Becoming a Monster

Chapter 80 Perks Of Awakening

A/N: Wasnʼt sure if I would be able to post this today. Power has been out for the whole day and still is, but I found my portable battery for my phone so here we are.

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”Why is it always them…?” Noah said exasperatedly, while seeing the students in the background first since there were so many of them. But then his eyes traveled towards Fenrir who still held a woman in his jaws while staring towards him. The woman in question had already passed out again.

He then saw the other guards in the vicinity, all wearing the same type of clothing, with guns either strapped around them or hostered to their sides which confused him further.

Opening the window, well that was the intention, but the strength he used was more than he realized. Not only was the window rising abruptly, the sound of the glass breaking sounded with the scene of glass flying in every which direction.

Reflexively Noah closed his eyes when the glass exploded towards his face while trying to cover what he could with his hand. Moments passed and he realized there wasnʼt any pain at all. When he opened his eyes, he noticed the glass on the ground around him, but there wasnʼt even a scratch on his face or his hand at all.

All of his attention towards what was happening outside disappeared now that his curiosity towards himself had peaked. He just remembered why he was waking up in the first place.

”Fenrir, drop it.” He ordered without emotion, as if the person in Fenrirʼs mouth was something of little value to him.

As soon as he gave the order, Fenrirʼs mouth became slacked while he tilted his mouth towards the ground and dropped the women covered in his slime. The woman didnʼt move at all, it was difficult to even tell if she was still alive, but looking closely, her chest was still barely moving from her breathing.

After giving the order, Noah stood in place by the window. His focus wasnʼt on anything going on in his surroundings, even himself. He desperately wanted to find out what he had gained from what he wanted to consider to be an awakening.

[Host is ongoing transformation, Ailments have been found in the host body interfering with subject change. Host body is undergoing a physical, cellular and spiritual change, and the ailment has been removed.]

[Host has finished the transformation of obtaining a new advanced class ʼMonster Evolutionistʼ! You now gain an extra three magic, and two spirit per level up as well as an extra addition of 5 free attributes to spend on level up!

Three main class skills have been obtained and previous class skills have been modified; Blood Essence, Bloodline Extraction and Guiding Pathways have been added!

Blood Essence-Using your blood as a catalyst, you can input mana into your blood to relocate the use of a mana core. If used with a mana core itself, the core can then be compatible with your bonded creatures for less mana. 50 mana to achieve the effect of a tier 0 core and 100 mana to replicate a tier one. Through the use of a core, the amount of mana spent is 5 mana for a tier 0 and 10 for a tier 1 core.

Bloodline Extraction-Use your blood as the medium to transfer traits and/or abilities to your tamed creatures using the blood of another. Only one trait can be given to a creature bonded with you, more traits can be added with the increase in Bloodline Extractionʼs skill level.

Guiding Pathways: Monsters and humans all have determined stats upon leveling up that can not be changed. However monsters bonded through the use of Blood Pact will be controlled fully by you to arrange as you see fit.]

[Monster taming has been modified to ʼBlood pactʼ(Lvl 0): When forming a bond with a creature, the Host can share one ability from your system abilities with said creature. Creatures tamed pre Blood pact can undergo the effects of the skill by initiating Blood pact on those creatures. The skill given to one creature can not be used for another and when that creature dies, the skill will become usable again for the next. The skill shared will also share the same level as the host and can only be leveled up as you progress the original skill.

Soul cage has been modified to ʼMeditative Templeʼ(Lvl 0): what was once used just for storage of your creatures with your soul can now temper your creatures spirit while they are being contained with your skill. The degree of growth is based on the period of time the creature has been maintained in the skill and based on the amount of spirit the Host of the skill currently has.

Taming proficiency has been modified to ʼEfficient Tamerʼ(Lvl 1) mana: Monsters bonded through Blood Pact will have a 15% increase in the amount of all experience they obtain. The amount will increase based on skill level, separate from the host.

Unity through pain has been modified to ʼBone Temperingʼ: Monsters bonded to you through Blood Pact will receive an increase in constitution stats from ratio 1:1 to 1:1.5

Monster tongue has been modified to ʼImparted Linguistʼ: The ability to communicate with other creatures on a basic level still stands, but now through the ability of Blood Pact, any creature bonded through the ability will impart to you their native language, making you able to understand them and their species perfectly.]

[Your death penalty has been removed due to the changes occurred from your transformation. All stats have experienced an increase in stats. Str, Agi,Con, and stamina has been increased by a ratio of 1:0.5 of your current stats. Magic has increased by 1:2 and sport by 1:1 of your current stats.]

[You have achieved the first limits of 50 stats in agility, perk based on class Monster Evolutionist obtained; ʼMuscle temperingʼ]

[Muscle tempering-Monsters bonded to you through Blood Pact will receive an increase in Agility stats from ratio 1:1 to 1:1.5]

[Imparted Linguist(Lvl 0) Level Up!-From basic understanding to intermediate understanding. Your ability to understand other creatures have improved, yet your ability to communicate with them is still basic.]

[Efficient Tamer(Lvl 1) Level Up!-Monsters bonded through Blood Pact will have a 20% increase in the amount of all experience they obtain.]

”…..This is everything that Iʼd hoped it to be…no wonder that fucker was such a pain in the neck. The benefits of awakening are huge!”

Even though the information seemed to be too much all at once, surprisingly it didnʼt take Noah long at all to go through them and mesmerized the details. He hasnʼt realized the clarity and processing ability his brain has gone through yet due to his increased spirit.

He was so excited to see his skills that he couldnʼt wait to see his stats now.

