Chapter 101: Beast Transformation

「…Eh?」

The boss bear looked really dumbfounded right now.

Well, I stopped his punch with one hand after all.

It might have seemed trivial, but his punch was packed with a lot of force that was enough to send me flying if I didn’t brace my feet into the ground beforehand.

「You stopped… my punch?」

「…Now… take this return gift…」

I delivered a light jab to the abdomen of the boss bear.

My light jab created an extremely terrifying explosive sound the moment it hit the boss bear’s abdomen.

「GUOOOOOOOOOOOO?!」

His giant body floated in the air for a moment, and then he retreated as he grabbed his abdomen with an agonizing look on his face.

His eyes opened wide, saliva was dripping nonstop from his mouth.

「I-impossible… This great me… got defeated… with one punch?」

The boss bear spoke with a terrified look on his face and then retreated another step… and then two.

I mean, I had been fighting numerous monsters far more powerful than this guy ever since I became an undead.

Some of them had absurdly tough carapaces.

…Like that Tarrasque Lord or that Thunder Dragon Emperor.

Compared to those fellas’ defenses, this boss bear’s armor was a piece of paper.

If I punched with my all, he could forget about getting blown away. My fist might even pierce through his body without any resistance.

「Y-YOU B*STARD!!」

The boss bear sprung at me with an agonizing look on his face.

He unleashed a punch, in which he put his entire weight. Naturally, I responded with a punch too.

　CRUNCH CRUNCH!

「GAAAAAAAAAAAAA?!」

The sound of the bones of his hand and arm shattering to pieces resounded a moment before he screamed in pain.

「N-no… way?」

「The general is…」

「He lost in a contest of power… against that human?」

Even when the beastfolk were clamoring in panic, the boss bear didn’t stop glaring at me.

「H-HOW CAN IT BE?! HOW CAN A MERE HUMAN OVERPOWER ME IN TERMS OF STRENGTH?!」

…Maybe because I wasn’t even human to begin with.

「…」

「SAY SOMETHING, DAMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!」

This time, he unleashed his sharp claws and swung them down at me.

Even if I said claws, the sinister gleam on them made me realize that every single one of those claws was as sharp as a sword. Those very same claws were descending to shred my body to pieces.

Although it might be able to shred my body to pieces, it wasn’t a big deal since my torn body would regenerate immediately. The problem was the fact that it shredded my clothes to pieces too. Thus, I closed the distance immediately and kicked his face.

「BUGOAAAAAAAAA?!」

That kick was enough to topple the boss bear, making him fall behind while spouting blood from his nose.

「I-impossible… This great me, one of Beast King-sama’s aides, was… defeated so easily? I… shouldn’t be defeated by the likes of you!」

His body was trembling nonstop. Well, he was probably quite enraged.

…Uh?

Wait a minute, did he just… get bigger?

Or, was it just my imagination?

…Nah, no matter how you look at it, he was getting bigger.

「I… WON’T LOSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! UOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!」

All of the boss bear’s fur stood on end along with his terrifying warcry.

But his muscles also expanded, making his limbs look bigger than before.

And then, before I knew it, he transformed into the very definition of the monster bear itself instead of just resembling it.

His height increased twofold.

「T-THE GENERAL USED HIS BEAST TRANSFORMATION!!」

「RUN! GET AWAY FROM HIM!」

「THE GENERAL WILL GO ON AN INDISCRIMINATE RAMPAGE WHEN HE USES THAT!」

It seemed to be called a beast transformation.

Seeing the other bear folk fleeing, I realized that this ability was a double-edged sword that could hurt his allies as well.

「GROAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!!」

The boss’ warcry was already akin to that of a beast.

But that warcry was enough to create a storm in the vicinity, causing the cracks to appear on the walls of the buildings around us.

The next moment, he rushed straight toward me.

When I dodged that rush, the boss bear rushed straight into his escaped subordinates instead of turning around and rushing back at me.

「「「UOOOOOOOOOOOO?!」」」

A few of them got blown away by the boss bear.

Nevertheless, that alone didn’t stop the boss bear from charging forward. He kept charging and crashing into the building in front of him, demolishing the building in the process.

「O-ouch…」

「A-a-a…」

He told me a while ago that his subordinates were his family, and yet…

It didn’t seem to be the case after seeing the situation.

The boss bear—who appearedunscathed from within the building that had already been turned into rubble by him—seemed to recognize me as the most dangerous foe and rushed at me again.

I dodged reflexively before, but the damage to the city would only get worse if I kept dodging his charges.

I raised one of my legs, positioning it until I felt it was above the crown of the head of the boss bear, loaded my magic power into my heel, and then unleashed a heel drop as the boss bear arrived right before me.

KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!

「~?!」

The loud sound, akin to a giant boulder crashing against a giant boulder, resounded in the air as the head of the boss bear got planted into the ground.

The impact left behind a gigantic crater as if a meteor just fell into this place, and then, his giant body that floated in the air due to the residual power behind his charge fell to the ground a while later.

「「「…Eh?」」」

His fellow beastfolk raised dumbfounded voices upon seeing the spectacle.

The boss bear didn’t even twitch. On the contrary, his body rapidly returned to a normal size again.

「O-our general’s beast transformation…」

「Got… insta… killed?」

「M-MONSTER!」

When they got scared sh*tless like that, the reinforcements from the capital had finally arrived.

「THE BEASTFOLK ARE OVER THERE!」

「…? What the heck? What’s… happening to them?」

「THAT’S A TRIVIAL MATTER!! CAPTURE THEM!!」

Capturing the beastfolk who had lost their fighting spirit wasn’t that difficult.

Thus, the vanguard of the beast country was completely destroyed.