As Emilia started to wake up, she felt a strange sensation around her, it was squishy and soft, but not the good kind of soft, it was also wet, like she was trapped inside a beast body, when she opened her eyes she noticed she wasn’t entirely wrong, she just wasn’t inside the beast yet, there was a fucking tiger trying to eat her, lucky for her, the tiger had no teeth for some reason and neither had claws, and it also was like 15 levels behind her, she was covered with it’s saliva on her entire body, as disgusted as she felt, right now wasn’t the time to start vomiting because she was covered in another creature saliva, because she was trapped inside a cage, and outside the cage she saw a lot more and all the people that disappeared, the reason she had to come to this place in the first place.

  “Where is this place?” she asked the first disappeared person that looked sane enough, because honestly, all looked like shit, but sadly, she was the only one that had saliva all over her body, worst of all. when she talked some of the saliva entered her mouth, making her gag and almost puke.

  When the man heard her, he turned his head over to look at her, and then his eyes opened wide in recognition.

  “Y-you are the daughter of the general, aren’t you?! Y-you can get us out of here!”

  Before she could say that unless a month passed her father wouldn’t come looking for her, all the other people around them looked over to her, saying things like she was going to save them all, they had hope in their eyes as if she was a divine being sent to rescue them.

  “Guys, guys, can’t you see she is uncomfortable with all of you not shutting your asses?” said a voice that came further down the hallway, it was a childish boy, but it felt old, it didn’t make sense, but it didn’t need to for Emilia to be thankful to him since everybody stopped talking after that.

  Emilia couldn’t see in the dark, and could only see some cells away from her, so even if she could hear him, she couldn’t see him, well not completely, but she could see the red eyes staring straight at her.

  “Don’t worry girl, I’m not going to do anything to you, yet~”

  She wasn’t so sure she was completely grateful now.

  “Don’t take him seriously, he’s kind of brain dead” said a female voice farther down the hallway, but Emilia could only see like 9 pairs of eyes staring at her “He tries to flirt with every girl that gets here”

  “Hey, it wasn’t all! Remember that one girl?! The one with the horns and chains!” screamed the boy, apparently trying to clean his name.

  “the only reason you didn’t flirt with her was because you didn’t even know how she looked like, you just saw a black cloud with a creepy smile on her place for 2 days, only at the third day you saw her true form” said the woman as a reply, but what Emilia was wondering more was that girl they were talking about, chains? Horns? That didn’t sound human at all.

  “Either way! She was a girl, and I didn’t flirt with her!” screamed the boy in a defensive tone.

  “Whatever you say Berg” said the woman to the boy who’s name apparently was Berg.

  “C’mon Angela! You are just jealous I have more of a chance with a girl than your lesbian ass!” said Berg, revealing a secrete of the woman, who’s name is Angela.

  “Well, that was quite an info dumb…” said Emilia in a small tone.

  Both eyes, the red and blue, turned to her, and in unison said “you are in a laboratory run by a guy named Jaul or something like that, or that was what Iko said, and he will probably come back soon to start anew experiment on you, so you should brace yourself and get ready to be tortured.”

  That wasn’t creepy at all, they definitely practiced that beforehand, but it wasn’t time to be surprised by their super coordination, if what they said was true, she had to escape, and now.

  “Oh you are finally awake!” she heard a voice coming from the other end of the hallway, the same voice she heard before she was knocked out cold, as she turned around he saw the man, apparently his name was Jaul, going straight for her cell, all the other captives wasted no time looking the other way, some even started hyperventilating and having panic attacks, what ever he done to them wasn’t a nice trip.

  “you’ll see… I took some samples of your blood while you slept… and I mixed them with something… now… open your mouth”

  Before Emilia could even have a breath of negation, she opened her mouth without wanting too. And then, surprisingly taking well over 10 minutes, she noticed the collar in her neck, a slave collar.

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  “Good girl~ I might give you a price if you keep being so well behaved, not like that half dragonoid…” she felt sick hearing his words but there wasn’t much she could do against her captor orders, not with that collar on her neck.

  “You only needed one normal slave collar while she needed 5 of them, and all of them reinforced versions… she was a hell to take care of” that woman sounded like the real deal, Emilia would want to meet her if she wasn’t at the control of that wicked man.

  “Okay so this here is your blood fused with a new substance I found… liquid gravity. Don’t ask how, it is a pain in the ass to explain it” he throwed the vial he just took out of his pocket over to her. “Now, Drink it”

  Emilia didn’t want to, she felt tears forming in her eyes but not falling, as she started drinking the vial, when she finished she felt her throat closing and she felt empty inside for a few seconds before she started coughing blood, normal blood, and her eyes also started bleeding, she was in a hell of a pain, and the man just stood there, watching as she suffered.

