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    "This wolf is unusually strong, An. This is not an ordinary variant of the Devil Wolf."


    "I know…"


    "Shouldn''t we…?"


    "Let them, for now…"


    "But…! This thing might had been modified by the cult, it is way too strong and intelligent."


    "I want to see how far Sylphy can go… Are you not curious about your daughter''s amazing potential, Shade?"


    "Well yes, but…"


    "And if they don''t know the taste of true despair in battle, and to go against all odds, how do you expect the children to grow stronger? The future that awaits them… might be worse than this."


    "…"


    The wolf roared furiously as its shadows spread over and generated a pseudo domain of darkness. Dozens of tentacles made of shadows quickly grabbed the corpses and even some of the living wolves nearby and dragged them into the darkness, which quickly began to consume them all.


    Were things just getting worse now?! This wolf wasn''t a mere pack leader, as I heard from my father, this guy might be some sort of guardian of this ce modified through magic by somebody else to protect this ce from intruders.


    It probably will do anything it can to stop us from advancing!N?v(el)B\\jnn


    "AWOOOO!"


    The wolf howled once more, as the darkness quickly consumed its body, after three seconds, it suddenly emerged once more, its entire body was now slightly different as ck scales spread through its body, forming natural armor, the two horns we sliced were back and there was a third one?! And its third eye was also back! Bastard! Did he just healedpletely?


    "Let''s stop him before he healspletely!" Said Zack. The beast was still halfway through, we had to do something!


    "Alright!" Aquarina roared, as her magic quickly generated countless of icicle spears and spiraling water spears.


    "Then let''s go!" I roared as well, as I loaded my sword with the power of Naturia, Ignatius, and Alice, the limits of how much spiritual power it could take, deciding to do something I had only done back then when I fought Hell. Although this threat is technically not as strong as that monster as it hasn''t hurt me lethally yet, I don''t want to let it grow any stronger.


    Life, Fire, and Light… these three elements, I had already grasped the way to merge them together back then, just like Ignatius did with Naturia as they formed the mes of Life. If I add Light, what sort of mes would emerge?!


    FLUOOOSH!


    The golden mes emerged out of my sword as they suddenly covered my body, taking over my Beast Aura and turning it into a radiant golden dragon that roared loudly. Thisbination of elements, it shone so bright it was almost divine. I''ll go ahead and call this Divine mes!


    "GROOARRR!"


    The wolf quickly realized we rushed to his side as his wounds were slowly healing after he somehow sacrificed his pack. His two enormous front legs suddenly gained ck armor, materialization from his darkness domain, and quickly attempted to intercept our blows with a swipe of his ws.


    SLASH! CLASH!


    He managed to do it rather well, however, I slipped through the ws as Ignatius merged his dragon wings with my Beast Aura, helping me lift out of the ground. In that moment I reached above the wolf before it could retaliate back and unleashed a single swing that contained over a hundred swings together. The speed boost that the new ss gave to me coupled with the natural speed of the light element alone was enough for a storm of divine mes to engulf the wolf''s head!


    FLUOOOSH!


    BOOM!


    "GROOOAARRRRR…!"


    The wolf''s healing was quickly interrupted as its armor shattered into pieces, its wounds opened once more but its horns and eye were regrown, enough for its magic to receive a substantial boost of power. The moment I began falling from the sky, I saw countless spikes made of materialized darkness being directed towards me!


    CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!


    I unleashed a storm of Divine mes but many still got through, impaling my arms and my legs, as blood sttered over. I had lowered my defenses in exchange for speed and evasion, but I still ended getting wounded…


    "Nnggh…! Naturia! Alice!"


    "Got it!"


    "FOO!"


    My wounds suddenly were covered in my Divine mes as they were infused with healing spells and skills, slowly beginning to regenerate as the spikes were burned into ashes by the divine mes alone.


    FLUOSH!


    I unleashed another attack with my sword once more, charging the power of the Divine mes I had conjured, however, the wolf wasn''t dumb, he quickly tried to retreat!


    "GROAR!"


    "You''re not getting away!"


    "We won''t let you!"


    Zack and Aquarina quickly stopped it from retreating! Zack supercharged his entire body with lightning, something I had not seen before, as his movements were swift and incredibly fast, unleashing a storm of lightning against the enormous beast and making it groan in pain, while Aquarina unleashed several Oceanus Harpoons against the wolf with her daggers, piercing through its body magisterially!


    CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!


    "AWOOO!"


    The wolf howled furiously as it lost all reason and turned berserk, an aura of red color emerged from within its body, his enormous strength multiplied as he grew desperate, his ws and tail hit Aquarina and Zack strongly, but they intercepted and tanked his hits barely, finally, I was able to reach over his head, however!


    "Excalibur''s Light!"


    FLASH!


    "GROOARRRR…!"


    The light of my sword generated an enormous sword, piercing through the armor covering the wolf''s neck and piercing through its tough hide, muscles, flesh, and bones!


    SLAAASH!


    The wolf''s head was sliced cleanly, as a fountain of blood exploded out of itsrge wound, covering the ground. The body remained still for a bit, before quickly falling into the floor with a loud thud.


    BAAM!


    I fell over the wolf''s body, having my falling mitigated by its fur.


    "Hahh… W-We somehow did it…" I sighed, as I suddenly felt the enormous bacsh of pushing myself to my limits once more. I was resisting the impulse of falling unconscious, as Naturia continued healing me.


    "T-That was way too tough…" Sighed Aquarina.


    "That monster was something else… I had never fought something so strong before…" Zack sighed, gasping for air.


    "But it was fun…" I said with a smile.


    "Yeah…" Aquarina smiled.


    "It was fun as hell!" Zackughed.


    After achieving a victory we barely managed to grasp, we couldn''t help but smile andugh.


    This was… the thrill of battle.


    I guess we are really a trio of battle junkies.


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