Seeing no reason to decline the offer, Hakan approached the fire, seeking its warmth. The redhead woman attempted to make some small talk.
"You must be cold." She stated it matter-of-factly. He couldn't care less. There was a fire after all.
"Boy, how old are you?" she inquired after Hakan ignored her comment. At this question, however, he finally faced her and noticed something.
The redhead wasn't looking at him but through him. She was not reacting like a person who just found a naked boy. Not even finding his lack of modesty strange, let alone caring for his safety.
No concern was being held in those cold, red eyes...
Hakan got his guard up against this seemingly human woman as he dried and warmed his body. He didn't answer her, much to her annoyance. Both of them stared at each other, sizing one another.
She didn't feel like a monster, yet she resembled one as well. Her skin was pale, unnaturally so for someone sitting in the middle of the forest. Her eyes were coldly observing him. It was different from being stared at by a monster, yet it was equally unpleasant; she had a similar predatory gaze.
Hakan was getting closer to beating the living shit out of her, not having done so only due to being given the warmth of fire. He hated being looked at as if he was a rare animal.
Who was she? Well, this woman was Promestein, a curious angel by nature. Years have turned her cold and manipulative. She was the angel who gave humans fire, kickstarting human civilization. And for that, she was imprisoned for hundreds of years. Eventually, she was released and allied with Black Alice, the 8th Monster Lord, despite appearing to be on bad terms.
She had been observing Hakan remotely ever since Ilias herself descended upon Ilias Continent to save his life. How did she know that? She and Black Alice have been monitoring the Goddess of Creation for a long time; every single action Ilias took was taken into consideration by these two schemers. They couldn't let any unknown factor affect their precise plans after all if they were to dispose of a nigh-omnipotent goddess.
True, she did not have time to waste with a human, as she was ordered to do Ilias's bidding. She also wanted to progress her own projects, but the human before her was special. A human who acted as a receptacle for a fusion of opposing energy types, a human that was still alive and well. His body held crucial information that could perfect the white rabbit drug she was developing.
What was the reason? Why was this human not a failure like most of her chimeras? Was it due to Ilias's intervention? Was it because humans were good vessels for mixing light and dark energies? Perhaps both; she needed further investigation to uncover the reason, Promestein concluded. She wanted to dissect him in her laboratory, though doing so would incur Ilias's wrath if she was interested enough to help out this particular human in the first place. A blood sample was going to suffice.
And so she started to shift in her place. Hakan tensed, trying to keep his guard up against this woman, and yet he couldn't react when, all of a sudden, she pulled out something from her pockets and shot his arm with it. A dart penetrated his skin, and Hakan immediately threw it off of him. It was too late; he started to get dizzy. He couldn't find the strength to keep his balance before falling on his back. Three seconds after being shot, Hakan was on the ground. Sleep was calling for him, and his eyelids were too heavy to keep open. Even so, Hakan did not accept sleep! It would be such a sweet feeling, so tempting to accept it, and yet Hakan couldn't let himself. He knew it was not safe to do so.
Hakan kept his eyes open, trying to stay awake. He tried to move, and yet his body had betrayed him. He could not move when it mattered; before Promestein straddled him. The taller woman was on top of him, and he had no idea what was going to happen or how to fight back. She grabbed his arm, and her grip strength made the panic register in his mind.
"Even if I could move, I wouldn't be able to push her off." Hakan grimaced. She was no human; that was apparent in her strength. By the time she pulled out a syringe, Hakan was able to move, albeit barely, so struggle he did.
"Don't thrash around; you will make me rupture your veins." She held down both of his arms with one hand and brought the needle closer to his arm. Hakan, since he was unable to move his arms at all, tried to headbutt her in desperation. He could only reach her sizable chest, not harming her in the least.
Promestein grinned in amusement; this human had strong willpower, she assessed. She was going to choose her test subjects with varying personalities when she returned to her lab. Their brain activities could be a factor.
