Arpious of the Planes

Chapter 12 Bears Attack

[Day 10]

I woke up this morning not even a bit in pain. I reflexively wiped my eyes with my new body from evolution.

"I guess that description wasn't lying..." I said sleepily.

"Good morning master," Kumo and Homura say in sync.

[Congratulations on evolving to Dark Siren]

[Skills that were to be obtained have already been acquired]

[Acquired skills will evolve]

[Shadow Control has evolved to Shadow Magic]

[Mind Control has evolved to Mind Magic]

[Petrification has evolved to Forbidden Magic: Medusa]

As I checked the notifications my jaw dropped. It looked like all of the types of control that were in the description evolved into something new because I already had them. I also got a forbidden magic [Forbidden Magic: Medusa]. Before I inspect what changed about these skills let's take a look at my own status.

?Status?

[Name: Arpious]

[Race: Dark Siren]

[Status: Sleepy]

[Servant: 2]

[Level: 1/50]

[HP: 110/110 MP: 80/80 SP: 30/30]

[Strength: 15]

[Defense: 10]

[Magic: 25]

[Speed: 15]

[Luck: 1]

[Charisma: 10]

[Skills: [******] [Thunderbolt] [Boost (2/5)] [Scratch (3/10)] [Mind Magic] [Shadow Magic] [Beserk] [Swipe (2/10)] [Posion Resistance (2/5)] [Poison Secretion (4/5)] [Disease Immunity] [Virus] [Commanders Presence] [Army Control] [Fire Control] [Forbidden Magic: Medusa ] [Fire Resistance] [Lightning Resistance] [Water Control]

[Body Modification: [Fangs] [Cursed Eyes] [Aquatic Lungs]

[Titles: [Blessed by ********* Spirit of *************] [Savage Assassin] [Heartless]

...

[Shadow Magic]

[You can control an infinite amount of shadow in your sight]

[Mind Magic]

[You can hear the thoughts of other living beings. Instantly translates any language to a language of your desire. Allows you to read emotions. Can create illusions on beings weaker than yourself.]

[Forbidden Magic: Medusa]

[When activated, anything that you consider an enemy turns to stone. Only works when touching something or somebody or somebody touches you.]

"HOLY SHIT!" I accidentally say out loud.

Both Homura and Kumo jumped by my sudden burst of emotions but I didn't notice it and kept scanning through my status, the farther I read the lower my jaw dropped. Not only did I get a huge increase in my stats but also my health, mana, and stamina. Also, these newly evolved skills are pretty overpowered. My lightning type variant is gone as well, which didn't affect me much, since it didn't do anything.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, this... I can see part of the title even though I know the least important part that's still a huge step since before I was too weak to actually see it. I do remember that lady saying something about how she is a spirit amongst spirits. Are they similar to gods? Just more questions to be added to the waiting list.

Closing my status I start to check my body out. Wait let me rephrase that I start to investigate what has changed about my body. I was about 5'8 and had pale skin, it was the skin of your average Japanese person. It was soft to the touch, unlike my previous human body which was muscular and kind of rough. I only worked out at home with weights and went for jogs in the morning sometimes. My hair was a black color with streaks of yellow in it that were in the shapes of lightning bolts. Feeling my back I had two giant pairs of black wings that were about half the size of my body. I had occasional feathers in random spots and sharp black talons as feet.

There was one problem though... I was butt naked. It's not like I was a virgin in my past life but it's still uncomfortable seeing myself with a woman's body. No feathers covered my... you know...

"Let's find some food and look for somewhere to stay," I said still slightly embarrassed.

"Ummm master, forgive us for acting on our own but we already found some food and potential home to stay in while you were evolving," Kumo speaks up.

Both of them are looking down in guilt but I don't mind since they just made my life easier. I look up at them and give them a warm smile that makes both of them blush while turning their head away. Homura nudges 2 dead Aqua Boas to me which I devour and they both lead the way to our potential home.

We walked for about 1 minute... yes 1 minute and we arrived. There was a cave right next to the waterfall that was spacious. I didn't give a second thought and chose this spot as our new home since it provided everything we needed to survive, food, water, and shelter.

"The sun is already setting!" I exclaimed.

"Yes master it was already late afternoon when you woke up," Kumo replied.

I let out a sigh and gave orders to clean this cave up so we could sleep tonight. By the time we finished, it was already late at night. We laid down on the cold stone floor and cuddled together, I hugged Kumo like the "old days" and closed my eyes.

"ROOOOOAAAR!"

I just closed my eyes and now something is making a loud noise.

I slowly open my eyes to see if there was an enemy but nothing was there.

"ROOOOOAAAR!"

I felt Homura started to shake and her whisper a single word.

"B-bears,"

We jump up and dash outside of the cave towards the direction of the roaring. It seemed like Homura had PTSD from her previous experience with bears since they slaughtered her friends and family.

"Stay down Homura, you'll only get in the way," I said in a stern voice.

Homura kept opening and closing her mouth like she was about to say something but eventually just looked down with a depressed face that was about to cry.

The closer we got to the roar the more trees started to appear until it was basically a forest. After running for about 5 minutes we arrived at our destination... the bears. Homura was a mess of emotions I could feel anger and terror at the same time. I put my hand on her back and push her slowly down onto the ground. I place her on one of the lower branches of the tree next to us and doesn't resist. She keeps looking at the bears and me frantically probably worried that I could die, but there are only 2 bears here which should be easy to handle.

I and Kumo closed in on them and found out what was being attacked... elves? They kind of look like elves because of their beautiful pointed ears and blonde hair but they are also, semi-translucent with emotionless faces. At most, their facial expression showed them screaming from being in pain all while looking like nothing happened at the same time.

[Spirit Elves]

[Pre evolution of elves. These elves can do basic necessities such as cleaning, hunting, and building but due to them lacking a brain they are not able to show emotions nor speak.]

How does that even work, if they don't have a brain how could they do all those basic necessities. Anyway, we should try and save them since I can't just let them die.

I use my new [Shadow Magic] and immediately impale the bears with spears made of shadow. I was so in the zone I forgot to test out this new body. I glanced at Kumo and it looked like she was getting ready to show off her [Moonlight Control] to me but I stole her spotlight.

[2400 XP gained]

[You leveled up]

After seeing me kill the 2 bears the spirit elves that didn't manage to escape collapsed on the ground shaking while still not showing emotions.

Looks like they're scared of me I guess I'll try and help them, maybe that will earn their trust.

I reach out to one of the spirit elves with my hand and they grab hold of it, and I pull him up. After seeing this the ones that collapsed stopped shaking and tried to get up by themselves but kept falling down. It seems like they were still scarred from the earlier attack. I and Kumo help all of them stand up and they start to line up horizontally in front of me. All of them nod their head once towards me, which is probably their way of thanking us. I nod back.

There are 24 spirit elves here 14 being male and 10 being female. They were no babies or kids among them. They were also all the same height exactly, if you took a large ruler and placed it on their heads it wouldn't fall over. After checking up on the surviving spirit elves I call out to Kumo.

Oh yeah, why aren't there any dead bodies, I clearly saw some of them die?

"All right no need to hang around here any longer let's go home Kumo. Oh, wait I forgot about Homura, lets pick her up," I say casually as if nothing happened at all.

...

After picking up and placing Homura on the ground again I tell her what happened and she starts to ball her eyes out.

"Come here," I say softly.

After Homura calms down she asks me a strange question.

"Who *sniff* are those behind you *sniff*,"

I turn around and HOLY SHIT!