Chapter 40

The pulsating, bubbling mass of flesh and metal began growing quickly. Pulling in the previous gold and gems from the floor, its speed of growth exploded instantaneously, growing from the size of a dog, to a human, to a car, to a house, then kept growing. Once it was the size of an apartment complex, the entity began splitting apart. Turning into hundreds of golden, steel and flesh blobs that shape shifted into different creations. Some blobs turned into the human beings that had just been sacrificed. Others turned into animals, like rats, and dogs, and even lobsters. Once the creatures were done shifting, the ones transformed into the previous humans sacrificed began changing their colors from gold, steel, and flesh pink, to the regular colors of the humans. Finally finished, they turned to the blobs that chose to turn into the humans that were still alive and standing around. This group, and the rest of the shifters did not change their coloring, and were still gold, and steel with pink and red flesh.

Walking up to the surviving security group, and Chang, the shifters made no sounds. “What the hell are you?” “Stay back!” “The government is on its way, if you don’t stay back, we will open fire!” POP, POP, POP, POP, POP, POP, Click, Click, Click. Unloading and emptying the revolver, opening fire did almost nothing to the monstrous beings gliding towards them. “AAAAAHHHHH!!!” Hearing the screaming, Chang turned his head to see one of his guards being swarmed, and pulled into the newly born shifter, still wearing the victims face. Pulling the guard into the creature’s body, it began absorbing him. The gold and silver colored flesh blob, shifted red from the blood and flesh, with bits of white from the bones, grinding into pulp inside. Finally finished absorbing the man, the shifter changed back into the humans form and completely copied the guards looks, now changing its colors to completely fit in. ”AAAAHHHHHHH!!!” “AAAAHHHHH!!! Screams were now coming from all around Chang, driving him to despair.

Within minutes, the group of people had been completely decimated. Chang had been the last to die, begging for his life, and assuring himself that his belief in his government would prevail. Finally alone, the new group of shifters began examining their surroundings. In their group was a shifter with the body of Johnny, and the Korean man, and Hua Jing. They stayed still for a moment, until they felt a rumbling on the ground. Looking up, they found a massive giant of a man over sixty feet tall, and built like a God. However, they were not afraid, they were able to instinctually feel this being was their creator.

Examining the group of newly born shifters, Anom was surprised to see the faces of the people sacrificed to the altar. Feeling the magic coming from the creatures, he could feel the souls of the people being pushed back into their new form. After a while in their new forms, they would be able to return to their former lives and selves, even gaining an upgrade to their bodies and how long they can live. However, not all were so lucky. The humans that forced others into becoming sacrifices, and gave power to their greed and viciousness were no longer their former selves. Looking at the newly formed Chang, and Chi, I could feel their consciousness being locked away, and used as a memory bank for the lost souls of the Altar, never to regain their lives, unless they were to make amends and changes to their core being. However, I have serious doubts if this was even possible, given the man’s personality and strict beliefs.

Walking towards the overturned altar, Anom picked it up, examining the gold, and gems that came from it. Holding onto the gold, it felt warm to the touch. Examining it closer, the gold seemed alive, and the gems seemed to hold a charge of some kind. I can feel the gems vibrating, as if they were excited. Closing my eyes, and attempting to feel the vibrations coming from the gems, they began melting into my hands. From my hands I can feel the gems energy flowing into my core and adding their energy. Some of the golden, steel blobs, noticed what I was doing, and decided to approach, and melt into me, giving me the amazing feeling of absorbing a bizarre energy, and a massive amount of magic. After the first few non colored blobs realized what had happened, half of the colorless group approached me and melded into me and the rest went back into the altar. Finally finished, I felt much stronger, and felt much heavier than previously. Looking back, a couple of smaller blobs decided to melt together with Eain, giving his eyes a new, golden hue to them, and looking at his footsteps, made him significantly heavier.

