Chapter 181: The Strange Monsters...
The sound of a wild beast echoed, and the sound of the lake monsters in the distance cried out. Nikolai turned into a beast. The muscular human figure began to swell. His muscles bulged before comparing as his arms became covered by silver fur.
Nikolai had a clawed paw in the shape of a human hand, with a thin layer of soft fur covering his fingers and palm. Then his legs stretched, and his feet became a beast's—his hands and feet were large, and sharp claws extended from where his nails used to exist.
And on his head, two long ears emerged, reaching 30cm in length, and a bushy wolf's tail expanded from the base of his spine, almost touching the floor. Discover exclusive content at m,v l'e|m-p y r
His teeth sharpened, and his face became more masculine and narrow, but he kept his human shape. Silver fur covered the tip of his ears and tail, but otherwise, he looked like a tall, muscular, and well-hung man.
'What?
'Ah... my cock looks strange...'
'Well, I am sure if this was a female-aimed werewolf novel, they would love this kind of thing...'
However, he ignored that and shook his head, realising he should always wear pants in the future to hide this.
Would it work?
He didn't see other werewolves fully transformed—there were a few, but they didn't wear clothes either.
Nikolai stood at a height of seven feet while his arms were long and covered in inhuman muscles. His eyes were a beautiful blue with an old border and black specks flickering in his iris.
'My power in this form is close to an elder!'
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[Name: Nikolai Báthory Volkov]
∟ Royal Vampire (80% Awakened)
∟ Imperial Werewolf (85% Awakened)
∟ Lupus Diabolus (55% Awakened)
[Bloodline State]
∟ Transformed State (Imperial Dominant)
[Physical Force]
∟ 750
[Mental Force]
∟ 480
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'Well... shall I take a look at how far this power can bring me on this floor?'
He looked forward to the monsters and smiled savagely, knowing they wouldn't survive for a moment.
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"Phew... I might have gone too far."
A pile of corpses lay behind him, various twisted creatures half man half fish. Nikolai stood with a bloody face and hands while feeling their power flowing into his body. The small vials could stack together in his item ring. In the future, he would give them to his thralls, Risa and Sarah, to avoid the issue from the other day.
"However..."
Nikolai gazed at the monsters who didn't attack in the distance. A beautiful monster with an unclothed body, blue skin, with heavy, swaying breasts.
Their plump purple and blue lips pressed together as they opened them, releasing a gentle yet tempting song. The lower part of their bodies took the shape of fish and serpents, and their female parts were on display.
'So, are these mermaids?'
Yes, the monsters that gave Nikolai a hard time were the mermaids.
'Why do I have to fight singing mermaids... damn, it's hard enough for me to see something like that, but why are they so beautiful and they don't attack back.'
No, rather, their actions felt strange after he became a werewolf...
When he attacked them earlier, along with the male fishmen, they would cling onto his body, touching his muscles, their lips sucking on his flesh. It felt strange. At first, Nikolai thought they were biting him... but those touches were too gentle. Their hands, mouths, eyes... everything about them made him feel like they were trying to seduce him.
'Why are they trying to seduce me?!'
Nikolai only thought of them as enemies. But when he attacked the first one, his claw caused her upper body to explode in a bloody fountain, and it caused the male fishmen to go berserk.
This led to the enormous pile of bodies behind him...
'I've never heard of any tales of mermaids seducing humans before... They attack and try to eat their liver and heart.'
He remembered reading the bestiary from the tower and noticed that mermaids weren't like the lovely Ariel he knew from stories as a kid. They were a violent, obsessive and brutal species.
It became obvious when one of them tried to swallow his manhood with her mouth. That was the moment he killed the first lot of mermaids, leading to them singing from a distance... instead of approaching him.
'I am glad mother cannot see me... or Risa and the others.'
'It doesn't count right? I am not even in human form...'
"Wait..."
Nikolai suddenly seemed to understand, so he turned his body back, and his muscles began to shrink, and his arms and legs returned to their human form. However, he was still naked, and he had no desire to cover it.
The mermaids seemed to realise, as their song changed to an aggressive and violent tone, their faces became fierce with fangs on display.
