<h4>Chapter 24: Battle of mes</h4>


    Awoo! Awoo!


    The wolves howled like they weed their king as the temperature rose drastically. From the forest, a ming wolf emerged, reddish-orange mes burned on its back and even from the distance Cristian could feel its piercing ming eyes.


    "How is this possible?" Anna eximed whilst she trembled, the mes burning on the mighty beasts shining in her golden eyes, causing them to dte.


    Gasps filled the air as fear crept into the hearts of the soldiers, and She spotted it in time. "Cristian, can you handle the fire wolf?" worryced her tone, and her blue eyes gazed at him with hope for a positive answer.


    "What level?" Cristian grit his teeth and pulled the dagger, causing blood to gush out, yet he steadied his gaze on She.


    At this moment, Cristian understood why he had this ss. It was because he could feel his blood boil, the thrill of a battle, the blood. It made him both excited and focused. Cristian slowly prepped his mind on the battle against that mighty beast and at this moment, he paid no heed to She''s looks, for he had all the time in the world to conquer this beauty.


    However, his actions alone made She stunned. The man before her turned out to be more than a yboy.


    Her eyes glowed as she looked at the beast. "Level 32," she gasped. Beasts were naturally stronger than humans and, despite being five levels ahead, their stats barely had any difference.


    "Shit! I''m way lower than that." At this point, Cristian didn''t see any point in hiding any longer when no one was really stronger than him with She being equal in strength, but only when she had distance.


    "Don''t jest Cristian. Stop it from causing a massacre and I''ll provide a tform to reduce its speed."


    The moment Anna healed his wounds, she quickly retreated back to the walls and Cristian walked toward She.


    As she watched him approach, her heart rate sped up, and she shivered. "A tform? Why does this seem like-"


    "It is!" She lost control of her emotions and yelled. Her cheeks flushed, and she took deep breaths to calm down and her ample chest moved ordingly. Cristian felt baffled and took a step closer since he had no idea he caused her emotional disturbance.


    He gave a light pat on her shoulder, causing her eyes to snap open. "She, listen…" he paused as the Dark Lord sent the fire wolf towards them.


    "I need you to concentrate. Our lives depend on this. Believe me when I say I''m still new to this kind of thing and I thought you were always better."


    A tant provocation. He decided not to use his ss skill, especially when it concerned a woman he wanted to make his. "Go!" she pressed her palm on his coat and pushed him, causing him to take two steps back.


    The runes on her body glowed brighter, and a diagram appeared in her eyes. But it still wasn''t enough and She knew that.


    She folded her hand, leaving her index finger, and the tip glowed bright blue. As her finger trailed in the air, a diagram slowly formed.


    "It''s my turn then," Cristian stared at the ethereal beauty whose feet slowly left the ground and mused.


    Dumping all his free stats points to strength. It shot up to a staggering number; 86! For his level, this was a massive sum.


    Pushing his agility to the limits, Cristian bolted forwards with a speed, seven times faster than an average human!


    Flickering through the battlefield, he left wolf corpses in his trial and the fire wolf left burnt human corpses.


    However, when they were just ten meters away from shing, Shepleted the spell and a diagram epassed the in field. It glowed sky blue and two words left her lips "sky fall!"


    Boom!


    Many wolves and soldiers mmed to the ground as they felt an invisible beam pressing down on them. Cristian''s knees trembled, but he was a lot stronger because of Burning Fury. The Rare sword gave him an extra 35+ strength, which was a massive upgrade.


    This was the same skill She used back then, but that one was a miniature one and she hadid it with a mana stone. It had been there long before Cristian arrived. This showed her level of vignce.


    Going as far as using a low-grade mana stone!


    She made sure she focused on the fire wolf and Cristian could see it struggle, but in a matter of a few seconds, the fire wolf adjusted and sped towards him though with a speed painfully slow to it.


    Cristian shot a nce at She and easily saw through her strong facade. She was drained and this spell would soon dissipate!


    The tip of his great sword dug into the soil as he tookrge strides. Each step was deep and filled with purpose. The powerful beat of his heart resonated with his feet and his fingers tightened further around the hilt of Burning Fury.


    The billowing heat from the iing wolf made his fur coat wrinkle and his eyes dte. As the gap got smaller and smaller, Cristian got faster.


    And when they were close enough, his bearing changed. He bolted forward and leaped high. Mid-air, mes appeared on the de and he shed down.


    The fire wolf struggled to dodge as it had also lunged, but Cristian''s unpredicted move caught it off guard and a massive gash appeared on its face.


    In their first sh, Cristian took an eye, and that made the fire beast furious. It opened its jaws and mes spurted out. The intense heat made Cristian sweat and his sweat dried up as the mes became intense.


    The beast got more violent, causing him to dodge with his pitiful dodging skills. He swung his sword when a chance appeared, but the wolf easily evaded and it did so elegantlypared to his pitiful way of dodging.


    Graa! Fwoosh!


    The grass burned, turning the surroundings into a ming zone, and the fire kept on spreading. He tilted his head and his eyes followed the gleaming ws of the violent beast that swooshed past his cheeks. In that same motion, he spun abruptly, and a gash appeared on the wolf''s muscr foreleg.


    Awoo!


    It howled in pain and mmed against Cristian, sending him into the air. His roughnding was just the beginning as his coat instantly lit up in mes and it burned wildly due to the fur.


    "So much for a Common ranked item," Cristian grumbled, stood up, and shed upwards, taking the head of a dire wolf into the air.


    Blood drenched his white top, but he was already dirty, so Cristian didn''t care. All that mattered was survival.


    Suddenly, two more ck-cloaked figures emerged from the mes and lunged forward with daggers. They assumed he would be clumsy since he used a great sword but this was a grave mistake.


    Cristian held his sword close to his chest and when they arrived, he deflected the right man and whipped a deadly kick that connected to the neck of the left man.


    The sound of bones snapping rang loudly, but Cristian had no time to waste, so he bore the punch from the man at his right and made a clean horizontal sh that took off the man''s head.


    The sight made him ufortable and in that moment, the fire wolf hiding in the mes emerged.


    [A/N: Support,ment, and enjoy!]