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    I reluctantly open my eyes to the sound of the morning bell, which kindly tears me away from my beloved sleep. The other servant boys start to get out of their bunks and put on their under eight church servant uniform, consisting of a grey shirt, pants, and sandals. Following the example of my fellow servants, I unenthusiastically roll off the bed, get changed and make my bed then join the line of other servants awaiting Father Paul.

    None of the servants talked, we were not allowed to make friends because the Priests say that we need to save all our friendship for the gods to make them happy. And although it is sad not having anyone to talk to I will always do what the priests say. They are so kind and nice. They even took me in 7 years ago when not even my own family wanted me. I can¡¯t wait until my birthday tomorrow when I turn 8 and can do all the big boy work for the priests. Some of the special servants over 8 years old get to go in the priest¡¯s private chambers alone with them. I don¡¯t know what they are doing but it must be great. The lucky boys who get to go into the Priests private chambers sometimes come out with tears on their faces; they must be tears of joy. They are so lucky!

    Waking from my daydreaming I see Father Paul enter the room. He is a tall man with a pale face with black eyes and hair. As the servants at the front of the lines walk up to him he puts a tick next to their names on the paper in his hands. Patiently I wait as the line slowly moves as Father Paul ticks off each servant¡¯s name. When it is my turn Father Paul looks at me and moves his hand to stroke my face ¡° Good morning Jacob, now if I am not mistaken you turn 8 soon don¡¯t you?¡± asks Father Paul. ¡° Yes, Father I turn 8 tomorrow and can''t wait to help father and the church with the special tasks¡± I answer excitedly. ¡°Yes I can¡¯t wait myself, Jacob, I greatly look forward to it,¡± says Father Paul as licks his lips halfway then catches himself. ¡° Run along now Jacob get some breakfast then get started with work¡±.

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    I give a quick bow and jog over to the servant¡¯s cafeteria. Breakfast, as usual, is a bland porridge, but I don¡¯t mind today. Father Paul talked to me! That makes me happy, today''s going to be a great day I just know it!

    Today was not a good day. I had the job of cleaning the entrance hall to the church in the morning and it was raining so all the people coming in brought mud in with them and by the smell some dog poop as well. I laboriously mopped the floors continually for hours. I even work into lunchtime to make sure my replacement comes to take over as I couldn¡¯t leave the grand entrance hall of the church in such a state all covered in mud and the like.

    By the time my replacement came to take over and I have gotten down to the servant cafeteria there was only a quarter bowl of porridge left for me to eat. And then in the afternoon, I had to help Father Lucas, who is blind and always angry, make his rounds in the church. I spent a lot of the time being yelled at as the afternoon went by.

    But finally all my work is done for the day and I can have the evening stew for dinner nice and hot with potato and chicken. The evening bell rings signaling the end of the day and time to go back to our bunks. The servants walk back to the dormitories as one body but silent as usual. I get dressed into my nightclothes with a smile on my face. I will finally be 8 tomorrow then I can move to the older boys dormitories, maybe they have bigger beds and get to have bigger meals! Not to mention all the special jobs I will get to do. With these thoughts in my head, I lay down to bed as the day''s hard work takes me to sleep with ease.

 Chapter 2 Not so happy birthday

    I grudgingly opened my eyes to the sound of the morning bell, which kindly rips me away from my cherished sleep. The other servant boys start to get out of their bunks and put on their under eight church servant uniform. Following the example of my fellow servants I enthusiastically get off the bed, get changed and make my bed then join the line of other servants awaiting Father Paul. Today''s my birthday!

    Father Paul comes in as usual and ticks off the names, as the servants line gradually grows shorter. When I am at the front he gives me a smile and points me to stand next to him as he ticks off the rest of the servant''s names. Without saying a word Father Paul motions for me to follow him.

    We walk in silence towards the priest¡¯s private chambers. Father Paul takes me into what I assume to be his chamber. There is a large double bed in the middle of the room on top of a worn carpet that is the same pale green as the drawn curtains. As I examine the room I hear the click of the lock on the door, I turn to question Father Paul but see him taking off his clothes with a hungry look in his eye, the same one many of the servants get after a long day of work and they finally get to have the evening stew.

    ¡°Take off your clothes Jacob, it will be more comfortable that way¡± Father Paul¡¯s words heavy on me like they are something that must be heard and must be obeyed. I start to take off my clothes. Slipping off my sandals and raising shirt over my head to slip it off, a sense of fear, confusion and suspicion stat to dig their way into my conscious. I stop. Father Paul raises an eyebrow and steps towards me. I step back. ¡° What do you think you are doing Jacob? Don¡¯t you think that it would much nicer if you were to do what I ask?¡± Once again his words way heavily on me almost like a physical Wight against my very being. But the fear, confusion, and suspicion only get stronger and I start to back away.If you come across this story on Amazon, it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it.

    ¡° You little piece of shit! After all, I have done for you? I took you off the streets as a baby when even your own parents didn¡¯t want your worthless existence! I gave you food, clothes, and a roof over your head so take off your fucking clothes and get on that bed!¡± Red-faced and furious Father Paul lunged at me with a mad look in his eye.

    I ducked and weaved to avoid his claw-like hands but with his superior reach and strength he grabbed and lifted me by the neck until I was level with his mad and deranged eyes. Trying to break free from his grip with punches and squirming only seemed to amuse Father Paul.

    ¡°Struggling to the very end? Can''t have that now, can we? No can''t have you bite something you shouldn¡¯t while we play can we?¡± Father Paul tilts his head as if in deep fought ¡° hehehehe oh I know hehe I will just have to break your spirit hehe now won''t I? Lucky for You I know just the perfect spell for that hehe but don¡¯t worry, it will only hurt, a lot haha¡±

    Father Paul started to starts to mumble In a language I can only half hear like someone trying to talk to you while you¡¯re underwater and what I can hear I don''t understand. I try to scream and hit his hand harder but I can barely breathe let alone make a sound. Then Father Paul finished his senseless chant and everything turns black.

 Chapter 3 Sweet dreams

    I can¡¯t move or breathe and it¡¯s dark. Suddenly lightning shreds through the sky like a spear thrown by a deity, piercing the sludge and shattering the earth underneath, vibrating against my eardrums. Rain starts to ruthlessly plummet from the heavens like kamikaze bombers splattering against the world, soaking the soil and beating against the unseen roof of my living nightmare. Drenched mud starts to leak through seams of my coffin, flooding into my inescapable tomb.

    I start to panic. Scraping my hands against the edges of the coffin, trying to escape until my fingers were bloodied and my nails mutilated, as the endless sludge oozed into the confinements of my newfound prison. I start to shriek for help but the screams could not be heard over the deafening strikes of thunder trying to impale the earth and the rain constantly bombarding the land. I scream, shriek and yell until each breath felt like shards of glass were being thrust down my throat and each shout drew blood making me cough it out, splattering it onto the walls like some grotesque piece of art painted by the devil.

    Tears start to forge a way down my face mixing into the concoction of mud, sludge, and water, which is crawling up to my chest, pressing against the membrane of my skin. Weeping uncontrollably, tears slide down the already forged path down my face, but no noise escapes my hoarse and barren throat. I give up. My body goes limp. But the tears still fall down my face and crash in the instrument of my slowly advancing demise.

    NO! This isn¡¯t me. This is just a poor representation of the likeness that is I. I am in the warm loving embrace of Father Paul nice and safe. Something deep within me stirs and I start to laugh at the ¡°demise¡± starts to rise and I laugh harder. This sure is scary Father Paul but you know if you are going to implant visions and ideas in peoples head you should really use words that the person understands you dumb fuck.¡± not really understanding the swear that Father Paul used earlier I throw it back in his face.

    Next is emptiness, as Father Paul appears the hint of madness now fully embedded in his eyes and spreading to the rest of his face. Lifting his hand towards me he does not say a word and points. Frozen in place standing in place while facing the insanity ridden Father Paul, my body starts to burn from the inside out and my skin starts to peel off of my body while worms and maggots start to burrow into my exposed flesh.

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    Father Paul starts to laugh hysterically while remaining eye contact. Father Paul¡¯s laughter starts to envelop my mind and soon all that was left of me is horrible endless pain followed by feverish laughter.

    Why is this happening? Why didn¡¯t I listen to Father Paul? ¡°Oh shut the fuck up Paul¡± I scream in defiance, the pain starts to increase and I am shown horrors and monsters as they tear people apart limb from limb removing their heads. Then Paul slips up and memories from his past start to show. While it is difficult to make sense of with the agony and laughter echoing in my head I learn that Paul was an interrogator form the churches crusades to force people to pray to their gods. I learn that the churches have mind spells that make praying addictive and people into fanatics while they are in the church. This makes the people keep coming back to the church and makes them completely loyal to the church and their gods. I learn how the priests have an amulet that stops the effects of the spell for the wearer as well as let them control the worshipers to a certain extent.

    I see images of an unknown world without magic as random pieces of knowledge start to flood my mind. I also learn a large Variety of colorful vocabulary.

    Then I see the broken bodies that Paul leaves in his wake when he is done raping the little children or torturing his ''playthings''. Then I see how he is violating my body as he tortures my mind. The stirring sensation inside me increases and anger begins to fill me. THAT IS MY BODY YOU SON OF A BITCH, NO ONE CONTROLS MY BODY BUT ME! Then the pain I feel stops as I reach my right arm and return to reality.

    I awake to a peculiar sense of my right arm bending backward at a right angle while stretching an extra meter in length going through Pauls'' chest while my hand is currently on the other side holding his still beating heart.

    [Da fuck?]

 Chapter 4 Bedding

    Insatiable Hunger takes over what is left of my shattered mind. My Right arm returns to normal still holding on to Paul¡¯s heart. Staring at the heart in front of me, my mouth starts to drool as my hunger wins against what little morals I have left. Shoving the heart into my mouth and feeling the blood dripping down my throat brings me great happiness. Finishing the heart I move on to the rest of the body, ripping apart the flesh, drinking the blood and crunching on the bones.

    Gorging on the body of my former tormentor isn¡¯t as easy as would have desired. My juvenile teeth start to break and bend and as I eat the body in front of me. Remembering how my arm moved and felt I try to apply it to my teeth. The feeling of sludge running up from my stomach into my gums is a peculiar but not entirely unpleasant. Slowly moving out of my Gums the sludge starts to form new teeth that are stronger and sharper than the last.

    While finishing up what is left of Paul I start to think. What am I? Why did Paul share his memories with me? Are they real? Or was it just to anger me more? I know one thing though; I can¡¯t stay in the church after what I have done. If the other priests are as powerful or more so than Paul and they all work together to deal with me there is no way I can resist. But why leave the beautiful church it has been my home ever since I can remember. As these thoughts go through my mind a warm with a commutable fog accompanying them.

    Recognizing what is happening to my mind I rush over to Paul¡¯s pile of clothes in search of the amulet. Finding it in the form of a bronze necklace that has been sown into his priest robes, I start to rip it out with my new-formed teeth. Once free of the fabric I place the amulet, of a spiral inside of a triangle representing the church of soul fowling the Gods of life, spirit, and mind, around my neck. The fog starts to retreat from my conscious as free thought is once again in control my mind.

    [So this means that Paul memories were real? But why was I shown them? Thinking back through the memories I see a blurry patch before the sudden crusade where the personality of Father Paul is greatly altered and after that, the memories feel different. Could it be that Father Paul had his mind altered to become Paul and that his subconscious was trying to show me the memories to justify his actions? Or maybe I am looking too much into it. Paul was multitasking with entertaining himself with my body while using a magic he had not used since the crusades 10 years ago it would not be hard to imagine that he just slipped up. And what was the giant metal buildings and knowledge what came out of nowhere?]

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    Catching myself before my mind begins to wander again I beging to think. My most pressing concern comes to the forefront of my mind, getting out of the church alive. I walk over to my clothes that are scattered across the floor from when Paul was playing reverse dress up and start to put them back on, after using Pauls robes to wipe the blood off of my face and body. Once this is done I start to search the room for valuables as I start to think of how to escape.

    I could wait for night to slip out but by that time the church could notice the missing priest and be on high alert. Servants under the age of 13 aren¡¯t allowed to leave the church grounds unsupervised. I could try to climb the tree at the back of the compound to jump over the wall but is in clear view and I don¡¯t know what is on the other side.

    Stopping I take a look at the loot gathered around me, A small knife, a storage ring that can store a space of around 1 meter cubed with 2 silver coins and 74 coppers inside (100 copper= 1 silver, 100 silvers= 1 gold, 100 gold= 1 platinum) and a fire gem which can produce a small flame with a box of 34 cigars. I take all this and put it into the storage ring.

    The fire gem gives me an idea. I exit Paul¡¯s room and walk confidently to the servant¡¯s dominatrices, once inside I lock the door and start to gather all of the bedding from the bunks apart from 10-bed sheets that I use to tie 2 pieces of rope with 5 sheets per rope. The church has an enchantment to stop a fire from spreading on to the building and to sound an alarm when there is one, but that does not mean that the things inside the church can''t burn. I then move some of the wooden bed frames over the pile of bedding.

    Laying out one of the ropes so one end is touching the pile while the other end is in the open I set it on fire using the fire gem. Hoping that this will work as a makeshift fuse I run over to the door unlock it, take the key lock it from the outside and hurry over to the tree at the back of the compound. I made the fuse because the enchantments don''t react to small fires otherwise it would be very difficult to cook, so the fuse gives me time to run over to the tree before the big fire starts causing the necessary distraction.

    I make it to the tree before the fire alarm starts so I wait, sitting behind the tree for 30 seconds. Once the alarm starts I wait another 30 seconds for the people to rush over to the fire. When the 30 seconds are up I climb the tree with little difficulty. Now slightly over the height of the wall, I tie the second makeshift rope to one of the larger branches. I hold on to the other end of the rope and jump over the wall. The rope holds for about 2 seconds until I fall into the streets below.

 Chapter 5 Cats are cute

    Luckily I only had to fall an about 2 feet after slamming into the wall. Standing back up after the fall I set fire to the sheet rope to try and cover my tracks then later realizing that a giant burning tree would attract more attention than a rope. [Oops]. After realizing my mistake I run into the unknown streets taking turns at random quickly leaving the larger and nicer houses surrounding the church''s grounds and running towards the poorer parts of the city.

    Running for what feels like hours as the feeling of sludge moves to my sore muscles making them stronger and more efficient. Although this does not make me tied it does make me incredibly hungry so when I see a lone cat in a back alley in the poorer part of the street I stop and slowly approach it.

    The cat is so cute. I reach out to pet it but it shies away. ¡°Aww its ok little fella I just want to pat you is all¡± speaking is a soft, soothing voice as I slowly approach the cat. This time the cat does not shy away as I pet it, going to scratch the cat''s throat my hand snaps forward and grips its throat as I lift it up and slam it down on to the ground twice before lifting it up to my mouth and use my teeth to rip out its throat.

    Eating the now dead cat I notice that it eyes are different from humans so sending in the sludge to investigate its eyes and discover that a reflective layer behind the eyeball that sends light that passes through the eyeball back into the eye. Curious I use the sludge to replicate it to my own eyes. My vision improves in the dark but now I can''t see as far in the light. [Hmmm] I return my eyes to normal while planning to use the ¡°cat eyes¡± for night time.

    Now curious about the rest of the cat body I stop eating it and send the sludge into the cat¡¯s body. ¡° Got to figure out a better name for this¡± I mumble absentmindedly. After much experimentation, I discovered that the cat has a much better smell than that of a human with it having more receptors in its nose and having a sent organ its mouth. Copying these to the best of my ability to my own body, my senses were overloaded from the sense of smell from the alleyway. Clutching my head in pain and confusion, as the smells of blood, mud, shit and piss assault my nose, and quickly reducing the number of smell receptors in my nose as well as the size of the sent organ in my mouth.

    After about 10 minutes of pain and confusion, I finally find a balance that enhances my sense of smell but not too much as to overload my senses. After that debacle, I decided to slowly change and modify when adding alien parts to my body. Looking at the cat''s tail I decided that it would stand out too much on my ¡°human¡± body so no tail modification for me. I do however decide to give myself small retractable claws in my fingers. Finished with dissecting the cat I eat the rest of it and head deeper into the maze of alleyways and small houses.

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    Completely and utterly lost I stumble around aimlessly in the back streets of the city until finding a puddle of water on the ground were my reflection is visible. ¡°Damn I am ugly¡± [or perhaps just deformed from all the experiments with the cat?] Looking Closer at my reflection I notice that my face looks disturbingly like an 8-year-old boy with a cat''s face stretched over it who has sharp crooked fangs. Lumps and stretch marks cover the rest of my body I assume from moving all the ¡°sludge¡± inside my body and randomly building muscle mass when running for hours without stopping.

    [Well I guess I got to fix my ugly mug if I want to be seen by people, with them not want to kill ¡°it¡± with fire]. Setting about turning my face back to normal by smoothing out my features and making my teeth normal while still trying to keep my enhanced senses and muscles. The end result is a slim-faced, blue-eyed and curly brown haired 8-year-old face staring back at me from the reflection. [Hmmm a chubby face would look more innocent] with this in mind I make my face look more round and chubby,[that''s better].

    Next is the body. Smoothing out the stretch marks on my skin does not take long and soon I am evenly distributing the added muscle mass that looked unnatural and disproportionate to the rest of my body. Once all the muscle mass is distributed I try moving around but the moved muscle mass feels disconnected from the rest of my body but the mass gained from when I was running feels fine. Tying lots of exercises such as push-ups, sit-ups, burpees and sprinting in the alleyway the added muscles eventually started to feel like part of my body. [Come to think of it, the more I use the added parts to my body the more natural they feel and the better they work] With this discovery I decided to start a daily routine where I try to get better suited to my body.

    The daily routine will consist of stretching for flexibility. 25 push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups, squats, burpees and sprinting the length of an alleyway each for strength and endurance. I will do this every morning and evening to get better used to my body and to build more muscle mass. Before anything else could be decided or planned I notice that the sun is setting and the shadows are growing and consuming what is left of the light. Smiling as I change my eyes into their cat form the dark is easier to see in and I venture into the night to find a place to sleep.

 Chapter 6 Morals and plans for the future

    I end going to sleep on the cold floor in the alleyway exhausted from the day''s events, I crawl up into a ball and fall into the loving embrace of sleep. Until the loving embrace decides to give horrific nightmares, just like every other loving figure in my life.

    I stand alone in a vast room covered in dried blood with skinned human carcasses Hanged up by barbed hooks piercing through their bodies as they sway to an unknown rhythm. Looking around in apprehension I try to back away from the carcasses but everywhere I go is filled flayed Human bodies blocking any escape, their dead eyes following me. Then my stomach starts to growl in hunger wanting to consume their flesh, I cry out and close my eyes, tiring to ignore the hunger. A ripping sound tears through the air, I open my eyes to see a mirror image of myself, but a giant mouth with crooked yellow fangs coming out of the stomach, devouring the flayed Human carcasses.

    ¡°Ah!" I yell out in surprise and fear but then it slowly turns to look at me. I freeze as it finishes turning and slowly stalks towards me. Try as I might I can''t move, frantically looking around I discover that the carcasses have grabbed me, stopping me from escaping, their teeth clacking in what appears to be laughter, as it slowly gets closer. Unable to move due to the claw-like, bloodied hands I can only watch.

    With each step, the mutated mouth grows spreading across more and more of the body until there is nothing left but a bottomless pit with arms and legs. I can do nothing but stare as it approaches, its arms and legs start to bend back at unnatural angles as scars appear and dance across the skin forming faces that scream in silent agony. Rasping laughter fills the room as the fleyed humans become hysterical their eyes bulging and teeth clattering. Then it''s upon me and I stare into the abyss as it swallows me whole.

    Next, I am in a grand hall where I am stuck half facing a mirror that covers one of the walls, In the other half of my vision is a slowly approaching Paul. He slowly advances and when he is five steps away from me the mirror changes to me approaching the cat. The me in the mirror is in sync with the approaching Paul, and the frozen me with the cat. Once Paul is next to me he starts to stroke me and licks my face while he takes the clothes off of my frozen body while the me in the mirror copies Paul''s actions to the cat.

    Fear and rage fill me as I strain to move but I am frozen. I try harder until a mouth busts from my stomach and rips Paul''s head off.

    I wake in a cold sweat, gagging and heart racing. Moving my hand over my heart I feel the amulet. Enraged I rip it off and throw it as far as I can in disgust. Slowing my breathing my heart rate starts to drop and I start to think about the dreams. [Shit that was fucked up. It appears my subconscious is trying to tell me something in a not so subtle way. At least the message was clear; The hunger from before, I let it be all consuming (No pun intended), it made me lose control.

    I don''t like not being in control. But it is part of me, no it is me and I am it, but that does not mean I can lose control. We will live in sync.] Unexpectedly I feel the sludge serge inside of me as if in protest but I forcefully restrain it, for now.

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    [Also I can''t betray people''s or animal''s trust, I will not end up like that sack of shit Paul or the fuckers in the church. I am sorry cat I will name you, what the fuck do you name a cat? It was cute and fluffy so I will name it¡­Fluffy, super creative I know. And in honor of you Fluffy I swear I will/can not let the hunger consume me again nor shall I betray people or animals trust less I end up like Paul.]

    After making the oath to myself I decided to start my newly appointed morning routine as I am already awake and going back to sleep is not appealing right now. Setting a slow pace as to not get worn out too quickly, I start with push-ups. Starting the workout I go into thought about what should be prioritized and what I want to do with my life.

    [First for survival I need: a steady income or source of food and water. Second: I need knowledge of what I am, general knowledge of my location and my surroundings. The church never taught the servants this even in the Saturday lessons, their teachings went more on the lines of, church good everything else is not so good and everything bad that happens is because of demons or people not praying enough. Although now with knowledge of the brainwashing and raping I am having second thoughts on this.

    Third: I need strength so I can take care of myself. My daily routine should help with physical strength. Hunting and absorbing animals characteristics will help with their utility. Now if I could learn more about spells like Paul used maybe I could fight with them.

    I can''t have a place to stay or the church will find me even if I change my face. The church has spirit identification gems in certain parts in the church so it stands to reason they have a portable form that could be used to find me. With that said they would expect me to try and leave the city or be as far away from the church as possible so I will try and stay low inside the city for the time being.]

    With the order of my survival prioritized I begin to think about what I want to do with my life now that I am free.

    [Well what I really want to slowly tear apart each and every loyal member to the church for what they have done and most likely will do in the future. Hahaha, I will shove my fist so far up the churches ass I will make it into a puppet haha. But while that does seem satisfying I am free now and I don''t want my life to continue to revolve around the church, I want to see the world and experience all it has to offer and enjoy it to the fullest. I am sure I can make both goals aline, I will just have to get stronger as I see the world.]

    In the end, it took me an hour to do my morning workout and it was exhausting. Now I am scouting around trying to find a market where I can sell the cigars, the only things of worth that I want to part with. Thinking of my valuables I look down at the storage ring and frown [it stands out far too much but how can I hide it?]. After a bit of thought, a bit of skin starts to grow over the ring on my finger hiding it from view. On my travels, I will keep an eye out of a library believing that it would be the best source of information.

 Chapter 7 Selling and buying

    When I finally get out of the maze of alleyways the city was coming to life with the sun becoming visible and people starting to go about their daily lives. Following the largest crowd hoping it goes to the market, I start to realize much I stand out in my servants uniform. [I need to find new clothes before I do anything to blend in.] With this in mind, I start Looking around for a store or stand that sells clothes.

    Seeing a store that has clothes in the window I head towards it. Once in the store and looking around for clothes my size that would not attract too much attention. The cheapest clothes were in the right-hand corner, most a dull brown color of terrible quality that is folded and stacked up 20 high making miniature towers of shirts, trousers, and undergarments. Walking over to the stacks of clothes I slip my hand into each pile, removing the bit of skin covering the storage ring and putting one of each into it for spare clothing. Then I take the top of each stack a walk over to the owner of the store a middle-aged man with black hair, eyes and a pudgy face.

    ¡°Excuse me kind sir is it ok if I pay for these now are wear them out? These donated clothes are getting worn and too small you see.¡±

    ¡°Sure thing young man that will be 25 copper altogether, changing rooms are in the back.¡±

    ¡°Thank you, kind sir¡± I give him a bright smile as I walk over to the changing room keeping an eye out for anything else I could take without notice.

    Sadly I didn¡¯t notice anything I could take without notice or that would be of use to me. Once I was changed I gave the shopkeeper a smile and head out of the store. Now back on the streets with a new look and my old uniform in hand I wander around finding three stands that sell cigars being sold for 15C (copper coins) 12C and 10C respectively.

    Going up the stand that sells the cigars for 15C I take out 20 cigars.¡± Excuse me, sir? My daddy has just stopped smoking and wanted me to get rid of his remaining cigars will you buy them for 10C? Then you can have a 5C profit.¡±

    ¡° You want to buy 20 cigars for 10C each that''s would be 2S(silver coins). That¡¯s far too much for a little lad like to be carrying around so how about I take them all for one silver?¡±

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    Frowning and not in the mood for bartering I turn to an approaching customer and innocently ask, ¡° Hello mister how would you like to buy these cigars for 11C instead of that man''s 15C? I have 20 for sale at this discounted price.¡±

    The ¡°mister¡± in question gives a laugh ¡°sure kid¡± and hands over 33C for 3 cigars and walks away. I turn to look at the shopkeeper but he grabs me by the collar and pulls me towards him with a look of anger on his face. ¡° What do you think you are doing!?...¡± Before he can continue I give a borderline insane look similar to the one Paul used, while using the sludge on the part of his had that is touching my neck to slowly eat away at his hand as I whisper ¡°Go ahead hit a little kid in front of your store I am sure it will be great for business, look people are looking already I am sure they are all thinking about the great prices the child beater has. Or maybe I should make them think you are trying to rape me hmm? Yelling something along the lines of ¡®help he is trying to put his dick in my mouth while he stands behind the stall¡¯ should do it don''t you think?" Chuckling I increase the corrosive effect on his hand.

    Letting go he gives me a horrified look as he backs away, shaking his hand and looks around. Putting on the innocent face again I ask as if nothing has happened I ask with a smile ¡°so 3S for the remaining 31 cigars?¡± the sludge on his hand starts to eat away at hand making it start to bleed. ¡°Wha¡­. oh ah yes? ¡°He says in confusion and slight pain. ¡°That''s great, pleasure doing business with sir¡± I take the bleeding hand shaking it as I recollect the sludge into my body before it denatures. Handing out the 31 cigars to the shopkeeper he reluctantly hands over the 3S in exchange.

    My other trips to the stands where far less exciting. I buy a backpack to conceal the use of the storage ring and for the extra space. Also purchasing a lock and key as I want to try lockpicking with the sludge. I also buy a week rations of food and water. All this cost 85C this leaves be with 64C and 4S. With my first task complete I move on to the next one. [I need to find a library]

 Chapter 8 An old lady, a padlock and tentacles

    Finally found the bloody thing. I was so unbelievably lost, it was not even funny] Thinking back to my third accidental trip to the market while trying to find the library. [But I made it in the end] Doing a mini celebratory fist pump [Da fuck is a fist pump and why is it celebratory] I walk over to the entrance of the library in slight confusion and try to enter when suddenly and bald elderly lady blocks my way.

    ¡°20C to enter the library,¡± she says while sticking out her hand. [Yeah Nah I already spent too much money to day] ¡°But mummy only gave me 10C to spend for the week. Please, can I go in?¡± I ask innocently. ¡°20C to enter the library,¡± she says while still sticking out her hand. [Bitch] ¡°But but I only have 10C. Can I just have a look?¡± I ask again while bringing tears to my eyes [didn''t know I could control my tears, interesting]. ¡° I am sorry young man but it is 20C to enter the library if you don''t have the money then you cant enter. Books are expensive you know and we must pay for the upkeep of the library. So once again it is 20C to enter the library¡±

    [What a cold-hearted bitch, I am impressed. I will take a look around the building for another way in if I can''t find one then I will come back tomorrow for the whole day. If I am going to spend 20C then I will make it worth it]. ¡°Ok miss sorry to trouble you,¡± I say dejectedly. ¡° Do not worry about it young man, but next time have the money¡± she answers. Giving a quick nod I walk off into the crowded streets.

    After walking for 2 minutes I circle back around to look at the library from different angles, hoping to find a way in. Sadly I could not find a suitable alternate entrance. The windows were too small and too high off the ground to be a feasible way to enter and the only other door was locked from the inside.

    [Damn shame, looks like I need to do something else to occupy my time. what to do? what to do? oh, I know. I shall get used to the layout of the city so I can find places easier and run away if needed. While I am learning the layout of the city I should keep an eye out for ways to make money. This will hopefully be a good use of my time.]

    Wandering around is a good idea as I am getting a better knowledge of the streets by the minute, but I am soooooo bored. After another minute I decide to take out the lock I brought earlier in the day. Hiding my hands in the sleeves of the shirt with the lock to hide my body manipulation from view, I try to pick it. Continuing to walk around. I start to make 5 small and thin tentacles out of sludge that comes from the palm of my hand. Making the tentacles is fairly easy but I can only control one at a time and that one takes a fair bit of concentration. To fix this I grow very thin strands of nerves and muscles in the tentacles to give me better control and feeling in them. It is easier to control one at a time like this but I still can''t control it without concentrating. After about 10 minutes of practice, I can control one tentacle as well as a finger.

    [That''s an idea. Why don''t I try to make my fingers and limbs tentacles made from muscles? It would be a lot more flexible than a normal limb. But it would not have the support of a bone. Maybe a flexible bone? but that would defeat the whole purpose of it though. Ah lots of bones connected together like the Human spine, it is flexible and strong. But to do this I will need a lot of food that I don¡¯t have at the moment. But this is definitely something to aim for.]

    By the time I have finished my inner monologue, I can make one tentacle dance easily even while not concentrating on it. With this happy new development, I try to make another tentacle move while the other dances to a silent tune I sing in my head. Training the second tentacle took longer than the first but eventually, it was dancing along with the first.

    Love this story? Find the genuine version on the author''s preferred platform and support their work!Midway through the third, my head was hurting, while a strange itching sensation was slowly eroding at the area in pain. The more the pain area was eroded the more intense the pain became along with my increase in control of the third tentacle is seemingly parallel with how much territory the itching sensation had. Soon pain felt like a hot needle slowly being pushed through my head, but I didn''t stop. My face was crossed between a grimace of pain and a manic grin from the excitement from the idea that my brain was somehow evolving as well as the feeling of pain breaking my mind from the numb sensation that¡¯s its been in since the ordeal with Paul that I didn''t even know it was in. [I must look so fucking weird to others though. hahaha but who gives a fuck.]

    Once the pain and itching were gone the third tentacle was dancing along with the other two. Deciding that that was enough tentacles for the moment not wanting to go through the pain without proper preparation. But I should definitely train this more, I will add controlling tentacles while doing my workouts into my routine, once I can get one to dance will exercising at the same time I will add another tentacle into the workout. This should help train my mind. I will also try to train my memory by listing as many street and store names as possible.

    With two more activities added to my daily routine, but this time to train the mind instead of the body, I begin to focus on how to pick the lock again. I make little tools at the head of the tentacles. I tried to make them out of bone but they were very brittle so I tried other materials that my body could produce. In the end, I decided to make it out of the same material my nails are made from (alpha-keratin protein). In the beginning, the nail martial was also brittle until I added more water to the structure. With water, the nail became more flexible so I made the tool out of the flexible nail material.

    After multiple attempts and combinations of different tools. I decided that it was too crowded in the lock mechanism with all three tentacles. [I should have one tentacle try to unlock the mechanism; another try to turn the mechanism while the last will pull on the shackle (top part of the lock, I didn''t know what it was)]. With this decision, I make small bumps out of the flexible nail but focusing on strength rather than flexibility this time as they won''t need to bend, on the top side of the tentacle. The idea is that once inside the bumps will grow up into the mechanism pushing the springs until they replicate the key needed for the lock.

    With this method, it became easy to pick and with a few times of practice, I could pick the lock in a few seconds. Wanting to try out my new method on a new lock I debated if I should buy a new one but decided against and thought it would be best if I tried it on a lock that is actually locking something. That way I can practice, get into existing areas and find potential valuables. [But I won''t rob the poor that''s just a dick move and they won''t have many interesting things or many valuables. unless they are assholes, then I will rob them blind, and then eat them.] With the idea of eating people, the sludge stirs within me again. [Haha well that''s not foreboding at all.]

    As I continued to wander around I started to become bored again without the distraction of the lock, so I decided to go over to something I noticed a while ago. At the end of almost every street, there is a group of people crowding around what seems to be a board made of wood covered by a slanted roof, which I assume to protect it from when it rains.

    I walk over to the board and worm my way through the crowd to see what all the fuss is about. Once I am at the front I look at what now I understand is a notice board. Hanging up are pieces of paper with news, potential jobs and a giant picture of my face on a wanted poster with a reward of 10S.

    [Haha...well shit.]

 Chapter 9 What am I?

    [Well it''s a good thing I don''t look like a twisted love child between lumpy perv into animals and a cat anymore. But still 10S that¡¯s some good money, then again what do I know, I am living of scraps and threatening to yell rape. But from what I understand a poor family can live off of 1G(gold coin) for a year, so that''s approximately 1/10th a year''s worth of work. Damn, they must suspect me of something if they are willing to put out a wanted poster for me for that much. On the bright side, they can''t know what really happened because I doubt they would only offer 10S for me if they knew I killed and ate Paul. And if they did know I am a little insulted for the small reward].

    Thinking of Paul I don''t see a poster up for him so they assume he is dead or is too dangerous to put out a reward for on a common notice board? As I look around the notice board I see a poster for a job for people under 5¡¯5 foot to kill giant rats in the sewer. The pay was 25C for every rat-tail retrieved and handed into a city or adventurer guildhall. I don''t know how tall 5¡¯5 foot is but considering I need to be under it and I am 8 years old I think I am ok on in that department. The pay is good, also and I bet I can eat the giant rats. That could solve my money and my food problem [nice].

    To start I just need to take the poster to a city or adventurer guildhall and they will take me to the sewer entrance and unlock it. After reading this I take the poster and decide to give it a go the day after tomorrow as that is booked for the library. Putting the poster in my bag I start to walk back to the ally maze thinking that it is the best to hide while I sleep.

    On the way back I take a chaotic route in case I am followed. Once I am back in the alleyway maze I notice that there are a few more people here than last time they are dirty and they keep their heads down as they scuttle about. [I don''t want people to see me do the workout, especially now that I added the tentacles to it] Not wanting to be watched I walk around trying to find an empty area but have no luck, so I decide to climb on to the roofs of the small houses and start my workout there. The reason I didn''t do so before is because there isn''t much room for sprinting but I will have to make do with what I have.

    It takes me another hour to do the workout and I can move one tentacle about as well as I would normally a toe while doing the workout at the same time. Once this is done I take out three days worth of rations from my bag and eat them all. With food in my stomach, I put the spare clothes and my old uniform in the bag and use it as a pillow as I lie down on the roof. It did not take long for sleep to take me.

    Luckily there were no nightmares this time but my body is stiff after two nights on the cold hard stone. Getting up from the poor excuse of my bed I do some stretches and start the morning workout. Once done I descend from the rooftops and started to make my way back to the library. [I should buy a pen and paper to make notes from the books I read. I decide to change my face again as to not have any meetings with the shopkeeper from yesterday and so I don''t have to continue the lie of the old face with the old librarian.] I didn''t change much, just enough to look like a different person who is slightly tanned, less chubby and has green eyes.

