The Rise of the Winter Wolf - Book 6 - Chapter 28 - A New Strategy
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Wolf
My eyes narrow as I find myself appearing in a fog-covered forest with tall trees and a full moon high in the sky. And almost immediately upon appearing in the forest, within a large clearing, I find my eyes settling upon a large creature standing at the center of the clearing. At the center of all of the contestants that are now in said massive clearing and the forest around it.
Now this certainly is a flash to the past…
-| Unnamed – Primal Werewolf – Level 6800 |-
Huh. Right, so this thing is way too high a level.
The primal werewolf looks just like it did when I first fought it years ago. It has dark fur with glowing red eyes. Except there is one major difference with it between now and then.
This primal werewolf is probably about twice as large as the old one.
Whereas the first primal werewolf I fought was about two and a half meters tall, this one is about five meters tall.
And it’s rather intimidating with all of those sparks of pitch black lightning running across its body.
I thought these primal werewolves were supposed to use the dark element? What’s with the lightning?
Or is that just a more powerful form for the dark element?
Maybe I should watch some of those battles about the war, seeing as one of the progenitors participating in it is the progenitor of the dark element.
Not that I have time to do that right now though.
I quickly put up a wall of ice in front of me and Sapphire right before the primal werewolf sends out dozens of bolts of pitch black lightning at me and everyone else. And to my complete lack of surprise considering the massive level gap between us, its bolt shatters my ice without much trouble and continues straight towards me and Sapphire.
Without hesitation, Sapphire and I turn into lunar ice element and fly off to avoid the strike. Leaving the black lightning to hit some of the lunar winter beasts behind us, instantly turning them to dust in the process.
Oh… uh, sorry?
I don’t get much time to focus on them though as more lightning tries to fly up after me and Sapphire even in our elemental shifted forms. And when it strikes at the lunar ice of eternity making up my body, it turns it to dust wherever it goes. Which hurts like hell.
After getting struck by several bolts, I quickly order the lunar winter beasts to rush the werewolf. Finally making it stop focusing on us in the process and letting me and Sapphire reform in the air, with me in my hunter form.
What the hell is this shit? And also, this is only the third of the five mini bosses?! Just how strong will the fifth one be?
Also, I have a bad feeling about the next one for some reason.
Since this seems to be focusing on my biggest and most important battles, the next one may very well be a battle I do not want to repeat. If for no other reason than the place we’ll be fighting at.
Then again, it could be something else. There just aren’t enough battles for it to have every last one of my major battles in it.
I can only hope.
Meanwhile the primal werewolf tears dozens upon dozens of contestants to ribbons while pitch black lightning turns their remaining corpses to dust down below.
I narrow my eyes at the creature, only to glance at Sapphire and nod my head.
The thing is a werewolf. That means one thing.
If I can just dominate the thing and prove I’m the stronger, I may be able to get it to stop.
And to do that, I need to try using my venom.
The lunar winter beasts down there actually are trying to do the same thing. Probably because it’s just instinct to dominate the other wolves in the area or something. But their venom isn’t doing much and is easily being fought off by the venom coursing through the primal werewolf’s blood.
Okay, I guess it’s time to try a couple things I’ve never done before. In a battle at least.
So I go ahead and spread both of my arms out before moving them in front of me with my palms facing each other but not touching. Then I force lunar winter of eternity element straight out of my palms and into a single orb held floating between my hands. I also draw on the lunar winter element in the air around us into the orb as well.
I pump more and more energy into the orb, drawing on all of the energy I have – with just a little bit left over in case I need it – to form an incredibly dense shard of ice. One that has so much power in it that it’s letting off bolts of its own pale blue energy just like the pitch black lightning of the werewolf.
Then I do something I’ve never done before.
I pull out a vial of venom I drew from myself at some point before pouring it all over the shard while using my elemental control to pull a lot of it inside of the shard. Leaving only a bit of it to coat the exterior.
At this point the primal werewolf seems to notice me, turning its attention away from the other lunar winter beasts who are all practically trying to dogpile the thing. Which is an ironic choice of words considering what they all are.
But it’s too late for the primal werewolf as I finally send the shard flying straight at the primal werewolf.
The creature tries to counter it by sending black lightning at my shard, but the shard’s own pale blue energy strikes at any bolt that tries to hit the shard. And when it reaches the creature, it blasts a hole straight through its belly and goes into its stomach.
My eyes narrow further when I see the primal werewolf trying to dig its own claws into its stomach to get it out. Rather frantically at that.
Guess it can probably sense my venom.
Not that it matters.
I snap my clawed fingers, making the shard turn back into lunar ice of eternity, no longer in shard form. Which lets out all of the venom straight into the primal werewolf’s stomach and all over the wounds the shard made entering the stomach.
Then I sit back and watch as the pale blue veins begin to spread over the panicking werewolf’s body.
Let’s see how this goes.
