Chapter 74: Massacre

The clicking sound echoed in the blood mist. I felt more, and more crawlers enter my sensing range and knew it was at least 3x more than before.

But they are at a huge disadvantage since I'm up in the air while they can only stay on the ground.

The blood crawlers surrounded the remaining monsters and all ganged upon them. All of them had no chance of survival besides some of the blood stalkers which flew around in random patterns. Most tried to fight back but were always overpowered by the sheer number of the blood crawlers.

I watched their battle but soon I got restless. Instead of killing them with [Forbidden Magic: Zeus's Nimbus], I wanted to slaughter them with my own hands. It would be more fun like this.

I didn't come here just for new skills, no, more importantly, I came for entertainment. Being a queen can be fun sometimes but I was getting restless from not being able to fight somebody on my level.

This even showed when I saw Yin mercilessly fighting with the recruits. I've been barely hanging on. It is almost like I'm sexually frustrated but instead it is with fighting. Fightually frustrated…? That's probably not a thing.

Turning off [Forbidden Magic: Zeus's Nimbus], I then activate my old friends, [Fire of Deaths Sword: Raiu] and [Fire of Deaths Armour: Araes Dress]. I feel a warm sensation wrap around my body while I place my fist on top of my palm and then pull out Raiu.

I couldn't hold back the excitement that welled up in my chest.

Flying straight down, like a missile I crashed into the blood swamp. I took very minimal damage and when I stood up, I saw that every creature on the battlefield had turned to look at me.

I could've easily made them run away or at least slow them down with [Commanding Guardian Phoenixes Presence] but…

"Where's the fun in that!" I yell out with a huge grin.

Instead of finishing off the monsters, they were already obliterating, all of the blood crawlers had charged towards me with mandibles clicking.

They all jumped at me from every direction but I easily sliced them up with Raiu. Crawler legs, eyes, abdomens, carapace, and sickles all fell to the ground. I was sprayed in blood whenever I cut up one of the crawlers.

I could get addicted to the feeling of slicing something clean in half.

The blood crawlers soon deemed me a threat as I saw some red aura emit from every crawler on the battlefield. They shaped together to create a pair of eyes that seemed to watch from above the battlefield like a god.

I paid it no mind as I continued to slice through everything. I would occasionally check on my status to make sure I didn't go insane from excitement, but also to check on my stamina. The only thing was, it was barely going down. Same as well for my mana which was being used quicker than stamina but barely dented from my insane amount of MP.

"I need more!"

Activating [Weather Manipulation: Wind and Rain], I pointed my left hand into the sky while continuing to slice up crawlers with my right hand.

Soon the sky darkened once again, almost making it look like nighttime. Not long after, the rain started to fall and the whistling of wind almost deafened my ears due to my heightened senses.

Once a raindrop landed on a crawler, it created a dent in its carapace which seemed to not affect the creature at all. The rain and wind were also removing the blood mist that coated the battlefield.

Feeling I could become stronger, I then activated [Mystic Arm] which created a purple shadow that seemed like the arm and claw of a wolf. The ethereal arm hovered over my own arm and hand, and once I let it hold it, an exact replica of the katana was made.

It was instead purple and slightly see-through. Also, It grew larger, letting me slaughter more crawlers at the same time.

I don't even know how many more there are because they just keep coming within my sensing range but… it's not too bad.

…

"HUFF HUFF HUFF," I was breathing heavily from having to fight for a day straight.

It was currently early in the evening and the sun had already set. I was soaked from head to toe in blood that couldn't even get washed out by the pouring rain.

Also, I didn't even realize I had let go of my nose. I wasn't gagging or throwing up from the smell. It still smelled horrible but not enough to actually make me nauseous.

I felt a sense of achievement since that was the one thing that had hindered me the most while in the [Blood Swamp].

"I wasn't even able to kill all of them since they just kept coming and coming. To be honest I probably would have died if they didn't retreat from noticing how I wasn't dying. The problem wasn't my health, but my stamina and mana," I mutter while scrolling through my status and notifications.

[482085 XP gained in total]

[You leveled up (24x)]

"Pffft, HAHAHAHA"

I couldn't help but laugh out loud when I saw the amount of XP I gained.