    Passing by the market on my way to the library I buy a pencil and 4 papers for 75C [Damn that old lady was not lying when she said that books are expensive]. When I reach the library I pay the fee of 20C now leaving me with 70C and 3S. Once inside I walk around looking at the title of the books grabbing anything that could be interesting. I the end I gather books on Demons, Monsters and city layout.

    Not having any idea of what I am I decided to read the book on Demons, as I am intelligent for a non-human creature. After reading the ¡°basics of demons¡± I learn that they are intelligent creatures of evil meant to balance out the gods good [well that''s bullshit. Gods sanction mind control on their own priests, Kill and tortures anyone who doesn''t worship them, Make praying addictive and allow rape on children who serve them.

    So the gods are not the embodiment of good. I believe that the gods are the embodiment of order because order when compared to chaos, would be good in the eyes of most mortals hence the confusion. Order would also explain the mind control as everything will go to plan if there is no free will, and anyone not actively worshipping the gods are considered against the order.]This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it.

    Coming to this conclusion I continue to read the book. Demons are physically stronger than humans by a large but unknown margin and have many different forms and species most of which are unknown. They fight with their physical strength, manipulation of negative emotion, shadow magic, necromancy and hexes (short-term, quick acting debuff) and curses (long-term slow acting debuff) as well as other unknown means. [What¡¯s up with all the unknowns?]. According to the book, Humans and other sentient creatures would have fallen to the demons long ago if it weren''t for three factors.

    One, they live on another plane of existence Hell, and it is difficult to get to the ¡®overworld¡¯ from Hell. The only known ways are possession, summoning and very rare special rifts. Two they have no know ruler or organization and seem to live in a constant state of chaos and anarchy [supports my theory of the gods being order while the demons their natural opposites, chaos].

    Three their true names, which all demons have and know from, birth. Their true name can be learned by humans be performing a ritual with the demon''s blood. Once their true name is known the humans can control the demon. In fact, most of this book was made from a demon being forced to give information when humans learned its true name before the demon managed to kill itself.

    [True name huh? well I can''t be a true demon otherwise I would know my true name, and I seriously doubt its Jacob. If it were the church would have a far better control over me. If I did have a true name then how would I find it? If it''s part of me, something that is the only sense of order in me then it must be in me somewhere. Maybe I am just not a demon, which would be a shame because I sort of liked the idea of being the opposite of the assholes that call themselves Gods.]

    Thinking this I wanted to give finding a true name ago, so I put the book down, got in a comfortable position and thought about my self, what I like, what I dislike, what I have done, what I plan to do and what I am. I go into deep thought, drifting around in my conscious while these questions circle around in my head for what feels likes hours. CAEDES (carnage in Latin) like a thunderclap my true name resonates within my body, mind, and soul. I feel strength run through my body as my mind begins to shift slightly.

    With my true name learned new information starts to appear in my mind. I now know that I am an only ? demon while being ? human and ? shapeshifter. Turns out knowing your true name allows you to know your true origins mine being that my human mother was impregnated by a shapeshifter and once she was a week away from giving birth was processed due to a space tear being opened nearby. But due to the collective strain of being processed and giving birth, the body of my mother dies, taking the demon along with it.

    Because of my weird ass ancestry, I am an unknown and completely unique creature [sweet as well as disturbing, I like it].

    With that bombshell dropped on me I just sit in for about half an hour. The sludge inside of me seems restless but oddly more docile than before as I feel it merging slightly with me, but instead of feeling intense hunger like I anticipated I only feel more... ''whole'' but with an increased sense of desire to leave the city and become stronger.

    Once I have come to terms with what I am and the slight merging with the sludge, I move on to the other books I have gathered. Noticing that there was not much light left coming from outside the windows I decided to look at the city planning book as I feel it could more useful in finding the city or guild halls for tomorrow.

    Looking through the book it seems to be a map of the different city sectors with many symbols displayed on it. There were 5 sectors in the city going from the outer wall they were the slums [Oh so that''s what the alleyway maze is called], mid sector, high sector, noble sector, and the royal sector. The buildings on the map were represented by squares and the more into the city one went the larger the squares with more space between them, while the edge of the city was overcrowded with a mess of squares that sometimes overlapped.

    Looking on the different pages of the book I eventually find the key with the list of symbols and their meaning such as a hammer being a smith, a shield for the guards, a sword for the adventurer''s Guildhall and a star made from two triangles for the city hall. There were four city halls for each sector one in each direction, North, East, South, and west. The adventurer''s guild halls were scattered around seemingly at random.

    Looking around for a bit I find what I assume to be my location, an open book representing a library around an area that I recognized close to a small market, has the symbol of a basket, and not too far away from the slums. Once finding myself, I look for the closest guild/city hall. The closest hall was from the Guild about an hours walk from where I usually sleep.

    With this information memorized I leave the library just as it was shutting and headed back to the slums, still believing that it is the best place to hide from the church. Once I reach the slums I do my nightly work out and go to sleep eager for tomorrow.

 Chapter 10 To easy to kill

    I wake up to a kick in the head and stomach. My eyes shoot open and I see three boys, the two who were currently kicking me seemed to be aged around 14, while the third who was going through my bag seemed to be about 12. Noticing that it is still dark my eyes instantly change to there cat form while my claws spring out of my fingertips.

    While still being kicked I move around the damaged cells from the beating, evenly distributing them around my body making it easier for the sludge to heal them. While my body heals I grab the leg aimed at my head with my right hand, stabbing my claws into his Achilles tendon and sending water into the cells from my claws in his calf until they are full and then burst. While ¡®head kickers¡¯ left calf explodes into a bloody mess my left-hand grabs ¡®stomach kickers¡¯ stationary leg and pull it so he falls off balance hitting his head on the stone flour knocking him out cold.

    Standing up as my body is still healing I take the knife from the storage ring and send it through ¡° stomach kickers¡¯ temple as I run my claws along ¡®head Kickers¡¯ throat. All of this takes me 7 seconds.

    ¡®Sticky fingers¡¯ looks up from my bag and I realize that it''s a girl as she starts to stutter and mumble. ¡°Ah...wha¡­ you. You wouldn''t hit a girl now would you?¡± she pleads. I stop, and laugh ¡°Hahaha you dumb fuck why would your gender stop me from hitting you? If I am not mistaken you are the accomplice of the two that tried to kill me while I was asleep and even if you weren''t, instead of trying to help me you try to rob me. Which was really fucking stupid, I was sleeping on the floor how much do you think I could own? You dumb bitch.¡±

    Before she could stutter out a reply I send the bone in my right forearm out of my arm while making it into a strike before it pierces her skull. [That looked badass as shit but FUCK, did it hurt] seething in pain I return my body to normal as I hop around in agony. [Fucking shit I forgot to detach the nerves from my arm and literally ripped them all apart]. When I finished dancing around like an idiot after about 5 minutes, I gather and search the bodies. Combined they had the following: 2S, two normal sized knives, a metal pipe the size of my arm and a ring. I take the money and knives and put the others to the side not needing or wanting them.

    With the body''s gathered I start to absorb and eat them. With the sudden increase in body matter, I start to modify my body. First I increase all my senses by a factor of 0.5. I then increase the strength and length of my claws. Next, I make hidden and retractable spikes out of bone in both my forearms. I then make the bones in my arms and legs similar to the spine creating multiple joints in the bone but allowing less movement as not to become a noodle. Finally, I condense and strengthen my bones and muscles, while making my muscles and ligaments extra flexible.

    Smoothing out my features so I look identical to before the attack I start my workout to get used to my new body. I exercise and train until the sun comes up which was about 3 hours but I don''t feel tired. Now that¡¯s the sun is up I head over to the Guildhall. I decided to make myself look older by 4 years to avoid any trouble when doing the job as I doubt they would let an 8-year-old fight in the sewers.

    After an hours walk, I make it to the Guildhall and look around inside. It looks like an inn on one half while the over half is filled with notice boards with various missions and jobs to complete for a reward and pay. There is also a training area outside where a garden would be and what looks like a sparring ring where there are two people trading blows.

    Noticing a group of people who are on the short side standing by a desk I head in their direction believing that it was where I hand in the poster to start the job. Walking up to the desk I am greeted by a pretty young woman in her early twenties. ¡° Hello there, you must be here for the rat problem,¡± she says in a sickly sweet voice, I simply nod in response and hand over the poster. "Well then stand over there then please with the other job takers. an adventurer will be over with you in half an hour to explain things further,¡± she says in the same sickly sweet voice. ¡°Thank you,¡± I say while nodding again and heading over to the group of vertically challenged individuals a few of whom I recognized as dwarfs.

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    The group was filled with young children in their early teens like I appear to be. No one talked and I did not start a conversation. Instead, I put my hands in my sleeves and made a condensed bone that is shaped like a small pebble. Using the bone pebble I sharpened my three knives. [I need to get new gear soon my clothes are falling apart and I only brought them three days ago and these knives are already chipped and rusty and I have been using these sandals since I was a servant.

    Sharpening my knives I looked around at the posters. [Maybe I should become an Adventurer. I would get to travel and explore to my heart''s content; good pay if you are strong enough, could be fun. I will need to wait a couple of years first, and change city to one I am not wanted. They use spirit identification stones for registration, to check the person is who they say they are.] I know because I just watch a guy register. As I waited a few others young people came over to join our group. Once half an hour went by an annoyed looking middle-aged man came over.

    ¡°Hello everyone I am Dan and I lost a bet so I am your guide for 10 minutes [What a charming fellow]. You will be going into the sewers to hunt rats. These rats are runts or unevolved rats that have gotten away from the main sewer body were the guards and adventures use to train new recruits in an unfavorable environment. But don''t worry they won''t be up to the standard of the rats used to train, as mentioned before these are just the rats that unevolved and runts that have bred in the smaller sewer hence why we have to send in smaller people.

    You will be rewarded 25C for every rat-tail collected as proof of your kill. This job is on once a week, as you should know so you can come back next week if you wish. [I didn''t know that I must have gotten lucky on the day.] Now if you follow me I will take you to the sewer entrance where I will unlock it for you but don''t worry it can be opened from the inside. Good luck.¡± With that Dan left us without another word, after leading us to and unlocking the sewer entrance.

    Shrugging I jump in not bothering with the ladder and walk into the darkness. The smell was horrible so I lowered my sense of smell but increased my cat eyes and hearing. I walk away from the others thinking that the large amount of us would make to much noise and scare off the rats.

    Walking around in the dark until I hear a faint scuffing noise that is just around the corner. Crouching down and ready myself I lunge around the corner with a knife in hand, I catch sight of a rat the size of a large cat before I stab it through the eye. [That was easy. boringly so.] I cut off the rats tail and put it in my bag.

    After the anticlimactic first rat kill, I manage to find and kill another 20 rats just as anticlimactic as the first. I even follow one until it is in a pack of 5 but it still was boring. After an hour of this and 50 rat-tails filling my bag with their body¡¯s filling my stomach, I decided to try and find the big main sewer remembering Dan talking about the more dangerous rats there. Covered in rat blood I walk into the darkness hoping for a better fight. [let the real hunt begin] I thought to myself as I smiled.

 Chapter 11 Making killing fun again

    Wandering around the sewer looking for the main tunnels took a while. [This place is a maze]. But after 30 minutes I finally find a part where the roof starts to slope upwards I follow it trying to make my steps as silent as possible until the height is slightly taller than a grown man and I round a corner to see a metal gate blocking the way.

    [Well that''s inconvenient] walking up to the metal grate I find a lock the size of an apple. [I guess I wanted a lock to practice on, but that is a big mama for my second go] forming the three tentacles I sent them to work on the lock. The lock had quadruple the number of pins then the lock I first tried lock picking on but luckily they were easy to find the biting point where they clicked for the individual pins.

    It took me 5 minutes to unlock the metal gate. When it opened I slipped through and closed it behind me not wanting any super rats to get out. Now that I am inside the main sewer I have a knife in each hand and walk as silently as I can to try and hear any noises that could lead me to the rats.

    Sadly I didn''t hear the first one. Something crossed between a spear and a snake is speeding towards my heart. Acting quickly I cross the knife''s over my heart and try to jump back, but the spear snake thing collides with my knives and shatters them. I am thrown to the wall and fall on to my knees.

    My instincts scream and I roll to my side as the snake spear strikes again. Because of my roll the strike only skims my arm but it still draws blood. [Haha this is more like it] despite almost dying or perhaps because of it, my face forms into a smile as my fangs and claws burst free from my body.

    Continuing my roll I stand and look at the creature that is attacking me. It was a big rat the size of a giant dog and the spear snake was its tail. Now standing I decide that it is not a good idea to be standing around so I leap onto the opposite wall and rebound off of it launching myself at the rat, claws first.

    Whipping around its tail it hits me like a club throwing me to the wall once again, but not before I could grab the tail and use the generated momentum to leave large gashes on it.This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road. If you spot it on Amazon, please report it.

    Rolling away from the rat as my damaged cells begin to repair and heal. Still smiling I stand and sprint at the rat running in a zigzag motion to become less of a target. Ducking and weaving through the storm of tail strikes of the now weakened tail. Gaining a few cuts and bruises on the way I reach the rat and send the bone spike in my left arm towards its skull.

    But the fucker dodges its head to the right and the spick sinks into its shoulder. Sending water into its shoulder planning to burst the shoulders cells, the rats tail comes and strikes me from behind piercing my lungs. Growling in pain I make the cells in and around the tail hold on depriving the rat the use of its main weapon.

    With both of us incapacitated like this and not wanting to explode the rat at point blank to myself I make a bone spike on my right knee and send it through its jaws and into its skull. The beast gave a final twitch before it died.

    [Now that was a fight.] Pulling out the tail as I cough blood, I use the rats I ate earlier organic matter to start to heal myself as I collapse and rest for a bit. It takes me 10 Minutes to heal my body but I can''t do anything for the sad state of my clothes so I change into my spare pair.

    Looking at the now dead rat I remove the remaining knife from my storage ring and look at it. [They saved my life I suppose, but the quality was shit I need a real weapon. But I am not going to just find one down here so I will just have to make one.]

    Plunging my remaining knife into the corpse until my whole hand was inside of the dead body, I started to release the sludge into the dead cells to take control of the body. Once I had full control I started to condense the body in the shape of a meat cleaver removing the knife in the proses. Once the blade was ? the size of my forearm in length and one and a half my hand''s width, I turned it into bone. Remembering the priest at the church bragging about how their religious symbol, the triangle, is the strongest shape, I make the inside hollow and filled it upwards facing triangles while downward facing triangles went in between them. Once the interior was complete I made the blade from more interlocking triangles make from bone.

    With my new weapon completed, I name it fluffy after the cat. I venture out into the dark to go back on the hunt. Finding another spear-tailed rat in 3 minutes I kill it much more efficiently. When it first attacked I blocked the tail with the flat side of fluffy with my palm on the other side for support, once the momentum was canceled the supporting hand grabs the tail and pulls the tail towards me as fluffy swings down and removes the rat''s appendage. With most of its tail gone it just becomes an angry giant rat, which I decapitate when it blindly lunges at me. I eat half the dead body while I absorb the other half into fluffy to make it stronger.

    I kill another 8 spear tail rats this way with relative ease continuing to absorb half into myself making myself stronger and faster while the other half goes to fluffy condensing and sharpening it. I slowly start to get bored again until I find a new type of rat.

 Chapter 12 Exploding both of my arms

    This rat was the same size as the spear tail and had some kind of noise attack which I am sure would have sucked if I couldn''t just lower my level of hearing and send fluffy into its face. I am about to inspect the body and try to replicate its sound attack when a group of the third type of rat surrounds me. These rats come up to my shoulder and have long black hair. Turns out the ¡®screamer¡¯ was calling for backup as well as attacking with its sound. There are currently five of these long haired rats staring at me hungrily.

    Recognizing the danger I am in, I do half a backflip so that my feet are on the ceiling while my legs are crouched. Launching off of the ceiling I land outside the circle of the new type of rat. Landing with my back to the enemy I spin in place while slashing with fluffy at the closest rat. As fluffy is about to hit the turning rat its long hair moves to intercept and grab fluffy, in my surprise I let go, and fluffy is flung away from me.

    [Da fuck?] With me weapon lost I bring out my claws and lung at the rat but the hair moves to block my claws. The hair feels like strong copper wires as it deflects my claws and wraps around them. Pulling just makes me more tangled as the rest of the rats start to get closer.

    The rat that is currently trying to convince me to hug it and never let go moves its head and bites into my left arm going straight through my condensed muscles and hitting the bone. "At least buy me dinner first before you go inside of me you little shit," I growl as I disconnect the nerve endings in my body, and then explode my left arm in a mass of haphazard bone spikes. Exploding said little shits head in the process.

    Repairing my arm and absorbing ¡®little shit'' I learn how their hair works but I do not have time to replicate it. But a useful thing about their hair is that it should share a large weakness as regular hair. Fire. Coating my left arm in bone as I back away from the approaching ¡®long-haired rat¡¯ I retrieve the flame gem from the space ring and put it into my right arms retractable spike as I make it hollow and the tip has a hole into the now hollow interior. Filling the space with the wasted organic material such as fat I extend the spike and when all the rats are only a few feet in front of me I use the flame gem.

    Fierce flames ignite the rats setting them on fire, almost instantly before the flame gem explodes taking my right arm along with it as well as burning my face. Well for better or for worse I can''t feel the pain with no nerves. I watch as the rats burn to death the long thick hair working against them. Once they are dead or not able to move I absorb the first three rats to heal myself then split the last one with fluffy not counting ¡®little shit¡¯ as I already absorbed him.

    Now healed and with no enemies around I reattach the nerve ending in my body as I walk over to the ¡®screamer rat¡¯ and absorb him. With this done I walk back the way I came to the metal grate and re-enter the smaller sewer tunnels. Now in a safer place, I sit down in a comfortable position [well as comfortable as a person can get when they are sitting in a city''s waste disposal]. I begin to mold and modify my body.

    First I decide to make the ¡®screamer rat¡¯ sound ability to do this I have to make an extra pair of vocal cords slightly under the first with a gland in between them. Then second vocal cord will give me better control over the sound I produce and was fairly simple to make. The gland was more difficult. It needed a type of energy that now that I was aware of it I seemed to have but could not control, yet. After a bit of practice, I could make the energy inside me ripple, like flicking a bowl full of water.

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    Deciding that meditation in a more suitable place was required to continue with the energy and the gland I decide to try and talk with the two pairs of vocal cords. ¡°Wello thar¡± [great this may take a while] to practice my speech I began to list all things I will need to buy once I am outside again. While creating a shopping list and repeating it, I began to work on the hair.

    The rat''s hair and human hair for that matter are made from the same protein as nails, but the rat''s hair I have grown and made from a six-sided shape that looks like the honeycomb the priest sometimes had at the church. While the proteins are condensed and grown in a honeycomb shape for strength some parts were made from iron found in the blood increasing its strength.

    I think evenly distributing the iron around the hair and making it part of the structure would improve its overall strength. I have a plan to make this hair into clothes and rope for me as well as make it into a lattice under my skin. It will be strong and flexible material that would work as makeshift armor. The only problem is that it would be very flammable as shown with the rats but I could fill the gaps in the honeycomb with a little bit of water but not too much as to lose the flexibility, this should help with the fire problem.

    But sadly I don''t have enough of the material to make enough hair for these plans. Good news is I know where to get some, I just need to kill more ¡¯hairy rats¡¯ without burning off their hair. To do this I decide to reform fluffy into a fin and smooth, but strong spike, they shouldn''t be able to grab onto fluffy if there is nothing to grab onto. With the problem of killing the rats hopefully solved I make my way back through the metal gate and into the big tunnel. To not get ambushed again I decide to bring the rats to me. To do this I sing at the top of my lungs all things I am going to buy when I sell the corpses of their brothers and sisters. [I am such a nice little shit].

    My first ¡®fan¡¯ was a spear-tailed rat, which I managed to kill with relative ease even with a new weapon. After a few more spear tailed rats I keep walking until a group of five ¡®hairy rats¡¯ and one ¡®scream rat¡¯ [I guess they do hunt in packs] ¡° hey look my first group of fans girls. Care to follow me backstage?¡±[Where am I getting these terms from? what the fuck is protein and backstage?] Running away I go back to the corpses of the ¡®spear tail rats¡¯, which I made into, a makeshift barricade so I wouldn''t get overrun by numbers.

    Once I reach my barricade I stand in between the two small walls of bones with spears protruding out of them and set up my choke point. It does not take long for the first rat to reach me and I stab it with fluffy in ¡®smooth spike mode¡¯, It sunk into the mass of hair and then into its flesh [It works] the hairs can''t grab onto fluffs smooth body. With fluffy inside the rat, I can take moderate control over the part of its body. With this control I make the blood flow stop in that area with a massive blood clot. With its pulse decreasing the rat starts to slow down as I continue to stab it and make more blood clots. The rat dies so I make its body into a giant bone spike that launches at the ¡®screaming rat not wanting to call reinforcements. Being impaled the ¡®screaming rat¡¯ loses its namesake while another rat takes its dead comrades place.

    This pattern repeats itself until all the rats are dead. [Next time I come down here I should fight them head on for practice] I absorb all the dead rats, splitting half with fluffy but keeping the hair. I decide to walk back to the surface to sell my rat-tails so I have more room in my bag and better equipment, and I was running low on water.

    Walking back to the metal gate I make my hair clothes by braiding the hair together into a T-shirt a long sleeve shirt, a jacket with a hood, trousers and undergarments, I decide to make them all black apart from the trousers which I make a dark brown, as it was the color beforehand and was easier as well as it is a basic camouflage in the night (Don''t lie we all know you are an emo). With my new clothes, I make the hair lattice under my skin in hopes that it will stop slashing attaches.

    On the other side of the metal gate, I kill another 10 rats. I take their tails and eat their body¡¯s. My bag is now completely full of rats tails and I am looking forward to getting my money so I can hunt and kill bigger things.

    On the way back to the outside world I hear footsteps approaching returning fluffy back to its main form (meat cleaver) I absorb it but am ready to take it out at a moments notice. As I reach the ladder going up I look behind me and see a boy the same age I appear to be (12) he had the typical look of a person living in the lower sector, dirty face with brown hair and eyes. But what caught my attention the most was the knife pointed at me. ¡°Give me all your tails or I will cut you into ribbons,¡± he says in what I think is meant to be a threatening manner. Cocking my head to the side I look at him as if to say ¡®are you a fucking idiot¡¯ Which I think if the dead rats could still think, would agree with me on this one.

 Chapter 13 My â€˜Heroâ€™

    I was about to reply to his threat but I see someone coming up behind the would-be mugger. So I just stare blankly at him. ¡°Are you slow in the head give me the tails or I will kill you!" Mr mugger yells at me.

    ¡°But I want to die¡± I replied while smiling. ¡°What? Ok then, hand over the tails and I will kill you?¡± Instead of replying this time I stare at him with a mischievous smile on my face as Mr mugger gets hit on the head from behind.

    ¡°Oh thank you, my hero,, whatever would I have done without you,¡± I say trying to act serious, and failing miserably. ¡°Oh shut up. I am not blind you know, I can see your bag, anyone who can kill that many rats could easily take this guy. So why didn''t you? And what''s up with wanting to die? You clearly don''t or you would be long dead down here¡±

    ¡°Both of those questions have the same answer, I will tell you if I can ask my own question,¡± I say looking at the newcomer. ¡°Sure why not¡± my ¡®hero¡¯ agrees. ¡°Well you see I was bored and wanted to see what you would do.¡±

    ¡°That''s it?¡± ¡®Hero¡¯ asks confused ¡° yup now for my question, you want to be friends?¡± [I may not act like it but I was still just an 8-year old who lost his home after being tormented by my father figure, and a friend may be nice, he could also be a good source of information. If worse comes to worst i could just eat him.]

    ¡° Um sure, my names Dave, and I am a son of a tailor. What¡¯s your name?¡±[Yay new friend well really it''s my first friend, so yay first friend.] ¡°Jacob, so Dave you want to grab that guys tails so we can leave?¡±

    ¡°You don''t want any?¡± he asks as he is emptying the guys bag into his own [Little late to be asking that mate] ¡° Nah I got like 60 of the things, bag can''t hold anymore let''s go I want me some sunshine¡± without looking back I change back to my human eyes and increased my sense of smell while reducing my hearing, as I change the rest of my senses back to my normal 0.5 more than a normal humans.

    ¡°60! You must be joking, I only got 28 and that''s adding the other guys to my own bag. How did you find so many rats?¡±

    ¡°Trade secret,¡± I reply.

    ¡°Oh come on man I thought we were friends!¡±

    ¡°We have been friends for less than an hour you are not allowed to pull that card.¡±

    Our good-natured bickering lasted until we reached the adventure guild desk to hand in the job. The Lady at the desk is different this time. This one is far more beautiful and friendly looking. Dave reaches the desk first but when he looks at the lady his eyes glaze over and his mouth hangs open. I stand there looking at him expectantly, and then I smell a sweet smell coming from the lady that seems to be trying to make me sexually attracted to her.

    ¡°Oh for fuck sake Dave¡± I take his bag and hand it over to the lady along with my own. ¡°He has 28 rat tails from the sewer job for midgets and I have 60 give us our money and stop trying to seduce 12-year-olds it is fucking weird.¡±

    She looks at me in surprise as she stops the smell that is coming off of her. ¡°Hahaha sorry about that it is sort of my right of passage for new people who turn up at the guild even if they are not part of it. Teaches them not to mess with me you know?¡±

    ¡°Yeah sure it is lady, now if we could have our money it would greatly be appreciated.¡± But she continues like I didn''t even open my mouth. ¡°But you are the first not to be affected and you killed 60 rats in less than a day at such a young age. You are interesting, I will make you my mission.¡±

    ¡°You fucking what? Your mission? Yeah no thank you, but that money would be great though¡±

    ¡°I wonder what I could do with you? What will you accomplish in the future?¡±

    ¡°Not much if I don''t get paid. Wait what do you mean ¡®do with me¡¯? Can I talk to the guild master please?¡±

    ¡°You are. Now get closer I want to get a better look at you¡±

    ¡°Shit. Who put, you a crazy lady, in charge? And there is no way I am getting closer to you. Can I talk to the other lady she was way nicer and easier to deal with¡±

    ¡°Another lady? Are you cheating on me already? How could you break my maiden heart?¡±

    Losing my temper I may or may not have gone a little too far. ¡° A maiden my ass, I can hear you whoring your pitiful body out to any man, woman and everything in between for a single copper. And that''s not even mentioning what you do to the stray cats and dogs you find on the streets.¡±

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    The Guildhall goes completely silent as a cold and dark aura bust from the desk lady making my body freeze in primal terror, but I remain eye contact with her and plaster a smile on my face.

    ¡°HAHAHAHAHAHA¡± she lets out a very unladylike laugh as the aura disappears ¡°You really are an interesting kid, here''s your money and for the love, all, go to a bathhouse. But don¡¯t forget to come back anytime. ¡±

    ¡°Thank you,¡± I say as I catch my and David¡¯s money [what is a bathhouse?] I turn to hand it to him but the bastard was still completely spaced out with drool coming out his mouth even without the lady¡¯s pheromones. ¡° Seriously Dave?¡± I wave my hand in front of his face ¡° You are such a ladies man I bet you have a different one warming your bed each night with your skill of staring at them blankly for 5 minutes straight.¡± I say as I slap his money bag into his hands while I laugh.

    ¡°Wait, what? Oh, money, that''s good¡± Continuing to laugh I walk out of the guildhall dragging Dave behind me. ¡°Come on lover boy, I got a date with a bathhouse and you are introducing me.¡±

    ¡°Loverboy? But yeah we definitely need a long hot bath after going in the sewers for most of the day. It was a good thing I did though, I got 7S!¡±

    ¡°Yes we differently need a bath, you may need a cold one to help you with your little friend there,¡± I say as I nod to Dave as he shows a horrified expression as he adjusts his pants [what is a bath!]. Trying to change the subject he says ¡°But you have to be happy you got a whole 15S. Your family is going to be proud when you show them.¡±

    My steps falter a step as the smile temporary falls of my face [Family huh?] But in a heartbeat, I am back to normal but Dave catches my expression. ¡°Oh shit, I am sorry Jacob¡­¡± Before he can continue our path is blocked by a group of boys around Dave¡¯s age. [This should be fun, new friends or new playthings?]

    ¡°Oh look Davey got himself a boyfriend. But that''s odd, thought that the whole reason you went to roll around in the City''s shit was to impress Rebecca¡± [Play things it is. yay]

    ¡°Oh, what a clever and unique insult, you must be the local genius it is a pleasure to meet you. I am Jacob Dave''s new boy toy.¡± I say while holding out my hand for the ringleader to shake. Meanwhile, Dave looks equally amused and afraid.

    The ringleader looks confused for a moment as he looks at my hand and then at me, then seemingly recovering ¡° so you are a sword swallower then? Haha then you should be used to getting on your hands and knees, so why don''t you just that and beg me not to break your little boyfriend¡± He says as he puts a hand on my shoulder and tries to push me down.

    Not one to like being forced on to my hands and knees I step up to him and punch him in the gut with about 25% of my strength but he still gets lifted off the ground by a foot. As I punch him I make him aroused so when he falls to the floor is moaning with a hard-on as he is coughing and sputtering blood, which is quite the impressive feat on his part.

    Looking down on him a laugh "Well your weird fetishes aside it was nice meeting you, toodles."

    Stepping past the other two boys as they back away from me I gesture and Dave follows me. ¡°Well that was dramatic he says while laughing¡±. ¡°Well, I got to put on a show if it lets us get to the bathhouse faster. By the way, what is a bathhouse?¡±

    ¡°Well, it is a house. With bathes in it,¡± he says while looking at me like I am stupid. [But I can''t help we never had a ¡®bathe¡¯ in the church and Pauls memories are pretty random.] ¡°Wow that''s so helpful, now what is a bath¡±

    ¡°How do you not know what a bath is? You know never mind you will find out when we get there, it will be a surprise.¡±

    ¡°Fine but if I don''t like this surprise I will find this Rebecca and tell her how you were drooling all over the desk lady¡±. I say mischievously. ¡°A bath is a tub filled with water that a person uses to clean themselves, sometimes there is soap and hot water added. A bathhouse is a building dedicated to giant baths that clean groups of people at once but the genders are usually divided¡± He says immediately after my empty threat, but he says the last part with a little bit of sadness, but it was good information. ¡°Speaking of the bathhouse we are here.¡±

 Chapter 14 Midnight snack

    Turns out that in a bathhouse, personal space and privacy are a loose concept. Considering that I literally burnt all the unneeded fat in my body and I have lots of condensed muscle I had an eye-catching Physique, to say I felt very uncomfortable with the eyes on me would be an understatement. I used Dave as a human shield a lot of the time so I was not stared at. Dave, on the other hand, seemed to enjoy the attention, so his new job, as a human shield was a win for both of us.

    Not wanting to spend too long in the bathhouse I disconnected the outermost layer of skin on my body making it easier to scrub off all the dirt and grime quickly, but I underestimated the amount of dirt on me. The water turned black from the accumulated dirt from rolling around in the sewer, living on the streets and only ever washing my body when it rained when I lived at the church. With the water black but my body, face and hair clean in under 5 minutes I left the bath a started to walk back to the changing rooms and lockers but without my human shield and the corridor being crowded with both male and females I received more looks. [Look somewhere else you fucking creeps. I need to add fat to my body, this is ridiculous] My face would have turned red long ago if I didn''t forcefully stop it.

    After what feels like an eternity I reach the changing room where I quickly dry off and get changed into my hair clothes armor. With that done walk outside and wait by the entrance for Dave. While I wait I try to focus on the energy inside of me that I believe to be magic. Looking at the energy it looks like a bloody red tar with pitch-black swirls and neon purple lighting dancing across it.

    Trying to move the energy forcefully for 5 minutes did not yield great results as I could only make a ripple across the surface, so I decided to try a different approach. Instead of trying to move the whole ¡®pool¡¯ of energy I try to move a little bit of it instead but the tar-like substance refuses to move in smaller parts and I just end up making small bumps on the surface of the energy.

    Before I can try anything else Dave comes out of the bathhouse and seeing me, is approaching. ¡°Hey Jacob, sorry to make you wait, and I didn¡¯t get to say so earlier but I am sorry about your parents. If you want you can over to mine for dinner, I am sure my parents wouldn''t mind.¡±[I am not to keen to talk to a group for people, but maybe it will be nice? I doubt it but I will go along for now. They could have valuable information or things I can steal.]

    ¡°Don''t worry about it mate, and that sounds good if you sure I wouldn''t be imposing on your family.¡±

    ¡°I am sure, my older brother loves cooking he makes to much anyway.¡±

    Dave leads me to what I assume to be his house as we bicker and banter along the way. We arrive at a house when a blonde 13-year-old girl comes running at us at high speed. I was about to get out my remaining knife [Fluffy or the claws would stand out too much] and lunge at her when Dave yells in surprise ¡°Rebecca? What are you doing here?¡±

    [Ah now I understand why he likes her. She is very attractive. Call me shallow if you wish but I haven''t even talked to her yet.] Stepping back from Dave as to not get in the way of the two, Rebecca runs up and addresses Dave after catching her breath a bit. ¡°Where have you been? Are you ok? What happened to Jonathan? Did you hit my cousin? [Good thing she said he was her cousin or I would have passed the glory of defeating the ¡®ringleader¡¯ of idiots to Dave or at least that who I assume Jonathan is.] And who is he?¡± Rebecca asks pointing at me without pausing for breath.

    While Rebecca takes in a much-needed breath of oxygen, Dave begins to answer ¡° Calm down and let me explain. I have been working to get some money, I am fine and this is Jacob, he is what happened to Jonathan so no I did not harm your cousin.¡±This story has been taken without authorization. Report any sightings.

    [He does not want her to know about the rat hunting, got it. This also explains why he didn''t stand up to Jonathan, it would be difficult to explain to the girl you like how you beat up her cousin. But pinning all the blame on me is a bit of a dick move; I will get him back later.]

    ¡°Names Jacob, It is nice to finally meet you, Rebecca. Dave would not shut up about you since this morning when he saved me from being mugged; He keeps telling how amazing, funny and beautiful you are. Personally, I don''t see it but hay each to their own. Now as for your cousin he is a prick and I think you know that you should stop turning a blind eye to that just because he is family.

    Now if you accuse me I have to go, it was nice meeting you Dave see you around.¡± Saying this I turn and walk back the way we came. [Found out where Dave lives but didn¡¯t have to have annoying conversations with people so that''s a win. I hope I helped Dave with Rebecca I made him look like a hero saving me from being mugged, made her hear about how he likes her while simultaneously making me the bad guy with the Jonathan incident, so that is also a win. now he owes me some favors.]

    Dave tries to call out to me but I continue to walk back to the slums deciding that I should try and control this energy inside of me. It takes me an hour to get to the slums but once I am there I do my workout twice due to wanting to get used to all of the modification done to my body. With this done I am now fully used to my body and I can fully control a single tentacle while doing the work out simultaneously, I will start on the second in the morning.

    After the workout, I go to relax so I can start my meditation but I realize something, as I am about to sit down. I am so fucking hungry, which is odd considering how much I have eaten today. [Have I actually eaten today? I differently killed and absorbed a lot of things today but have I actually give my body fuel? Well, I guess meditation will have to wait then, I can''t relax on an empty stomach. But where am I going to get food at this hour? All the stores are closed and I doubt the restaurants and inns will be serving at this hour. Will have to find my own food then.]

