Chapter 13 :First Anomaly

Mc's POV

It's been 3 days since I got my ass beat by Morrigan and when I was all healed up, I went back into training, I used animal soul on a black cat and snake to add to my collection. Yesterday I had visited the library to and got to the magic section of the place. The place held just common types of magic but luckily, I found a section covering re-quip magic. Now from re-quip magics concepts where rather simple but the problem was creating my own pocket dimension.

"Damn" I mumbled as I read the book explaining the process of re-quip in a park on a bench. "Man, how the hell am I suppose to create a separate space within my own thoughts?" I said frustrated.

"You need a lot of control and focus kid." A mature womanly voice said making me jump and turn and it was Morrigan. "Hey junior." She chuckled at his reaction.

"Ack what are you still doing here I thought you traveled around looking for treasure or something." I said getting back to the book and the woman just sat beside me.

"Am on a break Junior. You have to relax once in a while and I saw you here so I was curious to what you where doing." She explained looking at the text explaining re-quip magic. "Not going so great I take it?"

"No am actually its day two now and am still falling to conjure up my internal space even though I really tried but I just doesn't work." I sighed.

"Hm well it's not like re-quip magic is your primary source of magic it's hard for most wizards to learn an additional magic typing so most prefer to stink to one through their whole lives especially if the magic channel in their bodies is isn't very flexible." She explained lighting a cigarette.

That really got me thinking that it might be possible that my magic channel isn't that flexible to learn other types of magic fast. Or am just doing it wrong.

"So, need some help in re-quip." I just looked at her when she offered that. "Oh, don't look at me like that there isn't much to do besides hung out with Annie and she's usually at work plus yeah am bored a little plus I do know actually re-quip magic." She blows a smoke.

"Okay." I answered simply and now it was her turn to give me a look. "Come on am not same arrogant dumbass who thinks he can do everything and anything plus you're an experienced mage so if anyone is going to help me it would be you." My comment caused her to laugh.

"Oh my~. Here I thought you would be pissy about me kicking your ass yesterday." She continued to laugh and I just groaned at that. "At least I know that you're not some arrogant little asshole." She finished laughing and got up. "Come on~."

"Wait like now?"

"Yes, now come on I know a good spot here in the park to practice." She told me and I just followed her. Due to it been a small town it wasn't that busy in the park. "So why do you want to learn re-quip magic anyway?" She questioned.

"I just don't want to lose most of my stuff." I shrugged and it's not like I was lying.

"That's not the answer I was expecting but I thing am going to like you a little." She grinned a little at me.

Five days later

It's been two days since Morrigan began teaching me some re-quip magic and he had to say it might have been tricky to get down but after hours and hours in practice he finally got it done and I still did some additional training with my new forms. He wasn't as fast in it but at least now he can store some stuff with travelling. He also looked at the anomalies he had to take care of in the death forest and the high c-class one was said to be a young Rathalos from the monster games and luckily said young.

The s-class one was where he actually sweated Quetzalcoatl now, he didn't know if this was the actual god or just a creature with the same name but for now, he will leave it be until he gets stronger at least. Luckily the anomalies don't seem to attack the town but seemed to stay in their lane but he forgot Morpheus what will happen if he didn't take care of these anomalies or if his extra late with dealing with one will the space-time of this world collapse and what happens when another person deals with them will they just respawn or something like virus.

"So many questions." I said to myself as I walked in the yellow zone of the blood feather forest to get my first anomaly. Luckily the phone also acted like a sort of tracker so I could locate the them easily and the Rathalos was not that deep in the yellow zone of the forest. I avoided any unnecessary encounters with creatures to save my energy.

After some more aimless wondering around I found the thing, I was looking for. The young Rathalos though it was young it was still at least as big as an elephant if not a tad in size. Its appearance was that of a red dragon like creature, most of its back and tail covered by overlapping red armor plates, its tail was flat and shaped like a paddle with spike and wings.

'Don't want to get hit by those spikes.' I though as I looked the thing. 'The best thing right now is to sneak attack it while I have the advantage.' The scales looked tough its front must have been weaker than the back so striking there would be better but it needed to be fast and hard as it didn't notice him yet.

'Beast Soul: Werecheetah!' After I transformed, I ran straight to the thing at high speeds and swung my extra sharp claws in its front before it had the chance to front close to is neck before it could react and drew blood.

