Becoming a Monster

His tone was cold, but held a sense of danger to the people coming from the library. Instinctively they stopped as well. Not because the skill was affecting them, it was because of the actions of the zombies before them.

"He-hey hey Ishii…Are you sure we should be helping him?" Someone asked the person seemingly in charge of the entire group. Noah would be surprised to see how large the group was. They didn't have as many fighters as Jasmine and Neals group combined.

But there were at least twenty people at the doors ready to help and there was still a noticeably larger group inside.

Ishii, who was wielding a Katana and similarly had the gear similar to the full suit that Noah had. He could only blankly stare at Noah's situation with a slightly gaped mouth. Ishii felt proud of his accomplishments so far since he had trained in the way of the sword due to his family's history.

But he felt that maybe he wasn't as great as he thought he was after seeing Noah. He was made aware by the others that there was a questionable person outside alone with his beast and that he was seemingly strong.

Ishii wanted to create a strong group so they could get out of this place. He felt foolish when he saw the current scene.

'There's always someone better…' He shook his head and watched as the giant spider on Noah's side then quickly jumped to the two zombies and pierced their skulls with her two front legs.

Ishii thought the fight was over and was about to try to approach him, but from his shock, he had forgotten that there were much more zombies then just these two.

Noah had never stopped paying attention to the sounds of footsteps approaching. Now that he had fulfilled his objective, he could let his beast to the fighting now. When he has time, he wants to experiment with his skill to find out just how far his skill can allow him to control zombies.

"Fenrir you're up!" Noah took a few steps back before Fenrir ran past him excitedly. While he ran on all fours, he constantly kicked up dirt and grass on his way.

As soon as Noah gave the order, the figures of the sounds began to turn around the corner.

With one bite, Fenrir grabbed two of them in her jaws and shook his head feverishly while biting down hard. Blood splattered in the distance before he dropped the bodies in his mouth and rose to standing on his hind legs.

He repeated the actions like he did at the gym and began to swat away at the zombies. Fenrir was so far engaged with what he was doing that he continued to make his way forward into the group of zombies. That allowed the zombies that he passed to make his way to Noah. The blood covering Noah was a nice attraction for the bloodthirsty zombies, but the huge group behind him was more enticing.

"Sigh…what am I going to do with him? Ok Arachne yo-What the fuck is that?"

Noah stopped mid sentence when he finally saw the source of the loud footsteps. He saw an overly obese zombie ignoring Fenrir and making its way to them. The zombie looked almost like a toad, the zombie stood a few feet taller than Noah. It was almost seven feet tall and its body was at least 3 feet wide. He couldn't understand how that was physically possible.

But it was standing before him and the first thing Noah noticed besides its size was the size of its mouth since there was still a body sticking out. Its jaws seemed to be able to dislocate like a snake and could easily open up to about half its size.

Even with a body sticking out of its mouth, Noah was sure it could still fit him in there as well if he got too close.

"Fenrir! Get your butt back here!" He screamed to get the wolf's attention, he couldn't see him past the building, but with Fenrir's heightened senses, he was sure that the wolf could hear him. And just as he called for him, he could feel a tremor from the ground and a howl coming from the other side. He wasn't sure if he and Arachne could kill it together. It could probably be one of those unique zombies but he called Fenrir back just to be safe.

"Arachne, I need you to stall that thing as long as you can, but avoid its mouth. If you can kill it then do so, if I can stop it then try to find a way to attack his head. Go!"

Springing into action, Arachne immediately jumped to engage with the enemy while Noah quickly threw down his things including his sword and received the dagger with the coated tip. The sword was his best weapon by far, but without his stats it would only put him in danger.

He didn't run to catch up with Arachne, but took his time to attempt to use his skill and to observe. With his most recent attempt, he felt more confident that he could stop the surrounding zombies so he didn't doubt that he would get attacked by them.

"Do you think he needs help now? A woman approached Ishii wearing the same gear, but she was strapped with multiple small daggers and knives on her body.

Ishii wasn't sure if they were being sarcastic, but he was definitely wary of Noah when he saw the fat zombie approaching. He was the main reason the group was hesitant to leave the building. Now that Noah is here, maybe that can actually get out of this place. 'But will he let us follow him if we just sit here and watch?'

Ishii began to grow conflicted, but then his eyes shined when he noticed something.

"Ishii?"

Ishii turned his head to his group. "Come with me, we have to at least do something!"

