The soldiers of Sedric's group faced the arriving beasts head-on thanks to the courage and confidence shown by Sedric, as he was the first to jump in and battle against them before anyone else. And as they battled, they too started to discover changes happening within them.
?Those of the soldiers that received the class name Pack Berserker felt their bodies are connected and their movements are in unison, becoming more violent and effective when working with each other. And some others that had worked together to fend off the group of wolves when Joshua and Melavan were battling with the dark-furred wolves, who also received a class name Sword Shield, experienced that their ability to defend themselves with only one sword has increased in effect and ability.
?Melavan himself also fought in the battle against the beasts. He did not know how he got to do it, but at one point, when facing a large monkey who had been fighting him very fiercely, as if he had stolen the monkey's food, Melavan was forced back by the animal as two other arms grew from under its arms; and he even faced danger after the monkey started to change abnormally.
However, in this time, Melavan saw some clear signs in the movement of the monkey, as if these signs are highlighted in his vision to take notice or to do something about it.
?Melavan chose to trust his guts and do as he saw. The moment the monkey raised its arms to strike at him, Melavan saw the highlighted sign again and struck his sword at the armpit of the beast.
?The strike landed perfectly and the monkey screamed as if it took a devastating blow. Proving that the attack was truly effective, the arm under the armpit of the monkey fell off after Melavan 's attack, leaving the monkey only with three arms.
However, the monkey was not in the mood for an attack at Melavan as it suffered in pain from losing an arm, and taking that advantage, Melavan's sword sliced past it once again, attacking it at a lethal spot and ending its life.
?[12 Chromos gained]
?An unknown light followed after the death of the monkey, and Melavan did not take interest in it. He turned to face his fellow soldiers and realized that despite they themselves experiencing new changes and powers that somehow landed upon them, they are still struggling against the changed beasts.
?While observing his fellow soldiers, Melavan also took a glance at Joshua, only to see him moving like a beast among beasts, reminding Melavan of the way Sedric battles.
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?Joshua moved past the rushing, weirdly shaped beasts that jumped at him, and he did it rather easily. He had accepted the fact his body had changed, and so did his physical powers; and at the moment, he was testing the limits of his improved body.
?Other than the obviously clear vision he gets by being taller than most others, Joshua's most important aspect that changed is his speed, which was already something impressive but now turned into something surprising.
?At his speed, he was faster than any regular human being, being able to move even faster than a fist-sized, bee-like creature that used to strike at him with its sharp stinger.
?The bee met its end from Joshua's blade, but left its mark of wonder in his mind.
?"Are these truly the wild animals now changed into these things?" Joshua wondered. And as he thought of this, he couldn't help but to gaze at the group of horses that are frighteningly standing elsewhere in the field. The horses belong to Sedric and his group, and Joshua wondered whether this changing effect could also be affecting these tamed animals.
The answer to his question came right away, as the horses started to show strange behavior that became stronger with passing time. The horses, which had their legs all this time stamping into the ground, suddenly raised them up, like how they used to do when a knight lifts the horse up to show his heroic demeanor.
?But this time the horses did not go down; instead, the front legs twisted into odd shapes, and the same happened to the back legs, twisting and turning. While the back ones also turned to twisting while stretching, making the whole animal now appear like a weirdly shaped being that appeared to be standing on two legs.
?The horses, now no longer mere horses, started to strike at the nearby soldiers after their transformation. And the soldiers, caught unprepared by this sudden change by their own horses, faced difficulty when facing these enemies, especially when their speed was rather faster than any soldier in the field.
?One of them ran at Joshua. But to him, the speed of these two-legged horses was not that impressive. With a jump to the side to avoid the strike—which was a bite from the horse's large mouth—Joshua's blade swung past its chest, ending its life.
After killing the changed beast, a slight tension was on Joshua's face. He looked around, trying to find his own horse, Winter. But he did not see it; there was no sign of it in the surroundings. A knight's horse is his own responsibility, and between a knight and his horse, there is a special kind of connection that is built through trust and effort.
?After killing the beast, Joshua stepped forward into the battlefield with the intention to find Winter.
?Sedric battled in the field against numerous changed beasts that jumped on him. He was like a beast hunting other beasts. And in the midst of this, his gaze slightly landed on his fellow soldiers as he heard their voices.
?Looking at them, what he saw was his fellow soldiers battling weirdly shaped beasts, but instead of winning against them, the soldiers were failing. And the reason for that, more than physical attributes, is the expression of suffering and unwillingness he saw on their faces.
?"Why do my soldiers show unwillingness to kill enemies?" The fact made mysteries in Sedric's mind, which soon turned into fury at them not taking this battle seriously. To demonstrate what they should do, Sedric stepped up himself into the field where his soldiers battled and launched at a beast one of his soldiers was battling.
