Becoming a Monster

"But I want to continue to enjoy it, I won't let any person, monster or god take that away from me!"

As his fighting intent increased, His creatures were also affected by his emotions from their bond and took off to initiate what could be the hardest fight they've had thus far. That was if the creature wasn't just like the Zombie King, but was a zombie that passed its limits and evolved.

Screech!*

Unlike the growls it sent out before, the sounds of Fenrir and Arachne approaching it caused the giant zombie to scream. The sound was comparable to what a banshee would sound like if it was real.

"!" Even after his bold statement, Noah was then shocked a few moments later.

Under Noah's eyes, he saw the zombie take off into a run. He noticed that the zombies arms were more than just being able to grant it longer reach. When it began to make its way towards them, it leaned over and supported itself with its hands. It alternated its arms with its opposite leg, similar to what a bipedal creature would do when walking, but the creature resembles more of a gorilla in Noah's eyes.

The animation of the monster appeared slow, but just with three steps it had already approached Fenrir and Arachne. The reason for Noah's surprise was because the zombie should be blind, but it didn't hesitate or struggle at all in pinpointing their location.

Deep down, Noah was feeling hesitant to join the fight because of his lowered stats, but that fear spurned him more to charge.

"Argh! I didn't choose to become a monster tamer to have my creatures fight all my battles for me!" He brought the handle of the sword to his waist while the blade pointed behind him and took off towards the battle.

A second later, his speed began to increase after using his exchange skill for a percentage of Fenrir's agility instead of his strength. The strength would help him swing the sword more efficiently, but would rather be faster to avoid the zombies clutches. Plus he felt he would need Fenrir to keep his strength since he would be their damage dealer after obtaining his new perk.

Arachne was the first one to engage. She was aggressive as she jumped atop the creature's strength. Noah wasn't sure how heavy Arachne was but she was easily over 200lbs yet the zombie didn't struggle to stand at all.

She sank her fangs close into the zombies collar bone quickly before she used the zombies size against him. She didn't jump off when she saw the hand coming from behind her, instead she crawled over the zombies shoulder to reach its back and found another suitable location to inject her venom.

"Awhhooo!" Fenrir approached right after while the zombie was distracted with Arachne and howled instinctively for the signal of its hunt. He used his powerful jaws to clamp its teeth around the zombie's thigh and bit down hard. A dark red liquid began to seep from the area that was bitten, the liquid was borderline black and appeared to be thick, almost like a syrup.

"Grrrr!" Fenrir began to growl frustratingly as it gripped on tightly on the zombies leg with its sharp claws and tried to twist its head. It was impossible to tell unless you were Fenrir himself. But his jaws that could easily crush bone and even chew throw most steel, was having a hard time to breach through the zombies muscles.

"Back down Fucker!" Noah roared towards the zombie when he saw it raise its arm to attack Fenrir after ignoring Arachne's attempts to distract it. For a brief moment, not even more than a second, its arm froze which allowed Fenrir to retreat to the side but not without him bringing with him a layer of the zombie's skin.

Boom!

The pupils of Noah's eyes dilated when he witnessed the destruction the zombie caused to the ground after Fenrir moved. The ground trembled slightly and the grass that almost reached the middle of his shins were completely flattened and he could make out a small crater.

Soon after, the zombie reached behind it to grab for Arachne who attempted to bite through the back of its cranium. However only a loud thud could be heard when her fangs tried to penetrate its brain, the bone was just too hard for the spider's current stats.

The danger of two arms reaching for her caused her to retreat from the giant's body while Fenrir went for the same leg again. Trying to bite through it was too hard on his teeth so he did the next best thing he could. He stood on his hind legs and began to claw ferociously towards the area it bitten through before.

The scene from before replayed itself, this time the zombie lifted both arms and came crashing down and froze due to Noah's skill once again which allowed Fenris to move to safety once again before another miniature quake was caused.

Thud!*

By this time Noah had approached the zombie and swung with his sword towards the side of the zombie's knee. He wasn't able to tell how tough the zombie was from Fenrir's and Arachnes experience since everything was happening so fast. However, when his sword only went in a few inches and became stuck after the zombies' muscles tightened and clamped down on the blade, Noah was made to realize the gap of an evolved creature.

Noah could feel an attack coming, but he also expected it. He quickly placed a foot on the zombie's leg and kicked off backwards hard to bring the sword with him. He dodged inches away from the zombie motioning to grab for him. From his sensory hairs, he could tell what direction the arm was coming from so he was confident in which way to retreat even if he didn't see it.

He couldn't help but feel a trace of death when the hand bypassed him after seeing its strength. But he had to act fast now that the zombie's arm was close to its body.

Noah was quick to spin around and extend out one hand before shoot a web aiming for the zombie's arm while it was still hovering in front of its body so it could get stuck.

He then encountered another problem.

