VRMMO: World's First Glyphborne

Chapter 315: The New You

"What’s going on? It didn’t happen this fast with me. Why are they changing so soon?" Valerie questioned, whipping her head across the different members of her party as they writhed and squirmed on the floor, in much more pain than she had experienced.

"It wasn’t just a mana potion. It was an awakening potion, meant to boost them to this level and immediately activate their transformation. We used it all the time." Ren answered with cold indifference to the agonising screams around him.

"I couldn’t risk them transforming in the middle of battle, and we don’t have the luxury to sit around and wait for everyone to naturally change." Ren glared at her, as if he was daring her to argue with him, but Valerie didn’t say a word.

She looked into his eyes, feeling just a hint of all the pain and horrors they had seen, and simply kept her lips pressed together as her friends were forcibly changed.

Horns burst from foreheads, skin changed colour and for a few of them tails sprouted from their once dormant tailbones, with the disturbing cracking of those new bones growing, snapping and reforming.

Once the screaming died down, and was replaced by heavy laborious breathing, Valerie waved her hand and created a small runic circle in the air, that quickly sucked up all of the blood that had spilled from their transformations.

Waste not, want not.

One by one, the party members clambered to their feet, and inspected their new bodies.

Elise got off the easiest. With how close she was already to her character, the change of her hair to appearing like it turned to smoke at the ends made her look almost identical to her in-game persona. The only difference was it kept the snow white colouration of her real hair.

Lucy did not gain the height and build of Lilith, and instead looked more traditional to what her race truly was. A Succubus. Her skin took on a slightly pinkish tone, like she was blushing all over, whilst small horns sprouted from her forehead.

Behind her, a thin tail that ended in a heart swished awkwardly. These more monstrous features did not harm her natural cuteness, but instead seemed to enhance them, as she actually seemed cuter. As if her face had just lost a few of its imperfections, and her natural aura was just a little more irresistible.

Trivian seemed more tanned, with his skin taking on a wooden texture in some places, like it was a rough rash. The same wooden antlers Figg sported had grown from his forehead, curling around his head like they were forming a crown.

He never got much of a chance to admire his appearance however, as his hands immediately clamped over his mouth and his eyes - which had turned a vibrant green - widened in horror. He darted around, desperately trying to find a toilet, before settling for a nearby trashcan, as he vomited directly into it.

Although his vomit was not the contents of his stomach. Instead metal clattered within the trashcan, as he puked up all of the implants he had ever had installed in his body. Even a metal plate that had been installed for medical reasons. His body violently rejected it all.

That just left Jason. The one Valerie was dreading the most. She hesitated to look at him, but eventually had to.

His hair had turned from their common chestnut brown to a pure snow white, which perfectly matched the fluffy ears sprouting from the top of his head. They twitched with his barely contained excitement, flicking left and right as he reacted to even the smallest of sounds. Unfortunately most of those sounds were those being made by Trivian, but Jason didn’t care.

Because the ears were not the only thing he gained.

Jason’s face was curled into a strange, giddy smile as he had a fluffy white tail curled around his body, so that he could cuddle it against his chest and stroke it gently. Not only did he get to feel something fluffy whenever he wanted, but he also got to feel what it was like to be the fluffy thing that was being stroked.

What was not to love?

Ren turned on his heels, leaving them to explore their new bodies, for a few moments before coming back with a duffel bag slung over his shoulder.

He dumped it onto the ground between them with a miserable look on his face.

"Alright. Everyone is ready. Gear up, it’s time to get to work and test out those bodies of yours."

***

"Woah, these are super old tech..." Trivian laughed to himself, as he rolled the small black device over in his palm.

"Stop playing with it and put it in your ear." Elise chastised him, flicking his antlers and causing him to let out an annoyed whine, before doing as she was told.

They were currently all riding in the Brick, with Ren flying alongside them on his very subtle dragon. Previously he had to take high routes, or fly in places that people would not see him. But thankfully this time they had Elise with them, who could disguise the appearance of the Undead Dragon into something more akin to a shuttle with wings.

It was a terrible illusion that would not stand up to close inspection, but it was fine for those looking at a distance and kept mana expenditure to a minimum.

The device that Trivian had been playing with was an earpiece communicator. Since two of their party, himself and Valerie, were unable to use implants for new and existing reasons respectively, they had to get old school with it.

Thankfully the future boy had been prepared, putting his knowledge to good use for once and actually predicting something.

"Okay, can everyone hear me now?" Ren asked with a sigh, his voice streaming through the device and into their ears.

"Yes" They all answered in unison, with Trivian doing so with a hint of embarrassment in his voice.

"Good. Now, follow me. We’re going to Germany. "