Saviour

"Okay wolfie, lets see what you've got!" I shout as I spring forward.

I activate my [Body Strengthening] and prepare to swing my scythe. I can see that my opponent is ready for me.

I sense mana build up inside her and disperse into the ground. Four dark lumps then form either side of her.

"Grrrrrr!"

I hear growling coming from the four lumps, it doesn't take me long to realise why. The lumps then start to take the shape of wolves.

Ho ho, trying to outnumber me are you? Too bad I am used to the numbers game by this point, I can thank Terre for that later.

The four shadow wolves jump towards me. I swing too early and they can sense that I have done so, they think they have a chance to catch me. However, I carry that momentum and spin while sticking out my leg into a kick which connects with one of the wolves.

"Awrrrr!" The first shadow wolf I catch yelps out in pain.

The kick then sends that wolf slamming into the wolf jumping next to it and they then slammed into the other two wolves. All four wolves were sent flying and slid along the ground, then fade.

As I was watching them disappear, the female wolf in front of me has seen an opportunity to attack once again.

She formed a ball made out of dark element mana, in her mouth and spat it at me.

As it comes toward me at speed, an idea pops into my head.

"Hahaha Nice try! Lets see you evade a few attacks now though!" I shout as I take my scythe and hold it like a bat.

When the shadow ball approaches, I use the flat side of the blade on my scythe and smacked it against the ball of mana.

The impact completely burst the shadow ball, sending back at the female wolf fragments of the ball hurtling towards her.

"WHAT THE HELL!" She shouted as she looked in shock at how I defended against her attack.

"HAHAHA, no time to stare wolfie! Better get runnin'!" I yell back.

My words seem to snap her out of it as she surprisingly runs towards the projectiles, and shows off her agility by moving and jumping between the mana that is flying at her.

Once she passes through the mana missile attack, she then carries on running towards me, thinking that they may have an advantage in close range battle because of my stature…

Wait… she isn't thinking that I am small and weak is she? Kukuku… we shall see who is small and weak!

I let go of my spirit weapon, which then fades away, and charge straight at my opponent. They seem surprised by my frontal charge, but that is only for a moment as she prepares to overpower me with her pounce.

"Wrong move kid!" She shouts and pounces through the air at me.

"…Hehe…"

Once again though, her face is coloured with surprise, as she sees me smiling and giggling.

"This isn't the time to be giggling like a fool little one!"

Once I am within her range, she takes a swing at me with her claws while in mid pounce. They swipe right across my face… though this is just an after image.

She looks down in surprise and sees my grinning face below her and me prepping for a massive punch into her stomach.

I bent my legs, clenched my fist and strengthened my body ever so slightly. I was already under the effects of [Territory Boost] which boosted my strength and speed, so I didn't need to go full power to do a significant amount of damage to my opponent.

I then wrapped my fist in a small amount of flames and released my punch into the body of the wolf.

"Urgghhhhhh!" She lets out a pained noise as it connects.

The wolf ends up spiralling into the air and landing a distance away from me.

She was thankfully still alive after that punch, but was struggling to get up off the ground. They seem to be coughing up some blood and her legs are incredibly shaky as she picks herself up. Maybe I put a bit too much power into that punch after all?

"Damn it… *Cough* *Cough*" Murmuring as she tries to move, but her legs just want to collapse.

"Looks like you are done wolfie. Just lie down, no point in taking this any further if you can barely stand up…"

"Shut up! I have no choice here! I have to win!" She shouted back at me.

I admired her determination. But if she cannot beat me when she is at full strength, then there is no chance she can beat me in the condition she is currently in.

"Maybee, but the truth is you underestimated me and I took you out with one big punch. Do you really think you can beat me like this?" I say, trying to get her to back down.

With a bit of training, and being more aware of her opponents ability, she could be a really interesting battle buddy! I didn't want to carry on until she died.

"As I said I cannot lose here! If I die, then my little brother will be killed too!" She shouts in desperation.

I look over at the grinning wolf chief Georg, his mouth grew into a bigger smile as she said it.

"… Is that your brother up there? With him?"

"…Yes." She answers my question, seeing no reason to lie.

The small wolf who stood next to him, rather then a look of fear at his potential death, just had a look of concern for his sister who is on the verge of passing out.

"I see why you are so desperate, but I can't let you defeat me and kill the foxes. You get that, right wolfie?"

"… I know… BUT I CANNOT LOSE EITHER!" She shouts as she uses the last of her strength to charge at me.

She opens her mouth and dives to bite my neck.

But just as she does I summon my scythe, dodge her diving bite by jumping to the side and take her weak legs from under her by whacking them with the pole of the scythe.

She once again falls to the floor. This time her legs cannot carry her weight and they collapse.

"Haaah, I can't get into a battle like this when there is such an awful thing riding on it…" I say sadly.

I look down at the wolfs collapsed body with sympathy and just as I was thinking of how to handle this, I hear a booming voice.

"Vera you failure! You couldn't even put a scratch on that tiny, weak human child! You are a disgrace to this clan! GET UP NOW!" The chief wolf shouts.

"Nnnnhhh!"

I look back to the female wolf, that I now know is called Vera, and see she is struggling to her feet. But falls back to the ground again.

Seeing this the wolf chief grins and then turns to the little wolf that stood next to him.

The chief grabs him by the scruff of their neck with his jaws and holds him in the air before throwing him to the ground. Not enough to kill him, but enough to make the little wolf yelp out in pain.

