For the past week, Nate was out still under his evolution process, a lot had happened that made his current uprising group known as "Chaos".
This event had weak morals in them and someone, in particular, his own was so visible was Lyon. During the week Nate was out Lyon had the experience of being looked up to just like he does to Nate time without number.
He was the one that was looking after Nate all those while, and at the same time chartering for Peter and the newly added horde member. This put a lot of pressure on him with his having to do double work at the same time.
But this experience had made him stronger and more understanding of the things of the world. He trained in his alter form anytime a slight chance was given and with all those things put together, he attained multiple breakthroughs just in one week.
One of those breakthroughs was his being able to transform at will.
When Lyon first fought against Scarlett and his team, there was one particular thing he discovered about himself. He could remember back then even when he was hit hard by Scarlett that almost resulted in him puking, however, what he was expecting to happen and what he wanted to happen didn't come in the end, and he did not transform.
This came as a disappointment to him because he needed himself in his beast form the most back then, but things did not play out as he anticipated back then.
However, there were some things else he discovered back then, something that was able to trigger him into his beast form.
Lyon had two ways of altering himself, one was, through the physical injury trigger. whenever he gets a slight scratch on his body. As long as it was enough to make him bleed, then he would be able to alter.
This same method could be used to revert him to normal, and that is by exhausting him or by beating him till maybe they no longer have any energy for him to keep the transformation on.
Another reason for him to alter himself is also by mental injury triggers. This was something new for him. Back when he wasn't able to alter himself, some scary thoughts were running through his mind, thoughts about how disappointed Nate would feel if he got back and saw Peter dead, meanwhile, he was there and could not protect him. This thought triggered the altered form for him. Not only but also to select one that will be more suitable for the fight.
He can also revert to normal with this style, by thinking of something that always makes him happy and one of the people that once made him happy in his life was his sister whose whereabouts were still unknown to Lyon. however, this was not the case at the moment.
He was traveling with the others on the pickup truck that Nate and Jim once used in transporting the fuel barrels back to the workshop.
Jim was driving the truck with Potter beside him, then on the back was Nate Peter, Lyon, and the newly added horde member, Scarlett.
They were all armed to the teeth, with every one of them having the AK47 that was dropped by Scarlett's men after the first fight and the reinforcement fight. They had quite a lot of firearms on their hands now.
Meanwhile, all those days within the week Nate was evolving, Lyon had been busy so was Jim which was why he could not help out Lyon with his work.
Jim had been busy accumulating the guns and other equipment that was carried by Scarlett's men. He did not just gather them to store but started modifying them for future use.
He studied the structure of the guns and their bullets and put himself to work by trying to create something that looked like a gun, Eventually, it was not easy but he did succeed in crafting an AK47 gun, the only problem was that he could not make bullets, not that he couldn't but he does not have the required materials that are needed to do so.
But the bullet won't be a problem for now.
Meanwhile, through the journey, Lyon explains certain things he now knows about himself and more. It does get a point that he mentioned how to add another alter to his current list.
Nate wanted to answer the question but think about the fact that there is no way he would put the story to Lyon without implicating that he had a cheater system that gives him certain information ahead of others.
However, he knows that this knowledge is very important to Lyon because he is the subject here. Lyon ended up cooking up a theory for Lyon.
He told him that they are two things a beast crystal could do to his body if it was not used in making a weapon. Lyon already knows about this when he first asks Nate what happened to him before they got to the town of Halloween.
" If you eat the crystal, it will devolve into your body and spread power on them, but if you absolve the crystal by breaking it with your hand and then try to absolve the aura that will burst out from the crystal," Nate said to Lyon knowing fully well that it was just a made up theory by him, but he can't get answers from the system because it was still offline nor neither could he send Lyon out just because of a question that he has the right to know.
Soon, they all could hear the roaring sound from the distance even though it was still far but thanks to their ear they could tell it must be a great battle happening in front of them.
"Did you leave them in such a battle while running for your own life?" Lyon angrily asked Potter who could not alter a single word.
Meanwhile, Nate did not waste time in following the car and picked Dike up and jumped down from the car while racing in the direction of the noise. Lyon also did the same while turning himself so he could catch up with Nate. He not only caught up but also passed him.
'Even with twenty agility points, he is still faster than me. It seems like I won't be superior to everything for this group to grow or I have to work harder to get faster than him,' Nate thought to himself, he could not say that it was because Dike was been carried by him that Lyon was faster than him, no, he could tell that the latter did it with little to no effort.
Soon, Lyon and Nate were at the place where the battle was going on, he could see Lyon sneaking into the crater that was formed by Bully's deadly punch. And he had seen what happened, how Lyon was able to absolve the crystal and was now a red lizard.
Nate was shocked upon seeing this but he did not show it on his face, instead, he walked toward the nearest person to him and said.
"Don't be shocked, the world has changed" Nate tries to look calm and hide the shock on his face.
The person he spoke to turned to look at them with a more stunning face.
"Dike?" He said and tried to walk towards them but paused.
"You are one of us!" He said.
"Uncle Mark" Dike shouted and spread his arms to hug him.
However, Mark could not take his gaze off Nate.
"I told you, the world is not normal"
Just when he said that they could feel the ground shaking.
[System update completed]
[1 attribute point has been shared with all your horde members]
[Danger has been sensed, survive]
[Reward= Silver Medal]
'Do you know why I love your system? Because you were there when I needed you the most!'