Dire straits

"What the heck do you mean by that?"

Despite the predator's mindset in effect, those words managed to spark a hint of hatred in my soul.

"You see, when they fed me some insane amounts of various herbs, it took me only a short while to break through all the bottlenecks that blocked me from evolving. After going through this process for several times, I thought that my limits didn't exist, only to be painfully brought back to reality, when I faced with a bottleneck, that no amount of treasures could help me overcome."

Finally standing up, the beast looked just like it's previous self. Just a slightly overgrown wolf, with some additional traits here and there. 

Even with how dire this situation was for me and my previous display of strength in my fight against Veriel, it was completely calm, continuing its monologue with every step that it took.

What's worse, the closer he got to me, it's body seemed to grow in size!