Capítulo 108: Chapter 27: Fifth Floor
And right now, I'm standing at the three-way junction surrounded by walls built out of white bricks. There is a square about twenty meters-radius around me. And three roads leading toward this square on my left, right and front.
Shit, is it another riddle packed floor? I hope not. And just as I was thinking that, I see that I was wrong. I see monsters running toward me from the three roads. It is the same skeletons that I fought on the first floor. I think there is at least thousands of them running toward me.
Swarm. This is different. I guess I need to exterminate them to pass this floor. If I had time, I would have loved to shift out of this form. This is kind of disorienting. Suddenly growing this tall. But I don't have the time to figure out how to shift back. So, for now let's take care of these skeletons.
Now, the question is: do I need to use mace to kill these skeletons. I guess I can only try it.
"Noir."
As I call out to him, Noir bursts out of the ground behind me and charges toward the skeletons running toward us in the middle road. And as he crashes into them, I see them breaking apart like a jenga blocks. I guess I don't need to only use mace to kill them.
"Fenrir, you take care of the right street."
He immediately unleashes his beam of dark energy after jumping out of my shadow. I look toward the street on my left and sit down to channel my fourth technique. But this time I try something else. I channel my fourth technique using earth elemental mana.
And just as the skeletons reached me, I unleash my dragon. This time my dragon comes out differently. This time it doesn't come out as a twisting whirlwind but as an earthen colored rock dragon. Instead of grinding everything into dust, it simply crashes through them and crushes the skeletons into pieces.
Maybe because I charged it with earth elemental mana but this one came out much bigger than the ones charged with normal mana and fire elemental mana. My earthen dragon flies through the skeletons and crushes any one that got in its way.
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This is getting tedious. We have been killing those skeletons for almost an hour. I think we killed more than millions of them but there is still more coming. Other two are starting to get exhausted after fighting the skeletons non-stop.
I have no idea where these skeletons are coming from and how many more of them will I need to kill for them to stop appearing. And as if this dungeon is mocking me, skeletons suddenly stop spanning and stop swarming us. We take five more minutes to get rid of the leftover skeletons and we finally get some rest.
Fenrir and Noir just falls to the ground, fall asleep. I guess they were close to their limit. I'm still fine. So, I sit cross-legged on the ground and start to concentrate within. As I sense my insides for the cause of my transformation, I see red energy coursing through my body. Same red energy that was invading my Soul Palace.
So, this where that energy was going after dissipating. I guess this is what is making me werewolf. And if manage to learn to control this energy, I will learn to control my shifting.
During last hour, I learned what this transformation did to me. My senses, my power and my body's quality increased. There was no improvement on the magical part but that needs no improvement. I like this transformation very much.
Only problem is: this form seems to bring out my primal urges too much. During the fight, I suddenly get something clawing from within and fighting to take control. Something wild, something primal. Still, I crushed that something to smithereens.
But I worry that it might crawl up again during another fight. And that kind of distraction is not something I wand inside of me. So, I need to find it and get rid of it permanently.
But first, I need to learn to control this red energy. And I have no idea about how to do that. I don't feel same control that I have over mana with this energy. It is simply floating around my body, saturating every part of my body.
There is a similarity between this one and Pure Energy. But the black hole inside my body is still sucking the Pure Energy in the atmosphere but this red energy is not getting sucked in by the black hole. So, I can't do what I do with the Pure Energy. I need to find some another way to influence this energy.
It seems I can force my will upon it. Then, that only leaves my fifth door. This all happened inside my fifth door. The werewolf inside it may be the answer to controlling this energy.
I enter my Soul Palace and open my fifth door. And the werewolf is still standing were it was standing when I left. This one looks exactly like me when I'm transformed. Only things about it that resembles me are its eyes and hair color. My armor changed to accommodate my new form.
I come before it and notice that I am shorter than the werewolf. It seems in here I'm in my human form. So, I guess this werewolf is just another me. An ego created when the curse took over. And when I killed it, my fifth door retained its body, thus allowing me to stay in this form.
That means in order to control the red energy, I need to control this werewolf. So, I touch its chest and as soon as I touch it, I feel the resonance between it and myself. But there is a little bit of difference. Within the werewolf, I sense the same urges that tried to take over me during the fight.
And I think this is what is keeping me from controlling it. If my guess is right, I need to find way to get rid of this difference. But how?
"Ooh, this is hard."
"Actually, it can be easier than you might think."
"What the hell? Who was that?"
I open my eyes and see the werewolf staring at me.
"You said it yourself, right? I'm you and you are me."
"How? I killed you."
"You killed the curse. Not the alter ego it created. Curse was forcing you to follow the duke's order. By killing it you freed yourself. But another ego it created stayed in you fifth door."
"So, if you are really me, what is that urges inside you that is keeping me from controlling the red energy?"
"Really? Do you really not know what that is?"
"What is it?"
"It is something that was there all along. Did you forget all your urges you used to get when you were in The Forest? Maybe you forgot about them after leaving The Forest. But all those urges were inside you all along, albeit suppressed by your will. It's just that wolf's wildness brought them out.
And you forgetting them and refusing to accept them as your own primal urges is what is keeping you from controlling the red energy. The reason why I'm here is that. I'm those primal urges you suppressed and forgot.
As long as you live you can't get rid of those urges only learn to control them."
And as soon as I hear that something in my brain ticks and everything comes together. The werewolf closes its eyes and goes motionless. And I feel myself gaining control over the red energy.
I suppose this alter ego was my subconscious telling me what is going wrong with me and realizing that problem kind of solved it. And all the urges that was bubbling inside me calm down. On top of that, I feel certain weight that was weighting me down disappear.
I exit my Soul Palace.
"Ooh, that was nice."
After that, I once again concentrate within and feel my control over the red energy. As I will it to recede I sense it receding into my fifth door and entering the werewolf's body.
I feel myself turning back to human again as that happens. My armor shrinks back to normal to accommodate my human form. I love my armor.
After that, I try to will the energy again to come out and as the energy exits my fifth door and saturate my body once again to turn me into werewolf again.
As I transform again, I can feel my urges getting empowered. Still, I can control them with my ease. That became much easier after I realized those urges were indeed mine. It will take more than just a few urges for me to lose control.
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