The Rise of the Winter Wolf - Book 6 - Chapter 31 - The Fifth Battle

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Wolf

Well this isn’t going as easily as I’d hoped. But at least it is still going.

I frown as I fly away from the kraken’s approaching tentacle while keeping my eye on the glowing pale blue light spreading beneath its scales. Starting from the scales I ripped off of it.

The virus doesn’t seem to be spreading very fast at all. Although part of that is largely because of the kraken’s massive size proving a challenge to spread it all the way through.

But I guess there’s a way to solve that as well. Just like how I did it for the werewolf.

So I begin flying through the air from one tentacle to another while biting each one. Sending my virus into its body at dozens of locations.

Until the kraken finally gets sick of me and begins ignoring the other contestants who have been distracting it while I act to finally grab control of the water all around us.

To grab control of the very ocean itself.

Or at least the ocean around us.

The water beneath us all begins to rise up into the air to cover every last one of us, including me and the others who are flying. But I don’t bother with it and quickly turn into lunar ice elemental energy, freezing all of the water wherever I go. And Sapphire does the same.

Meanwhile all of the lunar winter beasts I’ve turned amongst the contestants freeze the water around them and shatter part of it to create air pockets.

And all of this works until the kraken lets out another roar as its crimson eyes flash and fill the water with crimson light, following which the water begins to compress, and the pressure grows on all of us. Or all of the other contestants and the poor waterlogged werewolf, seeing as I’m in my elemental shifted form. And so is Sapphire.

I ignore all of them to appear next to the kraken’s head before forming a massive spear and piercing into its head a little. Then I reform my body and begin chomping away at it. Spreading venom through its head directly.

After that, I go ahead and leave its body as the wounds quickly regenerate before I move to another spot on its body and dig my way in again. Repeating the process over and over again to spread the venom all throughout its body as quickly as possible.

Because the others are starting to struggle against the water that’s trying to crush them. Especially when the kraken begins to send large spears of water through the rest of the water at them in an attack.

I try to go faster and faster to help save as many contestants as possible – after all, I’ll probably want them for future raid bosses – and to save the werewolf. But after a few minutes of this, the kraken suddenly lets up on its assault and screeches out in pain as the water around us suddenly falls down and sends tsunamis in every direction away from us as the water refills the ocean.

When I look at the kraken from a further distance away, I quickly figure out what happened.

The werewolf tore a tentacle off of the kraken. And it doesn’t seem to have liked it, even if it’s slowly regenerating.

Something I find interesting though is that the tentacle it tore off wasn’t one with my venom in it. And the next tentacle the werewolf seems to be rushing towards doesn’t have venom either.

It’s almost like the werewolf knows my plan and is helping me out.

Interesting.

I continue moving around, spreading the venom more and more. Meanwhile Sapphire goes to help the werewolf in attacking the kraken’s uninfected tentacles. Keeping the kraken from doing anything crazy again.

Then the other contestants begin to join them in their assaults, clearly figuring out what we’re planning on their own. Or at least most of them do.

Time passes, and after over ten minutes, the venom spreads enough through the kraken’s body that the venom in its tentacles reaches its main body. And the venom in its main body covers a good third of its flesh.

At this point the kraken finally begins to show its struggle against the venom as its attacks slow down to a crawl, and it loses the ability to move at least two thirds of its tentacles. Which leaves it rather defenseless and makes the rest of the venom begin spreading even faster.

Eventually my venom finally claims the entire kraken, making its glowing crimson eyes begin to glow pale blue instead as it stops fighting entirely. Albeit only after a short convulsion fit that hits a bunch of the contestants.

A faint smile covers my otherwise tired face as I look at the kraken. But my current exhaustion bothers me more than it normally would.

I still have one more battle left after all.

Speaking of said battle, I find myself teleporting away to appear in a very familiar location.

One that sends a chill down my spine as I hear a roar echoing throughout the pitch black abyss that we all find ourselves in. And without even looking up, I immediately understand what the final raid boss is.

I tensely raise my head to find the very thing I expected floating high in the abyss. High above me, the kraken, the werewolf, and the remaining contestants of the quinzel.

And it’s just as terrifying as the last one I saw.

The creature is as large as a planet with pitch black, draconic scales coating its entire body, a massive mouth similar to a lamprey’s mouth, and a single pair of legs and arms. Even if it has a different name according to the System’s identify result.

It’s another devourer. Although I can’t understand a word it’s saying. Almost like its words are being muted for the sake of the Centurion Quinzel.

And its level is 6700.

Shit.