BXBX NOVEL Chapter 43 Wolf Crisis I
"Of course you will. Your woman favored by misfortune would be here with us." The pixie prince said matter-of-factly.
Damien ignored it, "Yeah. While you're at it, she's quite the talent, would you mind teaching her a few mystic magical arts? I'll pay you once I'm back." And said.
"Hmm... I will. But you better come back with something I've never really seen, or worth me studying. Something like... an anomaly like you." It said cheerily.
'Anomaly. That term again.' Damien thought but his expression did not change much. He just nodded, "I'll thank you in advance. By the way, do you have any teleportation scrolls? I'd also love to borrow a few barrels of faith essence."
"..."
"I'll pay for all of these." He added.
"DEAL!!"
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Within the Wolf Valley...
Thousands upon thousands of wolves gathered below a hill, silent and calm. They sat down and gazed up at the hill before them with reverance and fanaticism.
The wolves numbered over ten thousand in numbers, and the space was still vast enough to accumulate more and more wolves.
And before the numerous numbers of ordinary wolves at the civilian levels, there were thousands of wolves within the First Stage of the First League, equivalent to Apprentice Professions.
They were numerous and in various colors, some having a mixture of blue fur, some a mixture of red fur, and some other colors mixed in within their furs.
Their eyes were also cold and majestic.
Before them, on a slightly higher altitude, hundreds of wolves stood, gazing down at the numerous wolves with a kingly gaze.
They were at the Second Stage, and were equivalent to Adept Professions. Their fur were half changed to different colors, and to make them stand out even more, they had a small horn on their forehead.
Above them, were tens of wolves that had an even more terrifying presence to them.
They had three small horns that seemed to form a circular shape on their heads, like a half crown. Their furs were completely changed colors to different ones, from the usual ash gray.
Their gaze were even more majestic than the rest, but the most terrifying gaze amongst them would be that of the wolf that stood at the highest hill.
It was completely gold in color, and had sky blue eyes. Lightning and Thunder flashed before its legs from time to time, and it had five long horns on its head that formed a crown.
It's size was also the largest amongst all of these wolves, being twice as large as those below it, which were 50% larger than those below them, so on and so forth.
It was over ten meters tall, and multiple meters long. It stood there towering over the might and majesty of the lower leveled wolves with its presence.
It then moved its gaze over all the wolves, and they humbly lowered their heads in respect. The alpha wolf with a cold gaze, growled slightly and the other wolves looked up in excitement.
The sky suddenly began to rumble and roar, causing all the wolves to cry out in excitement, and let out howls of might and power.
"Awooo!!"
"Awooo!!"
"Awooo!!"
But then the alpha wolf raised up its head, and let out a howl of its own. A howl that shook the earth, and shattered the sound barrier with sheer force and might.
"AWOOOO!!!"
BOOOM!!
The sky also reciprocated it's howl, and spread out a loud thunderclap that shook the sky. The glory of a King spreads throughout the land and the sky.
And this alpha wolf... was one such king.
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Outside the wolf Valley, approximately tens of miles away, a man who sat upon a large boulder frowned slightly. The roar that came from within the wolf Valley shook him slightly.
It was not that it brought fear, but that the power within, was far greater than he could bear with his current strength.
"How strong have these guys developed since a week ago." David thought to himself, as it has now been a week since they had been watching over the wolves.
And likely, two weeks since Damien and Juliette went out on their journey. As well as two days since the world had its transformation into a Tier 1 Realm.
And in just those two days, a Second League Wolf had appeared. Not just a First League, but a Second League entity.
That was not all, the few tribes within this valley were called into a single wolf tribe, containing tens of Advanced Leveled Wolves, hundreds of Adept Leveled Wolves, thousands of Apprentice Leveled Wolves and tens of thousands of Civilian Leveled Wolves.
Just that alone was terrifying, but there just had to be a Master Leveled Wolf within an entirely different League altogether. Humanity might not... survive this.
David thought, and as he had such a thought, a black flash of lightning appeared right besides him, and out of it appeared a black cloaked woman, Esther.
"Any leeway?" David asked, and she shook her head, "No. There are a lot of powerful wolves, and one alpha. It's powers is far greater than anything we have ever seen."
David clicked his tongue in amazement and inquired, "Any hope we can survive this ordeal, if you and I were to work together?"
"Yes." Esther nodded. From Damien's words, it could be deduced that Unique Classes could allow a person to skip a single realm, and Legendary Classes were two realms of strength.
Then Hidden Classes could do the same for twelve realms. An initial First League Combatant, could actually affect even minor ranked gods with their Class Skills.
But the Wolf Alpha seemed to have a Divine Evolutionary Path that was similar to Divine Classes. This alone made it difficult for the duo to challenge it.
Only if they worked together, would they stand a chance. But behind the Wolf Alpha, was the Beta Wolves with Divine Evolutionary Paths as well, the Delta Wolves with Legendary Evolutionary Paths, then the Omega Wolves with Unique Evolutionary Paths.
The duo alone, even with the help of the Gray House, would not be able to take on the Wolf pack as it was. They stood no chance whatsoever.
"Damn. What now?" David inquired from his wife, who frowned and sighed. "I don't know. But if things remain the same, more and more wolves would only gather up."
"What do you mean?"
"They are recruiting Wolves from our Cardinal direction. As it seems, each City Stronghold from the West has a pack of Wolf at their tail, and now, all these wolves are being called here."
Esther deduced, then added, "I think the powerful howl was also a signal to declare kingship to the other Wolf tribes... And if my guess is not entirely off the mark, maybe even wolves from other Cardinals as well."
"..."
David did not say anything and only sighed at that. Just this Tribe alone had tens of thousands of wolves, what of the wolves from all Tribes that soround the humans?
Would they be over a hundred thousand wolves? And how many Alphas would be demoted to being just mere subordinates?
Just these thoughts alone were terrifying. But even more extreme, would be if more wolves from even outside of humanity's strongholds were called up.
The concept of over a million wolves charging towards just billions of humans was fear inducing. And the couple felt that.
"..."
"..."
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Within a wolf Tribe far away from Damien's Stronghold, a wolf alpha that had white fur heard the thunderous wolf howl that challenged all alphas and growled in response.
The wolves under it felt challenged as well, and barked at it to accept the challenge. The peak First League Wolf fell for its subordinates incitements and led the pack towards the howl.
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Within another location, yet inside the Western Cardinal of humanity's influence, another wolf tribe was rushing out towards the wolf howl that challenged all alphas.
Over ten thousand wolves moved out with might and fervor, blasting off like the wind towards a single direction.
The City Strongholds that had always been affected by these wolves were surprised, and fearful of what this meant.
Yet seeing the direction that the wolves took, only made them calm down slightly.
"It's towards Shade City Stronghold. And from our spies within, it seems like even their wolves are restless. The roar was also sent out from that direction as well." A man reported to a kingly figure that sat upon a throne.
The throne, or rather the entire room, their outfits and the atmosphere everywhere, screamed of medieval loudly. Yet a medieval era of cold blooded weaponry and war.
Even the king wore armor, below his kingly robes. His muscles threatened to explode out of his body, and his face was full of dull brownish beard.
"Is that so? It seems like things are not going as planned for those brute headed fellows. What did they do, I presume." The man on the throne snickered to himself.
Meanwhile, the woman sitting besides him on his right, seemed to care none about anything that was going on here. While the young maiden on his left seemed worried.