    With my new objective set, I change into my enhanced cat eyes as I go deeper into the slumps hoping to find some stray animals or late night criminals I can eat. I make a cloak and mask on the way to keep the cooled out and to hide my identity. After about 15 minutes I hear a soft whimper and a group of laughter following it. Withdrawing fluffy as I approach on the sounds of distress and laughter I listen in on the conversation. ¡°Come on beautiful why you trying to run for?¡± says creepy guy number 1

    ¡°Yeah, you wouldn¡¯t be out this late if you didn''t want it¡± creepy guy number 2. ¡°We can pay if u want sweetheart, 1C should do haha,¡± says creepy woman? Realizing what they plan to do to the poor girl I rush forward abandoning the idea of stealth [Murder and stealing I can am fine with, I even plan to do some right now. But rape? Hell no I shall activate all the bastards fucking nerve endings as I eat them alive. Call my morals and ideals twisted and I would call you right, but do I give a shit? No, no I do not.]

    Rounding a corner I see a sense that the noises suggested. Three figures, two male, one female, surrounding a downed younger female as she cowers in fear. [Well here I go killing again.] Slamming fluffy into creep 1¡¯s head earing me an instant kill on the prick, as he was about to turn around. Ducking to the ground after the kill, I spring up delivering an uppercut to creep number 2 as I use fluffy to separate the upper and lower part of his body. ¡°Keep your eyes closed Miss I will be done in a second¡± not waiting for a reply I step past the fallen body¡¯s as I approach the woman. The woman backs away as she takes out a knife with her left hand, which promptly detaches from her body and flies towards me blade first.

    [Well that''s new, Must be some type of power I didn''t hear any incantation. I suppose it was arrogant of me to assume I was the only one with weird abilities. It''s a good thing mine isn''t so pathetic though.]

    I catch the hand with ease and hold on to it as I continue to approach [She may have useful information] With this I mind I create a tentacle and send it into her spine as she tries to run. Being attached to her I have limited control of her body so I remove her vocal cords as I activate all her nerves in pain.

    I hear the young girl start to crawl away but I let her leave, I have no use for her. The woman falls to the ground and withers in pain as I walk up to her and crouch down so I can look at her in the face as I remove my mask. ¡°I am going to kill you but it is up to you how painful I make it. I want you to answers some questions for me, nod if you understand?¡± Nodding frantically the woman looks at me with pleading eyes.

    ¡°Good,¡± I say as I tie her in hair and face her towards me as I eat her dead comrades [I need to get some seasoning or something, raw meat is getting boring.] Finished eating and with blood dripping down my face I turn to the woman ¡°Now shall we begin?¡±

 Chapter 15 Questions

    The woman looks at me in horror as she tried to back away, but the hair rope is to tight. I send another dose of pain through her nerves before I remake her vocal cords. ¡°First of all, I want you to lie to me, because¡­ it turns me on¡± [I want to see if I can detect lies while being connected to her body.] ¡°Ok I ah um ah.¡±

    ¡°Oh come on, It doesn''t need to be anything fancy just lie and say it''s day or something.¡±

    ¡°Oh ok it is a nice sunny day, the houses are made from broccoli, I am 50 years old and, and ¡®sob¡¯ oh please don''t eat me I don''t want to die, not like that, not now ¡®sob¡¯.¡±

    ¡°Ok now tell me some truths where I know you are not lying and I won''t make your death as painful¡± ¡°ok ¡®sob, it is night time, we are in the slums and I am 20 years old.¡± [When she is untruthful, two different chemicals are produced. (Epinephrine and norepinephrine are two hormones that are naturally produced within the body.) With this information I am like a biological lie detector.]

    ¡°Ok enough playing around now, explain this, is it magic?¡± I say while waving her still struggling detached hand in her face. ¡°No not magic, it is my power.¡±

    ¡°Explain the difference between the two.¡±

    She nods and begins to explain, ¡°A power is something certain people are born with which they can use naturally without having to learn it or use an incantation, but it still requires mana or aura. Magic is affecting the outside of your body and requires more mana then a power as well as an incantation.¡±

    ¡°How and when can someone use their power or magic, and what is aura?¡±

    ¡°A person naturally gains access to their mana around the age of 13 to 14, when they start puberty. ''Sob'' Aura is the natural power the body makes, some people can use it to strengthen their bodies and enhance their movements, it can only be used inside the body as far as I know.¡±

    ¡°Thank you, now tell me about the local gangs and groups¡± As a reward, I send a dose of pleasure into her nerves. [I did not think that through] looking at the now moaning woman on the floor. ¡°Well?¡± I say as I stop the wave of pleasure.

    ¡° Um oh yes. Oh, the gangs well there are three mains gangs in the slums and two guilds. The gangs are the wolf¡¯s gang, the Scorpion gang, and the Falcon Gang. Even there are more gangs and people in them the guilds are more powerful. The Gangs pay the two Guilds, thieves and assassins, to keep the authorities off of them and to leave them alone. I don''t know anymore about the Guilds, sorry, please don¡¯t hurt me.¡±

    ¡°It is fine, continue about what you know about the gangs. How do you identify each other and any powers you know about?¡±

    ¡°Yes right. This area is in the territory of the wolves gang we have a tattoo on the out left forearm in the shape of a fang and the password ¡®5 is my favorite letter¡¯ with the response ¡®mine is a square¡¯. While the scorpions have a tattoo of a claw on their right forearm and the Falcons have an eye in the middle of their chest. I don''t know about any passwords for the other gangs and the only power I have seen someone else use is the vice-captain control fire in a display of power. That''s all I know please don''t eat me please I will do anything please.¡±The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation.

    ¡°Thank you for your cooperation,¡± I say as I send a wave of pleasure and sending a bone spike into her skull. Once I finished eating her and absorbing the hair ropes back into my body I stand back up and consider what to do next. I noticed that sludge that is usually moving around inside of me was still during this process. [It''s like my personal, physical embodiment of carnage. Well, it''s not like I am a calm and loving person in the first place, but I seem to become increasingly merged with it when my actions are more violent, selfish and brutal. ]

    Thinking back to the topic at hand I begin to process what the lady has told me. [The energy I have been fucking around with is probably ¡®mana¡¯, which along with my ¡®aura¡¯ I shouldn''t be able to use until I am 13 or14. But why is that? Is it the physical process of aging? Mental development, absorbing the surrounding energies of the world or another reason I can''t think of? If I could use my potential power/aura/magic I would become a lot stronger so I will add meditation to my daily routine to try and learn to control these energies.

    On to the next topic. The gangs. I think I will use them as a source of training and food; the city won''t bother to look for dead criminals so it would be relatively safe. As for the guilds, I will try to avoid them for now.

    Next, is that I don''t think I need sleep, or if I do then I don''t need as much as normal people. I was woken up early this morning, have not stopped all day and have gone late into the night and I feel fine. So how should I spend my nights? I think that I will alternate from meditating, fighting the gangs and sleeping when/if needed.]

    With these points decided I walk back to my normal sleeping spot to meditate. Now that I am back with a full stomach and new information I sit back down and begin to meditate. Looking at the energy again all the nubs I created before have disappeared along with any minute changes I managed to make [That bodes well for future training] I think sarcastically.

    Planning to spend the rest of the night in meditation I start trying different ways to move the energy but each barely has any effect on the energy, but it does slowly get better. Very slowly, but there is progress, the ripples become more frequent and the nubs become bigger. But it is exhausting and I have to take a break every now and then.

    By the time the sun comes up, I am mentally exhausted but I still don¡¯t need sleep. Getting up from the meditation I start my morning exercise but I add a second tentacle into the workout. With my workout done I head to the higher sector because I want to buy better quality things as well as trying to pickpocketing to gain some extra finances.

    It takes an hour to walk to the higher sector of the city, on the way I experimented with the space ring. Once I was there I realized how much I stood out. All the people were cleaner and had much better clothes than the people in the slums and the middle district. The people here also looked more handsome and beautiful which I suspect is the result of selective breeding. A few of the people have guards and servants out with them. [I will stay away from those people; I don''t want to test my ability against a guard just yet, especially in broad daylight.]

    I decided to target the richer looking people without guards. From experimenting with the space ring I have discovered that the space ring has the ability to put an object into itself if it is less than 30cm away from the ring and touching the finger wearing the ring.

    With this information, I would extend the finger wearing the ring as a very thin tentacle into my targets money pouches and take no more than 2 coins a person as to not raise suspicion. I did this all morning without being caught although I was however given dirty looks and yelled at for ¡®daring to get close to my betters¡¯.

    At lunchtime, I go to a street corner and count my ill-gotten gains. From this morning''s work, I got 37S altogether, that gives me 57S and 90C total, which is a lot more than when I first left the church.

    After lunch I go into the stores and by two new flame gems for 10S each, an air gem for 10S, a for month''s worth of good quality rations for 8S, a better backpack for 5S and a single good quality throwing knife for 5S, All together this cost me 48S, which is fucking expensive but also good value when you consider that I used other people''s money to buy these. This leaves me with 9S and 90C. These items aren''t all I managed to ¡®acquire¡¯ as I stole 1 flame gem, 1 air gem, and an extra throwing knife.

    With my business done for the day, I head back to the slums. Changing my body on the way. I make the bone spike on my left forearm hollow similar to when I exploded it in the sewer but this time I make it stronger as well as putting the two air gems at the back of the hollow space while putting the flame gems in front and the filling the rest up with unneeded fat and methane a flammable gas that my body produces. I did all this with the idea that it will work as a flame weapon in the future. The air gems will provide the flames with oxygen while the fat and methane will act as a fuel [I hope I don¡¯t blow up my arm again because that shit fucking hurts].

    When I am back in the slums I do my work out while simultaneously working on the two tentacles and trying to remember all the street and shop names I have come across today. While doing three things at once my brain undergoes a mini evolution but it is not as prominent or painful as the last one. When I am finished with the workout on multiple fronts and it is dark I grow my hair clothes into a cloak with a mask. It is time to have some fun.

 Chapter 16 Fighting an aura user

    Wandering around in the dark with my enhanced cat eyes and my hearing 200% more than that of a normal human I stalk the streets looking for criminals that I can justify killing and eating or more importantly the authority won''t care if they are missing. After going to the place where I met the last group and wandering around for a bit I find a group of 5 people. Smiling a wolfish grin [no pun intended] I walk up to them and say the password ¡° 5 is my favorite letter.¡±

    They look at me for a bit before you reply with ¡°Mine is square.¡± ¡°Excellent¡± although they can''t see it my smile grows as I launch my self like an arrow released from a bow. Bring out my claws I stab them into the closest person¡¯s heart, with him dead I take control of part of his body and form parts of his back into bone as I explode his lungs. The bone shrapnel rips into two other thugs, killing one of them. Letting the exploded corpse fall to the floor I jump up while sending a tether made from hair to the back of the group and pull myself towards it.

    Reabsorbing the hair tether upon impact, I slash at the thug who was about to try and run away. My claws leave four long gashes along his chest as I control his cells to detach from themselves, making large clumps of flesh fall from his torso. The thug collapses in pain and shock as he bleeds to death; I spray the unharmed thug with urine as he runs past [I will follow the sent back to their hideout later, I don''t have a urine fetish, honest.] I kill the two harmed thugs and start to eat their bodies while looting them.

    Between them all, they have 4S, 78C, 2 knives a small ax and a short sword. I take the money and knife then break the ax and sword into small pieces by Turing fluffy into a hammer and balancing the weapons so they are leaning against a house and hitting them with fluffy. Once the weapons were broken into small enough pieces I absorb them and incorporate the metal into my bodies cells making them stronger and harder.

    Once I was finished playing with corpses I enhance my sense of smell to 600% of a normal human while reducing the rest of my senses as to not overload my brain [Although that could be good for training later]. With my altered senses, I begin to hunt down the lone survivor hoping he will bring me back to an all I can eat buffet ¡®cough¡¯ I mean hideout. After many twists and turns [suppose he did not want me to follow him.] I arrive at a cluster of houses with their walls touching.

    "This is where the smell stops" I mumble. [It''s probably just one big building disguised as lots of small houses. now how to deal with them? I can¡¯t just lock the doors and burn it down; all of the bodies and loot would be gone. But I don''t want to fight them in there, they could have traps to stop trespassers, also all their weapons are probably in there. What to do, what to do, oh that could work.]

    It takes me two hours setting up my trap. When I am done I Walk up to the door of the hideout I knock on it as I pick the lock. Kicking open the door and acting like a cocky bastard I yell ¡°Hey you little shit I come to finish the job, I will make you cry like...Ah I did not think there would be this many of you, so ah never mind I will be going now have a good night, sleep tight and all that.¡±

    As I look into the room I see 20 very angry looking people glaring at me as they grab their weapons and run at me ¡°The fuck did you just say to us you prick!?¡±

    "Well you deaf piece of shit I said ''Hey you little shit I come to finish the job, I will make you cry like...Ah I did not think there would be this many of you, so ah never mind I will be going now have a good night, sleep tight and all that.'' can you not hear or have you had so many dicks shaved into your ears you can''t hear with all the cum?" I reply

    I stand at the door blocking them until all the people in the room made from the connected houses are trying to get past each other to kill me [Haha don¡¯t you love it when it goes according to plan?] with all the thugs trying to kill me I run out into the street and look behind me to make sure they are all after me.

    Once I reach the end of the street I cut a very out of place rope made from hair. Turning around I see a hair rope net fall onto the thugs where it catches on pre-placed bone hooks that are embedded into the ground. Once the net is caught and the thugs tangled I quickly start killing them with fluffy with its new form, a large Aragorn''s Hunting knife.The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement.

    After the thugs are all dead I eat until I am full which was about 4, so counting the ones from earlier tonight it takes me about 8 adults sized human body¡¯s to fill me up. I absorb 10 bodies after that and fluffy takes the other 6. With all the bodies taken care of, I reabsorb the hair net and the bone hooks. [That was disappointingly boring, would it kill them to be better at not dying?]

    Feeling stronger than ever I go into the building looking of the guy I followed in the first place and loot. ¡°Move out of the fucking way you piece of shit¡± the yell was the only warning I got before the guy is was looking for came hurtling through a door and in the room I was standing in [looks like he was blocking the way for the local boss man] ¡°Hi there¡± I say giving a wave at the man now stepping through the hole he made, ¡°I will not talk to someone I am about to kill¡± He growls as he picks up a hammer a meter in length and runs at me.

    "Well, that''s just rude and frankly over presumptuous." [The fuck did that word come from?]

    Deciding to fight head-on with the man to better envelop the new muscle and bone mass, into my body, and determine my new strength after absorbing 10 new bodies. I go to the balls of my feet, left foot first and swing a right hook at the incoming hammer. With a resounding crack, our blows meet, fracturing some of my bones while pushing ¡®hammer man¡¯ back a few steps. With a look of confusion and the anger, he shouts as an aura starts to leak out of him [oh so this is an aura, is that why he is so strong?], with another shout, he charges at me again.

    By the time he is coming at me again my bones are long since healed and I swing again at the incoming hammer. He only takes half a step back this time and is able to follow through with his attack. Meanwhile, most of the bones in my hand fractured but they are quick to heal, as the new cells in my body are slowly becoming part of it.

    We trade blows, each of us trying to overpower the other with brute force. I could have ended this sooner as his blows are slow and predictable, but I wanted the training and to see what aura could do. With each punch, my blows become stronger as the new cells are incorporated into my body. By the time all the cell are fully incorporated into my body, I could have overpowered the man with strength. By the 17th blow, all the cells were done and I was growing bored again.

    Stepping passed his hammer I give a jab to the abdomen and an uppercut to his chin in quick succession. With the man dazed and doubled over I pick up his hammer and throw it across the room while sending a tentacle into his spine with a wave of pain. Howling he in pain as he falls to the floor.

    ¡°Now I am going to ask you some questions ok? I will know if you lie and I will punish you with more pain but if you tell the truth I will send a wave of pleasure. Do you understand?¡±

    ¡°Fuck you¡± he spits. ¡°I am flattered by your proposition, but I am not really into men especially one that is a two-bit thug¡± I respond while sending another, more intense wave of pain. ¡°Now the questions. First, what do you know about the higher-ups in the three gangs, like what are their powers and how strong are they? Next, tell me about aura.¡±

    ¡°Go fuck your ahhhhhhhh!¡± ¡°I can do this all day hammer man¡± I continuously send pain for a whole 2 minutes before giving him a chance to speak again. ¡°Ok, ok I will talk damn it. I am Dan the third strongest of the wolves, the second is Tyler. He can move small parts of the fire. As far as I know, he can''t produce it or increase the temperature, he can only move small bits around. He likes to use his power mainly for intimidation and fights using fireballs.

    The leader of the wolves is Max. He can control dogs, he collects all the strays and ads them to his ¡®pack¡¯, Max doesn''t actually fight himself, he just sends his dogs. As for the other gangs they are weak. We only let them survive so it looks like we don''t have all the power in the slums, as that would bring the guards after us. As for my aura, I got it when I was 14. It makes my body stronger and faster but I don''t know how it works or how to train it. It would just get stronger sometimes.

    I don''t know anything else so I suppose you are going to kill me? Then I have a last request, let me die fighting.¡±

    ¡°Thank you for your cooperation, Dan, I will grant your request but I will not hold back this time. I will give you 5 minutes to recover, but if you try to run, well I am sure you know already.¡±

    ¡°I... I understood¡± I leave him to pick up his hammer and do some stretches for 5 minutes. Once the time was up we stood at opposite ends of the room facing each other, before he brings out his aura as he rushes at me. As before I take the hammer, head on with a punch but his time I don''t hold back and he stumbles back I step past his guard and send all my strength into an uppercut, which snaps his neck. His limp body falls to the ground before I absorb him. His body is stronger the others I have absorbed and gives me more strength than any other singular corpse has. All that is left is to incorporate the cells into my body and loot.

    Looting all the body''s I find 31S, 83C and a lot of weapons. I trade out all of my knives for better quality ones then break all the weapons so I can absorb some of them, my body can''t absorb that much metal, and leave the rest unusable for someone who could harm me in the future. Adding all the money together I Now have 46S and 51C.

    With all the loot and bodies dealt with I go back to the area in the slums I do my exercises. Once I am there I do my physical and mental workout until all the new cells from the ¡®hammer man¡¯ are fully under my control. I then change all my senses to double that of a normal human while changing my eyes back. After the workout, I decided that although I don''t need to I will take a well-deserved nap until morning.

 ARC 1 End Chapter 17 going to Daveâ€™s

    I wake up after 2 hours to the sun casting light on my face as it rises. Squinting as the sunlight hits my enhanced eyes I stand up and begin my morning workout, but this time I randomly change the power of different senses at different times. It must have looked ridiculous to anyone watching as I stumble around trying to do my exercises. It takes me an extra half an hour to complete them this morning and I feel motion sickness as well as a headache but I get it done and feel more confident in changing my senses afterward.

    [I don''t have anything planned for today so I guess I will see what Dave is doing] With this in mind I walk to his house while sharpening my various knives and buying some flavoring for some stalls to try and make eating raw meat more interesting because while satisfying it is getting boring.

    In the end, it takes me two hours to reach Dave''s house after buying various flavorings. Reaching the house I knock on the door and wait. After a few minutes, a girl opens the door, takes one look at me and slams the door in my face. [Ok then] What follows is loud yelling from inside and the door opens again but this time it is Rebecca at the door ¡°What do you want?¡±

    ¡°Hello to you too Rebecca I came to see Dave, is he available?¡± [The fuck are you doing with two girls in your house at the same time Dave? damn ladies man] she says nothing and looks at me for a few seconds before her face lights up like she has had an epiphany before quickly inviting me in ¡°Yes hello Jake come on in Dave is in the living room¡±

    ¡°Thank you, but it''s Jacob,¡± I correct as I walk into the house following behind Rebecca. ¡°Ah yes, of course, it is,¡± She says distractedly as she walks into the living room and up to Dave and whispering in his hear while glancing at me. Looking around I see that the living room is a small space with a sofa that has room for two people to sit comfortably and a chair in the corner which Dave was currently located.

    On the coach is the ¡®slam door¡¯ girl from before who was staring at me without blinking [is there something on my face?] not knowing what to do I stare back at her meeting her gaze creating an awkward silence with both of us staring into each other eyes.

    This continues for about a minute as Dave and Rebecca continue to whisper. The awkward silence between me and ''slam door girl'' grows as I repeatedly have to remind myself to blink. [Is this normal? It didn''t happen in the church, but then again I don''t think that is a good point of reference.] I was very confused until Dave finally stops whispering, which I am very kindly ignoring, and walks up to me. ¡°Jacob, it''s good to see you can I talk to you in the kitchen?¡±

    ¡°Yeah, sure that would be great.¡± Breaking eye contact I Walk into the kitchen. Dave turns and looks at me ¡°Would you like to go on a date...¡±

    ¡°Sorry mate I don''t swing that way¡±

    ¡°...With Lucy, my cousin?¡±

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    ¡°Ah that makes more sense, now please explain¡±

    ¡°Rebecca and I are were going to go on a date today but my cousin is here and I was told to keep her company and to not leave her alone. So that was going to ruin the day for us until you showed up if you go on a double date with Rebecca and me, while you are with Lucy, I will use some the money I have been saving to pay for your dinner. What do you say? It could be fun.¡± Dave seems off somehow his mannerisms are slightly different and he does not smell the same. But I have only met him once and we were in the city''s sewer, so what do I know. And who the hell turns down free food.

    ¡°Ok, first you will have to clarify what a date is, and before you say anything like ¡®How could you not know¡¯ I literally live and sleep on the street. Second, at some point in the day you will take me to a gambrels fighting ring [heard of it while I was pickpocketing] and bet the money I will give you on me, it was why I came here in the first place.¡±

    ¡°You actually live on the streets?¡±

    ¡°Yup¡±

    ¡°Have any family?¡±

    ¡°No¡±

    His face lit up oddly before he replied with ¡°Wow ok, a date is you basically have a nice time with a person, and I guess we can find a fighting ring if you want.¡±

    ¡°That''s pretty much what I thought. alright then, agree to come along with you guys and keep Lucy Company, but I want that food.¡±

    ¡°That''s great. Rebecca, Lucy we are going out,¡± Dave yells to the others as we enter the room. It does not take long for everyone to get ready as Dave goes up to tell his parents we are going and soon we are outside and walking along to the market. Dave and Rebecca¡¯s flirting was cute at first but quickly became sickly and annoying so I walk a few paces behind them. Lucy must have come to the same conclusion as me as she joins me after another minute. ¡°So Lucy anything you want to do today?¡±

    ¡°Well I really like walking in silence, preferably with strong or attractive people but I guess today I am not so lucky.¡±[Ouch, this is going to be a long day]. Walking mostly in silence, we stopped at several food stalls as we went along and Dave brought me food from each. My head started to feel clouding and my movements slow but I tried to ignore it but I noticed that Dave¡¯s parents are following it us even with the cloudy feelings. Putting the following up to parental concern I didn''t think about it too hard.

    Once it is lunchtime I feel sick but my brain is so cloudy that I can''t fix my body. At this point, Dave asks me to follow him for some ¡°guy talk¡± as we leave Rebecca and Lucy to go behind a store.

    When we are behind the store I am confronted with hooded figures as Dave blocks the exit. [What¡¯s going on? I can barely think straight.] ¡°Sorry about this Jacob, you seem like an ok guy but we were never truly friends. Well, you might have been with Dave but he was taken yesterday. hehe¡± After saying this ¡®Dave¡¯ changes into a middle-aged man with a dirty beard and yellow teeth. ¡° But look on the bright side Jacob, you won''t be alone once you are sold as a slave, you will always have your master. That is after you are beaten into submission and magically branded of course, haha, maybe you can find Dave again but I doubt it¡± Those were the last words I head before one of the figures hits me over the head and I pass into darkness.¡±

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    ¡°Why do you always feel the need to explain to the merchandise Max? It is a waste of time,¡± complains an older man with greasy hair who is pretending to be ¡®Dave¡¯s'' dad.

    ¡°Sorry but you know I love the look on their faces when they find out what is happening and besides they are far too stupid to figure it out on their own.¡±

    ¡°You should go back to your new whore, we will take his body to the smugglers to get him out of the city and into his new ¡®home¡¯ so we can get paid. We don''t want any suspicion until the trail is cold. Then we can stop pretending to be these fucking morons.¡± Complains a woman pretending to be ¡®Dave¡¯s'' mum.

    "Yeah, yeah I will get going, mum."

    With that the man impersonating Dave changed back to his disguise as he walks back on the streets, planning to impersonate Dave until the trail of the smugglers is cold.

 ARC 2 Start Chapter 18 voices in my head

    All I see are very bright colors of gold and red. all I feel is excruciating pain, like billions of microscopic needles being pushed through the veins and arteries of my body while my flesh is being devoured be thousands of tiny mouths and my very soul is being torn apart. The colors flash as they get brighter and brighter and I know on an instinctually level that the golden light is the one harming me as the red tries to fight it back.

    Coming to this realization throw my all is trying to help the red light. turns out I am terrible at fighting without a body so I ¡®pushed¡¯ against the golden light with my will as I try to stop it from devouring me. Every time I push it hurts but the alternative is not very desirable so I continue to fight with everything I have.

    Slowly but surely I push the gold light away but the red is dimming. After what feels like days I am alone in a dark void that is seemingly empty of matter and yet full of energy. ¡°Hahahahahaha¡± [well if the laughing voice inside of my head is any indication I have gone insane.] ¡°No, you have not gone insane little one¡­¡±[Well, of course, that''s what the voice in my head would say.] ¡°Silence!!!, You amuse me little one but you will not test my patience!¡± The words cut through me like a scythe through wheat as they demanded silence and respect. [Ok Mr voice you have my attention, but who and what are you.] ¡°Your conscious would not be able to comprehend the answers to those questions little one so you may continue to call me the voice and think of me as the void of all.¡± [Ok Mr voice, so um, why are you here? Where is here?]

    ¡°I am here little one because you are seemingly the luckiest and unlucky person I have met in a long time. The simultaneous actions of the possession for the powers of order and you being drugged as well as kidnapped has created a situation where you can live and be free whereas if only one happened at a time you would be dead or processed.

    You see little one despite your strength and cunning for your age you let your guard down and were poisoned to the extent where you would not have been able to fight off the kidnappers and they would have killed you because of it would have been too difficult to keep you alive. But you were weakened because of the ongoing possession so you were caught instead.

    But little one if you were not caught you would not have been drugged, and if you weren''t drugged you would have not been in a deep mental state that allowed you to fight off the possession that the so-called father Paul implanted on you unknowingly.¡±

    [But when did he¡­]¡± he did it unknowingly when he invaded your mind. His actions against you created guilt, and with that guilt, his mind struggled until a piece of his subconscious that was the Paul before the brainwashing, shattered and went into your mind for shelter. This piece of his mind contained some of his memory which has slowly been leaking out into your own mind along with the mind-controlling possession magic that was placed on him in the first place, hence the possession.

    Turns Out he was meant to be some sort of hero from another world, but he was weak and hid in the churches and hid his identity as he was slowly brainwashed into the orders sick twisted puppet.¡± [So that''s where all the weird phrases and knowledge comes from?]¡±Yes here have a look¡±

    With a flash in the void, I now stand facing a much younger looking Paul, as he lived in an odd world with metal carriages without horses and huge buildings made from glass and steel. I continued to watch as Paul grew up in front of my eyes as he was sped up then would show a seemingly random clip of his life. I watched as he went to school and learned about his world, numbers the human body and many other things that I did not understand.

    I watched him live a life in another totally alien world but it seemed...boring. All they did was live to work, there was no meaning, The people barely interacted yet still cared so much about how others viewed them. There was just no excitement in the world. Only working, bitterness, corruption, greed, boredom and needless judgment as these people went about their seemingly meaningless lives as they try to follow the countless social and political rules where the common person could never win while the people on top just got more power and fame as they are idolized for being born lucky.

    There was no end goal to strive for, their lives were short and meaningless. The guilty walked free while they harmed others and hid behind their money. The people did horrific things for an unknown deity that I am pretty sure does not exist, yet people scream Its name as they kill others and themselves.

    A world where depression, self-loathing, sadism, hate and greed were more common than love and loyalty. Where people lived in an unknowing dictatorship of fear and greed.

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    I, who have been tortured, raped, nearly killed and beaten would still much prefer my home world where at least life is interesting and if a person tries hard enough, can live a life they want. There are great wonders that a person can see and experience. Not the pitiful existence that passes as these people''s lives as they aimlessly wander.

    I watch as Paul grows up, going through his education as he works so hard and sacrifices so much for letters and numbers on a piece of paper that apparently show his self-worth to those who will pay him so little to do so much work. At some point, Paul gets married and has kids as he works at some sort of office building.

    10 years of random clips of his life later his family dies in a tragic car accident while he is at work. another year passes as it shows a homeless Paul addicted to drugs that he injects into his system as he tries to forget the endless aching pain of loneliness that plagues him. Then one day he falls through an opening in space as he is told that he, along with 99 others are chosen hero¡¯s to rid the world of ¡®evil¡¯. But Paul is terrified so he hides his identity as his fellow heroes fight and die around him. Filled with the guilt he is drawn into the church with their promises of redemption and a meaning in life. From this point, the memories become even more blurred and distorted until eventually, they stop altogether.

    [Well that''s just sad] ¡°That it is little one, his life was ultimately useless from the beginning up until the end and even when he had the chance to change, he hid from the struggles behind those who would use him. Truly a depressing existence.

    Now little one we must discuss what you are. [What do you mean what I am? I am a hybrid of a shapeshifter¡­] ¡°No, you are not, not anymore. You see little one the gods and devils most mortals see as good and evil are nothing more than the gathering of the energies and laws of reality. There are no Gods or such things as good or evil, Only the laws of reality that take different shapes such as order and chaos, life and death, creation and destruction, the list is endless as it is unfathomable.¡±

    [So if there are no gods or devils then what do people pray to in the churches? there have been answers to some prayers and divine blessings from others. What about the demons? And what are you?]

    ¡°The ¡®Gods the morals from the churches pray to are angels born from the law of order. They are in a closed off realm from the mortals and when they are prayed to it strengths them and sometimes they let that strength go back to the to the person who prayed, as a type of advertisement or investment for future power. The demons are the angles natural opposites, beings born and made from the laws of chaos. As for me, the easiest way for you to comprehend is if I tell you I am the closest thing to a God this reality knows. I am Void, the infinite expanse of nothing and everything simultaneously. All energy and laws are born from my existence as I encompassed all that is and isn''t as well as all that can and will happen.¡±

    [Ok don''t fuck with the void, got it. Now could you tell me what you mean by closed realm?] ¡°So many questions little one, but I will indulge your curiosity. When the words were born some, like Paul, were without magic or other supernatural energies, but those that that had the power had to have a balance. Your world, when it was born was one of those that had a perfect balance between the laws of chaos and order as well as others. That was until the angles lied and built a persona around being the gods of good and righteousness. They brainwashed the mortals against the Demons, the beings of chaos while forcing them to pray to their fake pantheon as their prays put them under the angles control bring them more order to the world.

    Once the Demons were defeated they were sealed away in a closed realm now called hell. The mortals rejoiced with the defeated ¡®evil¡¯. But without chaos, there was no choice, no free will, no evolution, no change. The world had to much order and it was dying due to the unbalance. Once the angels realized this they created a device that takes control of people''s minds and they planted false chaos as they sealed themselves away in a closed realm filled to the brim with luxury and comfort. With this they still have control and the world will stabilize as it reaches a false balance. Once the false balance is reached the angles will return and they will have complete control over the world.

    But I digress little one, the topic is what you now are. The failed possession destroyed all sense of order and chaos inside of you. But being the creature that you are there are no other laws inside of you. Normally I would take control of a creature in this situation for my own amusement. But your very nature and strength is to have complete control of your existence so taking control of you would have accomplished nothing as your unique power would leave along with the control you have over yourself.

    That leaves you with the power of the void in a body of a unique and powerful creature. This should not be allowed but I have a use for you which helps with taking your revenge. If you were to destroy the church and reopen the gates of hell it would return the world to balance and let you become a free creature with its revenge. I can''t continue to call your creature so I will call you¡­ Void shifter. So how about it void shifter do you agree to help save the world be bring chaos and destruction?¡±

    [Well you put it like that how could I refuse? but do you have any advice on how to do this? wait, wait don''t tell me, It will be more fun that way. But I do need to know the time frame] ¡°HAHAHAHA good, good I agree with your choices, You have A thousand years until the angles will return.

    I shall give you some advice and help little one. When you awaken I shall remove all morals and remorse from you for a week, do not question it but it will allow you to get out of your current situation easier. Now as for my advice, go it to the forest for a year, gain the powers and abilities from the monsters that live there. The further you go in the more powerful they become.

    Once you leave the forest, become an adventurer to gain power and freedom. The last bit of knowledge I shall pass on to you is this. You were right about how the age effects when a person gets a power, aura or magic, it is the amount of energy the person absorbs. By destroying the laws inside of you, you have absorbed more energy than any normal person your age should, In doing this it would normally kill a person but you are different from normal people as you know. In absorbing this energy you have shortened the time needed to gain your powers to half a year from now.

    Now void shifter I shall send you on your way I grow bored of talking to you, bye¡± Without even being able to reply I am sent out of the void and into my slowly waking body. [Well that was a lot to take in, but at least now I get to see what I can do without morals and remorse while surrounded by slavers, so that should be fun.]

 Chapter 19 Well that was fun.

    I wake up in chains and surrounded by other dirty children who have the same forced fashion choice that I do. I tried to look around but it is completely dark, even with the cat eyes so I enhance my other senses. I smell the children''s combined body odor and the smell of dried meat and fruit coming from above me. I feel that we are moving over an uneven surface and I hear the sounds of horses as well as talking from about 10 to 15 people.

    [I think I am in a cage hidden in a carriage under the false produce of dried food. People outside our properly slavers or hired guards so they will be strong and prepared for a fight. But they won''t be expecting the fight to come from the inside. so will kill as many as possible while hidden. First I need food in the tank, and what better source them the helpless meat bags just lying here.]

    First I turn my hands and feet into sludge as I pull them through the chains then I set about eating and absorbing the surrounding body¡¯s. The wooden flooring of the carriage beings to grown under my weight so I spread my body mass inside the hidden cage. Once I am done eating the children I search the cage for a lock or a way out which is difficult as it is only 2 feet high but it makes me believe that the exit is on the ceiling.

    I am proven right when I find a hatch with a lock on it which I pick with some effort, but there is a weight on top of it and I don''t want to knock something over and alert the salvers, so I take the acid from inside my stomach and dissolve parts of my ceiling where I make an eye and cautiously put it through the holes I have made, which I might add feels really fucking weird.

    All I see are large crates filling most of the space inside the carriage apart for some small gaps such as the one my new eye is in. The crates are holding the dried food I have been smelling, so I use the acid to make holes in my ceiling and at the bottom of each create so I can eat all the food.

    After a half an hour of eating I decided it would be good to do some reconnaissance of outside of the carriage so I make 4 eyes one to look out of each side of the carriage. we are on the road going through a forest. I see another carriage. Both the carriages including the one I am on each have 5 guards surrounding them. Looking around I try to find the most powerful person to take out with the sneak attack. I notice three potential targets the first was the only guard on a horse, showing her importance. She was wearing loose robe which I think means she is a mage. The second is wearing armor with a giant spike on his back, the only reason I can think of is that it helps his power. The third is not wearing armor leaving me to believe that he is fast and agile.

