The Rise of the Winter Wolf - Book 6 - Chapter 62 - War of Beast and Bug

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Within the Viewing Area of the 300th Floor

“And the battle is finally here! The clash between two progenitors!!!” Mikaela shouts with more excitement than he’s ever felt before. And either his excitement is contagious, or everyone else in the viewing area feels the same as they roar out their own cheers of excitement. “This is the battle of the century!! The very first clash of progenitors recorded for mortals to watch!!!”

For some reason, Mikaela feels incredibly proud as he watches Wolf bring out his Sword of the Blue Moon and activating his Blue Moon Armaments to face off against the copy of the Progenitor of Curses and Insects. Almost as if he was watching his own son fighting in the mists down below.

It may be because he’s watched The Winter Wolf making his way through his entire journey from start to finish within the dungeons, but he feels like he is literally on his side. Like everything The Winter Wolf does is kind of like what he does.

Or it could just be because his entire livelihood rests with the young man’s hands, what with him being the commentator for The Winter Wolf alone now.

Although he does wonder why The Winter Wolf is using the Blue Moon Armaments this early on, considering the maximum amount of time he can use it being ten minutes.

Wait…

Mikaela blinks before a smile spreads across his face.

Unless his item’s effect has been lengthened now that he’s a progenitor.

He opens his mouth when a pale blue light begins to spread from The Winter Wolf while a white mist spreads from the floating Beelzebub clone. But right as he’s about to speak, a notification appears in front of his vision, followed by a System Message with a prompt.

Beta Administrator Dungeon Notification

The Clash of Progenitors has begun!

All viewers wishing to participate in the clash may join in as they please!

Should you join, you shall be given a reward. However, this reward will only be given to those fighting alongside the progenitor who wins the clash.

So choose your side with caution.

Assuming you get the chance to choose.

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The Clash of the Progenitor of Lunar Ice and the Blue Moon and the Progenitor of Curses and Insects has begun.

Select the following prompt if you wish to join the battle, or select Return to close out of this menu and stay out of the battle.

However, be warned that, while you will be revived should you die during the battle, there may be other side effects that you must face after reviving.

Fight

Return

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Mikaela blinks at the sight of the prompt, following which he sees one person after another within the audience vanishing out of the billions of people watching within the floor. Just millions of people vanishing all at once.

And Mikaela briefly forgets all about his job as he immediately selects fight as well. Despite the warning the System gave.

Mikaela finds himself immediately teleported away. But he doesn’t immediately appear within the battlefield with the progenitors. Instead he finds himself in a pitch black chamber with all of the other people who most likely selected to fight. And it isn’t until ten seconds pass that he is teleported into the floor itself.

Right as the domains of the two progenitors sweep over the battlefield, covering him and the other viewers.

What surprises Mikaela though is the sheer power of the domains. Because even though Mikaela’s level is a bit above The Winter Wolf’s still, he is completely overwhelmed by his domain in seconds.

And that goes for everyone else as well.

But to his surprise, the domain doesn’t hurt them. Nor does Beelzebub’s domain harm those within it.

Instead The Winter Wolf’s domain seems to enter Mikaela’s body and begin to mutate him.

Almost like he was bitten by The Winter Wolf instead of just being within his domain.

A part of Mikaela rejoices as he realizes he’s being turned into a lunar winter beast, whereas another part is shocked and a little overwhelmed by the suddenness of it.

Then he remembers the System Message. The one saying that they may face side effects even after being revived.

I guess the side effect is turning into a lunar winter beast.

Mikaela grits his teeth in pain until the transformation finishes and he regains his vision and awareness of his surroundings.

At which point he finds his surroundings shocking.

Because half of the viewers were turned into lunar winter beasts out of hundreds of millions of viewers, meanwhile the other half were turned into insectoid creatures. All of whom are shocked and frightened by their own transformations, unlike the lunar winter beasts.

I’m so glad I teleported onto Wolf’s side of this battlefield…

If Mikaela’s being honest with himself, he completely forgot about the variant of Beelzebub’s curse energy.

A variant to turn anything it makes contact with into an insect.

Mikaela floats up higher in the air using his blood magic, which he still clearly has. And when he looks around at everything, he finds everyone shocked as hell. With the sole exception of Beelzebub’s clone.

Even The Winter Wolf seems extremely surprised by what just happened. Almost like he didn’t mean to turn everyone into lunar winter beasts.

Not that Mikaela particularly minds being turned into one. After all, the only reason he hadn’t gone to the home planet of the lunar winter beasts to be turned was because he didn’t want to end up having to follow the orders of those lunar winter beasts above him.

But him being turned by The Winter Wolf himself makes him at the top of the hierarchy. Even if something tells him this method of turning him isn’t as pure as being turned by his bite.

“Attack,” Mikaela suddenly hears the Progenitor of Curses and Insects declare, following which the viewers who were turned into insects all immediately begin to rush over and attack the ones turned into lunar winter beasts.

And even without any orders given to them, the lunar winter beasts all begin to defend themselves. Mikaela included.

Thus marking the true beginning to this clash of progenitors.