The Rise of the Winter Wolf - Book 6 - Chapter 42 - A Progenitor’s Irritation

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Somewhere Within Grim’s Universe

The Reaper chuckles when he sees the screen in front of him showing Wolf as he opens the special boss chest to find another one of the devouring rings inside of it. One that won’t be of very much use to him.

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Item | The Ring of Curse Devouring | Tier 9

This ring allows the user to digest any curse element they devour and absorb it to increase their own physical strength.

Any bonuses applied while this ring’s worn become permanent after twenty-four hours.

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The chances of him finding naturally occurring curse energy is lower than the chances of an average Joe making it out of the Administrator Dungeon alive. He’d have to run into bosses that use the element for that to be of any use.

Grim feels even more amused at the sight of Wolf’s obvious satisfaction with the item despite its limited use.

Until he is blasted in the face by another wave of radiance sent by Titania, who has once again found his main body within the darkness field Nyx set up. No doubt with the aid of Apollo.

Grim should’ve realized right away when he managed to recruit Nyx onto his side of the war that Apollo would follow her like a moth to a flame. But he’s been so busy as of late trying to find Titania’s little Fae Realm hidden within her own realm that he missed that detail in his planning.

So all he did in the end was bring two other warring progenitors into their feud.

And into his universe.

At least they aren’t making a mess of the place.

Grim lets out a sigh. Because the time since he was banned from interfering with the Beta Dungeon has been incredibly boring and yet difficult at the same time.

Boring because he couldn’t do anything interesting in this time. Not after the Progenitor Council took away his only source of entertainment.

Messing with The Winter Wolf in the Beta Dungeon.

And stressful because Titania is far more relentless than he expected.

But his current battle isn’t the only thing bothering him.

He turns into his domain again and moves far away from where Titania is currently bombarding before sending a small amount of his attention to Wolf again. Where he finds the pseudo progenitor appearing within a large green field where he places his portable system store and immediately begins to relax. Taking advantage of the break given to him within the Beta Dungeon.

When The Winter Wolf first became a pseudo progenitor, he was both amused and irritated by it.

Amused at the idea of the other progenitors taking an interest in his game and his System, and amused by the more interesting battles that he will be able to see in the dungeon. But also irritated at the idea of a mortal and Fenrir taking advantage of his bloodline to create a new element and progenitor.

At the end of the day though, he put the matter aside. Because he didn’t believe it was possible for Wolf to actually create a domain or become a full progenitor.

Until he saw that knowledge crystal.

Part of him still wants to go into the dungeon and rip that knowledge out of his head. Or to just straight up kill him.

But he knows that the other progenitors are all watching closely, and Fenrir has already taken control of the area surrounding the Beta Dungeon. Blocking Grim from accessing it entirely other than the same livestreams that the mortals have access to.

And that is what infuriates Grim the most.

The fact that it looks like Fenrir is using the Beta Dungeon to his advantage just to train Wolf now.

“You still whining about your precious little toy being taken away?” Nyx asks, her voice echoing across his domain as she sticks part of her domain into his. Only for him to kick her out of his domain due to just how comfortable it is to have another progenitor in his domain.

“Are you still fighting Apollo over his cheating on you over a few million years ago?” Grim responds in kind, feeling his irritation pushing out over his usual playful attitude.

“Why, yes,” Nyx answers, honest to a fault and without any hesitation. “I am still fighting over that with him. He needs to know that there are consequences to cheating even if I have to beat them into his skull.”

Grim feels exasperated at her answer and her obvious disinterest in his own irritation or what was supposed to be a rhetorical question.

“Just keep him out of the battle,” Grim says after a short pause. “I have a plan that I’m still in the midst of carrying-”

Before he can finish, Nyx interrupts him, “Yeah, yeah, you’re still trying on finding that little home Titania made in her domain for the species she made so that you can use them as hostages, blah, blah, blah. You’ve been through this before.”

Grim feels his irritation beginning to turn into anger.

Both at the infuriating progenitor of the dark element and his own idea to invite her to his battle. All because he desperately needed someone to distract Titania while he found her precious children.

But he doesn’t say anything. Partially because she’s already gone, partially because he knows she won’t listen even if she heard him, and mostly because she already did the job he needed.

That’s how he is currently going around searching for the realm after all.

She gave him the window to leave their battle and search. A battle that was going absolutely nowhere.

After he gets far enough away from the previous location, he once again manifests his humanoid form before narrowing his eyes within another location covered by Nyx’s darkness. And with one last glance at the screen next to him showing the relaxing Winter Wolf, he closes his eyes again and continues his search for the fae realm.

I’m close. I can feel it.