Chapter 152

[Third Person's PoV] 

In the Shadow Realm…

All of the girls were seen with exhausted expressions.

Gamma was seen with her fists both closed, slowly pulling them apart. The space in front of her broke open, and the space behind her also broke, giving her a view of her backside. She then collapsed to her knees, her witch hat shifting to the side as she tried to catch her breath. "I didn't think I would be able to open space by destroying it with gravity," she gasped for air.

Bellion nodded and turned towards the others. Alpha was surrounded by a field of flowers as she floated in the air, her eyes closed and eyebrows knitted. Yellow light slowly escaped from the top of the flowers and formed a bright ball in front of her. With two hands, she pushed it forward, and a beam of light destroyed the ground in front of her.

As Bellion was watching everything, he was also fighting Delta and Zeta. Even though they didn't get along well, they knew how to coordinate their attacks. Bellion was casually swinging his sword-whip around, throwing them everywhere as he gave advice to the others.

"Sound is just vibrations. Focus on the aspect of vibration specifically. Don't forget to add more power. Even if you just focus on the vibration, if it doesn't have any power, it won't accomplish much," Bellion said to Epsilon as his sword-whip snaked around Delta, repeatedly thrashing her to the ground, making it difficult for Zeta to approach.

Epsilon gritted her teeth as her magical aura grew, straining all of her magic power at once into her axe guitar. Cracks began to grow in the air as she exerted more pressure. Blood came out of her nose as all of her magic left, and she landed back on the ground, trying to catch her breath. Her hands had multiple cuts due to her grip on her weapon, adding to her pain.

"Now do your thing," Bellion said to Eta.

Eta, with her sleep-filled eyes, let out a sigh. "I haven't ever used my poison for medical procedures before. I could accidentally kill her."

"Everyone is immortal. Stop making excuses to get out of training," Bellion said with a warning look as he held both Delta and Zeta by their faces and threw them into the air.

"Poison and medicine are one and the same," Eta said to herself as a dark green liquid moved between her hands.

"A mixture of different poisons can create medicine. A mixture of different medicines can create poison. All I need to do is think of the proper formula and combination," she kept telling herself as the liquid began to move and shift.

Soon, the dark green coloring of the liquid started to turn lighter until it slowly became a beautiful bright green color.

"Here's to hoping I didn't accidentally create a poison that can bypass and kill immortals. Now, say ahhh," Eta said, crouching down by Epsilon and sticking out a finger.

Epsilon, who was sprawled out on the ground, looked towards Eta with concern at the drop of green liquid hanging from her index finger.

Epsilon tightly closed her eyes and opened her mouth. Eta let the drop fall from her finger into Epsilon's mouth. Epsilon immediately made a disgusted expression.

"Is it poisonous?" Eta asked.

"No, but it tastes like lime. I hate lime," Epsilon said as her wounds started to close.

"Enough relaxing. Get back to work," Bellion said as he held his sword-whip in the air, wrapping it around Delta and Zeta and pulling them to the ground, creating a large crater.

"And do it," Bellion said, looking at Eta.

"Do what?" she asked, close to falling asleep as she remained crouched.

"Develop a poison strong enough to affect an immortal," Bellion instructed.

Eta let out a groan. "I haven't gotten any sleep, you slave driver."

But Bellion didn't pay any attention to her and turned towards Epsilon. "Since you don't possess any mana right now, you can begin."

Epsilon sighed, nodded, and got into a lotus position, starting to draw mana to herself, more specifically into her core—a practice they've been doing for more than a week now.

Bellion then turned to the side, dodging two attacks from both Zeta and Delta. Delta had a heavy sword in her hand as she cleaved it down, while Zeta had a silver rapier.

Zeta rapidly stabbed her rapier, trying to get Bellion while also giving out occasional slashes.

Bellion immediately disarmed them and punched them in the stomach with enough force to make them spit out blood. "You guys are so pathetic. It wouldn't even surprise me if our lord simply abandoned you two, as you are his weakest links. Our lord has no time to waste with trash. You will only be a burden that would get him killed."

They all suddenly felt a killing intent so pungent that it began to manifest in the real world. Even the dark purple skies in the shadow realm started to be dyed red.

When they turned towards the source, they found Delta and Zeta, all bloody, slowly rising from the ground. What surprised and worried everyone was that Delta wasn't making any kind of expression.

Both Zeta and Delta had their dragon eyes active, but even these began to be affected by the killing intent as their eyes grew bright red.

They suddenly dropped to all fours as fur started to grow on their bodies. They began to expand and grow in size, appearing to be around 10 meters tall.

All the other girls stared at Zeta and Delta in shock as they examined their new appearances. Delta had beautiful dark fur, like the night itself. She appeared like a full-on wolf with her ears, tail, claws, and fangs.

Meanwhile, Zeta took on the appearance of a giant cat, but not just any cat. She appeared like a Maine Coon with bright golden fur, her claws and fangs much longer and deadlier than Delta's.

They appeared like Night and Day together as they stood next to each other, looking coldly towards Bellion. Their rage and hate had turned so strong they became indifferent.

They then disappeared into a blur as they approached Bellion, their claws aiming to kill him.

Bellion only had a small smile as he blocked their attack with his sword.

A giant crater formed before the ground crumbled into multiple pieces, unable to contain their strength.

Bellion grew wings on his back, his small smile indicating that his provocations had worked.

Bellion then flew away to a deeper part of the shadow realm so as not to disturb the training of the others.

"What just happened?" Beta asked in amazement as she looked towards where they left, seated in a lotus position with the ground marked by the use of her winds.

"That's what I'm trying to find out."

They all suddenly turned towards the voice. Upon seeing Cid leaning against a tree, they all rushed towards him and tackled him in a hug.

"We missed you," Epsilon said, looking up at him.

Cid only smiled as he patted their heads and gave them all a kiss.

"Why are you here?" Beta asked curiously.

"I detected Zeta and Delta were really angry, so I came to see what it was about. I didn't expect to see this happening to them."

"Do you have any ideas what's going on?" Alpha asked as she held his arm and leaned her head against his.

"Now that I've witnessed it twice more, I have a feeling," Cid nodded, then went on to explain his hypothesis. "When a beastman's emotions get out of control, they subconsciously ask for more strength, tapping into their bestial lineage. But they are only able to tap into it when their bodies are strong enough to handle the strain of turning into a beast. Otherwise, it would be inaccessible to them."

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A/N: First thing first, the 'Erect' wasn't a typo, I'm surprised only a few understood the reference.

Basically when solo leveling was airing and the English VA was getting a lot of threats saying to the mess up the Arise part.

So he made a video telling people to stop sending threats or he would purposely change 'Arise' to something else. Some of the suggestions were, "Wakey wakey" "It's time for school" and obviously "Erect"