The Rise of the Winter Wolf - Book 6 - Chapter 29 - A Battle of Attrition

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Wolf

The first change that I notice that’s different from a usual turning is that the werewolf’s own venom flowing through its veins is fighting against mine. Just like with the lunar winter beasts that bit it before. But unlike those, the werewolf’s venom isn’t pushing my own venom back. Instead, my venom is flooding its venom.

Of course, my venom does slow down when it gets to fill about half of the werewolf’s body, but it still spreads far faster than I was expecting.

After that though, things change.

The werewolf’s venom in its blood begins to boil over as if angry before pushing back against my venom and almost stopping its charge.

So I do the most logical thing and fly straight down to the primal werewolf at which point I latch onto it with my fangs in a location that isn’t already infected. Then I try to push out as much venom as I can into it while the massive werewolf is distracted trying to fight off the venom already in its body.

And I keep doing this until the werewolf finally manages to push enough venom out of its arm to regain control of it before slamming the limb into me, sending me flying into the forest. But I just fly back in while healing myself of the broken bones the werewolf caused.

With a wide smile on my face to boot. Specifically at the sight of the venom working its way through the werewolf’s body from the other location I injected it through. Forcing the werewolf to deal with two different sources of the venom at once.

So far so good.

I watch for a few minutes as my venom spreads, meanwhile my lunar winter beasts all bombard the werewolf with attacks to keep it from focusing on my venom. In fact, some of the other contestants who aren’t even lunar winter beasts join in. Just to kill the werewolf.

But after five entire minutes pass by and over half of its body is covered in glowing pale blue veins, the things eyes suddenly begin to blaze with dark energy, and it raises its head to let out a loud howling roar of anger. Then it turns its head towards me as entire bolts of lightning begin striking all around it. Pitch black lightning.

That’s not all though as dark clouds gather in the skies, blotting out everything except for the full moon itself. Following which black lightning begins to rain down from said clouds onto the primal werewolf and everything around it.

I make sure to keep an eye on the virus spreading through the werewolf, but the black lightning doesn’t do anything to stop it. In fact, my virus seems to be spreading even faster now than before. Probably because the werewolf seems to be going into some berserk state.

As if to confirm my theory, the werewolf suddenly locks its eyes onto me and jumps straight up into the air, moving so quickly it appears in front of me in less than a second with its fist raised. Then said fist slams into my chest, sending me flying for miles with a shockwave caused by breaking the sound barrier.

But when I try to stop myself from moving backwards through the air, the werewolf just appears again and once more slams its fist into me. So this time I turn into lunar ice elemental energy after the second hit and spread out, making the thing miss when it tries to hit me again.

Until it starts to shoot out black lightning everywhere, turning bits of my own energy to ash and slowly whittling down at my body.

Shit. This isn’t going well.

I try hard to avoid all of the werewolf’s attacks, but every last bolt of black lightning manages to get some of my elemental energy anyways. Decreasing the amount of substance my body has with each one.

The bright side is that Sapphire is still at a distance sending bolts of lunar ice straight at the werewolf in her own attempt to keep it off of me. Not that it’s doing much to help, but I’m really glad she’s at a safe distance.

Our little game of lightning chase ends up taking five entire minutes before the werewolf begins to slow down. With my energy reserves having drastically decreased all the way down to just about a quarter of my total energy at this rate.

Of course, I still make sure to absorb the energy of my surroundings to try and refuel myself, but that’s taking an annoyingly long time. Because the darkness energy from the black lightning doesn’t appear to be simply vanishing after striking me.

It’s diffusing into the forest around us, filling this place to the brim with darkness energy.

And completely pushing out any other energy from the area.

Eventually I don’t even have enough energy to remain in my elemental shifted form, forcing me back into my physical form.

To my surprise though, the werewolf doesn’t immediately attack me. Instead it narrows its eyes at me hatefully and stares for a second.

At which point I realize why.

My virus has spread everywhere except for half of its feet at this point. Meaning it’s almost fully turned.

Alright. All I have to do at this point is to survive the last half a minute or so for it to finish.

The werewolf begins to snarl before spreading both of its clawed hands out to its sides and howling at the moon.

A moon that begins to glow with an ominous black light as the darkness energy all around us slowly moves to converge into a single ball of energy.

Shit.

I let out a howl of my own before calling on the blue moon, forcing the moon to lose half of its black glow and instead turn into a half-blue half-black glowing moon as the lunar ice energy in the area replenishes itself. Then I push it into an orb of my own.

Readying myself to counter whatever big attack the werewolf is doing.

To my great surprise though, the werewolf is suddenly bombarded by attacks from the other contestants that we both kind of forgot. Thousands of other contestants. And these attacks seem to stumble the werewolf enough that it slips up and the ball of darkness energy it was forming cracks and releases the darkness all around the werewolf.

I blink in surprise, only to eventually find the werewolf floating in the air staring at me after the cloud of darkness around it fades.

With its eyes glowing the pale blue light of a lunar winter beast’s eyes.

A smile touches my face.

It’s over.