was that it?

  It didn't feel like anything had changed about me , though I did feel as if I had less to worry about and more of a clear goal. Why would a race change make my head clearer I thought

  "It's because you are now a monster, no more pesky human anguish to hold you back. Don't believe me here look for yourself" Eldritch's inserted in my brain

  A clear oval reflection surrounded by wispy clouds of dark energy swirling. I was able to see my reflection. My tan skin had now become charcoal black reassembling a type of obsidian . Along with that when I looked into my eyes it contained nothing , no pupil , no eyes , just void. My hair color changed to a dark purple. My shirt had a strange cavity, I could tell from the crater from where my chest should be .Taking off my shirt there was a huge hole in my chest area similar to the one the statue itself had .

  For some strange reason I wasn't disturbed when looking at my new appearance, I just felt intuitively that this was me. From weak fleshling loser to Chaos summoner, grinning I felt a strange feeling well up into my chest Or at least where my chest was a few moments ago.

  This feeling was a first

  ,i wasn't used to feeling this powerful. If could describe it in a word maybe , pride, ego, hubris , would cut the bill. My eyes widened and the air around me trembled, mana was surging through my body .

  I finally understand my Zhil always felt so indominable. Perhaps all monsters felt like this on some primal level.

  "do you see now my child? You are now my part of my family and therefore precious to me. I'll give you some unwanted advice, as you are now an extension of myself have no shame in exercising your power , you are now a force of nature and nature has no morals."

  Is that right, I think ill take you up on that offer.

  "Return me at once to the normal world, I want to see how strong I've really become." I said in a voice filled with insanity

  "ordering me around now are we? Hahaha wonderful trust me this is the gift that keeps on giving. "

  "Now begone child" his voice like claws in my mind ripping me from the realm and placing me back into the dark cell. I was still sleeping face to face with my assaulter, I was mad but then again I wasn't. In fact I felt quite a bit grateful from her releasing me from that state of limbo, even if she wasn't aware of it she was my benefactor. It could've taken a lot more for me to comes to terms with reality , her abuse might've been the most gentle way. It was still temping to just kill her in her sleep so she should consider this my final present.

  " Zhil " I called out using telepathy I believe this farce has gone long enough. Use force and destroy a path to me, make sure to find Gabla and kill anyone who gets in your way.

  "Master, I will begin right away " Zhil responded

  "I can sense you are a different race now , which is quite strange .More concerningly my appearance has changed as well and i believe its due to your race change. Though i feel stronger by it so i grant you my thanks." Zhil said

  1% essance

  (Rank upgrade ) would you like to upgrade to rank D -

  I suppose he was killing as he spoke to me .Mhh let me rank up first then respond.

  Yes rank upgrade I confirmed

  BOOM

  upon the confirmation I felt a slight increase in my mana about 7% but nothing else. I went from rank D to D- so I guess this was to be expected. Now lets respond to Zhilsiza.

  "Yes I am no longer human but a chaos summoner. Hey did anything happen to you I just ranked up"

  "yes my body is more muscular, my race has been changed to chaos dragon and I gained a new ability. Its called dark impulse : concentrate mana in your horns and call down a beam of madness "

  This was unexpected but -

  BOOOM

  the front cell door was blasted open sending debris and rubble everywhere , the familiar smell of black flames entered my nostrils.

  "MASTER"

  Zhils draconic figure appeared on the other side of the broken wall looking absolutely magnificent and how a dragon should.

  "You look rather spectacular " I said jumping through the hole with grace matching his bravado.

  It was appear ant to me that because of the race change I was immune to dark flames the scattered about

  "Your finally act fitting of one who summons dragons "

  Strange enough there were no alarms in this prison but the sound of explosion was enough to gather a crowd of guards about 15 to be exact. As a monster it was a lot easier to synchronize my emotions with zhil, let just say we were on the same wavelength.

  It didn't take more then a few seconds for Zhil to send flame there way

  (2% essence x15 )

  30% exp for a group of stragglers like this ?!?! wasn't this too easy, but hey if life hands you bodies make , uh , death? Oh i just noticed that Gabla wasn't with us.

  "where's Gabla "

  "I believe she is on the next top floor because of her naturally inferior bred origin they weren't as concerned about her"

  is that so. "Lead the way " I said to the dragon.

  retracing our stops we stopped in front of the door way to the next floor . With a good touch of explosions , we entered the next floor. I thought about killing the prisoners but my first priority was to find Gabla , I would make sure to destroy the whole level later I'm not willing to let exp live.

  Walking through the would be door i glance at my surroundings. In this room the cells where see through and stacked in a column of 5 and row of 34, it really was packed full.

