Experimentation and battle - 2

It was the heart of the night. Growls could be heard and what seemed to be a pack of dark forest wolves growled menacingly.

12 or 13 dark forest wolves, had levels ranging around 40-45. The night forest alpha wold was level 60. It was 12 against 41 but levels were truly against the faction.

After a low pitched growl, 11 dark wolves attacked the group. Arthur charged against the Alpha Immediately, two female Aries Spearman intercepted 3 of them. Moving together, they manages to keep the attention of three beasts.

Baal shouted and his horns were lighted on fire. His red hair seemed alive and red light was coming out of his eyes. The edge of his mouth seemed to crack and his sword was coated with fire. He grew slightly taller and he threw fire bullets to 2 wolves.

Other Aries warriors charged and attacked wolves together. They had a slight advantage, while the Spearman and Baal were clearly ousted back. Ezyze and the goblins joined the fray.

His vision was now blurry. Heaving, it seemed that the whole world was on his shoulders. When he gulped, he tasted blood, the calluses on his hand were opened and gripping his axe was difficult. His mana left was at 1123 while his remaining Vitality was at 573. Considering his recovery rates, things were difficult. Extremely difficult.

His shoulder butted against the back of an Aries warrior, falling from a tackle. With shaky legs, he steadied his steps and blinked a meter behind Baal, who was about to be bitten by a wolf. With all his might, he planted his axe in the wolf's mouth, stopping his momentum and fired 3 successive spatial rays. Two on its right side and one at its belly. With an axe in the mouth, spatial rays impaled in its body, the wolf clawed at Ezyze, making him fall on the ground and leaving him with a gaping wound.

The pain of having the flesh opened, was atrocious, despite all the adrenalin coursing his veins. When the wolf tried to tackle him again, he narrowly managed to evade it by rolling on the ground. He was with his back against a tree when the wolf charged once again.

He focused intensly his mana on his right hand, the ray's color showing shades of purple and fired it at the wolf. It hit it dead between the eyes. Still, seemingly unkillable, it resumed its run to kill him and jumped. Ezyze moved purely by instinct and augmented the gravity of his left fist as much as he could. With all his might, he punched straight in the opened wolf's mouth.

Crack.

The wolf ended against Ezyze, and against the three. He was seated, his left hand broken. He managed to cut the wolf's higher jaw, finally killing it. He couldn't wake up yet from his place.

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Blue solely relied on his wind armor. He couldn't make decisive damages, but had to stay alive at all costs. He jumped from one wolf to the other, helping the bulk of the troops and distracting the wolves' focus.

Brown almost couldn't damage the wolves. Only by targeting the joins, did she manage to impede their movements and have the Spearman finish them. She however had to take many risks and ended up with lacerated forearms. Her head was bleeding. She was in a murderous frenzy, always advancing, narrowly dodging claws and bites, striking where she could and tanking what she couldn't avoid. But she stood up. She kept standing up.

Eventually, the Spearman and other Aries warriors helped Baal, who was fighting 2 remaining wolves. The other one was throughly burnt sand one of them had a gaping burnt wound. Baal wasn't fairing between as his legs were bleeding, the armor indented in the flesh. They managed to kill the last wolves.

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Since coming to this world, Arthur faced his first serious challenge. It wasn't a challenge, he was facing death, a wolf clothed reaper.

The Alpha was pitch black, with menacing blue eyes. He was quick on his feet and could destroy trees. He was a born predator, moreover, dark smoke was coming out from his mouth. He seemed to be a savage killing machine as well as a magic beast.

Arthur grinned and an intense gray light came from his sword. A blueish aura surrounded his body. Suddenly, he accelerated and slashed horizontally, a beam escaping his sword.

The alpha jumped over and tried to bite his head, which he evade by ducking and tried to stab his belly.

The sword went through, seemingly cutting smoke.

Arthur had a large grin. A magic beast, finally a worthy opponent.

The lunged at each others and Arthur this time had to parry the beasts claws. With weaker strenght, he was pushed back and rolled backward on the ground, when the wolf destroyed a tree behind him, almost taking his out Arthur's left shoulder. The Alpha turned quickly and spilled a black like substance, similar to a water jet. Arthur coated his sword with power before slashing the jet.

Boum!

He was launched backwards and destroyed two trees. When he stood up, the wolf had disappeared, merging with darkness.

Truly a clever beast.

Behind him, the Alpha attempted to bite him once again, which Arthur dodged. He launched another dark jet, that Arthur deflected narrowly. With uneven footing, he could only turn around to face the Alpha that teleported himself behind him. With his mouth agape, the bite was creeping on Arthur's face.

Blue aura coating his head, he headbutted the wolf and thrust his sword in his face.

The Alpha was dead and Arthur's right arm was soaked in blood.

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The first ray of light peeked through the forests leaves. Around the faction, traces of an intense battle could be found. With broken armors, bloodied bodies and bites marks, they were barely hanging on.

Trees were destroyed, the earth was uneven, with craters here and there. Deer, tarasiers and wolves cadavers were drenching the earth. With boots filled with mud, blood and grim, everyone was in a pathetic state.

Ezyze stood up shakily, his knees almost buldging. Everyone was having, gasping for air to replenish their Stamina. They regrouped and were eventually joined by Arthur, whose right harm couldn't be used.

They heard yapping and sensed life coming for them.

When the bushes stopped shaking, 30 tarasiers were in front of the group, on the ground. 15 were in the trees. 2.5 meters tall golden tarasier was surrounded by 3 two meters tall tarasiers which were a fiery red, blue and green in color. Their level ranged from 30 to 56, the golden tarasier having the highest level.

Their yapping stopped when the golden tarasier grunted. Silence was overbearing.

8 Aries warriors dropped on the ground, limp. Baal and 7 other warriors couldn't bear the poison anymore and dropped face first on the ground.

The hoplites reformed their ranks. Handling spears with both hands because of broken shields, or shields with both hands because of broken spears.

The golden tarasier punched his chest and every monkey charge against the faction.

It was time for the final battle.