Beastmen: She Tames the Land-Chapter 179: First Beast’s Resignation

Visha closes her eyes, ready to explore. She activates a lore fragment. The first thing she hears after activation is a scream.

She finds herself standing on a mountain, her body translucent. Unsure of where she is, she can only follow the first sound she hears: that scream. She looks towards the scream. It is not coming from around her but rather above her.

Above her, she can see something shift. Not a body or a person. It appears to her eyes as luminous smoke. She wasn’t sure what she was looking at. She had no clue what the lore fragment was actually showing her. She could only watch and see.

Suddenly, without warning, she sees the smoke being attacked by yet another smoke. Visha had no idea why she thought it was a fight. She only knew her instincts gave her the answer. Along with the scream, she did not expect anything else.

It was obvious that the luminous smoke did not expect the other to attack so suddenly. Because of that attack, whatever the luminous smoke was doing appeared to backfire. The sky, previously a pristine blue, appeared to be ripped apart, turning into a dark red.

The luminous smoke was able to get the other smoke to back down. Then she felt it, a serene sense of peace. A cool wind passes by. The luminous smoke tries to fix the damage, but what’s done is done. It could only patch it so much before it had to resort to other measures.

The tear in the sky was fixed, but the planet itself had lost something it couldn’t recover. She saw the luminous smoke disappear, presumably to take care of its wounds. The scene disappeared, and Visha found herself in a cave. Her body was still translucent, but what she saw this time wasn’t smoke; it was a person.

A woman curled up on the ground, naked, eyes closed. Before Visha could breathe, the woman’s eyes opened. She stood, unashamed, walked out of the cave, and looked up to the sky.

"I am sorry, but I have to do this," her voice was melancholy. She strode out of the cave.

As soon as she left, the air began to shift. Vishe could see dark smoke rushing towards the woman. She stood, allowing the smoke to form around her. When all the smoke dissipated, she was no longer naked. She was wearing clothes made of animal hides.

She turned back to the cave and smiled. For a moment, Visha thought she had been seen. But when she continued to walk, Visha waited a moment and followed.

What happened next was as though years were placed into a moment. Visha followed, and nights turned to day and vice versa. It felt endless. She walked behind the woman, and everywhere she walked, the smoke would follow.

After what felt like years, there was no more smoke left to take in.

That’s when Visha saw her visiting tribes. She did nothing but observe. She observed their way of life. She listened to their laughter, their sorrows, and their joy. One day, she decides to settle down in a small tribe.

Not long after, the tribe goes to war. She does not help. She stands at a distance and watches. Then she visits a large tribe. She does the same, watches and waits. Then it happened, a fight.

For every tribe she visits, disaster follows.

This isn’t the only thing that catches Visha’s eye. She could see that every tribe she visited was made up of half-shifters. She did not see any person who was not half-shifted.

Then something even more incredible happened. She saw a female shifting. It was a new tribe the woman visited. This was the first time Visha had seen a female transform. The female was a panther.

Visha watched her hunt. She watched the way the other females praised her. She saw young children, females also shifted. This entire tribe was made of people who could shift. The woman stays for years with this tribe before leaving.

Unlike the others, this tribe, though met with a war, was able to win. The females and males fought their enemies, hand in hand, and were able to win.

The same went for two other tribes. Their females and males could both shift. Visha had accompanied this woman throughout the years. She has seen all that she has seen.

One day, the woman stopped walking.

"You were never meant to be here," she heard the woman say.

A grating snicker sounded in Visha’s ears. "I was always meant to be here."

"Go back to where you belong," the woman said, resolute.

Visha couldn’t see anything. She could hear the voice, but there was no body. Then it happened, in a split second, a figure emerged. It did not come up from the ground, but from the woman herself.

All the dark smoke she had taken in when she first arrived had become a new form. It stood in front of the woman, contemptuous.

"I was created to be here. There can be no harmony without me."

The woman sighed. "You were never meant to be like this. They made you this way, and you know that, so why don’t you resist? Why don’t you ask for help?"

"Help?" The dark version of the woman asked. "I don’t want help, I quite like the way I am."

The woman’s features were blank, her voice monotone, "Since this is what you want, I will grant it."

A thunderous sound echoed throughout the continent. The two figures rose to the sky, and there they began to fight. With every claw, fist, or energy attack, the continent shook.

The dark version had no qualms about destroying the continent. Visha could see it from her cruel smile. But the woman she had been following, though her attacks hit, she also expended energy to keep the world from collapsing.

She was losing. Visha could see it, and so could the darkness. That’s when she saw the woman make a move, the very move that changed the Beast Continent. For one moment, she allowed the world to shrink around itself. And in that moment, she was able to overpower the darkness, swallowing it back into herself.

This caused an internal war, one the woman was bound to lose.

The woman’s eyes met Visha’s for a brief moment. She smiled, it was sad, then she gave a long exhale.

Visha’s eyes snapped open, and she was back in the chamber.