To stop him from moving his torso, she pinned his hands above his head. Hakan was completely helpless now. He couldn't even move his legs because Promestein was sitting on them. He could only glare at the creepy grin plastered on her beautiful pale skin as the needle penetrated his vein and the syringe filled with his blood. Then he got hit by another dose of tranquilizer and finally lost consciousness.
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By the time Hakan came to, Promestein was long gone. Even the campfire was gone; again, Hakan was left with no evidence to confirm whether whatever happened to him was a dream or not. Had he collapsed on his way to the village and dreamed of the encounter? Had he hallucinated? No way, everything about it felt so real! Why was he still alive then? If he were drugged in the middle of the forest, shouldn't something have happened to him?
He couldn't even bother to think about it, as his mind was in a mess. His body felt groggy, and his movements were sluggish. Forcing himself to stand up, he regained his resolve to return to the village. Naked, tired, and drugged, he would make an easy prey.
Even without a proper sense of balance, he marched on. Still unaware of just how easy it was for him to attract the attention of the monsters in his vicinity, he kept walking in the same direction he was going before collapsing.
Soon enough, monsters appeared, hidden behind the trees.
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"Subject attracts the attention of monsters in a larger radius, 310.56 percent larger area than the average male attracts," Promestein noted. Yes, right now she was observing him. This was a stress test. What better way to test a human than in a natural, uncontrolled environment with predators?
If Ilias was aware and cared enough, she would have done something, and if the subject was terminated, well, the observing Cupid could be dealt with to hide her involvement. She grinned when more monsters appeared. This was going to be very educational.
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It didn't take long for Hakan to notice monsters surrounding him, even in his stupor. He got off the ground; his headache be damned, he was going to kill these monsters. Their numbers did not matter. He clenched his fists and his teeth as he made his stand against this horde. He reminded himself what monsters were; just pests for him to kill.
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"The subject shows no instinct of self-preservation other than aggression," Promestein added another entry to her notes as she watched him stand his ground.
"Despite monsters having a natural inclination to allow the first contact to initiate the hunt, monsters around the subject seem to compete for him." She continued after the monsters stopped getting closer to him and discord arose among them, they all wanted to tap his sweet shota ass. This small frame of safety for Hakan, however, was coming to a close. While all the other monsters argued and fought for him, three monsters just went straight for him.
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Hakan was greeted by the sight of three monster girls he had killed previously. A slime, a slug, and a squirrel Taking those three on at the same time in his condition? That seemed unlikely. Was he going to despair? Was he going to be afraid? Was he going to run away? Never.
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"Ufufu, I am going to make you drown in ecstasy with my mucus~" Slug girl claimed.
"Not before I ride that dick, I don't want your sticky shit near my pussy," Squirrel girl asserted herself.
"Puru puru~ Then I will take the second turn and clean him up for you," Slime girl answered the Squirrel
"Hey! Just let me go first with him, I don't want your slime on him either!"
Frustration fueled Hakan's impatience with the ongoing exchange. He launched an attack on the trio, directing his fury towards the Squirrel Girl. However, his punches lacked the necessary speed and were predictably telegraphed.
In a swift countermove, the agile Squirrel Girl effortlessly intercepted his punch, seizing his arm with a firm grip. Determined not to be outdone, Hakan resorted to an unconventional tactic. With his free arm, he executed a surprising maneuver, pinching the Squirrel Girl's nipple. Reacting instinctively, she retaliated by scratching his chest with unexpected ferocity.
The sudden exchange of pain left Hakan recoiling and made him take a few steps back. However, his retreat proved futile as the monster lurking behind him seized the opportunity. In an instant, Hakan was grabbed and absorbed by the Slime girl.
"Puru puru~ It seems I will be the first one to bring you to the heavens~"
Hakan found himself inside the Slime Girl; this time he was completely exposed, naked, and vulnerable to the pleasure a slime could give. He felt it again. He felt that shock, that extreme stimulation so foreign to him—that feeling he didn't know until fighting a Slug Girl. And this time, there was no way out for him, it seemed.
The Slime Girl condensed her slime around Hakan's penis to grab it firmer, giving him another jolt of pleasure. That was an unforeseen mistake on her part, as it gave birth to the Paladin of Ilias we would get to know later.
