In the past year, while the Howlers and Slough were going through a peaceful period, advancing the city to become what it was today, Gary didn’t sit around doing nothing.
The main aim of his was always to grow in strength, he knew he had a timer on him, a limit set by whoever it was that had made the Werewolves in the first place.
During the time, he was unable to raise his level by large amounts because the system wouldn’t give him exp based on what he was doing. There were no tough opponents for him to face, and he hadn’t gone around just starting fights with the other gangs in the area.
He didn’t want to cause trouble for the entire group after all, while everything was going well. However, through his training, he did manage to do some things, that was improving the basis of the skills he used.
The skills were able to level up, and while the night sky was out, Gary’s skills would level up due to his class type, he didn’t always have the privilege of fighting at night. On top of that, surely if his skills grew stronger at night, then if he was to train them up they would only rise even further.
Still, there was one skill, a skill that didn’t level up during the effect of the night sky, and that was last stand. A skill that allowed Gary to consume as much damage as possible, while being on one HP.
The question was how would he increase the level of this skill and was it even possible? Without leveling up there were no stat points, and without quests or turning people there were also no pawn points.
The pawn points could be used to advance skills, but could they be evolved naturally as well? For Gary, it seemed like it had to be possible because not every werewolf had the system.
He knew from meeting Midwak, that he didn’t have a same system type like him, it wasn’t the train of the Werewolves yet he knew skills, and it was the same for the others they could grow in strength as well.
It had to be possible for him to improve himself. It took a lot of work to improve such a skill since it was based off one being near death, and it needed a lot of help from those around him, but his perseverance had paid off.
Now it was the time to use it, in this situation he had done it activating the last stand level 2 skill, not only that but no longer conserving himself, he had used the full transformation skill.
Turning around, Ice could see Gary’s height growing, his body thickening in size. His arms bulking and fur growing all over his body. His front nose snout extended out, and saliva from his mouth couldn’t help but drip to the floor, as his upper lip curled revealing his sharp teeth.
“So you’ve decided to enter your full Altered mode, it looks like you're taking this seriously, I guess, I shouldn’t hold back either!” Ice replied.
Soon his body was changing, it didn’t particularly grow larger in size since Ice was already a large person to begin with, but similar to Gary his body was thickening in areas, his arms were going larger and his thighs were growing as they expanded looking like two large tree trunks.
Similarly, a fur started to cover Ice’s body as well, including that of his face, the only areas that weren’t so much covered in fur, were his wide light blue-skinned feet and his hands.
In his hand, Ice had formed the club again, and in his other hand, a shield of Ice had been formed.
“I knew he was a mythical type Altered, but I’ve never seen his full form before he looks like a monster!” Stinger shouted, he was surprised just as much as the rest of the guests were as well.
“A mythical type boss!” One of his subordinates called out. “But what type of Mythical type beast is that, something that uses ice powers and is covered in fur, are there any monsters out there like that.”
“If I was to take a guess I could think of two. The creature that has haunted travelers up and down the mountains in the past, a large Yeti, or with that club in his hand, I can also think of a Troll. With both of these creatures, there is so much mystery surrounding them.
“You know, mythical creatures are just that, creatures that are based on human myth, but it turned out that they were real, beasts that used to live on earth from the past, and the stories were passed down till we thought they weren’t real.
“Honestly, due to those stories, a lot could be lost, it could be possible whatever beast Ice is based off, is actually a combination of the two.” Stinger explained.
It was a frightening thought, not only did he have strong ice powers, but the strength of Ice, and his skin, it was extremely powerful.
“Then what about Gary, is he based on a mythical creature as well?” One of the men asked.
When looking at Gary, his size was menacing, but to most, although they knew of the mythical creature the Werewolf. In their minds, they could only think of him as an Altered, and the Werewolves and beasts were different things in nature.
To them, Gary just looked like a Wolf-based beast Altered.
“He’s done well, but I’m not sure this is a fight he can win.” Stinger commented having faced him, and his wound on his shoulder was starting to hurt again.
“Right now though, it looks like two colossal monsters are about to face off in this place! I’m sure there’ll be a lot of blood spilt.”