Walking up to the new Chang, I began to speak, “Is the government coming to get the altar right now? How long do we have?” Looking as if he were accessing a memory bank, he took a few seconds before responding. “According to this one’s memories, the helicopter will be here in twenty five minutes.” Looking to Chang, and the rest of his fallen policing force, he had a risky idea pop into his mind. “Go, gather the altar, and take it to the extraction site for the humans.” “All of the other shifters will follow me back to the Cavern, and make other plans.” “You will all follow the altar, and let nature take its course.” “If they use it irresponsibly, and cause another genocide, they will only be giving me more to fight against them with.” “We will fight them with their own actions.” Setting up the final parts to the plan, and contingencies if it failed, we finally made our way back to the cavern, with dozens of new, shifter people in tow.

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Finally arriving back at the cavern, the sun had just set as we made our way to the back. Pulling out my sword for light, I began to hear the familiar thumping of the hopping corpses. Waiting for the creatures to make their way forward, they finally approached us, sitting silent for my command. Being the first time I had command over the legion of creatures, and my new section of shifters, I made up my mind and we headed out to our destination. Putting on my necklace, as not to be found out, or recorded, we rushed passed multiple smaller cities in the night. Finally finding our destination in the largest city of the whole region, it was a six story, beautiful historical landmark. However, with the help of Eains phone, we found out that it was also the meeting place of a yearly meet up of the national government. Inside of this massive building is thousands of corrupt and selfish leaders and dignitaries, and this will only be our opening act. If Typhus needs life energy, then the world is full of these corrupt and selfish leaders. For now, at least.

Security was at the front, completely covering the entire area, and I could see multiple snipers, and even armored vehicles, hidden in an underground parking garage. Deciding on my actions, I picked up a few hopping corpses, and tossed them onto the nearby rooftops, telling them to absorb anyone they found. Finished tossing the hoppers, I gave the signal to attack, rushing the front, and crashing through the front of the building. BOOM! I slammed into the massive building, opening a massive hole in the front, and giving the hoppers and shifters room to rush inside.To the front guard's credit, despite seeing an invading group of monsters and giants, they did not freeze, and began unloading onto the group, attempting to slow down or stop the group of enemies. Pop, pop, pop, Boom! Boom! Grenades and rocket launchers were quickly being deployed and used in the chaos, alongside the small arm fire. This all was being quickly suppressed by Anom though, who tossed a fallen balcony on their position. Boom! POP, POP, POP, RAT, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat! The sounds of multiple handguns, and a fifty caliber submachine gun began rattling off from the main entrance, as a armored vehicle came screeching to a stop at the front, immediately training its gunners nest to the massive giant in the middle. RAT, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat!

Pinned down in the front, Anom pulled out his shield, letting it unfold completely, and rushed the up armored Humvee. Rat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat, boom! The shield hit the vehicle, pushing it up and grabbing the bottom, he tossed it upside down. Crash! Now inoperable, anom gripped the wheels and frame, spinning and tossing the vehicle through the taller floors, destroying a large section of the building. Jumping onto the fourth floor, and crumbling the fifth and sixth from his immense height, Anom began snatching politicians and delegates, tossing them to the hopping corpses, who were having a field day snatching the life energy from all the people around. Looking back, the shifters were busy absorbing people, and spitting out new, although smaller, shifters. This creature immediately set out to absorb another human, growing in size to a normal human upon their success, and immediately set out hunting for another human, repeating the process.

Looking around the area, I noticed, pooh bear and toad, standing at the leaders podium, and bumping into each other, seemingly fighting for the spot. Watching, pooh bear played dirty, pretending to trip on the stairs and flew into the toad, tossing him from the podium. This seemed to upset toad though, and he hopped back to the podium, patting his head on pooh bears shoulder, seemingly conceding and congratulating the creature on his place. However, pulling his head back, he pulled the knot apart on pooh bears clothing, unraveling the clothing that was keeping his body complete, and caused it to slide apart into two pieces. Splat! Pooh bears upper body began wiggling and flailing on the ground, attempting to re-attach his body. His job now complete, Toad hopped back to the podium, free to enjoy his place as the head of the undead government. Speechless, Anom didn’t know how to react as this comedy unfolded. Turning back to the chaos, the cries of the people and mass fires were erupting everywhere, all at the same time.