Silver moon light drifts into my room as I slowly tug up and down on my dick, trying to easy my racing heart. My mind replaying the nightmare over and over again.
I was back in the forest, standing over the corpse of my former human body. The sight was unnerving as is but then with a sickening pop and crack it morphed and darkened. Becoming a blob or jet black ooze, it's surface erupted into the faces of all those I devoured, all screaming incoherently. Until they finally in one voice screamed FEED ME!!! The command shook me to my very core. I awoke covered in a cold sweat, every muscle tense prepared for combat, the fur on my body puffed up to make me look bigger.
It's hard to tell how long it took to calm down, but sunlight has slowly started to creep into my room. That thing was my hunger given form. The Devour ability. On que my status menu opens:
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Devour Level up! Lv.7 → Lv. 9
Possession Level up! Lv.7 -> Lv. 9
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That dream was either an ill omen or a sign of things to come. Shifting to Ash I decided that I at the very least I'm going to figure out what's going on with me before it happens. I left the guild hall as soon as possible, Dolly was at the front desk half asleep, the main hall was empty at this hour. Leaving the building I used Ash's memories to find what I was looking for, a magic tome shop. Tony had no reason to come here, and Ash had only visited once. The shop was nearly invisible the only indication of it being the magic rune that was carved onto what looked like someone's house door. Opening the door revealed a much larger space that didn't match the exterior at all, great rugs lined the floor, shelves of intricate books and scrolls on every wall, sitting in the center of the room crystal ball in hand was a wizened old red frog beast men.
A memory from the academy comes to mind, “Reptile and Amphibian beast men had a strong innate understanding magic only surpassed by Dragons, keep that in mind students and trust your instants.” The Professor that said that was a Dragon Bestman, but still he had a point everything about the frog in front of me said not to mess with him.
“Can I help you sonny” the old frog croaked.
“Yes sir, I'm looking for a book on extraordinary abilities.”
A book suddenly flies from the shelf head aloft in the air in a red glow. “Here you are. I've only had one tome I'm afraid, it'll be 300 gold.” The red frog holds out a palm expectantly. I pull from my cloak a money bag. Sam's memories told me this would be expensive but that was most of the spending money I had across my various forms. With a little hesitation I release the gold, the grey-black tome floated down written in the language of this world was Arcanum of Aptitude. “Thank you, sir.” I give a polite bow heading towards the door. “Wait sonny.” I look back to see the Frog beastman has gotten up and was walking/hopping towards me. “Bend down, so I can get a good look at ya” I take a knee, becoming eye level with the powerful mage before me. “Hmmm… Hmmm… your a little lost aren't ya?”
I felt like he was asking more than one question.
“Yes sir, hence the book I'm curious to know about extremely rare abilities.”
“Well, the book won't help ya… well not right away, you need something now.”
“What do I need?”
“I don't know, one of your other friends do though.”
“Other friends?” suddenly a cold chill runs down my spine… he knows. With that chilling realization I leave the shop, never taking my eyes off the small red frog that watched me as I leaved.
I started walking then running scared to look behind me, at some point I had shifted to Tony outta fear my longer legs carried me back to the guild hall in record time. I returned to the smells of breakfast and the cheerful excitement of a full house. Lucy the deer stood on a raised platform, which was then being lifted by Dolly the gorilla giving her an extra 6ft, was addressing the room. “Everyone! We are happy to announce the Port-Tailus sponsored Guild Quest!!! Double the reward for taking down Vispin and a special reward for whoever is able to take down the Queen and comeback with her head!!! If you would like to participate, please see me or Dolly at the front desk!”
The room erupts into a cheer excited for the Event it was a great opportunity to gain money and even level up, but I had more pressing matters, the noise made it easy to slip back to my room unnoticed. Returning to Ash I started to read the Tome, a dense academic piece of literature. It covered everything from the basics to the theoretical. “All abilities are ranged from Common to Extraordinary, the latter being exceptionally rare. Abilities like us can level up, some scholars believe that to mean that they might be infact sentient, speaking to one has yet to be accomplished. Magic items have been observed to contain or even seal away abilities. Powerful and rare abilities are being documented daily the Magic Academy Olin has taken special care in documenting every known ability."