Chapter 2: Reborn as a ???(1)
Talk - " "
Think - [ ]
System - -ex-
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As I was being forced to enter the blood-red portal, a golden portal appeared in front of the red portal. The red hand tried to stop me from entering the golden portal but a golden hand came out of it and grabbed me, making me enter the golden portal.
As I was entering the golden portal, I heard a yell "NOOOOO SHE IS MI---." before everything turned black.
The next thing I saw was grass that spanned as far as I could see all around me with a small pond near me. I tried to get up but I fell over, my entire body felt weird. I brought my hands, more like claws, to my face and saw they were made of some sort of black metal.
I quickly checked the rest of my body and noticed my entire body was made from a black metal with hints of purple and gold, the more I looked closer at my body, the more ideas came to me, as to what I am.
I tried to get back on my feet but I just kept tipping over. I let out a frustrated groan that came out as a metallic growl. I kept struggling to get up but I kept tipping over until I realized that I also had a metal tail with orange tips.
So I went back on my feet and balanced myself with my tail to act as a counterbalance. I finally was able to stay on my feet, I tried to walk but just fell over again. I had to walk slowly to figure out how to walk again. I also realize that I'm way bigger than before.
It took a bit of time to get used to walking with a tail but I finally did it. I walked over to the pond as I really wanted to see what I was. When I looked over the pond and saw my reflection, I knew what I was because of my brother's games. I was an Apex Slaughter-Spine.
I was a bit excited as Apex Slaughter-Spine was one of my favorite machines. I examined myself for a bit as I was really curious about my new body. I tried to talk to see what would happen but all I heard were metallic groans and growls.
I stopped trying to talk and looked at my surroundings more closely, the more and more I looked. I only could see grass and one single hill. I decided to walk towards the hill to see if I could see something other than grass.
As I walked towards the hill, I decided to do something that everyone does when they die and appear in a new world, say [System].
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Name - Erina
Species - Apex Slaughter Spine
Level - 1 (0/1000)
[--System Tabs--]
[Hatchery]
[Inventory]
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I squealed as me being an Apex Slaughter Spine was true, thoughts about all the power I had made me so happy.
I really wanted to use my abilities, but I had to wait for that as I saw black smoke coming over from the hill. I really wanted to run over there but I'm still not used to my body, if I try to run, I start to lose balance.
It took a bit of time to reach the hill but as I was walking over it, I could hear screaming and yelling.
As I can finally see over the hill, I see people with white armor cutting down other people who appear to have furry ears and tails. I also see a man with a white robe with a white staff high above his head, summoning a ball of fire out of nowhere.
[Magic and demi-humans] This word reverberates in my head. I intently stare at that man as the fireball starts to enlarge to the size of a basketball. Once the fireball stopped growing, the man pointed his staff at a group of 12 demi-humans that were charging at his group.
The fireball launches at the group and successfully wipes out the entire group. As that happened, I felt a bit sick as the ones at the edge of the fireball blast range were screaming in pain. But what I heard next made me shiver in rage.
All of the people in white armor surrounded the rest of the demi-humans, who were made up of women, children, hurt men, and old people. The man in the white robe yelled out something that I clearly heard
"Kill everyone but the women, they shall sell for a good amount."
--- Man in the white rob POV
As I gave my men the order to cut down the rest and keep the women, a roar I never heard before, came out of nowhere. All of my men and I quickly searched for the roar and saw a giant black metal beast with bright red eyes walk towards us. The beast started to walk towards us and the more it got closer, the more I started to shiver.
"Quickly get into formation, Archers wait till the beast gets closer before firing. I want everyone to use their health potion right now. Protect me till I finish my spell" I quickly ordered my men to get into formation and I started to chant my fireball spell again, sending all of my mana into this single spell.
As I'm chanting my fireball spell, I see bright purple lights start to form around the hips of the beast. I started to worry as I thought this beast may have poison magic and I currently had no potions or spells to counter poisons.
I shivered in fear as the beast was destroying my men with ease, they were nothing in front of it. With each step and claw strike, several of my men will die, their shields, weapons, and arrows did nothing to the beast. All of my men's strikes only left small scratch marks on the beast. But I had to focus on my spell as it was my only possible chance to kill this beast.
As my fireball was finally ready, I shot it at the beast, hoping it would be enough but that would be the last thing I saw. The beast suddenly moved its tail towards me and my men and shot out 5 bright purple beams. For some reason, everything slowed down for me.
I can see the beams of light cut through my men with ease, leaving a trail of fire in its wake. One beam was heading directly towards me but I couldn't move a single muscle. The fireball that I placed my hope in was for naught as it was easily destroyed by the beam. As I see the purple beam get closer and closer, I pray to my god for some hope.
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