New entity detected; System installation Initiated.
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System Installed, beginning initialization.
Scanning entities Akashic records.
Past life detected, Access Blocked by entity “God”, reason: Past life lived within entities domain of “Earth”.
Post-Earth actions detected, Scanning.
Scan Complete.
Actions noted.
System Initialized.
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Awareness slammed into me as though I’d ran full tilt into a brick wall, bringing with it pain and disorientation. Who was I? What was I? When was I? Where was I? Why was I?
I was Whisper Paws also known as “The Demon”.
I was a cat, but no that didn’t feel quite right anymore, I could feel a new body. I still had razor sharp claws, still had terrifying teeth, but I was larger, far larger than before and I was more human? No more humanoid, I didn’t have their soft skin or pitiful claws but I felt like I had a more human body shape.
When was irrelevant.
I opened my eyes something I probably should of done immediately given that I had dived into the unknown, but the sight that met my eyes wasn’t something I would of ever expected.
Status
[Name: Whisper Paws]
[Race: Abomination (Beast), (Daemonic)]
[Age: 2 (hours)]
[Level: 20]
[Class]
[Traits]
[Perks]
[Skills]
Quickly scanning my surroundings I found myself surrounded by strange human women who were chanting – probably praising my new and glorious form, oh well I’d deal with them later for now I focused on this new “Status” of mine.
First up for inspection [Race: Abomination] concentrating on the words I got a description.
“Abominations are creations of the Northern Witches often created and shaped to fill a single task or role that the witches are for whatever reason unable to do themselves.”
“(Beast) This Abomination was created with the flesh and bones of various beasts”
“(Daemonic) Thus Abomination was created with the blood of an unknown but powerful Daemon”
Interesting looks like this new body of mine was created by my new worshipers, I’d to thank them.
Next up was [Traits]
[Abominations Adaptability] “No matter what foes you tackle, what environments you encounter, what challenges you face, you will adapt for there is nothing you cannot overcome given time”
[Beastly Senses] “All your senses are enhanced”
[Daemonic Regeneration] “Your body regenerates at a supernatural speed thanks to your daemonic heritage”
[Unshakeable Hunter] “Once you have chosen a target and tasted their blood you will gain a vague sense of their location”
[Universal Language] “Those with the blood of Daemons or Angels speak and understand all living languages”
Hmm these traits look interesting and perhaps if I’d had these I wouldn’t of had to flee that “Mr Angel”, all in all I couldn’t wait to see what they would do, but before that onto the next entry.
[Age: 2 (Hours)] This was I assumed how long my new body had been alive for, and concentrating on it brought no extra detail only system message stating “This is your age”.
[Level: 20] I had no idea what this was and concentrating on it only brought another useless system message.
[Class] Unlike all the other entries on my status this one was greyed out, concentrating on it revealed why.
“Requirements not met”
However that “why” didn’t actually reveal much and so I moved on.
The [Perks] menu only had one entry:
[Identify] “This perk is granted to all system users and allows users to identify beings and objects”
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I tried using this one however everything brought up either [?????] or gave a simple and obvious answers I already knew such as [Your fur], [Your hand] , or [Blood].
Bringing up the Skills tab immediately brought up a new prompt:
“You have eight unassigned Skill slots; would you like view and assign Skills?” Yes/No
I selected yes, curious as to what I would be offered.
[Bite]
[Claw Mastery]
[Danger Sense]
[Dodge]
[Flee]
[Leap]
[Shred]
[Sneak]
Huh I thought I would have had more offered to me, oh well I selected all of them.
“Would you like to assign Bite, Claw Mastery, Danger Sense, Dodge, Flee, Leap, Shred and Sneak to your unassigned Skill slots?” Yes/No
“Yes”
The skills menu disappeared, then instantly reappeared but where before there was simply a system prompt now there were skills and descriptions which I instantly set about reading.
[Bite] – Lvl 0 “This Skill enhances and improves your bites”
[Claw Mastery] – Lvl 0 “This Skill passively enhances and improves your clawing techniques as well as your memory and learning speed for claw related skills and techniques”
[Danger Sense] – Lvl 0 “You now have a sense for danger”
[Dodge] – Lvl 0 “This Skill enhances and improves your ability to dodge, be it people, attacks obstacles or more”
[Flee] – Lvl 0 “This Skill increases your speed when fleeing”
[Leap] – Lvl 0 “This Skill enhances and improves your leaps and Jumps”
[Shred] – Lvl 0 “This Skill enhances and improves ability to shred, be it objects or flesh or other”
[Sneak] – Lvl 0 “This Skill enhances and improves your ability to stay unnoticed”
My exploration of my new Status complete I turn my attention back to my surroundings.
