Beast Evolution

Their carriage passed the entrance of the village and proceeded inside, Ray woke up when Leia tapped him.

"Where is this place?" Ray asked Leia, but she wasn't listening, her eyes were focused on something in front.

Ray tilted his head and saw the beast that was captured. The beast wasn't a normal infected beast.

[Dark Energy detected]

"W-What is that, is that even a beast" Gabriel said.

"I've heard of beasts like this but seeing one is something else," Leia said.

After seeing the beast Ray wasn't surprised like the rest of his friends, he had fought and killed this type of beast, the beast looked just like the Ice mage he faced back then in the dungeon.

Authur and the senior walked towards the beast while the three of them sat in the carriage.

"Ray have you seen a beast like this" Gabriel turned to ask but Ray wasn't in the carriage.

"What is Ray doing?" Gabriel asked as he saw Ray following the knights, but Leia wasn't paying any attention, she was still staring at the infected beast.

"We should move closer too," Leia said and stepped out of the carriage.

"Grrrr"

The beast growled as the knights came close to the cage in which it was placed, it wasn't an ordinary cage, four mages stood at each side of the cage and they all placed their hands on the ground infusing Mana.

The four mages joined together to set up an unbreakable cage around the beast to prevent it from escaping.

"This is different from the other infected beasts, is it because it's a humanoid beast," Alfred said.

"It's a high-level infected beast," one of the mages said.

As Ray came close to the beast, he was surprised because he couldn't see the difference because this beast and the ice mage that he killed.

The only difference was that it was infected, Black lines were all over the beast's body and a black liquid was flowing through the lines.

The beast's skin was white as snow except for the black lines with two small-sized horns on its head.

The beast keep growling as the knights looked at it from all sides.

"So why are we here?" Authur asked.

"We heard you were going back to the academy, so we requested for your help, we want to perform a magical experiment on the beast to see why it's in this state," the Mage said.

"How do you intend to do that, and besides how was the beast captured?" Alfred asked.

"When the villagers were farming, a terrible snowstorm came and we all retreated inside then we heard a loud noise and knew it was a beast"

"We attacked without seeing the type of beast and the beast fell unconscious then we trapped it" the mage explain.

"You attacked an infected beast and it fell unconscious, a high-level beast at that, how?" Alfred questioned.

"We really don't know how it happened, but we managed to capture it before it regain consciousness"

"So why do you need our help with your experiment, we are not mages and I don't see how we can help you"

"Oh you can, we called because we needed strong people for protection, during the experiment it's highly possible that the beast would regain consciousness".

"So we need you to kill the beast before it escapes or kills all of us," the mage said.

"But there are enough knights and mages here," Alfred said.

"There are only six mages and ten knights here, we needed someone strong and it wouldn't take your time at all, we would use a strong potion to put the beast to sleep"

"Okay let's begin, we need to keep moving," Authur said.

"Are you sure about that, something seems fishy about all this, I don't know but I know something is wrong" Alfred said.

"You think too much about everything, we both know the mage so do you think something is wrong," Authur said.

"Just a hunch"

"That beast looks awful" Leia sneered.

"What are those black lines, this is a new type of infected beast," Gabriel said.

"Something isn't right" Ray muttered.

"Why do you think something is wrong, or are you scared of the beast" Gabriel laughed.

"I'm going back to the carriage, I can't keep looking at this, I don't want bad dreams," Leia said and walked back to the carriage.

The carriage was a little far from the beast, the horse wouldn't move further because of the beast, so the carriage was kept close to the entrance.

Ray and Gabriel watched as the mage made a sleeping potion from leaves and other materials that he brought out of a small box, the senior knights stood a few feet away.

The beast continued growling as it bang the barrier repeatedly hoping to break out. The mage finished with the potion, it was a purple liquid that was placed in a small glass bottle.

'Why do I have this strange feeling that something bad is about to happen Ray muttered as he looked around.

The mage came close to the barrier, the senior knights held their weapons as the mage attempted to open the barrier.

The beast noticed this and moved bad a little waiting for the perfect time when the mage would open the barrier.

The mage smiled and placed his hands on the barrier, *Boom* the beast punched the barrier when the mage placed his hands on it.

The mage moved back a little, the mage wanted to see the reaction of the beast and pretended that he wanted to open the barrier but he didn't.

The beast growled in anger and hit the barrier repeatedly.

"The potion isn't ready, I just wanted to see the beast's reaction, I added something so it can pass without me opening the barrier," the mage told the senior knights.

'I have a bad feeling about this, maybe I'm just overthinking it, it's probably nothing Ray said inwardly.

The mage whispered some words and flung the potion inside the barrier, it passed through the barrier like it was invisible and the beast pounced on the bottle and broke it to pieces.

A purple smoke spread inside the barrier and the beast held it's head and staggered a little before falling to the ground.