[Player: Noah

Race:Human? Chimera

Class: Monster Evolutionist

Gold: 381->3751

Lvl: 9->10

Exp:1053/6400->2543/12800

Health:100%

Stamina:100%

Mana:370/370

Attributes

Defense: 25

Strength:24->36(40)+5

Agility:36->54(59) +7

Constitution:53->79(87)+10

Stamina:27->40(44)+5

Magic: 56->168(185)

Spirit: 103->257(282)

Skills

Active

Blood pact(lvl 0)progression:75%

Bloodline Extraction(lvl 0)progression:0%

Blood Essence(lvl 0)progression:0%

Grant Lesser Strength(Lvl 0):0%

Killing instinct (lvl1) progression:8%->8.4

Decree of Equivalent Exchange (lvl 0) progression: 100%

Undead Webbing(Lvl 0)6.4%-7.1%

Elusive(Lvl 0)progression:0%

Passive

Rodeleros(lvl 0) progression: .6%

Soul cage(lvl 0) progression: .76%

Guiding Pathways(lvl 0)N/A

Stamina regeneration (lvl 0) progression:100%

Immortal body (lvl 1) progression: 10.1%->10.9%

Budding feeder (lvl 0) progression: 100%

Subservient Hierarchy (lvl 0) progression: 100%

Genetic Synergy(lvl 0) progression:50%

Efficient Tamer(lvl 2)N/A

Muscle tempering(Lvl 0):N/A

Bone Temperingʼ(lvl 0)N/A

Insatiable Hunter(lvl 0): N/A

Imparted Linguist(lvl 0):N/A

Spiders Alertness(Lvl 0)11.1%->16.7%

Sensory Spines(Lvl 0): 9.8%->14.3%

Titles

The Fallen, Subjugator]

From disappointment, to shock and then disbelief. Noah was sent on an emotional rollercoaster when he saw his stats. His low agility was the cause of his disappointment while his huge jump in mana was the cause of his shock, but his disbelief was entirely because of his spirit.

ʼI knew my skill went to level two but just seeing the numbers is out of this world! What does having this much spirit mean?ʼ

His curiosity meter was building up to the point that he was beginning to feel jittery.

”Ants? Itʼs more ants? Where are they coming from?”

”Shit why isnʼt that fucking wolf doing anything! Lead the the fuckers to the wolf!”

”Are you crazy? And have that beast start attacking us too!” We need to run away!”

”Why are you running when this is our chance to get stronger! You morons are nothing without your guns.”

”Mark, nowʼs not the time, this isnʼt something we can handle right now, everyone is already exhausted! And the one in the back doesnʼt look like something thatʼll go down easily.”

”Noah was interrupted from his excitement from the stressed voices coming from outside. When he looked out he could see a small swarm of ants encircling the students below. From the looks of it, the students seemed to have a beacon that made the ants only focus them. Fenrir was watching in interest while growling excitedly.

He wanted to join in on what was happening, but now that Noah was awake he needed his orders first.

The group didnʼt know that after the ents mutated, they gained a small amount of sentience and they became particularly vengeful. With their antennas, they could distinguish between the students that killed their fellow antsmen and the queen also wasnʼt particularly happy with over 90% of her nest being killed off by the unknown and then the rest were killed off by the humans before it.

She conspired with another small colony to take the humans down and to share the ʼfoodʼ.

The ants numbered to about 150 right now. The second colony only sent out its worker and soldier ants to retrieve the food the Queen mentioned. They werenʼt desperate for revenge like the current Queen to risk the destruction of their entire Hive.

The Queen was gigantic, she was close to the size of Fenrir when he was on all fours, but she appeared a bit larger. It was probably the reason why she didnʼt appear in the fight before. She was just too large to quickly dig her way out of the ground.

Compared to the other ants, her back side made up most of her entire body and her pincers appeared even more deadly. Luckily for the students, the Queen sat and watched as the rest attacked.

The soldiers from before realized how useless they really were. They had already run out of ammo and the rest was in the cars that they were too afraid to try to retrieve after the explosion of the car that held their boss. Without bullets or a decent weapon, the few guards that were left had already run to one of the current dorms instead of relying on the students to protect them.

The non combatants saw them leaving and attempted to follow, leaving the 40 or so students left to fight the large army of ants.

With less targets for the ants focus on and from the earlier exhaustion from the past fight. The students were off to a rough spot, but thankfully their new skills and stats helped made up for what they lacked.

”Ahhhh!”

However it still wasnʼt enough for them to be prepared for the group of runaways to run back outside with a group of zombies following behind. And as the ratio of runners and sprinter zombies had been steadily increasing, it didnʼt take a rocket scientist to guess that most of the present zombies were in fact those two varieties.

Noah watched it all with a conflicted expression before looking down to Arachne and asked.

”What do you think, should we help?” He waited patiently for her response. He was conflicted because Ailetta was in the group of students, but for the rest…why should he care?

Arachne looked towards Noah and then back to the chaos happening outside before looking towards him and pointing.

”My food!” She said, and surprisingly Noah could ʼhearʼ what she said instead of getting a sense for what she meant. Her words were simple and that suited Noah more.

He smiled while he withdrew his sword from his ring and looked towards the students struggling for their lives as his smile grew wider by the second. Unintentionally, his predatory gaze sent shivers down the spines of both the students and the ants alike as they all briefly stopped and looked in his direction. Due to his excessive amount of spirit, his gaze easily affected those that didnʼt even have half of his spirit.

The pause was only brief before they engaged once again, but there were still one to two students who didnʼt fully recover and paid the price for it.

Placing one foot outside of the window and his free hand holding onto the wall. He prepared to jump down to join the fray. But he stopped when he noticed Fenrirʼs tag wagging furiously, dust was flowing everywhere because of it as he grew more excited.

”Fenrir!” He called, quickly gaining the wolves attending?

”Go play, but leave some for us!”