those were the fastest.
Then I raised the wall of fire
* “Kaito, if someone would managed to get past it, I count that you would protect me! Gilbert, boost my fire magic, Remus, use as many illusions as you can, cause a havoc! Sebastian, Walter… YOU ARE FUCKING BIRDS! YOU SHOULD JUST EAT THEM GOD DAMN IT!”
* “You are far from bad condition, if you still find place to joke…”
* “And you, you are a devil! Can’t you just unleash inferno!?”
* “I am limited by this body and your skills. If you would improve our bond and let me fight more frequently , I could be much better help…” Sebastian
Said bit angrily
* “Whatever, just by as much time as possible…”
* “You have a plan, or are you improving?”
* “It’s a plan, normally it would require few hours, but I have to do it within minutes…”
Your familiar [Gregory] has slain [Killer Giga-Mantis [Worker]211 exp obtained
First corpse was thrown through the wall of fire.
Ok, let’s do this
Shifting in process[Snake kin] mouth obtained
[Snake kin] bone structure obtained
[Snake kin] internal organs obtained
Your stomach capability was improved
* “Gluttony… tell me, could you please make it possible for me to digest those assholes as fast as possible?”
~Hmmm… snakes while digesting can enlarge their liver and heart boosting metabolism… will do! Bring it on! I will do my best! ITADAKIMASU!
I forced D’iabel to change into small axe and start chopping the corpse of the mantis, then I start forcibly pushing huge chunks of meat into my mouth. It was absolutely disgusting, their fluids were sour. Very sour. The man that said that ants tastes like chicken was a fucking liar! Or maybe he cooked them first.
I am so grateful for snake DNA. Their ability to swallow creatures three times wider than themselves was shining like most wonderful gem. More… faster…
Before I finished first corpse, two more were lying next to me. I quickly flashed Greg’s status screen, He was doing good, but this won’t last forever. Sickles of those bugs were sharp, as soon as they break through Greg’s bark he will be done.
I started sweating like a pig, side effect of boosted metabolism.
Faster, god damn it! Faster!
~I am doing what I can! Or even more!
The awful fullness in my belly… I started morphing my body even further, to enlarge my stomach as it was only possible.
I wanted to puke
3rd corpse was eaten the 4th was on the way…
Condition of Greg was getting worse and worse. I put rest of the corpse aside. It was impossible for me to shove anything else. Bah, even my throat was partly occupied.
I laid down and start meditating and using every possible nature-blessing I had to boost capability of my body even more.
Your familiar [Gregory] has suffered fatal damageYour familiar [Gregory] was forcibly unsummonedTime to next possible summon [11h59m48s]
The bugs start walking into the fire. Step in, after getting some damage step back. But the swarm was approaching and pushing them further and further. If this would continue they would simply extinguish the fire with their pure body mass! Two beast somehow managed to get through, Kaito rushed at one of them, and start crushing its torso with his jaws. Yet Mantis weren’t simply letting him to kill them, they started sinking sickles into his fur. Even if it was thick, the drops of blood started falling from huge warg.
Faster please faster! I saw their silhouettes in flames, they were coming!
Kaito managed to kill the two of them with relatively small damages, yet he couldn’t rest yet. Another few burning beasts jumped through the flames. So this is what [stubborn] in their title stand for!
As Warg was engaged in battle another two mantis came. And then yet another. Taken from few sides, Kaito was being slowly exhausted, crippled, and very soon tore apart
Your familiar [Kaito] has suffered fatal damageYour familiar [Kaito] was forcibly unsummonedTime to next possible summon [11h59m52s]
Raven nosedived and started pecking eyes of the insect, just to buy me few more seconds. I need to act, now!
I dropped everything I was doing, I took as many body parts of the beast as I found and started to rub their fluids in my body.
Shifting in process[Giga-Mantis] pheromone glands are being created
[Giga-Mantis] body structure is being used
[Giga-Mantis] exoskeleton is being formed
[Giga-Mantis]....
… please, please, please! I can do it!
Notification about all of my familiars being unsummoned for a second covered my vision, in very next moment I was being surrounded by Giga-Mantis and then… they were walking in tantrum left and righ, scratching walls, hissing angrily… and completely ignored me. I looked at final notification that appeared a second ago
[Giga-Mantis [Drone] [Variant]] form in use[Giga-Mantis] body structure added
Because of [Wings] body part anew ability was temporarily added: [Fly]
Because of [Sickles] body part new ability was temporarily added : [Cut]
[Lesser Psionic] was temporarily added
Stat bonusesCON +20
END +15
STR +5
AGI +10
RFX +10
INT - 20
WIS - 20
SPI - 30
Your magical abilities were drastically reduced
… I am alive… I AM FUCKING ALIVE! HAHAHA! Can’t believe that! I did it!
After few more minutes, as the bloodrush of swarm faded, they started appraising me. I tried to take few steps. As soon as I did, those that stood nearest to me made me a space so I could walk. Apparently drones stands higher in hierarchy that workers…. But why did I turned into a drone and not into worker? Because I am male?... wait, what does males in insect colony even doe… crap. Oooooh crap. There are two options: one they are not acting exactly like insects, on what I am humbly counting; the other: they are acting EXACTLY LIKE ANTS and BEES and other shits… in that case I hope, that breeding season would not happen anytime soon.
Ooookay, let’s take a look around…
Something hit my head. Not physically. It was a voice. Strong female voice that one could barely resist.
* “DRONE 1452, You have left patrolling ground assigned to your team. Get back to your location as soon as possible.”
Oooh crap. That was weird. I saw a map with my location and location that I was supposed to be.
I pretty quickly understood two facts. One: my prayers has been listened, and apparently males are not used only for breeding, in the end it told me to patrol something! That’s wonderful!
The second thing… Whatever I have became, there is some kind of supervisor. And it always knows where I am…