People come in many shapes

Before they could start their training, Dred nudged Elena’s back with his paw. “What is it?” Turning around, she asked with her brows raised. Stepping back, Dred threw up the contents of his stomach. Aside from a few bones, there was a finger as well. It was none other than Raven’s. Seeing it, Elena’s eyes sparkled, while Audrey turned around in disgust.

Using Water Magic, she quickly cleared away the ‘waste’ and raised up that melted finger. Pulling off the ring from it, she threw it away and then washed her hands. With the ring between her fingers, she used Inspect. Seeing that it was the same ring as what Raven had, she felt really happy.

Looking at its contents, it still had at least half of the stolen food, leaving only one and a half cubic meters of space in it. With the Lesser Void Ring in her possession, now she had a way to store a few things. “I didn’t even notice that you took it away. You are the best!” Hugging Dred around his neck, Elena exclaimed happily.

Although its space wasn’t big, it was more than enough for her use. “Is that the void ring Raven showed to us?” Audrey asked curiously, as she put her hands on her hips. Nodding, Elena put it on her finger without saying anything.

She felt thin needles penetrate her finger and a new feeling appeared in her body. It was like an extension of her inner being. A new space, she could access at any time. “Canned food, canned food, and surprisingly, canned food!” Looking at its contents more closely, she found nothing but trash.

“Why did you even bother with gathering that shit? Killing a few monsters would have been much easier. Like… there were those Mammoths in the park. Krin could have taken care of them and they could have served as food for weeks,” shaking her head, Elena remarked on the humans’ stupidity.

“Listen, we weren’t idiots. We also thought about it, but a monster we tried eating before was toxic. A few people died as a result. We didn’t want to die as well…” frowning, Audrey replied. She intentionally talked in past tense as she wasn’t one of them anymore.

“Huh? Did you eat a non-animal kind of monster?” Elena made a stupid sound upon hearing her words. Seeing Audrey stay silent with an ignorant face, she laughed, saying. “Hahaha, and you said that you weren’t stupid? If you eat animal type monsters, nothing is going to happen to you. Only the other monsters have toxic bodies.”

“Is it like that?” Raising a brow, Audrey questioned, not knowing that there were humans at other places who were eating those kinds of monsters.

“Yes, it is. Anyway, it’s time to start with our daily routine and since you are a part of my little group, you shall do it as well,” with a smirk on her face, Elena waved her hands, telling Audrey to stand up.

“Ugh, fine. But you didn’t mention this when you were among the hum- when we were among the humans…” Audrey complained, almost referring to herself as a human, out of habit. Laughing at her, Elena told her that she had no such intentions.

Stopping in front of a large tree, she used Nature Magic to make it fall and then using wind magic, she cut the tree into a few logs. After enhancing a few vines with her Mana, she coiled them around three logs. “Come here…” she called over Audrey.

“Eh? I have quite a lot of strength but isn’t this a bit too much? These are at least two hundred kilograms… Do you want to kill me?” Seeing her new training set, Audrey made a despaired face. Enhancing her body with Mana, Elena raised up the stack of logs and tied them on Audrey’s back with similarly enchanted vines. Audrey fell on her back from the sudden weight on her body.

Helping her up, Elena said, “You will have to run two laps in the nearby areas. I couldn’t do these things in the city, but now that we are here, we are going to work hard! Right, Dred?” Looking at him, Elena petted his head and put the same stack of logs on his back. Rubbing his face on Elena’s, he licked her and then ran off, catching up with Audrey in a few seconds. Although Audrey had similar strength, she didn’t know how to use it.

Meanwhile, Dred was naturally more proficient at it and their continuous training only increased this invisible skill of theirs. Strength was the same as singing voice. Some people had good voices but they couldn’t sing because they didn’t know how to use their voices. People had to learn how to use their strength!

Taking upon her shoulders a similar stack, Elena followed after them. With her strength being below the weight she was carrying, she had to use Body Enchantment to keep going and not fall to the ground. But it not only burdened her body and muscles, her Mana Veins were equally being pressured.

While running, she focused on controlling her Mana, pouring it into her muscles and meditating at the same time, to regain what she lost. Catching up with Audrey, she left her behind.

“*Pant* How the hell *pant* are you so quick? I have more strength than you!” Audrey shouted after her frustratedly, upon realizing that Elena was so much better than her. Not answering, she just kept on running. Dred was even quicker than Elena, but that wasn’t surprising as he was more of a physical type.

When Elena finished her second lap, Audrey was halfway through her second one. Dred was running his fourth lap relentlessly, wishing to become someone that could protect his partner. Seeing Elena trying to do pull ups on a thick tree branch to train her arm strength, he thought, I shall be the shadow or the wall protecting you. No matter what.

Feeling a strange connection between them, Elena felt a slight emotion entering her heart. She didn’t know what was Dred thinking. She just felt that he was thinking about her, which made her happy.

When Audrey finished training her leg muscles, she was commanded to do push ups. “A-Are you serious?” Feeling her throat dry and her burning lungs, trying to catch her breath, she slumped down. Sitting on her butt, she crossed her legs to use her Mana and stabilize her body.

