Chapter 18: CH.16 - Abyss (5)
He then went to help Hajime but what he saw shocked him to the core, Hajime was fighting a cow headed humanoid monster and was going to lose his arm before Enkai ran at full speed. Saving Hajime, who got unconscious after Enkai saved him, again. To be honest Enkai was growing tired of protecting Hajime every time that something, the latter having nothing to protect himself but when he thought of the of today he thought and hoped that today was the last day Hajime was powerless. He changed his focus from Hajime to the monster and what he saw stunned him.
'Is that a f*cking Minotaur ?'
Enkai put Hajime down, he had some bruise and cut all over him bleeding from it. And turned toward the Minotaur, red fur, small horn and a long sword. They faced each other, tension building between the two, Enkai launched toward him with 2 blade in hand, these were the only thing Hajime helped him with, he couldn't do an entire katana and only the blade, resulting in Enkai asking for two blades.
One blade collided with the long sword, easily being overpowered by it, with his other hand Enkai launched another attack, in which the minotaur couldn't defend, resulting in a deep wound on his torso angering him and hit Enkai with a kick at full power launching the boy in the abyss wall. The latter coming back as quickly as he went for the back of the neck, the minotaur swung his long sword at high speed toward Enkai, in which the boy responded by abort his attack to defend, sending him in the air before retrieving his balance facing the Minotaur once again.
Enkai again went for the back of neck, or he made the minotaur think so, as it was a feint a thought of using a new attack he thought of.
'Well, I never tried on someone so let's how much damage you can do' thought Enkai, evading the minotaur long sword, kick him in the stomach, destabilizing him but not doing a lot of damage and came near the minotaur once again, closed his finger letting the palm still open and compressed the air around before releasing it.
The minotaur who was recovering from his heavy attack which missed was sent straight to the wall at full force and high speed, killing it on spot.
Enkai was breathing heavily as he used all his mana in this attack, with his already low reserve, took Hajime and gave him Sacred Water which helped him recover before drinking some himself.
"Arh...what happened ?" Asked Hajime, recovering from his injuries, he didn't fell pain anymore but was still sore.
"You, my friend did something stupid and went against a Minotaur, and I saved your ass" Replied Enkai
"Saved my ass huh..? Again ? Damn I'am so useless.." Said Hajime with a depressed sigh and went gloomy.
"Don't say that, it's true that while talking about stats your are the lowest of the lowest, but your imagination is your greatest weapon, your are also talented in engineering so use that head of yours" Said Enkai trying to cheer up his friend.
"I don't know if you are really trying to cheer me up or just dug my grave..anyway thank you Enkai" Replied Hajime with a helpless smile but a genuine at the end.
"Now I'am hungry so could we please eat ? Let's eat that wolf meat first." Replied Enkai, almost running toward the shelter to eat.
"Yes, yes...but hey ! Tell me how am I in such good state ?" Asked Hajime surprised because he felt that he was in fact felling nothing, no pain or else.
"Well, with my little stunt earlier I found something extraordinary, something called God Crystal, it's Mana in solid form and there was also in liquid, it can heal almost everything apart from limbs, fortunately I saved you before you lost your right arm, otherwise your porn magazine would go to waste." Said Enkai.
"Thank you Enkai-sama !" Replied Hajime, tears of happiness on his face, completely forgetting the fact that Enkai found a legendary mineral.
"Let's eat" said Enkai, this time igniting the combustion stone in the right way.
"....Hmm, still are you sure, it's told that if we eat it it will kill us Enkai" Hajime said, doubtful about it.
"What do you to do about it ? If you feel something, here I fill another flask with Sacred Water you can use it, it'll help you, and we are forced to eat it we are already starving and the sacred water help us not felling it but we are starving now" Said Enkai, launching another flask to Hajime.
"...Alright..." Said Hajime, a little bit afraid but after recalling the event today and before where Enkai always saved him, he felt a little bit of inferiority complex toward him, the fear was replaced by determination wanting to at least not holding back Enkai and be of use instead of being a princess now.
The two ate the meat at the same time and instantly after gulping it they wanted to puke, Hajime thought that he maybe found something worse than a devil fruit in this world. Or he thought...
"Eww~ Blegh, this is damn nasty!"
"I want to puke all of my intestine right now!"
They didn't even talked more than that before drinking the sacred water. But after a few second, they felt pain. their stomach protested violently, assaulting them with a gripping pain. They drank more sacred water only for the pain to increase.
"Ahhhh!! Why is it… not working, ahhhhhh!"
None of them wanted to faint with this pain, what could happen when they were unconscious ? They withstood the pain, hitting the soil with their hand.
Inside them changes were happening. Ba-thump, Ba-thump, his entire body was pulsating, giving off audible popping sounds everywhere. But in the very next instant, the sacred water in his body took effect and cured the abnormality.
Changes were happening, for Hajime, First, his hair lost its color, Japanese black hair rapidly turned white. Next, his muscles and skeleton grew thicker, with several thin reddish black lines appearing within his body. And finally red eyes.
[ A/N : Basically what happened in the manga ]
For Enkai, something more was happening, for those who forgot, Enkai had a "Regeneration" stat, it basically worked like the Sacred Water but in a much longer way. Now inside his genes, the changes the monster meat did were fixed, keeping only the things beneficial for him. He kept his already silver hair, maybe a bit whiter. He lost the little bit of fat he had and like Hajime his muscles and skeleton grew thicker, no maybe because of the "Regeneration" stat, the process was optimized and they were even more thick. Alas those benefits didn't come alone, with it a pain ten time more important than Hajime's. Fortunately he had the Sacred Water, keeping down the pain and healing him, well the pain was still strong but at least with the healing he didn't die. Finally his blue eyes were kept blue but if you looked closely a bright red hue was inside. It could mesmerize anyone.
After all of the pain, you could see two body sweating as if they were escaping Hades in hell and breathing heavily. After resting the looked at each other.
"Who the f*ch are you ?!" Enkai screamed even feeling exhausted
"Huh ? It's me Hajime, what do you mean dude ?" Replied Hajime in a confused state.
"Well look at you bro, I don't think you are the same Hajime and just telling, your eyes are red" Replied Enkai
When Hajime looked at himself he was shocked to see the changes that happened to him he then looked at his friend and saw nothing except that he was...more manly ? Thinking such thing Hajime quickly shook his head. In reality it was true Enkai became even more handsome, not forgetting that he already was damn handsome.
"Damn...and you, except your build nothing really changed...oh now that I look closely there is some red in your eyes too...the pain was too much and here I was hoping that you could kill me...ahhhh at least now we are no more hungry..." Said Hajime with an exhausted expression.
"Same here...so that's why we shouldn't eat monster...well we already did it anyway...do you fell like power is brimming through you ?"
It's true, the two felt even more power full than before.
"Hey we can't see my stats but show me yours Hajime" said Enkai, a little disappointed for not having a status plate anymore.
"Here.
Nagumo Hajime. 17 Year old. Male. Class:Synergist. Level:8
Strength:100. Vitality:300. Resistance:100. Agility:200
Magic Power: 300. Magic Resistance:300
Skills:
Transmutation • Magic Manipulation • Iron Stomach • Lightning Clad • Language Comprehension"
The both of them were in awe in front of these stats..but Hajime had a wide smile, he thought that he could finally be useful.
As for Enkai he was in deep thought since he thought that after seeing Hajime stats, he wondered how much did he gained...
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