Chapter 880: Breakdown
The three beastmen looked at Arad, a bit confused. As a cat, he wasn't even hissing. He just sat there on the ground, staring at them, menacingly.
"What's up with this cat? That was loud." One of them gasped, staring at Arad with a confused
face.
"Kick him away, what are you afraid of, it's just a cat." One of them suddenly rushed in, swinging a kick at Arad.
Lucia panicked, waving her wand as fast as she could to form a barrier, but it was incomplete. The moment the beast man's kick hit the barrier, it shattered it and raced toward Arad's small head.
Lucia gasped, if she only was a bit faster at casting spells, her barrier would've formed right, and the cat wouldn't be about to get kicked in the face.
Arad lifted his small paw and stopped the beast man's kick with ease, "Do you really want to fight?" A deep growling voice boomed from the cat and the beast could sense a shiver running down their spine. They just realized it, but it was already far too late. This black cat, reeks of pine.
Lucia and Ramy immediately recognized the voice, and what they saw next made it as clear as day. The cat's body started expanding and swelling, from its small form a massive muscular man emerged, standing tall and glaring down at the beast men, his eyes dripping with purple magic.
"ARON?!" Lucia gasped.
"You know the law can't save you from me." He glared at them.
To them who just got beaten by him out of nowhere this evening, this threat didn't seem like
a bluff or a joke. This human before them is an uncontrollable monster.
"Forget it," One of the beast men turned around to leave, "Let's go, it's not worth it anymore."
Arad had just gotten warned by Mira about beating people, so he decided to not chase them. In any other case, he would've at least scared them a bit.
"Aron...wait, you were the cat?" Lucia gasped and Ramy looked at him. "Since when you can do that?"
"I'm a druid, you should've known, it's written on my papers and I did deal with the beavers, didn't I?" He looked at her, "Besides, you should've been able to sense my magic, right?" He shifted back into a cat, and Lucia stared at him, she could indeed sense a faint trace of magic, and now that she was trying to remember, it was indeed there from the start.
Thanks to Mira getting a divine portfolio and becoming a demi-goddess, she requires less and less of Arad's mana to raise the child inside her, which allows Arad to draw more of his power at any time.
With a single solid step, Arad's muscles contracted as his bones shifted, absorbing the impact of his steps like shock absorbers as he raced through the jungle, searching behind each tree and beneath every stone, straining his senses to the extreme.
As he rushed, blood boiled in his veins, and his draconic nature rapidly started to surface. If anything was to harm Lucia, it'd be facing a raging dragon, a monster that even a god failed to
stop.
The ground beneath the village rumbled as Arad searched, and Hati sighed on her bed, "Look at this now...he's still destroying the land to find her...^ She turned and looked at her servants, "What do you say?"
"You can just tell him where she went, that would stop him." One of her servants replied.
"Then he'll know I'm watching him. I can't do that." Hati shook her head and leaned back.
At that moment, another servant walked inside and she looked at Hati, "We received a divine promotion. It's quite urgent."
"From who?" Hati waved her foot, "If it's Tiamat, tell her to fuck off. I'm watching something interesting; I'll get back to her tomorrow."
"It's indeed from Tiamat..." The servant looked worried, "It says, accelerate, we're losing
time.Ʌ
Hati's face immediately twisted and she jolted back up, "Wait...what did happen? Is
everything fine?" She cried.
"I don't know, that's all we got. And from her voice, she seemed angry." The servant said, carefully looking at the stressed Hati.
"Damn it." She stood and shook her head, "I'll get to work, prepare my clothes, we'll get everything done as quickly as possible."
"Your Eminence, look!" One of the servants in the room gasped with a scared face, pointing at Hati's crystal orb. They could see Lucia running in the jungle chased off by raptors without her knowing, and she stumbled down into a Trapdoor Arachnid trap.
All monsters here were large, and Trapdoor Arachnids were massive spiders that didn't wave webs but instead created traps beneath the soul to immediately snare targets with their fangs. As clearly as they could see, Lucia got snared in the blink of an eye, bitten across the torso. Arad could smell her blood, and all hell went loose.