    With the priority targets in order, I start to change my body into a form that will hopefully be the best suited for the upcoming battle. First I condense my body to make me the smallest target as possible. I then turn my whole fingers into claws and produce spikes from my elbows and knees. I make the normal bone spike in my forearm so that it will spray acid. Producing black hair I braid it over my body to form an amour. Finally, I make a crossbow made from keratin and bone. With a smile on my face, I point the crossbow at the robe lady and fire. [Let the fun begin.]

    The bolt made from bone goes through her temple and she dies instantly. The carriage stops and the guards make a defensive perimeter facing outwards. [Hehe], I send another bolt through the man without armor as I sneak up behind the carriage driver. The guards look around in confusion as another of their ranks fall. ¡°It came from behind us!¡± Well looks like spike back figured it out what a shame but I now I get to fight more, so not too much of a loss. As I approach the driver I put a clawed hand over his mouth and send the other hand through the base of his skull as I absorb my ¡®battle form¡¯ into his corpse. [Time to try a go at acting.]

    Standing up I yell at the guards as I approach them ¡°What are you shit stains doing? I paid good money for you and all you do is die and stand there looking like brain dead fish!¡± I approach the closest guard and rip his throat out. ¡°What the fuck are you doing Jerry?¡± the other driver yells at me. I start to melt ¡®Jerry''s¡¯ face and body as I return back to my battle form trying to scare the guards with psychological warfare I collapse as I scream as I play dead in a half-melted body. ¡°The fuck? Jerry? are you ok? Jerry?!¡±

    ¡°You¡± the driver points at a random guard. ¡°See if he has a pulse.¡±

    ¡°Yes sir¡± The guard walks over shaking as he approaches. When he is a step away I finish returning into my battle form minus the crossbow. I spring up from the floor as I send a clawed hand it to his chest, ripping his heart out I put in my mouth while laughing maniacally, only half of it is an act. The spike guard starts yelling orders at his other guards but I ignore him. [Four down, six to go.]Unauthorized duplication: this tale has been taken without consent. Report sightings.

    Then ''Mr spike back'' turns his back to me. [Is he dumb? Or is this his power?]. Suddenly his feet come out from underneath him as he rockets towards me, back first. [What a fucking idiot.] Stepping to the side I bring out fluffy in a butcher knife form and line it up to where his neck will arrive. The genius ¡®Mr spike back¡¯ proceeds to decapitate himself with his own power. "Hahaha seriously? the fuck was that supposed to do?"

    [Five down, five to go] I jump in the middle of the rest of the guards after putting fluffy away. Landing in the middle of the armored guards I take out the flame spike from my forearm and send a stream of fire at one of the guards engulfing him in flame. But then another guard bitch slaps me with his huge broadsword sending me tumbling away and in pain.

    [Haha, excellent was getting bored.] ¡°Be gone creature, go back from where you came!¡± Mr big sword who is most definitely compensating for something starts yelling at me. ¡°So you want me to go back to your mum''s bed? Bit of an odd request if you ask me but I will do my best to indulge you. Once I shit in your skull of course.¡±

    ¡°I will fucking kill you! You shall¡­¡±

    ¡°Can we skip the foreplay and just fuck already?¡± I interrupt him as he is about to go on a rant, which would waste my play time. His aura starts to leak out, a deep blue color. I launch myself at him as he prepares and gets into a fighting stance, but I sidestep at the last moment while sending a spray of acid at him. I hear him cry out in surprise when I attach the other three guards not wanting to get ganged up on while fighting the aura user.

    One of the regular guards swings horizontally at me as I come towards them but I jump into the air while rotating. Landing in a handstand position on the guard''s shoulders I notice a gap in his armor due to his chest piece being too big. So I did what any person would do, Vomit up excess fat and hair into the gap while setting it alight, cooking him from inside his own armor.

    Pushing off with my hands I land behind the now screaming guard. Kicking the burning body to the other guard I rush him and jump up to head level [ Maybe going short was not such a good idea, I have to fucking jump at everyone.] sending the spike on my knee through his skull.

    Jumping off to the side to avoid the now only normal guard''s sword swing I get shot in the back with a crossbow. Spinning around on the balls of my feet I notice the remaining driver facing me while frantically loading another bolt. I fling my hand in his direction while sending my two throwing knives from my space ring into his chest.

    As the driver goes down, my outstretched arm is removed from my body by Mr ¡®big sword¡¯. I roll to the side narrowly avoiding another swing while sending out a tentacle to collect my arm and space ring. Finishing my roll I jump away and landing in a crouched position as my arm is reformed with the space ring in place. ¡°What are you?¡±

    ¡°Oh, you know just a regular person being forcefully applied to the position of a slave.¡±

    ¡°A slave?¡±

    ¡°Yup, what did you think they had the money to pay for 10 guards by selling dried food? Hahaha.¡±

    ¡°I didn''t know they were slavers or they were going to make you into a slave. How about we put this behind us...?¡±

    ¡°And where would the fun be in that?¡±

    ¡°Fun?¡±

    ¡°Hahaha yeah, fun. Why do you think I didn''t just run off into the forest? Speaking of which your last friend is going as we speak.¡± Saying this I send out a lasso made from hair that catches him around the neck, taking the feet out from under him as I pull him towards me. ¡°Where are you going, mate?¡±

    Mr big sword rushes at me his aura blazing ¡°You are insane¡± he yells while slashing down at me. ¡°Haha Thank you but complements won''t get you anywhere.¡± Laughing I pull the guard in front of me creating a human shield. Mr ¡®big sword¡¯ really gave his all into the attack, it kills the guard and pushes me to the ground. ¡°Hehe, I guess you weren''t friends then but was killing your comrade really necessary? a little rude if you ask me¡± Saying this I send a tentacle in the base of the skull and take control of the corpse.

    ¡°I WILL KILL YOU!¡± Despite his words, he looks drained as he steps back.

    ¡°Promises, promises.¡± I make the corpse stand, take off its gloves and put Mr ¡®big sword¡¯ in a bear hug while fusing the hands together. Next I turned all the available body mass and nutrients into stomach acid as I stab through the corpse''s stomach and into Mr ¡®big sword¡¯s¡¯ armored body making the acid flow with my hand until a gap was made in the armor where I then ejected my bone spike and sprayed acid onto his body, effectively flooding the inside of his armor with acid.

    I jump back a few times as I look at Mr ¡®big sword¡¯ ¡°That was fun, I would say we should do it again sometime but I don''t think that will be happening.¡±

    ¡°I will see you in hell you little shit.¡±

    ¡°Well I hope so, I plan on opening it for public use, no more paying a premium to get in.¡±

    ¡°Fucking psycho¡± With that my greatest opponent yet fell to the floor and died.

    ¡°Well, that was fun. Now loot.¡± Now out of the heat of battle I notice that the sludge inside of me was vibrating softly seemingly in content, like a purring cat.

    "What the fuck is wrong with my body?"

 Chapter 20 Loot and venom

    ¡°Well, that was fun. Now loot.¡± speaking out loud to myself I eat and absorb all the bodies, the food they carried, the food in the other carriage and the sleeping children hidden within. With a full stomach and at least three times stronger than before I start to look at all my loot. Collectively the guards and drivers had 1G(Gold coin) 30S and 49C. I also found A space ring of higher quality to my own, having a 5 meters cubed which I swapped out for my old 1 meter cubed.

    Sadly my backpack and rations were gone so I took the best quality backpack as my own, but I ate all the food so I put some of the cloth covering form the carriage in it to make a makeshift shelter in the future. I also take a pair of decent quality daggers for the guy who did not have amour, along with three more throwing knives to add to my collection. I also found a gem in the robes of the mage which I activate. It creates a sphere around me out of an unknown substance and power. I was about to start experimenting with it when I felt drained and it disappeared. [ Guess it uses magic, so it is useless for now but I should be able to use it in a half a year.]

    Looking at the carriages or more specifically the wheels I get an idea. Wheels are more efficient at gaining momentum with their constant friction and larger surface area the normal running. Making some could be useful and fun. Taking inspiration from the wheels on the carriages and some of Paul''s memories of his limited knowledge of cars, I begin. I start by making a ball and socket joint and pole that stuck out from the outside of each ankle by 10cm. I then made the wheel and center disk from bone with a 10cm radius with keratin spokes.

    I then make the outside of the wheel from callused skin with bumps in a zigzag pattern. Finally, I filled the area between the bone frame and callused skin with air and coved the ball and socket joint in fat for lubrication.

    With the wheel finished I ''willed'' the cells to move to allow me to go forward. Sadly I moved incredibly slowly which completely defeated the purpose of the whole wheel experiment.

    To solve this I made a muscle group inside the center disk which would squeeze and pull back (Like revenging a motorbike) this generated momentum allowing for extra speed.

    For the final part, I remembered how Paul would occasionally go ice skating and copied the movement, shifting my weight to one wheel at a time. The end result was a speed far greater than I could achieve while running. "success haha. But I should probably stop fucking about now, who knows when someone else will come along this road."

    I look around at the rest of the pile but I have no need for swords or amour so I put all of the spare loot into the carriages and set fire to them as I walk into the forest humming an unknown tune.

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    In space ring

    3 Small knives

    3 Flame gems

    2 air gems

    Shield gem

    5 throwing knives

    Pair of daggers

    10 Meat flavourings

    Backpack:

    Carriage cover

    I walk around the forest deciding not to use the wheel to avoid being stuck on all the foliage until I find a small clearing where I exercise my body for four hours to get the new cells in body acquainted and to get used to my new strength and speed. After the workout, I continue the walk through the forest until my enhanced hearing picks up small grunting sounds that sound like a form of communication between a small group.

    I go towards the sounds while trying to move as quickly as possible, but I have never been in a forest before so I make a fair bit of noise anyway. Hoping the creatures don¡¯t hear me as I slowly approach them. When I am close enough I climb a tree to get a better view of the creatures. I see a group of 6 short humanoid creatures of a muddy green color with serious underbite issues. They all have long yellow nails and hair which resembled quills on their heads. One of the creatures, however, is different as it has four arms and seems to be in charge of their temporary looking camp.

    [They seem to be a hunting party due to the look of the strung up dead animals, a small fire and the general uncleanness of the camp with sticks and leaves still covering the camp floor. I should leave one alone so when it goes back to its main camp I can follow it.] With this in mind I drop down from the tree giving the Four-armed creature an ax kick to the head, which by the sounds of it snapped its neck and crushed its skull. Looking around at the other creatures I wait for them, as they rush to pick up their weapons, wooden spears with stone tips.

    If the creatures had any organization or teamwork it was gone when they attacked me. They charged me with fear in their eyes as they got in each other''s way. Seeing this as a safe situation for me I decided to train a little as I practice dodging the spear jabs by the smallest possible margin I could. After a minute they seem to gain confidence and work more as a team as they create a rhythm as I make the margin I am dodging by smaller and smaller until I am dodging by the width of a hair on every spear jab and thrust. ¡°Well it''s been fun guys but I am bored now, and we all know how that ends.¡± In quick succession, I move past their attacks and rip out each of their throats only leaving one alive as I lick the blood of my hands [Taste like shit]

    ¡°Boo,¡±

    The remaining creature turns around and sprints into the forest. But it only makes it a few steps before a snake strikes the creature, it makes it a few more steps before it falls to the ground and dies. [Well that¡¯s is unfortunate. Don''t worry buddy I will get revenge for you, mainly because I want to know who it killed you and how it hides so well but that is beside the point.]

    Planning to confront the snake I walk up to it with my left arm in front of me. The snake takes the bait and bites my outstretched arm. As it does this I detach my left arm while retrieving fluffy forming it like a spick and piercing the snake''s body, pinning it in place to the forest floor. Keeping the Snake alive although I won''t be able to do it for long, I observe what the snake does to my detached arm. Looking at my arms nothing is happening so I send a tentacle over to it trying to investigate what is going on. The snake is producing a liquid and injecting it into my arm. If I remember correctly Paul new the name of it, what was it? Ah, venom.

    The snake''s venom is made up of several hundred proteins which all have a slightly different toxic effect. This snakes venom seems to be a neurotoxin which stops the nerves from sending signals to the muscles, making them unable to move and eventually shutting down the important organs such as the heart. If I could replicate and modify the venom I could control what organs or muscles the venom targets making it more deadly and useful.

    I begin to work on copying the venom from the snake and modify it where and when I think it needs to become a more deadly neurotoxin using my own body to experiment on. The snake dies as I work but it does not matter as I no longer need it to demonstrate. Once I completed making my venom I think of a way to distribute it to a target.

    [ I won''t be seen much in the forest so appearance does not matter. Fangs are not very practical, what if it can''t fit in my mouth even if I dislocate my jaw. Maybe a spike? But my arm spikes are in use and I don''t want more arms at the moment, they could get in the way. A tail could work.] With this I constructed a tail made from condensed muscle, keratin, and a vertebrae skeletal structure similar to a snakes bone structure. At the end of the tail, I put two hollow chambers remembering that there is a venom that affects the blood as well (Hemotoxic venom goes for the bloodstream). I fill one chamber up and leave the other empty for now. To finish off the tail I make a strong hollow tip made from condensed keratin in a honeycomb structure.

    With the venom done I move on to the snake''s scales so that I could blend it to the forest more, as much as I like black (Fucking emo), It doesn''t hide you in a green and brown forest. So I remove the hair and grow scales in a light green and brown while having splodges of a darker variant of the colors to break it up. As I am about to absorb the snake I find lenses on the eyes to help them see day and night so I copy them before absorbing it.

    When I am done messing about with the snake it is getting very dark and the campfire is out so I change my eyes to night vision [Snake night lens and cat¡¯s reflective layer behind the retina] and eat the dead creatures which taste really fucking bad, but food is food. When that is done I do my night routine before I climb up into a tree and use the carriage cover as a blanket as I go to sleep after my long day of killing and eating people.

 Chapter 21 spontaneously creating life

    A week has passed since I awoke and entered the forest. I have eaten so many animals and absorbed many abilities. I have a long barbed tongue with poison on it I took from frogs I also took the gills from allowing me to breathe underwater. I found a snake with Hemotoxic venom that goes for the bloodstream. Hemotoxic venom destroys red blood cells causing red blood cells to rupture, blood clotting, and also attacks other types of cells and tissues ¨C causing profound tissue damage and often, organ failure, I put this poison in the empty chamber in my tail.

    I find a monkey and copy its feet allowing me to climb better. After absorbing a spider I learn to make silk webbing, while adding another pair of eyes, one of each side of my head, giving me an enhanced peripheral vision which took me a while to get used to. As of now, I look like a scaled monkey with a scorpion tail and four eyes due to this I no longer wear clothes save for the thick shorts made from hair with a hole at the back for the tail.

    I train my senses diligently by adding eyes in random places while training, causing my brain to have a small evolution. Due to finding a pit viper, I can now see infrared light by coping a sensor-lined membrane stretched above a pit between their eyes and nose. This allows me to see heat signatures.

    I also improve my nervous system allowing for signals to travel faster and for improved reaction time as well as a better sense of touch and balance.

    I have not gone deep into the forest yet only finding and fighting animals to gain their abilities so I can become stronger. In the future, I plan to find and hunt beasts, magically evolved animals, and monsters, born from magic and are typically stronger than beasts. I have found several entities, humanoid creatures resembling monsters such as the nasty green tasting creatures from before. Speaking of which I found several other hunting parties of the weak creatures and followed them to their camp deeper into the forest.

    Turns out that the little green things are enslaved to a larger ¡®tribe¡¯. No surprise the green creatures with two arms are at the bottom of the hierarchy while the four arms are just above them. There are two other types of creatures in the main camp. Next in the hierarchy is a 6 foot tall muscled green creature with leathery looking skin. At the top of the hierarchy is a similar creature but they seem to have a type of bone amour. I have been trying to keep count of the entities so far I have seen 50 small greens, 30 four arms, 15 big greens and 5 bone greens with a bigger bone green in charge of the whole ¡®tribe¡¯.

    The camp itself is not too impressive, the small greens sleep wherever they can find a place on the floor. The four arms sleep in little tent-like structures made from sticks and leaves while the big greens and bone greens sleep in mud huts with the bone greens having the bigger ones. The only real thing to take note of is the cages filled with a group of 14 sentients, intelligent humanoids such as humans elves dwarves gnomes etc. In the cage, there are 10 human 3 males, 7 female, and 4 elf females.If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.

    The past me who had his morals and remorse temporarily removed did not care. In fact, the only reason I was still in the weaker part of the forest with the animals was to look for a creature called a bat from Pauls world so I could hopefully gain echolocation. While It is from Paul''s world, both our worlds have similar habitats minus the magic, so it stands to reason that a similar creature evolved the same way such as we both have snakes, spiders, frogs etc. But now my morals and remorse are back I plan to let the people out and have some fun with the entities while I am at it.

    [Not sure what to do with the people. I will only save them because they are being used for breeding. If I free them I doubt they will make it far and I won''t walk them back to civilization. They don¡¯t have any meat on them so eating them is relatively pointless. Testing poison and venom on weakened targets would give false results. Testing hmm. My current purpose is to get stronger but overall I need to bring about chaos. An intelligent monster race could help with that.]

    With a plan beginning to form in my mind, I wait until nightfall and kill everything in the camp with little noise as possible along with a pack of 24 wolves that got too close. To do this I poison the entities food stores with neurotoxic venom and then kill the ones still alive as they sleep.

    I then make a pile of 139 corpses. First I Merge and condense all the body¡¯s into 50 human-wolf hybrids with snake tails complete with venom. I then copy the rat''s hair controlling ability to the body¡¯s and give them long hair. I enhance all their senses and give them the snakes eye lenses to better see at both day and night. Growing another smaller pair of arms lower down on their body¡¯s to help hold smaller weapons I also make half of the body¡¯s female. Finally I copy the sentient brain structure to each an every creature while destroying and re-growing random parts of the hippocampus (a structure in the brain that has been associated with various memory functions. It is part of the limbic system, and lies next to the medial temporal lobe.) to erase memories but to try and keep them relatively intelligent. I also make sure the wolfs and green creatures instincts are heightened.

    Bring them to life only took sending a signal through the nerves, inflating and deflating their lungs and beating their hearts forcefully until their bodies became self-sufficient. I leave before they fully wake up not wanting to have to kill the race I just created (They will turn up in the future).

    After putting the sentient out of their misery and creating a new race it is time to focus on the real issue. Where the fuck are the bats? Having echolocation would be so useful. As I walk away from the camp the eyes of the new creature shot open showing a mixture of bloodlust and intelligence as they rise from the ground and take in their surroundings.

    One, in particular, noticed a figure walking away, about to give in to the bloodlust the creature crouched down and prepared to give chase. Before it could act an eye grew on the back of the figures head and made eye contact. The creature froze as an intense wave of fear assaulted it followed by kinship. Faster than the creature could comprehend a tentacle shot out from the figure, touching it in between the eyes. The last thing the creature felt was a surge of power and pain before it passed out again.

 Chapter 22 Echolocation

    Thinking back on it I don''t think creating new creatures will be that chaotic until I am stronger. They will properly die soon, they don¡¯t have magic or any power, they are just smart animal variations, but in the future creating monsters could be useful.

    Now to find a bat. From what I know about them they fly, eat insects and fruit. It is a shame I am too heavy to fly or to climb trees for that matter. Most sentient and monsters get physical prowess from powers, magic or most commonly aura. But I get mine from efficiently used condensed biological matter making me very heavy and as of yet, I have not found a way to fix this problem.

    To catch a bat I plan to set up a trap using the spider silk to make a web and use fruit and insects as bait. As far as I know bats come out at night and I just spent the whole night wake so I should spend the day setting the traps.

    The first thing I do is set up webs made from spider silk, hoping that it would catch some insects by night time saving me some time and effort. I then find all the insects and fruit I can and put them as bait to lure in the bats and any other potential creature I could find useful. With the traps set, I leave them alone so there was no chance of my scaring off anything.

    I send the rest of the day training my senses by randomly swapping, increasing and decreasing them. As I do this I slash and jab at trees trying to make my movements as efficient and powerful as possible while causing the most damage as possible. How can I make my claws more dangerous? While asking this question I look back through Paul''s memories when an idea pops into my head I remember the thing called ¡®clickbait¡¯ videos of the 1000¡æ knife videos which Paul was a sucker for.

    [From what I understand, it should work as the heat energy break through the bonds holding together matter easier than a regular blade.] With this in mind I move all of the excess metal I have absorbed into my claws as I grid up the fire gems within my body into a fine powder. While mixing keratin, metal and powdered gems I make a sort of bio, magic alloy. Using this pseudo alloy I make my claws. I make sure none of the powder is on the outside as I only want to heat up the claws not start a forest fire, I make a small vein structure inside each claw, filling it with acid. I debated using poison or venom but if it were to heat up and turn into a gas state I did not want to deal with poisoning myself while fighting.

    With my new design I secrete acid on to claws as I heat them up, slashing at the tree again I feel much less resistance than before [Excellent]. After a bit more practicing with my claws, I move on to the throwing knives. Making a target on a tree I take 20 steps back and alternate my throwing hand each time I throw a knife. When I hit the center of the target I take a step back, and each time I miss the target I step forward.The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement.

    Once I reached 100 steps back I made a rope out of hair, tying one end to a log I carved a target onto, I tried the other end onto the branch. I then lifted the log to one side and let go to make it swing. I then start the exercise again from 20 steps back but this time I add in the crossbow as well.

    By the time I reach 100 steps backward for the swing target, the rest of the day had passed along with half the night, so I spend the rest of the night hunting for food and body mass. When the first rays of sunlight make themselves known I return to the traps but there are sadly no bats, only some birds which I use as templates to improve my eyesight. The trap did, however, catch a large blue wasp looking creature with a long looking stinger that was dripping with a liquid I assume to be some type of poison.

    Curious I prick my finger with the poison stinger to discover its effects. The poison targets the brain, crossing nerve pathways and confusing the senses while showing things that aren''t there. The poison is not too powerful and its effects are minimal as well as not lasting long but they could be useful.

    [But how could I use it? It is not deadly and it affects are not that strong so I see no reason in adding it to the tail. Maybe if I modified it I could make it more effective in crossing the nerve pathways I could use it in a sort of stinger amour? That way when an enemy strikes me it would cause them confusion allowing me to finish them off.]

    With this In mind, I set about making the hallucinogenic poison more effective, using my own body as a test subject. Once I make it as strong as I could with the little knowledge I had I make patches of small stingers around my body not wanting to cover my whole body as it would cost a lot of nutrients to make and for the upkeep of the poison.

    By the time my stinger amour was done, it was night again and I also notice small appendages sticking out from some of the insect''s heads. Copying the appendages I notice My sense of small increases and I notice chemicals in the air that affect my emotions. These are like the pheromones that creepy lady used on us at the guild, that could be a useful ability to have. I then spend the rest of my time creating my own pheromones using myself and the insects as test subjects.

    When I return to the traps the next day I find what I have been looking for, a bat. With wasting time I copy It vocal cords Into my own why altering my hearing to hear the ultrasonic sounds made by echolocation bats.

    Once the modifications are done I test out the new echolocation In the smallest infrequent sounds as to not overload my brain. Slowly but surely I make the sound louder and more frequent and a 3D image starts to slowly form in my head in the direction my mouth is facing. As this is happening my brain starts to hurt and become uncomfortable as it evolves. Deciding to take to evolution a step further I make my tongue into a snake''s tongue which allows me to smell better as it can pick up chemical particles in the air although it does not add much to the new appendages on my head. My brain begins to hurt more as the pain intensifies with the information overload and the inching indicating the evolution begins to ¡®push; back the pain.

    After a long time of slowly increasing the input into my brain, it finally evolves and I can use Echolocation along with the ¡®air tasting of the snake¡¯. Lucky the echolocation does not seem to need much practice as all I do is make a clicking noise and I get a 3D image of a short radius in the direction of my mouth and little in other directions as the sound waves bounce off of matter. The ¡®air tasting¡¯ will take more practice is I will have to identify what the different smells mean.

    With one of my short-term goals met I decide that it is time to head deeper into the forest to find, fight and hunt more dangerous beasts and monsters. [good I was beginning to become bored.] With an excited smile on my face I walk deeper into the forest.

 Chapter 23 Beasts

    I decide not to go to deep into the forest as I doubt I could fight the more powerful beasts and monsters. Even if I could defeat such strong foes there would be little point as they get most of their strength and power from magic, something I can not copy or adapt to benefit myself as of yet. So I decided to only go deep enough in the forest where the beasts and monsters could still be dangerous but as I have not been to the forest before I had to guess to only go in another 3 miles.

    As I walk into the forest I practice using echolocation, But I notice a major flaw, that I have not thought of. I could only see in the direction I was facing as that was where the sound waves were coming from. To reduce this weakness I make small holes on my neck above my vocal cords so the sound waves could be produced from multiple angles giving me a better view of my surroundings.

    I then cover the holes with flaps of skin and muscle that pull back to reveal the holes when I contract my vocal cords to produce the ultrasonic sound waves. By the end of my modification, I could see a 3D image of a 3-meter radius with a 10-meter cone shape in the direction I was facing. [Not perfect but definitely an improvement.].

    Suddenly I stop as I smell something familiar yet different, I stick my tongue out to smell better. The smell is similar to a wolf [but only one? They hunt in packs, so a scout most likely so it will probably be agile and fast.]

    The smell gets stronger so I assume it as smelt me and is approaching. With a smile on my face, I look towards the approaching smell and send out repeated ultrasonic sound waves hoping to catch a glimpse of the creature before it was upon me.

    Eventually I ¡®see¡¯ the creature. My initial assessment was correct It looked like a wolf but it was at least 4 times bigger than a regular wolf, it stopped running towards me to howl before it burst through the bushes gaping maw first.

    Sidestepping to the right I twist my body, throwing a punch to the side of the wolfs head with my right hand as I grab a fist full of the wolfs fur. My left hand quickly grabs the other side of its head as I send my poised tail through its eye sending lots of venom into its skull, before it dies it swipes at me and I feel the power behind the attack as it sends me sliding back.

    Growling the wolf charges at me again but this time it is slower due to the effects of the neurotoxin causing through its body. Jumping to the left I secrete my claws with acid as I slash its side. Its fur is thick and strong like iron wire but I cut through it leaving deep gashes in its flesh which widen over time with corrosion from the acid. As the wolf passes me it falls to the floor as it dies to the venom. [I don''t think it would be smart to fight a pack of them head on no matter how much I want to. The howl was properly calling for it friends so it is probably best to prepare now as I won''t have much time.]

    My preparations consist of making a hair rope and tying it at the wolf''s knee level in a circle around me through the trees. I also absorb the dead wolf to gain some if its strength, sadly the stronger hair was due to a magically enhanced strength that I can not absorb. I did notice a small magical core in its chest which I took and stored in my space ring [could be useful]. Another focus point of the corpse is the magical gland in its throat which indicates a magical noise base attack, so that will be fun. To deal with the potential sound attack I lower my hearing to a minute level, this, however, means I can''t use echolocation. The last of my preparations are to gather all the sticks, leaves and bush at my back ready to ignite in an effort to prevent being flanked. With my meager preparations complete I wait as the smell of more wolves become stronger.This book''s true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience.

    When the wolves are 15 seconds away I light the fire with the heat from my claws and bring out fluffy in the form of a spear. Five wolves change in and trip on the hair rope. Acting quickly I stab two through the eye with fluffy and two with my tail but the last of the five stands up in time and rushes at me mouth open. I thrust fluffy into the roof of the mouth and into the brain, I then back up so my back is to the fire and take a look around.

    There are 9 wolves outside of my circle looking at me with caution in their eyes, One of the wolves was bigger than the others with a darker coat of fur [This is probably the Alpha of the pack.] The Alpha raises its head and begins to howl, the other wolves follow immediately [I think, because I can¡¯t actually hear anything.]

    I may not be able to hear it but I can feel the vibrations going through my body, so it must be really fucking loud. With all the wolves howling and not looking at me, I rush them and stab one through the neck and the other through the chest with fluffy and my tail. My tail does not piece deeply but I send a lot of Hemotoxic venom around the heart area so it should die soon. [8 down 7 to go.]

    The wolves notice their comrade''s deaths and surround me before I can retreat [Shit I got to deep.] The wolves attack me in pairs making it hard to defend against their snapping jaws and sharp claws. Each time they attack I leave at least one with a gash from my claws but my scales are broken or breaking due to the onslaught. Each time I move to attach a single target the whole circle moves to keep me in the middle.

    [You fucking pieces of shit, why won''t you let me kill you?] In a fit of anger, I accidentally activate the air gems that are still inside my body causing a build-up of air pressure in my arm. [ Air pressure, I could use air pressure generated from the gems and my own lungs to make an air pressure pistons in my legs giving me a boost in speed.]

    By the time I created the air pistons in my legs and reformed my broken body, while not healing it still puts me in a better situation for the upcoming fight, most of the wolves were acting weird. They were tripping over themselves, snapping at each other and growling at nothing. This was the effects of the hallucinogenic poison armor. If it wasn''t for the constant orders and howling form the alpha I am sure that would have completely left me alone. [Great, now it''s time for some payback.]

    I use my muscles and air pistons in my legs to propel myself towards the nearest wolf and stabbing it in the ribs with fluffy [It would have gone further if not for the iron fur, I should hit them with pure impact.] I change fluffy to a war hammer as I attack the other wolves. 9 down 6 to go]

    The poison has completely destroyed their coordination by this point, but it has made them more vicious than before as they attack me with self-abandon. [Now this is more like it!] all the wolves rush at me including the alpha. Using the air pistons I change direction randomly as I strike the wolves with fluffy in the shape of a war hammer. Each strike sends the wolves sliding back as they yelp in pain. I specifically target their knees and necks to cause the most damage and incapacitate them. I tried several times to control their body¡¯s but their body¡¯s pushback while they alive as the magic and aura fights back against my control, but is still manage to destroy some cells and cause some blood clots.

    I manage to kill another 3 wolves when the alpha catches me by surprise and bites deeply into my shoulder ¡°Haha bring it bitch¡± my blood starts to seep down the alphas throat as the other two wolves bite on to my body and begin to pull me in different directions. I control my blood in the alpha''s mouth to drill through the side of its throat, then to form into a pipe as I send acid down into its internal organs. I also drill into the roof of the alpha''s mouth where there are many blood vessels (The oral cavity is innervated by cranial nerves. Arteries and veins allow for adequate blood flow.) and send in Hemotoxic venom.

    Alpha yelps and jumps back further rigging my shoulder in the process which I don''t have time to fix currently. I then copy the process to the other wolves biting on to me, they all have the same reaction as they let go and back away from me. For the second time this battle I reform my body as I rush the wolves again. I am exhausted and I doubt I can keep going for much longer let alone control any biological matter, but the wolves are worse with acid melting their organs and Hemotoxic venom in their veins it was not long before they fall over and die.

    [Now that was fun, shame I can barely move now, those air pistons have completely wrecked my legs and I used up a lot of nutrients in that fight.] After I eat half the wolves and absorb the other rest I feel a lot better. I put the extra 14 beast cores into my space ring, the alphas was bigger than the rest and begin my walk again until I see what seems like a giant plant burst out from the ground and swallow me whole. [Well if you wanted me inside of you that bad you could have just asked.]

 Chapter 24 Monster

    Now in a dome-like room with slimy green walls and up to my knees in acid, I begin to make my way out of the plant. Thinking acid would not work on the interior of the plant I used my heated claws to dig my way out.

    It did not take me long to dig my way out from inside the plant and get back to the surface. Although if I thought about it a plant monster would be a good counter for me in a battle, My poison and venom would not work as it is not compatible with their anatomy and for some reason, I could not control their body¡¯s [Maybe because they have a different cell structure?] The reason was unknown. When I was out of the plant I found and collected its core, had a half an hour rest and then continued my walk deeper into the forest.

    As the beasts where strong in the area I just left I decided to only walk for another half a mile before I started to look for a place I could make Into a base [All I have done for the last couple of days is fight, I think I will take a rest to build a base where I can sleep and rest if needed.]. I eventually find a suitable place in a small clearing with a patch of bamboo to the side and a river 20 meters away. I spend the rest of the day and night making a small hut from stick, leaves, mud, and hair. Once the hut was finished I use the heat from my claws to dry the mud and make a door from bamboo tied together with hair.

    Once my hut was made I begin to make pitfall, tripwire and net traps around the hut. I also make a perimeter from outward facing wooden spikes, I know they won''t stop any beats or monsters but they may slow them down or give me a warning. I then use webbing to cover all the gaps in my defenses while leaving a small pathway for me to come in and out.

    Finished with my defenses I go to the river to set some traps for fish and to collect some water. When I am at the river setting up a small fishing net I hear a gentle and soft voice singing what sounds like a lullaby [That is 200%, a trap.]

    Despite my suspicions, I cautiously go towards the source of the voice ready to fight at a moments notice. The source of the voice turns out to be a very disturbing looking monster. It had a lower body of a spider, the size of a carriage, with odd-looking tubes of various lengths coming out at random angles. What really caught my attention, however, was its weird tentacle-like mouth that had huge mismatched teeth. Branches come off of the tentacle mouth that ends in unblinking eyes that stare off in all directions. The whole monster as a mismatch of the colors green, orange, and black.

    [Well that is one ugly mother fucker.] I was debating whether or not to fight it, after all the previous battles and not knowing if there was anything to gain other than fun, when of its eyes swiveled around and stared right at me [Well that answers that question for me, I just can''t catch a break can I?].If you spot this narrative on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.

    The monster stops singing and a black ash looking gas comes out of the lower facing tubes. Green goo comes flying out from the middle facing tubes and orange slime is launched up into the air.

    [Well I am no expert on the subject but I properly don''t want to breathe in the ash stuff or touch its multicolored goo] Cataloguing the hazards in my head, I hold my breath while using the air gems to oxidize my blood as I dodge the goo and slime that is flying everywhere.

    The orange slime seems to be corrosive as it melts the ground and plants it touches while the green goo does not seem to do anything but stay in the shape it lands in. As the creature I have mentally named ¡®Tube spider¡¯ is blowing its load, I close the distance between us to attack it, but some of the green slimes touches my foot sticking it to the ground [So the green goo is an adhesive]. My momentum and strength carry me forwarded but the steps are slightly more difficult than before, luckily the good comes off slightly with each step as it sticks to the ground.

    In the process of getting to the monster green goo and orange, slime has landed on me causing me pain and discomfort as it melts away my flesh. Once I was close enough the tube spider stopped its chemical attacks and started to use its gait spider legs as spears. A few of the giant spear legs graze me, causing me to bleed. Getting closer I eventually get in its striking distance and begin my assault.

    The creature did not take long to die once I was able to attack it but I was still severely injured and covered in slime and goo. My face was half burnt off showing my jaw and skull bones while burnt marks scare the rest of my body haphazardly and the green goo sticking to me at random intervals. so I went to the river to wash it off of my body.

    When my body was clean I went back to the tube spiders corpse to absorb it so I can better heal myself. Sadly I could not learn or copy anything from the corpse as it the whole thing was infused with magic so I couldn''t even copy a magical glad [Does this mean when I can use magic I still won''t be able to copy abilities from monsters? I will have to wait and see guess.] I did find a crystal inside the body which I put inside my space ring.

    When I finish absorbing the body I decided to collect the green goo as it may be useful in the future or for my hut construction, so I made a sled from hair, sticks, and leaves to collect and carry it all. As I collect the goo I find a small black and purple bird that is missing a few feathers and one of its wings. [Poor thing it must have gotten hit during the fight, Its so small I see no point it eating it, Maybe I could take it in, heal it and make it my pet? It would be nice to have company, even if it is a bird].

