The Rise of the Winter Wolf - Book 6 - Chapter 41 - Final Gambit

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Wolf

The second round of our battle begins with both of us clashing in our elemental shifted forms. And each clash of our power sends out a shockwave that knocks back all the lunar winter beasts flying without exception.

But that’s pretty much all our clashes serve to do other than reducing the amount of energy we have on hand.

Which is perfectly fine with me, seeing as it makes this a battle of attrition.

The first between us to run out of stamina is the one to die.

And I am very confident about both my stamina and my energy tank. A tank filled with energy from the other lunar winter beasts, along with stamina from Sapphire.

So we clash over and over again, turning the stadium arena into a wasteland of ice, snow, and purplish-black curses. All while the lunar winter beasts stay far away to avoid the battle. What with them being unable to help out in any way at this point.

We clash and clash and clash some more until eventually the commentator finally begins to run out of steam.

Unfortunately for me though, that apparently doesn’t mean he’s dead. Which is a lesson I should’ve learned the last time I thought he was dead.

Instead he finally turns back into his physical form again and glares at me. Albeit with his physical body being… more than a little smaller than it used to be.

I reform myself as well before matching his glare with my own. And something about him makes me think he wants to say something to me. But every time he opens his mouth to speak, making the pincers move to the side in the process, nothing comes out. I don’t hear a word.

So most likely the System is keeping him silent or it’s glitching out again.

Either way, it seems to just piss him off even more.

Because the harbinger does something I never would’ve expected. It’s something I’ve known all along that I can do myself, but I’m not the type to throw my own life away just to kill something out of spite.

The harbinger turns his entire body back into elemental energy, only to then use all of the energy in his body for one incredibly powerful attack in the form of a massive spear pointed straight at me. Creating a suicide attack using his very life for more energy and more power in the attack.

My eyes widen as the power within the attack surpasses any magical attack I have ever seen personally in my entire life. It grows so powerful that I don’t think I could block it if I tried. Even if I used up all of the energy I have remaining.

And the curse energy from all of his previous attacks weakened my physical body on top of that, making it even harder to block or survive regardless of that weakness being temporary.

I let out a sigh, feeling a little disappointed in myself. Since I was wanting to win this battle without relying on the Blue Moon Armaments. What with me not knowing what might be the raid boss of the next floor and all.

But I guess I-

My thoughts are cut off when a bunch of the lunar winter beasts begin throwing themselves in the way of the attack the moment the commentator sets it loose. The commentator’s consciousness dying in the process even if his body is still technically making up the attack.

Huh. They’re sacrificing themselves for me.

Interesting. Although it doesn’t work in the end as I watch the attack tear straight through them without even slowing down.

So I’m left pulling out the sword and activating my Blue Moon Armaments in the end anyways.

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You are now under the effect of the Blue Moon Armaments.

This effect is not of the Void System and therefore any armor-type equipment of The Reaper’s System is now unequipped, and you are completely locked out of any System related activities including accessing your status until this effect ends.

While under this effect, all of your physical and magical capabilities are quadrupled, your status as a pseudo progenitor is upgraded to full progenitor status, your weaknesses are temporarily removed, and your immunity to the void element is enhanced to 90%.

Lastly, during this effect, the user grows stronger the longer they are underneath the light of the Blue Moon.

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The moment I activate it, my stamina and energy tank skyrockets.

Then I freeze everything around me in one powerful blast of lunar ice of eternity, turning everything into a frozen wasteland far more deadly than the previous wasteland. And without a single hint of curse energy within it.

Wiping out the entire attack sent by the harbinger with the power of a full progenitor.

Because there is no way in hell a harbinger would ever be able to defeat a complete progenitor. Even if they stand a chance against a pseudo one like my normal form.

I let out a sigh as I look around at the frozen wasteland, then at the copy commentator who is shouting at the top of his lungs – assuming his species has those – in a rather glitchy manner. One that makes it impossible for me to understand even a single word he’s saying.

Well this is awkward.

I look around at the lunar winter beasts who survived – a grand total of about five hundred or so – before focusing on a special boss chest that appears at the center of the stadium. All while the stadium itself returns to normal as the audience’s sounds return to my ears from whatever had been blocking them.

Then the copy commentator finally begins to speak normally as he shouts, “And now that the Fifth Centurion Quinzel has officially been cleared, our surviving contestants have earned themselves a break!”

I blink in surprise at that, only to find a System Notification appearing in my vision.

Beta Administrator Dungeon Notification

Congratulations on completing the first five Centurion Quinzels, Beta Tester!

As a reward, your next floor will be floor 295.5 instead of 296!

Within this extra floor, you may spend your time however you’d like for a total of two weeks. You will be given adequate supplies and a monster-free space to spend this brief vacation from the dungeon.

Then you will automatically be teleported to the 296th floor to continue on with the Sixth Centurion Quinzel!

Enjoy this time while you can.

Because you will need it to take on the Centurion Boss when you find it.

Putting aside that ominous ending, this is the first time the dungeon has ever given me time off.

So that’s nice.

A smile stretches across my face.

But first, reward time.