Knowing that it was better to meditate after tiring out your body, Elena said, “Fine… you can meditate. Go and train your mind.” Well, she can do it later too, she thought with an evil smile, panting heavily.

Feeling that more body training would do more worse than good, she sat down beside Audrey, in the same position. Feeling her breathing stabilize, she looked at Audrey’s concentrating face and chuckled before saying.

“I know that it’s tiring to train your body. But believe me, it will do good for you. As my familiar, I have no intentions to harm you. Being playful is fine, but you should never forget that your world isn’t the same anymore. Knowing what is above us, believe me, this is only the beginning. The first hundred levels are just a joke, to say the least…” Turning silent, she focused on filling up her body and widening her Mana Veins.

Before exploring the depths of her Mystic class, Audrey replied, her eyes still closed, “I know. Since I decided to follow you, I shall do it so long as I can and you want me to. I know that I’m being manipulated by you, but you are the only person that I can belong to. It might change in the future, but I don’t think that I’ll be able to change by that time. This might be because of my personality and self-understanding, but I prefer quality friends. Knowing that I can completely trust in you is something that I couldn’t do with the humans.”

Elena’s eyes twitched slightly, feeling emotional upon hearing her words. Turning silent, Audrey focused on exploring new things.

Learning from Elena that the Dark Matter was actually Dark Magic, Audrey decided to focus on the mysteries of space, hoping to unlock something new. Mana was everywhere. She just had to make it take a shape and then pour an element into it.

But obviously, those eight elements weren’t the only ones as even her Mystic class mentioned other elements. Thinking about the novels she read and the movies she watched, her first thought was space and time…

There was once a blog where I read about these things. It said that although this seemed like a stupid theory, everything had energy in it. Not even empty space was different. Wait… if empty space has energy in it… then isn’t it the same as Mana? Mana is everywhere. At least, that’s what Elena said. Can I feel or use that energy? What can I use it for?

Pondering, she decided to try something or else she would never find out. Focusing on a gray speck, which was none other than Mana, she tried to see behind it. What was Mana? What made it so mysterious and powerful? It is just a form of energy, isn’t it? She thought as she tried to go beyond it and sense something deeper than Mana.

Not finding anything, she kept on trying for about half an hour when she finally felt something. It was truly different. She realized that she couldn’t sense it before because it was black. With her eyes closed, she couldn’t see it in that black world which was all around them when they meditated. But that was her problem. She was trying to see it with her eyes closed, instead of feeling it with her senses!

Reaching towards those invisible and barely perceptible black dots, she tried to pull them towards her body. As soon as her body made contact with it, her Mana turned black while she screamed out in pain. Falling forward to the ground, writhing in pain, she gritted her teeth. Those black dots started assaulting her body, devouring her Mana completely.

Seeing Audrey lying on the ground, unmoving, not breathing, Elena panicked. Turning Audrey on her back, Elena slapped her face gently, shouting, “Hey! Are you alright? Audrey!? Wake up!” But in place of her gray Mana something new took its place. Black Mana.

Sucking in a breath of air, Audrey sat up as if she had a nightmare. Hurriedly gripping her chest, she felt her rapidly beating heart. Her clothes turned soaking wet and she kept looking around panicked. Seeing Elena, who quickly leaned to the side to evade Audrey’s head, she calmed down.

New Element: Cosmological Constant

You know one of the biggest mysteries of the universe. Everything is just a bigger or smaller lump of energy and not even space is different. This is usually invisible to most even until dying. People with this knowledge in their hands don’t need Mana. Everything is just a different form of energy, be it alive or dead. You can use this energy to enhance your body, to use magical attacks for as long as you want to. Infinite energy isn’t just a dream.

Seeing the notification in front of her eyes, Audrey was flabbergasted, but Elena was even more so since she could see Audrey’s notifications. Mana! Audrey thought, focusing only on her Mana.

Mana: Cosmological Constant

“Eh?! How did you do this!? TELL ME!” Grabbing the collars of Audrey’s cloth, shaking her, Elena shouted questioningly. “This is infinite energy! Can you understand that?” Elena continued, feeling excited. “Hahaha! It was truly worth taking you away from those people. Your potential would have been wasted there! Now I not only have a good and trusty friend but someone who can teach me a few things as well. Isn’t that great?”

Still shaking her, Elena questioned excitedly. Seeing that Audrey was about to throw up from so many shaking, she let go of her and sat back on her legs, “Ehm… sorry. *Cough* I became too excited. This is you, humans’ fault!” Blaming the change in her personality on the humans, she put her hand in front of her mouth, coughing.

Looking at Audrey, she grabbed her hair and pulled it to the side. “What are you doing?” Raising a brow, Audrey questioned Elena upon seeing her strange behavior. Without saying anything, Elena leaned forward and bit into her neck, surprising her.

But what was even more surprising is that she didn’t feel pain. A few seconds later, Elena leaned back with her mouth bloody. Licking her lips, she pointed her finger towards Audrey’s neck and used a combination of Water, Nature, and Light Magic to heal her wound.

“W-What have you done?” She questioned as she grabbed her own neck, feeling nothing but her smooth skin.