    Reaching a decision I take the goo back to the hut and then gently wash the bird in the river to get rid of any leftover slime or goo. Once it is clean I take it back to the hunt and begin to heal it, to do this I use of my own body mass to regrow its feathers and begin to regrow its wing. It is slow going as I haven''t fixed a bird before and the little creature has some magic in it which makes the process slower. I sense a small crystal in the bird and come to the conclusion that it is a monster, which will probably make it harder to tame but I was invested now.

    At some point It wakes up but I use chemicals such as dopamine in its brain to calm it down and I also reduce the pain, It didn¡¯t get rid of it completely because I wanted it to know it was injured so it wouldn''t attack or try to leave [I think I will name you Shade].

 Chapter 25 Electricity

    After a couple of weeks of hunting and healing, Shade was healed and fed but she still decided to stay around the general area of the hut. When she approaches I feed her more and release some dopamine in her brain, not enough for it to become addicted but enough for her to enjoy her time with me. Shade has quickly become a friend of mine and I am slowly modifying her body so it is stronger but I notice that Shade is still growing so I don''t change too much as to not get in the way of the development. I just make the muscle and ligaments more flexible and efficient, I remove all the impurities from her body and improve her nerves system. I also change the bone structure as well. Like most birds, Shade¡¯s bones are hollow to reduce weight so I made the bones in a honeycomb structure without increasing the overall weight.

    Over the weeks I have also been practicing my throwing knives technique and crossbow skills using the same method as before with the moving target, but now I am also moving while trying to shoot multiple targets, switching between a crossbow and throwing knives. With this training, my technique and accuracy have greatly improved.

    At the moment I was practicing my control over my individual cells. Remembering how I dealt with the alpha wolf I have been trying to ¡®will¡¯ my blood to move, strengthen and form into weapons as a collective. So far I have made the blood into various solidified liquid weapons and forms, such as a scythe, sword, and an ax. While none are as strong as fluffy, yet they are more flexible and have a higher utility in combat. For example, if I could make a blood sword and turn it to its liquid state during a fight I could pass a guard with ease and attack. Or I could develop the idea and try to use acid but that was a long way off yet.

    While my blood was strengthened by ¡®willing¡¯ it to not move and to stay in place, it could take a single punch at 75% of my power. Which does not sound like a lot but it could take a few hits from ¡®Mr big sword¡¯ with ease.

    Once I was done with my experimenting for the day I went to the river to remove all the toxins, waste and impurities from my cells. I went to the river because removing all the shit from my body makes a fucking mess that smells horrible as it leaves my body through my pores.

    Submerging myself in the river I go into a meditation like state while I remove toxins, waste, and impurities from my cells. I have been doing this since the day I made the hut so about 2 weeks and I have only done from my feet up to half way up my lower leg. Which may seem slow but I am cleaning and improving each individual cell, so in my opinion, I was doing fine.

    All was going well until I was bitten, injected with venom and shocked with what felt like a million volts going through my body.

    With my nervous system being overridden by the electricity, I begin to lose control of my body as the cells revert back to their natural state, which means they are spreading out and no longer connecting. [Haha this hasn''t happened before, a bit of an inconvenience I must admit. I hope I don''t Die there is still shit I want to do. Oh, and did I mention this hurts? Because this REALLY FUCKING HURTS. IT FEELS LIKE I AM BEING FISTED BY ZEUS AND HE FORGOT THE FUCKING LUBE.]

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    With the biological control gone from my cell, I begin to ¡®will¡¯ them into action. I move my vital organs away from the attacker and move my body mass into its mouth and head. Coinciding we are underwater I move the body mass down the head until I feel something resembling gills and clog them up. The body mass inside the mouth begins to expand albeit slowly due to the resistance. While this is happening I make a tube up to the surface of the water to provide myself with oxygen.

    Myself and the unknown creature struggle around in the water for what felt like hours although it was most likely only about 30 seconds when the electricity slowly starts to lessen. With the electricity now gone I start to regain control of my body [My turn now bitch]. Not wanting to destroy the whole body so I could try and learn how to use the electricity I made all the body mass inside of its head and gills explode into bone spikes, killing it instantly.

    with the creature dead I begin re-forming my body as I pull the creature out of the water and onto the land where I could see it properly. It looked like a giant brown snake 12 ft in length. But instead of scales, it has a rubbery looking brown skin with a black stripe going from head to tail and yellow spots on its body (Because all electricity using creatures need the color yellow. It like the ¡®go faster stripe¡¯ on a car.)

    Inspecting the dead body I discover that it is a beast and I take its core. I also find a magical glad around an organ I have never seen before. Believing this is the source of the electricity, I replicate the organ and try to use it and sure enough, it creates an electrical charge. (electrolytes which are mainly responsible for producing current. The eel generates electricity by momentarily reversing the polarity of these cells which creates a sudden voltage difference. I don''t know how to explain that in this context so there you go.)

    Taking note of the cells that generate the electrical current I mass produced them inside my body. I eat the body and then go back inside the hut and activate them all at a lower voltage while willing my body to evolve by circulating the sludge through the areas most affected by the current. The myelin sheath (Insulator for the nerves) becomes thicker allowing less electricity to go into the nervous system. I grow conductors in my body given the voltage a path to flow through while insulating the rest of my body.

    When I no longer feel the negative effects of the electricity I increase the voltage. After doing this 10 times I no longer feel any negative effects so I begin improving the generator cells parallel to my resistance.

    After 2 days of trial and error with a lot of self-electrocution, I have done the best I can. Raising my hand up to my face I can see arcs of electricity dancing across my arm. [Hahaha so awesome, now I can be the one giving the Zeus fistings haha.] At this moment Shade comes over and looks at me.

    Stopping the electricity I pet her on the head while saying ¡°Yeah it''s time to get us some food.¡± Smiling I sand up and head out of the hut [Time to play with my new toy.]

 Chapter 26 Half a year has past

    Another 4 months have passed since I have entered the forest and in a couple of days it will be the promised half a year when I will develop my powers, I still spend a time meditation after I do my daily workouts and I can feel the energy becoming bigger and easier to control.

    Over these 4 months, I have increased the potency of my poison and venom making them more deadly than before. I can now control up to 30 tentacles at once thanks to the morning workouts.

    The control over my blood has increased allowing it to take up to 7 full power roundhouse kicks in quick succession. My accuracy and technique is now 100% with throwing knives and crossbows with up to 10 moving targets while running in under 5 seconds.

    I have killed many animals, beasts and monsters, because of this my mass has grown to an incredible amount my tracks now sink into the forest floor so much that I have to shed weight each time I go out to hunt, the only reason I hold onto it is in the hope that my power can help me keep the physical prowess without the mass. Speaking of the monsters I have found a use for the beast cores and monster crystals. They explode when I try and control them. So I use them as grenades while fighting, I usually put them in wounds I have created and then explode them. I am now strong and fast enough to kill a tube spider in under 5 seconds without becoming injured along with several other monsters.

    I have managed to increase my senses up to 100 times that of a normal human allowing me to track and avoid enemies. Sometimes Shade comes hunting with me since she has grown from the size of my palm to the size of my whole hand. She flies so fast I can barely see her as she scratches the prey''s eyes or uses a type of dark-colored magic energy to attack from range.

    It was after one of these hunts that I went to the hut to go to sleep for the week, But when I close my eyes I am in a vast space of nothing and yet everything simultaneously [Well that makes no fucking sense I must be back in the void.]

    ¡°That is right little one, It is time for us to converse again.¡±

    [I assume that it has something to do with me getting my powers in a few days?]

    ¡°That is correct little one although I will not be telling you what your power is or how to control your aura.¡±You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story.

    [good it is more interesting this way but¡­ you will tell me about magic?]

    ¡°You will have a power and an aura but you will not have magic, but you will be able to harness the void power coursing through your veins similar to how others would use magic.¡±

    [What? So I won''t have magic but I can harness the void inside of me? What does that mean?]

    ¡°By eliminating the laws inside of you, you rid yourself of any magic although you would have not been one of the 5% of the population to use magic, aura and a power anyway. So It is to your benefit anyway¡±

    [what do you mean 5% and are you saying it would be better to learn magic or void?]

    ¡°Consider power, aura, and magic as a single type of energy each. Of the whole sentient population, only 25% can use only one type of energy, 15% can use two types of energy while 5% can use all three. Although the percentage of these people are small the population is vast and anyone can strengthen their bodies without the use of energy, in fact, it is easier to strengthen the body through physical and mental training then to use one of the energies.

    As for the more powerful between magic and void, the answer is void but is incredibly difficult to learn and even more difficult to control. Magic harnesses the natural laws of the universe such as the elements, while the void uses the unseen powers of existence such as space, time, gravity and the raw untamed energy of existence.¡±

    [And I will be able to use these powers? With practice and training of course. Do I have to chant random crap to do it? Wait how does the space rings work then? ]

    ¡°Yes with practice and training you shall be able to use the powers of the void. Space rings work by powerful magicians folding the laws of nature over a hollow object such as a crate, this allows them to have a bigger space inside of a smaller area.  And no you will not have to chant random crap, instead, you will have to connect the dots.¡±

    [connect the dots?]

    ¡°Yes, but you can only connect certain dots for them¡­ shall we call it a spell for simplicity?...out of millions of moving dots to create a pattern which will allow the void power to accomplish the spell.¡±

    [I see. And How will I know which dots to connect?]

    ¡°You won''t, you will just have to ¡®feel¡¯ individual dots to find out what they do. But I am benevolent and I know about your weight problem so I shall color the dots needed to cast a ¡®spell¡¯ so gravity does not affect you as much yellow. Oh and a word of advice little one, remove all of your body mass apart for the bare minimum for the day after tomorrow when you gain your powers or you will explode as your aura will try to empower all of your cells at once. I recommended you slowly connect it back after you are comfortable with the aura and the current body mass, also try the lessening of gravity effect as you slowly add back your mass, it will be easier. Oh and I almost forgot, The energy build-up has increased your soul''s age as it where so you can join the adventures in two years. Goodbye, now little one.¡±

    [Wait please¡­ and its gone] I wake up in the hut with Shade, perched on a horizontal pole I have made for her, looking at me curiously. ¡°Don''t worry Shade I am fine.¡± After reassuring the uncaring bird I start the day with a hunt. I kill many large monsters and beasts but instead of eating or absorbing them I smoke them to preserve them for what is to come. I then spent the rest of the day removing parts of my body mass and storing it as bone so it does not decompose. I was excited and full of energy, after all, tomorrow I get my powers.

 ARC 2 End Chapter 27 Long live the King of the forest

    Once my body Is ready I spend the rest of the day and night meditating to prepare myself for that is to come. I meditate day and night as the energy inside of me becomes increasingly violent, as it tries to frantically escape.

    Then it suddenly it explodes dowsing my being with immense pain. I lose control of my body as I spasm around on the floor as the feeling of an ants nest invades my mind. I stay in the state of pain and confusion for half a day until it stops as suddenly as it started and I regain control of my body.

    [Well that was really fucking unpleasant. I better have some kick-ass powers, after all, that.] I look around the hut and my body trying to find something different about myself when I feel the emotions of confusion and concern coming from the direction of Shade, ¡°Ah it''s ok shade...wait, ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS? THAT''S MY POWER? FEELING EMOTION? WHAT BULLSHIT IS THIS?¡±

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    POV MC after 2 years

    It has been 2 years since I have gotten my powers, and I spent each and everyday day training like there was no tomorrow no matter how utterly boring it was. After removing the vast majority of my body mass I began to train my body again from scratch, while I did this I would take control of my aura and move it around my body. My aura gave off a sinister feeling of bloodlust, which when I thought about it, made sense. I have spent the last year killing and eating people even before I developed my powers so it would make sense for the aura to be influenced by this.

    The aura increased my body''s performance and seemed to grow in strength parallel to my physical strength and my willpower as well as when using the aura itself Like it was its own muscle. After a few days of training my body and aura, it all became muscle memory so I let my mind wander. I trained my empathy power and soon found out I could sense the emotions of the creatures around me, this created a sort of emotion radar for me, allowing me to find a creature by following its emotions. After some training with the empathy, I was able to tell apart the different emotions from multiple creatures at once. With more training, I was even able to influence a creatures emotions by increasing or decreasing a certain emotion. After a few months, I was able to make the creatures feel different emotions and control their emotional state. I found that doing this was more difficult on the more intelligent and more powerful creatures of the forest. Empathy effects on creatures were magical and not a chemical effect which was a shame because I could have changed the chemical solution in the brain and kill everything with a thought, but even so, the empathy was proving to be a powerful support skill.

    Over the two years, I would alternate training the empathy power by trying to gain control of the void inside of me. When I did this at the start I would have to stop physical training and meditate so I could reach the state of mind to ¡®see the dots¡¯. True to the Voids word there were countless dots flying around at high speeds, but some of them were yellow and when I connected them by ¡®drawing¡¯ a line between two dots they stopped moving. The first time I connected all the yellow dots it did not take me long and I immediately felt incredibly light as I began to float up into the air, in a panic, I disconnect the dots and fell down. After more training, I was able to control the intensity of the effect through the thickness of the lines connecting the dots and the number of dots I connect.

    With all my training over the two years I slowly began to add my mass back, and with the void¡¯s power, it did not have the negative effect of the weight. My aura grew stronger along with my power of empathy. Over the two years, I somehow developed a bond with Shade, I don''t even need to try and find her emotions I just already know them and we seem to be able to communicate telepathically. Eventually, I reabsorb all of my old body matter but this time I am able to control the effect gravity has on me and I still weigh the same. I spend the rest of my time in the forest training with the other dots and hunting. But once the two years were up I decided that it was time for me and Shade to leave this forest to start our new life but before that, I wanted to hunt the king of the forest.

    I have never had an encounter with the king of the forest, but I have seen it from a distance. It was a powerful human retail looking hybrid 12 ft tall with javelin-like spikes covering its back and mud brown scales. Its limbs had rolled on them but I don''t believe they indicated fat. It had a huge dragon-like head with orange reptilian eyes and black saliva dripping from its maw.

    So I did what any sane person would do. Run around in its territory yelling obscenities about its mother, hoping to get its attention.

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    Now that I can control gravity''s effect on my body with ease I could jump from tree to tree at incredible speed or I was until a giant javelin slammed into the tree I was jumping to, obliterating it. I was about to make a comment on its shitty aim until the javelin started to glow red and fucking exploded launching me back onto the ground.

    With a deafening roar, the king of the forest tore through the undergrowth in front of me with another javelin that was already glowing at the ready.

    ¡°Hahaha, you will be fun to play with.¡±

    To throw the ¡®King¡¯ off I make temporary copies of myself what scatter in different directions. The temporary copies were something I developed when experimenting with my aura. I could make my aura form an image of myself which would be useless as a person can''t make an aura leave their body, but I came up with a solution. I would create a small central nervous system and four pieces of spider silk. The silk would act like limbs while the small central nervous system would respond to my will allowing me to take control. Lastly, my aura image would make the silk puppet look like me. Sadly I only had the strength to lift 60kg and run 40km/h, but they were great distractions.

    The ¡®King¡¯ looked around in confusion and launched the javelin at the largest group of copies destroying them all. Meanwhile, I have gotten off of the floor and was now at the ¡®kings¡¯ side and by heating and secreting my claws with acid while vibrating the cell at high speed I cut deeply Into the ''kings'' side while releasing Hemotoxic venom (destroys red blood cells) into the bloodstream.

    Roaring in pain ¡®king¡¯ backhands me but as it does so its rolls on its arms straighten out like a spring revealing an elongated arm that has just bitch slapped me at high speed. But I absorbed half of the kinetic energy due to the power of the void. I won''t be able to store it for long so I sprint at ¡®king¡¯ throwing a right hook to its chest with the stored kinetic energy.

    ¡®King¡¯ flew back as a fist-shaped indent appears on its chest. Howling in pain it spits a torrent of black saliva at me. Using the power of the void again I teleport a meter to the right, the maximum distance I can teleport at the moment.

    Sending a tether made from hair towards ¡®king¡¯ I use it to propel myself forwards to introduce its solar plexus to my knee. Using its chest as a springboard I backflip off while kinking its head in the process.

    Landing on the ground I begin in an exchange of blows. Slashing with my claws, stabbing with my tail and striking with my legs. I dodge every strike or slash from ¡®king¡¯ moving my cells out of the way of the blows and reforming them after they pass, leading to a one-sided slugfest. That was until I noticed it was healing every bit of damage it was reviving. The broken scales and blood gushing wounds were healing at a visibly fast pace.

    ¡°Well I guess you''re not the ¡®king¡¯ for nothing then huh?, I should probably stop playing with you then.¡±

    So I release my aura. The feeling of bloodlust, carnage, and power fills my veins and strengths my body. I take two consecutive strikes from the ¡®king¡¯ and store half the kinetic energy from each and then unleash the power of my aura and its own attacks on to the ¡®king¡¯.

    Flying back with its chest caved in and coughing blood the ¡®king¡¯ lands on its back embedding its javelins into the ground. Seeing the bright glow under its back and sensing the vibration in the ground I jump up as high as I can and produce some wings to hover in the air.

    It seems that ¡®king¡¯ exploded all of the javelins at once causing devastation to the surrounding area. Everything in a mile radius was destroyed, broken shards of wood littered the blackened ground. And there in the middle stood a completely unharmed ¡®king¡¯.

    ¡°Mother fucker hahaha.¡±

    I make two crossbows with bolts. The bolts, however, were not normal. The tip was a strong adhesive of the liquid bone mix with some of the ¡®tube sider¡¯ goo. The shaft of the bolt was connected to the crossbow by a long piece of spider silk. I fire both bolts at ¡®king¡¯ one on each shoulder and send a high voltage of aura lightning through the silk.

    Aura enhances everything in my body that includes the electricity I produce, so by merging the aura and the electricity I have made aura lightning. With the high voltage ¡®king¡¯ fell to its knees and bellowed.

    Using the void inside of my I increase my weight to over what I would be naturally as I pull on the spider silk, slingshotting my self at ¡®king¡¯ with high velocity. As I fall I merge my legs together and make them into a bone spike.

    The end result is me piecing through ¡®kings¡¯ head and into the ground ripping its body in half. Covered in blood and laughing I retrieve the monster crystal and absorb the corpse. ¡°Long live the king.¡±

 ARC 3 Start Chapter 28 First impressions

    POV change to a guard of a carriage transporting nobility

    It was supposed to be an easy job. We were supporting a high lady of nobility in a carriage along with some merchants and their goods. No one was meant to know about the high lady traveling so she was transported with the merchants and with the weaker lesser known guards that I am sadly apart of.

    But The easy job was anything but when the adventures hired by the merchants attacked us when we were on the road going through the green leaf forest a day and a half away from green leaf city (Amazing naming since I know) when the adventures attacked us without warning as a bandit group came out from the forest.

    Gerald the only regular guard to Lady Sophie and the strongest among us was targeted first. He was stabbed in the back, would have been the base of his skull if not for his inhuman reflexes. With our strongest down, surrounded and outnumbered 3 to 1 I was prepared to die, but I would be damned if I wasn''t going to go down fighting. What I was not prepared for was for each and every one of the bandits and adventures to start yelling in anger only to run in the direction of an emerging figure coming out from the forest.

    Once the figure emerged from the tree I could see it was a skinny albino boy around the age of 14. He had porcelain skin and snow white hair with crimson eyes. He wore a long black trench coat down to his knees. On his left shoulder was a white horizontal pole with a black and purple bird perched on it. But what caught my attention the most was the way he moved, it was with contained finesse and power like he did not wish to stand out and yet had years of training.

    The group of bandits and ¡®adventures¡¯ run-up to the boy yelling obscene things at him at the top of their lungs for some unknown reason. I rush over to help the boy but it looks like he will not need it. The bird on his shoulder disappears from its perch as the boy punches his fist through the leading thug''s chest. The next one gets ripped in half by the boy''s bare hand. Not to waste an opportunity I and the remaining guards attacked the thugs from behind.

    With our superior gear, teamwork, skill and without the element of surprise the thugs went down quickly, but thugs began to lose the intense interest for the boy and they started to put up more of a fight. Now that the thugs have broken out of the weird trance they were under they started to push us back again, one thug roared as his skin toke on a metal shine as he attacked the boy.

    I didn''t get to see the rest as I had an opponent of my own. I traded blows of an adventure that was meant to be working with us, his name was Toby, we shared drinks at the last tavern. But here he was trying his hardest to kill me [What a despicable thing greed is.] Our fight went on as we traded blows. People died around us but I did not have the leverage to find out what was happening around me as I fought for my life. I fought for what felt like hours although it was probably only a couple of minutes at most, I tried my best but Toby was skilled and I found myself on the floor without a weapon, My vision tunnels into Toby''s face as I think about what I have done with my life or more specifically what I haven''t done with it. Toby''s blade is about to penetrate my chest and end my life. [I don''t want to die! I want to live! I still haven''t told Amy how I feel about her! I¡­] Just the blade touched my neck, the boy appeared in front of me, grabbed Toby¡¯s sword hand, stopping his blade in its tracks as he used a fine needle looking blade to slit his throat and pierce Toby''s eye in one swift motion.

    ¡°Well, that''s the last of them, You ok mate?¡± The boy says in a carefree voice as he helps me up.

    ¡°Yes thank you for saving us, and for saving me.¡± I bow my head in respect to the boy as the birds land on its perch on the boys left shoulder. Before we could continue our conversation I hear a cry from one of the young Lady who we were transporting. My head whipped around to the direction of the carriage looking for danger, But I only see the two noblewoman who was in the carriage. The younger one of 13 was the one to cry out in alarm at the scene while her older sibling of 15 looked a little pale.

    ¡°So you got any food? I have been dying for something that actually has a flavor for ages now.¡± The boy does not seem to notice or care about the noble girls in front of us.

    ¡°Wha¡­?¡±

    ¡°Thank you for helping us, young man, of course, we can give you some food. My name is Selena eldest daughter of the Heartstone family, may I ask for your name?¡± Selena the older sister introduced me as she held out her hand for the boy to kiss, her face still pale.

    The boy looked at her hand confused for a second before taking it in his own and shaking it. What is he doing?! Does he not know simple edicate for meeting a noble lady? Normally it would be my job to teach him forcefully no matter how much I hated acting arrogant, but the boy did just save all of our lives, slaughter a group of thugs and save my life so I decided not to do anything.

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    Selena¡¯s face became even more pale as the boy¡¯s bloody hand took her own and shook it, I look at the remaining guards but they seem to have the same sediment that I do. ¡°Nice to meet yeh Selena, my name is Jacob, now about that food.¡±

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    POV MC Before meeting the Guards

    I walk in a random direction until I find a road. On the way I change my appearance to an albino boy around the age of 14, my reasoning is that I will stand out so much that if I want to escape anywhere I only need to change my self slightly, also I like the look. I then make a long trench coat down to the knees and long sleeves that cover my hands. I fill the trench coat with small pockets and knife holders in the inside of the coat. I then make a bone horizontal pole for Shade to stand on while I walk.

    I eventually find a path but there are people on it, I also sense people around with malicious intent so I wait and watch, debating what to do. Once the group of carriages reached the point where the bandits were hiding, some of the group joined forces with the bandits. With my empathy I could sense the feeling of betrayal from the others [Well I was thinking of either just going to let them kill each other than eat them all, or help the merchant group so they can give me information and food, but betrayal pisses me off, so the second option it is.]

    It was easy to kill the dipshits I used empathy to make the thugs angry at me, although it will not last long, they still left the guards alone as they rushed me. I then just killed them all, with relative ease but I made sure to hide most of my strength. One person¡¯s skin seemed to turn in to iron but I just used a thin bone blade to piece his eye. The rest of the battle was wrapped up quickly and finished with me saving a young man on the floor.

    ¡°Well, that''s the last of them, You ok mate?¡± I say in a carefree voice. [This man was prepared to die just now but he was not happy about it, life debt for me yay.]

    ¡°Yes thank you for saving us, and for saving me.¡± He bows his head as Shade lands back on my shoulder from when she left as I was fighting. Before we could continue our conversation I hear a cry from a young Lady coming out of the carriage. I casually look around to see two noblewomen. The younger one of 13 was the one to cry out in alarm at the scene while her older sibling of 15 looked a little pale. [ Pretty, probably trouble. They have nice clothes so are properly wealthy. I bet they have nice food.]

    ¡°So you got any food? I have been dying for something that actually has a flavor for ages now.¡± I ask no longer paying the girls any attention.

    ¡°Wha¡­?¡±

    ¡°Thank you for helping us, young man, of course, we can give you some food. My name is Selena, eldest daughter of the Heartstone family, may I ask for your name?¡± Selena the older sister introduced herself as she held out her hand palm facing down and fingers bent, her face still pale.

    I looked at her hand confused for a second before taking it in my own and shaking it. Selena¡¯s face becomes even paler, [Did I do something wrong?] ¡°Nice to meet yeh Selena, my name is Jacob, now about that food.¡± Letting go of her hand I step back and look at her expectantly, but she just stares at her hand blankly. [Is it the blood on her hand from when I shook her hand? Well I did just rip a guy in half so what do they expect, sigh but first impressions and all that.]

    ¡°Oh sorry about that¡± I put my hand in one of my many pockets and pretend to get a handkerchief as I make one from hair, I take it out and take her hand again as I clean it. ¡°There we go¡± It was at this time that Shade decided to change perches on to Selena''s head and start to sing. Which is a shame because her singing is fucking awful, like a tortured cat and nails down a blackboard being an eargasm in comparison awful.

    Startled Selena trips into me so I catch her as any gentleman would, while shouting ¡°Shade shut up you fucking whore you sound like shit!¡± true gentleman like I know. Selena looks between horrified and wanting laugh as she pushes herself off me as she turns and walks away. I refrain from using empathy because I want to practice my human interactions as I have little experience in the matter, but I think I may have somehow done something wrong [Well it''s confirmed, I am fucking amazing at first impressions.]

    ¡°So, was the food a lie or can we start eating?¡±

 Chapter 29 Conspiracy theories

    Sadly I had to wait for the food because for some reason Selena did not want to eat around the dead bodies. So we looted the corpses and went down the road for another hour and a half until we reached a clearing by the side of the road, I only took some money, 50S, and a knife as they were the only things I found useful. The guard¡¯s distributed the rest of the loot amongst themselves.

    To prepare the camp by the side of the road, they remain 10 guards set up a rotation between themselves where three guarded Selena and her sister whom I believe is named Sophie, another three were on the lookout, two prepared the camp while two rested. These positions were changed so everyone had time to rest, although the two set up the camp did not change. Not wishing to get in the way I decided to talk to the two merchants who looked miserable.

    ¡°Hey, guys I am Jacob, you mind if I sit with you?¡±

    ¡°Fine by me¡± Merchant 1 replied ¡±Suit yourself,¡± Merchant 2 agreed. Both looked very depressed.

    ¡°So I take it you guys aren''t too happy about your guards baling on you, then trying to kill you all?¡±

    Merchant 1 scrunches up his face and spits on the ground while muttering ¡°Fucking Adventures¡±

    ¡°They weren''t our usual guards, they were at a funeral, so we hired the piece of shit adventures as muscle.¡± Merchant 2

    I think for a bit before replying ¡° That is odd don¡¯t you think? If this was their first time working with you how did they know when and where to meet up with the bandits? Also, why would they go against the people who hired them? I am no expert but wouldn''t the guild have precautions against this sort of thing, so why risk it? No offense but never of you look wealthy enough to make the risk worth the reward.¡±

    [Might as well have some fun with the two old men by planting some seeds of mist trust while trying to get the favor of these important looking ladies.]

    A look of confusion comes over both their faces as they think about what I have said. Merchant 1 is the first to reply with ¡°Your right, they knew where we were going but not the route, and if an Adventure betrays the contract they sign at the start of the mission then their assets in the bank are taken and they are removed from the guild and if it really bad they would be imprisoned or killed.¡±

    Nodding along merchant 2 adds ¡°And you are right, sadly, we wouldn''t have the money or goods to justify the action of betraying the contract.¡±

    ¡°Well, gentlemen it would appear they were brainwashed, controlled or paid enough for them to think that betraying you was worth it and somehow knew the exact route you were going to set up an ambush. So there is most likely a third party involved or we have a mole. I doubt it would be any of the guards; they put their lives on the line to fight against the attacks when they could have joined forces.

    I can¡¯t see why Selena or Sophie would¡­ unless. Selena was very well dressed and spoken; she also introduced her family like it meant something. Could they be nobles? Selena is old enough to assist in the fight if she organized it so I doubt it was her. But Sophie, she would have motive and means while being too young to actively help in the fight.¡±

    ¡°What do you mean motive and means? She is just a kid.¡± both merchants asked at the same time.

    ¡°Well, the attack could have been to kill Selena, making her the oldest daughter to the family, while if the where nobles they could have the money to pay the adventures and bandits to attack, she would also have access to the planned route.¡±

    ¡°But she is so young, there is no way she could do such a thing.¡± said merchant 1

    Before I reply it occurs to me that he is most likely right. [Most kids weren''t mind controlled slaves, raped tortured, lived on the streets, survived for 2 years in a forest and had their mind merged with a 40-year-old integrator from another world. Hell, I wasn''t even human so I can''t really compare myself to other kids. Its true that a 13-year-old kid brought up in a pleasant life by nobility would most likely not be capable of planning her sister''s death. But she would have access to all the requirements to achieve it, so perhaps she is being controlled? But then who could do that?]

    ¡°You are right perhaps I am looking too much into this. As for the reason I came over her. I would like to offer you both my services to guard your carriages. I don''t need payment; I only want a recommendation for when I sign up to be an adventure and for you both to cover any accommodation and food costs on the job. Sound fair?¡±

    ¡°I think you are onto something but I doubt it is the little Sophie girl. As for the job, I for one agree to your terms¡± merchant 1

    ¡°As do I¡± merchant two

    ¡°Great, now if you excuse me I need to see if the guards need any help.¡± Shaking both of their hands I join in the guard''s rotation. [What to do, what to do? Should I even bother to help? I could just kill them and then eat or use their corpses. I could also help the person trying to kill them all, but gaining a noble houses favor will probably be more useful in the long run. Even if my task is to create chaos the kids are still young, the parents can probably make new ones if they don''t have others already. That means I should help find the culprit if there even is one and expose them so I can deal with them appropriately. No use killing them outright. The person is properly close to them to have control so killing them straight away will cause unneeded drama.]Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on Royal Road.

    With this in mind, I start to use my empathy again to ¡®see¡¯ the emotions of the people around me. All of their emotions where to be expected due to the circumstances, but there was one person who caught my eye. The maid to both Sophie and Selena has a connection with Sophie¡¯s emotions like she knew them before Sophie did. [Haha well that''s not suspicious at all, Miss maid you are now top of the suspect list. Now all I need is physical proof.]

    Once the camp was set up everyone sat down by the cooking fire apart from the three guards on the lookout. But most importantly I got food that actually tastes good! We all chatted around the fire were I noticed that the maid who was named Amy got a lot of attention from the male guards, so there was not much for me to talk about.

    ¡°So Jacob how come you were in the green leaf forest?¡± asked one of the only two female guards.

    Swallowing I replied without thinking ¡°Well I was being transported by slavers until I escaped into the forest where I got lost for a while until I found you guys.¡±

    At the mention of slaves the camp goes quiet as they look at me.

    ¡°But how did they get you? You are so strong,¡± The same guard asks

    ¡°Well I was...13 at the time¡±

    ¡°And how old are you now?¡±

    ¡°...14¡±

    ¡°You spent a year alone in a beast and monster infected forest at the age of 13!?¡±

    ¡°...Yes¡±

    ¡°That''s fucking badass.¡±

    ¡°Thank you,¡± I say while giving Shade an affectionate rub on her head. The rest of the night went by without anything of note happening, although I did notice the two merchants giving the rest of the group suspicious looks, and once everyone but the current guard rotation was asleep I sneak out of the camp, [Now where did we leave those corpses? It''s time to play God again.]

    [Just Because I want to gain favor from a noble family does not mean I can''t start some chaos, and it''s about time I tried this plan I have had for a while.]

    Once I reach the location of the ambush where the corpses were piled to the side of the road I start to change all the bodies but one into a condensed, flexible and efficient ¡®human¡¯ body without any impurities inside of it.

    With the template done I make the body into a very attractive female, basing it off of the guild leader back in the city. I then create pheromonal glad by the eccrine glands that produce sweat. This will make people more sexually attracted to her when she sweats.

    I then move on the body I separated from the pile earlier, tie it up and then reanimate it. The reanimated man looks around frantically while mumbling incoherently.

    ¡°Hello, there my name is Jacob. How do you feel?¡±

    ¡°Name? I feel¡­ they gave money so I can live good. Who am I? Where am I?¡±

    [Seams his memories are scattered or perhaps lost. I don''t think I can fix that]

    ¡°Will your name is...James Thomas, we are in the green leaf forest. You were part of a group that tried to raid some carriages. Do you remember?¡±

    ¡°No, no, no NO! Let me go, let me go, let m¡­¡±

    I remove his vocal cords before he attracts any unwanted attention. [Well he does not need to be fully functional for the experiments I was just curious. Now for stage two.]

    I walk back to the female body and animate it but keep the brain asleep. I then make a virus that makes the host incredibly lustful at first but then brings them into a blind rage, or at least in theory. I am hoping to make it so it can be given to another person through bodily fluids, hence the extreme lust. Once the first strain of the virus is finished I awake the sleeping beauty, which in hindsight I should have done at a distance or at least moved the reanimated human lab rat closer.

    The very attractive and very naked woman jumps at me with surprising speed as she moans with desire. In my surprise, I backhand her away from me and towards the ¡®Lab rat¡¯ as I back away a safe distance while I control my body so I don''t get any form of arousal.

    What happens next was expected as the woman jumps onto the man and they start to feverishly rub their genitals together. [Well it''s a good thing I turned myself off; it would be very difficult to concentrate with this scene in front of me.] It does not take long for them to ¡®finish¡¯ and before they start to go another round I make both of them unconscious.

    Checking both of their bodies I notice that the virus was transferred successfully but it was acting too quickly. I wanted a period before the lust so it won''t be noticed quickly and so the people can spread after they caught the virus. I wanted people to have the lust first before the rage so that it is less noticeable and still has a chance to spread. Noticing the faults in the virus I tried my best to fix them.

    For the rest of the night, I would change the virus, wake both the ¡®lab rats¡¯ and the beauty I have dubbed patient zero up, observe any changes [It was for science honest, I am not a perv, please believe me.] and make any alterations that were needed. By the end of the night, I have made the virus to the best of my ability with my limited knowledge. The end result was a slow acting virus that increases one''s sexual desires, blinding them in lust until they are overcome by rage. The virus is transmitted through bodily fluids such as saliva, blood or sexual iterations.

    With the virus finished I removed the body functions for the female to become angry, as I wanted her to spread it as much as possible without causing too much alarm. I then make my patient zero into 15 different beautiful women each with the virus. I then move the woman up and down the road and into the forest. With no use for the man I kill and absorb him as I head back to the camp.

    [Well that was productive I hope you cause lots of chaos patient zero. Shame the guy couldn''t remember anything, I will have to find someone else to try developing a truth serum on. Once I have a serum I can question that maid without having to connect a tentacle to her back. That would be difficult to explain.]

    As I walk back into the camp the guard who I saved whose name I think is John sees me approaching. ¡°Jacob, where have you been?

