Kaijin Fighter: So I Have to Make Monsters, So What? Chapter 79: Will of the Salamander

As of this mont, Zhen Liu was stuck in this weird state of conscious unawareness. He knew that sothing was happening to his body, he just didn't know what was happening to his body...except for one sensation.

'Why...does it feel like I'm eating a gallon of fire noodles?'

Aside from that, he didn't know what the heck was happening so he just decided to roll with it.

'The last ti this happened, I woke up stronger, so...maybe what happened last ti is happening again?'

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"And it looks different from last ti," Jin Fang comnted as she stared at the familiar aether marionette thing from last ti currently fiddling with her boyfriend's formula...at least that's how it looked like.

When Zhen Liu started passing out, his body began releasing aether at a rapid pace, until it all condensed into a familiar marionette demon with a couple dozen arms phasing in and out of reality.

Before Zhen Liu could fall to the ground completely, the aether marionette produced a platform out of thin air and laid him on it. Once he was settled, the marionette produced a series of tools that Jin Fang had seen toymakers use for their crafts. Granted, these tools looked a lot more mysterious and otherworldly.

"That's...excessive."

"All...necessary....," Frosttusk responded. It was at this mont, Jin Fang realized that he wasn't dismissed like how Nepherage was last ti.

"Wait a minute, shouldn't you be an accessory on him right now?"

"Not...for...this..."

The marionette used a free hand to lightly tap Zhen Liu's prone form, causing a dazzling array of runes and patterns that was clearly connected to him to form from his body, projecting it outward like a hologram. This array was none other than Zhen Liu's cultivation formula.

"It's so chaotic looking! Yet...so fascinating."

The aether marionette began to use the hand that called up the array and swirl it around, rotating the runes and patterns like a petals in a whirlwind, until settling in a pattern of chaos it seed favorable.

Next, the marionette produced the red crystal ball that Zhen Liu had uncovered earlier, held it between two pinched fingers and began to gently swirl it as well.

Waves of red Iganti aether began to co off of it, forming into thin red strands of energy that then ford into patterns that made up an artistic rendering of what appeared to be a strange salamander. While she couldn't understand the true anings of the patterns, she felt sothing profound while staring at it.

'The Way of...Salamandra..."

When the salamander was fully ford, the marionette reached up and grabbed it by it's "neck". Once it had a firm grasp, it shoved the salamander into the Zhen Liu's formula, diffusing it's form into patterns that rged with the rest. There was a bit of resistance, but the patterns and runes eventually settled down into a new equilibrium.

When everything settled down, the marionette used a small hamr and tapped the formula pattern once, knocking it into Zhen Liu with a small bump.

With it's job now finished, the marionette did a slow nod.

"It can talk?!"

The marionette turned towards Jin Fang, her sudden outburst catching it's attention.

The two began to stare at each other for a bit, before the marionette used one of it's hand to do the universal symbol for hushing.

With that statent made, the marionette proceeded to retract into Zhen Liu, taking the platform with it, and dropping Zhen Liu to the floor. Jin Fang quickly rushed over to catch his falling form.

"Xiao Liu!"

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"Ughhh...why does this stupid thing keep knocking out?," Zhen Liu grumbled, "but it appears to have left on the best pillow in the world with the best view in the world."

"You're awake!"

Jin Fang managed to catch Zhen Liu before he hit the ground, the problem was that she had nowhere to put him. So in truly altruistic fashion, she laid his head on her lap, as to prevent bugs from crawling into his ears and not because she liked playing with his hair...or so she says.

"So how are you feeling?"

"Well...I feel like I just chugged an entire bottle of chilli sauce for one thing. Wait...where's Frosttusk?"

"With , milord."

"Over...here..."

Zhen Liu lifted his head from Jin Fang's lap to see where the voices were coming from. He was soon greeted by the sight of Frosttusk, and for so reason Nepherage, playing a ga of Go. Evidently the sight of the two monstrous beings playing a ga as a simple as Go was a bit weird to him.

"Where did they get the Go board...wait, back on topic, what happened to ?"

"Well..."

But before Jin Fang could give him an answer, his inner voice suddenly piped up with an announcent.

"Wait, what?," Zhen Liu asked aloud as he suddenly felt a lot more awake from the surprise information. Jin Fang was about to ask what was the matter, but quickly connected the dots that he was probably talking to that weird marionette thing from earlier in his head.

'Wait...then why would it ask not to ntion it to him...,' Jin Fang thought to herself.

'What do you an by abilities? Does that an I can finally u-'

'DAMNIT!'

A series of pings accompanied by lines of text began to go off in Zhen Liu's head.

{Skill: Iganti Absorption I has been unlocked.}

{Skill: Ignati Resistance I has been unlocked.}

{Skill: Aether Expression Mask: Ignati has been unlocked.}

As these skills sounded off in his head, Zhen Liu's mind began to wander.

'Again with the videoga lingo, are you actually like this or is this how you translate in my head?'

'Still unhelpful!'