Chapter 12 (1/2)

/ Forest /

Shin could always be seen looking at himself, or rather admiring himself in his reflection of the lake.​​

He was not narcissistic or self-absorbed but he found his appearance just beautiful, hypnotic, celestial.

And then it was the first time he saw a mythical creature like the Phoenix in his whole life.

He had only seen mythical and legendary creatures in the books he read in the library.

The first fantastic creature he saw, even in this world he had not seen any fantastic creatures, only ordinary animals like rabbits, foxes, deer, ...

After observing himself in every nook and cranny, he turned and flew off towards the land and landed.

When he reached the land, his powerful wings created gusts of wind all around him.

The gusts of wind prevented the animals of the forest from getting close to him as they waited far away from him behind the trees for the time when the gusts would stop.

Shin finally landed on dry land and stowed his wings which were unfolded, imposing and intimidating.

When he landed, he didn't have time to ask the system that all the animals rushed towards him to surround him and look at him with admiration, love, admiration, respect as if they saw a God.

Which is half true.

Shin was amused by the reaction of the animals but quickly thought of something else because he didn't want to lose time and start his training.

”How do I become human again?”

[It's the same way as becoming a Phoenix but this time you want to become a human]

”Logical” said Shin as he mentally slapped himself for not being able to find that answer on his own.

He closed his eyes to return to absolute concentration.

Feeling the same as he had last time except that this time he felt his body get smaller and smaller.

At the same time as his body was getting smaller, he felt his arms and fingers re-forming in place of his wings.

His claws were lengthening to become legs and feet as Shin could again feel the ground in a much different way than when he was in his Phoenix form.

The flames that were once on his body and one with him disappeared as his body became smaller.

And finally, Shin's human body appeared with the last little flames that were leaking out of his hair, hands and his entire body.

Shin looked again at his body to see if everything was all right with it.

He saw his normal body still with his clothes on. A good point was that his clothes did not tear during the transformation.

In fact during his transformation into a human, we could see that the flames of the Phoenix transformed into his clothes and the reverse, when he transformed into a Phoenix, his clothes were transformed into flames.

”Practical” he said as he clenched his fists to get used to the sensation of having fingers. Even though he had only been transformed for a few minutes.

The transformation between his two forms was something he had to get used to.

Speaking of transformation, Shin wanted to experience something he had just thought of.

Before trying it, he only asked the animals to move away because he was going to practice.

”Can you move away? I might do some damage,” Shin said with a smile. He always had a smile when it came to animals, he always loved animals.

Realizing what Shin was asking, the animals nodded their heads in approval and started to move all of them towards the forest so as not to disturb him.

”Thank you”.

After seeing the animals walk away and thanking them, Shin focused on the experiment he wanted to try.

Shin closed his eyes to concentrate, not absolute concentration as in his transformations but rather focused on a specific point of his body.

His back.

He tried to feel it but only in his back.

And after a few seconds, he finally felt the warmth appear.

Feeling this heat, Shin concentrated it and circulated it through his back while imagining a pair of wings sprouting.

Concentrated and thinking hard, he suddenly felt a new limb appear in his back.

But even though he had like a new limb, he didn't feel any weight coming on.

He quickly opened his eyes to see the result of his experience.

He could see a large pair of feathered wings made of green flames in his back.