“Don’t worry, I healed you already and it was only a tiny wound anyway. Although I can’t steal away your ability since we aren’t connected like with Dred, I can still devour your concept behind the things you learned. This works with anyone. With hard work and effort, I should be able to learn this in the future.” Feeling a new idea forming in her mind, Elena explained herself to Audrey.

Hearing her answer, Audrey sighed out of relief. Smirking, with a snap of her finger, a huge fireball, with a diameter of ten meters appeared and shot into the sky. Upon explosion, it spread through the sky, turning everything orange and red.

“Hahaha! This is fucking good! I had had to use up all of my Mana to create a fireball of this size before. But now? I can use the Mana in my surroundings. As long as there is energy in my environment, I won’t have to use my own Mana!” Laughing happily, Audrey exclaimed, catching the attention of a few monsters nearby. But her firework from before scared them away, so it didn’t matter…

Knocking on her head, Elena remarked, “But you shouldn’t believe that you don’t have to train your Mana Veins and mind just because of this… You will have to increase the capacity of your body, along with your control and the force of your spells.”

“Naturally,” agreeing with her, Audrey replied. “But hey, look at this~ Since we are nothing more than energy… don’t you think that rebuilding ourselves is easy?” She said changing the color of her skin to green and then back again. She didn’t dare to play with her skeleton yet since it was something more sensitive… She believed that she needed better control.

“This is… intriguing! If I could learn this, no one could catch me! Can you hide your aura from my senses?” Questioning Audrey in her curiosity, Elena leaned close to her face.

“Ah… wait, you don’t have to come so close… let me try,” holding up her hands, pushing back Elena, Audrey replied. Closing her eyes, she focused on herself. She felt that there was an aura, a mass of energy surrounding her body. Knowing that it was nothing more than energy, she controlled it to enter her body.

Elena tried sensing her and she was still able to do so. “I think that just because you pull your energy into your body, your physical presence won’t disappear. You need to cheat the Mana I discharge to hide your presence completely. If that truly happens, you can become the perfect assassin!” She remarked thoughtfully with a frown on her face.

Nodding, Audrey tried to do something similar to what Elena said but with no results. “I don’t know… It surely has something to do with Evade Sense, but I don’t really know how does that work. Why would others not see us when we use stealth?” Muttering to herself, Audrey started thinking. Turning around, Elena decided to train her mind and body instead of watching over Audrey.

A few hours later, seeing that the sun was shining down on them through the foliage of the forest, they decided to stop their training and go on an adventure. Feeling drained, Elena made a hole in the ground and hardened the sides of it. Dred filled it with warm water and jumped into it.

Elena quickly turned her clothes into shadows, leaving her stark naked. Audrey still had her clothes on, so she had to undress, unlike these two. Placing her toes into the water, feeling that its temperature was perfect, she quickly entered and sat down in front of Elena.

The girls’ chests floated atop the water, turning this into a dream-like spot for many men. Luckily or unluckily, Dred had no such feelings. Petting his head, Elena said, “Aren’t you a little bit too big to fit into this bath? You should widen it or something…” Feeling that they barely had space to move, she made Dred increase the size of the bath.

Turning around, Dred found the comfiest possible place… laying his head on Elena’s chest, he closed his eyes, feeling content.

Audrey laughed loudly upon seeing such a scene, asking. “Hahaha~ What are you going to do if you find a boyfriend for yourself? I believe it won’t be hard with your body and I’m sure that he would be jealous of Dred taking away his place~”

“As if… you wish! I won’t let any guy touch me. They will have to fight really hard if they want my care! And to begin with… my standards are high. Higher than what most could climb and this doesn’t mean only looks and talent but heart as well!” Ridiculing Audrey’s naive statement, Elena told her how much she was off, adding. “And if anything were to happen, Dred would be very understanding, believe me.”

You think… Dred thought evilly. If any man were to go close to Elena, he would bite…

With a stiff face, not noticing anything on Dred’s face, Audrey replied, “Alright… Poor guys will never get to your heart. I can already see them falling…”

“Oh? But not just before me. Because I won’t let you turn into the woman of a random guy unless you really find him your type…” Elena remarked while looking at Audrey seriously.

“Don’t worry about me… I’m bad with guys anyway. I’ll just stay a single… maybe once in the far future, I’ll find someone good enough. But our road is still long, isn’t it?” Tilting her head to the side, Audrey questioned Elena. Nodding, she stayed silent.

“Purrr~” Dred purred in a deep voice, voicing his feelings and love for Elena. Laughing at his behavior, Elena caressed his head. But what they were truly surprised to see was a group of humans stepping through the thick bushes.

By the time they have done so, Elena jumped out of the water, her shadows coiled around her body, in the form of clothes. She was surprised to see that it was Jake and a few powerful members from his territory.

Covering her body, Audrey turned her head around to look at Jake with an enraged face. Although the guys were mesmerized by the erotic view, none of these three appreciated it. Growling, Dred stopped behind Audrey’s back, facing the humans.

“Step back… NOW!” Elena shouted, feeling annoyed. She knew that this was just an accident and that they probably came here because they saw the firework before and heard their voices. But no one wanted to be peeped at, so she still felt angry. Gulping loudly, everyone turned around, except for a girl in the team.

