Taming The Villainesses novel Chapter 301

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301 – Home #2

A creature as formidable as the ogre Dordor, master of the central forest. It would be best to subdue it with a Rank 6 or higher spell.

━Great magic will eat away at your life.

At that moment, I remembered what Angala had told me last night.

She warned that casting large spells would drain my life. So I hesitated for a moment.

“Theo-kun, watch out!”

With Stella’s shout, something powerful slammed into my face.

━Beast Strike!

Thunk!

A flash exploded in my vision as if lightning struck before my eyes.

I felt my body lift off the ground, and a brutal impact forced all the breath I’d held in to burst out from my chest.

“... Gah!”

Breathing was difficult.

Was my diaphragm crushing my lungs? Even with 《Calm Thinking》 activated, my head still felt like an overheated machine with a broken cooler.

━From now on, my strength and speed will keep on increasing!

In my eyes, I saw a slender body with red fur. A wolf that resembled a human. If you awkwardly combined a human and a beast, it would be exactly like that.

Right, I couldn’t find the right words at first, but that was it—a werewolf. It looked just like a werewolf.

━Come on, there must be a reason Angala-nim sent you to me. Are you just going to sit there, strange mage? Surely this isn’t the end of your abilities?

It leisurely spread its arms wide. It was taunting me, but I wasn’t foolish enough to rise to the bait.

Instead, his arrogance gave me time to regain my breath and center my energy.

The giant centipede Angala, and now this creature—these massive beasts all seemed to carry an innate arrogance, looking down on anyone smaller than themselves.

Hu-.

Thanks to that, I managed to steady my breathing enough to control my body and use magic.

“Cough... Open chant.”

I could feel my blood vessels and mana circuit overheating throughout my body.

Every part of me felt hot and sore, though I couldn’t tell if it was from the Beast Strike or the backlash of using great magic—which was sapping away at my life force.

But it didn’t matter.

I couldn’t make a decision just now as I got clouded with emotions. But dying here would render all my time and efforts so far meaningless.

Better to lose some lifespan than to let that happen!

It was then that I resolved myself.

Bubble, bubble.

I felt the intense boiling of blood and mana just beneath my skin. At the same time, my body trembled as if I had been thrown into cold water.

My resolve to risk my life, to give up years of my life, had triggered a reaction within me.

Autophagy.

I could vividly feel my cells devouring themselves, releasing even greater heat and mana.

The sensation from chunks of my health being carved away, paired with a simultaneous surge of omnipotence.

Amidst these two conflicting sensations, I came to the thought that now, maybe, I could attempt what I once witnessed.