Chapter 58 5 Little Monsters (2/2)

”Hmph!” Asteria certainly did not look good right now, with all the slime covering her body, making her look like a kitten that was drenched in rain.

”Just go hunting in the forest, okay?” Asteria said as Alina did her best to comfort the shaken fairy. ”Do it, and you will see the meaning of your Main Mission.”

”Hmm… Ok, I think that explanation is already suffice.” Alex muttered as he decided on what to do next. ”In that case, I guess I should get going now.” Alex started to amble out of the clearing as he decided to start his hunt.

But before he could go, he paused as he looked back at Asteria.

”Hey.” Alex said as he played with his tentacles. ”What are my new abilities in this body anyway? I think I should know about them so that I can use them later.”

”And you are just asking it now? Really, when will you learn to be alert?” Asteria cheekily replied, as she was seemingly back to her arrogant and vibrant persona.

”Do you want another tentacle treatment again?” Alex said as he waved some of his tentacles in Asteria's direction. ”Because if you want to, then I will give it to you for free.”

”Ah Alex I am just joking you know, hehehe…”

”...…”

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1 hour later.

Alex walked freely through the woods, looking like he does not give a care about anything in the world.

His steps look confident, as if he was not afraid of any danger around him.

The truth however, was that Alex was deep on contemplating on what Alina told him earlier.

According to Asteria, Alex's Great Elderitch Form granted him with two abilities.

The first ability was Abyss Magic, and from the sound of it, it does not sound like your good old-fashioned magic.

According to Asteria, Abyss Magic was a magic that was concerned with channeling a kind of Energy from the Abyss Dimension, the dimension where Elderitch monsters came from.

This Energy, which Asteria termed as the 'Abyss Energy', will allow Alex to do incredible and scary things, as long as the grade of his Abyss Magic allows it.

Asteria said that there are 12 Grades of Abyss Magic, with the First Tier as the 'petting some kittens' type, and the Twelfth Tier as the 'everyone in the whole wide world gets f**ked-up' type.

Right now, Alex was said to be at the First Grade of Abyss Magic, although he still had not experimented enough to know what he can do at this level.

Asteria did not elaborate on how Alex will be able to raise his Grade, but Alex did not care for that now, as he was more focused on finding the crux of his Main Mission.

The second ability that Alex got was in loose terms, can be called 'Feeling, Emotions, and Desire Manipulation'.

For convenience sake, Alex decided to just call it FED Manipulation.

This ability allows Alex to control the feelings, emotions, and desires of anything nearby him.

He can make a person be extremely frightened of him, extremely loyal to him or even extremely disgused to him.

He can also make the same person feel hunger or lust, depending on what Alex wanted.

At first, FED might sound extremely BS and OP, but according to Asteria, this ability will only be highly effective on beings that are much weaker than Alex.

This means that Alex can fully use this power on normal animals and children.

But against powerful Monsters and Humans, Alex's FED Manipulation will be only enough to faze them for a second.

”Well, I can just make myself grow stronger to make both of my abilities stronger.” Alex muttered to himself as he walked confidently across the forest. ”Once I become so strong, I will have an easy time defeating anyone that I need to defeat.”

Alex's trail was filled with small animals and Monsters, who were all frothing in their mouths, with some of them shivering and trembling in fear.

In order to not meet any nuisances, Alex decided to blast his FED Manipulation at its peak level, making anyone near Alex to feel great fear.

This tactic worked, as every weak Monster that approached Alex all collapsed on the forest floor, shivering in fear.

”Sigh, where are the powerful monsters here?” Alex muttered to himself as he started to get bored with just walking around the forest. ”There is some Monster that should be powerful around here, right?”

”Squee!”

Right on cue, Alex heard a powuerful roar, coming from his left side.

”There it is!” Alex thought excitedly as he rushed toward the source of the sound with excitement.

What he saw however, made him stop on his tracks.

He could see a massive boar-like monster, standing around three storeys tall, with its 5-meter long tusk gleaming menacingly.

”Squee!”

This boar seemed to be screaming at something that was obviously not Alex.

Alex tried to see on what had pissed this boar a lot, and that's when he saw them.

He saw five little monsters all cowering under the murderous gaze of the boar.

Alex idly numbered them from 1 to 5, taking note of their appearances.

Little Monster No.1 looks like a literal dog, who was standing up even though its legs were trembling.

Little Monster No. 2 looks like a collection of numerous pebbles, while Little Monster No. 3 suspiciously looks like a shadow creature or something.

Little Monster No.4 looks like a collection of millions of insects, and finally, Little Monster No. 5 looks like a literal skeleton.

Alex was not sure why, but he could somehow feel that these 5 Little Monsters were important to him.

Not only that, but the fact that these 5 Little Monsters were all wearing Human Clothes made Alex think that they could be his clue for his Main Mission.

With these thoughts in his mind, Alex decided to save them.

”Hehehe, this is exicting.” Alex thought to himself as he realized that he was about to fight his first battle here in the Monster World.

”I hope you won't disappoint me, little boar.”