Glowing Skin

'What?'

He could feel burning sensation on the body.

Zynx understood, if he was to maintain his performance like this, then he would die for sure.

He didn't know whether this girl dumped him into the fire, recognizing he was alive or not, but he didn't want to be around her.

He could remain inside the fire for little more than 4 minutes, so he had to quickly recollect, about what he should do.

From inside the fire, Zynx could discern the face of the girl, which was filled with the expectation for good thing to happen but what was that good thing? Was it for him to come back to life or for him to barbecue inside, so she could have a bite of him.

Zynx considered instead of calling her angel, he should refer her as crazy girl otherwise who would dump anyone inside the fire to bring them back to life.

Even though Zynx could see outward, he knew she could not see him otherwise by noticing his action, she would have carried him out and practiced another kind of harsh punishment.

Zynx wanted to use the cover of fire and run away, so he moved towards the edge of the fire and quietly went outside.

When he got out from fire, he saw numerous skeletons were moving towards his direction due to a light released from the fire.

Inside, he did not ponder about his body condition because he wanted to get outside of fire but after getting outside, he saw the scale of his whole body had been turned to black.

If it was other time, then he might have been started to curse because of the black scale, however right now he was feeling happy, as the black scale would not stand out in this dark world.

[Time for full restoration – 1 min]

'What!! Does that mean my scales will turn back to white?'

[Yes]

'That means, I only have 1 minute to get away from this place.'

[Yes]

'If I can get away from this crazy girl, then I will hunt down each skeleton warrior, I can spot.'

Zynx regarded, all of this was occurring because of the curse of that skeleton warrior, which could influence the surrounding along with opponent.

He didn't want crazy girl and skeletons to notice him, so he slithered slowly to make the distance between them.

Because he didn't want others to notice him, he was moving slowly, so he was not that far away from the crazy girl.

Along with the passing of time, his scale was turning white from black. After 1 minute, his scale became just like before.

When light from the fire fell on his body, his body reflected that light which became just like the rising sun, brightening the surrounding. Since surrounding was already bright because of tree burning behind him, so he didn't notice light reflecting from his own body.

But skeleton warrior, who lived in dark were sensitive to light, that was why they were here.

When they discovered another source of light, some of them shifted in that direction.

Zynx saw that tens of skeleton were walking toward his direction, he was sure, with his camouflage, the skeleton would not detect him, so he became confused.

But after looking at his body, he realized. He then asked Mia with a crying face.

'Mia, is it a crime if you have glowing skin?'

[No]

[It is glowing scale.]

Zynx understand, Mia would never change her habit, so he just ignored her. He then took out all the poison spear from his void stomach. He knew he could not defeat all of them, but he decided to at least try.

Even though she was concentrating on the fire, she knew what was transpiring around her. So when she saw some skeletons were walking in another direction, she became curious. Since the fire was blocking her view, she could not see Zynx.

When she looked behind the fire, she could finally see the little white worm surrounded by tens of skeleton.

"Ahh, it works."

She exclaimed with joy and ran towards Zynx.

When Zynx heard her voice, he sighed with dismay, finally giving up.

'Rather than a skeleton, it is better to die in the hand of the beautiful girl'

Hearing her loud voice, all skeleton looked at her direction and walked toward her.

She then raised her hand in the air, producing infinite emerald wind arrows in the air. When she put down her hand, all wind arrows rushed toward the eye of the skeleton, completely exhausting the fire in their eye alongside the fire in a dead tree, returning the surrounding to dark.

She then came in front of me and asked me while pouting red lips of her.

"Why did you withdraw from fire?"

Instead of replying her, Zynx looked around him. He thought he would go all out with this crazy girl before dying but when he realized, she only needed one attack to completely destroy more than 100 of skeleton warrior, he gave up.

When she saw Zynx looking around, she thought of something.

"Ahh, I know."

Zynx sighed, 'Did she realize?'

"You must be hungry."

Then, she ran in some direction.

Zynx looked at her running figure in dazed.

After some time, she came back with the big white skeleton, which seems like the tusk of an elephant, in her hand.

Before he could do anything, she caught his head and forced it inside his mouth.

Even though 1/5 portion of the tusk was outside, he heard the notification.

[Time for digestion – 3 hours]

"Little worm, what is your name?"

When she didn't hear me replying, she knocked her head with realization.

"I forgot, you have food in your mouth, let us talk after you finish it."

She then continued staring at Zynx with her doe-like eyes.

Zynx understood, she was urging him to finish it fast.

He became agitated as he had to converse with her after his mouth was free otherwise this crazy girl would do an outrageous thing to him.

From the start, this crazy girl had been asking him to speak, so he was not sure whether monster could speak the human language or not.

'Mia, can monster speak human language?'

[If a monster has more than 5 points in intelligence before reaching adulthood, then there is a 50% chance for it to learn certain human language.]