The Rise of the Winter Wolf - Book 6 - Chapter 67 - Dogpiling the Insect
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Wolf
My eyes narrow and I immediately order all of my lunar winter beasts to attack him. Only for Beelzebub’s body to suddenly grow to a massive size as he lets out an ear-piercing screech.
I study him for a second while he screeches though while disabling my hearing, which is something I can do now, making my headphones in my regular form rather useless. Although I get the feeling I’ll keep wearing them anyways. Just because I’m used to it.
Anyways, after studying him, I come to understand how he’s expanding his body. So I begin to do the same thing and expand my own body to match his size. All while my lunar winter beasts push forwards to attack him despite a lot of their ears bleeding from his screech.
My orders are absolute though, regardless of their pain. So they continue pushing until they reach him and begin to bite and scratch at his carapace.
And while the lunar winter beasts normally wouldn’t be able to do much of anything to him on their own, billions of them biting and scratching at him all at once are completely different. Especially when a few of them are higher than our own level normally even if they’re being limited by the System down to our level.
But despite it all, Beelzebub just thrashes them all away, sending millions upon millions of lunar winter beasts flying with his immense strength and size.
Then I finally rush in and take a surprise chomp on his arm, making him cry out in pain for the first time in the entire battle. And since I make sure to do it while being out of the range of his tail, he can’t sting me.
Or at least, he shouldn’t be able to sting me.
I’m caught by surprise when his tail suddenly stretches and grows longer before stabbing straight into my back.
This time I let out a roar of pain as I reflexively jerk my head backwards.
While still biting onto Beelzebub’s arm.
And thanks to that I end up ripping his arm partially off before Beelzebub slams his clawed fist into my gut, knocking me off of him at last. But not without a bit of a parting gift as his arm now lies barely attached to his body by just some strings of flesh.
The sight of that makes me feel delighted for a split second before the wound quickly begins to seal up through his curse energy. Then I remember that progenitors are just made up of our Domains. Which means our physical bodies are nothing more than structures of energy.
Shit.
Wait, there is still something I can do.
I order lunar winter beasts to rush into the wound before it finishes sealing itself, and after hundreds of thousands of them manage to make it inside, I order them to begin biting away. Spreading my own venom through Beelzebub’s body.
Now I feel a grin spreading across my face as Beelzebub narrows his eyes at me and gives an approving nod. Which is certainly a change from the usual boss I fight that would get incredibly angry at something like this.
Either way, I still need to see more of him stretching his body to figure out how to do it myself. Mostly because I barely caught a glimpse of what he did with his tail out of the corner of my eye.
What I can do though…
My grin grows wider as I rush over to his other arm to sink my fangs into it, only to suddenly swipe upwards with my claws at his other arm to sever more of the arm while my lunar winter beasts are still entering it to make it harder to regenerate. All while I duck under his tail and his other arm.
Only for his other arm to extend as well, giving me a perfect view of it as it reaches for and slams into my face.
The grin on my face doesn’t fade even as I’m sent flying backwards from Beelzebub’s strike. Because now I finally understand how to stretch my body like that.
I just have to maintain the structure of my body but loosen my control over my Domain a little bit, letting the structure of my body stretch a bit while still staying in one piece.
So I do just that in my next attack as I chomp down on Beelzebub’s shoulder where his shoulder meets his neck. Then I order my lunar winter beasts to target his tail.
But this time instead of biting and scratching it, I order them to all pin it down.
And they do just that, keeping his tail occupied as I tear away at Beelzebub with my claws and fangs now that one of his arms and his scorpion-like tail are both occupied.
Turning this battle back into one of attrition.
One where we see who gives out first as we tear away at each other, since I’m not the only one doing it. With Beelzebub also tearing away at me with his remaining arm and his own fangs and the incisors in front of his mouth.
We each repeatedly tear strips from the other, wearing away at our remaining Domain and energy. And in the process of doing this, we begin to shrink more and more. Meanwhile our defenses slowly grow weaker, albeit with his going faster than mine. Simply due to my army of lunar winter beasts.
Honestly, if it weren’t for those viewers who came to support me, I’d be dead.
And that’s not an understatement.
This is probably the first time I’ve been genuinely thankful for my viewers. Enough so that I won’t even call them stalkers anymore.
Most likely.
At least not for a long time.
Then my eyes suddenly lock on Beelzebub’s own as I notice a bright white light shining from them. Following which all of the remaining curse energy in the air begins to vibrate, along with all the white fog in this entire temple.
Looks like he’s getting ready for the finale at last.
It’s time to send this clone off to meet his maker.
