The Rise of the Winter Wolf - Book 6 - Chapter 30 - A Werewolf Conundrum

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Wolf

Literally just seconds after the werewolf becomes a lunar winter beast, I find myself teleported to the next mini boss along with all of the other contestants. And just as I was expecting yet hoping wouldn’t happen, I am teleported straight above a massive ocean before splashing in the water below. Meanwhile thousands of other splashes echo around the ocean from the other contestants.

And, to my surprise, a single former-werewolf who was actually teleported along with us for some reason.

Huh. Unexpected.

The sound of something massive breaking through the water echoes out across the ocean followed by a loud screeching roar that makes me turn around to find the source. Which is also what I was expecting.

A massive kraken.

The creature looks just like the kraken event boss I fought long ago, with black and crimson scales, glowing crimson eyes, and numerous tentacles. Except that it looks over twice as big.

And that’s saying something, seeing as the kraken was originally massive in the first place.

It’s so big now that the simple act of it surfacing part of its body from the water sends a massive tsunami all around it. One that I freeze with a single wave of my hand. Then I flap my wings and fly up into the air out of the water, with a lot of the contestants doing the same.

The werewolf just freezes the water around it though. Which reminds me very strongly of my past self, seeing as I did the same all those years ago. Just froze the water for a platform to stand on.

Ah, such unpleasant memories.

I turn back to the kraken as the massive creature spanning at least a few thousand meters in length from the tip of its head to the end of one of its many tentacles screech-roars at us all. Following which it begins sending its tentacles to swat at us, which in turn sends massive waves along with the tentacles. And when both of them slam into contestants, they begin to kill them almost instantly.

Of course, I fly out of the way. Meanwhile the former-werewolf jumps over the tentacle before landing in the water and doing a repeat of what it did before. What with it freezing the water and making a platform.

Out of curiosity, I go ahead and send it a mental order to attack the kraken.

And it does just that.

Interesting. Still not sure why it’s here with me, but I may have some suspicions. Like these five mini bosses technically being from the same floor even if they’re at vastly different locations, therefore letting me take my turned monsters from the floor with me.

If that’s the case though…

A grin begins to stretch across my face as I watch the giant kraken attack the contestants.

This could work out quite nicely.

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The Grand Werewolf Empire

Diane’s eyes remain glued to the livestream as she watches her adopted son fight against the kraken. But more importantly, her eyes won’t leave the werewolf that is fighting alongside him. Or rather, the lunar winter beast that used to be a werewolf.

“So there’s your answer,” Leo says with a faint smile on his face. “It is possible for him to turn a werewolf into a lunar winter beast.”

His words make Diane numbly nod her head in silent agreement still without looking away from the screen.

With this new discovery, I can ask him to turn me, and maybe some of my top subordinates. And then we could change the name of the empire to reflect the new species ruling it. But then there would be the problem of the people-

Her thoughts are interrupted when she gets a call from the Grand Healer of her council of elders.

She frowns at the call before eventually answering and opening her mouth to ask what it is. But without letting her even say a single word, the old man immediately shouts, “We have a problem!!! The people of the nation are all rushing over to the Holy Land of the Winter Beasts to get turned into lunar winter beasts by the Holy Crab!!!”

Several things about that statement leave Diane briefly stumped.

“Holy Land of the Winter Beasts?” she asks with a frown. “And a Holy Crab? What?”

Leo snickers next to her, making her glance at him in question. Which in turn has the man answering, “You remember the crab Wolf turned a little while ago?”

That answers all Diane needs to hear as she lets out a low groan and leans her face into her hands.

The werewolf empress has been trying strongly to ignore everything that’s been going on there. Because the last thing she needs is her son to become some sort of worshipped figure.

And the idea that her son – adopted or not – has a massive crab serving as his angel is even more bizarre.

Although she does like watching Wolf’s reactions to seeing the crab videos. And there are plenty of those spread around the System Forums.

It was a very big thing back then, where people clipped his initial reaction to seeing the crab and spread it everywhere as a sort of meme.

Diane freezes as what her Grand Healer said finally registers in her head and she turns to stare at the screen while shouting, “Wait, they’re doing what?! Are they all okay?!”

We still don’t know if only Wolf’s venom can turn werewolves or if all the lunar winter beasts can! These absolute numbskulls!!!

“So far every last werewolf has been turned safely into a lunar winter beast, even the lowest purity werewolves,” her Grand Healer answers, calming her down again. Only for another problem to rear its head when he continues, “At this rate the werewolf species will gradually become extinct, and the higher ups will be left as some of the precious few who haven’t become lunar winter beasts!”

Diane blinks at that before quietly muttering, “Oh.”

Now a part of her wonders if she should just ask Wolf to send over some of his venom to her through his little transport item. No matter how ironic that is coming from her, who had long ago offered to send him some of her venom instead.

Meanwhile her husband finally gives up on holding in his laughter next to her.