New law of Beast Taming

Despite how much experience Amane had with weird experiments with beast energy and technology, this was not her first time witnessing someone transform into a beast like this.

People had always been curious creatures and they had been greedy as well. There had been too many attempts to harness the beast's power in her previous life as well.

But Amane had to admit that this was certainly one of the most reckless attempts she had seen in her life at gaining power.

Not only had Professor Ross not thought about the consequences of his actions, but he had also not cared about what would happen if he followed his guts and went forward with these actions.

As a result, Professor Ross was stuck as a fat lump of meat that looked nothing like a human. It was a lump of human flesh that Amane did not know what to do with. So, she decided to torch the whole thing.

"Ugh, how ugly and useless. Now I see why your drug was rejected by your higher-ups. I guess people here do have a brain after all."

Amane spoke as she threw the ball of fire in her hand at the lump of flesh in front of her. It started burning the flesh as soon as the fire touched it. It seemed like everything was finally over when the fore suddenly went out.

The lump of flesh moved and then it was absorbed in a toned but well-built body. Professor Ross had transformed into a bird-like creature with a humanoid form.

There were feathers on his arms and he had humanoid arms and legs. But this face had an unnatural beauty to it now and his eyes were pupilless.

Professor Ross looked down at his hand with an awe-filled expression. He was not able to speak words for a moment since he was overwhelmed with what he had made possible with his power.

But it did not take long before Professor Ros let out a laugh in disbelief and looked at Amane once more.

"Look at what I have created for myself. My splendid body has transformed into something new and better than before. I have changed myself and it is all because of my drug."

Professor Ross ragged about his new body as he snapped his fingers. Fire burst out of his snap and Professor Ross looked fascinated.

"Ah, you just got even more annoying than before. You are looking for a death wish, are you not?"

Amane asked as she watched this transformation happen. She was not happy with Professor Ross and his usage of power. He might have changed from the outside but he was the same pathetic being on the inside.

"Ha..Ha-ha….hahahaha….you should be afraid of what I can do now, Yoko Tsurugi. I am not like your cousin with limited power at their disposal. I have taken out the limits from my body and now no one can stop me from displaying my worth."

Amane had only one word for this man - delusional. He seemed far too reckless and unstable to be let into a dangerous lab like this.

Moreover, his drug was a menace to society and many reckless people would rush forward to buy it in this case.

It all fueled Amane's rage even more. She was going to kill this person and then extract all the information out of his head.

After all, Amane needed to avenge Ariana's death. The phoenix has been someone important to Amane.

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"Ugh, this jungle seems like it has no end. How long have we been walking around here? My feet are starting to hurt."

Sakura complained as she took another wrong turn in there. The annoyance caused her feelings to darken and Sakura's desire to burn the forest was getting more and more apparent.

It was only because of Aqua's pleading that Sakura had not done anything.

Yet.

"I know that you are annoyed by this forest but put up with this a little more. The creatures in here used to be human and they have not done anything wrong. If possible, I would like to save them as well."

Aqua's dream was an impossible one from the start. There was no way to save everyone and she needed to accept this truth.

But still, she wanted to try and calm things down for the others. And keeping these people alive could also serve as a shred of evidence for later.

Sakura looked put off and pale. Her stomach was in pain and it made her mood cranky. She sniffed the forest and suddenly, Sakura stilled as her eyes sharpened

The subtle smell of charred trees and smoke reached her nose. And a split second later, the forest was on fire. And it was no ordinary fire as well.

This fire was unique and it seemed to be burning the whole forest up without discrimination. Soon it would reach their location as well.

"Hey Aqua, come near me. I will try and offset this fire with my own and drive it out."

There was no way this was going to be possible. But Sakura still felt as if she had to try this method. And the shield was stuck in place around Sakura.

Fire met fire as the forest was burned up and deprived of oxygen. Pain-filled cries reached Sakura and Aqua's ears from around the forest. Quite a significant number of beasts seemed to have perished.

"Ugh, this bastard is targeting us for sure. I don't know how long I will be able to keep this barrier up. What should I do now? Do you have a plan?"

Sakura asked as the flames clashed with her barrier. The pain of these burns was making her dizzy but there were no burn marks on her arm or her body.

On the other hand, the heat made Aqua's body burn from the inside. There were rashes on her arms but it was nothing she could not handle.

Finally, the fire died down a little so they both could see what was in front of them. They were greeted by a charred forest as well as a lot of deal wildlife.

"Tsk, if I knew that this was going to happen, then I would have burned this forest myself. Now, who the hell did this?"

Sakura asked as she looked around. She was pretty sure that the fire she had faced felt familiar to her flames. That could not be a coincidence at all.

She felt the heat of flames heading her way and Sakura made a wall of flames to stop the attacking body. Something smelled against her wall of flames but did not stop. It crashed into Sakura and sent her flying away.

"Is that a bull on flames?"

Aqua asked as she looked at the creature in front of her.

To call it a creature would be an underestimation of the century. That thing in front of Sakura was a ball of flames that could not be looked at any other way. It was horrible and it had a certain human-like quality about it.

What was more? The flames this thing was covered in looked vaguely like Sakura's but wilder and more adaptable.

"Tsk, it doesn't hurt. But it's so annoying to be thrown around like this. And for this, I cannot forgive this ball of flames."

Sakura complained as she stood up back on her feet. She looked at the flaming orb in front of her with an annoyed expression on her face. But the flaming orb seemed to not care.

"Hey, I don't think you should fight fire with fire. I don't think your powers would have any effect on the person in front of us. I think we should try and run away from here."

Aqua could see all the signs of their loss. She was sure that there was no way out of this situation except for them running away from this fire.

But her sentiments were not shared by Sakura.

"Where do you propose that we run to? Whosoever sent this thing in here also made sure we are stuck in this room. I can feel it now, the essence of this artificial space. We are stuck in here until we force our way out."

Aqua bit her lip as soon as she realized that Sakura was right. They were stuck in this place and there was no way out of there but to fight correctly. Aqua had not wanted to admit it until now.

"Tsk, fine. But what do you propose we do now? There is no way to take this thing on and your flames seemed to not be working as well."

It was a lose-lose situation for them overall. No matter what they did, their side seemed to be losing.

But there was still a ray of hope.

"I experiments with my fire powers when I got them and there is no way to put out these flames except to make them go out of oxygen. Since that does not seem possible under normal circumstances, we need to make the fire extinguishers go off somehow."

Of course, that would work. Since this was a lab, the fire extinguishers were filled with fire-suppressing liquid instead of water. And those special liquids would make the fire go out in a matter of seconds.

"But I don't think those Fire Extinguishers are turned on. They should have gone off by now. There must be a manual switch somewhere around here to make those things go off."

Aqua concluded and she was not far off from the truth of the situation.