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Chapter 26 - A Rat and Monsters

[Warning: you have consumed a high tier monster. Due to anatomical anomalies, you shall evolve instead of dying.]

Immediately, the two felt a sharp running through their bodies. It began in their lungs, but spread like a wildfire. Sheila felt as if she was covered in a foreign substance. Her skin, muscles, fat, almost everything began to smoke and disintegrate off of her. What was left of her was a skeleton standing in full plate armor; it was also holding a sword and shield. Henry felt as if his body was on fire. His skin began to turn blue, and started pulsating. It then began rising and eventually became a flame. All that was left of Henry' original form was his skull. They looked at each other and only had one reaction

"… AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!" The two reacted.

Henry fell to the ground backing away from Sheila. Sheila then drew her sword. She went to cut Henry down, but noticed how it felt like her armor grew. She dropped her sword and took off her gauntlet, only to see a skeletal hand there.

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!" Sheila screamed as she looked at her own arm. Henry had a similar reaction.

"WHAT THE FUCK!? WHERE DID SHEILA GO YOU MONSTER!" Henry yelled. He reached into his storage and started mixing ingredients. That was when he saw his own hand. He slowly brought it to his face, his hand had turned into blue flames shaped like a hand.

"… AAAAAAHHHHHH!" Henry started screaming.

This went on for another hour or so. There was lots of screaming, running, and rocking back and forth in the fetal position. Eodum sat there watching them, confused at what had happened to its companions. Finally, the two ex-humans decided to look at their statuses.

Name: Henry Reklaw

Race: Wisp Human

Gender: Male

Age: 16

Level: 15

Hp: 110/110

St: 150/150

Mp: 75/75

Str: 10

Dex: 27

Agi: 25

Wis: 32

Int: 32

Cha: 17

Con: 9

Mnt: 17

Lck: 11

Skills: Translate 4, Storage 3, Arctic Sea Magic 3, Hasty Craftsman 13, Cooking 6, Alchemy 4, Woodworking 2, Tinkering 2, Smithing, Engineering 2, Hover, Flame Control

SP: 0

AP: 0

Name: Sheila Alieh

Race: skeleton

Gender: Female

Age: 20

Level: 21

Hp: 135/135

St: 187/187

Mp: 40/40

Str: 29

Dex: 19

Agi: 17

Wis: 30

Int: 32

Cha: 19

Con: 20

Mnt: 19

Lck: 15

Skills: Holy Magic 4, Knight's Sword Mastery 3, Meditation 3, Tower Shield Mastery 4, Heavy Armor Mastery 6, Body Strengthening 3, Body Repair, Separated Body Control, Necrosis Immunity

SP: 0

AP: 0

"… I'M A FUCKING SKELETON/WISP!?" Yelled out the skeleton and wisp. They soon remembered the notice from before they changed species. They snapped their heads toward Eodum, glaring at it with extreme bloodlust. They both charged at it and yelled, "YOU SON OF A BIIIIIITCH!!!"

Eodum, knowing it was in danger, jumped towards the wall. It immediately used [Excavate] on the wall in front of it. It burrowed into the wall before Henry and Sheila could get to it. It started burrowing in a zig-zag because it was aware of Henry's and Sheila's strength. The two started doing their best to rip through the wall to get to it.

Sheila fired her blade down at the stone, and it crumbled a bit.

"Back away!" Henry said as he threw a concoction at the wall. Sheila heard this, but reacted too slowly. The flask flew by her head and hit in front of her. Suddenly a burst of flame began to emerge from the bottle. Henry stuck his hands out in front of him, like he was trying to stop the fire and said, "Shit!" Both Henry and Sheila thought she was fucked, but then they saw it. The flames had stopped. It was like Sheila was being avoided by the fire. It slowly burned out, and all that was left was scorch marks.

"What the fuck?" The two could only react in shock. Henry slowly started to wander up to the scorch marks. That was when Henry remembered his brand new skill, [Flame Control]. He realized he was able to manipulate fire to an extent. Henry then remembered a lesson he heard somewhere: wisps were beings of pure energy, magic, and spiritual power, they took after a certain element in the world. Henry realized he must've been a fire wisp. He also realized he was not just a wisp, but something unheard of, a human wisp. Though flame wisps were normally weak to water, his [Arctic Sea Magic] must've prevented that vulnerability.

Sheila was also quite confused by the lack of being engulfed in flames. She realized her current predicament. At first she was only pissed because she had been turned undead, but now she remembered her position in the church. She and the church absolutely despised everything that was undead, it simply went against the natural order of things! Finding a whole new reason to be pissed, she went back to destroying the wall.

"That fucking rat! It turned me undead, that sonuvabitchi'mgonnakillthatmotherfucker!" She began ranting at an incomprehensible pace.

Then Henry pointed something out she had yet thought of, "You aren't undead though? You never died, you simply swapped species."

"…" Sheila stopped swinging at the ground. He was right. She never died, and was never revived. She simply became a skeleton. While that was still enough to be pissed about, she couldn't bring herself back to her rage. She actually gained some skills. Curiously, the skeletons' light and holy vulnerability wasn't there. Sheila could only assume that this was because of her holy background.

Once the two calmed down, they started to think of what to do about Eodum. While they gained new power, could they really trust this monster? It had deviated from the plan, and turned them into monsters. Though with their new monster forms, they could understand its actions. It wanted to gain the most XP and went after the death knight's weak spot. The rat was also young, and while smart for its species and age, was still a dumbass. In the end, they still held their human abilities like their skills, no vulnerability to their race's weaknesses, and the ability to communicate. All was well?

Fuck… we're gonna forgive this rat, aren't we?