How come that lizard passed through the barrier?! Did the barrier fail? Is the barrier malfunctioning? I need answers, now!
"System- I mean, Alice! Tell me something, pretty please!"
"I-I'm analyzing that thing right now…! T-this… I don't know. It just went through it. The barrier's power is stable," replied Alice.
"Say what?! How did it get through it, then!?" I asked with a hint of panic.
"It either belongs to someone from the village or has the power to bypass magic structures… or the barrier purposedly let it slip through for some reason… wait, did the barrier think it was your pet for some reason? This is unbelievable…!" Alice said soon after, sighing at the end.
"No way in hell that thing is my friend… it tried to eat me up a few seconds ago, after all…" I replied.
"Sylphy, you're talking to yourself!" Aquarina could not help but say.
"What's wrong with you today? Did you finally lose all your screws?" Zack asked out of concern.
"More importantly, we should run away," I said.
The Tyrannosaur was looking at us with a predatory glare. Its eyes shone with bright crimson-red light, and it looked like it was ready to kill us.
Its entire body began to spark with thunderbolts as the attacks began to rush towards us. These lightning attacks could easily fry us up!
We quickly evaded the direct attack as it began to follow our movements around rather swiftly. It was a surprisingly good hunter!
But why did this magic wall let it slip through?! Is this barrier actually malfunctioning?!
We continued to run away from the beast's attacks, always managing to jump away in time while gritting our teeth. From the looks of it, the monstrous beast was trying to fry us alive and leave us like grilled meat before enjoying our flesh.
"Let's run back to the village!" suggested Aquarina.
"No, we can't! We'll end up bringing this thing there! It will be the village's demise…!" I said, rejecting the idea.
"T-That's true! Agh!" Zack said, only to cry out soon after.
The thunderbolt almost fell on him, but he infused his legs with mana and jumped with a strong force into the air, falling to the floor not long after.
The dinosaur rushed towards Aquarina afterwards, stepping the floor and making it tremble, making her lose her balance.
The girl quickly fell to the floor as I quickly rushed for her aid. In fact, a thunderbolt attack almost fell on her.
I unleashed a flashing light from my sword. However, the thunderbolt was stronger, and my bronze blade was super conductive to electricity.
Which ended up in me being electrified!
I ended up with steam coming out of my mouth, but I was mostly fine. At least it didn't kill me. Then again, my endless HP might have helped there, although not as much as Divine Protection triggering, meaning that the attack wasn't meant to kill me but to shock me and damage me.
The dinosaur then threw more thunderbolts at us in a strange circular pattern, following Zack around while forcing him to use his mana to run faster and move swiftly.
Meanwhile, I and Aquarina evaded around and threw attacks at it as its scales barely budged.
Was this thing really that strong?
What's this weird feeling?
I don't even feel fear.
And Aquarina too. She didn't seem to be afraid of this thimg.
"Sylphy, this is weird… it feels like…" she said.
"It feels like it's trying to train us, right?" I asked.
"Yeah! So weird! Why is it not attacking when it had so many opportunities? It feels like it's also playing around with us… is it playing with its prey? No, I don't feel any murderous intent either!" said Aquarina soon after.
Despite how frightening it looked; this thing didn't want to eat us?
Then why did it tried to eat me before?
Furoh? Was it trying to eat Furoh instead?
"Gyaaaah! W-Why are you two just standing there?!" Zack asked while running away. He had been barely able to hit the monster.
However, I left Aquarina behind and moved in front of the beast before looking at it in the eyes.
"Who are you?" I asked.
The dinosaur looked at me from above. It fell in silence, but quickly after, it moved down to greet me.
Its head bowed down and its big eyes looked into my own.
"You're a smart girl, to realize it so quickly…" It spoke with the voice of a woman.
"Huh? So, it was true!" I said out of shock.
"I-I also realized it…" replied Aquarina, timidly walking near it.
"Sorry for scaring you. I had noticed that demon over there, and I wanted to kill it for you, but you showed up and rescued it for some reason… do you want to keep that thing?" it asked.
"You're literally a walking lizard! What do you know about me anyways?!" asked Furoh in anger.
"What an insolent critter…" she said with a sigh.
"Y-You're a talking monster?" I asked.
"Hmm? Maybe? Well, the people around here call me the protector of the forest. I've been living here for a while… after all, this jungle is my kingdom." said the Tyrannosaur, suddenly changing her shape as she glowed with bright yellow light.
What came out of it was an unexpectedly beautiful adult woman. She had a motherly and gentle smile, skin as dark as the night, almost like charcoal, plus she had some very big assets on her chest. Her hips were very wide, and- is she almost naked?!
She was barely wearing some rags on her body, covering her nipples and wearing a loincloth.
She had several accessories made out of fangs and claws of beasts.
To top it all off, she had long and silky black hair, with sharp emerald eyes.
"Wow… So pretty…" murmured Aquarina.
"W-What the heck? It was a woman this entire time?!" exclaimed Zack.
"Y-You can shapeshift?" I asked.
"Agh! How can't you tell?! She's a Skin-changer!" shouted Furoh.
"Skin what now?!" I said in response.
"I'm part of an ancient race of people… long forgotten. I'm quite surprised this demon knows about me," replied the beautiful woman.