Divine Chicken
"Damn. Where am I right now?"
The moment Jay regained his consciousness, he saw that he was still inside the icicle, but his surroundings were different.
He was now in someone's bedroom. Most of the decorations, furniture, or anything else in the room had a dark purple color to it.
Just as Jay was wondering how he should free himself from the icicle, someone opened the door of the bedroom. It was Mereena, who was now wearing a dark purple gown.
"So, tell me, what are you exactly?"
Mereena went closer to Jay and tapped the icicle, making it shatter into dust, freeing Jay.
Jay knew that he had no chance to run whatsoever so he just decided to talk it out with Mereena and try his best not to reveal anything she did not need to know.
"I am just a simple and honest fellow. Please let me go, my lady."
"Bullshit!" Mereena shouted furiously and pushed Jay towards the wall.
"Why do you have a man's special part? Are you a man or a woman? Just what the hell did you do to me?" Mereena threw question after question as she looked at Jay in his eyes.
"It's a curse! It's a curse! Please don't hurt me!" Jay said and faked some tears.
"Then what about that thing you did back at the lake? Why did that little girl suddenly disappear?"
"I don't know! I just talked to her and she suddenly vanished!" Jay said and started sobbing but was starting to sweat since he was not sure if he could think of something else if Mereena did not believe him.
After a few seconds later...
"Leave. But remember, if you are lying to me, I will hunt you down no matter where you go and make you suffer a fate worse than death." Mereena said and snapped her fingers, causing the windows of the bedroom to open.
Not even having a chance to think, an ice block suddenly appeared on Jay's feet and threw him out of the window.
...
The moment Jay got thrown out of the window, he started panicking since he was not sure if he was just thrown out of a tall building or something. He did not even have time to use his chicken form or Spirit Power since his fall was too fast. So he closed his eyes and hoped for the best that he was going to fall on a watery surface.
"Wait, what?"
Jay felt that he already landed on something so he opened his eyes and saw that he was back at the river that he was trying to cross a while ago. He also noticed that he was actually on the other side of the river.
"Did she help me or was it just a coincidence? But how the hell did I end up here?" Jay wondered to himself as he stood up and slapped himself gently to check if he was dreaming or not.
He also tried using his Chicken Form and Spirit Power and it worked.
"Wait, I almost forgot something!"
Jay panicked since he remembered that there were three seriously injured people in the Storage Orb. The little girl, Toran, and Ashara. So he immediately sat beside a tree for the meantime and went inside the Mind Room to check on them.
--- Mind Room
"Huh? What's with the disco lights? What happened here?"
Jay was bewildered by the current situation in the Mind Room right now. For some reason, there was some kind of lighting effect beside his status screen on the wall.
There were blue, red, yellow, green, purple, and a lot more colors that shone on his status screen. He also noticed that there was a new panel on his status screen so he immediately checked it out.
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Spirit Power Form: Chicken
Spirit Power Alignment:
Peace - 1%
Evil - 0%
Order - 0%
Chaos - 5%
Evolution Path:
+99 evolution paths for Spirit Power Form detected
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"Hellson, can you help me check this out since I still need to do something?" Jay shouted and Hellson appeared beside him.
"Huh? What's this new toy you added to the Mind Room?" Hellson said as he started observing the Spirit Power panel on Jay's status screen. Seeing this, Jay immediately checked the Storage Orb and saw the three injured people on it. Together with them were the thousands of chickens he summoned before using Chicken Storm.
"Oh crap. I forgot about the thousands of chickens in there..."
When Jay observed the three more closely, he got shocked and wondered how they were still alive.
"Two daggers pierced through Toran's eyes. Most of Ashara's innards are turned into mush. As for the little girl, there's a large wound on her back and on her forehead..."
Jay wished that he had some kind of healing stuff with him but when he checked the storage orb, there were only 3 Monster Essences together with some weapons.
"Oh yeah. I forgot about these monsters. This black one is obviously the Midnight Warhorse. As for the two others, I believe it was a white wolf and a minotaur." Jay thought to himself and activated the three Monster Essences.
The moment the three were summoned, Jay was surprised again as he saw them.
The Midnight Warhorse was still terrified due to him trimming its mane, which he used for his Shurymite disguise a while back.
The white wolf and the minotaur both had varying injuries and were on death's door.
"Just how many things am I forgetting anyways?" Jay wondered to himself as he turned the three back into Monster Essence and decided to get them treated together with the three people when he finds some potions or some kind of doctor in Ashnakara.