Not bothering with her, Elena helped out Audrey from the bath. Now that she had some control over the shadows, she was able to weave clothes out of them, but her speed was much slower. About ten seconds later, she still managed to cover her body. The short, brown haired girl, with blue eyes, turned around to notify the others.

With slightly red faces, they came back, not daring to meet the girls’ eyes. “Y-You have grown…” Looking over Elena’s teenage looking body, Jake couldn’t help but remark. Since humans were once again young, their hormones were back too. It didn’t escape Elena’s eyes when Jake’s eyes stopped for the split of a second on her breasts.

Clearing her throat, Elena caught Jake’s wandering eyes. “I did. So? What brings you here? Deep into the forest?” Raising a brow, she questioned him.

“Uhm… there was a huge explosion a few hours ago and after contemplating on it for a short while, we decided to enter the forest and find out its cause. We were hoping that we would find something good,” interrupting him, a guy chimed in, “Which we did, hahaha!” - “Shut up!” Jake rebuked the guy, continuing, “But as things turned out, it was you and Audrey… Why are you wearing a glove?”

Noticing Audrey’s black hands, reaching the middle of her forearm, Jake asked out of curiosity.

“Gloves? I don’t we-” realizing her mistake, she quickly corrected herself, “Oh, these? Uhm, fashion~ hehe.”

Shrugging it off, he nodded as he stepped to the side, further away from Dred. He was about a hundred and eighty centimeters tall, which by all means, made Jake feel threatened. Not caring about him, Dred eyed the guy who made that ‘funny’ remark. Stopping in front of him, he sniffed his neck, scaring the shit out of him.

Although he has seen large monsters from nearby, none of them were the kind of apex predators like Dred. Not to mention that he couldn’t use his spells and magical attacks on this monster unless he wanted to die. Knowing this, it was natural that his legs started trembling in fear. Meeting with Dred’s eyes, he almost crapped himself.

Feeling Dred’s bloodlust suddenly disappear and seeing him step back to stand beside Elena, he sat down on his butt ‘dignifiedly’. “Pft~” Holding back a laugh, Elena just chuckled at his fearful look. This naturally enraged the guy, but he didn’t dare to voice his emotions. Ah~ Audrey~ You’ll have your first test as my familiar. You shall go and kill this guy for me later, though you don’t know it yet. Planning in her mind, a smirk formed on Elena’s face.

Having better control over her facial expressions, Jake didn’t notice anything from Elena’s evil thoughts. Clearing his throat, he tried to pick up on their conversation, “*Khm* So? How are your days passing by since you left?” Feeling strangely pressured by the person in front of him, whom he looked at as a little girl not long ago, he asked with a stiff face.

Caressing the fur on Dred’s side, she replied, “Well, we are doing fine as you can see. I’m growing up, turning stronger by the days, leaving behind even the monsters at this low realm. Nothing out of the norm!”

“L-Low realm? What do you mean?” Catching the keywords, he questioned her curiously. Looking up from Dred’s side, straight into his eyes, she said with a smirk on her face, “The world you know is too little. This is only the warm-up. I don’t have too many details in my mind either, but I do know a little. Let’s say that you don’t need to care about it before reaching the hundredth level.”

“A hundred…” he muttered silently, feeling slightly excited to focus on leveling up and training.

“But I’ll tell you something important. When people reach the hundredth level, they should have about thirty-seven thousand stat points on at least one of their aspects. I know that it sounds a lot, but believe me. Once you level up a few more times, you will see genetic enhancing runes, which will help you in evolving,” she dropped the bomb on his head, making him happy.

Frowning, she put her hands on her hips, saying, “But be careful. As I have noticed, you humans are a greedy bunch. I dare to say that once humans learn about it, you will start killing each other for it… so you should be the first to get your hands on it and improve the people under your rule…”

Making a surprised face, he replied - “Is it like that!? I truly thank you for telling me.” - thinking that it was truly a good idea to befriend her at that time and not attack her. Seeing her inquiring look, he continued, “Ah… we too are doing fine. The food is no longer a problem and we also told our methods to a few territories, making them owe us. It is to the point where their people listen more to me than to their original leaders.”

“I never thought that I would have to manage so many people! Our population has grown to the size of two thousand people!” Seeing his enthusiastic speech, Elena just nodded at him when she realized something. How did such a change occur in no more than one and half a day?

Furrowing her brows, she asked, “Wait… how many days passed by since we left?”

“Eh? Eight… how do you not know it?” Making a surprised face, Jake replied, not understanding why was she asking such an obvious thing.

Playing it off calmly, Elena waved her hand, saying that she was just joking. But in all honesty, Eight? How the hell? What’s wrong with this place? We left only a day ago! Did we go through some kind of weird time travel?

Still with a calm face - “Well, sit down and eat if you want to. There is the corpse of an edible boar. We caught it while training and kept it frozen,” she said, pointing towards the trunk of a tree. In front of it was the corpse of a three-meters-tall boar.

“Oh, thanks for the offer, but we should rush back before my people think that we died, haha,” laughing in a good mood, he apologized, asking, “By the way. Will you stay here?”

