Beast Evolution

*Boom*

Authur's sword was stopped by four Ice swords, one of the clones had swooped in to help the original, but which one.

'I thought the two of them had it under control' Authur looked and saw Alfred on the ground with blood around his body. The original beast moved sideways and dashed toward Ray.

"No you won't" Authur used his sword to push the clone away and rushed to help Ray. Before he could reach a kick sent him flying into one of the houses.

*Boom*

Authur was kicked by one of the clones and he broke into one of the houses in the village.

[Dark Binds]

Ray caught the original beast charging towards him in his binds, the beast had trouble breaking out and Ray infused more Mana. James, Leia, and Gabriel were fighting and overpowering the clone that came toward them.

Authur quickly stood up and immediately a foul smell invaded his nose and he couldn't help but cover his nose with one of his palms.

He looked around and his eyes widen, human flesh was scattered inside the house.

"W-What is this!" Authur shouted.

The beast that kicked Authur walked towards the house to finish him off when a strange Aura hit all of them, even James who was far away could feel it.

Authur dashed out of the house with an insane amount of speed, Authur's sword which was hot before was now in flames.

The beast charged towards Authur and attempt to slash him and he disappeared in front of the beast, immediately all four arms of the beast fell off and Authur appeared behind the beast and slash the head of the beast off.

"What!!" the main beast was surprised at the strength of Authur.

"You bastard, look at what you did you to villagers, you would pay" Authur dashed towards the main beast.

Ray quickly released his spell and ran far from them, Authur slashed the beast and it hit an ice barrier.

"What are you, you monster" the beast shouted.

*Slash*

James finally cut the head of the second clone, and he ran towards Authur.

Authur didn't have any special spell or power that could increase his physical abilities like that, this was different from Luna's power up, he was using all of his Ki at once which was why, James had to stop it or else Authur may...

Authur raised his sword and slashed the barrier again, before the barrier broke the beast dashed towards Ray to use him as a hostage to prevent Authur from coming close to him.

Ray saw the beast coming close to him and quickly used his [Dark Binds] but the beast avoided all of them till one of them finally caught its leg.

The beast fell to the ground and before it could stand up Authur was already in front of him with his blazing sword.

"Authur stop..." James shouted.

Authur slashed the beast but before the sword could reach the beast the flame vanished and Authur fell to his knees.

"Huh! what happened, so he can't keep this up, I thought he would kill me for sure, I would gladly return the favor" the beast shouted and thrust his hand towards Authur's back.

[Dark Binds]

James swooped in and cut the hands of the beast before Ray's spell caught the beast, James carried Authur and back away from the beast.

Ray didn't know how long he could keep casting his [Dark Binds] but he knew his Mana would still run out, there was nothing they could do.

Alfred had been wounded and he was unconscious, Authur was barely hanging on so he couldn't fight anymore, Leia and Gabriel were no match for the beast and James couldn't protect them all.

If the beast breaks out of the Binds and rush toward any of them, they would be dead in an instant.

'I could save them but I have to turn into a beast, I can't let them know that am not human, but I'm human, turning into a beast and saving them wouldn't change anything' Ray took a deep breath and stepped forward.

"Do you have another spell that you can use to take the beast out?" James asked.

"Yes," Ray replied.

"Why didn't you do so earlier" James shouted.

"I couldn't, I was keeping it till the end," Ray said and took another deep.

"Haaa" the beast finally broke out of the Binds, but something was different, the lines on the body of the beast had spread to all parts of it body.

The dark lines were slowly enveloping the beast, the beast was also surprised by this and looked at its body.

"What is happening" Ray muttered.

"Arghhh" the beast shrieked in pain.

"The beast is now weak and its body can no more control the infection" James muttered.

"We should move away" Ray shouted and began to run towards Alfred, Leia and Gabriel ran towards Ray instead of running away.

"What are they doing?" James mumbled but he also carried Authur and ran towards Ray when he remembered Ray had a defensive spell.

The beast was still screaming and its body was getting bigger when the six of them came together.

"Ray do it" James shouted.

Ray placed his hands on the ground to cast his [Ice dome] spell but nothing happened, he tried again and nothing happened.

"Ray, what's wrong?" James asked.

"I ran out of Mana," Ray said.

"What, so we need to run away" James shouted.

"The beast is already..." Gabriel muttered as the beast exploded.

The beast burst into flames and covered the entire village, everything within the village was burnt down by the intense flame.

"Ray I thought you said you ran out of Mana," James said as the six of them were safe inside Ray's [Ice dome]

"Yes, I don't know how but I managed to cast the spell," Ray said.

"Are you alright?" James asked.

"Yes I'm fine"

*Ding*

[Mana -1/150]

Immediately Ray saw the message, his body began to vibrate and he fell to the ground.