~Grrr...
Just as Jay was about to stop fiddling around the Storage Orb, he saw Cubsy playing with some chickens as they ran around.
"At least someone is well and kicking." Jay thought to himself as he retracted his gaze from the Storage Orb and went to Hellson, who was looking at the Spirit Power panel.
"Jay, I think I understand this new mechanism of yours." Hellson said as Jay approached him.
"In order for your Spirit Power to get stronger, you need to choose an evolution path for your Spirit Power form. And in order to do that, you need to reach a certain condition in your Spirit Power alignment."
Hellson quickly tapped the 'Evolution Path' on the panel and it revealed hundreds of information about varying types of chickens, which were obviously what Jay's Spirit Power form can evolve to.
"For example, look at this one." Hellson said as he tapped a chicken that looked like Nuggets.
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Goldenglow Chicken
A chicken that knows how to use the 'Laws of Light.' Once evolution path is chosen, you may no longer change it nor the 'Worldly Laws' that you learn in the future.
Spirit Power Alignment:
Peace - 10%
Evil - 0%
Order - 30%
Chaos - 0%
Evolution Path:
10 evolution paths detected
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"I see. But how will I increase my Spirit Power alignment? Do I just have to do something that promotes peace, evil, and whatever?" Jay asked Hellson.
"I believe so. Why not test it out? Try using Chicken Storm here and kill all of them using Blood Magic. I believe that it is evil enough." Hellson said as he looked at Jay.
"Fine."
Jay went through with it and went to his partial chicken form and used 'Chicken Storm.' After summoning a hundred chickens or so, he quickly went to his Vampire Chicken form and killed the chickens using 'Bloody Featherstorm.'
"It seems our line of thinking is right. Look at your evil alignment." Hellson said and asked Jay to look at his Spirit Power panel.
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Spirit Power Form: Chicken
Spirit Power Alignment:
Peace - 1%
Evil - 15%
Order - 0%
Chaos - 5%
Evolution Path:
+99 evolution paths for Spirit Power Form detected
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"An instant fifteen percent towards the evil alignment just from a simple task. Holy shit..." Jay thought to himself and decided to check the evolution paths.
After an hour later, he found something that made his eyes widen and his jaw drop.
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Divine Chicken (Level 1)
???
Spirit Power Alignment:
Peace - 9999%
Evil - 9999%
Order - 9999%
Chaos - 9999%
Evolution Path:
1 evolution path detected
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"What the fuck is this?" Jay wondered to himself as he looked at the image of a normal looking chicken that was slightly larger than the rest of the chicken images.
"Wait... why does it sound familiar though?" Jay wondered and suddenly remembered something. He quickly went to the bookshelf beside his status screen and picked out the 'Chicken Skills Book' that he once got from the Chicken Lord.
He quickly flipped through the pages and on the very last page, Jay saw something that shocked him again.
"This book is a copy of the 'Divine Chicken Training Manual.' In truth is, I am not even sure if it is accurate or not since I wrote it down based on my memory."
"Jay, what's wrong?" Hellson quickly asked since he saw Jay acting very unusual.
"Read this. And look at the Spirit Power panel again. Also remember that the Chicken Lord was the one who wrote and gave me this book." Jay said as he tried to calm himself down.
Hellson quickly read it and even he was shocked.
"So that guy is a Divine Chicken. And why exactly did this get you riled up?" Hellson wondered and asked Jay about it.
"When Toran vented out his frustration a while back, the four goddesses mentioned that Ashnakara is ranked as the 99th in the Great Millennia. The Chicken Lord, who is a Divine Chicken, is an inhabitant of the Fatelord Plane. It doesn't make sense.
It is pretty obvious from the Spirit Power panel that the Divine Chicken is stronger than the rest of the chickens due to its weird alignment requirements. If that is the case, why is the Chicken Lord's power only as strong as the divine beings back at the Fatelord Plane? If a Divine Chicken's power level is noticeable in Ashnakara, then the Chicken Lord must have been some kind of overpowered existence back at the Fatelord Plane if this was the case..."
Jay and Hellson started to think and were starting to get confused about this, oblivious to the fact that the Chicken Lord is not actually an inhabitant of the Fatelord Plane.
"Screw it. I will learn something about this eventually if I choose the Divine Chicken evolution path for my Spirit Power." Jay said and decided to raise his evil alignment by killing chickens.