Mage And Wolf
Chapter 254

Chapter 254: Chapter 254

"Should we walk the rest of the way to the Pack or do you want to open a gate in and then clear our way back out again?" I ask Karl, tilting my chin at the witches who obviously can’t keep up the sort of pace that we can. Walking with them it would take days to get to Alpha Conway’s pack.

"It’s best if we all transfer over. Safety in numbers, and it would be better to get the full story of what happened when we’re not at risk of being attacked." Karl agrees.

Karl focuses for a moment then opens a gate, a shimmering purple circle a little taller than he is. Through it I can see the pack grounds, tinted with the people of Arcane magic. But they’re not peacefully waiting for us to arrive, they’re under attack. Werewolves in their wolf form are everywhere, fighting a combination of overgrown magical Beasts and what look like horrors from someone’s bad acid trip.

"Get healing pills ready. I will be going first." I call back to Karl and jump through the gate, drawing a pair of swords from my storage rings. They’re well suited for this situation, double sided blades short enough to not interfere with kicks and tumbling maneuvers.

There are category 4 magical Beasts right at the gate, stalking a pair of low ranked warriors from the pack. They don’t even realize I’m coming, gates are only visible from the side they’re opened from, and I cleanly remove both heads before moving on to the next target, a massive bear. It’s occupied with a large black werewolf, so I drive my sword deep into its side, aiming for the heart and sending a wave of Death Energy through my blade and into the Beasts body.

The mighty bear drops immediately, its heart stopped by the attack, landing with a heavy thud that draws attention from some horrific mutation made up of a couple different species. It looks mostly like a gazelle, but with a mountain lion head and front legs.

It’s strong too, my blade just can’t seem to get a good bite, so I switch to a spinning kick as I dodge an attack, the Energy Dragons following and reinforcing it, shattering the creature’s ribs with a sickening crunch. The Black werewolf finishes it off and moves to follow me, offering assistance.

This is either Alpha Conway or a strong warrior in his pack going by the size, so I’m not going to turn him down, even if I could take care of this on my own.

The werewolf goes for the throat of a cockatrice and I jump on its back, ripping its wings off and leaving it to my partner before launching myself at a pair of hairless mutated monstrosities that are going after a pair of children too young to shift into wolf form. If they’re strong, werewolves will shift astound age six, and the very weakest of omega wolves will have shifted by fourteen or fifteen unless they’re injured or abused.

The kids can see what I’m doing and are bravely waving pointed sticks like a sword, distracting their attackers. My sword flows smoothly through the neck of the first as I vault over top to slam my foot into the head of the second, flattening it and killing whatever that thing was.

"Are you kids alright?" I call, fending off the claws of a giant cat that was getting in position to take advantage of the situation.

"We are now Moon Goddess. It’s only a little further to the shelter. We’ll make it this time. Thank you for answering Alpha’s prayers."

I don’t even have time to answer before they’re off, jumping into a hole in the ground that closes behind them with a solid steel door swinging up. They’ve definitely mistaken me for a follower of the wrong Goddess.

"Alpha Conway I presume? I’m Katrina, from Arcana. I got your message through the chief and came to help. I’ve got a mage and a Red Dragon with me, and the remainder of a coven of witches we picked up." I say, looking at the black wolf.

He nods and goes back to fighting as the others appear, the witches crowded behind Karl who is tearing into the monsters with purple Arcane whips while Lelou has shifted and is sending waves of fire towards anything that’s not too close to a building.

There’s not much standing anymore though. All the smaller houses and buildings are demolished, the huge size of the category 4 Beasts too much for them to withstand. Even if we save everyone left aboveground today, there’s not a lot left for them to go home to. Unless that safe room is a full sized bunker and not just an oversized root cellar.

I’ve found the herd of category 4 moose, and they’re even bigger than expected. I could easily walk underneath their chest with my arms raised. Hopefully they taste good, because they’re not going to survive this.

Using a mixture of cultivation and Death Energy I launch myself forward, sword cutting deep into the nearest of the herd, severing its neck while I use the enormous brown haired body as a launching pad to do the same to another. They’re on to me now, and angry. Swinging their antlers in a vicious arc to intercept my next strike. They’re not nearly fast enough to deal with an Immortal Realm physical cultivator though.

My powers might be suppressed by the world, preventing me from properly flying or using full force Energy attacks, but my physical condition is unchanged, significantly faster than anything in the Mortal Planes should be.

I grab the antler of the first to attack me, swinging around it to plant a sword in the middle of the skull, then slicing off the front legs of one that has raised up to kick at me.

In seconds the small section of the herd I found are all dead and I’m looking around at a scorched and corpse littered ruin of a pack compound. The Beasts have retreated, so we’ve got a break until they get brave enough to attack again. Hopefully a long one.