『Status』

[Name: Arpious]

[Race: Lamassu of Ancient Fires]

[Status: Exhausted]

[Servants: 3]

[Subordinates: 7]

[Pets: 1]

[Level: 25/100]

[HP: 629/700 MP: 23/500 SP: 58/500]

…

"Alright, let's have a bite of all of the monsters present here. Luckily my intentions of wanting to eat the corpses got through to Raiu and its flames since none of the corpses were burnt or turned to ash in the slightest," I say before snapping my finger which deactivated [Weather Manipulation: Wind and Rain], [Fire of Deaths Sword: Raiu], [Fire of Deaths Armour: Araes Dress], and [Mystic Arm].

FWOO

I picked up the leg of a blood crawler and first roasted it a bit with [Ancient Fire Magic: Amaterasu].

Who could've guessed that such a rare and powerful fire would be used to cook some of my food… wait can I maybe use [Ancient Fire Magic: Ichimei] on it?

Snapping my fingers, the black flame was instantly extinguished and replaced with a white, noble flame that engulfed the piece of meat. The dried blood soon disintegrated while the meat became slightly white with a bit of red. The carapace of the leg turned a bright red making it look exactly like a large crab leg.

I extinguished the flames and the smell that came off of it was heavenly compared to the environment's smell around me. My mouth started to water, forcing me to swallow a big gulp of saliva before chomping into the entire leg, carapace, and all.

I felt a tear form on the side of my eye because of the heavenly taste. No offense to Aito, but this blood crawler leg tastes much better than some of the dishes he makes. I mean all of them are good but this is like a home-cooked meal… when you actually know how to cook.

I finished the leg in seconds and with no hesitation, did the same thing to every piece of meat I could find, not leaving out a single species.

[Gained the following skills]

[Blood Water Control]

[Blood Sharks Powerful Bite Force]

[Body Modification: Gills]

[Body Modification: Gator Scales]

[Blood Gators Powerful Bite Force]

[Blood Suck]

[Blood Manipulation]

[Body Modification: Bat Wings]

[Tangible Bloodlust]

[Body Modification: Reinforced Heart and Blood Flow]

[Blood Mist]

[Summon: Blood Minion]

"I'll use the body modification when I get back, but for now I want to [Inspect], [Seeds of the Ancient Fires] and [Evolution Switch] because they were also one of the reasons I came here, to improve and find out what my unknown skills do," I muttered before opening my status.

[Seeds of the Ancient Fires]

[This skill can only be obtained by a Lamassu of Ancient Fires. This skill allows you to plant a seed in the ground and if you give up one of the ancient fire skills it will either grow into the [Yggdrasil] or [Qliphoth]. The trees are able to produce their own humanoid descendants that wield their respective ancient fire.]

I couldn't help but smile at that last part since if I eat one of the descendants, then I could obtain the skill back.

[Evolution Switch]

[This skill allows you to switch between any of your previous evolutions. The one downside is that your stats are adjusted to the evolution's power. In other words, you do not keep the same stats for every evolution.]

I was intrigued by the last skill and wanted to use it immediately.

Once I activated [Evolution Switch] I felt nothing strange happen to me. I was still a Lamassu.

Maybe I have to think of the evolution I want, well first there is the feather and then the-

I felt my body suddenly shrink and my eyesight was completely gone. It was just like when I first woke up like a feather but this time it was different.

[Heightened 5 Senses and More] allowed me to have eyesight even without eyes.

I felt and saw my vision slowly fall down with a warm sensation running through my body not long after.

SHIT!

It was the same feeling from before, I was soaking up the blood below me!

Using [Evolution Switch] I quickly thought of being a Lamassu. My body started to grow and my eyesight returned to me. My hands and feet were also back on my body.

I was breathing heavily since I had slight PTSD from that one moment when I arrived in this world.

"I'll just sleep for now," I mutter while wiping the cold sweat off my forehead.

I climbed up a tree and activated [Commanding Guardian Phoenixes Presence] which should scare off any enemies that try to approach me.

"Time for my beauty sleep," I say, still soaked in blood from head to toe.