The Rise of the Winter Wolf - Book 6 - Chapter 27 - Bets for All

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The Void Stream

Excited cheers echo through the Void Stream as everyone watches The Winter Wolf have his rematch against the first ever mini boss he had defeated within the Administrator Dungeon. A strengthened version of it at that.

“I doubt this mini boss will take very long to defeat,” Mikaela says while rubbing his chin before glancing at the audience. “Anyone have any bets about what the next mini bosses will be?”

His words immediately make the crowd go wild as millions upon millions of people begin guessing one monster after another from his past. Meanwhile betting pools begin to open up through the System one after another, each listing dozens of different monsters that Wolf has encountered throughout his time in the Administrator and Beta Dungeons.

Mikaela turns his gaze towards the screen again as Wolf forces the lunar winter beasts in the chamber to charge at the warden or bombard him with attacks while he builds up his own attack. With Wolf and Sapphire both making a large hammer made out of ice above their heads. One so large that it’s larger than the warden himself.

“Since it’s starting out with his first mini boss, maybe the next monster will be his first boss?” Mikaela mutters, his voice barely echoing through the viewing room over the voices of the audience. Then he turns to the void creature that is supposed to be commentating with him but hasn’t said a word in days as he asks, “What do you think?”

The void creature just stares at him, briefly making Mikaela wonder why he bothered.

Especially because something tells him that the void creature doesn’t even know the previous monsters The Winter Wolf has killed in the dungeon.

He turns back to the livestream again before opening up some of the bets that are going around about the next mini boss. And as he does that, a faint smirk stretches across his face. Specifically at the incredible number of bets that have already lined up for it.

That’s not all though, because there are dozens upon dozens of different guesses in the bets. There are even different types of bets such as which monster will be which amongst the four remaining monsters in the order they show up in.

“Now if I were a betting man…” Mikaela mutters, to which the audience goes wild shouting that he is, in fact, a betting man, with tens of thousands of people trying to bring up proof of it. But Mikaela just jokingly ignores them as he watches Wolf finally slam the hammer down on the warden that had already long since gotten distracted by the thousands of lunar winter beasts attacking it. “I’d bet that the Revenant is going to be the next monster Wolf fights in this five round fifth. The boss of the first floor theme of all Administrator Dungeons.”

Mikaela watches as The Winter Wolf’s hammer finally falls down and slams into the skeletal warden, shattering its bones even as the other skeletons in the prison try to attack Wolf and the other contestants. Albeit with them not being able to make it past Wolf’s ice or said contestants.

And just as Mikaela was expecting, the skeletal warden breaks apart into thousands upon thousands of different bones thanks to the attack. But it doesn’t stop there as the bones then begin to melt into liquid miasma that tries to burn apart all who touch it. Slaughtering hundreds of contestants with its final act.

The Winter Wolf just turns into lunar ice of eternity element and floats up above it all though, clearly not bothered by it even the slightest bit.

I’d be surprised if he was bothered by it. But now it’s time to see if my bet paid off.

Because Mikaela did, in fact, place a bet. On more than one of the betting pools.

After floating up into the air, The Winter Wolf moves on to attacking all of the skeletons down below. Although whether he’s doing that to finish them off and move on to the next mini boss or he’s doing it for the EXP, Mikaela doesn’t know.

But once he finishes, all of the contestants are instantly moved into another familiar chamber.

A chamber with dark miasma coating the floor in a thick mist and a large and angry looking revenant in the center of the room.

Mikaela can’t stop himself from grinning as he finds his bet making him quite a bit of money. Nor does he stop himself from shouting, “And here we are! The second mini boss isssssss the Revenant!!!!!” He turns to face the audience as he asks, “But what will the next one be? Will it be the Nerscillus from the second floor theme? Or maybe one of the mini bosses from that theme?”

The bets quickly change their focus to the third mini boss while some people still place their bets on the fourth and the fifth. With the majority of the viewers focusing more on figuring out which monster the next mini bosses will be than actually watching The Winter Wolf kill them.

Because at this point no one expects The Winter Wolf to die.

And Mikaela can’t blame them for that. All of the monsters here are ones he has fought in the past, and while they clearly are stronger than their past versions, so is he.

After a few seconds to think about it, Mikaela goes ahead and places a bet on the third mini boss being the Desert Champion. Since it progressed between the first and second mini boss between the first mini boss of the Administrator to the first boss of the Administrator Dungeon. So it would only make sense for it to at least skip a couple bosses before going up to the next thing.

But after The Winter Wolf makes quick work of the revenant, Mikaela finds himself rather surprised at the sight of the next mini boss.

Because it’s the primal werewolf that originally turned The Winter Wolf in the first place.

Silence fills the stadium at the sight of it.