"Fuck that penalty!" He raged after missing his shot and only managed to hit the zombie's stomach. With his pupils, he could easily track the arms speed and motion, yet when he brought his arm up to shoot, he realized that the motion of bringing up his arm was too slow.

"Arachne! Stop trying to use your venom, help me tie him up!" I'll get the legs, you get his arms!"

He quickly attached a web to the zombie's unharmed leg now that Fenrir re-engaged to strike the area it bit and scratch before. At this time Noah could easily make out the sap like blood flowing out of the zombie, but he was still surprised that he wasn't able to see bone after Fenrir's assaults.

Having attached the web, he stabbed the sword in the ground and used this chance to use his other arm to shoot a web at the same leg but a bit lower and took off sprinting around the zombies side in a circle.

His plan was simple, wrap the legs up and wrap the arms and they could spend however much times as they wanted trying to killing the undefending monster.

Arachne quickly caught on to Noah's plan, she climbed to the zombies shoulder and tethered her web and jumped down to the side as she began to try to jump around the zombie to imitate Noah.

But in doing so, it became difficult for Fenrir to interfere and that left them out as targets. The first layer of the circle of webs for both of them were done at this time and were going for another, Arachne was almost done with her second circle, giving her extreme speed.

The constant running and jumping of the zombies' two targets began to rile it up and it screeched loudly again before aiming for the sound going the slowest which happened to be Noah.

Noah smiled in contempt when he saw the zombie about to step towards him. He didn't believe that the zombie was smart enough to notice the webs in casing it, given how tough its body was. He watched in anticipation for the zombie to trip up and fall over.

"Oooof!"

When the zombie took a step forward, the webs held, but it didn't hinder the zombie from moving towards him. The webs were still connected to Noah, who was made to feel a heavy pull on his arms. He felt his right arm dislocated from his shoulder. He didn't hesitate to cut himself off from his webs, but the problems continued to grow.

Noah tried to get distance after almost being pulled towards the zombie and it used that chance to make a grab for him. The scene from before played out again, but this time with Arachne. She was in the middle of circling him for the third time when she was snapped from the air during her jump and was almost slammed into the dorm's building.

Her reflexes were fast, she immediately disconnected herself from her webs, but the damage was already done and she was flying towards the side of the building

Noah grew worried that she was going to crash into it, but he then witness a web shooting out of her towards the building in question and she somehow acrobatically sustained her body in mid-air.

The speed at which she was going into the building still caused a heavy impact when she landed. The glass of three surrounding windows shattered, while the entire frame of the one she landed near fell apart due to the cracks formed on the wall.

The plan that Noah thought was a genius move, turned out to be the worst possible move he could have done. He gripped his dislocated arm and struggled to try to push it back like he's read about before.

Bang!*

In his attempt to reconnect his arm, he heard a loud impact and then the audible sound of a 'dog' whimper.

He quickly looked up to the source of the noise. When he saw the zombie, it was alone, Fenrir was missing! He soon heard Fenrir in the distance growling while struggling to get up. From the distance, Noah could tell that Fenrir's mouth was dislocated and one of its arms was twisted.

His heart began to pound harder than ever when the thought of all them dying here began to run through his mind. Death has scared him before, but he didn't realize that he wasn't afraid to die because he never had anything to lose. Tears began to fall from his face unknowingly and he unconsciously wiped them away. But when the tears kept flowing, he realized what was happening.

"Am I crying…?" The realization calmed his mind enough for him to think properly, the pounding of his heart was quickly brought to his attention due to the stiffness he felt in his chest. It wasn't hard for him to figure out what was happening.

'Even if I was to die, is this how I want my end to be? I feel like a fucking cliche! I'm embarrassed if I go out like this when it's my fault! No one told me to stay and fight, there was still a chance to run. I could've spammed my webs and used all my magic to make it stronger, but I held back on using the potion.'

His breathing was becoming heavier, the more he realized how much he could've done to prevent this, but when he saw his bag, his eyes grew incensed. He remembered the piles of cores he's collected that he was saving to use later and the skill scroll inside.

"Fuck I deserve to die, STUPID!" In his rage, he jerked hard into his arm, popping it in place but he was too upset to even flinch.

Soon his eyes began to go through a subtle change, the red of each of his pupils began to grow and gave off a soft glow.

The serious and upset expression on his face became crazed and emitted the intent to kill.

"I'll admit that I deserve what's happening right now, but I was doing perfectly fine until you came along. This is far from over!"

"GRRWWWLL!" A roar ranged out like an enraged beast, but the beast turned out to be Noah himself. His pupils were almost fully red with a small outline still being black. His teeth were on full display and his eyes never left the zombie's figure.

He soon took off for the zombie that turned to face him after hearing the roar he released, but not without yanking the sword from the ground. Holding it much easier than he did before.

A black and red mist began to emit from the handle as he was about to start round two.

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A/N: This chapter is really important since I wanted to showcase how strong monsters could be when they reach the level to evlovle. There's a big difference between level 9 and 10.