  Forcing their attention to be grabbed by the sudden fire work that just broke through the door all the prisoners turned to look at me and Zhilsiza .At the end of the hall I saw Gabla tied upside down like a Gabla Tamale. Under her where the Lieutenant and his lackey along with our stuff. They turned to face us saying something like prepare to die and what not. I honestly didn't feel threatened in the slightest, I have an idea of how to use teleport call it the dunning Kruger effect or whatever but it felt like I was a natural. Appearing next to the warden I picked up the backpack and a defenseless Gabla ,one in each hand. The Lieutenant was a higher rank then me I'm sure but I could feel that he was actually the weaker one, what was my true strength I wondered.

  Not a second later I arrived next to Zhil. Taking that as permission he killed both the warden and Lieutenant in a unremarkable fashion, it really did mean nothing to me now.

  +7% essence

  10% essence

  so I'm at 47%

  Untying a sleeping Gabla i gently put her in our goblin sized backpack .She was quite remarkable how she is able to sleep upside down but hey I wouldn't wake her up. Even though I've changed that doesn't mean i was emotionless, i still cared for Gabla and Zhil.

  "This is boring lets just get out of here" I said blatantly bored of killing weaklings

  "master will you leave all these prisoners without killing them?"

  "no but I plan to just top layer with fire it would suffocate everyone. I want to find out in what ways am i limited to getting exp. Its an experiment if I get exp for asphyxiating everyone I gain the knowledge of how indirectly or directly I have to be involved to gain exp. If not I lose a few exp points "

  looking at me zhil simply nodded and we left the current floor with a newly acquire Gabla.After ascending to the third level I could see that they weren't messing around anymore .About 76 guards where stationed in front of the exit. Did they really not understand that more was better for me? Oh well this should rank me up .

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  "YOU and the overgrown lizard ! JUSTIC-"

  not allowing him to complete his sentence he talked over the obviously nervous guard "I AM ZHILSIZA PEASANTS , I AM A DRAGON NOT A LIZARD"

  FROOOSH

  1% Essence x 76

  (Rank upgrade ) would you like to upgrade to rank D +

  Mhhh so I didn't get any overflow that was interesting , willing a rank up. God this was happening fast, was I really so weak before? no wonder people looked down upon me, I couldn't even say I wouldn't have done it to myself now that I'm in this position. oh well , I sighed wondering how many more stairs where there. I could die for some entertainment

  "YOU" a familiar voice screamed out to me

  turning around I could see my old cellmate, our time together amounted to a distance memory for me and i could really careless.

  "me"

  Oh wait this is kinda like a second first impression wasn't it? Now that Im not human anymore i had a unashamed desire of self aggrandizement.

  "me hahahahaha" I conjured up the most evil laugh to go with it. I communicated with Zhil to barely scave her with a fireball just to see her expression. Her eyes opened wide making me chuckle on the inside. Yes, this power to control life was exhilarating.

  "What happen to me being a villain ,in this situation anyone would see you as the villain"

  Oh right i think i did call her a villain at some point, did she really think guilt tripping me would work? Oh how the tables have turned she's terrified.

  "The villain? Your right i am the villain"

  "Hahahahahaaha"

  I guess she was the entertainment that i asked for, she's lucky i already forgiven her. In my view she is pathetic weak to the point of rotting in a cell, but i had a softspot for my freer.

  "What's wrong? I thought your life was hopeless , embrace death"

  "It looks like my play session with you broke your mind " She retorted in defiance

  Broke it indeed but for that i thank her

  "you're right, you're completely right! Hahahahaha"

  you know remembering how she treated me in the cell I wanted to show her how much better then her I was. Petty and vindictive I know , that was the point.

  "I've been thinking about what you said earlier , about how you were trapped on this floor .Your life is hopeless because of it isn't it? "

  "Do you want hope?"

  I could see her face twist and turn in rage , she looked just about ready to decapitate me .That only made me smile , anger has nothing to do with strength. I was enjoying tormenting her , if i knew this was how it felt to be "evil" I would've gotten rid of my conscious years ago.

  "Not if it comes from you , I'm going to kill you and feed your dead body to the hawks"

  Aww you poor thing i know she wants hope, we all do. She just cant accept that i the person she thought was beneath her was now treating her like a dog .I get a sick thrill from this and I don't plan to stop.