 Chapter 30 Travelling

    As I walk back into the camp the guard who I saved whose name I think is John sees me approaching. ¡°Jacob, where have you been man? We have been looking for you. We were just about to leave.¡±

    ¡°Ah, I was... taking a shit.¡±

    ¡°Oh. For an hour?¡±

    ¡° ...Yeah...I had to eat some weird shit in the forest, it didn''t all agree with me if you know what I am saying.¡±

    ¡°Oh yeah um ok. We have all been there it''s all good. Anyway, are you ok to leave? We couldn''t find any of your stuff so we assumed you have it on you?¡±

    ¡° Yeah I am good to go and these pockets ain''t just for show. Ha my rhymes are a crime and I am a poet and I didn¡¯t even know it.¡±

    ¡°Please stop.¡±

    ¡°Haha. Let''s go what are you making us wait for!¡±

    ¡°Oh for fuck sake. come on then¡­¡±

    ¡°Watch your fucking language you little shit I have innocent ears you cunt.¡±

    ¡°Yeah John you bastard, watch your language around the kid, you are so irresponsible with that vulgar mouth of yours¡±

    ¡°Fuck sake John we can''t take you anywhere.¡±

    Both Betty and Holy come up from behind us carry the last of their camp equipment as they join in on the banter. Once we reached the carriages the two women try to put their bags into the storage compartments.

    ¡°It''s too big it won''t fit.¡±

    ¡°Push it harder.¡±

    ¡°But it''s too tight.¡±

    ¡°Just push it harder. Harder, there we go.¡±

    ¡°Well, John how many men do you think have heard those words from those two?¡±

    Both women turn to stare at us and start yelling as we laughed. After another few minutes of us being lectured by the two, it was eventually called to a stop as the carriages began to move. John and I then moved away from the woman as we started our guard duty.

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    POV of the void

    ¡°Hahaha¡± I did not expect for him do such things so early on. Creating life, raising the dead and making a plague, how interesting¡± I watch as the humanoid wolf creatures grow in number and strength, they evolve and learn while they subjugate the other entities of the forest. They tame beasts and enslave monsters. They absorb the energy and power in the world to evolve, becoming more. ¡°Hahaha, the little bastard has created the first sentient beasts and didn¡¯t even know it. I predict they will take other the green leaf forest in less than a month. Then who knows what they will do. The subjugation of all lesser entities? Ha.

    And that virus haha that should be good. The women are already changing the fate of the surrounding area. One is on her way to a village, another to an adventuring party and another on rout to meet a group of merchants heading towards the green leaf city. Oh, what fun. I doubt it will get too far but that is the only the beginning of the fun we shall have little one.¡±

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    POV MC Half a day later

    At first, I was excited to travel around on the road, but I quickly came to realize that it is so fucking boring. The guards did not talk because it was unprofessional unless they were on break so we walked in silence along the horse-drawn carriages. With nothing to do I go through Paul''s memories trying to find anything useful, sadly I could not find anything that I could experiment with while walking with other people.

    With nothing better to do, I made my poisons and venoms more potent but there is only so far I can go without magic involved, but the results are still favorable. After tinkering with the deadly chemicals inside my own body I decided to try and start production of a truth serum. [From Paul''s memories it appears that people lie less when they are drunk. Is it because they are happy or is it the depressant drug effects of alcohol in the body? Most likely the drug effect. depressant drugs slow the signals the nervous system produce.]

    Using the hallucinogenic poison as a template I start to make a poison that slows the signals between the brain and spinal cord (How actual truth serum works apparently). Trying it on myself I can ¡®see¡¯ the effects and I eventually make a poison with the desired effects. But I am not the perfect test subject as I have a different body to a normal human and I know what is happening.

    Before I come up with a solution we reach the end of the forest. We are on a hill overlooking a huge stretch of open land covered in a green sea of grass with giant shards of stone miles high sticking out of the ground at haphazard angles. Huge trees with trunks made from countless interweaving branches that rivaled the ¡®skyscrapers¡¯ from Paul''s memories in height, made colossal arches. Herds of unknown creatures numbering in the thousands roamed the grass sea, while flocks of birds traverse the sky with ease. We continue to walk as I stare at the new landscape with excitement and wonder.

    ¡°What''s the matter, Jacob? Never seen the planes before?¡± Asks John

    ¡°No I have only seen the streets or the forest and what happened to ¡®Talking is unprofessional¡¯?¡±

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    ¡°Oh, that was because we were in the forest. Too many places for bandits to hide so, we have to be on high alert, especially after the attack.¡±

    ¡°Oh...that makes sense.¡±

    ¡°Yeah. If you think the planes are cool you are going lose your shit at the rest of the world. Forest Of crystals, floating rivers of lava flying through the sky, levitating islands, underwater cities, upside down bioluminescent jungles, running mountains and so much more.¡±

    ¡°That sounds awesome! Have you seen these things?¡± [Thats why I wanted to become an adventurer, to see and experience the world to its fullest. Just think of the exotic things I can kill and eat.]

    ¡°Well no, but I have heard people talk about them in awe and I have seen a couple of memories of some of a person in an upside down bioluminescent jungle, it is magnificent.¡±

    ¡°How do you see memories?¡±

    ¡°People can store short memories in memory stones and I paid to see a memory of one of the upside down bioluminescent jungles. It was worth the money.¡±

    ¡°So can you learn things from these memories stones. Couldn''t people learn things easily if they could just have someone''s memories?¡±

    ¡°Ha I wish, but no they are far too expensive and as far as I know, can only capture the memory of sight for 5 minutes. Any other sense and the length shorten it drastically.¡±

    ¡°Well, there go my plans to learn the world''s history in a day. Wait wait, how the fuck does a mountain run?¡±

    ¡°How the bloody hell should I know! I''ve never seen one.¡±

    ¡°Maybe it''s got legs?¡±

    ¡°Yeah I bet it''s got some sexy legs¡±

    ¡°What the fuck are you to talking about? You know what I don''t want to know. Anyway, I came over to you two to let you know we are stopping in 5 minutes for Selena to make a call to her father to tell him what happened.¡± Betty tells us.

    ¡°Right ok¡± John nods in understanding while I am left confused.

    ¡°What do you mean make a call?¡± I ask.

    ¡°Oh right you probably wouldn''t know but if you have enough money you can buy a pair of mirrors. When one is  powered with enough energy will connect to the other and allow a short conversation between the two users of the mirrors.¡± Answers John.

    We spend the rest of the five minutes time talking about nothing important as we walk along the empty road. Once the time was up we make a temporary camp at the side of the road so the horses can rest as the same guarding set up as last night is implemented but this time I stay out of curiosity to watch the communication mirrors. Disappointedly Selene talked to her father inside the carriage with her sister and the maid.

    With nothing better to do, I sit down and sharpen my knives while using empathy to detect any hostile emotions. Luckily it didn''t take long for Selena to walk out of the carriage holding a plane looking mirror if not for the fact it had the shiniest headed man that has ever shined. I mean you could actually see an accurate reflection of the butler standing next to him. Apart from the overly smooth and shiny head, the man was above average in looks with a chiseled jaw deep brown eyes.

    The mirror disappointedly did not have any fancy magical gems or visible enchantments like I expected so I go back to sharpening my knives. Until Selena asks us to gather around her while she holds up the mirror with Mr shiny head.

    ¡°Hello, there everyone I would like to, first of all, thank you all for protecting my daughters, my special thanks to Jacob who I have been told without your help the things could have been much worse.¡±

    Not wishing to interrupt I give a nod to the shiny man in the mirror.

    ¡°Now as to what will happen next, I have given word for a message to be sent to the tribe of grey beak who will be having a festival in your general area. You will meet with them and wait for a better-prepared escort, all ideas of hiding will be withheld due to the current circumstances.

    As for the merchants and any others not directly tied to my faction, I invite you to stay with my daughters so I can send a gift as a sign of my appreciation for helping my children.¡±

    Making eye contact with merchant 1 I nob symbolizing my desire to take the shiny man up on his offer. Both merchants turn and whisper to each other until Merchant 2 speaks up to the shiny man.

    ¡°Kind sir we would like to take you up on your offer.¡±

    ¡°Excellent.¡±

    Before he could continue I see a man whispering in the butler''s ear in the reflection of his shiny head. The butler then proceeds to whisper in the shiny man''s ear.

    ¡°Ah, excellent the tribe grey beak as agreed to look after you until the guards meet you. They will be at¡­¡±

    After listing a bunch of numbers and letters the shiny head man apologies and then leaves on important business [which is apparently more important than finalizing his daughter''s safety, odd if you ask me.]

    After her father ¡®leaves¡¯ Selena looks at us before announcing ¡°Alright you heard my father, let''s go meet the grey beaks.¡±

    [Yay? the fuck is a grey beak? I hope they are fun to fight.]

 Chapter 31 Going off road

    After the announcement, we rested for another 15 minutes before we started our journey again, but this time we were headed towards a twisted arch which was the name of the giant trees. The grey beaks are apparently having a coming of age ceremony were the young have a race to the top of the twisted arch are collect a special fruit.

    [Sounds like fun, wonder if I can join in?]

    While on the road we pass a few other travelers, I greet them all but only a couple return the greetings [Rude shits]. Once we reach a certain point we need to go off-road to meet at the twisted arch. To do this the merchants and guards got pieces of wood from the carriage roof and replaced the wheels with them. Merchant 1 who sees me watching in confusion explains.

    ¡°There skis. They slide over the grass a lot easier than the wheels, which just get stuck in every little ditch.¡±

    I nodded but before I can reply I sense hostile emotions coming from the front of the group. ¡°Got to go.¡±

    Jumping to the front of the group I catch a reptilian head in my left hand before it could finish striking Holy. With my right hand, I decapitate the seven other heads as I crush the one I am holding. [Well that was boringly easy.] Dropping the bloody mess from my hand I notice the necks of the creatures or creatures as I now realize begin to split into two as new heads begin to grow [Oh that''s interesting.] As I watched in morbid fascination Holly began to scream.

    ¡°Hydra!!¡±

    [There is no way this pathetic thing is a legendary Hydra, must be a baby or something. Now if I remember correctly they regrow two heads for every one cut off or destroyed. Should be simple enough to kill.]

    Jumping over the now regrown heads I plunge my hand into the body the Hydra. Its warm insides envelop my hand and I feel it pulsing as blood starts to pool at the opening. My hand searches around until it finds one of my targets. Grasping the vertebra I rip it out of the body, spraying blood and gore everywhere. With Hydra being notorious for their regenerative abilities my hand goes back into the bloody mess searching for my next target. Finding the source of the pulsating my hand closes around it as I crush the heart and tear it out simultaneously Putting a hand inside of my coat I form fluffy in a giant butcher knife form and cut off another head. It does not grow back.

    ¡°I think it''s dead.¡± I give the worried looking guards a smile as I turn back to the Hydra in search for the monster crystal.

    The guards look at the bloody pulp with its insides ripped out and/or crushed and back at me. ¡°Yeah, I think you got it,¡± Holly said in a shaking voice. Sensing their fear I smirk as to lessen it a significant degree and build up a feeling of respect. ¡°Now, more importantly, who wants a baby Hydra skull as a souvenir?¡±

    After distributing the 10 skulls which were conveniently enough for each guard, I take the lead of the group as we continued onwards on our off-road journey. I would randomly anger beasts or monsters on our way to see if any of them were interesting to fight. Sadly they were all raver boring as I stayed away from the stronger monster and beast as to not show anything important to the group. [Fuck I am getting so bored of these people. I wished I just killed them all so I could have some fun. But I am invested now and I want that reward.] While walking around in the open without the cover I notice with mild disinterest that albinos get sunburn incredibly quickly so I had to continuously heal and fix my skin cells to avoid damage.You might be reading a pirated copy. Look for the official release to support the author.

    After a very long and tedious walk, a large camp comes into sight at the base of a twisted arch. The camp is made up of hundreds of brightly colored tents. People and animals walked around freely and everyone seemed to be in a joyful mood. Which was the complete opposite to me. [The camp is another two days walks away at this pace!] Because of my enhanced eyesight I was able to see the camp far before any of the others.

    [I can''t take his bullshit anymore.] ¡°You know what? Fuck it. Everyone get on a carriage we are not doing this shit for another two days.¡±

    ¡°What are you talking about?¡± Holly asks in confusion.

    ¡°Please, could everyone get on a carriage? I have not stirred you guys wrong yet have I?¡± I say with an award-winning smile [I swear I will cut you, I have never been so bored in my life.]

    ¡°Ok if you say so.¡± with that Holly and the other guards climbed on top of or inside of a carriage. I began to untie the horses and tie the carriages together with three pieces of hair rope connecting each of the three carriages. I then went to the front and made a harness for myself.

    With the preparations in place I ¡®willed¡¯ the cells in my legs to move while moving more muscle mass to them. I then circulated my aura throughout my legs and lungs as I started to move. I started out slowly to reduce the strain on the ropes and carriages but I quickly began to increase my pace. When I was going as fast as a normal human running I absorbed half the kinetic energy from my feet hitting the ground and used it to increase my momentum. When I was double the speed of a normal human I slightly increased the friction of my feet against the ground with the power of the void, allowing me to run easier. Soon I was running at the speed of a galloping horse and I would have gone faster if not for the horses running beside me. Who I made follow me with my empathy giving them the Idea that I am a very attractive mate that they should be chasing.

    After a while of running, I heard the carriages beginning to creak and groan due to the strain. I also noticed that the horses are barely able to keep up with me so I decided to slow down until my little convoy and I have stopped. Looking off to the distance I could see it was now only a quarter a days walk to the camp. [Sigh it still doesn''t solve my boredom.] Looking back at the group I am met with stunned faces.

    ¡°Hey John come a take a sip of this,¡± I say pulling out my water skin with truth serum in. [Might as well see what this does.]

    ¡°You just expect us to just ignore the fact that you pulled three carriages with 15 people on them for several kilometers?¡± Asks John

    ¡°Yup, it was no big deal. Now have a sip of this before I have all the good stuff to myself. It''s not like we will be going any further today anyway.¡±

    Looking around and then back at the other guards he shrugs, hops down from the carriage and takes a long sip.

    ¡°You know Jacob I was thinking to hire you as a guard, but now I think the role of a horse will suit you better.¡± Say, Selena in a joyous tone, as she sticks her head from out of her carriage.

    ¡°Why, so you can ride me all day long? As tempting as that sounds I am not for sale, my lady.¡±

    Before Selena could respond Jonh starts breaking down in laughter as he falls to the floor. ¡°Hahahaha, Jacob as a horsey horse. He could pull us all. Hehehehe Jacob pulling us all off hahaha, no Jacob your not allowed to touch my dick, It''s for Amy only. I love you, Amy!!!!! Fuck the dirt tastes so good.¡± John then proceeds to lick the dirt on the floor as he mumbles about him and Amy opening up a dirt store together.

    [Hahaha I did not expect that to happen, but what do you expect when you make a super strong truth serum based on alcohol.]

    ¡°What the hell did you give him?¡± Asks betty

    ¡°Just some stuff I brewed up in the forest, You want some?¡± I say before taking a long sip from my own concoction.

    ¡°Fuck that I have seen Jonh drink, anything that gets him that shit faced in one sip will probably kill me. are you are what 14? you shouldn''t be drinking let alone brewing your own alcohol.¡±

    ¡°You''re all just lightweights,¡± I say while sitting next to John and drinking the rest of the concoction in one go.] It doesn''t do much if anything, but that''s what happens when you make your body a playground for poison and venom.

    I spend the rest of the night laughing at John before going to sleep for the first time in weeks.

 Chapter 32 Grey beak tribe

    We break camp at sunrise and begin our journey again, although we did have to put John in a carriage as he complained about tasting dirt and his head feeling like it was splitting in half. Fucking lightweight. We then spent a quarter of a day traveling across the plans and towards the camp.

    About 200m away from the camp, a group of 5 rides on horses to meet us. They look relatively close to what people would classify as normal apart from a few features that stand out. They are very tanned with butterfly shaped ears and giant hands that ended in small claws. As they approached we stopped moving to wait for their arrival.

    ¡°Greetings ladies Heartstone and friends, we bring greeting from the tribe grey beak.¡± one of the horse riders says as they slow their approach. As only begin acknowledged as a ¡®friend¡¯ I decided it was not my place to answer in the noble ladies place so I gave a respectful nob instead.

    The noble ladies in question along with their maid exit the carriage to start a conversation with the messengers. I started to listen until I realized they were just exchanging greetings and explaining what has already happened, so I completely zoned out.

    While the others were talking I went up to a lady rider and decided to start a conversation. ¡°I apologize for my arrogance but what do I refer to your people as?¡±

    She looks at me before responding. ¡°There is no need to apologize, I was thinking the same thing about you. We are simply called the nomads, not much different to the humans. We have simply adapted to a different way of life.¡±

    ¡°Thank you for indulging my curiosity. I am a human albino, it is just a rare birth defect.  So what''s the reason behind the festival or more importantly can I join in?¡±

    ¡°It is a coming of age festival, there are games to play, feasts and dancing. It celebrates the coming of age ceremony. The younger generation climbs to the top of the twisted arch to collect a fruit. It sounds simple but they will have to fight against the lous flowers which weaken a person the closer they are to them and the higher they climb the higher the concentration of the flowers. There should be no issue with you joining in with the celebrations but you aren''t allowed to participate in the ceremony. You may climb the twisted arch with the participants but you can not interfere.¡±

    ¡°Sounds like fun I have never done any of those things before, thank you for the information. Hey, guys I heading to the festival call me if you need me!¡± Before they could reply I headed off to the camp at full speed leaving a trail of dust in my wake.

    Once I reached the camp I planned to find the feast with my sense of smell but that plan immediately failed. There was so much going on I couldn''t distinguish what was what. So I just wandered around aimlessly looking for things of interest. I played a couple games such as hit a moving target with unbalanced throwing knives, which I won with relative ease, giving me a few prizes. The prizes where things such as little wooden dolls which I had no use for. I did notice a bunch of kids looking at me with curiosity in their eyes undoubtedly from my appearance, so I gave them the toys. [Hey little children come over to this pale stranger so he can give you some toys. Yeah I should probably leave before I am put on a list.]

    Becoming bored of the games I head over to the base of the twisted arch planning on climbing it while sending Shade off to find the others in case they need me [Can''t have all my hard work go to waste.]

    Standing at the base of the twisted arch is an alone 13 to a 14-year-old girl who is wearing odd face paint and a headdress. I can tell from my empathy that she is very upset and her emotions are in turmoil. [Mat as well cheer her up, sad people are not as fun.]

    I walk up to and stare at the twisted arch with her. ¡°What''s the matter, your fashion statement not go to plan? How that sounds bad now that I say it out loud.¡±

    ¡°Leave me be, I can''t afford to be distracted.¡±

    ¡°Ah yes, heavens forbid I distract you from standing in the middle of a field by yourself staring at a glorified tree.¡±This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.

    ¡°You don''t understand, I can''t afford to fail.¡±

    ¡°Sure you can. Failing is easy it''s living with the failure that is hard. Being sad and having a staring competition with a tree won''t help the outcome. Live life to the fullest and don''t sulk about matters you have no control over. Don''t let the older and stronger tell you what to do, Just kill them in their sleep, they cant be stronger if they are dead. Don''t think of your problem as one big picture look at the smaller parts and systematically destroy them.¡± Before I could continue the girl started to laugh.

    ¡°Well that is not what I was going for with me sage advice but that will do.¡±

    ¡°I am sorry its just you started off so well and then told me to systematically destroy and kill my family and the tribes head family while they sleep.¡±

    [I sense a small group approaching us from behind]

    ¡°Who people are doesn''t matter, it''s what they do that defines them and blood doesn''t mean shit if they are cunts. I never knew my blood and people I called family betrayed me. So who knows you may be better off removing them.¡± Before we could continue our conversation the group came up to us. It was a group of boys around our age who were wearing the same face paint and headdress as the girl.

    ¡°The fuck do you think you''re doing talking to my Jane you little freak,¡± he says as he pulls me around to face him properly.

    ¡°Well, Jane I think I may have figured out why you were upset. Does it have something to do with this thing?¡±

    ¡°Do not ignore my freak!¡± ¡®Thing¡¯ yells.

    The smile was gone from her face as she nods slightly.

    ¡°What are you nodding for bitch? I own you.¡±

    [Little shit stain. I could kill him... but it would be more fun to break him first.]

    ¡°First of all, you can¡¯t own someone she can make her own choices and do what she wants. Second of all would you like to make a bet? A race to the top of the twisted arch to write their name on it as proof. If you win I become your slave for a year and you can have all of my money. If I win you have to challenge Jane to a public duel were you announce that if she wins you will terminate any engagement or interactions with her, as I assume that is what is happening. So are you up for it, or you too scared to lose to the freak? This is if you are ok with this Jane¡± she looks scared but nods again.

    As ¡®thing¡¯ contemplates my offer I notice many young people with face paint and headdresses start to gather around the base of the tree along with some other random people. [Is the ceremony starting now? I have great timing] ¡°Fine I agree, but we should know each other''s name. I am Kristoff grey feather son of the head of the tribe and who are, freak?¡±

    ¡°Names Jacob. Now You want to shake on it?¡±

    Nodding he goes to shake my hand and I yell at the top of my voice the bet we have just made to everyone at the base of the twisted arch. He looks around annoyed but shakes my hand while agreeing in front of all these people. [Can''t have him back down now can we? First I will break his pride and then I will give the shit stain a painful death. And I also get to help out a pretty lady so it''s a win, win situation.]

    Before anything else could be said a large gong was brought over to the base of the twisted arch before it was struck creating a loud noise to silence everyone. And an old man begins to speak. ¡°Greeting participants of the great ceremony, and others. You should all know the rules but I will repeat them anyway. The aim of the ceremony is to climb to the top of the twisted arch while getting past the luos flowers and to collect a luos fruit and bring it back down. There will be no interventions from the others. There will be no flying. There may be fighting but no killing or crippling of any participants or others. On the sound of the next dong, you shall begin.

    On your marks¡­

    [Looks like we are starting] people rush to the base so they can climb at a moments notice.

    ...Get set¡­

    I circulate the aura into my legs as well as adding extra muscle mass as I crouch.

    Gong!!!

    ...Go!...¡±

    I jump straight into the air causing a crater to form at my feet as I am propelled 2Km into the air approximately ? on the way up the twisted arch. I would have gone higher but I did not want to be accused of flying. When I reach the peak of my ascension I grab on to the twisted arch and being to climb at great speed. I make my hands and feet into claws to give my greater purchase as I reduce my weight allowing me to climb up faster.

    Originally I wanted to climb up without using any powers just for fun but now I have a bet to win So I may as well go all out.

    It does not take me long to climb to the top. The luos flower''s pheromones which is what weakens normal people have little to no effect on me so I have no trouble in climbing the twisted arch. Once I reach the top I carve my name in large and deep letters on the bark before I take in the view. For a human, the planes would stretch as far as the eye could see but I could see various forests, mountains, and villages, as well as a city in the distance, where I will travel to after my business with the Heartstone is done. There I can hopefully become an adventurer to grow stronger.

    My sightseeing came to an abrupt end when the sound of shattering glass fills the air. Looking around I see not too far away from the camp aswirl of purple and black takes the shape of a hollow circle where the middle is showing a different terrain then the plans (Basically it is a teleportation gateway). Several men and women walk out from the circle and I feel hostile intentions from them with my empathy. The two strongest of the group come out of the gateway last. One wore black robes with a helmet that covered his face while the over one was sparkling from crystals covering his skin.

    At the same time as the circle appearing, Shade informs me through an image that the maid, Amy has taken Sophie hostage with a knife to the throat.

    [Hahahaha finally something fun to do, I hope they put up a challenge.] Seeing a group of grey beaks riding over to the intruders I jump off the twisted arch towards them while yelling ¡°I want to fight the sparkly dude.¡± [This should be fun.]

 Chapter 33 â€˜Mr sparkle

    As I fall I greatly increase the effect gravity has on me, causing me to fall faster passing several people climbing the twisted arch. While I fall Shade grips the knife Amy is holding to Sophie''s throat and pulls it away with her claws before driving her beak into Amy''s head causing her to die a painless death. I send Shade a feeling of appreciation as I crash in the ground, absorbing half the kinetic energy in the process and using it to launch myself to the front lines.

    Overtaking the representatives of the grey beak tribe I use only my biological strength to punch ¡®Mr sparkle¡¯. He slides back 10m before crystal spikes, similar to the ones on his skin, eject from the soles of his feet propelling him forward while a large crystal rapidly grows on his fist which connects to my chest sending me flying backward plowing through the dirt.

    ¡°Stupid kid.¡±

    ¡°Oh, you have no idea¡± As I stand I reline and fix my broken ribs and will my cells into action increasing my strength and speed by 70%. [This man''s power seems to be based around forming crystals at high speed.]

    Without another word, ¡®Mr sparkle¡¯ waves his hand and the large crystal on it shatters as it is launched towards me like shrapnel. Crossing my arms and spreading them out again I create bone blades with pieces of strengthened spider silk attaching them to my hand. The bone blades and are thrown by my actions and intercepted the crystal shrapnel.

    Bone and crystal met in midair canceling each others momentum leaving them to fall to the earth. Using the silk I pull bone blades back towards me and into the air. Swing the strings around my head I braid the string in midair and combine the bone blades creating a whip. Sending a current of aura lighting the whip it begins to crackle with power as red arcs dance across its surface.

    Meanwhile ¡®Mr sparkle¡¯ uses his crystals to form large claws as he rushes at me using the swiftly growing crystals under his feet to propel himself forward. Using the whip I slash at him but it does not seem to cause any damage.

    Before I could strike again the crystal claws elongate and shot towards me at a high velocity. I prepare to dodge but they miss and embed themselves into the ground. Or at least I thought they missed until they burst through the ground, growing at an astounding rate to imprison me in four walls of crystals while the sky was covered by an incoming giant meat mallet made from, you guessed it, crystal.

    [Ah, that may be a problem.] I jump to the closing gap and use the void to teleport out of the crystal prison. Spinning around I wrap the whip around ¡®Mr sparkle¡¯s neck and control it like a snake to coil around the rest of his body and tighten, all the while having aura lighting coursing through it.

    Hearing at satisfying grunt I smile until ¡®Mr sparkle¡¯s crystals grow, exploding out of him and destroy my whip. With ¡®Mr sparkle¡¯ encased in his own crystal prison, I walk up to it while forming a Hammer made from blood. [Crystals are a brittle substance, so brute force should have the greatest effect.]

    As I approach I hear a faint mumbling coming from the inside the crystals due to my enhanced hearing. [Well that can only mean good things for me.] jumping over to the crystals I raise the hammer above my head and strike down. But before I could make contact, ¡®Mr sparkle¡¯ flashes a bright light from inside the crystals. The light refracts inside of the crystals causing is to come out as beams in random directions.

    The beams that hit me ignite my hair clothes and produce holes in my body where the cells are burnt to a crisp. Even with the pain and damage dealt with me I smile as I shatter most of the crystal shell. With his body revealed once again ¡®Mr sparkle¡¯ waves his hand in my direction and the shattered crystals grow into giant spears that pieces both my shoulders, my chest and my stomach. [Well that is fucking painful.]You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version.

    Then without missing a beat, he begins to chant again. [refracted light beams inside my body? No thank you.] To interrupt his chanting I spit webbing into his mouth which stops him from speaking. coughing up blood I smile at him, "Hehe hey ''Mr sparkle'' guess what that white sticky stuff I spat into your mouth was."

    I then activate my aura and concentrate it around the points in my shoulders, breaking them. With my arms now free I use them to painfully remove myself from the other two crystal spears while using the spilled blood to suffocate the fire on my clothes. ¡®Mr sparkle¡¯s eyes go wide at this as I close the holes in my body and begin to heal. The healing process is slow when I am fighting but it is better than nothing.

    Now that I am free from the crystals I circulate my aura throughout my body increasing my physical prowess while simultaneously recreating my blood hammer. ¡°So you want to dance? I tried to¡­¡±

    Before I could finish ¡®Mr sparkle¡¯ releases an aura and launches a horse sized crystal fist which hits me in the face spending my flying back as my body leaves a deep gouge in the dirt. ¡°Well, that is just rude.¡±

    [¡®Mr sparkle¡¯ can use all three? His aura and crystal power seem to be the strongest, which probably means that he is fairly new to the magic, so it would have tried him out. If I were to guess being able to use area, magic and a power make a person very strong for a shorter period of time but due to the stress of the body and mind controlling three different types of energy, it won''t last long. Which hopefully means I should just have to outlast him in a fight of endurance.]

    Standing up I heal my body as best I can while I make another heavily telegraphed lunge at ¡®Mr sparkle¡¯ only to receive the same treatment as before. [I won''t be able to hold this kinetic energy for long.]

    With a time limit in place I launch my self at him again but this time I teleport to the right to dodge the incoming attack and swing my hammer down towards his head as I laugh maniacally.

    In a panic ¡¯Mr sparkle¡¯ detaches his arm from the crystals and crosses both arms over his head in an effort to protect himself.

    Before my hammer connects with his arms I liquify the blood allowing it to pass through the arms before I resolidify the hammer to strike his face. In response, crystals start to grow rapidly on his face to shield it from harm.

    [So predictable.]

    While striking with the hammer I release the stored kinetic energy in the form of a kick towards his armpit. Just before the blow connects I grow a spike on my knee and produce hemotoxic venom.

    Upon impact from the hammer and the knee ¡®Mr sparkle¡¯ is propelled to the side at high speeds as his chest is caved in and hemotoxic venom now in his bloodstream.

    Coved in his own blood, half his chest caved in and bones sticking out haphazardly ¡®Mr sparkle¡¯ now lies in a hole dyed crimson with his blood. I approach slowly with my guard up as I continue to heal and fix my broken and destroyed cells. [Bastard did a number on me. Hahaha but I wouldn''t have it any other way.] (I think our MC may be a masochist.)

    ¡°You have my respect, ''Mr sparkle'', you were a strong opponent.¡± As I reach the bloody hole a look at the half-dead man I give a nod of respect, Before his aura explodes, creates a transparent image of a large man, made from crystals that proceeds to bitch slap me at a 45-degree angle, sending me back 3km while obliterating the left side of my chest.

    [Well I must admit I was not expecting that.]

    Losing consciousness temporally I find myself slightly over halfway up the twisted arch in a 10 m deep hole. [Mother fucker, that hurt, and what the fuck was that thing? Why did it bitch slap me when I was showing respect? It''s just itching for a fisting.]

    With my heart destroyed I didn''t have long left to live so I began to reconstruct my body starting with the veins and arteries. To make sure I didn''t lose any more body mass I took a highly condensed bone ball from my space ring which I made while still in the forest.

    After a minute my body was in suitable condition again so I decide not to keep ¡®Mr sparkle¡¯ waiting any longer. But once I climb out of the hole my body had made I saw that ¡®Mr sparkle¡¯ was lying dead on the floor while the translucent crystal shadow was nowhere to be seen. [Son of a bitch died without me even there, that''s just inconsiderate. I didn''t even get to finish give him my respect.]

    Looking around I saw the other battles taking place. Selena and a man were both fighting with stone constructs that looked like monsters and beasts while a man with a head of a bird fought the man with the dark cloak and helmet, who seemed to be telekinetic.

    While looking around I also see Kristoff about 10 m below me while Jane was 13m above me. ¡°Oh hey guy, how''s it going? Janes doing well I see. Oh and Kristoff I already made it to the top so you are going to have to hold up your end of the bet.¡±

    ¡°I demand to know what is going¡­¡± Kristoff yells at me but I cut him off.

    ¡°Well I would love to stay and chat but it looks like some of our friends need help and there is more fun to be had.¡± And for the second time that day I jump off of the twisted arch. [I hope I almost die again, it was exhilarating.] (Yeah definitely a masochist)

 Chapter 34 Willbreaker

    Upon impact a cloud of dust forms, covering me and what is left of ¡®Mr sparkles¡¯ from the outside world. Quickly searching the corpse I find a space ring which I use to store the corpse and my own space ring. Still, under the cover of the dust cloud, I make a hollow replica of ¡®Mr sparkle¡¯s head and fill it with 10 monster crystals.

    Attaching a string of spider silk to the base the skull, I walk out of the dust cloud. Heading over to the bird-headed man and the telekinetic dude I throw the head up before catching it few times. Once I am about 50 m away I throw the head at telekinetic dude. The head travels a good distance before stopping 2 m away , floating in mid-air, facing the telekinetic dude.

    ¡°Hey, I got you a present!¡±

    Telekinetic dude looks briefly at before freezing and staring at the floating head. ¡°What have you done?!¡± Yells a shrill and definitely feminine sounding voice. I feel intense waves of loss and anger radiating from her(?).

    ¡°Oh shit, was he your lover? I feel a little bad now, sorry. And here I thought I was giving a nice gift, but it''s the thought that counts right? But don''t worry I was only going to feed his corpse to my pet bird and then fuck his skull.¡±

    ¡°I will fucking kill you, you piece of shit! You will regret the day you were born and wish you were dead when I am done with you!¡±

    ¡°They are completely unoriginal threats...¡±

    While me and telekinetic dudette where having our lovely talk I was giving the bird-headed man a deep sense of fear so he would back away and once he was a safe enough distance, I took control of the monster crystals.

    ¡°Tik, tik, boom.¡±

    ¡°Wha¡­¡±

    The explosion devastated the surrounding area creating a crater 5 m deep with a radius of 15 m.  Telekinetic dudette was lied on the ground barely alive until I send a crossbow bolt imbued with aura lighting into her heart.This story has been unlawfully obtained without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon.

    [Damn I was slightly off with the timing. I was so close to looking like a badass. She would have probably survived if not for being injured by the bird-headed man and me distarting her.]

    (In case you have forgotten the beast cores and monster crystals explode when Jacob tries to control them.)

    [Ok now on to stage two.]

    Just as I had hoped the explosion caused the fighters to look in my direction and while I don''t like being in the spotlight it was necessary for the plan.

    I sent out a pulse of aura and while it does not last or cause any physical effect outside of my body it has the desired effect of producing a large amount of bloodlust and a feeling of carnage which pressured everyone on the battlefield and the closed part of the camp. I then used my empathy to influence everyone but the birds-head and Selena''s emotions.

    I made everyone feel intense loneliness, depression and a shit ton of fear while I removed all positive emotions. This had larger effects on some than others due to their strength of will or how powerful they were, but most fell to the ground crying as they curled up into a ball and pissed themselves (Sounds like my typical Saturday night).

    One of the people my empathy had less of an effect on was Selena¡¯s opponent who looked to be winning moments ago. While he was not crying in a puddle of his own piss and shit he was still frozen in fear, and like everyone still standing who I did not recognize Shade dive-bombed them. driving her beak into the base of their spine, paralyzing them. With the strongest of the opposing forces dead and me recognizing some of the Grey beaks who rode out to fight, everything was dealt with without an issue.

    ¡°Mr bird head I suggest you round up everyone you do not recognize as part of your tribe so they can be detained, and Selena you should probably call your father.¡±

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    POV MC After 5 days

    After the incident, I slept for a whole day and night as my body and mind recovered. And when I woke up I was given the title ¡®Willbreaker¡¯ by the people of grey beak which they now refuse to call me anything else but their given title.

    The male guards were originally furious with me for having Amy killed but eventually came around to the notion that she was an evil manipulative bitch.

