Capítulo 5: Magery Mishaps
The History of Rabid Beast-Kin and Their Civilized Counterparts
There used to be only one race in the dawn era: humans. No elves. No dwarves. Nothing complicated. Just human. That is, until some long-forgotten god blessed a group of humans with unique characteristics. Some humans got the ability of super-hearing with animalistic ears while others got cold resistance with excessive body hair. Everyone had one thing in common, though: all of their traits were based off of aspects of wild animals.
Eventually, through a process similar to selective breeding, the characteristics become more pronounced. The traits spread throughout the body, making the unique character too genetically dissimilar to humans that if they were to create offspring, the offspring wouldn't have the ability to reproduce.
There are some good aspects of more specialized animal traits on humans, though. For example, it fills the world with different abilities, causing unique battles to be had and diversifying the politics. Once all the intelligent being figured out how to form governments, a new civil rights movement was born.
Not all was dandy, in fact it was quite the opposite. Along with the specialized beast-kin not being able to reproduce with humans, some were even cursed. Eventually the animal characteristic would spread too much, causing the beast-kin to turn more into the beast characteristic than man. These are called rabid beast-kin. They can mate with other beast-kin with similar aspects to them. They are the mutilation of man and the ascendance of beast. They are monsters.
Only the the pure humans can lead. That is why all royals are pure-blood humans. If a human is not a royal, then they have at least a very small amount of beast-kin in them. The social hierarchy between human and beast-kin goes as follows: (royal) pure humans> beast-kin> impure humans> rabid beast-kin
*** back in the lake
"Aaaah!" Ollis screamed out loud. He was screaming in pain, but not from his leg injury. He was currently implementing and fusing the basics of magery with his body. Once he has, he will (hopefully) deal with the current threat at hand: the rabid fish beast-kin.
"Finally." Ollis took deep breaths. The upgrade was complete and now he can check out his new abilities. A rush of knowledge came over him and stopped abruptly. "That's it? I thought I would get more."
'You have received magery 0.5! The current version is incomplete and needs an outside source to fix it.'
"So what can I even do with this? And what's so wrong with me that I can't even buy a simple skill?"
'You are very unique in the fact that your body doesn't contain any magicka whatsoever. None. Zilch. Zero magicka. As for what you can do… First, you should be able to sense other people's magicka with greater ease than before. This is a great advantage because no one, or hardly anyone, can sense you. Second, you should be able to manipulate and absorb both mana and magic attacks. If others were in your shoes(magicka-less), they wouldn't be able to do this. You should thank me.'
"Yeah, thanks for telling me I'm a freak," cried Ollis. With his new power, he should be able to find the rabid fish beast-kin. Ollis closed his eyes and used his new senses to guide him. He discovered that there were more people at the lake than he thought.
'Uh oh. Looks like some people saw my bare ass get kicked.' After Ollis thought this, he pondered about how he was going to get into Orson's camp. After all, he is naked and he can't find his clothes.
Ollis noticed something else. There were two more magicka sources heading to the lake. One was minor, while the other outpaced all the others by a long shot. There was also another magicka source in the water. And it was heading straight towards the large group of people.
'Another uh oh. Thats the rabid beast-kin in the water and it's going straight for Prince Orson. They're going to steal my kill. I better hurry." Putting his new skills to use, Ollis absorbed a very minor amount of mana from the environment and temporarily covered his leg, like the mana is a band-aid. He also tried to use mana to speed up his swimming, which ended in failure.
"Looks like I'm going to need more practice before I can start doing something that would be useful. If I can't get there before the Prince, then I'm doomed!" Ollis swam faster and faster, but the rabid fish beast-kin was too fast. There was no way he could beat it to the group of scouts.
As Ollis continued to focus on swimming, a bloody and spiny dorsal fin emerged from the water. The fin cut the water's surface with speed and ferocity. All of the scouts that were present witnessed this. They are not to be blamed for being intimidated; It was a very scary sight!
"What do we do?"
"We don't have enough manpower to fight this thing!"
"Where's the prince when you need him?"
Chatter came from the crowd. Without Prince Orson present, everyone was frightened. They knew that they were nothing but cannon fodder in the face of a rabid beast-kin.
It seemed like the rabid fish beast-kin could smell their fear, because it monopolized on it. It jumped out of the water and just stared at the group, half of which already pissed themselves.
You would think that fish can't smile, but you would be oh-so-wrong. A menacing smirk appeared where the beast-kin's lips were. That smile and human teeth could almost tell the future. It was predicting their deaths.
"Reinforcements have arrived. We, Orson Forrest, shall skirmish with this beast and claim it's head for the glory of Oakvale," Orson yelled as he appeared from the tree line. He stopped when he ran a meter out of the forest and struck a pose. His golden armor glistened in the lowering sun and his long, green hair flowed in the wind. If you were to see him, you would definitely assume he's royalty.
*schlip* A wet squishing sound could be heard. A shiny, blue water orb appeared from the rabid beast-kin's mouth, flying in the direction of Orson.
The prince managed to mumble an "uh oh" before being blasted with a water bolt on his leg. Unfortunately, the scout's leader and only hope has been rendered immobilized due to his arrogance. The few seconds that he had lasted filled them with confidence to win, but it was taken away as quickly as it came. The already deep-rooted hatred for rabid beast-kin in the hearts of the scouts was ever growing.
*splash* Another sound of water splashing could be heard. The scouts all closed their eyes in forgotten hope, accepting that one of their lives will be gone within the next few seconds. The rabid beast-kin, however, had a different reaction. It turned around in surprise and saw Ollis, who was thought to be left for dead, was approaching it in the air, surrounded by a lotus of water.
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