When the group noticed the direction he was going, they noticed a small group of rats approaching. Unlike before, the rats were as big as a small dog and now grow a size bigger. But behind the bigger than normal sized rats was one rat in particular that was double the size of the others. Even though the group of rats seemed menacing, Ishii still encouraged his group to help fight against them.

Noah during this time noticed the weird movement of the students behind him but continued to focus on his task at hand. He saw Arachne jump towards the side and try to bite into the zombie side, but when she did. She noticed that the zombie didn't appear fazed at all and instead tried to grab hold of her while slowly trying to turn its face to face her.

Arachne quickly let go and retreated slightly back, while using her front legs to place holes into the zombies side. After Arachne released herself, the fat zombie's attention turned towards Noah and the surrounding zombies were gunning for him as well.

Noah used this chance to activate his skill again. He would rather not have to use a vocal command to activate it, but this wasn't the time to try something different.

"Stop!" He used the same command as last time, but this time he said it with a bit of frustration. He was upset with the fact that if he was fighting against a group of monsters of this proportion then he would have a harder time since his skill wouldn't be effective.

His frustration seemed to empower his command even more. Unlike last time where he made the two zombies stop in their tracks. The zombies that were in the process of running to him tripped over themselves to heed his command. Even the fat zombie halted in place and Fenrir who arrived from the corner of the building was caught in the crossfire of the ability.

Arachne remembered what Noah had said before. She wanted to make sure she did her job correctly. Instead of using her front legs to attack the head, she jumped onto the fat zombie's back and sank her large sharp fangs into his brain. If the fangs itself didn't destroy the brain, she was sure that her venom would do the job.

Fenrir in the meantime didn't stay stunned for too long. Not only is his zombie blood more superior than the other zombies, but it was also bonded with Noah.

"Attack their heads dummy!"

Fenrir wasn't smart enough to destroy the brains like how Arachne was able to pick it up on her own. Noah felt the need to facepalm when he saw the wolf slapping away the frozen zombies.

He looked in confusion about what Noah was asking for, but he noticed that Arachne was jumping to the zombies he had swatted away and stabbed their heads before going to the next.

Fenrir's tail began to wag excitedly when he understood what his alpha was asking for. It approached one of the zombies standing and bit off the upper half of the zombie and swallowed it. Subtly, he glanced towards Noah while wagging his tail. Noah didn't berate him this time. Fenrir took Noah's silence as a way of saying he was doing it right.

"Awwwhooo!" He howled in excitement, Fenrir along with Arachne began to quickly slaughter the zombies in tow.

It wouldn't be much longer until they were finished. Noah took the time to look towards the students who ran out before and noticed them further away fighting with a group of oversized rats. The group seemed to be faring well compared to the people he's met so far, but that may have to do with the two people in the lead.

Noah noticed that whenever someone was in trouble, a small object would come flying through the air to impale the opposing creature. It probably would be harder to spot from the distance, but not with his eyes.

And further in the back he saw the male wielding the katana fight the biggest rat. The rat had to be at least a little taller than four feet and that was considering the rat being on all fours. At first, the fight between the two appeared to be balanced.

The rat was tough and could take on multiple slashes from Ishii who was well experienced with using his weapon. Something Noah actually felt envious of. However Ishii still had to gauge the proper time to attack because if his attack wasn't deep enough then the rat could just ignore it and take a huge chunk out of his body.

That's when Noah noticed it, Ishii had taken a weird stance, the kinda stance where a samurai would get low before unsheathing their sword for a deadly strike. Yet Ishii didn't attack, but Noah instantly could tell something had changed. The rat grew slower, significantly slower than before while Ishii's speed exploded. His speed was probably faster than Arachnes if she wasn't using her full strength to lunge, but his speed was constant at this time.

Slash after slash, the rat began to accumulate wounds, before it finally staggered and keeled over.

"Interesting…is it like my ability where I can take Fenrir's stats and add it to my own? But his ability seems to be much better. Maybe it's time for me to get another creature…But can I still get one with my skill level"

He thought to himself before he became disinterested in the other group's situation.

Fenrir and Arachne appeared to be done and he had loot to gather, he was also concerned about something else.

'That was a lot of zombies just now, but I still didn't get a notification? How much more does Fenrir need to level up?"

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A/N: Work will be a bit draining for the next two days. If I post, it'll be short chapters. 1,500 words minimum. But if I do that, I'll post a bonus chapter for the weekend.