When wizard group appeared outside the barrier, they could see a young boy in a sorry state.
There were already 7 holes on his right hand and on the way of 4th one, on his left hand.
As soon as they entered inside, they dashed to 'Queen'.
It was not because they desired to save the young boy, but because of 'Queen' herself.
…
Intelligence domain could reduce the intelligence of a particular monster, depending upon the information parchment it was feed upon.
It would work, only if the highest attribute of that particular monster was intelligence.
If the master of intelligence domain, the one who initiated it, was also inside the domain, then reduction would be 40%, otherwise 20%.
…
'Queen' was about to create another hole on the young boy hand but halted when she saw notification popped up.
[Intelligence – 7.2 (12)]
While staring at the notification, she heard movement behind her.
Ignoring everything, she turned back and used 'Acid shot'.
Black liquid shot out from her mouth at Hank's chest.
Hank sidestepped, but he was only at the distance of 2 m away from her, so he could not completely dodge it.
Now it was targeting his left shoulder, so he placed his shield little high.
When acid struck his shield, it could only hold on for a sec and after that, it pierced through it and hit his left shoulder.
He could felt pain on his left shoulder, so he fell on the ground and cried.
"Ahh!"
When he looked down, there was nothing in place of his left hand.
Wizard didn't expect, even after 40% reduction, her attack held this much power.
Although she took care of one of them, there was more.
Her stomach got pierced by the spear and hand by an arrow.
[State - Poisoned]
[Rate of decreasing - 1% per 50 sec]
She attacked spear user with her sharp dagger-like hand, but he backed off.
When she was about to pursue, her leg got hit by white ball forming a hole on it.
Wizard sigh when he saw that, he also had 7 points on intelligence, but he could not completely destroy body part like her.
All of them were ready for another round but stop when a notification popped up.
For wizard,
[State - Poisoned]
[25% decrease in overall attribute]
[Rate of decreasing - 1% per 30 sec]
For protectors,
[State - Poisoned]
[25% decrease in overall attribute]
[Rate of decreasing - 1% per 15 sec]
For Queen,
[State – Normal]
Because poison had dispelled, her wound began to heal.
…
Wizard and his groups were moving slowly, so he arrived before them inside the barrier.
3 m away from 'Queen' he summoned stealth 'poison spirit' and stay put.
He had thought 'Queen' would overwhelm them but thanks to his poison and their teamwork, they were winning over her.
This wasn't what he wanted, so he began discharging poison in the air.
Not only he didn't target 'Queen' with his poison but also dispelled poison inside her body.
…
When they saw the notification, they thought 'Queen' was poisoning her, so they attempted to defeat her fast.
Without comprehending anything, both of them continued their fight.
After 5 min of struggle, they finally captured 'Queen'.
In order to obtain divine skill, they should perform a ritual which required for it to be alive.
If not for Zynx, the fight would have been finished in 1 min.
He supported both parties, so both parties were in the sorry state.
In wizard group, only wizard and archer were conscious, with 35% and 45% reduction in their status, without mana and stamina.
While 'Queen', was pinned on the ground by spear and arrow.
If Zynx desired, then he could have easily killed all of them, but he needed to understand the process of obtaining a divine skill that was why he was waiting.
…
"Young master do we really need it alive?" (Archer)
Wizard nodded.
"But if it remained like this, then our condition will worsen." (Archer)
He was talking about the poison.
Wizard pondered while rubbing his chin.
"I remember Hank buying antidote, go and examine him." (Wizard)
Archer nodded and moved.
Before he could touch the body of Hank, his hand got pinned on the ground by a transparent spear.
"Ahh!" (Archer)
"Sigh, if you have not thought about antidote, then you don't have to suffer." (Zynx)
Zynx figure became visible after that, he didn't know whether antidote could dispel his poison or not, but he didn't want to analyze.
Seeing the snake, they had captured standing before them and speaking, they became shocked.
"How…"
"I don't know whether you can understand me or not but if you want to survive stay put and don't speak." (Zynx)
Wizard and archer mouth twitched when he heard that as this was what wizard said to him before leaving.
Ignoring their expression, Zynx arrived in front of Hank and tried to check his pocket but because of his snake body, he could not.
He then thought of his another skill.
"Transformation"
[Which creature do you want to transform into?]
[1. Skeleton warrior
2. Bronze earthworm
3. Bloody eagle
4. Skeleton soldier
5. Bone penetrating ant
]
"…" (Zynx)
[Only the one, whose essence has been consumed, can be transformed.]
'So in order to transform into a human, I have to consume the essence of the human.'
[Yes]
Zynx looked around for prey and landed his vision on a young boy.
Poison spirit lunged its head at the young boy and swallowed it slowly.
Zynx could have killed that young boy and converted it into essence or swallow it directly, but later he had to question wizard, so he wanted to induce some fear on them.
Human blood started to drip from poison spirit and after that, it looked at the wizard.
Wizard got goosebumps when he met blood-red eyes, so he dropped his gaze.
Maybe because of 10% memory of former 'White Snake', Zynx didn't feel anything even after viewing this.
[New option 'Human' is available.]
"Choose Human"
[Initializing the transformation into human…]
Zynx suddenly began to feel uncontrollable pain as the structure of the bone started to change, new internal organ started to form, and then, the scale started to replaced by white skin.
After 2 min, the white snake was replace by the naked human body.
[Transformation process complete.]
[Human transformation – 1 hour 20 min]
'Am I half snake?'
[No, there is no change in your race.]
[It is just shaped transformation of your snake body for a limited time.]
[For example, vampire transforming into a bat (monster) for a limited time.]
[But in case of you, it is a snake (monster) transforming into a human.]