Shaking her head sideways, she replied, “Definitely no. We will move deeper into the forest. But I told you that I’ll visit you, people.” After saying goodbye and telling them that they would welcome them anytime, Jake left along with his entourage.

“We must leave. Something is wrong with the time here…” Elena said seriously, already storing the corpse of the boar in her storage ring. She threw away the canned food long ago. Audrey also nodded, agreeing with her. Seeing Elena sitting on Dred’s back, Audrey started caressing his left shoulder, with a pleading face, saying, “Won’t you let me on? I’m your master’s servant, am I not?”

“Hmm~ That explains why you should stay on the ground! Hahaha~” Not missing the chance, Elena quickly made fun of Audrey, who just turned into Dred’s shadow grumpily. “It’s not like you have to run after him…” Elena mumbled to herself, earning a flying piece of stone towards the back of her head.

Catching it, she crushed it with her hands. Roaring, Dred rushed forward. Although Jake didn’t know this, Elena was following them for a reason. She wanted to find out what was going on! And she had to change her plans from adventuring to do so.

About half an hour later, they arrived at Jake’s territory. Elena was following them from far away. Dred jumped straight onto the rooftop of a building, moving upwards by jumping to taller and taller buildings. Stopping on the tallest rooftop nearby, she had to realize that the old area was nowhere to be seen because in its place was a flourishing village!

Stone buildings decorated it and tents were nowhere to be seen. Although the school was still in the center, most people dwelled in the nearby buildings since that too turned into Jake’s territory. They realized that as his level grew, so did the size of his territory. Jake also explored Elena’s dungeon… but he didn’t touch it, wishing to keep a good relationship.

He didn’t know that Elena didn’t care about that dungeon, but he will be happy that he left it as it was in the future.

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Entering his area, people flocked around him, along with the two vice-leaders. “What happened? You went away for one and half a day… it wasn’t that far away!” One of them immediately questioned him.

“One and a half… what are you talking about? We left only for a few hours!” Jake exclaimed, laughing at him. Patting his shoulder, he entered the school. Seeing the scene and hearing their conversation, Elena furrowed her brows.

This is wrong. There shouldn’t be different timelines here. That happens only in a single case… but that would be terrible news! She thought with a tinge of fear in her mind. At such a low level as this, time shouldn’t malfunction. If it still does, it means that the given world is dying…

At first, the time starts flowing differently at different places, slowing or speeding up. Where it is quicker, space will crack and fall apart earlier. Where it is slower, space will fall apart last. This means that the spot she found in the forest might turn into a key position in the future.

This didn’t mean that this planet would fall apart in a few days, but it definitely didn’t have more time left than a few years. In the worst case, only eight to ten months… Such a short time would never be enough for the humans to reach the hundredth level and leave the beginners’ area. They had a way… to collect every Biotic Enhance Rune and work hard! But once word got out, the other territories and tribes would surely not agree with them.

Actually… this could turn into something quite funny! Thinking that far, she realized that the problem was by all means not a problem of hers. With her talent, she could reach the desired level in even less time. Telling Audrey the possibilities of her findings, she just laughed at it, saying.

“Hahaha! The humans made so many apocalypse movies about incoming meteorites and how Kriton, our planet would stop rotating. Now here we go… it is going to fall apart!”

Shaking her head, Elena remarked on Audrey’s lack of empathy, “Aren’t you too evil? You were one of them not long ago…” noticing a strange glint in each other’s eyes, they laughed heartily. Cracking her fingers, Elena sat down on top of the building, saying, “Things are starting to escalate really quickly… but I have a small test for you. You have to kill the guy who remarked on the ‘good view’.” Not even bothering to refuse it, Audrey nodded as she turned into a shadow on the ground.

Rushing through the gates, which were way further from the school than when she was here, she moved from shadow to shadow until finding that guy. Waiting for the right moment, when no one was around, she raised out of the ground behind him and beheaded him. Using his Minor Devour, she took care of the corpse and using Water Magic, she cleaned up his blood as well. With nothing but his memory left, she went back to Elena.

“Oh, you were quick. Only six minutes and twenty-five seconds,” she praised Audrey with a smile. Standing up from her meditating position, she asked with an evil smile on her face. “Now… shall we visit Jake and tell him the bad news?”

“Let’s go,” hugging Elena’s waist, Audrey replied. Jumping off of the building, the asphalt cracked under the strength in their bodies. Jake and the others felt threatened because of two reasons. Firstly, they couldn’t see shit with Inspect, and secondly, it even corrected the threat level to ten for them… So they knew that the difference was probably huge.

Noticing two intruders, the new guards didn’t know who they were. But instead of reacting like idiots, they measured up their strength. Realizing that these ‘two’ were way above them in strength, they called for help from other guards. Luckily, Kale was also among the ‘reinforcements’, so he told the others to just let them in.

Stomping on the ground, Dred rushed towards the school in a straight line, no one stopping them. Such a big monster rushing through their village freaked out quite a lot of people, but those who knew Elena were calm. Realizing that he was too big to fit in through the doors, Dred turned into Elena’s shadow. People keep lurking behind me… which fills me with a good feeling! In a way… Chuckling, Elena thought to herself.

