29 Dark Hunger

At that moment, when I was diving right through the window I opened my eyes, among the shattering glass and flames rising through the entirety of the city, I looked down and saw something amazing.

It was as if time had frozen.

I could see a dozen military vehicles, fully armored up with a chain saw blades, Heavy Machine Guns, and a squad of security personnel wearing black lined up in a single file line shooting at hordes of incoming undead.

Behind them were the hundred or so students, already secured and climbing into the vehicles. While a couple was still struggling to get into the vehicle.

Everyone was desperately trying to get into the vehicles, while Will was desperately pointing at the building I'm in shouting something.

Nadia's eyes were wide open as she was looking at me diving from the window, while Mary had her hands on her mouth.

For a moment everything was peaceful and slow until everything resumed and I was snapped back to reality. And oh there it 'comes'…gravity, (Sorry had to hehehe ).

I was back to full time and my body came down towards the ground, I was, however, grasping tightly on the chain and the jerk caused me to smash into the wall once the chain snapped taught.

Thankfully I didn't lose consciousness after that blow, but a bloodied and bruised forehead and a promised headache tomorrow will be the least of my worries if I survive.

I slid down the chain as fast as I could before I felt it jerking from above me.

That ugly mother fucker peeked from the top of the window I jumped from and was trying to release the chains. I was still a floor too high but decided it was worth taking the jump before that ass would drag me back to him.

I released the chain and came down to the ground, desperately doing an awkward roll to release the impact.

My right foot, clearly sprained, again was not a good sign.

I slowly limped my way towards the trucks that were desperately waving to me to come over. A few undead were too close to me for comfort but the precision of a few good shots made quick work of them.

Thankfully this undead aren't fully evolved and they can still be taken down by bullets, but that won't be the case in a few more days.

I struggled to limp forward only to have my stomach fall.

My eyesight became darker, and I could barely see in front of me, my mind began buzzing a single loud an extremely high-pitched tone as if I had lost blood pressure.

[Dark Hunger Debuff is active!]

[Your pain tolerance has increased to 100%]

[Your Vitality has decreased by 50%]

[Your stamina regeneration has decreased by 50%]

[All your ability cooldowns have Decreased by 100%]

[Your Vitality is decreasing by 1% every second!]

[Your Strength has increased by 20%]

[You will die if you do not sate your Dark Hunger!]

"Fucking hell is this!" I cursed, whatever this shit that just kicked in, it was so debilitating that I felt my stomach had been pulled to my throat. My muscles became more rigid and at the same time, wounds and even shard glass that was embedded into me were no longer painful. But at the even then, I felt like I'm bleeding everywhere.

"LUCAS!" came the voice of will who saw me hunched and about to keel over from this ungodly hunger.

I couldn't even speak and was barely able to move my mouth. Though will wanted to come over the security personnel desperately tried to stop him, many undead were surrounding them and if they don't leave soon they'll all die. They were too busy keeping the undead away to give me a hand, I don't blame them. Because from their point of view, I look toast.

And to make shit even worse I heard an incredibly loud crash behind me. With all the energy I had left in me, I turned my face to see the Hook Beast had jumped from the third floor all the way to where I was, a wide ugly, and a disgusting salivating smile plastered across its face.

It was on all fours, six if you count its extra ugly arms. It grinned its ugly mug at me, realizing that I had no way to run away from it. Then it slowly began creeping at me, as if it was a cat and ol me was nothing but a frightened mouse.

A frightened mouse that couldn't move a muscle due to this damned Debuff.

'Shit.'

"LUCAS!" came the voice of many people that desperately shouted for me to move, only I wish if I could, this fucking hunger…this…hunger…

My mind seemed to reel, and my vision began turning monochrome. I could feel my eyes changing. Shivers began running down my back, and for a second I felt a thump, it was as if i was hearing a heartbeat, not mine definitely not mine. it was the heartbeat of everything around me.

My monochrome vision had a new color added to it, it was red, blood red and when I looked at the Hook Beast one more time... my mouth began salivating.

Why does this hook fucker look…tasty? No, this isn't right, this guy is disgusting, ugly, and looks no more than skin on bones it's not even a thought that should be thought to consider it food.

However… for some reason, I want to eat it. I want to gobble it, chomp and bite on its filthy flesh and sate this endless Hunger. It looks so damn appetizing!

My right hand, as if it had a mind of its own began jerking, my fingers twisted in disgusting ways, my right-hand fingers began snapping, and a dark black sludge manifested from over the skin of my hand, it was too fast and too sudden that I didn't feel what happened.

The sludge on my arm began rippling opening in several places revealing Eyes, Red demonic eyes that all gazed at the Hook Beast.

My normal arm transformed, into that of a pitch-black hand, darker than coal, and I felt a sudden pain in my palm.

Twisting my palm, which seemed to be mesmerizing, and so captivating as I looked at it, only to find a long sleek cut right in the middle of my palm.

Suddenly the cut opened up, revealing a fearsome-looking row of teeth, and then…my palm fucking grinned.

Then it snapped forward, against my own will, my hand pointed at the Hook Beast. Which, for some reason stopped in its tracks, and began… shaking, in fear?

What? Why would it be afraid? A beast of nightmares afraid…of me? no from this arm.

The answer came too fast for me to even register.

[You have used {Feast}, Absorbed skill [Chomp] will be used!]

Suddenly, my arm expanded, my fingers disappeared and it turned to a disgusting massive sludge that was far, far, far too big, it was even bigger than the Hook Beast and this was familiar to what happened in the Gray Rat dungeon.

The massive sludge hardened and transformed to an oppressively large shark-like jaw, though it looked more like the snout of a rat, the transformed arm gave it an even more demonic feel to it.

The Hook Beast turned tail, desperately trying to run away only to have my arm come down at it, and… fittingly, chomp right through it. separating it in two.

The jaws had locked tight, leaving one half of the beast spasming, dying on the ground while the other half, slowly crunched and crunched under jaws so sharp even the steel chains of the beast's hooks were nothing more than noodles that it literally slurped.

Another chomp finished off the other half, and the hand-kept munching and crunching, whole blood and viscera splashed and seeped from between its jaws. The jaws satisfied with the meal awkwardly…oh so awkwardly fucking burped, then slowly deflated and dissipated. Along with it the hunger Debuff as I was fully capable of motion immediately after that.

[You have successfully sated your Dark Hunger! You shall return to normal operating mode soon]

I took a moment to try and understand what was going on, and looking around there were still many undead coming my way who all seemed to decide that it was a very bad idea to keep that train of thought. None of them wanted to have a piece of this... even I wouldn't.

They all dipped and turned away and moved, some fuckers even ran away, thankfully so.

My stunned self was one thing, but looking at the people who just watched what happened was another, everyone looked awe-struck.

Their figurative jaws were already on the ground, unable to understand head from tail what just happened.

Shit… this is gonna take some explaining, especially since even I have absolutly no idea what the fuck just happened.