In his desperation and determination, when he was assaulted by an extreme stimulation, almost simultaneously, a current of electricity passed throughout his body, discharging itself around his body. It was nowhere near enough to harm a human, let alone a monster, and yet it was good enough to surprise the slime girl with the shock to spit him out. A mistake, one that they were going to pay for in a moment.
Hakan didn't realize it then, but he unintentionally discharged magic in reaction to sexual assault, spending all the small amount of mana he had developed. There was no trump card left for him; he didn't need any either.
The electricity that passed through Hakan's body had also shocked him and it woke him up from his stupor. He was pumped full of adrenaline now, and with no influence from drugs affecting him, he went berserk.
He attacked the first monster before him, the Slug girl, leaving Slime and Squirrel behind him. Hakan was swift like the wind as he grabbed her arm and went around her, climbing on her back as he used Slug Girl's arm like a clutch. He climbed higher from there and got on her shoulders, standing on them as he sunk his fingers in her face. Slug girl resisted, screamed, and tried to throw him off. But Hakan, having only slightly sunk on her soft body, was still proving to be an impossible challenge to throw off of herself, no matter how much she turned and thrashed around.
The others approached him cautiously. Due to her panic, Slug Girl unwittingly positioned him to face the other two. Seizing the opportunity, the agile Squirrel Girl lunged with acrobatic precision, aiming to bring him down. In response, Hakan vaulted off the back of Slug Girl, hurtling towards Squirrel Girl and delivering a swift kick to her face. The impact sent Squirrel Girl careening backward into Slime Girl, whose amorphous form enveloped the smaller creature, subjecting her to the sticky embrace.
The slime girl, with the extra weight of a monster, could not move, leaving Hakan to deal with only the slug girl, whose face was already slightly deformed. She attacked Hakan immediately after he fell to the ground from his jump, but Hakan rolled sideways to dodge it and got up. Finding his earlier strategy against the monster effective, he circled her and leaped on her back at the slightest angle. His hands sank into her flesh, and he began ascending. When Slug Girl attempted to dislodge him, Hakan bit into her arm with formidable strength, eliciting a pained scream. Pressing onward, he climbed higher, eventually reaching her neck. With a determined pull, he yanked her head back while he pushed himself off of her back with his feet planted on the monster's back. Slug Girl's neck stretched and gradually tore apart. Hakan had decapitated her, ending her painful last moments.
The Slime girl witnessed the gore; her earlier lust for semen was now replaced with a sense of fear she never could have dreamed of. A fellow monster was just brutally killed by a human, by their prey, and she was next.
Slime tried to run away, but Squirrel Girl inside of her weighed too much, she forgot to spit her out while she was too focused on watching the horrifying scene before her; she had to throw Squirrel Girl out of her slime and get out of there as soon as possible. She began manipulating her slime to push the other monster out. Unfortunately, much to her horror, just before she could get the other monster out, Hakan jumped and pushed her back in with his shoulder blow. Any parts of him sinking inside the slime? She just pushed himself off using the squirrel girl, who was under extreme stimulation. Slime Girl was not big enough to absorb both him and another monster in the first place.
"Pu! Pu-lease let me go. I just wanted to make you feel good!" The slime girl begged, trying to save her life in utter despair.
Hakan, however, had not an ounce of sympathy for her. A monster was a pest, and no matter how much she used human language, it would only come off as an irritating noise to his ears. He was not going to show any mercy.
He had an easy time throwing chunks of Slime away, as Slime Girl had a hard time moving. He kept throwing parts of her away, and the slime girl shrank in size because of that. She could only witness her death in slow motion; she was barely bigger than the squirrel girl inside her now. Hakan just kicked the Squirrel girl out of the slime, and the resulting hole was enough to finally kill the slime girl.