  “Looks like this is also a failure…” he said as he noticed Emilia body going limp, but she wasn’t going to die, not yet, not until she killed that bastard.

  Iko was tired, it had been 30 minutes since she started fighting the beast, and she already lost and regenerated her arms 13 times, legs 10 times and her head once, not even she knew how she was alive, but she was running low on corruption and Rainari was already on the ground, not being able to move at all, it was without injuries because of the regeneration it got from her blood, but it wouldn’t help her any time soon, as she ducked to dodge another bite, se was a bit too slow and lose half her face, just for It to be regenerated, but it was slower this time.

  “fucking god… I might actually be in trouble this time… how can this beast become so strong only after a few drops…”

  What Iko didn’t know was that she didn’t inject it with “a few drops” she used well over 2 liters of her blood, that the beast survived and evolved was a miracle of nature, for the beast of course, since Iko was in a pretty bad situation right now.

  As Iko half-dodged the next attack from the beast with her arm, it got chopped off, for nobody surprise, so as Iko started thinking she noticed that her previous plan wouldn’t work, she was planning to escape and dodge until the beast got tired so she could deliver a final blow, but something told her she would die before that was even close to happening, so she started going to the offensive, surprising the beast, but even that moment of vulnerability wasn’t enough to do much, she started thinking that the “ignoring every defense” trait in her skills was just for show, because the scales of the beast weren’t even scratching even with corrupted touch! The only thing it did was glitch it momentarily before going back to normal.

  “You god-forbidden sturdy lizard…” Muttered Iko as her next attempt to destroy the scales covering it also failed.

  “Well fuck it” Iko said as she jumped on top of the beast next attempt to bite her, landing on top of it’s head. “This better work or I am dead”

  Iko lifter her claw up to the sky and then with all her force she forced it down the beast eye, just in time to get the air knocked out of her by a very angry lizard with a not following basic biology tail, because there was no way for the tail to reach her when she was up there, but somehow it could.

  “Fucking cheater…” She said with a weak voice, coughing blood, her regeneration slower than normal, she started feeling weak, the kind of weak she felt during the moment she had low levels of Corruption, that meant that soon she would not be able to move, she had to do something, and fast.

  She concentrated on the beast, watching if her attack on its eyes did anything, and thankfully, it did, it’s left eye was mostly untouched, probably because she only had 1 claw and hitting both eyes was hard, but the right eye? Destroyed, bleeding rivers for some reason she couldn’t understand and limping around, hopefully it is going to trip on its own blood to give a chance to Iko, but she doubted she would get that chance, even while bleeding rapidly the beast wasn’t going to bleed to death, she had to act before it got back to his feet.

  Iko opened her wings and jumped to the beast chest, she didn’t fly because she didn’t have the strength, but used her wings for a little of support, grabbing the beast scales so she wouldn’t fall, and using as all the amount of corruption she could without entering in a weakened state and used [Corrupted Touch] on one of the scales, making it glitch out of reality for 1 second, more than enough to grab herself with her tail, since piercing it with her tail most probably is only going to make it stronger, with her un-corrupted arm she phased through the glitched scale, since it was in another reality.

  It was a gamble, after all if the scale decided to appear just when she tried to pierce it, she would lose her arm, and she didn’t have enough energy to regenerate it, and if she wasn’t able to penetrate it flesh she would break her arm and end up dead after the beast decides she was tasty enough when she was in her weakest.

  With a deep breath she thrown her arm through its flesh, her strong body helping with not breaking her arm in the moment of contact, getting deep into its body, barely touching its heart, nor piercing completely.

  But Rainari had slept enough to be able to help, throwing a thunderbolt over at the injurie, Iko with her [Basic Thunder Resistance] was able to endure the lighting coursing through her body, then she used [The Eye of Thunder] to control the thunder right to the heart of the beast, only a nail inside it hearth was enough to send the entire thunder bolt inside, all in the span of 1 second.

  Then the scale reappeared, taking Iko arm with it, she fell to the ground but was able to stop her fall with her wings, just by opening she reduced the air resistance by a lot, being able to land while grabbing her tail onto nearby trees.

  Or that was what was supposed to happen, what Iko didn’t see was that for the second she was electrocuting it heart, the beast pierced her insides with its own law defying tail and its own claws, cutting her wings and making a mess of her tail, she was now free falling well over 15 meters down to the ground.

  I’m fucked.