"NO! What are you doing you bastard!" Vera shouts as she sees her brother get thrown roughly.

"HAHAH! What I said would happen if you lost! Now get up! Or else…"

He begins to walk over to the little wolf again…

"No don't!" Vera shouts desperately.

He continues to approach the little wolf though while smiling viciously.

"N-No…" The little wolf says meekly as he tries to crawl away.

This pleading just made Georg's smile grow bigger though as he reached the wolf trying to escape.

"Hahah… I can finally wipe this disgrace off this world… NOW DIEE BY MY CLAW- HIIII!"

Suddenly all the hairs on Georg's body stand on ends and he turns around to see the source.

Me. Stood with an enraged look on my face.

"OI BASTARD, DID YOU THINK I WOULD JUST STAND THERE AND WATCH YOU DO AWFUL SHIT LIKE THAT. NOW HOW ABOUT YOU BACK AWAY FROM THE SMALL WOLF, AND COME FIGHT ME." I say with a tone that lacked any emotion but seething anger. I unintentionally release a lot mana from my body that causes the surrounding creatures to unconsciously back away.

"Sh-Shut up! I am the chief of this clan! I can do whatever I want to the members of my clan! They are mine to decide what to do with!" His mad eyes seemed to be panicked at the sound of my voice and the amount of mana emanating from me.

"I CAN DO WHAT I WANT!" He goes to try and swing his large claws at the little wolf when…

"[Firewall]"

"Waaaaah!"

A large wall of flames comes between them both, causing Georg to jump backwards to avoid being caught up in the heat.

"Ignis, go and collect the wolf over there please." I say while not taking my eyes off Georg.

"Of course." Ignis replies and runs off to do as I asked.

Georg has not moved since the wall of fire materialised and had kept his eyes on me, fearing what would happen if he looked away from me.

Ignis collected the wolf, who had now passed out from the fear it had experienced, and returned to the position she was in behind me.

I then dispersed the flame wall as they were in a safe place.

"W-Why did you do that? You don't know us, so why help us?" I hear Vera say from behind me.

"I am not cruel enough to just sit back and watch a defenceless creature be mercilessly killed by a lunatic. Plus, this monster has already caused a number of problems and trauma to a number of friends of mine." I explain to barely conscious, but relieved Vera.

"… I see… well thank you… regardless…" Vera then passes out herself.

I take a glance at Vera, then ask Ignis to drag Vera to where she is stood with her little brother.

I then turn my attention back to Georg, who is still stood in a fearful daze staring at me.

"Right then Georg, how about me and you have a battle now." I flash a smile of anticipation that makes Georg take a few steps back.

"Wh-Who said you can just say my name without my title!" He shouts back at me.

"All of you! Swarm this THING and kill it!" Georg says as he turns and looks at all the other wolves stood near the forest. They are stood a bit away from him after he tried to kill Vera's little brother.

However, despite his order they all stood there as still as stone.

"Grrrr what are standing there for! Do as I say!" He shouts as he advances towards them.

"[Firewall]"

Another firewall appears in front of him and he immediately brings his gaze back towards me.

"Ah, ah, ahh… Can't have you avoiding fighting me again can we Georg." I say as I start to slowly walk towards him.

*BOOM* *boom* *boom*

Just as I begin to get closer, a large explosion followed by a few smaller ones comes from behind me from inside the city walls. I turn my gaze towards the noise and see smoke rising from above the walls.

"Haha…HAHAHAHA! Looks like my hunters found them! You fool! While you were fighting with Vera I sent a bunch of wolves covertly into your city to find those damned foxes! From the sounds of the fighting, they are probably slaughtering those insects!" Georg shouts in a crazed voice to me, hoping it breaks my resolve.

"Kukuku I wouldn't bet on it…"

"Huh?" Georg was clearly confused by calm answer.

*BOOM*

An explosion bursts through the wall causing debris to be sent flying everywhere, but fortunately not as far as Ignis.

Silence. Nothing could be heard apart from the falling rubble from the wall, as everyone just stared and waited for the one who created the explosion to appear.

*Clack* *Clack* *Clack*

Footsteps can start to be heard and silhouette soon becomes visible walking through the hole in the wall, shrouded by the dust cloud.

"Sorry I am late my Lady. Some pests had entered our home, so I had to exterminate them before coming over. I do hope I haven't missed your battle."

Terre emerges from the dust, with a couple of her warrior ant minions. As the cloud settles, on the other side of the wall that Terre just came from you could clearly see the bodies of wolves littered around.

Ahhhhh so that must be why she separated from us, I think to myself while it finally clicks.

"Hehe nope. Just about to wipe the floor with this guy, do me a favour and make sure no one gets caught up while I do it." I say with a beaming smile pointed at towards her.

"Fufufu very well my Lady." Terre replies while making her way over to Ignis. Meanwhile...

"No…. no no… nonononnononNONONONONONO! AHHHHHH! I have had enough of this farce! I shall crush you here myself!" Georg seems to snap as he sees his warriors failed in their task.

"GOOD! About time ya stopped hiding. [Blood Lust] [Weapon Enhancement]"

I readied myself and activated my skills. Although he acted like a coward up until this point, he was still clearly the most powerful wolf in their pack. I will not underestimate him like he did to me.

Hehe, lets crush this bastard.

Thus begins my final battle with Georg, the Wolf Chief.