  "So you don't wont hope?, even if it meant you got to leave this floor?" I dangled the thought of salvation in front of hear like a carrot .

  after a small pause , it look like she was assessing the situation

  "And how do you suggest that " she said in her most defiant tone

  Haha still acting strong i see, but i could see the glimmer in her eye. I was in control

  "I could make it so that you could leave the dungeon"

  Though she would essentially be my slave , haha . Quite the paradox she could befree from the floor but not free from me .I have a feeling i haven't totally forgiven her but lets not spilt hairs on it. Luckily for her I didn't need slaves but soldiers.

  Now that I was fully allowed to self actualize , I recognized that the only way to escape this inferno was absolute power. I needed a coalition of strong servants for when things got tough, I was under no illusions that each floor held a more difficult challenge.

  "You filthy liar" She replied in disgust

  Ugh, Why is she still talking? Oh god she wants the hope so bad .Sigh let me call Gabla as living proof , if she continues to question ill just end her. She was strong enough to be good exp.

  "Oh Gablaaaa ??????"

  "Coming!" Gabla roused from her sleep and graced the world with her presence by stIcking her head through my backpack.

  She gained horns and her skin was darker but not much else of a change. I can see that my race change effected all those that where connected to me. Looking at the gablalin that was sitting there peacefully, in her new mobile home it was a bit surreal even for me.

  "Lets say I where to listen to you, what would you want me to do? Do you want revenge for what I did to you or-"

  What do I want from her? I thought she was smarter then that. I wanted her ruthlessness, her complete disregard of life and whatever else she had to offer. As I am now she was a current fit . To me what formerly seemed to be some grotesque amalgamation of flesh posing as a monster was now as beautiful as the most delicate of maidens. Yes there was beauty in the carnage and she embodied that.

  cutting her off I stated "No if anything i should thank you, thank you for ridding me of that human body into something superior"

  Though I need a good tester for loyalty, something to show me she was committed to the cause. OR... I just wanted to inflict terror but she would never know. Looking over to her companion , he would be a good test subject.

  "What I want you to do is simple kill"

  "kill?" She acted as if she didn't have the bloodiest hands in the room, give me a fucking break.

  Yes kill, I'm going to kill every single monster that's on this floor , and I want your help in doing it" I said

  "Why my help , you and look quite capable on your own" she said with an incredulous look on her face. She seemed intrigued by my proposition now.

  She had no clue the amount of respect I had for her. I don't hate to admit it at all but the old me was going to end up in some monsters gullet, the new me will conquer this world. In a way she is the reason i am free.

  "Its a honor ,for being the first person to let me out of my cage"

  She seemed to look at me like I was bonkers, but that was ok. You know what they say the fear is the best motivator. Oh ... no one says that? Well I do now.

  Telepathically I told Zhilsiza to intimidate her in the most grand way imaginable. The air pulsed with energy and a black flamed stagnated at his mouth letting out an ungodly heat.

  "Ok I'm in... now what" She said almost instantaneously

  Told you fear is the best motivator.

  "Wise decision" Mhhh lets see "The first step is killing your friend right there , I want you to break his legs "

  The bird standing next to her almost shot up in terror looking at her in a reserved manner. If she couldn't at least do this then she would be useless to me.

  " You can't be serious right? I thought you wanted to kill him" the bird called out trying to plead with her, but knowing it wouldn't work.

  "Sorry pal " she said emotionlessly

  "I'm not letting you kill me " the bird put up a fighting stance. I guess he would rather the wolf then the lamb when dying, fair enough.

  with just a flash she appeared to his right and snapped both of his legs in one swift motion

  "AHHHHHHHAHHHHHHHH it hurts, oh god it fucking hurts" he cried out

  His crying pissed me off, the weak deserve to die a weak death

  "You might want to get out of the way, better yet come over to my side you don't want to get caught of in this explosion. That would be a shame" I commanded.

  doing a front flip she landed near me but not next to zhil. Ha did she take a liking to me or was she simply scared of Zhilsiza, i would feel proud in both. Little does she know i'm actually more demented then the dragon could ever be.

  Reigniting the flame my newest servant got a visual on what would happen if she ever betrayed me. Her friend didn't even last a second, completely incinerated.

  0.5% essence

  "excellent fire breath , but he only gave 0.5% essences what a shame. He looked strong but wasn't. Good thing there was a city full of people to aid us in our endeavor "

  My feathered friend didn't seem to know whether or not to worship me and jump ship and I couldn't blame her. A small smile appeared on my face. Cheers to a new life

  from the corner of my ear I heard "Your the worst type of person imaginable you know that? "

  Me? There was no definite proof , so why not take that statement with a grain of salt. I mean who is she to say

  "Says who" I responded spitting her own words back at her.

  For the first time I could see her relax a little

  " it wasn't a criticism , if you ask me i like you better this way , "