Reborn In Altaes - Chapter 9 Too Big Too Heavy

I look over to them until they finally fully disappear from my sight. Then, I finally turn into my sludge form and enters the bear’ mouth. After a few minutes, I fully devour the bear. Man that’s a lot of bear meat. I’m now probably medium size pool worth of black sludge. That’s a lot. I try out my new form and I think I’m bigger than the original huge bear standing at almost thirteen meters tall. Hahaha. I’m gonna scare them.

I lumber over to them and pushes down a tree to the side. The ground shakes as I stare down at them. Their eyes wide and their faces pale. I couldn’t help them it anymore, I finally just laugh. They are still stun and unable to move. I come closer and pat their heads slowly. Slowly, their faces change and a look of relief appears. I pass through them and continue to walk back to our previous campsite.

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It is dusk and a huge creature is sleeping near the campfire. The snore shakes the whole air around it. I still can’t believe the Scythe Mantis becomes a Greenhill Bear. How? This is all not making sense. A huge smart mantis then, now it’s a huge smart bear. It also likes to make jokes. Scaring us like that. I thought the Greenhill bear before is still alive. It seems a transformation ability happen. Is it some subspecies of Doppelganger that can only turn into other beasts? But, a normal Doppelganger doesn’t need to fully devour it’s target. So, it’s probably not a special Doppelganger? This is just making my head dizzy. Zara seems fine with all that has happen prior.

“Umm. So, Zara. What are we going to do after this?” I look over to her.

“I guess we’re going to hunt for those two Scythe Mantis, tomorrow?” She says with a twitching smile. Unsure, huh?

“Now, we can more or less confirm that this thing is not a normal creature. Also, probably not a threat to us currently,” I look back at that thing with my fingers cupping my chin.

“My plan has been only to communicate with it. Not, go hunting with it. Still, if it’s in this form, then, we will have an easy hunt won’t we?”

I know the things happen before this is unbelievable but, for some reason I just have this feeling, that trusting this thing is going to be fine…am I going crazy?

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After a few hour of napping, I wake up with them finally snoring quietly. I turn back to my black sludge form and scurry away quietly. After I get far enough that they can’t hear nor see me, I begin my experiments.

After two days of hunting strange creatures, I begin to question my self, ‘Can I combine my forms? Can I transform back into the smaller version of my rabbit form to it’s original size?’ A lot of those questions appears in my mind and it makes me really want to experiment on them. I first try to transform into the little spotted badger but, I try to make it the same size as a normal one. The huge twelve meter badger slowly shrinks in size. Then, as I expect, deep footprints begin to appear below my paws. Small, compact and heavy. Really heavy. I feel that my strength is still powerful as when I am in a bigger version. I jump upwards to test it’s strength. I fly up more than twenty meters. The starry skies surrounds me as I slowly fall back down.

DOOMSH! CRACK!

A crater appear beneath my paws as I land back down. Wow, that’s cool but, it’s kinda hard to control the strength. Also, the heavy weight is going to be hard for me to handle. I can imagine sinking deep in the water like a rock. So, for the first time, after a long while of deliberating about it; I finally split myself.

My black sludge form begins to transform into two regular size Scythe Mantis. I look at my self from the eyes of both mantis. It is kind becoming a strange situation. Both of the mantis is the real me. Both of them is a prime body. Even though, it seems like I just make a clone but, both being has the same mind, which is me. This so bizarre.

Afterwards, I continue experiment with my forms. This time, I change a part of my body into a rabbit and another into a badger. I can feel different behavior in each form but, still a one mind. Then, I split my self to countless forms. This is like me becoming a one man army. That is so cool! I can imagine a huge monster army marching with all kind of monsters within them. All are me and becoming a literal hive mind.
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