Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1055

Chapter 1055 Shapeshifting Part 3

"Do you understand now?" Faluel said. "Having a bigger body makes so that when I turn into a smaller figure, I can retain most of my abilities. I only need to affect enough life force to shape my new form whereas the rest remains the same.

"Now for my next trick..." Faluel started to change again, assuming what could be considered a Dragon-Hydra hybrid.

Her body was not humanoid but covered in thick emerald scales, about 3.5 meters (11’6") tall. She had seven snake heads, each one on a serpentine neck over four times longer than a human’s allowing them to look in every direction.

Both her hands and feet ended with razor-sharp claws and there was a set of membranous wings on her back. Her life force was back to look like a violet star, but it wasn’t a perfect sphere anymore.

It was possible to see some bumps and dents that altered the path of the energy streams, making them move awkwardly. Yet that happened only on the surface. Below, the star was still compressed and retained its original form.

"This is my hybrid form. The bumps and dents you see are the alterations I needed to look more like a Dragon and less like a Hydra. Getting legs and arms messed up with my usually stumpy but also incredibly sturdy body, making it weaker.

"Usually, you always attack the heads and necks of a Hydra because the rest is harder than steel. To sustain the seven heads and move freely, our whole body is nothing but a bundle of muscles covered with scales so hard that they make it as solid as a mountain.

"Our long, slender necks, however, offer a much easier target. As for the wings, I wasn’t born with them, so getting used to fly took me a lot of practice. I only use the hybrid form when I’m forced to fight in enclosed spaces because it’s better than my human body but it’s still inferior to a Hydra." Faluel shapeshifted back into her human form.

"Now, if you can take your hands off me, I would really appreciate it. As much as I like you, Phloria, I don’t appreciate getting groped on a first date."

Nalrond and Lith had their hands on the Hydra’s shoulders, whereas the Ernas sisters were in front of Faluel.

"Sorry, I didn’t mean to..." Phloria blushed, realizing that having no knowledge of a Hydra anatomy, the place where she had put her hand on the Emperor Beast had turned out to be Faluel’s human breasts.

"I was joking, child." She chuckled. "Back to our lesson. You now have all the elements to understand why shapeshifting is easier for beasts and more dangerous for humans. Nalrond?"

"It’s because turning into a smaller body allows you to keep the extra life force in its original state whereas turning into a bigger one means to stretch your life force and making it frailer."

"Correct. It’s not because our life force is simpler or easier to manipulate, but just a matter of mass. That’s why I suggest you to practice shapeshifting mainly on your Emperor Beast body and not your human form. It will save you a lot of troubles."

"Life force works exactly like metal." Faluel took a steel plate from one of her nearby Forges.

"Getting smaller just means to increase its density, like bending and folding this plate on itself over and over until it becomes no bigger than a toy." She used Spirit Magic to turn it into a rectangular ingot no bigger than a deck of cards.

"Getting bigger, instead, means to spread your mass to the point that even the weakest impact can shatter your body." Another pulse of Spirit Magic unfolded the ingot while pulling it in every direction.

Soon it was a square with a side of over 10 meters (33 feet) but it was also so thin that even Quylla could pierce it with a fist.