Most of the human women are still there and still chanting although it appears some have left, I ignore them sitting up to better see my surroundings my new form causes some looks of fear from them and their chanting speeds up but such is natural when gazing upon such a magnificent hunter as I!
I look upwards first to be met with an immaculate sky full of twinkling lights the likes of which I hadn’t seen since before I started living with humans, and the night sky was lit by a glowing white full moon.
Next, I look down gazing at down at the cold grey stone slab I’m currently sitting on, its rectangular with a slight indent from which I have just risen and its edge is covered in a strange script written in blood, around it there is barren soil covered in strange white lines with black candles often placed where these lines meet.
And standing around me in a circle at the edge of these white markings are 13 human women all of them are chanting, are dressed in simple black dresses and seem to be around one and a half meters in height (~5’6”) but no two look the same, some are covered in warts, spots, moles blemishes others have near perfect skin some have huge noses, ears or otherwise strangely proportioned features. And although each dress looks similar in cut they all have various bones, feathers and other animal parts attached as well as various pieces of jewellery on them, I used [Identify] on one of them.
Name: Unknown
Race: Human
Level: 53
Class: Unknown
Bah useless!
Finally I look down at myself, I’m covered in thick mottled black and white fur and my new body is huge! Even sitting down on the slab as I am I tower above the humans standing around me, my legs are still cat-like or digitigrade as I once heard them called, with a padded and clawed paw at end of my foot which ended with my ankle at what would be just over knee height on the humans around me, continuing on from my ankle was my lower-leg or shins which ended in my knee at be just over waist height on the humans around me and my upper leg ended at just over stomach height on the humans around me.
My chest is also huge and looked quite human apart from the ripped muscles, coarse fur and barrel like proportions, similarly my arms were also quite human and again covered in coarse fur and powerful muscles. My hands however were much more paw-like with claws and pads, they did however seem to have far more flexibility I noticed as I clasped and unclasped first my whole hand and then each finger one by one, this also allowed me to spot the fact that my “thumb” was much more human-like with more mobility and lacking a claw.
Finally finishing my self-inspection, I looked up deciding to finally deal with these humans, spotting as I did so a system message that made me realise perhaps I should of done that sooner.
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(POV Change)
O Beast of flesh and Daemon of Blood.
We Speak to Thee!
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With Innocents Blood and Witches Will,
With Rituals Profane and Candles Black,
We Bind Thee!
“Congratulations you have placed a Witches Geas upon…..”
Arda swiped away the systems messages, she already knew roughly what they would say having done these rituals before and knew that the conditions of the Geas must be set quickly lest the beast escape, something that’s usually not a concern but this abomination had woken unusually quickly and they were lucky it had let them finish the binding probably not understanding what they were doing.
She took a deep breath and straightened before shouting.
“ABOMINATION! The conditions of our Geas are three!”
“1. You shall do no harm to any member of the Moldheel, Breaker, Marlee, Dryden or Invida Clans nor any inhabitants of Penbrook Valley”
“2. You shall not rest till San Marus, Inquisitor General lies dead by your claws”
“3. You shall return to my side once the deed it done”
With the conditions of the Geas set she looked around at the witches arrayed in front of her. Most of them had collapsed to the ground from the strain and exhaustion of casting three admittedly powerful rituals in a row. None had passed out though and heads of the four clans – Mab Moldheel, Bonny Breaker, Maddie Marlee and Eira Dryden – who had bargained for my aid still stood, all in all it was quite a good showing for these relatively new clans.
Moving on from the witches she used [Identify] and [Witches Eye] on it, the latter adding more detail to the former.
Name: Whisper Paws
Race: Abomination (Beast), (Daemonic)
Level: 20
Class: None
“An Abomination created, animated and bound by the Penbrook Witch Clans with the help of Arda Invida for the sole goal of killing San Marus Inquisitor General”
Slightly odd for it to already have a name, but it’s usually a sign that the soul used to animate the abomination is slightly more intelligent than usual which suits our purpose and speaking of purpose.
The witches around her flinched backwards as the abomination shot towards Mad Maddie claws ready to rend flesh only to be met with her crazed grin as it’s attack suddenly veered off-course, the first condition of the Geas clearly working as intended, it tried to attack a few more times first in a quick flurry of swipes followed by a few all out blows before moving onto another witch but no blows ever came close to connecting.
After a short period of snarling, growls and fruitless attacks the abomination looked around at the witches staring at it before letting out a piercing yowl and taking off into the surrounding forest.
“Arda are you sure that thing will be able to kill the Inquisitor General? Its only level 20!” One of Mabs’ seconds asks.
“Of course it’ll be able to! Levels and Skills will matter little against the supernatural strength, speed and regeneration of that abomination.”