Interrupting Jake’s meditation by barging into his room, Elena sat down in front of him and told him her hypothesis. She wasn’t sure in this, but it was better to prepare than to stay idle, doing nothing. If nothing else, then they would advance sooner than they were supposed to.

“S-Such a thing!? This is catastrophic! But we have been living on this planet for such a long time! Do you know why is it happening? Or better, can we stop it?” Feeling anxious, Jake questioned Elena, almost grabbing her arms.

“We could stop it but not at our levels and since we have no such person, no, we can’t stop it. Why is it happening, you ask? Simple… your planet is too old. I don’t know its history, nor do I care about it, but once a planet and its solar system turn too old, it falls apart, for a new to form. But we would die if we were to stay and wait for it… so you better hurry up. Now I’m taking my leave,” finishing her explanation, she stood up to do as said.

“Wait! U-Uhm… Why don’t you stay here? At least for a night,” Jake shouted after her, stretching out his right arm.

After thinking about it for a moment, Elena nodded as a reply and then left him alone. Jake’s heart was still beating rapidly. What’s going on? He couldn’t help but question himself, still not realizing that he was afraid of Elena for some reason. He found her beautiful and attractive, but she generated more fear than lust in his heart.

I can’t read this monster… sometimes she acts like a child, while at other times, she feels like a bloodthirsty killer, who is about to take my life away… Realizing how he felt about Elena, he sighed loudly. A few weeks ago, when Elena was still just a little girl, she showed her emotions on her face all the time. But that wasn’t the case anymore.

Her face was mostly unmoving or the most she did was to smirk and smile. This made Jake feel weird and insecure while being in Elena’s company. Especially if alone… The best I can do is to forget how she was when she was just a child… he thought with another sigh escaping his lips. I’m sighing too much when she is nearby…

Entering her dungeon, Elena thought about her options. What can I use this for? I could attack the humans anytime as long as I have this in my possession. It could be used as a threatening trump card. Thanks to knowing more, I can mostly lead around Jake and the others from behind… and this could be used as a security measure.

Oh! That… that will work! Most people probably won’t think badly of me enough to realize its true uses, Deciding on what to do with her dungeon, she smiled happily.

“Alright! Although it won’t be useful for a long time since this planet will probably die out, we will build up this dungeon into something really good.” Clapping her hands, she said aloud. Both Audrey and Dred left her shadow, ready to hear her thoughts.

“We will build chambers here, moving downwards and I’ll spawn Ogres with different levels in each chamber. It will help the humans in gaining experience and I can also use it anytime to threaten them! I’ll have to fill it up from time to time, but it should work.”

Raising a brow, Audrey shrugged. Using her Cosmological Constant, she used the energy around her to destroy the earth, building large chambers, pathways, stairways. It was moving downward continuously, until reaching a few hundreds of meters deep into the ground.

Meanwhile, Elena and Dred started filling it up with ogres, starting from level one to level twenty-five since that was their maximum. This was where she realized that a small detail escaped her plans. She was much stronger than others at her level since most people didn’t take in a Rune of Biotic Enhance… Audrey was truly lucky that she drank Elena’s blood afterward, inheriting the same genetic enhancement.

Knowing that Audrey was at the thirty-seventh level, she decided to hand over the owner rights to Audrey and make her use her infinite Mana… With her hands on her hips, furrowing her brows, Elena remarked upon seeing Audrey spawning ogres relentlessly. “Aren’t you too unfair? People could never finish a dungeon if you truly hid in it.”

“Nope! I have to use my own Mana! Which I can refill anytime…” Pointing out the truth, she realized that she turned into a cheater.

“Arcane Mages should never own a dungeon,” mumbling to herself, Elena waited for her to finish patiently. They couldn’t spawn monsters with the same level as themselves. Elena was at the twenty-eighth level and her strength was much greater. The world system looked at her as if she was above the thirtieth level. This meant that anyone being able to fight her would look at the ogres as trash mobs. The strongest ogre Audrey could spawn was only thirty-four, meaning that she could surely fight someone above the fortieth level.

When they were done, they went back to Jake and told him that they could use the dungeon as a training spot from now on. Its area was big enough to reach even the school, so as long as they stayed there, Audrey could keep spawning monsters.

But that was definitely not something Elena wished to do. The next day she intended to leave and visit an even deeper part of the forest. If she was really away for ‘eight’ days, then there should be much stronger monsters by now. She also noticed a new and strange feeling in her body. Her hormones were clearly raging up.

Seeing the dark sky, accompanied with a Moon, she entered Audrey’s room. It was still reserved for them, even though they left ‘long’ ago. Elena sat down on the bed, her legs crossed, trying to understand and comprehend the Cosmological Constant. But she soon had to realize that her hormones were interrupting her thoughts continuously.

Leaving Audrey alone, she entered the bathroom. After a nice and long bath, feeling calmer, she sat on top of the bed once again. In the bathroom, she shared her knowledge with Dred as well, so he too followed her example. Trying for a long time, having the same results, she sighed loudly. Even Audrey stopped training by now and entered the bathroom. Not being able to hold back herself, she satisfied herself.

