Chương 157: The True Face

While Lucas was gaining momentum, the others' situation was a bit different. Malia gritted her teeth as she was once again cut by the Oni. Lydia on the side knew that she had to do something or else Malia would die. She took a deep breath and remembered all the practice she had with Lucas.

"Ahhhh!" She let out a tremendous scream and the walls visibly shook. Just as she thought it would hit the Oni, he managed to dodge in time and her joy was wiped off her face. But then something surprising happened, just as the Oni dodged, the one that was fighting Allison was hit straight in the back.

"Whoosh!" Just as the Oni was about to completely regenerate, a silver arrow embedded itself in its body. That spot glowed yellow and suddenly its body went into black smoke, disappearing from this world for good. Lowering her bow, Allison smiled and looked at Lydia in the distance.

"Great job!" Lydia showed an awkward smile but didn't explain that she did it by mistake. At that moment, a strange energy entered Allison's body, the sensation was weird, as it was the first time this happened to her. Before she could figure out what happened, Allison felt her skin tingling and suddenly hardening. She didn't know how, but she instantly knew what this ability was called.

"Obsidian defense…" She murmured the name in wonder as this was incredible to her. Then she unconsciously looked at Lucas because she knew that this wasn't common for other shapeshifters. Then that meant that it happened because of Lucas. Although he wasn't looking in her direction as he was preoccupied with fighting the Oni, the moment that Allison killed the Oni, he sensed it. He also felt that he could choose for her to awaken one of his abilities.

He only thought for a few seconds and chose the Obsidian defense, she was more of an agile type and this could improve her overall. If you find this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the infringement. This also made him happy as it meant that those bitten by him could also grow stronger. On the other side, Allison finally calmed down from her excited mood and focused her attention on the Oni that was fighting Malia and Lydia.

Her figure suddenly vanished and appeared right behind it, then swept with her silver dagger for the Oni's throat. The Oni immediately felt her presence and raised his sword against his back, managing to defend against the dagger.

"Clang!" Allison didn't wait for the Oni to turn around, and she disappeared immediately. At that moment, as the Oni was distracted, Malia swept with her claws, taking a big chunk of its body. Time seemed to slow down at that moment, and Allison shot an arrow right for the Oni's chest, then vanished from the spot.

"Clang!" The Oni reacted immediately and broke the arrow in two, but then he suddenly froze. Allison embedded her dagger deep into the Oni's back and smiled at it.

"Puff!" The Oni collapsed into dark smoke, and Allison was waiting eagerly for that sensation again, but a few moments passed and nothing changed. Lucas noticed this and he felt his ability completely unresponsive.

'Could it be that for my betas the predatory ability will not always activate?' He felt like this was the most likely scenario, but having even a chance to get a new ability from him was already overpowered, so he wasn't greedy. Lucas then concentrated on the five Oni in front of him and his face became serious. Allison already killed two and he killed none, he could already imagine Malia and Lydia making fun of him.

While gripping the spear, his claws suddenly grew, and one stabbed one of his fingers, unnoticed by everyone, a bit of blood spilled on the spear and traveled down to the ground. Then he jumped in front of an Oni and with a sweep of his spear, he turned it into black smoke. Just as the Oni was about to regenerate, Lucas threw a small dagger from his sleeve. The silver dagger closed the distance in the blink of an eye and stabbed right into the Oni's body, making the Oni disappear completely.

Lucas didn't choose to have a new ability, so for the first time he strengthened one that he already had, and that was the blood sacrifice ability that he got from the Darach. When he felt the effects of it being strengthened, a smile appeared on his face, his purpose was accomplished. Right at that moment, Harris moved and began walking slowly.

Suddenly, several eyes fell on him and even Lucas shifted his eyes to Harris, narrowing his eyes as he looked at Harris, just as Lucas was about to move, a piercing sound was heard throughout the room.

"Shnk!" A sudden feeling of pain came from his back, when he looked down, he saw a blade coming straight out through his heart. Lucas raised his head and looked back, and saw Stiles without his usual smiling face. There was only coldness and enjoyment in those eyes. Stiles' lips moved upward and he spoke.

"Checkmate."