Blood Queen Reborn

Encountering this team put a massive wrench in their plans. They were hoping to distract Del instead of getting preoccupied by a bunch of beasts, as well as their leader.

However, this did double as the perfect opportunity for Erin to take out her blood sword.

Jessica coiled her large wormy body, and sprang at Erin’s head, but she ducked, and rolled to the side.

Slithering into a taller posture, Jessica’s head tilted slightly, and she tapped her pink boots onto the ground. Pink smoke began to fill the area, obscuring Erin’s vision.

’Those boots were beast gear?’ Erin thought.

At the time, she didn’t think to use inspect on them as she believed Jessica couldn’t transform with her clothes just yet. It was a common problem for those with the transformation abilities and its subtypes to not be able to transform clothes, but she should’ve realized something was up with how the girl kept them on, despite how inconvenient it would’ve been.

’What she doesn’t know is that I can still smell and hear,’ Erin thought.

She focused her senses on the environment around her, and heard the sound of a body slithering towards something wet to her right.

The next moment, a glop of mucus was thrown at Erin, and she sliced it mid air using the Kilton sword. Immediately afterwards, Jessica threw another glob, and while Erin managed to slash this one too, a stray droplet touched exposed skin on her nose.

[Warning]

[You have been poisoned!]

For a second, nothing happened, and then—

[Your reaction speed has been reduced]

Erin felt it, some sort of sluggishness to her perception of reality. She still had most of her agility, but that wouldn’t mean anything if she couldn’t use it in time.

’But wait, Jessica was holding a handful of it earlier, shouldn’t her reaction speed also be affected?’ Erin thought.

"It’s possible her transformation ability gives her certain immunities that other abilities don’t have," The system explained, "Otherwise, I don’t see why she would’ve grabbed the mucus with her bare hands."

Jessica slithered deeper into the smoke, and Erin went back on the defensive. She listened closely again, her blood sword raised.

Jessica quickly stretched her head towards Erin, and she stepped back, only for her arm to get bitten.

[- 7 HP]

[HP 76/95]

Before Erin could react, Jessica recoiled her head, and jumped back into the shadows.

’Argh, if only she were an actual beast, then I could just slash her head off,’ Erin bitterly thought.

It wasn’t like she could even use the daze skill either, as Jessica’s transformed self didn’t have eyes, making this fight even trickier.

Erin heard something thrown her way, and she sliced it in half, only to find it was mud. Then right behind her, Jessica lept, and bit onto Erin’s already injured shoulder.

[- 11 HP]

[HP 65/95]

[You are further poisoned]

[Your reaction speed has been reduced further]

Right where Erin was bit, Jessica spat out a mouthful of mucus, now being able to touch her skin where her teeth punctured her armor.

Erin attempted to jam her elbow into Jessica’s body, but she was already back in the smoke.

Gritting her teeth, Erin tried to focus, but her eyes were watering as well as snot coming out of her nose.

"I believe that if you wait long enough, the effects of the mucus should wear off," the system suggested.

’Yeah, but that’s if gives me the time to—’

Before she could finish that thought, the teleporting boy threw a rock at her chest, momentarily distracting Erin. She turned to retaliate with some sort of attack, but at the same time, Jessica partially detransformed to grab another handful of mucus, and threw it at Erin’s injured shoulder.

[You are further poisoned]

[Your reaction speed has been reduced to its max]

Erin nearly dropped her sword, panting, as her nose was too congested to breathe properly. Her eyes watered, and pressure was building up in her head. It was the sickest she ever felt in her life.

"Well, well, I’m sure that’ll stall you quite a while," Jessica sneered, now having detransformed fully.

The girl stepped out of the smoke into view of Erin, and unlike what she initially thought, Jessica was only incapable of transforming with her beast gear. Still, Jessica had a hand on her hip, and a confident smirk on her face, knowing she had won.

Wiping her tears away with her sleeve, Erin had a realized opportunity.

[Daze activated]

[Daze successful]

Now that Jessica had eyes again, she was put into a momentary state of shock, and Erin was going to have to hope it was enough time to act.

She pushed off the ground, and her blood sword scraped Jessica’s arm. At the last moment, Jessica broke out of the daze, but it was already too late.

[Blood has been consumed by the sword]

[Agility stat has been increased by 10%]

[Successful hits: 1/5]

[Agility: 33 + 4]

It was a gamble, but the boosted agility gave Erin enough speed, and by extension reaction time, that she dropped down, and slashed horizontally across with her sword, hitting both of Jessica’s legs

[Agility stat has been increased by 20%]

[Successful hits: 3/5]

[Agility: 33 + 10]

She was careful not to go deeper than a few centimeters of flesh, it was only enough to draw blood. Still, the attack made Jessica fall backwards, and stare above at the now pissed off Erin.

Erin raised her sword up high, and her eyes glowed bright red, anger fueling her. In her frustration, Erin was a mere moment away from committing a deadly act when the smoke had fully dissipated, and Del was stomping his way over to the two teams.

"What’s all this ruckus about!?" Del shouted.

Without missing a beat, Jessica pointed at Erin accusingly, "She attacked me! She thought I was a beast and attacked me, even after I transformed back!"

"What, no way, you guys dropped a bunch of beasts on us first!" Layla yelled back, wiping away left over snot off her face, "You purposely threw all of this stupid mucus on us to get us sick."

That was when the teleportation ability user stepped in, his face looking even worse than Erin’s team. It was all red, and his eyelids were puffy with mucus coming out of his nose. He opened his mouth to speak, but started coughing violently.

"See? My own team member got affected!" Jessica said, "Why would I make my own friend get sick? He’s a victim in all of this, and he’s not as lucky as me with my ability giving my immunity."

"You were grabbing slop by the handfuls, lady," Fex dryly commented, "And Erin and Layla look like messes as well."

"I was throwing those in self defense!" Jessica cried back, tears forming in her eyes.

Del scrunched up his nose, and pinched it. This entire situation was putting him even deeper in a bad mood. Although he had a grudge against Erin, that didn’t mean he had to throw away all of his teacher integrity.

"Quiet! I will not tolerate such behavior in my class. Everyone who was involved in this mess is to stay by my side at all times for the rest of the day. And as for you..."

With how Erin looked earlier, her sword above Jessica, it gave him the perfect excuse to get back at her.

"You will lose 100 points to this assessment, and gather your entire team as you all will receive a separate punishment for attacking another team," Del scolded, "This will begin imminently."

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