Of those three monsters, only Squirrel Girl was left alive, and she was in no condition to fight. Her whole skin was too sensitive; she was stimulated too much, and she had a hard time breathing inside the slime girl. She looked up at Hakan in horror, trying to catch her breath, but she just hyperventilated. Funny, Hakan was going to make a mess out of this one too. He brutally brought his punishment upon her for the crime of existing, one punch at a time.
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By the time other monster girls appeared on the scene, some with bruises from a heated argument, they simply nope'd the fuck away after seeing a human covering his face with monster blood like it was some sort of ritual, surrounding himself with three monster corpses. No matter how hungry they could get, they enjoyed living more. They promptly left the vicinity.
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"The subject discharged electricity from his body, a clear sign of dark magic." Promestein was amused; she did not expect the results, but the data from this test was going to be very useful. The show was entertaining to boot. Everything Hakan did except for that magic was theoretically possible, yet it had an astronomically low chance of happening. She got a better understanding of his personality, just in case it mattered.
As for his magic... Although it was extremely weak, magic was still rare among humans. Hakan either had monster blood in his lineage, or Promestein had made another discovery about the effects of Ilias's treatment on a human body contaminated with dark energy. Promestein was convinced she was going to use more humans as test subjects after investigating Hakan's ancestry.
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Cupi, the Cupid girl observing Hakan, was initially concerned. First, that creepy whore drugged him. Next, multiple monsters attacked him. She wanted to help him, but it was against the rules for an angel to interact with a human to that extent. She didn't want centuries of punishment. So observe what she was going to settle with. Even if that was an observation of Hakan's last moments...
She watched with frustration how Hakan was captured, how he was placed inside the slime, and how he was being sexually assaulted. It was supposed to be her, not those skanks! She should have been the one to take him his first time, not a disgusting slime!
Then, a miracle happened. As if Hakan's body were sharing the same resolve and hatred against monsters as their goddess, he shocked the slime with electricity. It was not comparable to her goddess smiting sinners, but still, it did the trick. He got himself out. Cupid continued to watch, this time with a grin as she noticed Hakan's expression. Yes, this was going to be fun.
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Cupi was almost disappointed when the other monster girls ran away. Oh well, she had a thrilling enough report to lighten her goddess's mood up a bit. All the other angels were going to be grateful once Ilias was in a more relaxed state and less demanding. But first, she had a business to take care of while the image of Hakan fighting was still fresh in her mind. Oh, Ilias, was it a reward or punishment for her to be close enough to watch, yet unable to touch him, she wondered.
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Some Author Notes
First of all, the word Chaos I speak of is different than Chaos in Paradox. I simply did not want to use another word for the fusion of opposing energies. This fanfic takes place in the original trilogy, or maybe not. At the very least, it is not the same world that Luka from the Paradox game starts in.
I want to clarify a few things that I think we need to keep in mind to understand how Hakan will get stronger. This is a fanfic based on a game. Within that game, characters themselves speak about game terms such as HP, and SP. There are stats and levels. I may write all those details if you want me to, in which case I will write stuff like "50 XP gained" and Hakan's current level etc... Right now it is not written but Hakan will still be leveling up based on how many monsters he kills. Which will make him stronger. He won't become level 50 by hunting slimes or such of course, but it won't be too far-fetched for him to become level 5, by killing 20 monsters for example. And XP requirements to level up would only increase at each level...
Another aspect is now his modified body. I would say if it was in Paradox, his race would be Chaos Human (Minor) right now, multiplying his stats by 110% instead of 100% like a normal human. His race may change into higher tiers, however, if the tier of his Chaorruption is beyond what his level can handle, he will probably end up like Tetsuo from Akira. If Hakan was kept in captivity by monsters, if he was raped by them etc... all of that will fill him with dark energy and that dark energy will eventually be absorbed by the Chaos energy, which would increase his Chaos tier without leveling him up, ending him. Even now, by slaying monsters he is getting corrupted slowly.
Also, Hakan's soul will most likely remain pure human thanks to the barrier around it, regardless of the changes his body may go through; unless something happens to the barrier.
I may or may not change the chapters, to change my writing style, or to fix typos and mistakes.
I thank you all for your attention, may the light of Ilias reach your souls.