I heard it roar I but when I turned around it was bleeding but the wound wasn't deep enough to kill it, I underestimated its durability. The Rathalos turned its direction towards me and shot fire from its mouth towards me. But I easily dodged it my air attacks wouldn't do much against it and I tested slashing it some more and it caused some minor damage. It tried blasting fire at me but I quickly dodged all of them. 

It quickly got annoyed and quickly to off in an attempt to gain an aerial advantage so and began blasting fire at me to which I avoided.

'I should really kill this thing before an accidental forest fire happens.' I though as I transformed into my owl form and took the skies and it chased after him. 'Looks like am still faster.' I thought but I noticed that it was slowly gaining up on me.

It still shot fire at me and I just dodged but it's aim was getting better and better with each shot. I flung my feathers at it but they only slightly scratched it. I than decided to got for the eyes this time and it's a good thing this for also increases my eyesight but a ton and so I had good aim. Once I shot the feathers, they stabbed its eyes making it stumble in the air as it roared in pain and began to shot fire everywhere.

I than flew towards it and high-flying speeds and transformed into my ant form and with the extra momentum and times ten in I rocketed towards its neck from the front. The fire did hit me but with my added depravity with the exoskeleton my ant form provided I could take it and so I smashed into its neck sending us down. I went owl mode again to safely got into the air as the Rathalos crashed down. After I flew down, I was the thing was still alive but barely.

"Alright not bad I could use something like this in my arsenal." I said to myself and as I older and more powerful so will my transformations and this Rathalos will give me my biggest boast so far. "TAKEOVER!" I yelled as took over the wyvern. "Yeah, I felt myself get stronger after that." I spoke.

'Though why was it high C-class though was it that I was stronger than I thought? No may it have some little gimmick that it couldn't properly use in its fight with me.' Thoughts ran into my head on the class system.

"Nice fight boy!!" I heard a familiar womanly voice and it was Morrigan.

"Don't you have anything better to do?" I asked her.

"Nope am leaving but I will be leaving in two days. But enough about that lets talk about that wyvern like creature I saw you fighting." She said scanning me a bit or something. "It wasn't like any other I've seen before."

"Yeah, you could say it was really out of this world." I joked slightly even though I know she wouldn't get the context of it. She looked at me intensely but than just shrugged.

"Meh whatever strange things happen in Earthland on a daily basis." She said nonchalantly. "How is that now?"

"Huh?"

"How many animals and beasts have you taken over?"

"Well 5 animals and 2 beasts so in total just 7." I answered her weird question and she just nodded but than gave me a serious look which I never saw these past days that I've known her.

"Am going to warn you know junior be careful with the number of creatures you absorbed if you absorb a shit to of animals and magical beasts, they will there is a high chance your body and soul will get overwhelmed if you're not strong enough and believe me when I say it's not a pleasant experience" she said solemnly as she than looked in the sky a little.  

"Thanks, I'll keep that in mind." I thanked as I felt my phone rattle in my pocket dimension so I re-quip it and I saw Morrigan's eye slightly widen than kicked myself in forgetting that this type of technology wasn't popular or invented yet around these times.

I still checked my message though and it was Morpheus messaging me a good job and saying he understands that I skipped the Quetzalcoatl but he said more anomalies have appeared so I need to exorcise them. Six more appeared in here in Pergande, 2 appeared in a place called iceberg and 4 appeared in the Fiore country.

"Damn looks like I have my work cut out for me." I sighed and noticed Morrigan was in front of me looking at my phone "Um can I help you with something?"

"Wow you got the experimental communication lacrima how?" She asked me with her signature smirk but with stary eyes.

"A friend of mine who hire me for a big job gave me this lacrima to help give information." He said the half-truth as I put the phone back to his pocket dimension.

"Damn he must be crazy rich!" She said and made a proposal. "Hey Junior. I noticed that you're basically going where am heading after two days so let's just travel together and spare ourselves the trouble of running into each other." That got me by surprise.

"Wai why do you care where am drifting to?" I questioned her as she was showing red flag signs.

"Am more interested in this communication lacrima and these new monsters you're facing some most of them are in parts where a lot of gems have been found. So come on kid if you hung with me, I'll proper teach you the ropes on magic, fighting and this country." That sounds too good to be true. "Plus, I will make sure you alive this time." She moved a good distance away from me and said that part really quietly.

"Well, I do need help on some expects of magic so you got a deal." He offered his hand which she took with mine with a small genuine smile on her face.