The Rise of the Winter Wolf - Book 6 - Chapter 50 - A Vampire’s Drop of Happiness

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Within the Audience of the 300th Beta Dungeon Floor

“And he has now switched things up!” Mikaela shouts with a bright smile covering his face. One brighter than it’s been for a long time. “The Winter Wolf is using brute force against this broodmother creature! But will his strength be enough to crush the bug?! Or will it continue breeding more insects?!”

The crowd within the dungeon goes absolutely wild as they watch the misty bottom floor of the stadium, which shows The Winter Wolf as he moves around the temple. And even though they’re not able to see any other competitor within this dungeon floor, Mikaela can’t find a single person in the audience upset with their situation.

Because it is every hardcore dungeon fan’s dream to be able to watch their favorite competitors from within the dungeon itself.

But for Mikaela in particular? He is just incredibly happy that a certain void creature is missing.

Mikaela isn’t sure what happened to the void creature, but he does know that the thing disappeared right before he and everyone else in the viewing room were sent to the dungeon. Almost like the System itself had banished it.

And Mikaela couldn’t be happier.

What’s more is that they aren’t limited to watching The Winter Wolf on a screen anymore. Not when they have the enormous mist illusion showing him instead. With a much larger area to watch him on.

“Wait! It looks like he’s cracking the broodmother’s shell!” Mikaela shouts as his eyes narrow a bit on the mist, where he sees The Winter Wolf grappling onto the broodmother’s head and tightening his grip so much the carapace protecting the large insect begins to crack.

Then the insect in question lets out a massive screech that would likely hurt the ears of everyone in attendance if not for the System’s protection.

“And as you could probably guess, the broodmother isn’t taking kindly to it,” Mikaela says with amusement clear in his voice, which is quickly mirrored by the audience who laughs at his words. “Not that the broodmother can really do that much to stop him.”

Mikaela’s words are confirmed when the broodmother’s head begins to make cracking sounds before the shell is completely shattered and its head pops like a balloon. Leaving the rest of its body going limp and beginning to fall downwards.

But only seconds after it begins its descent, a swarm of smaller bugs begin to rush out of the broodmother’s body through the open wounds in the creature’s neck. Startling everyone watching along with The Winter Wolf himself.

“It looks like the broodmother isn’t going down without one last finale!!!” Mikaela shouts as some of the bugs manage to get cuts on The Winter Wolf with their incredible speed and close distance. Tearing ribbons from his arms but not managing to do much more than that due to The Winter Wolf quickly regaining his composure and freezing them all. “And it’s a finale that doesn’t amount to much after Wolf regains his composure! As is expected of the sovereign god of the lunar winter beasts!”

To Mikaela’s surprise, the moment he mentions the latest nickname for The Winter Wolf, cheers resound throughout the stadium. No doubt from the lunar winter beasts in attendance.

The vampire turns his attention to everyone in the audience for a moment before glancing back at The Winter Wolf again as his thoughts turn towards the lunar winter beasts as a species.

To his complete lack of surprise, the lunar winter beast phenomenon has grown in popularity and also shrunk at different times during the past several floors of the Beta Dungeon. Both due to showcasing how powerful they are compared to before they are turned, and because they saw The Winter Wolf slaughter over a thousand lunar winter beasts just by ordering them to kill themselves.

But at the end of the day, Mikaela and the other species of the universe all found that most of the common people of the universe decided that it would be better to become a lunar winter beast than not to. Simply because of the abysmal chance that they would ever actually run into The Winter Wolf, and that he would actually order them to do something like that.

All in exchange for the power it grants.

Power that can change everything for them.

And for the werewolves? Power that can completely rid them of their inherent issues as werewolves.

Something about all of this makes Mikaela smile wryly at the image of The Winter Wolf freezing the bugs in the mist below. Because for as long as he can remember, the werewolves and vampires have had a tense relationship, even if they weren’t enemies.

But now?

Now werewolves are beginning to go extinct simply because all of the werewolves with enough sapience and even those without it are heading to the Divine Capital of the Blue Moon to become lunar winter beasts. With the non-sapient ones being dragged there by the sapient ones.

Even the nobles and imperial family of the Grand Werewolf Empire, including the Werewolf Empress herself, are becoming lunar winter beasts.

Although Mikaela heard that the Werewolf Empress was turned by The Winter Wolf himself through a vial of his venom he sent her. Which is part of why her court is following her decision by heading to the Divine Capital of the Blue Moon to be turned by the angel of The Winter Wolf itself.

Meanwhile The Winter Wolf himself has been completely deified in their minds by now. Especially after the sight of him simply ordering the lunar winter beasts in the dungeon to kill themselves.

He is a god to them.

And that is slightly terrifying to Mikaela.

Even if it makes for good marketing for his viewing room.

“And The Winter Wolf has once again cleared an area of bugs! But how long will it take him and little Sapphire to find the scepter?!” Mikaela shouts, his voice raising above the cheers of the crowd. “How long will it take for him to find the Centurion Boss?!”

A smile stretches across Mikaela’s face.

I’ve missed this… not having that damned void creature looking over my shoulder all the time.

He watches the mist for a few more seconds.

It’s nice.