The beast in front of Gary was faster than him, and it looked like only his claws could do any real damage to it. Unfortunately, it cost a lot of Energy to use them, and they only lasted 2 seconds right now.
The only way he could defeat it, would be if he had a way to prolong that time. Fortunately, his latest skill would allow him to do just that. With 50 Energy, Gary would be able to stay fully transformed for two entire minutes, yet there was a reason why he hadn’t used the skill yet.
He was worried it wouldn’t be enough. Since he had never fought in that state before, he had no idea how long it would take him to defeat one of the twins. The time limit was also a burden. If they evaded long enough, he might revert to a human, and that would be it…
As stupid as it sounded, but what he needed to do was to somehow fight both of them at once using his Full Transformation skill. Get them so close together that they couldn’t run away and fight the hardest he possibly could.
When thinking about this, he noticed Kai and the others on the other side. With his powerful eyesight, he saw how they had successfully trapped the beast into one of the containers, and then it hit him. THAT was the answer!
Running forward and getting hurt slightly on the way by the beast’s claws, Gary didn’t care. He picked up one of the bodies on the ground and threw it towards the beast as he continued to dash forward.
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A short while later, his plan had succeeded, Gary was in Buffin’s container, together with the two beasts. As soon as the second one had entered, the teenager had activated his skill.
[Skill activated Full Transformation]
[-20 Energy]
[Transformation has begun]
His body started to change inside the container. His transformation happened a lot faster than last time, though he wasn’t sure if that was because he had been in his Partial Transformation state, his system actually helping him, or if it was due to something else.
Whatever the case, given his new-found strength, speed and his deadly claws, Gary was positively surprised to discover how easy it was to deal with the two beats. He grabbed onto the wrist of the first one that jumped at him and crushed it. With his claws he cut and shredded up their bodies, and with his powerful jaws he was able to bite down on their bodies, damaging them in the process.
During the Full Transformation Gary remained in control. He knew what he was doing, but he felt like some type of battle instinct instructed him on what he should do, because he wasn’t fighting like a human would, more like a wild animal.
While fighting, there was something else Gary noticed as well, and that was the fact that if he used his mouth and swallowed down on the flesh he bit, he would regain a bit of Energy as well.
Not that he needed it, two minutes turned out to be plenty of time for him to deal with the twins, in fact he had finished them off in one. Cancelling his transformation after, Gary still had quite the bit of Energy to spare.
[Error: An anomaly has been detected in the beast flesh!]
[Consuming the beast’s body will not reward the user with any stats!]
Back in his human form, the teenager was naked again. This was a serious downside he needed to solve when using the Full Transformation skill. If there was one thing he was thankful for, aside from having survived this whole ordeal, then it would be the fact that the system didn’t require him to eat the twins… or whatever they had become.
He could have done it for energy but that was no longer needed. Still, he would have most likely done it if it had resulted in stat points, but since they weren’t fully beasts, or fully Altered, he was happy to just leave them. Interestingly, their forms didn’t revert, even after they had clearly died.
Picking up some clothes in the room that looked to have belonged to Buffin, Gary wore it. and he placed the mask he had chucked into the corner of the room back on his face, covering himself. He took a deep breath.
“You can open the door now.” Gary’s exhausted voice came from inside the container.
Walking out, he was greeted with the faces of his friends, who displayed a mixture of emotions. One of them was confusion as to why he was the one to make it out covered in blood. How did he defeat the two monsters, and in such a short time to boot? What exactly did he do, for them to end up in that state.
However, the masked teenager also noticed the tears. Innu, who he had only known for a short amount of time, and Marie had both visibly cried. Both of them had shed tears for him while he had been in that container. They obviously cared for him… and that was enough for him to have done what he had done to save their lives.
‘I killed…again.’ Gary realised. The first time that had happened still haunted him every so often. Barry had been an unfortunate accident. Of course, his schoolmate had stabbed him in broad daylight, so he had attacked him in a fit of rage, but he still felt a bit guilty deep inside. On the other hand, this time, there was hardly any guilt.
‘Am I slowly losing myself?’ Gary wondered, as he looked at his hands, tainted in black blood.
“Gary, thank you, you saved us all.” Kai came forward. Austin also gave him a thumbs up, not asking further what exactly had happened in there. Soon he made a few calls, cancelling the request for backup from his schoolmates.
This had become a far more serious matter than he had ever thought. Marie, had gone to Gary’s side, and tried to find something to wipe him with, but there was nothing in the room, other than clothes of more dead bodies.
While the other Howlers members outside were trying to figure out what to do in this situation, Kai had decided to head inside the container. When stepping in, he took a long good look at the mangled bodies of the two twins. There was black blood everywhere around the room.
On their bodies, as well as around the container, there were claw and bite marks. Stepping carefully around the blood, the blonde teenager headed for one particular corpse, before he reached for the pocket knife that was still stuck in the back of its head, pulling it out.
He wiped off the black blood and inspected it carefully. Once he was sure there was nothing wrong with it, he let out a sigh of relief and placed it back in his pocket, observing the scene one final time.
Eventually he walked out, and all eyes were on him, including Gary’s. They were all waiting for an answer about what exactly they were supposed to do now. None of them had been prepared for things to escalate to such a degree.
“Our leader did his part.” Kai said as he came forward and patted Gary on the shoulder. “So now it’s time for me to do mine. I promise that none of you will get in any trouble for this. It’s the least I can do, after you guys came here to save Marie, and Gary saved all our lives.”