Becoming a Monster

"That's not what the spell looks like…" she said, making the group appear more confused than they were before. Her saying that didn't really clarify anything for them.

"Urgh! I'm saying that 'person' is a freak!" She became agitated that she couldn't get them to understand what she was trying to say. Did they not think about how freakish that spell was to knock out that huge ant? Was what was on her mind during this time. She still remembered the fear she experienced when she first encountered Noah at the cafeteria and seeing the display of the skill which was supposed to be just a low skill that she owned now incited the fear even further.

She turned towards one of the ants on the ground and raised her palm towards it like Noah, but without all of the gusto. A gaseous sphere started to form, the sphere was almost identical to Noahs when comparing the forming, but that was where the similarities ended. The students who saw the skill forming now realized that the skill Noah used was in fact manabolt, but it was better to consider his spell a mutated and improved version, especially after seeing the result of her sphere after being released.

Her sphere visualized into a whitish blue sphere, and soon grew to the size that Noah's sphere started from before she released it. The sphere turned into a bolt before impacting the ant's shell causing the ant's body to flinch and a small dent appeared on the area that was impacted. The result of her spell finally was able to relay the girl's distraught feelings concerning Noah.

There were different reactions from all of them, but the biggest was Ailetta, who not only felt immense pride, but the fear of being left behind was only becoming stronger every time she saw him next. 'What else should I do to catch up? I need to get better skills….Or…' She began to ponder deeply about what she could do to inspire a greater change regarding her strength. Like the time she was able to gain insight after Jasmine created her own spell, she felt inspired when she saw the way Noah used his blood to make a drastic change to his creatures.

It reminded her of something she read along with him in the past. It was the act of pledging or giving something in return for immense power, but that was also a story and the 'person' the character was pledging to was similar to a devil so she wasn't sure if what she was thinking could work.

The other person who was almost as excited as Ailetta was Ishii, who began to admire Noah even more. He felt the need to go out and find a creature that he could have an epic battle with right in front of his idle to gain his acknowledgment.

On the other hand Mark was becoming infuriated with himself, but he was even more frustrated with Noah as he clenched his fist and stared daggers into Noah's soul while Noah was oblivious to his internal struggle. Noah was too busy admiring his work and he had forgotten that the queen wasn't dead yet.

"Ha…HahaHa~That was sick! Ah! I wonder if I can do it with bot-"

"Awwwhhoo!"

Noah was interrupted by Fenrir, Fenrir didn't take long to recover, and after being thrown, it was as if Fenrir was possessed by nothing, but hatred for the Queen ant as it sprinted towards the Queen recovering herself from the ground. This still made him harbor a deep grudge towards the Queen.

The Queen was having difficulty recovering back on her legs, her big size didn't help her in this regard after landing on her back. So by time she recovers, Fenrir was already upon her, gripping the sides of her backside and attempting to take a huge bite out of her.

Crunch!*

loud audible crunching noises could be heard originating from Fenrir while it tried to gnaw its way through the Queens exterior and slowly it was succeeding. Three huge powerful bites were enough to pierce through the shell and cause giant holes in the form of his teeth to leak out a dark yellow hue of blood.

This caused the Queen to go into a frenzy. She first attempted to reach behind her to remove Fenrir from eating into her, but Fenrir was worse than a leech. When she rotated her body to reach her sides, Fenrir would stay attached to her with his claws embedded into her sides and his mouth continuing to chomp.

By this time, more of the queen's blood was flowing out and this led up to the Queen becoming more frantic. She lifted her backside, uplifting Fenrir along with it before swinging her behind left and right continuously before she finally brought it down to the ground hard.

She accomplished her goal of ridding herself of Fenrir, but at what cost? After Fenrir was slammed into the ground, a large hole was left in her backside as big as his jaws could open, leaving her with a 2 foot wound continuously leaking liquids.

The first thing in mind wasn't for the Queen to try to finish off the beast that did this to her. Her survival instincts began to kick in, she needed to preserve the colony! Her colony may be gone now, but as long as she lives, the colony will never die. It was impossible for her to dig underground fast enough to get away. She needed to flee back to the hole she emerged from but she felt something stirring in the air and what sounded like a whistle heading for her.

Boom! Boom!

