Peter Parker’s POV

When I woke up, I found myself seeing the blue sky down in a bed. Looking around, I found that I was lying in a bed which was strangely in a courtyard. The courtyard was surrounded by eastern architecture, although it was completely empty.

I was nearly naked, with only a pair of pants on my lower body. How I got here, I had no idea. The last thing I remembered was agreeing to the proposal of that strange spider wizard who was in fact, somehow, myself.

Confused, I tried to lift myself, but to my surprise, the bed collapsed beneath me as it was made of paper.

However, I did not have time to question my newfound strength. My hands suddenly grew into claws covered by black scales. Red glowing lines appeared on my body and it suddenly started emitting a strange red lightning.

It felt like a beastly presence was stirring inside me. Like I was of two minds. A beast was howling inside my body wanting to destroy something, anything.

“It seems like you are awake.” Suddenly, out of nowhere, a woman appeared before me. She was bald and dressed in monk robes, her eyes brimming with a strange calmness.

“Don't come near me. I can't control myself.” I warned the woman. My instincts were screaming at me to attack her but somehow I was restraining myself.

“Don’t worry, attack. You wouldn’t be able to harm me.” She asked me to attack, assuring me that I could not harm her. Despite the chaos within me, something told me that she was right.

As soon as she said that, it felt like the chains binding the beast inside me were broken. I raised my right hand, releasing a red bolt of lightning towards her.

I, myself was surprised by my own power but something told me that the beam was not going to hit. And as expected, she created a shield of light, effortlessly stopping the attack without even a flinch.

Then, suddenly I felt a new sensation on my back. What I think should be wings had emerged from my back. Instinctively, I used my new wings to lunge at her. However, my claws only slammed down on the concrete ground, creating a crater.

The woman had somehow vanished, reappearing at another end of the courtyard. As soon as she reappeared, she shot rays of light at me but I evaded them with ease, my wings carrying me swiftly.

Over the next few minutes, I attacked her relentlessly, unable to control my instincts. Yet she only defended, only occasionally attacking with her light rays.

However, I had now understood her attack style. As soon as she vanished, I released another streak of lightning towards her where I somehow instinctively knew she would reappear.

As soon as she reappeared, the woman hurriedly created a light shield to protect herself. While she protected herself from the lightning, I dashed at her using my wings.

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My claws slammed on the shield, breaking it. However, the woman released a shockwave, stopping me in my tracks and fortunately stopping me from further attacking her.

Unexpectedly, I could see a slight smile on her face.

“I believe it is more than enough for today,” The women suddenly said out of nowhere.

As soon as the woman said these words, I sensed impending danger and dodged sideways instinctively. Beams of light more potent than anything the woman had launched before, seared the spot I had just left. That woman, was she trying to kill me?

“Don't worry. The spell would have only knocked you out.” The woman reassured me as if the beams of light she had launched at me just a moment ago were no big deal.

“I believe that you are now ready for the next phase.” The woman said.

Before I could comprehend her words, the women created a light circle using her hands and suddenly a large boulder was flying towards me.

However, for some reason, I felt no fear. I launched myself at the boulder using my wings, my own strength amplifying the momentum and shattered it into dust easily.

Afterwards, the woman continued attacking me with obviously magical means. She conjured several fireballs in thin air and launched them at me.

Surprisingly, I didn’t feel even the slightest bit of danger from them. Still, I tried to dodge them using whatever control I had left over my body.

Despite my best efforts to dodge, I was still hit by a few fireballs. But, to my surprise, I didn’t even feel the heat from the fireballs, much less was burnt.

Afterwards, the woman launched a large variety of elemental attacks at me. From freezing blizzards and small tornadoes to thunderbolts, the woman launched nearly every possible natural disaster at me.

And it was even more surprising that I either dodged those attacks or weathered through them as if they were nothing.

“This is going nowhere.” The woman muttered after seeing the results. Then, she created another circle of light through her hands.

Several ghostly armoured warriors appeared around the woman as she created the light circle. Then, on her orders, these warriors lunged at me.

The warriors’ attacks were not anything special but as I didn’t have any prior fighting experience, I had difficulty dealing with their attacks.

As such, I was hit by a few of their sword attacks but for some reason, they didn’t have any effect on this new body of mine. So, it didn’t take much time for me to dispatch these ghost warriors.

Seeing that the warriors were even less useful against me, the woman once again switched to elemental attacks.

As I fought the woman, my mind gradually became one with my body and eventually I started regaining control over it.

But upon seeing this, the woman not only didn’t slow down her attacks but instead of the other hand, increased their frequency.

It was only when I gained complete control over my body that the woman stopped her attacks.

“Interesting, I thought you would take more than a few hours to regain control. However, you managed to control yourself within only two hours.” The woman congratulated me for controlling myself so quickly.

“Who are you?” I asked curious about this woman who was able to hold out against this new monstrously powerful body of mine.

“I am the Ancient One, the leader of the sorcerers of the Kamar Taj.” The woman introduced herself surprisingly as the leader of a society of sorcerers.

I would have that she was joking with me if I had not seen those various magical attacks of her and met that Spider Wizard who was probably me.

“The person who healed you and gave you these powers has entrusted you into my care so that you can learn how to control your newfound powers. Moreover, the procedure has given you great magic potential. Therefore, you will learn magic from us.” Ancient One explained why I was here with her.

From her words, it was clear that I will be in her care from now on.

With a wave of her hand, she opened what looked to be a portal to another courtyard, similar to the one we had just destroyed. It was filled with several robe clad individuals practicing their magic relentlessly.

“Come, I believe it is time for you to take your steps into this new world.”