Then he transformed once again, his entire body swelling and becoming more monster than human, and they stood confused. The song stopped while their heads tilted, and they dropped their tridents.
"This might help in the future... are there monsters that won't attack other monsters?"
He wondered if, because most races fought in a humanoid form because weapons made combat easier, somehow it caused the tower to become more difficult.
'After all, isn't this a tower created for MONSTERS to become stronger?'
Even the male fishmen didn't attack him first—they only retaliated!
"Whatever... I will explore this hypothesis on a floor where the monsters don't try to sexually assault me... Let's hunt the bitches and go see Selene and Nikita..."
He dashed forward, his speed becoming almost impossible to perceive, and he reached the first group of mermaids.
They tried to sing and cling to him, but he was too swift, and the moment he punched one in the face. The woman's head popped like a balloon filled with gore.
For a moment, they seemed to react aggressively, but their eyes became enchanted and soft when they watched his body spin in the air. However, the next moment, his left leg snapped out and smashed into the upper body of another, tearing the monster in half.
"???"
They seemed genuinely confused and kept rushing at him, but not with violence, their drooling lips and shining eyes filled with lust. It seemed they didn't consider him prey in the sense of murder. Yet he was their prey in another sense...
The male fishmen tried to protect their women, but they didn't stand a chance. Nikolai's body was far stronger than them in his werewolf form, and it was almost too easy. Like deadly blades, his claws cleaved and sliced them apart with ease, and his legs and arms were like a blur of destruction.
The beautiful mermaids and fishmen were no match for him, and the number that died in a few minutes was already in the high dozens.
ROARR—!
Soon, the scent of fishy blood and the bodies of the dead village on the small island vanished and filled with a sense of victory. Nikolai Howled to the false moon in the sky.
'Now I have enough vials to give to Risa and Sarah... though I should keep a few of the higher quality ones for Selene and Nikita.'
Nikolai sat down on top of the pile of dead mermaids, a pair of soft breasts squishing under his butt, while he looked over at the lake area.
'When I am in this form, my mind is so peaceful... nothing feels complex. I just want to kill, fuck and eat...'
He closed his blue eyes and thought about Selene and Nikita, the time slowly passing for him to return. Though he would be meeting with Alucard, somehow, his heart and mind felt at ease.
Something else that felt good was that his pain and feeling of adaptation faded during the brutal massacre.
"I wonder if these fish scales and strange pearls will be worth anything..." Nikolai spoke with a deep, reverberating voice.
However, what made him a little iffy was the pears came from inside the mermaid's bodies, from their slits. He wouldn't have noticed them if one of the women he tore in half didn't expel some from the sheer force of his blow.
He squished them between his fingertips, and they definitely weren't eggs, the hard sensation and beautiful shine... Nikolai now carried more than a hundred in his item box.
"Picking them out with this huge fingers was so disgusting." The disgusting sounds and sensations when taking them from living mermaids weren't bad.
He didn't feel that kind of attraction to the monsters in the dungeon. There was a sense of rejection and disgust.
'Whatever, let's clear the next floor. I wonder what the boss will be...'
He looked back at the beautiful scenery, which now looked tragic, with the blue river stained red from the monster's blood.
Nikolai realised that the mermaids and fishmen had stopped appearing in this area, and it was probably time to leave. He discovered the dungeon would eventually run out of a monster to respawn, and he wondered if the tenth floor would have an interesting boss.
"Haa..."
Nikolai took a deep breath and returned to his human form.
There was a slight ache in his muscles, causing him to stretch. He gazed at the portal before cracking his neck and stepping inside, a feeling of curiosity at the back of his mind.
Woosh—!
However... the moment he passed through the portal, he saw the strange arena with a huge female on the massive altar.
It was a beautiful room, with an enchanting blue stream and lake surrounding an elevated altar and staircase leading to what seemed to be the platform to fight.
There was a faint scent of the sea, with a cool breeze blowing around the dungeon floor.
He suddenly smiled wryly, seeing the creature on the altar and transformed back into a werewolf.
The tenth-floor boss was the queen of mermaids.
'I wonder if the queen has larger pearls...'