    Selena called her father and we found out why everything was happening. The person Selena was fighting with stone constructs was her illegitimate brother who wanted to inherit the noble title for himself so he planned Selena''s death while planting Sophie as the corporate [Which could have worked considering it was the concussion I first came to. Plus it would have been suspicious If he was the only child left to inherit the noble title.] with the original plan and when failed he came himself with his personal guard and some mercenaries. Now Selena and Sophie''s father will meet us at the Arch city while the Grey beaks will escort us there where I and the merchants will get our rewards before we part ways.

    The fight between Kristoff and Jane was announced on the third day. To ensure Janes victory I Injected Kristoff with hallucinogenic poison when we shook hands before the match I also made him very overconfident while making Jane calm and collected. Although It looked like I didn''t need to bother as Jane whooped his ass with her power over plants [Explained how she got past the luos flowers so well.] After the fight, I gave Kristoff a virus to give him a quick but hopefully painful death.

    With five days over and my body fully recover the others and I began our trip to the Arch city with our escort.

 ARC 3 End Chapter 35 on the way to Ach city

    With nothing to do on the way to Arch city I began to look through the space ring of ¡®Mr sparkle¡¯ and began to sort the stored items into categories. Weapons, useful items that I could use, Survival, Money, and objects I can sell. The following items are as follows.

    Weapons:

    A broadsword

    A small dagger

    A large war hammer

    Useful items I can use:

    38 monster crystals

    52 beast cores

    A map of the planes and the green leaf forest

    A higher quality flame gem

    Survival:

    30 days worth of food and water

    Two spare sets of clothes

    A camping tent with a sleeping bag

    Money:

    6G

    75S

    32C

    Objects I can sell:

    My old space ring

    A magic book that I can''t use [Appears to be the light magic he used]

    A proposal ring [Feel a little bad now]

    Some animal and beast pelts

    The first thing I do with my new loot is, break apart the weapons into smaller pieces and absorb them into my body to acquire the minerals to strengthen my body. I then proceeded to inspect the higher quality flame gem. But I was disappointed when I discovered that I could not use it. It seems that a person needs to be able to supply the gem with magic for it to produce a flame. [It appears that I can only use the lower quality elemental gems which produce smaller effects but don''t need magic to work. Come to think of it I won''t be able to use the shield gem I acquired before I entered the forest. I may as well sell them both.] Mentally moving both gems to the objects I can sell pile, I then begin to memories the map before moving it to the sell pile.

    Objects I can sell:

    My old space ring

    A magic book that I can''t use

    A proposal ring

    Some animal and beast pelts

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    Higher quality flame gem

    Shield gem

    These Items should give me some good revenue which I can use to augment my body, by improving my claw¡¯s fire alloy, air pistons etc.

    Now that I have finished sorting the loot I begin to become bored once again so I focus on the hidden passenger who I believe to be a stowaway. Their mid feels familiar to me which is confusing considering I have killed and eaten most of the people I have met. Going deeper into the carriage I am sat in I walk over to a crate where I believe the person to be. The person also appears to be bord and uncomfortable sitting inside of the crate so I give it a knock to get their attention.

    ¡°Hello in there, you are properly as bored as I am so you want to come out and perhaps we can make this more interesting.¡±

    The stowaway feels fear but does not move.

    ¡°Alright then suit yourself.¡±

    [How boring, may as well leave him/her to it. They may be interesting in the future.]

    With nothing better to do, I went back to my spot and sit down. When our journey started I decided to go into one of the empty carriages away from everyone else in case I needed to do some experimenting so I was alone in this storage carriage. But now that I had improved my Strength, speed, reflexes, and senses as well as having gone through ¡®Mr sparkles¡¯ space ring I was now bored.

    With my free time I improved Shades body as best I could without getting in the way of her growing process. While I was improving Shade a small insect resembling a fly started to buzz around my head. In my annoyance, I caught it in my spare hand but before I kill it I have an idea.

    Taking inspiration from the mosquito from Pauls world I begin to reform and change the small insect. I dedicate most of the body to high reactions and speed while covering it with fine hairs that can detect changes in the air. This should increase its survivability while delivering its special package. I have given the now mutated fly/mosquito the same strain of virus that I gave ¡®patient zero¡¯ and with its long needle-like mouth it should be able to deliver the virus with relative ease.

    The plan is to release the virus once I become an adventure in the city. With me being able to easily deal with the virus I will be able to cure the people infected people who will cause chaos and panic. With my non lethal solution, I should be given easy quests and missions to deal with the infected allowing me to progress in the adventurer ranks quickly in a short amount of time.

    Becoming an adventurer is the best cause of action for me. it will allow is to have access to their information network, letting me know where the most powerful creatures are. Being an adventurer will also allow me to get paid while I travel and become stronger.

    Rising in rank will allow me to do harder missions which aline with my goals. The harder missions will put me in interesting and new habitats which will allow me to explore the world. The harder missions will also allow me to become stronger as I fight and discover new techniques and abilities. All of which will allow me to destroy the church easier and have fun while doing it, two dragons with one boulder and all that.

    But before any of that, I want to make some money by selling the shit I don''t need so I can augment my body. I then want to find and destroy anyone related to the slavers, possibly even find Dave and/or like-minded people to destroy the church. Once all that is done I will become an adventurer and rise up the ranks.

    The adventure rankings are fairly simple (I hope). They are as follows from highest to lowest:

    Diamond

    Gold

    Silver

    S+

    S

    S-

    A+

    A

    A-

    B+

    B

    B-

    C+

    C

    C-

    The letters go to F- with the + and - for each letter (Could not be asked to do all that). Each letter is a rank while a + and - is a sub-rank. An adventurer needs to complete 8 missions before they can go up a sub-level. Once an adventurer has completed 24 missions they have to challenge a person from an above ranking to a dual where they need to tie or win the fight to raise in rank.

    Missions from the rank below count as 1 Mission. Missions from a adventurers rank counts as 2. While a mission from the above ranking counts as 3. An adventurer can only take a mission one rank above their own. (Let me know if this is confusing and I will try to explain it better or change it.)

    With the favor of the two merchants, the Grey beak tribe and the stoneheart noble family, I have been informed that I should be put up to the C- rank when I join. They have given me tokens to prove their favor. Sadly or luckily no Noble family or tribe can influence the Adventurers guild to a high degree so C- is the highest anyone can fast track too.

    Being at the C- rank I will only have to do 8 missions of the B rank until I have to challenge a B rank to raise my own rank. This should not take too long with my strength and the virus.

    Before my mind can drift anymore The carriage driver yells back at me ¡°Willbreaker, we have reached Arch city get ready!¡±

    [Finally, the real fun can begin.]

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    Mini announcement

    Starting next week I have a 2 week holiday and then two weeks of exams. Due to this I will be studying a fair bit and will also be spending time with my family with it being the X-Mas holidays.

    This won''t give me much time to write so I will probably only release a chapter once a week on Wednesday 4-6pm UK time. I will, however, try to get an extra chapter out on Christmas day but no promises.

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    The announcement for Ach city was an hour premature as we had to line up in a long ass queue. So I had to wait again. I have come to the conclusion that I dislike waiting. Something inside me did not like waiting around and doing nothing. I wanted to be enjoying life, hunting, killing and eating [Maybe it has something to do with my instincts from my biological heritage. Curious ]

    To stop myself from causing a riot with my empathy or viruses I decided to play with myself (Not in that way you sick fuck he is like 10. Jk love you all). I begin by creating lots of venoms, poisons, and pathogens (a bacterium, virus, or other microorganisms that can cause disease.) in isolated parts of my body while stimulating my immune system to its highest possible state.

    The result was excruciatingly painful as my body was torn apart from the inside as it died [Fucking cunting bastard this hurts (Choke me harder daddy)] Despite the pain I did not intervene as me body slowly fought the toxic substance. After 45 minutes and many different variations of the toxins introduced to my body, I had the desired effect. My body was now Immune to all the biological toxins I could create, most of which are incredibly deadly. I reason I did this was so that I could hopefully be immune to toxins entering my body and while I could control my body to remove the effects, I may not always be in a situation where I am able to. With my body now immune it can fight off the toxins naturally. As for this working on magically modified toxins, I have no idea but it can''t hurt. I spend the last 5 minutes make sure my body was back to normal as well as refining my cells.

    Once at the gate the guards gave us a half-hearted search before letting us into the bustling city. Having finally entered Arch city I go to the front of the carriage so I get a good view, and immediately discovered why it is called Arch city. The city was surrounded by 10 twisted arches with the hollow parts filled with a stone wall, creating the perimeter of the city.

    ¡°Hey mate [I forgot the driver''s name] do you mind taking me to the adventurers guild before the meeting with the heartstones?¡±

    ¡°That will be fine Willbreaker we have time, I actually wanted to go there myself to offer an escort quest. Perhaps you would be interested in it?¡±

    ¡°I appreciate the offer but I have been traveling for over a year now and I would like a little break before I head back out there.¡±

    ¡°Understandable, Willbreaker. I hope the rest treats you well but be warned cities are not as peaceful as they appear.¡±

    ¡°Haha I am counting on it, I wouldn''t want to get bored.¡±

    ¡°Ha you are one crazy ass kid¡±

    ¡°Thank you but complements won''t get you anywhere, I am not into old men.¡±

    ¡°You wish kid. You know if I didn''t see you remove a man''s head, throw it at his lover and explode it I would be taking your ass to an orphanage.¡±

    ¡°Why, so you could try your moves on the other kids?¡±

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    Our good-natured bickering lasted until we reached the adventurers guild hall where we parked the carriage to the side and walk in together until we split up to do our separate tasks. I went up to one of the requirement desks while the grey beak nomadic driver went up to a desk next to the mission board presumably to post his job offer.

    Looking around I noticed that all the receptionists were attractive young men and woman. I along with the people in my line were lining up for an attractive brown haired lady with green eyes [She is pretty but she looks boring like she would just allow people to do everything for her.] Taking note of the recruitment process it looked like it required 25S so I prepared it in advance. After a few minutes, I was at the front of the line.

    The brown haired lady spoke in a bored and monotone voice ¡° To join the guild you will need to present your full name, pay 25S and sign these forms stating you will not betray the guild or a contracted quest with your blood.¡±

    Handing over the money I created a tentacle and discreetly take some blood from the person behind me which I used to sign the form.

    ¡°My name is Jacob.¡±

    ¡° Sigh Jacob¡­ what.¡±

    ¡°What?¡±

    She looks annoyed ¡°What.Is.Your.Last.Name.You.Stupid.Little.Boy?¡±

    [Bitch. Can''t start a fight here though, I can, however, infect her.]

    Creating another tentacle I use it to infect her with the ¡®zero¡¯ virus.

    ¡°I don''t have one¡±

    ¡°Great another weak peasant that thinks that they can play hero. Ha, you should go jump off the wall now and save us some time babysitting your pathetic weak ass.¡±

    [Wow what great manners. How the fuck did she get this job? Control yourself, getting this job will help your plans]

    With a pained smile I place the three tokens I revived from the two merchants, the bird-headed man and Selena representing the three groups favor towards me.

    She looks at them then at me. ¡°Oh...I still need a last name though.¡± [Absolute bitch.]

    At this moment the nomad driver comes up to me. ¡°Willbreaker have you done yet? We don''t have long until the meeting.¡±

    The lady looks at the nomad and asks in a questioning voice ¡°Willbreaker?¡±

    ¡°Yeah, it''s my title apparently. It''s a long story...It can be my surname.¡±

    She snorts ¡°Bit pretentious isn''t it?¡±

    ¡°Yup, how could you do your job please.¡±

    She frowns but proceeds to fiddle around with some items on her desk before handing me a card made from a light blue material.

    ¡°This will show your name, Jacob Willbreaker, and your rank of C-. You can show this at various stores and some will give you a discount. NEXT!¡±

    ¡°Thank you¡± [What a delightful lady.]

    ¡°Fucking piece of work that one.¡± the Nomadic carriage driver was a little more vocal in his displeasure.

    ¡°Well, Willbreaker now it''s time to meet the Heartstones.¡±

    After leaving the guild hall we headed to the meeting place, which was a restaurant that specializes in steak of the local herd beasts. Although I would have loved to eat some good food I only wanted to get my reward so I could start my plans. So once the driver dropped me off at the restaurant and we said our goodbyes I walk over to the group but did not sit down.

    Once at the group''s table I noticed the Selena and Sophie''s father was not present, instead there was the butler that I saw through the magical communication mirrors. He was in a posh looking suit while the two noble women were in elegant dresses. While the two merchants just wore their regular clothes. The guards sat at another table.

    Standing up the butler offered me his hand which I shook [Soft hands, possibly a magic user but I doubt he is proficient in close combat.]

    ¡°Welcome Jacob, do you care to join us for a meal?¡± The Butler offers.

    ¡°I appreciate the offer kind sir, but I am on a tight schedule today. Apologies for my bluntness but I only came to say goodbye and to claim my reward. I have lots to do in a little time frame.¡±

    With a dejected look, he replies ¡°That is a shame Jacob, but I would like to extend an offer to you nonetheless. Would you like to work for the Heartstone¡­¡±

    ¡°No thank you, I have had enough of being owned by someone.¡±

    ¡°I see. Well here is your reward, 20G and an intricately carved stone knife with an ivory handle.¡±

    ¡°Thank you for your generosity, farewell everyone I hope we meet again.¡± [Fucking finally these people were soooo boring. I should leave quickly before they try talking again.]

    Walking over to the two merchants I shake their hands before shaking all the guard''s hands, some were even tearful but it didn''t stop me from injecting each and every one of them with the ¡®zero¡¯ virus.

    Walking away from them I gave them a final wave and goodbye before I went off into the streets.

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 Chapter 37 Preparations

    Walking around Ach city I went in the direction of the people yelling low prices, assuming it was the closest market. After a short journey, I found a wide street with stalls and stores lining the sides. I seemed to be in a high sector or at least Ach city¡¯s equivalent, everyone was more attractive due to the selective breeding and powerful genetics. They all wore expensive looking clothes that further enhanced their features.

    All this made me realize that I must stand out being an albino in a black trench coat covered in knives. [Probably doesn''t help that I haven''t cleaned my self in...months? Maybe it would be beneficial to clean myself and make new clothes before making large purchases, it could avoid trouble and get me better deals. Fuck, that means I need to go to a bathhouse.] Changing direction I now follow the smell of soap and the sound of water splashing.

    Finding the closest bath house I pay the fee of 5S and go into the changing room. Finding a corner I reabsorb the trench coat and put my knives into the space ring. Now naked (and afraid) With only a towel I see myself in the giant ass mirror in the changing room, because I am sure all the guys in here want more angles to look at each other''s dicks. I have lean and defined muscle covered by porcelain white skin with fine snow like hair which makes my blood colored eyes stand out like a torch in the dark. Or my skin would be white if it wasn''t for it being caked in blood and mud while scars crisscrossed across by my body like some abstract art done by a demon. I kept the scars from all my fights as a reminder to get stronger but I may need to make some room in the future if I keep being mortally wounded.

    Heading out of the changing room I head to the bathing rooms, looks like this bathhouse was a male, female and mixed room (Yes it is obvious what is going to happen. I am building the infrastructure in case the voting of a romantic interest. I will do the same for the other options as well.) Looking into the male bath I see that it is completely full (Oh wow! what a surprise! Who would have guessed? ) [Fuck. I will have to try the mixed bathing room.] Moving to the mixed room I look inside and see there''s still space so I walk inside and find a corner for my self as I start cleaning.

    I do the same as the last bathhouse I was in as I disconnect all the outer skin cells and start to scrub away the dirt. I stayed in the corner and tried to avoid looking at people [Just wished the assholes had the same courtesy]. While cleaning my self I felt an aura pulse out causing people to move away from my conner''s general location [Here we go. Feels different from other auras, maybe it''s magical? or a power?]

    With most people leaving the general area the aura focuses on me so I turn to face the culprit trying to stay at eye level which is difficult as the culprit is a very attractive female in the middle teens (Oh wow! what a surprise! Who would have guessed? P.S. plz no call FBI on me It would be attractive from his point of view as he is 10-14 years old. Plz, I am too ''innocent'' to go to prison.)

    ¡°You look like a masochist snowman,¡± She says in an accent I do recognize.

    ¡°Thank you, I try very hard for this look. Getting the scorch marks on my back was especially difficult, but differently worth it.

    She smirks and the aura intensifies.

    ¡°You know calling someone a masochist and then pressuring them could be taken the wrong way. Are you trying to seduce me?¡±

    ¡°You wish snowman, I just want the corner.¡±

    (I have come to the conclusion that I have no idea how interactions between the two sexes work so bear with me)

    ¡°Go to another corner?¡±

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    ¡°No, I know the assholes in the other corners I don''t want them to see me bathing.¡±

    ¡°Ah, the other bath full as well?¡±

    ¡°Yup¡± Her aura intensifies again and I feel the bloodlust embedded within.

    ¡°Stop trying to seduce me this is hardly the time or place.¡±

    ¡°Just fucking move then.¡± She shrugs her shoulders in exasperation which takes more willpower to maintain eye contact.

    ¡°Well, I would probably be done by now if you didn''t come over to flirt with me.¡±

    ¡°Flirt with you? Do you even know what flirting is?¡±

    (Honestly no fucking clue.)

    ¡°Honestly no fucking clue.¡±

    Sighing she rolls her eyes at me before making eye contact. ¡°Do you mind?¡±

    ¡°What?¡±

    ¡°You have been staring into my eyes since I came over here. I can understand your attraction but it is becoming unnerving.¡±

    ¡°Ah, ok and here I thought I was being a gentleman¡± discontinuing the eye contact I look at the rest of her body.

    ¡°That was not an invitation to eye the rest of me.¡±

    ¡°Yeah but now I know why you want to hide your body so much.¡±

    ¡°The fuck is that supposed to mean.¡± Her face goes red as she moves her hand to slap me.

    ¡°The illusions.¡±

    Her hand stops mid swing as I sense fear and anger.

    ¡°They properly wouldn''t hold up too well while cleaning your body. Or at least the mental exhaustion would be high. Hmm, I doubt it is your race, I have seen no open racism and there are a few non-humans in this bath. Your light-hearted comment suggests you would not hide something as trivial as a scar. Ah...This city , as far as I know, has a large black market for slavery being a trading hub. You have been branded but managed to escape?¡±

    ¡°How..?¡± Her eyes widen.

    ¡°I could probably remove it if you want¡­¡±

    ¡°What¡­¡±

    ¡°For a price. But we probably shouldn''t talk about that sort of thing here. I am done here I will meet you at the entrance if you want.¡±

    Using empathy I confused her so she would let me go. [I was clean there was no need to stay here.] Leaving the bathrooms I went back to my changing room and once I was dried off I  created a black T-shirt and brown trousers from finely wovens hairs. Not forgetting the horizontal bone beam for shade and now that I was clean and had regular clothes on I headed outside to wait for a bit.

    As I wait Shade decides to land on my head instead of her regular perch on my shoulder. Not minding too much we begin to communicate through images and feelings. She is becoming stronger and more intelligent as time goes on. I am not sure how she would have developed in the wild but I like to think I have had a positive influence on her.

    After waiting half an hour and feeling her go out a back window I decide to leave [Oh well I will have to find the slavers another way then. Shame, she smelt of blood, she could have been interesting.]

    Heading back towards the market I send Shade off to the slums to find an empty place I could temporarily use.

    The market was as busy as ever as people yelled out the price of their goods. Because of all the noise, it was difficult to find what I was looking for until I stumbled across from it in the crossroad.

    In the middle of where two streets meet was a small platform about 1 m high with a man yelling out prices for goods. It was an auction stand what would sell other peoples goods to an open crowd while taking a small percentage of the earnings. This allows for a person with little market knowledge such as myself to sell their goods at a decent rate. But most importantly it was difficult to trace the person who sold and brought the items with such a large open crowd.

    Noting the location I do a circuit of the streets, slightly changing my features as I go. When I made it back to the auction platform I had pale blue eyes with pale blonde hair with slightly tanned skin.

    The man on the wooden stage wore a top hat as he was listing prices at high speed, while an attractive woman held up the item being sold. Off to the side was a younger woman who was sitting on a box.

    After talking to the lady on the box I arranged for my items to be sold. Then after a long auction all my items sold for 12G and 32S. Once I received the money I walk over to the rest of the market while slowly changing my appearance again.

    Once in the market, I found a shop that sold magical elemental gems. Finding fire, air, and electrical gems I bought 20 of each element for 20S each for 12G overall [Would have stolen the bloody things but the bastard was watching me and I don''t have the time. I then purchased 10G worth of high-quality steel and exchanged 1G for 10,000C which got me some weird looks.

    At the end of my spending spree, I had 18G 4S and 32C to my name (Not counting the 10,000C). With stores mentally located and the desired items required I headed to the empty hut, Shade has found me in the slums.

    [It''s time for somebody augmentation and then I am going to rob all these fuckers. Hehe I look forward to it.]

    (Sorry the last bit was a bit rushed but I feel like it wouldn''t add anything and I was honestly getting bored. Blood and chaos should begin soon.)

 Chapter 38 Body augmentation

    Once reaching the small hut I lock the doors and windows with an adhesive produced from melted bone. I then proceed to take out all of the bought items from today.

    Starting with the air gems I begin to eat them, breaking and crushing them with my mouth before letting them dissolve in my stomach acid. Once the air gem has the consistency of sand I begin to move it around my body. First I improve the air pistons in my legs, allowing me to move at a high velocity at a moments notice. I then move on the respiratory system. I give both right and left bronchi (the main passageway into the lungs.) a layer of the air gems along with the capillaries (very thin blood vessels bring nutrients and oxygen to tissues and remove waste products.) inside of my body. This allows for oxygen to be delivered to the parts of my body that need it with ease. This should also allow me to gain oxygen without having to breathe for extended periods of time.

    Next, I move on the fire gems. Making them into the same consistency as I did with the air gems I begin to move it around the designated locations throughout my body. Using the metal and bone in my body I make a fire alloy like the one I used to have in my claws. I move the alloy into my hands, elbows, knees and feet, the body parts most likely to be used offensively. In these areas I produce organs and arteries, modified with improved stomach lining, to produce and secrete acid if needed.

    Moving on to the electrical gems I make them into the same consistency before getting to work. This time I move the electrical gem dust to the cells and organs that generate electricity. This improves the electrical output produced by the cells and organs. Grabbing the copper I grid it up inside my body and begin to improve the conductivity inside my body allowing for the electrical current to flow more efficiently without transferring the energy into heat (Energy doesn''t disappear so the electrical energy lost would have turned into wasted heat energy the internal copper wiring will reduce the energy lost. Also, I know silver in more conductive but it is also more susceptible to corrosion and with gold being a little too expensive copper is the best choice at the moment.)

    With my internal wiring done I move on the high-quality steel which I also eat. I use the minerals to strengthen my body and I begin to give some of my cells a flexible steel cell wall with pores allowing it to continue its functions.

    With all the purchased items used I take out ¡®Mr sparkles¡¯ corpse and absorb it into my body. I then being to change the bone structure of my appendages. Making them more snakelike and flexible without removing any durability or power output. Next, I create microscopic holes over my neck and head which allows sound waves from my echolocation ability to be produced continually. Once this is done I form a layer of scales under my skin along with a lattice of cord-like hair for protection.

    With the foundation and infrastructure in place, I get up from my sitting position to look outside but notice that is becoming morning [Shit, robbing stores in broad daylight will attract attention that I could do without. Maybe I should spread the plague again? That way when I attack the slavers the riots and general chaos should stop from any backers intervening. It should take half a day for someone with the ¡®zero¡¯ virus to show symptoms and then it will probably be in the lustful state for a day. So If I infect people now it should take about three days for people to start showing the rage symptoms. This is when I will assault the slavers. After that, I can fast-track my way up the adventure ranks to gain more support and knowledge so I can get stronger.]

    With this in mind, I use my body mass to mass produce the mosquito-like insects I created on the way into the city. Keeping the creatures in stasis like state inside of my body, I begin to walk around the slums releasing them in ones and twos at random intervals. Finding the occasional water well I would contaminate it with the virus hopefully allowing the virus to spread. If I walk by anyone I would use a tentacle to inject them at high speed. Sadly I could not infect the entire city¡¯s water source as only the slums had water wells while the rest of the city had pumps or water magic. The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.

    Once I have walked around a large part of the slums I decided to walk into the rest of the city infecting people and releasing insects as I go. Not looking like what people would associate with Jacob I walked around to various taverns and brothels infecting people and kegs as I go. [Well if you think about it I will probably helping the brothels out with all the lust that will be going on.] I was ¡®invited to talk¡¯ by a few of the whores at the brothels but I declined as I distributed the virus. Lucky not being in my regular form I did not tarnish my reputation by going to a brothel after brothel. Not that I care about such things. But it would be difficult to persuade the adventures guild to give me a job to solve a problem with a bunch of horny and angry people if they thought I loved brothels.

    I kept walking around the city until it was truly dark where most people were going to sleep. Once I felt that most people were asleep with my empathy I decided to go to the stores I visited the day before. Going to the magical elemental gem store first I noticed that the lock had some magical runes surrounding it and while it could have been a bluff I did not want to chance anything. Because of the possibility of a defense/alarm system I simple grew a thin tentacle through the keyhole. Once part of my body was on the other side it was easy to teleport inside of the store after making the sure the coast was clear.

    Now that I am inside I take all the available fire, air, and electrical gems. I also take a cloak that uses dark and light magic to either make the user very bright or to bend into the shadows easier. With nothing else of interest I walk over to the counter with the till on top and a safe underneath it. The till is empty so I assume all the money is in the metal safe not so stealthy hidden behind a false wooden panel. The safe had the same magical lock as the front door. [Why do idiots always put some much protection on the locks, doors, and gates when they leave the side wide open.] Using my hand I secrete acid onto the side of the safe where it melted with relative ease. Counting 41G 32S and 78C I smiled as I left the store. Before I left however I made an identical yet severed head of the shopkeep I meant yesterday and placed it o the counter.

    Leaving the store I rob all the stores on the block while leaving severed heads in the location I found the money. Not knowing what everyone looked like I used random faces of people I remember seeing. After robbing the metal\forge, the last store on the block, a guard saw me leave the building.

    ¡°Stop right there!¡± Yelling he rushes towards me.

    ¡°Alright,¡± I answer as I stop and wait for him.

    ¡°Wait for you actually stopped?¡± In his surprise, he falters slightly.

    ¡°Yup, please be gentle it''s my first time unless you count having your ass probed by your adopted dad. Uh, I am asking for a friend?¡± I say in an innocent voice.

    ¡°Wha...¡±

    Before he could finish I decapitate him. Blood sprays like a fountain as the body falls over limp. Smiling I cauterize the wound to stop the blood flow before I start to play with the corpse. Taking over the central nervous system (Spinal cord) I start to reform the now dead man''s brain inside his own body. This cause a small bump on his chest due to the storing of the brain matter. Removing the armor the coved the stomach I make a giant mouth with crooked yellow teeth. I also give it the ability of echolocation so it can move freely [Ha, looks like my old nightmares.] Making the new creature unconscious I climb on top of one of the stores to count my gains and to continue my body augmentation.

    In total I gained 92G, 67S and 23C giving me a total of 1P(Platinum which is 100G) 10G, 71S, and 55C. [Not bad, not bad at all.] Apart from the cloak that has the effect to slightly bend light I did not find anything worth taking apart from the metal and gems I am going to use for improving my body.

    Once I have finished looking at my ill-gotten gains I being to add the metal and gems to my body. With The infrastructure and foundation in place, it did not take me long to finish my body''s improvements and I even had some metal and gems left over as my body was full of minerals and did not need improving in those fronts. I managed to improve all me previous modifications and complete giving all my cells a steel cell wall.

    With the augmentation done I began to refine the cells in my body and removing all the impurities and waste from them. By the end, my body was practically perfect. [I think I should focus on my power and aura for a bit with my body like this.] (He will continue to condense his body and such but it will be less of a focus from now on.)

    Looking up to the sky I see the sun rising and I hear people walking up and moving outside. Sitting up on the rooftop I meditate and enjoy the view before hopping down from the roof as I start to hear screaming. With a smile on my face, I walk back towards the slums as I hear a scream, the sound of flesh tearing and the new creature roaring. [The virus should be taking effect soon. Ha, let the fun begin.]

 Chapter 39 Playing with corpses

    Walking back to the slums I infected people as I went until I saw a sewer grate at a dead end of a street, closed off by a metal grate. [I wonder if they have a similar rat problem as green leaf city. I could improve the rats maybe try some experimenting.]

    Walking over to the gate I don''t bother to pick the lock as I just move my cells around the metal beams of the grate and reform on the other side. Once inside I walk into the dark using echolocation to see. walk alone through the sludge I use my empathy to attract any and all life in the vicinity to my location. When the life forms, mainly consisting of large rats, made it to me I would kill them before they could even register what they were drawn to.

    [this is taking to long I should change my approach]. I stood still as I concentrated on sensing everything in a 7 Km radius and bringing it towards me. The result was a tidal wave of angry rats and the occasional stay animal. The angry wall of flesh hurdles towards me as I raise my hand and gently touching the lead rat.

    Controlling its body I make it explode in a mass of tentacles that spread out and touched the other large animals. This created a domino effect as each animal touch by a tentacle exploded as I gained control.

    With all the animals dead I made their deformed corpses into a ball of condensed bone, making it easier to carry around. Creating the wheels on my feet I spread along the walls, as the ground was covered in sludge, to repeat the process.

    Once I had made my rounds around the smaller sewer I headed deeper into the larger tunnels after unlocking a great. [It appears both green leaf and Arch city have the same sewer layout and they both seem to keep around the mutant rats as a training exercise].

    Attracting the larger rats in the same matter I overpower them with speed, strength and my control over their bodies. Killing the larger mutated rats I add their corpses to the bone ball as I continue going through the sewers. After an hour I decide to head back up to the surface so I can see the effects of the ¡®zero virus¡¯.

    Leaving the sewers I am now on the surface heading back to the slums. [Not as many people on the streets today, should not be long before the fun really starts and I can kill all the slavers.] The people I do see I infect with the virus before I make it back to the slums.

    [Well that''s not something you see every day.] Walking through the slums I did not see a single person until I walked in deep and was greeted by the sight of a giant orgy. The mass of human bodies pressing against each other in pleasure was interrupted by me systematically killing and absorbing them into the bone ball.

    [I feel a bit bad for the innocents, but this gives them a painless death as opposed to what is to come. The other innocents who become infected, I should be able to cure them all. But the people from the slums would have just being slaughtered.]

    It seemed like most of the slum''s population was gathered here but not one of them cared as I killed their partner as they were too intoxicated in lust. [This is going to take for ages if I keep doing it like this.] squatting down I place my hand onto a skinny bald man who was...fucking a dog [Seriously dude? There are like thousands of people here and you go for the dog?]

    Placing my hand on his back I send a pulse of control through his body allowing my control to spread to those he is touching and the people touching them and so on. They were all weak compared to me so my control was not obstructed as I absorbed the mass of people into the bone ball.

    Standing alone in the now empty streets I decided that it is now time to begin experimenting. The ball has thousands of corpses worth of body matter in it and weighed several tons. This may seem like a lot but the bodies were weak and unrefined and while I can solve that problem I can''t give the body mass any mystical energy (Magic, aura or a power. Mystical energy is just easier to say.) I first thing I do is absorb half of the body mass into myself, refining and condensing it to my body''s standard while incorporating it into my biological structure, improving it.

    With the first step done I split the ball into thirds while taking out six beast cores [It¡¯s time to make some babies.] Monster crystals would not work for what I had in mind as the creatures would not be born of magic.

    Taking the first ball I make a horse sized dog with long hair and three rat tails focusing its build on speed. I give the large dog the ability to control its hair and to produce sonic scream similar to the mutant rats. Connecting both strands of nerves and ligaments required I place one beast core. Next, I give it the organs and cells to produce electricity while being resistant to electrical voltage. Moving on to the three 4m long rat tail I place two hooks and a blade made from keratin. Lastly, I connected the electrical cells and tail to put the second beast core into the currently dead creature.

    Moving onto the second bone ball I get to work. Forming a vaguely humanoid body with a height of three meters and a build meant for strength. I give the creature a meter long snake-like neck with the head of a king cobra making it 4m overall. Making the arms 2m long with 50cm long claws I copy my own design giving it the ability to secrete acid into its claws. Forming a two chamber scorpion tail on its back I fill it with my modified venoms. Lastly, I cover the body in bone plating like the guard''s armor. I place a beast core in its spine and stomach respectively.

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    Now onto the last ball, I make a mass of tentacles around a sphere that was practically just a mouth and stomach with a small brain. I ended the tentacles is various keratin constitutions. Hooks, ax heads, knife blades, and morning stars. With no real focus, I just place the last two beast cores into its head while adding echolocation.

    Bring all three of my ¡®children¡¯ to life I keep them in a deep sleep to inspect their bodies. All three and incredibly unstable and will most likely explode in an hour. [Ha, that''s not what I was aiming for.] Using my control I fix the body''s as much as I can. In the end, I gain an extra two days but ultimately the beast cores are from different magically evolved beats which are only meant to have one beast core at a time. [I will just have to hope they can evolve somehow in the next two days. But I do also want to see one explode though. It''s a win, win either way.]

    Finished with my creations I use my empathy to find the largest body of non-infected sentients in the area and head towards them. Their emotions lead me to a two-story house, which is odd at it is the only non-single story hut I have seen in the slums.

    The house and the huts surrounding it are full of people who are feeling fear, anger, and annoyance, while some are showing the first symptoms of my virus.

    I listen in on the house believing the people in charge to be there which will give me context to the situation.

    ¡°I am telling you, Boss, these people were crazy, just fucking on the street and then I saw these people just smashing some guys head like it was nothing.¡±

    I silently jump onto the roof of the house as I begin to make a hole that went into the room that they were talking in.

    ¡°I say we should just join in. We would just get to have an orgy for free, and while everyone is distracted we can rob them all blind.¡± says one of the infected.

    I change into my regular albino form as I send a tentacle into the room.

    ¡°Shut up you idiot, something is clearly not right.  People acting crazy, I saw my nephew kill his sister this morning before he tried to kill me!¡± says the first guy.

    ¡°Shut up both of you!¡± Says who I assume to be the boss.

    With my tentacle inside the room, I teleport inside, alarming the inhabitants. The Boss who was sat in the only cair in the room stood up with a sword in his hand as the infected guy drew a knife. The first guy just raised his hands in surrender. They both look at him.

    ¡°What, the guy just teleported without us even knowing he was here.¡±

    Nodding at the ¡®first guy¡¯ I grab the infected guy''s neck and snap it.

    ¡°Don''t bother¡± I say while sending a pulse of my aura and fear into the Boss and ¡®first guy¡¯ who both were about to attack. ¡°He was infected, and at the moment, death is the only cure I have found.¡±

    Both men fall to their knees as sweat drips down their faces.

    ¡°So, you''re the Boss? Are you the local gang leader? Don''t worry I mean you no harm whatever your answer, I just want information.¡±

    ¡°Ye...yes I am the gang leader as you put it. I don''t mind me asking, who are you? What did you mean by infected?¡±

    ¡°Excellent. The crazed people you were talking about are infected with something. I don''t yet know what but my source says someone in the slave market does. That''s why I am here [It''s not but I may as well go with it] I need you to tell me how to find the slavers. Oh and the names Jacob Willbreaker.¡±

    He gives a dry laugh ¡°Willbreaker sounds about right. I can show you where we do some of our...deals with the slavers but that''s all I can do.¡±

    I give a more intense pule this time. With a sadistic smile, I place my hand on ¡®First guy''s¡¯ forehead and release all his hormones at once. This causes his skin to bulge as blood leaks from his eyes and ears before I make him explode. His last moments were agony as he screamed and cried out in pain.

