The air was distorted by the pressure that the mana caused when it gathered around Alex, all was completely flattened with only Alex about coming out among all the crushing plants or rocks, but when Alex finished suffering his changes, the loose mana exploded upon release of the force that held them towards Alex.
This caused a few trees to lean to Alex's opposite side while they lost a lot of leaves from the explosion.
Alex was in the center of the chaos while taking great breaths of air since the pressure of the mana had made it impossible to breathe for him, his body was trembling with ecstasy when he felt the effects inside him, breaking the chains that they had him tied during these days.
A big smile from Alex appeared on his face as he looked at his new statistics.
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STR: ★E [+1up]
AGI: ★D [+2up]
VIT: S [+1up]
INT: ★E [+1up]
WIS: A [+1up]
Will: ★D
Sp: 10
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<Holy moly! Look at those statistics!> Alex's smile only widened the longer he looked at his status, but when he was about to spend his status points... the hard reality hit him again.
<What?! 10Sp just to raise a range!> Alex's face got a bit sour when he wanted to match his strength with his agility, but when he was about to do it, the system showed that it cost 10 Sp, the same thing happened with the other statistics that already had a star, except with his WIS [-5Sp] and VIT [-20Sp].
<Mmmm!> Alex looked at his statistics for a long time as he thought about spending his points until he came to the conclusion that he first had to adapt to the changes suffered before they were harmful to him.
But while Alex was thinking about what to do next, a beetle flew in front of Alex.
But to Alex's amazement, he could see every flutter of the insect to its destination, as if the world were in slow motion, but the truth is that his great double jump in agility made him have a discontinuity with his perception which always adapted, but now undergoing a change for two, that made it unable to adapt naturally.
In the end, Alex ended up wasting two hours to just adapt to his new perception of the time he got with his high agility.
He could only see his surroundings move slowly until at some point he found a switch (Imaginary) inside him, with which he could already perceive his environment normally again, but as soon as he watches something move at a speed high, this switch is turned on as a defensive mechanism so as not to suffer surprise attacks.
This annoyed Alex a little, since, at times to others, it was activated and perceived the slower world and this causes a little dizziness in his mind.
With his other statistics, he had no problem with them, only now he doesn't know the limit of how much power he can put in one of his blows before he could crack a solid stone and destroy a tree in two, maybe now he mashed the tree, and break the stone into pieces.
While Alex adapts to his new change in his body, the kobolds that were inside the hall were scared because they almost activated some traps by the explosion of mana that pushed them just moments ago.
The beasts of the room were hidden for the rest of the day for fear of the creature that could attract the entire mana of the place, while the core of the dungeon was scared to see what happened to Alex and to feel the drastic changes in him.
But while everyone suffered a fright, Alex was thinking about What to transform first?.
<BeastMan or semi-human> Alex thought as he remembers his versions shown by the system, in which it showed him as a child of 10 years old...
<I have an idea!> A wild thought arose in Alex's mind for not to be a 10-year-old boy or a chibi version of his beast-man form.
Alex's body began to stretch as a layer of blue mana covered his body as he transformed.
"Wroaagh!" A roar arose as Alex's form became more human, little by little his form was completed and the mana dispersed.
<How cold!> Alex began to tremble in his place when he lost all his fur on his body.
A 10-year-old boy was Alex's shape, as his fur, his hair was black onyx, big eyes and purple, his mark on his left eye was still there, his tail hid between his legs, while his cat ears come out in his head.
Alex's white body showed some muscle while his hair is long as if he had never cut it, something that is true, but the most amazing thing was not that, but who was behind Alex, turned out to be a version of his beast form, but semi-transparent which seems to have a little awareness since it is very vigilant of the environment.
<I'm cold!! but I have to follow my idea to see if it will work or not!!> Alex clenched his hands as he closed his eyes and tried to use his new ability.
Alex's body was surrounded by mana again, but this time it did not transform into any of its other forms, but his body began to grow slowly until the surrounding mana broke into pieces.
But when the mana disappeared, a teenage Alex appeared, if there was any spectator, they would agree that, if his infant form was incredibly adorable, he was now elegant and beautiful, like his beast form.
[+500 Skill Familiarity: Transform] The tab jumped into Alex's view, but he ignored it while losing himself in his thoughts.
<I guess this is my limit for now... I wanted to see if I could be a giant or at least an adult> Alex looked at his body, which lost all the baby fat he had before in his infant form. Now he had much more muscle in him, but he is a thin physique, not like the body of a bodybuilder who has a lot of muscle mass, but, although Alex appears to be a semi-human, his body is not the same, he can still suffer mutations and he is a beast.
<It is uncomfortable for some reason to see my son outside his room> Alex inspected his body and found that Alex Jr. hung in an indecent way.
<You were prettier when I was child> Alex thought while wearing a piece of leather that he cut with the help of his spirit form.
But while Alex tried to put on a poncho to cover the upper part of his body, acute pain arose in his mind due to the high consumption of his mana by forcing his physical maturity with the transform ability, but Alex simply ignored it while he gathered mana from the surroundings and concentrates on cutting a leather square and makes a circle where his head will go.
After a few minutes, Alex managed to create a loincloth and a poncho to wear as clothes, all wolf leather.
When he finally finished playing with leather, Alex was once again in his thoughts.
<I should be a beast again when I get enough mana... or I try to adapt to this body for as long as I don't shit it when I fight in this form since it is difficult for me to move so much that I get used to being a cat> Alex lay on the failed attempts at poncho and loincloths that he tried to make a few moments ago meanwhile he is looking his hand and doing an exercise with his hand to see how much control he has on his body in his semi-human form.
Alex tried to make each finger touch his thumb, an easy exercise but it was very complex to do for Alex because of his lack of familiarity with having a human body in a long time.
It was much easier for Alex to control his ears, eyes, and tail.
<I did not remember how demanding it is to be a human...> Alex thought a little annoyed while placing some pieces of leather on the floor to sit down because his skin became more sensitive to any stimulus.
But while Alex suffers from being human again and not having good control of his body, the little spirit that had returned was shocked by Alex's appearance, since when she returned from caring the little kitten, she got when Alex was in his childish form and looked everything that happened afterward and she with her fairy memories can affirm that Alex was super cute in his childish form and beautiful in his adolescent form.
After some time she got out of her trance and got into Alex's tattoo to rest again.
After an hour, Alex managed to make a makeshift leather bed of different animals and sat on top of it.
Alex slowly opened his mouth where four fangs overcame out more than his other white teeth, he crossed his fingers for what he would do next.
"Teesssting... N-nn... nya" Alex's face was totally bitter when he felt a strong urge to make a meow, he didn't fake the sound as a normal human would do, he really meowed at the end of his sentence.
*PAT!* Alex's tail hit the leather on which he is sitting.
"Is this my curse... nya ?!" A small tear arose in Alex's right eye when he thought he could speak normally and finally be able to express himself, but the damn meow will ruin any sentence he makes no matter how serious it may be.