Chapter 42 White Fox

Lucis flew to the Murky town at night with a low speed and low altitude avoiding any possible danger.

Lucis asked Suyi about Tara trench but apparently she's doesn't know any place beside GreenCap village that she never been to before. Lucis then go to the Murky town for information. Last he checked, the town is back to normal with RedMoon clan occupied the town for a short time before retreating.

It's the middle of the night when Lucis arrive at the foothill near the town. He didn't immediately enter the town, he insisted teleport back to the control room and move the eyes into the town. The advantage of using devine sense from the eye of green star is, other devine sense can't detect it. It's like his consciousness exist from different dimensions, or to be simple; his devine sense is in different frequency after going through the array eyes.

The town is quite and most resident is sleeping. It's different when Lucis last check. Before, the town is lively even at night with cultivator sometimes flying around.

"did everyone leave?" Lucis scan the whole town but there's no cultivator except the town lord. He look busy too with women on both side.

Lucis move the eyes back outside the town and scan the surrounding but still no one except for some wild beasts and some hunter running around.

Lucis want to prank the town lord a bit and ask him for information when he suddenly stop and slap his forehead.

"hunter! Why I didn't thought about it before." Lucis smack his thigh. He then pushing some grape in his mouth and shake his head regretfully.

"hunter should know about the surrounding region." Lucis move the eye deeper in the forest looking for a suitable place to teleport out.

Lucis appear on the tree branches and quickly jump between the tree chasing the hunter that seems chasing something.

"faster boy!" the bald man hurried his dog tracking the beasts they're trying to hunt.

It's 3 people and 1 dog running like their but is on fire. Lucis chase the hunter that chasing the dog that chasing the beast.

After about 5 hours, the chasing marathon stop at the end of the cliff, or to be exact, it's on the edge of a gigantic crack on earth below two hills. This place is swarming with white mist making it hard to see the other side of the cliff.

"damn fox, let's see where are you running to now." the young man unsheathe his sword. He look quite handsome if not for the vicious expression he's wearing now.

"careful, don't kill it." said the middle age man standing beside the youth. He's holding a machete in his hand and net on the other hand.

"why you want to catch me? I never harm any human!" The fox shout. Yes, the fox is speaking, end of discussion.

The fox fur is snow white and glow in the dark like it's not from this world. It have 4 tail standing up like cat ready to fight.

'what the plug! Holy heavens!' Lucis almost shout it out loud when he heard the fox speak. It's voice is hoarse and the sentence it speak is almost like a child speaking but it's definitely sounds like a young girl voice.

'how? Why? When? Is this some earth fantasy book or something!' Lucis completely forgot his original purpose and look at the white fox disbelief if what he just heard.

"maybe, how do I know if you never harm any human. You're sneaking around the town." yell the bald man. He doesn't look angry or anything, in fact, he face full of anticipation when he look at the fox.

"let me go, let me go, let me go!" the fox shout and it's voice is almost like begging. It's ear and tails slowly curling down.

The middle age man suddenly throw the net towards the fox without any hint completely surprised everyone including his teammates and Lucis. His actions and skill with the net show he's extremely experienced in doing this. The net is thrown fast and precision almost like the man himself jumping to the fox.

The fox is quick with it's reaction. The fox blur and appear just a few meters away from the net without any sounds. The fox stumbled when it appear again, apparently the move it just use stressed it's muscle greatly.

The young man move quickly and stab his sword towards the fox leg but the fox move again and spew a fire ball to the young man.

The young man is panicked and roll to the side. Seeing that the fox is occupied, the bald man sneak beside it and send a powerful kick. The fox literally shriek as it kicked away a couple meter away.

Before the fox even managed to get it's bearing first, iron net suddenly envelope it sealing it's movement in a small space.

"got you hahaha." laugh the middle-age man. The sword in his left hand earlier is sheathed. It's like he's been expecting the fox move.

"let me go, let me go!" the fox voice clearly sounds like a girl crying as it scratching the iron net.

"hateful demon! You use magic against me. A demon is always a demon!" the young man completely enraged. He pick his sword and walk towards the fox with murderous intent.

"why did you catch me, I never did anything wrong!" the fox shriek pleading as it spewing a few more words.

"this thing move too fast. This time, put the black chain first." the bald man smile. He's amused by the fox suffering.

The young man on the other side, pissed, apparently he feel humiliated by the fox. He kick the fox a few time while cursing it.

Crack!

Suddenly the middle-age man pulled the young man back when they heard the sounds of the fox leg broken. the fox back left leg is bended like an L shape broken by the young man.

"calm down.." before the middle-age man finish his sentence, the fox in the net glow brighter than before and it's.. growing bigger.

Everyone shocked and take a few step back.

"what.. what's going on!" the young man shout. He quickly regretting his actions earlier.

The fox growing fast. Not only it is growing big, it's arm transforming into a human shape, including it's leg and body. The fur on it's head grow longer with silver light.

'zesus! What the hades going on here. Are the fox transforming into a hulk ?" Lucis jump back to the tree and ready to teleport at a moment notice. The scene of the fox transforming is really frightening. it's far from the magical and beautiful transformation he saw in anime.

After a few moments, the fox finished transforming and it look like a human girl except it's body is completely covered with white fur. It's nose is still in fox form and it's have a 4 ears. Exactly, 4 ears. Two human ear and two fox ear on top of it's head. Sadly,the transformation didn't heal it's leg. The fox leg is twisted and broken into an L shape.

"im human. Don't hurt me!" The fox wailed and crying. Don't know if it's cry because of the pain on it's leg or the transformation is just painful, because, the way Lucis looking at it, it's really painful and forced.

"bulshit! What part of you is a human?" the young man point his sword to the fox with angry and scared expression.

"please..." the fox cried. "i...i wont come here.. anymore... please let me.. let me go." it wailed as it hold it's leg.

"look at this, it's face almost resemble human except for the fur." the middle age man look at the fox feeling disgusted.

"high level demon. We can sell it to SpearSpell clan. This one will be expensive." the bald man guess that the fox still as weak as before when it's wailing and begging.

"please.." just when the work came out from the fox, the young man suddenly kick it's face like he have a deep grudge against it.

"disgusting demon!" the young man spit at the fox and kick it a few more times until it's completely stop begging and just desperately covering it's body and cry.

The middle age man and the bald man didn't stop the young man and just watching from the side with weapons in their hand. They're actually let the young man testing the water before they proceed.

Out of everyone expectations, the young man didn't stop beating the demon fox even after it's stop making a sound. He pick his sword and stab it on the fox thigh and continue beating it with his fist.

When the young man stop, the fox white fur is smeared with red blood all over it's body. It's only shaking a bit from time to time like it's on the verge of dying.

'well damn. That dude definitely have some problem in his head. He just got scared once and he lashes like crazy." Lucia shake his head feeling pity at the fox.

Lucis is having is guard high against the fox. After all, the words that fox is a trick master is popular on earth. The fox is cunning is how they describe it back on earth. But after seeing that the fox getting treated like that, Lucis feel like something is wrong. Demon that can shape shifter is supposed to be powerful. How is this one is so weak. Even it's bone is broken by a mare mortal.