    ¡°Tut Tut Mr boss ¡®all you can do?¡¯ really? Take me to them¡± I say as I reform ¡®First guy¡¯ and bring him back to the living. ¡°I don''t recommend lying to me a second time.¡±

    ¡®First guy¡¯ completely breaks down without my input as he curls up into a ball as he cries and screams with piss and shit leaving his body like rivers.

    Downstairs I hear people yelling as they run up the stairs to investigate.¡± Shade my dear, could you?¡± She nods as she hopes of my shoulder, obliterates the door with some dark energy and descends the stair. Downstairs erupts into chaos as screams can be heard.

    Meanwhile ¡®boss¡¯ is shaking as tears run down his face. ¡°So are you going to tell me about the slavers, or am I going to need to touch your next?¡±

    ¡°Ok, ok please don''t, please...I...I will tell you where they sell their slaves. I know it is close to their base. People meet there before the slaves are brought out to be sold. It''s in the underground tunnels from the old city¡­¡±

    ¡°Just show me, it will be easier. Stand up let''s go.¡±

    ¡°But...Ahhhhh!!!¡± I send an intense pain through his body.

    ¡°But what?¡±

    ¡°N...nothing...I will take you there. Pease¡­¡±

    ¡°Excellent shall we go? Don''t dilly dally I have no sympathy for thugs who helps slavers.¡±

 Chapter 40 The fear of laughter

    POV Eva

    It has been a week since I escaped from the slavers. Originally I planned on getting as far away from them and this shit pile of a city as I can. But I can''t just leave the others behind.

    [Ah! But I barely managed to escape last time. If it wasn''t from the pain of being branded, which triggered my powers I would have been enslaved by magic and forced to do who knows that. But I can''t just leave them with these horrible people. But so far I have only learned to hide and teleport in shadows while being able to make basic bitch illusions. I could steal a key. But then what? Lead a 100 people out of an underground maze filled with guards? That''s not going to go well.]

    While I was having my internal crisis I watched the waiting room, which is just a large round room with a stone wall that was only about 100 m away from the exit of the underground tunnels. Being underground the room is lit with torches that cast eerie dancing, shadows, one of which I am hiding in. The room was filled with rich merchants and snobbish nobles and any other sick fuck wanting to buy a slave.

    Before I can begin my rant on the bastards I hear a young male''s laughter coming from the tunnel that leads to the surface. [Great another rich young cunt] Looking at the entrance I see the young male. He had a handsome face with well-defined muscles that are covered by a pale white skin. His paperwhite skin was covered in faint scars that seemed to dance across his skin as he moved. Wearing a black shirt and tanned brown pants, he walked into the room, his bewitching red eyes taking in everything around him. Sitting on his head was a pitch black bird with purple eyes and tail feathers. [Its the fucking snowman from the bathhouse!]

    With a mischievous glint in his eye, he addressed the people in the room. ¡°So you guys and gals came to get slaves as well? How delightful, I hope we can all be the best of friends. I have never owned a slave before, but it should be fun. How about you guys?¡±

    ¡°Shut up kid I don''t care about your rambling.¡± Says an elegant looking lady in a tightly hugging dress.

    ¡°A thousand apologies, to the great whore.¡± He replies while laughing.

    ¡°Do you know who I am¡­¡±

    ¡°Well I just called you a whore so, clearly I do.¡±

    ¡°You¡­¡±

    Before she could reply a mirror image of the boy appeared standing behind her to drive a knife into her back. Before anyone could react the boy laughs again before jumping at the closest person he removes their head. What happened next was a slaughter as blood flowed like a river as the boy danced around the room at such a speed, I could only see after images.

    When everyone was dead the boy stopped as he gave a sad smile. The bird hopped off of this head before it starts to eat the fresh corpses hearts. I would have gagged if I had a physical body at the moment.

    Suddenly his head whips around and looks straight at me! His eyes that looked bewitching and beautiful, now look predatory as they stare at me. [How does he know?!]

    ¡°So you going to come out? Or are you going to run away like last time?¡±

    [How does he know it''s me?!]

    ¡°I here to kill the slavers, free the slaves and possibly find the closest thing I have had to a friend. Your help would be appreciated and I could remove that brand for you while we are at it.¡±

    [He could be lying, but what could have to gain? There would be no point in him killing those people if he was. He looks strong. With his help made I can save everyone.]

    Ever so slowly I ¡®step¡¯ out of the shadow and look at him. He smiles.

    ¡°You''re not naked¡­.¡±

    ¡°The fuck would I be naked for?¡± I feel my face turn slightly red.

    ¡°...Well, that means you can take things into the shadow with you correct?¡±

    ¡°Huh, I hadn''t thought of that.¡±

    ¡°Can you take people?¡±

    ¡°I have never tried. But we could give it a go now, it would be useful to know.¡±

    ¡°Alright.¡± He holds out his hand which I stare at.

    ¡°Human contact will presumably make it easier.¡±

    Take his hand I try to ¡®step¡¯ into the shadow once again. The shadow ripples slightly but nothing happens. I turn my head to look at him but he only laughs slightly.

    ¡°Well that''s a shame, could you try to hide the bodies in the shadows.¡± I give a nod and hesitantly grab a body and try to move it into the shadow but again nothing happens. Slightly embarrassed I turn around again only to find all the bodies in the room gone along with the pools of blood.

    ¡°Wha¡­¡± I being to ask

    ¡°So correct me if I am wrong but your ability is to turn is to darkness and move through it freely?¡±

    ¡°As far as I know, I have only been doing this for a week. As far as I know, I can hide in shadows, but I am still able to see and hear, I can move between shadows and make small-scale illusions.¡±

    ¡°Like the perfect assassin, but considering the people were alive when I got here you are not so big on killing? But that is also me assuming that you are here to help the slaves.¡±

    ¡°Of course, I am here to help them! They are my friends and family!¡± I answer in indignation. ¡°But no I have never killed anyone,¡± I say the second part in a quieter voice.

    Nodding his eyes unfocus before he hands me an intricately carved stone knife with an ivory handle. ¡°I will do most of the fight but you will need to protect your friends and family as you lead them to the surface, understand? Oh, and you can keep the knife I have no need for it. As for the money we find here, it can be given to all the slaves so they can start anew.¡±Unauthorized content usage: if you discover this narrative on Amazon, report the violation.

    ¡°I couldn''t possibly¡­¡±

    ¡°Shut the fuck up with that bullshit. We both know you will take the knife so stop it with the social pretenses.¡±

    ¡°Your right, for a snowman you can be pretty smart.¡±

    ¡°I have my moments, now let''s go eat some ass.¡± Smiling he starts to walk deeper into the tunnel system.

    ¡°Don''t you mean ¡®kickass¡¯?

    ¡°Nope let''s go! I am fucking starving and I am getting bored.¡±

    We spend the next few minutes walking down the tunnels before stopping at a seemingly random wall before he placed his hand on a stone brick and pushed it, revealing a hidden door.

    ¡°How did you know that was there,¡± I ask suspiciously.

    ¡°People kept in unhygienic conditions smell terrible¡±

    Before I could question him a second time I hear one of the voices I dreaded the most.

    ¡°As you can see master, the gladiator slaves are well trained at providing entertainment in multiple situations...Toby, why is the door open?¡±

    [That was master Tom! And master Toby?! Who would those two monsters call master?!] Fear starts to take over as I remember all the physical, mental and emotional torture they put me through. I start to sweat and tremble uncontrollably, and then his hand touches my shoulder and I feel it melt away. I look at him and he gives a manic smile in return. [Your smile is ruining the moment! Wait why do I care?]

    ¡°Go save your family, I will have fun with these bastards.¡±

    Trying to match his smile I nod. ¡°Thank you, make sure to eat lots of ass for me.¡± I then run off into the tunnels as I hear him shout at the masters ¡°hey didn''t I see you fucking that horse?¡±

    Forcing him out of my mind I focus on saving all my friends and family.

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    POV MC

    After calming whats her face I walk over to the sound of the people talking, who are preparing for combat.

    ¡°Hey didn''t I see you fucking that horse?¡±

    They all look at me before outstretching their hands simultaneously. Before everything went black and I felt immense pain as my mind was split into three.

    One showed all the Physical, mental and emotional pain I have experienced in my life in an endless loop. The feeling of betrayal as Paul violated my body and mind. The sense of disgust with myself as I used and betrayed people and animals where my subconscious trapped me in a land of pain. Ripping the nerves out of my arm like they were bungee cords. The failed possession that tore at my soul. The feeling of emptiness as my emotions and morals were taken from me. Losing control of my body as I was electrocuted. Being stabbed, bitten, poisoned, impaled and exploded thought out my many battles. And last but not least the crushing sense of loneliness and helplessness. All of this is on a repeated loop where one ? of my torn mind is forced to relive again and again.

    Another ? of my mind is forced to stand on a giant glass platform facing one the of the three individuals. He smirks as each individual part of my body starts to twist in a clockwise direction starting with my individual fingers. Once my body is broken into multiple pieces my skin is peeled off and my bones and rearranged in a random order why my nerves are stretched out as children appear and start to make clothes out of my peeled off skin. A colony of ants appears in my stomach as they carve out my innards for their nets. Each bone is then broken in a zigzag motion before their jagged ends and stabbed into my eyes. Each bone would push down the ones before forcing them deeper into my disfigured body. The children then start to laugh and play with my stretched out nerves.

    The last ? of my mind was made to live my greatest fear. A boring and mundane life in the world Paul lived (Paul basically came for Earth). My life was ultimately meaningless as I lived to work without any excitement (A general fear of mine). The pain and torment tear apart my mind and soul as I am plunged into an endless loop of horror and fear, before and eerie calm overcomes me.

    Due to the first and last pieces of my mids odd situations, the two tormentors were starting to become confused and scared as they saw my mind. ¡°The fuck are you?¡± they ask in sync as they appear in their own parts now within my mind. I give them no reply as I give them a broken and insane look. [HA hE Ha ha he he he he ha HA ha hE HA he HA hE Ha ha he ha he he ha HA ha hE HA he HA hE Ha ha he he he he ha HA ha hE HA he HA hE Ha ha he ha he he ha HA ha hE HA he.] I feel the sludge in my body surge.

    ¡°HA hE Ha ha he he he he ha HA ha hE HA he HA hE Ha ha he ha he he ha HA ha hE HA he HA hE Ha ha he he he he ha HA ha hE HA he HA hE Ha ha he ha he he ha HA ha hE HA he.¡±

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    POV Eva

    I run until I find the holding cells for the slaves and I start to let them out of the cells. I have avoided any guards I have seen up until now but now with so many people, I don''t think that will be possible. Unlocking the last door I try to block out the screams of torment coming from the direction of the boy and the masters. [I didn''t want to leave him, but I have to get my family and friends out first.] I look at the knife he gave me. [But isn''t he one of your friends?] As I am about to steal my resolve to run to a likelihood of my death I stop as I hear hysterical and broken laughter followed by hundreds of roars, screams, and cries which make the earlier screams sound like a baby''s laughter. I along with all the other slaves stop as an intense fear overcomes us all.

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    POV Slave Master Toby

    It was all going so well for us, in the sense that is was NOT going well for that kid who just walked in through the front entrance like he owned the fucking place. This really did not make us look good in front of the main branch representative who was one of the top 100 strongest people in the slavers guild.

    Planning to solve the problem quickly we all introduced his mind to three different types of metal torture simultaneously. Most break with just one and even the strongest of wills beak when their mind is torn in half while under the horrors we introduce. [So why was this kid laughing while his mind was torn apart into three pieces each showing a unique pain and suffering?!]

    ¡°HA hE Ha ha he he he he ha HA ha He hA he He hE Ha ha ha ha he he ha HA ha HE HA he HA hE Ha ha he he he he ha Ha ha hE HA he HA hE Ha ha he ha he he ha HA ha hE HA he.¡±

    After seeing the disturbing memories I decided to leave the mind space to look at the effects of his body. The others can''t see each other''s mind space so they didn''t see his memories as I have and after I ask ''what it was'' I left in a panic.

    I look at the body while I inadvertently continue the memory loop. His body was on the floor twitching as he laughed, blood seeped from his pores, eyes, and ears as his body attempts to shut down. [But his body isn''t normal. I saw a mere glimpse of his past but I know its not normal.]

    Suddenly the twitching stops as its eyes lock onto mine as his smile grows unnaturally large until it outlines his whole face before it crunches down and eats its own facial features. At this point, his body starts to bubble and wiggle under his skin.

    His left rib cage grew exponentially and I saw faces of women, children, men, and many animals push the thin membrane from the inside, trying to escape. Their outlined face told a tale of pain and horror as their faces formed grotesque images pressed against the inside of his skin. Many of the faces managed to break free of the skin but they did not seem to have bodies as their necks lead back inside of the boy''s body. The heads began to scream, cry for help, roar in pain and laugh.

    The right rib cage exploded into a mass of raving tentacles as his head grew five times the size as the regrown eyes roll around in their sockets uncontrollably. Multiple mouths appear on the head each making a different sound that told of despair or insanity. The tentacles now had a bright lilac flame that when it touches anything, such as the stone walls it would instantly turn into sand.

    At this point, both tom and the representative both come out of their mindscapes and are now starting at the grotesque mass of screaming flesh. Both try to speak, presumingly to ask questions, but nothing can be heard over the noise of the insanity and pain.

    Ten of the baby head¡¯s necks grow longer like snakes as little hands form on their temples pulling them along the ground. They scuttle along the ground towards the now fleeing Tom. Sadly Tom is not a physical man and he can''t outrun the deformed creations. The hands grab him as they fuse into his flesh and their little mouths being to eat him alive as he is pulled back towards the grotesque creature. By the time he is pulled all the way back he is nothing but a head, that is now attached to the creature as it begins laughing with the pig next to it.

    Both the representative and I decided that running is probably a good idea at the moment. But before we could get more than 10m away, tentacles whip us and I immediately lose control of my legs and am forced to watch as more baby heads approach me.

    As I watch in fear I see the representative held up in the air by the tentacles, as his skin is flayed and his body parts are grown and shrunken rapidly before he explodes. The tentacles proceed to eat the exploded corpse.

    The heads reach me as they begin to gorge on my flesh. But after each bite, my flesh would regrow putting me in a loop of pain and fear. After what feels like an age all the noise suddenly stops along of the baby heads gorging on my body.

    The heads and tentacles peel away from their center mass revealing the pale skinned boy. He gives me a bashful smile before he starts to talk. ¡°Sorry about that, but I am sure you know how it is with the screams and voices inside of your head, one slip up and they have a little tantrum.¡±

    Before he can continue a mass of guards coming running towards us screaming in a blind rage ¡°Ah took them long enough. I called them ages ago.¡± with a snap of this fingers the tentacles and heads slaughter them all in under 5 seconds.

    ¡°Now as you probably know, I am going to kill you. But it is up to you on how painful I make it...¡±

    Before I could speak a layer of skin grows over my mouth denying me the ability to talk.

    ¡°First of all, I want all your money¡­

    I nod.

    ¡­ second of all, I want you to give me a map with all the major slaver operations locations¡­

    I nod.

    ...Third I want you to release all slave binding magic on the everyone you can¡­

    I nod.

    ¡­ and lastly, have you seen this person? A familiar body and face grows from the body mass.

    I nod.

    "Excellent, shall we get started?"

    Tears roll down my face. I nod.

 Update

    Hello, all you lovable bastards. Not sure if anyone checks this story anymore but here I am.

    I apologize for the delay on updates I have just been very busy with school work, course work, many doctor appointments, my computer crashing and just being lazy (Don''t look at me like that, we are all lazy at times.)

    Anyway enough with the excuses, I have done the first draft for the beginning of the short story, which I have decided to name "I just wanted to fly".

    I will post the draft below for you guys to have a look at. Any changes or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

    This will be the only chapter on this story as it is completely independent and I only want some feedback. I will start posting this story separately at some point in the future once I have flushed out plot point and stuff as well as creating a buffer.

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    Chapter 1 An anticlimactic death

    Looking out over the beautiful landscape of lushes hills and proudly standing trees stood a boy on the rails of a bridge. He had specks of blood covering his face with combed black hair and bloodshot eyes. His storm-colored eyes leaked tears like a fountain as they looked around wildly. His white button shirt was ripped open, causing it to dance in the wind, revealing a bruised and scarred body where his ribs stuck out due to malnutrition. Burn marks dotted his chest like splotches of ink on a canvas while stretch marks rippled like waves on an ocean. His face wore a manic grin as he licked spots of blood from around his mouth.

    Looking down he sees the valley that stretches off to the horizon. Deep depression of the earth carved into the world bounded by hills sloping down to a muddy and polluted stream that sickened the world around it like a virus. [Fucking humans, pieces of shit don''t realize what they have until they destroy it. Fucking hell I sound like Grey, well with more swearing, but I guess that¡¯s what happens when someone is inside of you. Speaking of which, It feels soooo gooood hehe.]

    Raising his hand he points a Glock 26 Gen 4 into the air and fires it until the mag was empty and the knockback fractures his fragile wrist.

    A timid look comes over the face of the boy as it softly speaks the words ¡°I don''t want to jump, please don''t make us, please!.¡±

    A lost expression overtakes the timid one ¡°I don''t see why not. There is nothing left for us here, I may as well let him take over.¡±

    The manic expression and wild eyes snap back to reality ¡°Who the fuck cares about what you guys want to do? We can play later, but right now it''s time to see if we can fly! hehe haha¡±

    [ I always wanted to fly, but Green was always such a pussy.] He glares enviously at the birds ¡°All that freedom wasted on mindless bags of flesh¡± He mumbles before he jumps.

    With those last words In his head, he leaps from the bridge without hesitation into the open air.

    The pure undiluted feeling of freedom along with the air caressing his face is invigorating as he plummets towards the rocky river bed [Guess we can''t fly, my bad guys haha]. An excited giggle busts free from his lips as the unknown enigma that is the sweet release of death approaches.

    Or it would have if everything didn''t just stop. Time did not freeze and he did not fall unconscious. No everything just turned black as a vast expanse of nothingness greeted the boy. [Well that was boring and anticlimactic. I want a refund.]

    ¡°Hello! Anyone out there? Isn''t this the part where we are meant to be judged or some shit?¡±

    There was no reply

    ¡°God? Allah? Hello?... Oh, come on I wanted a good debate on why the world is so shit!¡±

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    An immeasurable amount of time later

    A perfectly sane mind floated endlessly around in the emptiness. Three individuals were in a mental construct of a figurative room.

    They all looked like the boy who jumped off the bridge. The only differences where the height and eye color. The original storm colored eyed boy was laid on his back staring at nothing.

    The other two boys where half the size of the grey-eyed boy but they still had identical features. One of the miniature boys had grass green orbs instead of eyes, and was curled up into a ball on the floor crying and mumbling ¡°Mummy, Daddy why did you leave us.¡±

    The last boy who had blood red eyes was currently walking along the ceiling of the figurative room while singing ¡°35693258743634754576 Bottles of Beer. 35693258743634754576 bottles of beer on the wall, 35693258743634754576 bottles of beer. Take one down and pass it around, 35693258743634754575 bottles of beer on the wall.¡±

    This scene played out for ten more verses before the grey-eyed boy yelled at the red-eyed boy.¡±Will, you shut up! It''s bad enough as it is without your singing Red!¡±

    ¡°Hehe¡± ¡®Red'' backflips off of the ceiling, landing in front of the grey-eyed boy. ¡°Oh, boo fucking who, Mr. I controlled the body for 15 years, 9 months 3 weeks, two days, 5 hours and 42 seconds is upset. Well, Grey, I was just trying to drown out Green¡¯s whining. It''s not like there is anything else to do here, We can''t feel anything so I can''t cut you guys or myself, jerking off doesn''t work. All you do is lie down, no fun at all.¡±Enjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit.

    A timid voice broken by sobs comes from the corner of the room as ¡®Green¡¯ looks up. ¡°If you are...sob...so bored then why...sob...did you make us jump?¡±

    ''Red''s smile widens ¡°Oh poor naive Green, we jumped because of many reasons and issues. It started when we were 9. That''s when our father left us and mother. This didn''t affect me much as I didn''t know the asshole, not being ¡®created/born yet but Grey wasn''t too happy about it and him leaving caused mother to go back to live with her mother.

    That wasn''t so bad, or at least what we remember of it. But then grandmother died when we were 10 due to throat cancer and that''s when things got bad.

    Our dear mum met the chief of police at the funeral. An abusive heroin addict. Fuck knows how he made the chief of police. The beatings started when we were 11 and didn''t stop. Boiling water, punches, slaps, cutting our flesh, belts it didn''t matter to him. Our dear mother and our body were used and abused, ah the good old days. At some point, he became mums supplier and she wouldn''t leave him, dumb ass bitch."

    Grey looks annoyed at this statement but does not interrupt.

    "That''s when she started to hurt us yelling that we were the reason Daddy left. We didn''t get to eat much and we were a skinny runt. We could never study at home with everything going on, along with our dyslexia, we fell behind in school and soon the kids started to bully or avoid us.

    But the last little ray of sunshine in our life was when we were 15 and we came home to find that our dear mother had hung herself. That''s when I was let out. I saw the world for how it was. One big boring fuck fest.¡±

    Green looks upset and scared but will not let the issue go. ¡°But we didn''t have to jump or kill him. We could have gone off into the world.¡±

    Grey sighs as he replied ¡°Yes we did, our world was a big mess. I agree with Red on that one.

    All we did was live to work, there was no meaning, The people barely interacted yet still cared so much about how others viewed them. There was just no excitement in the world. Only working, bitterness, corruption, greed, boredom and needless judgment as these people went about their seemingly meaningless lives as they try to follow the countless social and political rules. Where the common person could never win while the people on top just got more power and fame as they were idolized for being born lucky or having better genetics.

    There was no end goal to strive for, our lives were short and meaningless. The guilty walked free while they harmed others and hid behind their money. The people did horrific things for an unknown deity that hides and refuses to acknowledge its mistakes, yet people scream Its name as they kill others and themselves.

    A world where depression, self-loathing, sadism, hate and greed were more common than love and loyalty. Where people lived in an unknowing dictatorship of fear and greed.

    The education system makes people work so hard and sacrifices so much for letters and numbers on a piece of paper that apparently show our self-worth to those who will pay us so little to do so much work.

    So Red decided to kill the chief of police. He took his gun and as he drove us to the funeral. Once we were on the bridge he shot him in the head, put the car into neutral and put the handbrake and pulled over to the bridge and jumped.¡±

    ¡°Well, that''s enough of that depressing backstory.¡± A tall green haired, purple skin individual appeared within the figurative room.

    Green flinches at the sight of the newcomer. A spark of hope appears within Grey¡¯s eyes. While Red burst out into laughter ¡°You look like a fucking grape.¡±

    ¡°Toby I have come to speak with you.¡± The entity continues after ignoring Red.

    ¡°Hey, hey grape man. Are you here to grape us? Because that would be grape.¡±

    Grey shoots Red a meaningful glare. Red nods his head in understanding ¡°Grey wants to go first, he¡¯s been itching for a fisting.¡± Grey slaps his forehead in exasperation.

    ¡°I see, I need to fix this error before I can have a proper conversation with you.¡±

    With a snap of his fingers, a shock wave is born, which obliterates Green in an instant while leaving Red looking like he traveled through a human-sized paper shredder. Red locks eyes with the entity and smiles ¡°Thanking you for the pain daddy, but if I see you again I will CUT YOU UP INTO BITE SIZE PIECES BEFORE SHOVING THEM UP YOUR OWN ASS!.¡±

    A mild look of confusion and concern overtakes the entity''s face before falling back to indifference. He then clicks his fingers again, which turns Red into a crimson mist.

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    POV of the entity

    A shiver went up my spine as the Red-eyed boy was removed. [These personalities are strong. That Green one held on longer than it should have. And that Red one. The is no way it should have survived a deity level psychic attack, especially considering that it''s basically a glorified mental construct]

    ¡°Thank fuck for that¡±

    Grey holds his head in pain and confusion.¡±What is going on?¡±

    ¡°Hey don''t look at me I only left you alone for 10 min, although now that I think about it was probably 44 thousand years for you in this distorted space.¡±

    ¡°...¡±

    ¡°...¡±

    ¡°You fucking what mate?¡±

    ¡°Yeah sorry about that, let me just add an emotional damper on to you¡±

    ¡°...¡±

    ¡°Alright all good¡±

    ¡°...¡±

    ¡°Really? Great, I don''t have much time for this, but I should explain to you why you are here.¡±

    ¡°Yeah, that may be a good idea.¡±

    ¡°Your death is partly my fault.¡±

    ¡°I see.¡±

    ¡°And those others will be back after a day or two, I only forcefully removed them. I do not have time to fix your mind¡­¡±

    ¡°Good. Despite their flaws, they are the closest things I have to friends. Green was always like a little brother to me. He was always curious and so pure of heart and the smartest of the three of us. He will keep me curious and alive. Red is like my best friend. He may be an asshole but he is always able to do what needs to be done. He will allow me to grow stronger.¡±

    ¡°I see well, I was the one who took your father away to the world Gia to be a hero. I did not think it would have such harmful consequences to his spawn. As a way to apologize, I will send you to the world of Gia¡­¡±

    ¡°I want to be a bird.¡±

    ¡°I didn''t finish...¡±

    ¡°I don''t care. As Red would say, humans are pieces of shit and I want to fly.¡±

    ¡°...Ok¡­ I guess I can make you a bird as compensation for the whole waiting thing.¡± As I am about to make the poor child into a bird I have a premonition that allowing the child to fly, In his current state of mind, will not end well for me or for Gia. [I never said which bird I would turn him into. I must act quickly.]

    ¡°Ok, I will reincarnate you into a bird on Gia, good luck, bye!¡±

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    Regular POV

    With that Toby felt himself flying off into the nothingness, spinning erratically before he felt the sensation of being squished and compressed into an egg shape.

 Final Update

    I have begun to write the short-ish story I mentioned before. Currently, there are only three chapters out. It is called "I just wanted to fly".

    I am very busy at the moment with exams coming up and decide what to do in the future, so not sure on the release schedule but it should be at least once a week unless specified beforehand.

    The story is about a mentally damaged boy (Sounding familiar?) Who dies and is reincarnated by a God (How original I know) because he inadvertently caused the child''s suffering. He is reincarnated as a bird just not as he planned.This story has been stolen from Royal Road. If you read it on Amazon, please report it

    Parts of the MC''s personality are based off yours truly so he will have similar tendencies to Jacob. Also good news a friend of mine is doing some editing of it so the grammar will be slightly less shit.

    Hope to see some of you there.

    This should be the last update before I start on the full re-write of Void shifter which I am thinking of naming Jacob willbreaker when I start writing it again (My naming sense as always is amazing and has nothing to do with me being lazy.)

 Rewrite in motion

    Hello all. Bet you thought I was dead or dropped this damn thing and while I wish you where right on at least one point I am still here so yay?

    So I became bored writing my other story and as you know from reading my crappy writing I very much dislike boredom. So I am planning to put it on the back burner with slow-release at the moment.

    Anyway on to the many topic, the rewrite. I have been re-reading my work and have come up with what I think are the main issues are:

    -Sludge is not explained

    -MC is to smart for age

    -mortality keeps changing and is unclear

    -MC needs a clear goal to strive towards

    -The story needs to be more self-explanatory

    - MC wouldn''t be under anyone so shouldn''t work for the Void

    So quite a few issues but if you expected a story about an unhinged cannibalistic child who is repeatedly abused to be without issues then you have not been paying attention. That being said if I missed anything then please let me know in the comments or private messenger.

    On to the next point. If you could answer the following questions to help me with the direction of the story it would be greatly appreciated.

    -Should MC be a true villain or anti-hero? (For example, would he care about unknow innocents enough not to use them to create a monster.)

    -Should MC be in a group or alone (If he were to be in a group it would be a small group and more of a part-time position.)

    -Romance?

    Any other suggestions would be appreciated although I can''t promise they will end up being used. If the questions are not answered then I will just flip a coin which may ruin the story again or make it awesome.

    Next point. Below I have written a draft of the first chapter which I plan to use too clear up some of the questions and hopefully solve some issues in the future. It takes a unique approach on the whole reincarnation trope and doesn''t even use the person''s persona in the end but keeps the intelligence. Or that''s the hope at least.

    Please let me know what you think.

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    I look into the bathroom mirror and a severely hungover seventeen-year-old stood staring back at me. He had lightly tanned skin with a mop of dark brown hair that would fall over his piercing green eyes that stared back at him. he sighed, rubbing his face his hands stopping gingerly over the scar on this left cheek, given to him by the jackass known as James.

    ¡°still a short ass, I guess puberty just forgot all about my height, just wish that it forgot about all those voice breaks though¡± I mumbled to myself, remembering in drama performing in front of the school were I was meant to be yelling at a drunk man but ended up squealing like a mouse, making me a laughing stock for days to come, I played along with it but it didn''t make it any less embarrassing. Shaking my head to clear the memory I dried my face and pulled on a T-shirt to cover the burn marks on my chest, my face twitching slightly at the memory of the fire that killed my parents all those years ago.

    Somehow forgetting about the hangover I gently slap my face to forget about the last two days only to wince in pain. You see two days ago I found my girlfriend of five years in bed with the fuck nut James. The bitch who shall not be named helped me get through the death of my parents, while I helped when her parents divorced.

    People like James found it amusing to remind me about being an orphan who watched my parents burn to death while I suffocated, and then beat on me because I didn''t take his shit. hence the scar on my face. Anyway, I walked in on them when I was delivering her birthday gift only to find she was receiving something else from the dickhead.The story has been taken without consent; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.

    Heart in pieces, angry and depressed I did what any nonself respecting idiot would do, copious amounts of day and night drinking with little self-regard. But the next day I had my History final exam and let''s just say hangovers and final exams don''t mix. Which is a shame because my uncle who took me in is an archaeologist and he had such high hopes for me.

    But on the bright side, the look of disappointment really improved my emotional state ¡°Such a shit week¡±.

    Wallowing in self-pity I stumble out of the bathroom and walked straight into a display case holding one of my uncle''s antiques. It was an ugly piece of pottery covered in large distorted faces which fall onto the floor and shattered. Not being able to recover from the stumble I step onto the shattered pottery with bare feet. ¡±Fuck!¡± Blood begins to pour out of my foot as I try to hop around without further agitating my head.

    After calming down I look down at the priceless Brazilian vase which now lay in pieces and covered in my blood. ¡°Well shit.¡±  As my foggy brain tried to think of a way out of the situation I noticed the blood started to wiggle and move as it formed letters. ¡°Well, that''s not at all concerning, Haha! Ah, my head.¡±

    Once my blood stopped moving it spelled out the words *You call? You like join this?*

    I blink ¡°Seems legit. Yeah sure, why not.¡±

    The next thing I know I am staring in abstract horror at a giant mouth and a single purple eye which hovered above it.

    (What the fuck is that!? Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god!)

    ¡°You taste good?¡± boomed the voice across what I now realize to be a vast void overlooking an unknown solar system.

    (What type of question is that!? Would it expect someone in my situation to say no to avoid being eaten? Then I should bluff? What the fuck am I meant to do?)

    ¡°The question is my new friend, do you taste good?¡± I ask (Nailed it) I can feel the fear coming off of me in waves almost as if it was tangible.

    ¡°I taste of good?¡± Then without warning a colossal tongue sprang forth from its mouth and began to lick its eye.

    (What is happening!?)

    *Lick, lick* ¡°I do taste the good!¡± The disembodied mouth yells is triumph.

    (What the actual fuck is going on!?)

    ¡°Your turn now¡± with that the tongue wrapped around me like a python and dragged me into the open maw. I tried to struggle but it was futile and I was soon inside the cave-like orifice which bites down on me with no hesitation but surprisingly delicate motion.

    Now I thought being burnt alive while suffocating, heartbreak and hangovers were bad but they couldn''t hold a candle to being slowly eaten alive, ground up by mullers pieced by canines and smashed by a tongue.

    But the absolute worst part was as I was screaming and thrashing around in agony I noticed that I was healing at a supernatural rate. While this may sound like a good thing it also meant that I would stay like this for the foreseeable future.

    As my bones were splintering, flesh-tearing, organs disintegrating I could feel my brain dying as it has crushed again and again and again. Tears poured from my eyes as I begged and pleaded for it to stop until my mind became numb from the pain. Lifelessly I watched the planets in the solar system or the particular planet which had dragons and magic with epic battles but with my mind as it is I found little enjoyment in the spectacle.

    After an unknown amount of time watching the planet grow and evolve I finally heard the giant mouth I was inhabiting speak.

    ¡°You soul no taste good no more. I make go bye, bye¡±

    With that, I felt my consciousness leave my body as I was spat out into the void towards the planet I have been observing. Before I could understand what was happening my consciousness slammed into the body of a newborn baby boy and our beings seemed to merge into one.

    (Huh, emotions. Wonder, joy, and excitement? I haven''t felt these in how long?¡­) Tears flow down my face as I look up at my mother.

    She showed a face full of trepidation and concern.

    Then I feel something I have never felt before. Pure undiluted bloodlust and the desire to consume flesh. (What!? I shouldn''t feel that towards anybody let alone my own mother!)

    With as much willpower I could muster I tried to suppress these new feelings.

    My new mother must have seen me struggling but instead of coming to help like I expected she backed away with tears in her eyes and anger on her face. Then I felt my whole body ripple like a pond. When she saw this My mother''s eyes widen and she starts to shout what sounded like abuse at me but I couldn''t understand the language, and then she turned around and ran, leaving me in an alleyway.

    (No! Don''t leave! I don''t want to be alone anymore! I want a family! If...if I am normal then she will come back! Yes! Yes that will work and then...then I won''t be alone anymore.) With these jumbled thoughts jumping around in my head I close my little infant eyes and force my emotions to stabilize and my body to be normal. I laid in that alleyway for a day and a night, freezing and starving but refusing to let my chance at a family go. Then the next morning I felt large hands pick me up and carry me.

    Still focusing on being normal I keep my eyes closed until I feel the temperature rise. When I opened my eyes and saw that I appeared to be inside a building similar to a cathedral.

    Looking around in amazement I failed to notice that an unknown force had encompassed my mind and I felt the strange emotions wither as if in distress before melting and retreating to the pit of my stomach in what felt like internal sludge oozing inside of me.

    Before I could question anything I felt the same force start to violate my the rest of my mind and my memories were torn apart and I felt a strong compulsion to worship...the light? The last thing I remember is looking up at a man I assume brought me here and seeing his large shit-eating grin.

    ¡°Hello, there little one.¡±

    (Where am I?)

    ¡°My name is father Paul.¡±

    (Who am I?)

    ¡°I think I will call you...Jacob¡±

    (I am Jacob) I think with newfound certainty.

    ¡°Welcome to the church of light!¡±

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    So there''s my hopefully different approach on the whole reincarnation cliche.

    If I don''t get any feedback then I will take it as people have lost interest in this story and I will move on to a different one which is filling my head.

 Not a chapter

    Despite the lack of response from most of you, I will be continuing the story under the name Jacob WillBreaker.Special thanks to Jack blank and Ntfulini Dlamini who were the only people who replied.

    I am doing it separately so I can compare the progress to the original.

    Chapters will be released 3 times a week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Two chapters will hopefully be published every other Wednesday.

    I hope to see some of you there.

    I will no longer post on this novel but I won''t delete it.

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