Chapter 48: New Form

I woke up in the middle of the night. I could see the flood of menus in my face. I could feel my throb very fast like its about to explode.

"This... Is a lot of skills. I guess my heart is beating so fast because we're slowly becoming one. I need to tell Afal this."

I was about to contact Afal with my telepathy when my door suddenly opened.

"Show... show yourself!" I see Yefa kicked the door down. She had a trembling voice.

Precia had her weapon drawn.

"Zieg... Lind?" They both asked me.

"Yeah? Is there a problem?"

"Your... Your appearance..." Precia pointed at me.

"Do you not see... yourself? Hmm... Ice Wall!" Yefa casted a spell and ice erupted from the floor.

"Is... This me?" My appearance reflected on the ice.

I didn't even recognize myself. My brown pupil turned to black. My sclera turned to red.

I looked at my hand and it was shrouded in black and red. It only reached until my own shoulder.

What's interesting is that the changes in my body only affected my right side. My left eye was the same as always and my left hand wasn't shrouded in black and red.

Yefa looked like she wanted to ask more questions but she held back. "Anyway Zieglind, can you do something about your aura? Its leaking a lot of killing intent. Some people might notice."

"Ah my bad." It seems the souls living inside of the Bloodlust are acting up. "Anyway, how do you turn this off..."

"Just say it." A sudden voice suddenly spoke in my head.

"Wha- where are you?"

"Are you okay?" Precia looked worried.

"Yeah." I focused my mind to try to talk to the souls inside of me. "How do I turn back to normal?"

"Just say, Dispel Form."

"Okay." I disconnected from our conversation and, "Dispel Form!" K reverted back instantly to normal.

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It seems this skill is unknown too. I have about three unknown skills. I'm curious on what those three are.

"Your aura is gone... Anyway, what happened? I can feel that you're stronger now than before. Double? No... Triple?" Precia asked.

"I absorbed Bloodlust. Anyway, get back to your room now. I need to contact Afal."

I let them go back to their room. It seems they both have a lot of questions to ask.

I sat down on the bed and used Telepathy to connect with Afal.

"Afal, are you awake?"

"Master. Do you need something?"

"Oh. You're awake. Anyway I just wanted to tell you, I absorbed the Bloodlust."

"Absorb? Do you mean... You've become one?"

"Yes."

"Then... Have you got any information about my father?"

"I've got a theory."

"I'll need to know it whatever it is."

"Okay. So when I absorbed the weapon, I could feel the thousands of souls imbued in this weapon. Right now they are all inside of me. I can talk to them now whenever but I doubt they know anything about your father."

"I see..."

"Anyway, when the absorption was complete, I turned into something that I don't know."

"Do you have a different eye and and an armor?!"

"So you know about that form. But sadly, the only changes I got was my eyes changing and a shroud of red and black in my arm I think this is the armor you're talking about. My left side of the body wasn't affected by this at all."

"If you absorbed Bloodlust and its not fully complete then that means...?"

"That means that there are two copies of the original Bloodlust. If I absorbed it and its incomplete that's the most reasonable thing. The Bloodlust's power is split in half."

"That means my father is still out there somewhere..."

"Yes. But since I absorbed the Bloodlust, I don't know if I'll be considered an ally or enemy of your father."

"That's... True. I don't know him either. But I do remember his overwhelming strength."

"I currently have some skills that is still unknown. Do you know anything about this?"

"I'm afraid not. The only thing I remember is the black and red armor that covered my father."

"That's fine. Anyway Afal, I need you to run the village while I'm gone."

"Why?"

"This mission... Will take some time to complete. Tell that to the kids also. And try to make a normal face. Your face is so damn scary."

"I apologize for that."

"I'll be sleeping now." I disconnected the Telepathy. I slept like a log.

Morning came an I visited the two in their room.

"Here." I threw the clothes I bought for them. "These are just some casual clothes. Put your armor in your inventory. And... Yefa about your gauntlets put them in your inventory too."

"Its a weapon!"

"I know but its too intimidating. We're here to scout."

"Fine. *sigh*"

I went back to my room and wore my clothes. It was just a T-Shirt and pants. Nothing interesting.

I went back to their room and knocked on their door. "Are you done?"

"Yeah we're done!" I heard Precia through the door.

I went in and saw them both.

I bought Precia a casual frilly one piece dress. She looked cute spinning around in that. It seems she likes it.

The clothes I bought for Precia were a tomboyish style clothes. It fit her personality and body structure.

"Okay, let's first go to the guild. I'll be taking quests myself. I need to try this new power. Yefa, continue listing all the shops here. Precia, go scout the vicinity of Cagyer. Try to look for some dungeons. Just normal dungeons. Let's go!"