Human Beasts

In another parts of the Central Lands, another series of tragedies were taking place one after another and they continued to be exploited by others during their darkest times.

Outside of the city walls, many people gathered desperate to live but received little to no help.

Their numbers were reducing because of hunger and illness but the tragedy did not stop there.

Far away many beasts environments were disturbed by the flood making them have to move to a new place.

As a large amount of beasts migrated from their homes and gathered, they continued to be pushed further from the forest and mountains areas towards the roads and near places they would usually avoid.

A large beast wave hit the outside of the walls and those inside did not offer much assistance or try to risk the lives of their men to protect the people from the beast wave.

The result was that many weak and dying humans were helpless before the many beasts and some were caught up in the arrow fire.

Many were devoured and ripped apart by the beasts or were pierced by arrows.

Very few people tried to fight off the beasts to protect their loved ones even if they used their fists alone to fight them, they used whatever they had on their bodies as weapons to protect themselves or used their bodies to shield those behind them.

While many died there was many on the walls who watched the massacre but did not help any further than they already had.

The remaining survivors fled to the forest area and took their spoils of war from the dead beasts to help themselves survive.

The animal pelts were used to keep them warm their freezing bodies.

The meat was used to feed their malnourished bodies.

The bones and tendons were used to make weapons to protect themselves.

Their hatred towards their fellow humans grew from their experiences and they became like savage beasts themselves.

They hunted wild beasts that came into their territory and attacked humans who did the same.

That was until the day that a powerful figure came into their territory and completely overpowered them.

The powerful figure began to take them to a private place and started experimenting on their bodies and placing them inside a weird medicinal bath and instructed to practice a certain martial art.

A couple of the group had died during the operation but those that survived began to display strong physical durability and strength taking on some other traits and abilities after practicing the martial arts and being strengthened by the medicinal bath.

However what they did not know was that they all had many of their internal organs replaced with parts belonging to a beasts.

Their hearts were replaced with those of beasts by the man and as they continued to practice the martial arts, their bodies began to take on a more beastial appearance and traits.

Their weak bodies were altered and their bodies began to become compatible with the martial arts that had been given to them called Beast Heart Mantra.

Unlike normal martial arts that gather energy in the dantain, this martial art focuses on gathering energy in the heart but a normal human heart cannot contain such energy and would explode.

Only a strong heart that comes from a beast was capable of harnessing the true potential of it and reduces the failure rate of those that practice it.

They would have a reduced lifespan, lowered intelligence, more feral nature and a beastly appearance as a cost for the growth in their abilities and faster speed of growth.

After many days of practice, a small number of them died leaving behind less than ten of them and the survivors were brought back to the Devil Sect to undergo further training and strict brainwashing to make them become truly loyal to the sect.

With their lowered intelligence, brainwashing and subduing them was possible with the many techniques available to the Devil Sect.

However it did not end there as many others around the Central Lands were recruited in similar ways and underwent experimentation, sacrificial offerings or began practicing harmful devil martial arts that would transform their body and mind to no longer be considered as human.