Chapter 69: I am male

Reigan glimpsed behind them seeing a bunch of different colors of those worm-like monsters and behind those clusters of the monster had a big turtle shell. "You said that thing was a water snake?! How could a water snake have a 4-head and a turtle shell?!"

"That was indeed a water snake!" Roland replied also feeling flabbergasted. "Those three were different types of snakes" He explained jumping and running making sure they were deeply hidden.

"What are those three? Grass snake, fire snake, and wind snake?!" Reigan asked sarcastically toward the two.

"No! They were indeed snakes, the green one was called plant snake, the orange was a lava snake, and the yellow was cloud snake," Prince interceded.

Reigan's face twitched. What the heck is with these guys' weird naming? And what snake? Those heads were connected from the shell, It was obviously a 4 headed Turtle! Ah!' He scolded in his mind, forgetting his own mindless naming sense. "That was a 4 headed turtle!" Reigan couldn't help but to voice out.

"What is a turtle?" The two beastman asked in unison.

"You don't know a turtle? It was that weird-looking thing!" He pointed at the 3-headed turtle.

The two stared at him in confusion.

These two, ah. How come they didn't know what turtles were?

"If you mean that big rock, that was the home of those snakes. We never went near those rocks because a lot of snakeheads popped out." Roland explained.

"Have you ever thought that it was its body?"

The two glanced at him weirdly.

"That was a rock with weird carving. How could an animal beast have that big stone as its body, wouldn't it be hard for it to move."

Reigan felt flabbergasted. Why didn't these people hear about the turtle?

They hid behind one of the trees.

"We need to leave, after an hour that water snake will wake up again," Roland said.

Reigan, hearing that, wanted to smack these guys. "Then why the heck did you guys choose that to kill, ah!"

The two look at each other. "We thought you would like the water snake." Roland shyly spoke.

"Don't be mad, most of the females like those snakes, so we thought that…" Prince's voice became softer and softer until the last words he said could no longer be heard by Reigan.

Reigan felt annoyed. "I told you guys I am a boy, a young and healthy handsome male. How could you keep on insisting that I am a female, ah."

"With such appearance, no one will believe you, King," Roland told him.

Reigan touched his face. "What appearance-" he stopped while holding the ears at the top of his head. It felt weird, although he felt nothing holding onto it, the feeling in his hand felt like holding to the real ears of the animals.

Reigan faced the two, remembering that this face seemed to be the face he accidentally made. Why the heck did he accidentally choose a female.

How was he supposed- wait a moment.

Reigan remembered that he could now use the storage system, wouldn't that also mean that.

Reigan chuckled, then faced the two, forgetting that they were still endangered. The two beastmen observe the weird face changing of Reigan. Seeing these, Reigan did feel a bit shy. He coughed awkwardly.

"You see, it was not that I am a female, but I disguised myself with the mask on my face," Reigan confessed. "It was not that I wanted to fool you guys but it was just-"

"You're a Norman, aren't you?" Roland concluded.

Reigan's eyes almost popped out from his eyes in disbelief. "You-"

Roland faced him with seriousness. While remembering the thing that happened to them inside the trial. "I thought about it when we first met, you don't smell like the female beast, nor any tribe I had met. The only explanation was either you are from another dimension, or a Norman who was said on the loose-- What the!" The land shakes and from the grom, a bunch of roots sprouts out, attacking them.

The three dodge the incoming attack and saw the three heads that were similar to the water snake, face their direction. Having the same creepy smile as that monster.

This…

It is much scarier than it looks.

"Run!" Reigan shouted.

The three ran as fast as they could, feeling the different movements of the temperature around them.

The high temperature became visible when an attack was felt behind them. Their movement became faster, while they all evaded the incoming attacks.

When they viewed where the attack landed, a lava lake was forming, making Reigan curses in his head.

This creature… was very dangerous…

If they continue to only dodge and don't fight back, who knows if they could keep their life. Even though the two saw that Reigan came back to life after he died, there was still a lot of uncertainty. One was that they were not sure that it was possible for every person to keep their life back once they die. And not because Reigan did it, it means it was the same with them.

The two almost depleted their mana after fighting the fight a moment ago, so overusing their mana would only lead them to death. It was like that because they never died before, and they used to be normal beastmen. Not knowing that the profile they had in the system, and their mana capacity would be depleted according to the limit of their body.

Simply said, they won't feel easily exhausted even if their mana turned zero, and they could still be able to keep running away, plus they could replenish their mana little by little.

The two beastmen had no idea about that fact, else they won't mind using their ability as much as their mana capacity would be able to in order to escape.

Reigan on the other hand felt annoyed with himself. Thinking that; If only I have the right weapon, I would be able to beat this monster.

"Let scattered!" Reigan told the two. "I will be the decoy-"

"We don't agree to make you the bait here!" Prince yelled at him.

"Bro, I already told you I am a male. So stop treating me as a female!"

"Stop hallucinating at this moment. King, you are a female beast. And for us male beast, it was not only insulting but also questionable to let the female sacrifice themselves!" Prince angrily roared at him.

"I told you I am a male. Shit!" They jump away from the pressure going in their direction. "You two just do what I said!"

"We won't agree with these King," Roland spoke up. "We already allowed you to die once, we won't allow that to happened again."

Reigan pressed his lips together. "It was not I would die, it was just that I don't know if I could keep sane once I used my special ability."

"What special ability?" the two asked in unison, as they hide at one of the stones.

"Like you guess, Roland. I am a Norman." Reigan started. "One of my abilities was to become stronger than any normal human," Reigan said, but he was not really certain about it. All he knew was that the characteristic of the Norman tribe. Although he was not certain about it, he knew about their bloodlust when his HP turned 1.

He knew that he had used it already before. Though he was not sure of what happened during that. And because of that uncertainty, he didn't want to harm this two beastmen who watched his back and help him out.

"Norman?" Prince said in disbelief.

Reigan faced Prince. "Yeah," the next thing Reigan did was to take off his mask.

His body glows, but not too bright nor too dim. After that, they saw his body structure change from the light, showing his true form.

Prince's eyes showed disbelief. While Roland felt complicated. Although he had already the feeling that Reigan wasn't a female beast, seeing it firsthand made him still felt trick.

"Just give this to me, I will be the bait. Just think of it as a payment for tricking you guys." Reigan said, not feeling sorry at all.

Well, he kept on telling the two that he is a male, but they wouldn't just believe him.

The two were still feeling shocked but still nod and run away, but with a different reason.

Roland feeling a bit confused, while Prince felt being trick. All the two knew was to get away from Reigan.

Reigan was flabbergasted, a moment ago, the two wouldn't agree, but after showing he was a male, the two beastmen just simply run away. It made him question his charm. Sigh.

Anyway, this was also good. He wanted to thank the two properly and making sure the two keep their life was the way he thought of.

Well, there was also another thing. He planned to open the treasure chest the god of Gnome gave. Not because he showed that the power of the mask, it meant he trusted them.

He viewed the 3-headed turtle, observing what he should do, so he could give the two a proper escape. But first things first.

He opened his storage system and grabbed the treasure chest that the god of gnome had given. He didn't know what it contains, He hopes that it would be useful.

He took a deep breath and decided to open the chest.

The chest lights up, and what he saw after made him wanted to punch a certain god.

The god of Gnome.

If he knew this would happen, he would never choose to open this box at this dangerous moment, ah!