Spoiler: A small ero scene. (18+)

Touching it…

As I sat down on the bed in our room, I felt that tingling feeling in my crotch once again. I didn’t know what it was. Or maybe I just didn’t want to accept it… Looking out at the window in the moonlight, I sighed loudly. S-Should I actually look at it? I thought upon noticing that it just wouldn’t go away. Dred was sleeping on the side of the bed, facing the other way, while Audrey was still having a bath.

Feeling curious, I pulled off my leggings and pants. Looking at my private place, I felt slightly weird. I usually don’t touch it unless I have to clear it after peeing. Still, feeling that tingling, I couldn’t help but move my finger towards it. My labia were really plump, but Audrey’s was similar, though a bit smaller, I guess. Touching it, a shudder ran through my whole body. Quickly pulling back my hand, I noticed that my breathing turned a little unstable for a moment.

I didn’t like it, but that tingling went away for a moment when I touched it. Adjusting my pants and leggings, I pulled up my legs and buried my face in them. Although I tried resisting it, that thought of wanting to touch it again didn’t go away. “What am I supposed to do?” I said with a muffled voice since my mouth was covered. Turning on my left, I moved my long hair aside, as it was covering my eyes, bothering me.

After lying down for a few minutes and still not being able to sleep because of this stupid feeling, I moved my right hand downward. Feeling the side of my plump butt, I caressed it for a moment, without any result. “Haah- L-Let’s touch it again. For a moment…” I talked to myself, sighing loudly.

I sneaked my right hand into my pants, touching my labia. The same tingling feeling only increased in me, but it felt really good. I wanted to feel it more. Panting slightly, I decided to not resist this feeling. Closing my eyes, gritting my teeth, I spread my labia and touched the point where I felt it tingling. An incredible feeling spread through my whole crotch for a moment.

“W-What was this? It felt really good…” Panting even more heavily, I couldn’t help but talk to myself about my exploration. Interesting. Let’s try it another time, I thought before touching my clitoris again. But this time, it didn’t have such a great reaction as before. Still, it felt good. Opening my eyes, I looked down as I started moving my hand in my pants. Rubbing that part, I wanted it more and more. As my movements turned rougher, I also started feeling even better.

“A-Ahn~ I-I’m so sensitive… Uhm~” Talking to myself, I couldn’t help but moan. A strange feeling started building up in me as I felt a throbbing feeling in my pussy.

Strangely enough, even that dirty place of mine started opening and convulsing. But it was always closed before… Could it be that I’m in heat? Isn’t it too early? I thought, not knowing what was going on with my body. Rubbing, sometimes pressing my fingers on it, I felt more and more excited for some reason. Feeling a sudden change, I instinctually pinched my clitoris.

“AUHN~~” I moaned as I bit into the pillow under my head.

An overwhelming warmness flooded my crotch as my back arched and I started grinning and chuckling like an idiot. Shutting my eyes in bliss, I felt really happy. But things turned bad. The same tingling feeling appeared again and this time even my nipples had it. Pulling up my tank top and my bra, I looked at them, only to see something strange.

They were standing upward and upon touching it, they not only felt hard but a wonderful feeling spread through my breasts. T-This is strange… but good. I thought as I touched my right nipple. It seems like I really am in heat. Throbbing clitoris, hard nipples… everything is the same as my memories said. But I don’t want any man to touch me. I’d rather not devour them if that was the price… I realized how I felt about this habit of my race.

Panting, I decided to not bother myself with it anymore. I shall explore this new side of mine and keep it for myself! Touching my pussy again, I found it wet. I came before… it seems.

Moving my finger downward, I felt the edges of my vagina. “Haah-” panting heavily, with my left hand still pinching and rubbing my right nipple, I decided to go on. Using my pointing finger, I pushed it into my hole, making me feel great. My vagina convulsed, trying to devour my finger. “O-Oh~ This is even b-better…” Feeling it hard to talk coherently, I mumbled to myself as I started pulling it out again. I felt even better than when I put it in.

Pushing it inside again, that wonderful feeling spread through my crotch, melting my hips. I felt so strange. This was nothing like peeing. Fingering myself, I found out that this feeling was only getting better and better. Turning on my back, I continued on with my movements, under the light of the moon. I-I’m such a pervert! But… it’s so good!

Putting in another finger, it felt similar to a thick… cock. I unconsciously started moving my hips, along with my fingers inside me. That warmness from before started building up in me once again. Picking up the pace, it didn’t take long for me to cum once again. I shut my legs as my hole convulsed and tightened up around my fingers.

“AHN! UH~” I moaned loudly, not being able to hold back my voice.

A bolt of electricity ran through my whole body, making my back arch into an arc. I rolled my toes into balls and shut my eyes as my muscles stiffened up. Falling back down to the bed, I felt wonderful. Lying down, enjoying that lingering feeling of pleasure, my whole body eased up. I had no strength left in my legs and I felt truly happy.

“T-This was… euphoric!” I mumbled silently. “M-Mhm~” Pulling out my fingers, I couldn’t help but moan slightly, feeling great. As I pulled out my hand from my pants, I felt something spilling on my stomach. It had a very strong scent and it was similar to water. Moving my fingers to my nose, I sniffed it, but I felt nothing in particular.

