The Rise of the Winter Wolf - Book 6 - Chapter 39 - The Harbinger

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The Void Stream

“And here we have it! The very first harbinger enemy within a dungeon in history!!!” Mikaela shouts, his voice almost cracking from how loud it is. Even as the void creature near him simply watches the livestream without saying a word. Meanwhile the audience within the viewing room goes wild in anticipation of the battle. “For those of you who are newer to this dungeon run, our very own Winter Wolf originally started out as a harbinger of the ice element when the dungeon first began! And while he has evolved into a pseudo progenitor of his own element by now, he has never fought with a harbinger before!!!”

On the livestream itself, Mikaela sees the crablike insect creature spreading out curse elemental energy all around it. And the second the curse touches the lunar winter beasts, it immediately begins to drain away at all of their energies. Whether it’s their stamina, life force, or any other sort of energy they may have.

But on top of that, Mikaela immediately figures out what the unique trait of this harbinger is.

“The harbinger of curses lives up to his name as the chosen one of the Progenitor of Insects and Curses with his unique variant element!!!” Mikaela shouts amidst the audience’s own shouts at the sight of the lunar winter beasts that make contact with the curse element for long enough turning into insectoid creatures.

Each one that touches the energy begins to grow carapace over their fur while their eyes begin to turn into compound insect eyes.

“A variant curse element that turns anything the curse inflicts into an insectoid creature!” Mikaela continues while flying straight up to the livestream. “But will this affect Wolf?!”

As if answering his question, the moment the curse energy makes contact with The Winter Wolf’s body, it is immediately blocked off by the lunar ice of eternity coating him in a very thin layer of ice.

“And it wiiiiillll nooootttt!!!!” Mikaela shouts amidst the roaring audience. “And The Winter Wolf is already preparing his pack with the same defense! For those who have not already been afflicted with the curse, that is.”

Mikaela narrows his eyes further at the screen when he notices the lunar winter beasts who were afflicted badly enough by the curse energy to begin showing major mutations stop attacking in an instant. Then they all turn and begin to attack anything in sight.

Including each other.

“It doesn’t appear as if the commentator of this Centurion Quinzel has control over the ones afflicted by his curse, and the curse element is often centered around weakening an opponent rather than killing them outright,” Mikaela begins with a frown beginning to stretch across his face. “So how will it fare against the pseudo progenitor of the lunar ice element? It’s already clear that The Winter Wolf’s eternity variant is effective against the commentator’s curse energy. But will it also be effective against-” Mikaela pauses when the commentator in question slams its pincer into a couple of the lunar winter beasts that got too close, shattering the thin layer of ice protecting them in the process. “It would appear that The Winter Wolf’s eternity variant will not be effective against the commentator’s physical strength.”

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Wolf

Well at least my eternal effect finally works on a boss. Even if it’s just on the boss’s own elemental energy and variant.

That said, this is the very first time I’m fighting against something with a variant. I think.

It’s possible I could’ve fought a harbinger before but just don’t remember it.

I doubt it though.

And if I did fight one before? Then they probably weren’t worth remembering if I forgot about them.

Anyways, the commentator in question begins to look through my pack of lunar winter beasts while beating the hell out of any of them that get close to him. Then his gaze finally locks onto me.

In all honesty, if it weren’t for the shiver that I feel running down my spine and the sense that he’s looking at me, I probably wouldn’t even know it. Just because the thing has compound eyes that makes it so I can’t tell where he’s looking at any point in time.

Then the crab-like insect moves straight at me without any hesitation. Albeit at a speed that isn’t actually very hard to dodge.

In fact, it’s actually a little slow. Not too slow, but far slower than me.

Before I can begin thinking the fight might be easier than I expected though, the crab slams into the lunar winter beasts behind me as it passes.

Turning them all into paste on the ground.

Literally.

My jaw drops open as I’m left staring blankly at the commentator and the pastes on the ground that were my lunar winter beasts.

Right. So he’s slow but incredibly strong.

I frown a little when I notice the commentator slowly turning around while making some slight creaking noises from his joints. Almost like turning isn’t easy for him to do or something.

That or he just used up a lot of energy to make that sprint and is taking a moment to recover.

Either way works for me.

I create several large walls of ice to test out just how easily this commentator breaks my ice. Seeing as the rest of the ice he’s breaking are literally just tiny millimeter-wide slivers of ice.

And, of course, when the thing goes charging again, it slams straight into and through some several-meter-thick walls of ice. Shattering them to pieces in its wake and turning more lunar winter beasts into paste.

My frown grows deeper.

At this point these lunar winter beasts are rather pointless here…

I dodge the commentator a few times before he suddenly changes up his tactics and begins coating his own body in curse energy. Which for some reason seems to speed him up a bit.

Then a bit more with the next charge.

And a bit more with the next.

Shit.

This isn’t looking good for the future of this battle…