The enemies at the back were a little further away and that's why they were the last to act, they also transformed in different ways, only one of them managed to keep the clothes after the transformation, it was the one that stopped the others next to him from continuing the attack.
It was also that I saw his eyes full of madness, his clothes didn't rip because his body didn't grow much, it was his arms that were 3 times their original size and full of yellow scales.
I was always watching all of them, none of them noticed, but my Aura was mixed with the environment in all directions, I even noticed the two of them hiding 200 meters away, but those were already captured by Nix without anyone noticing.
The one who had the giant arms and looked like the leader of the last 5 enemies was decisive, he waved to the others who hesitated a bit as he took a sharp purple crystal and penetrated his own heart with it.
The other 4 upon seeing what I assume is their leader do this, look at each other before pulling out those same sharp purple crystals to stab their hearts.
"Did they commit suicide?" (I)
"Looks like not..." (I)
"Their Aura is growing again." (Ragnar)
"Look at their bodies, this seems like a second transformation, but their vitality..." (I)
As their bodies began to distort, even more, their strength reached the Lower Catastrophe Grade, but their vitality was waning.
Their bodies looked like Demi monsters before, but they still maintained their humanoid form, but now they have grotesque forms.
Their bodies distorted until they lost their humanoid forms, this time they were no different from monsters.
The man I thought was the leader who had giant arms with yellow scales became a 7 meters high and 10 meters long Lizard, but the strangest thing was that their faces still retained some human traits, this man for example, in addition to the face, his arms were longer than his body needed and a purple jewel was stuck in the chest of the Lizard who no longer had any glint of intelligence in his eyes.
I look at the others and notice that their bodies are completely twisted, one of the 5 remaining enemies even became a mass of flesh that wasn't able to move, but groans of pain still came out of this hideous thing.
"This really exceeded my expectations..." (I)
"Should we kill them?" (Ragnar)
"No, I will capture them." (I)
"< Blood Seal: Blood Crystallization > ×5" (I)
I put my furthest forward and focus half of my spirit energy, mana, and ki to create a ritual circle using my ki-filled blood, then drop a seal rune in the middle and cast it at 5 enemies including the one that became a mountain of useless meat.
I look around, chanting, their fights are over, since the beginning of the ambush until now, less than 10 minutes have passed, it was a quick time, but in an ambush, anything can happen and at great speed.
"Why waste your strength on the mountain of meat?" (Ragnar)
"Because he's a failure." (I)
"I don't understand." (Ragnar)
"Don't worry, I'm just saying that even this mountain of useless meat can have its uses." (I)
I turn to the girls and land on the floor where Nix is standing looking at me with two unconscious people at her feet.
"Did you have any problem?" (I)
"No, I caught them both before they knew what had happened, what do I do with them, Master?" (Nix)
"Keep them unconscious, I'll take these two and the others that survived to Lilith to have a look before I let Elsaris interrogate them." (I)
I turn to the others who were looking at me.
"Get everyone together." (I)
I gather them all and then take them to the Dungeon using my shadow gate with the help of the Fairies, that would be much faster than taking them through the safe rooms between the Dungeon floors.
After sending the prisoners away I started praising the girls for their good work during combat.
"What do you plan to do with them, master?" (Kira)
"I want information from them, some of that information I will get through Elsaris' interrogation, the rest I can get directly from their bodies." (I)
"But what I do will depend on how Lilith feels about them and what Elsaris can extract from them during the interrogation." (I)
I had many things I needed to know, the questions were many and of great importance.
Why did they attack us?
How did they change like that the first time?
How did they transform for the second time?
What purple crystal was that?
Where were they from?
What were your goals?
Who do they work for?
These were all very important questions because it was clear that these people were waiting for us, they somehow knew that we were going to go exactly that way.
They were also too strong to be bandits, they were all Grade SS when they appeared normal, and that alone was at the top of this continent's strength.
When they transformed for the first time I noticed their power going up a whole rank until reaching Grade SSS.
When those 5 last transformed a second time, I noticed that their strength had increased again, this time it was at the Lower Catastrophe Grade.
In the second transformation, they kept their intelligence and their vitality was higher, but those who chose to transform a second time had their strength increasing a lot, but I felt that they lost almost all of their intelligence becoming almost the same as the first generation minutes.
Another thing I noticed was his vitality slowly dropping, it seems that this second transformation was the same as committing suicide in exchange for a few hours of power increase.
These people were enemies and they showed that they wanted our deaths, I don't need to think about treating them with humanity, I'm not human and they are much less.
Also, I believe that we should treat people as they deserve, I'm thinking of doing some experiments on these people if they are considered big criminals who don't deserve forgiveness.
I needed to know more about these strange transformations, so some tests on their bodies might be useful.