Wiping my hands on my breasts, I adjusted my pants, leggings, and bra. Pulling down my top, I realized that even my hair turned really messy. Forming a black comb in my right hand, I combed my hair. Feeling content, I turned on my right side, ready to sleep, only to see Dred looking at me.

“O-Oh… you were awake. Hehe, I-I’m sorry. I couldn’t stop myself,” I replied, feeling slightly awkward. Shrugging his shoulders, he put big his paw on my face, making me laugh.

“Hahaha, what are you doing?” I questioned him as I grabbed his leg and pushed it aside. Turning him around, I put his big head on my right arm and my left leg on his side. Using him as a soft and furry pillow, feeling content, I fell into a half-awake state in a few seconds. A little bit later, I saw the door of the bathroom opening. Audrey walked towards the bed stark naked.

Lying down, hugging me from behind, I smiled happily as I fell asleep.

The next morning, feeling easier and without burden, she jumped out of the bed, excited to learn more. She was quite sure that she would finally succeed. But considering how much of a cheat this element was, she had to realize that it wouldn’t be as easy for her as well.

“*Sigh* I should devour you and learn it easily!” Looking at Audrey, she said jokingly.

“Oh? Alright, Miss pervert. Do you think that I didn’t hear you? I had to stay in the bathroom for such a long time for you to finish!” With an evil smile on her face, Audrey spilled the beans. But her expectations were off.

“And? I have my urges now that my body has grown up. There is nothing shameful in that. As long as I won’t be seen by a guy, I don’t mind if you know,” with an unbothered face, she said calmly. Over the night, she has grown to look like an eighteen years old girl. Her body was completely developed by this time.

As an apex predator, with no one to support her, she had no time to grow up slowly like the humans. There were even weirder creatures, who grew up in just a single day, or maybe hours.

“You are no fun… I was hoping to see you embarrassed,” admitting what was her wish, Audrey remarked with a disappointed face.

“By the way, I didn’t even mention this to you… while you were having a bath, I had a breakthrough with my skill~” Making a proud face, she continued. “As you know, I was able to recolor my skin, hair, eyes and such simple details. Now… here!” Exclaiming, she controlled her Mana and even her facial structure changed.

Her hair turned black, her bust grew a bit larger and her body turned more fit looking, though that wasn’t visible through her clothes. She took up Elena’s shape… Standing up, Elena walked around Audrey to observe every detail. Pulling down her pants, even that place was quite accurate…

“What the hell are you doing?” Shouting, Audrey covered herself.

“What? This is my body. Can you turn into a guy as well?” Feeling curious, she questioned Audrey.

“Ehm… I don’t know. Reconstructing my whole body would be dangerous with this amount of control. I just changed the fat and muscles in my body and the bones in my face. This is still imperfect… I will have to explore the human body even more! And maybe other body types as well. I could even turn into Dred!” Pointing at him, she said with a bright smile.

Oh, no you don’t, he thought, turning his back on her. “No…” thinking the same, Elena refused such a thing, adding, “But this could be used for so many things! We will really have to quickly advance and reach the next place! We could replace even kings and rob them of their possessions! Hahaha~” conspiring, she laughed in herself.

Looking at Dred, she said, “And it could be used by you as well… your huge body made it a little cramped on the bed. But your fur is so soft! You are the best pillow~”

Pillow? I’m literally like your half… I too will use you as a pillow in that case… he thought, deciding in his mind.

Now, let’s see how much will we advance today, compared to our actual strength. Stats, Audrey’s Stats, Dred’s Stats. She thought, summoning only a part of their tables.

Name: Elena

Race: Progenitor Shadow (Legendary)

Strength: 832

Vitality: 562

Agility: 752

Will: 64

Intelligence: 1332

Wisdom: 1120

Name: Dred

Race: Devouring Panther (Legendary)

Strength(+20% Bear): 1052

Vitality(+20% Bear): 830

Agility(+10% Panther): 1034

Will: 50

Intelligence: 913

Wisdom: 875

Name: Audrey Frost

Race: Arch Shadow

Strength: 1263

Vitality: 1011

Agility: 593

Will: 51

Intelligence(+10%): 2351

Wisdom(+12%): 1937

Looking at Audrey with a surprised face, she said, “Eh? Did you advance that much? But I can understand it as this was your first time to truly train your body… Next time you won’t be able to advance that much so easily.”

Tilting her head to the side, Audrey replied, “And you forgot that I explored a new element! It’s natural that my wisdom increased by a lot as you still don’t know how to use it.” Sticking out her tongue, she ridiculed Elena. Grabbing it with lightning quick movements, she pulled on it strongly.

“A-Ack! Lelelase it!” Audrey tried shouting to release her tongue, but she failed miserably.

Releasing it, Audrey rubbed her chin with teary eyes, while Elena said, “I don’t know it yet. But it is only a matter of time, you fool creature! I’m not an Arcane Mage but I can devour you to gain your traits if you want me to.”

Raising her hands with a stiff face, she pushed Elena away, saying. “Ehm… thanks not.” Looking at each other, both of them laughed.

“Shall we go to see what lies in the forest? I want to find something big!” Elena said, stretching out her arm, for Audrey to hold.

Taking it, she nodded with a smile on her face.