A manabolt crashed into her side and then another blew off a leg before crashing into the ground. The sudden blow almost knocked her completely over but she was able to barely catch herself with her many legs.

Coughs* Noah could be seen lifting himself off the ground before retrieving his sword, but he was smiling embarrassingly to himself after committing such a blunder. He really wanted to try to use two hands to shoot out the spheres that he didn't account for the huge kick and lack of control he would have from doing so.

'Ok well that didn't go as planned…Wait! Is it trying to run away now?' Noah didn't notice what the Queen was about to do before since she barely moved from her spot before being bombarded by his spells, but when he thought the Queen was about to retaliate she never bothered to turn back towards him and began to run away.

"Oh no you don't!" He yelled after her before taking off behind her. He replaced his sword back into the ring to move faster without the weight and activated his elusive skill in spurts to gain more ground. He noticed that Fenrir had already recovered and was chasing after the Queen and had already begun to maul the ants shell in every location he could reach, but it seemed that it would take him too much time at this rate to bring the Queen down.

Noah needed to get closer and fast. He could try to slow it down with his webs, but given how strong the ant was to fling Fenrir, that option was quickly weeded out. Fenrir was his best bet at taking the creature down while he was still gaining the stats of his skill. He only needed to get close enough to aid him with his skill or somehow land another solid hit on the Queens skill with his mana bolt.

"Tsk! If I can find that shop again I'm definitely grabbing that skill for reasons like this." And with a thought, Noah began to grow unbelievably faster than before. Using his skill to exchange 20% of Fenrir's agility and stamina, he gained an extra 23 points in his speed to quickly catch up to the duo. His target being Fenrir himself.

"I know you can't hear me, big guy, but let's see what you can do with this." Noah arrived on Fenrir's side while the wolf continued to ignore him. Noah placed his palm on Fenrir's back while maintaining contact as best as he could and active the skill 'grant lesser strength'. The skill was just supposed to increase Fenrir's strength by only 10% but Noah knew that the skill's effect would be increased because of his spirit and that was what he was counting on.

A purple aura emanated from his hand before it briefly traced around Fenrir's entire body.

"Grrrr"

It seemed that Fenrir became stimulated by the skill and began to growl and grunt in between his growls. Noah was able to tell how much the increase was but he knew it had to be huge when he finally saw Fenrir tear though one of the Queen's legs with his claws. It just so happened to be on the same side where the other leg was blown off by him. This caused the Queen to lose her balance and fall over, allowing Fenrir to ravage her body with his overpowering claws.

However Noah didn't end there. Reusing his exchange ability, he instead gave Fenrir 20% of his strength and agility. It wasn't much but every little bit was enough to take down the queen faster and while Fenrir was busy teari through the Queen's shell, Noah made his way around her huge body and arrived at her head.

"Queen my ass! What queen runs away after sending all of her followers to their deaths, and worse!" He paused as he brought both his palms up to face her as she continued to struggle to get up, but it was no use. When she was close to standing with what little legs she had left, Fenrir had taken out another one, bringing her down once again. Three seconds passed before Noah's spell circulated fully and he was ready to release it.

"Now I have to run all the way back because of you!" He yelled in frustration while simultaneously releasing the two bolts that forced him recoiling back. One of the bolts crashed into the Queen's eye puncturing it and causing the eye to explode, splurging out the innards of her eye while the other way made its way to the area that was already cracked.

The bolt broke through the ant's shell before wreaking havoc inside. The Queen began to spasm uncontrollably for what went on for almost a minute before her body stopped moving completely. All the way Fenrir continued to strike at her body as if she would move any second.

Noah couldn't help but look over towards his ferocious yet silly beast that was fighting a corpse before shaking his head.

"It's the skill…the reason has to be the skill, he's a lot smarter than this." He tried to convince himself, but when he looked backed over to Fenrir, doubt began to bloom once more. But thankfully for Fenrir, the treasure Noah was waiting for expectantly had finally appeared.

"My first chest after awakening!" He walked over and crouched towards the platinum chest that dropped. He wasn't disappointed at all that the chest was a lower grade than the zombie he fought before. This fight was relatively easier than that one, but it didn't quench his excitement in the slightest.

'I wonder if my luck got any better now…'