Pyyrhic victory and Cursed Skill

The Bone Abomination walked over to Hendrix before it stabbed its left leg bone tentacle into his arm, moving it around and relishing the sound of Hendrix's flesh ripping apart and his cries of agony. It laughed inhumanly, sounding like an evil villain with a mutilated voice box and choking on blood.

"Agh!" Hendrix yelled, feeling horrible before looking at it and his eyes widening, seeing another bone tentacle heading for his stomach.

[Your curse of immortality is preventing you from dying]

The Bone Abomination stabbed its right leg tentacle into the hole in Hendrix's abdomen before moving it around, cutting up Hendrix's innards like a surgeon who enjoys butchering their subjects.

{No Hendrix! No! Damn, it! I can't help him!}

Hendrix continued to writhe around, trying to move but to no avail. Eventually, he was tormented by the Bone Abomination for three hours before it got bored and left a mangled, bloody mess on the ground.

'Agh! I want to move around! I want to win! Let me!' Hendrix thought in agony and whimpering.

A faint blue miasma appeared around Hendrix's remains and entered it. Before they started to wriggle like maggots and worms, Hendrix's remnants began to crawl like a mass of ants toward the hole slowly.

Afterward, they crawled off it before clinging to the wall. However, all these actions made Hendrix feel untold pain, wanting to express it, but without any voice box, he stayed silent.

As they crawled down the wall, the flesh all tied knots into each other, and the bone shards all stabbed into the wall. Their movements were akin to a centipede as they traveled steadily down.

After about an hour, they reached the pit and began crawling across the ground like a mass of ants once more. After about a day, the mass reached the Wall of Bones before it started to wriggle and vibrate. And many bone shards tied knots into one another, creating a long needle-like bone.

Afterward, the mass crawled onto the wall of bones and the last hole. Before the mass of flesh launched the bone into the hole.

[Congratulations on beating the second wave. You have one remaining.]

[Your supplies are all restored.]

[Your wounds are all healed]

[The third rounds rules have changed]

After the notifications, the mass of flesh morphed back into Hendrix, as he looked good as new, with his clothes also back to normal.

[You have unlocked the Hidden Cursed Species and Unique Skill. Anatomy Morphing.]

[Skill Description:

When injured, you can morph the injured tissue into many shapes and do many functions. The limit is your imagination and your body mass. However, due to the nature of this skill, you must pay a price equal to the sheer versatility of this skill.

And according to the sub-law of pain of equal exchange. You must suffer untold agony when using this skill. It gets exponentially worse the more mass you decide to use.

Sub Effect One: If your nervous, skeletal, or muscular systems are rendered unusable. You can move your body in unnatural ways using this skill. You can think even without a brain and just a piece of flesh. You can also see and feel as just a piece of meat.

Sub Effect Two: You don't need working organs to live. However, you will feel an emptiness whenever one isn't working, and your physical stats will lower according to how many are not working. If all your organs are unusable, your physical stats will fall to just above zero.

Sub Effect Three: You don't need to eat, sleep, drink, defecate, or other needs. However, instead of dying when you should, you'll feel agony. And the pain will worsen the longer you don't have the need satisfied. It also will double for every need that should have killed you.

Sub Effect Four: If someone obliterates your body without leaving any meat, a new one will form within a one-mile radius after a day passes. During this time, you will enter Ackalon's domain. And this skill will not heal a damaged body.

You can will it to happen once, and your body will follow your will. However, you can't stop the instruction until your body completes it. No matter how much it hurts.

-If you try to manipulate yourself without intervention, and master it. Your skill will upgrade, and you can start learning to control someone else's body parts.

There is no time limit, cooldown, or cost.

You can use this skill now.]

{That skill is diabolical.}

'I know Ackalon. It's my worst nightmare. A skill that's terrifying in power and equal in side effects.' Hendrix thought as his eyes widened while his body began shivering after feeling the evil side effects.

{Hendrix, I hope you never have to use this skill again. It's twisted in nature and its effects.}

'Wait, don't tell me all my curses have a secret vile skill like this?' Hendrix thought as his face turned pale, feeling lightheaded and his heart tripling in rate.

[Yes, you have one for all your curses. However, the way to unlock them is unknown.]

'I don't want to unlock them if they're as horrifying as this one.' Hendrix thought, shaking his head while beginning to hyperventilate.

{I agree with you, Hendrix.}

[Oculus is beyond impressed and praises your methods to beat the round.]

'Wait, what ways did the round rules change?' Hendrix thought while narrowing his eyes and clenching his fists.

[You will only face flying Bone Abominations in the last round. However, after you shoot all the holes, the Harbinger will come out themself.]

'Well crap, that thing looked like it could fight the Monarch or Necromechanical Terror.' Hendrix thought, realizing it may be a Scarlet rarity varmint.

[Also, the Wall of Bones will slam into your fortifications every minute after you shoot all hundred holes.]

'What the heck, how do I win with the Wall of Bones and the Harbinger attacking me!?'

[Somehow kill them both]

'...'

{...}

[Um, hello? What do you think about this?]

Hendrix sighed and began returning to his fortifications, preparing for the inevitable.

{Why is Oculus so unreasonable?!}

[Because of how much he prepared, his revealed skill messing up its plans, and the curse of Majesty's influence on each round.]

{I'll avenge you, Hendrix.}

[Oculus has no physical form and can't be injured, hence any attempt will fail.]

{That is disheartening and saddening that Oculus is toying with Hendrix, and he can't do anything about it}

[It is what it is]