Chapter 19

The Shadow Wolf dashed toward Vex. Vex ready to die raised his blade to try to hurt or kill the Shadow Wolf the dash toward him. The blade penetrated something, but the eventuality did not stop his death. His head was taken from his body. When his head less corpse slumped to the ground; the Shadow Wolf let out a violent howl that shook the forest.

The violent howl was heard by all of the Shadow Wolves in the Ingran Forest. This was do to a species skill of the Shadow Wolf they can hear there leader no matter the distance they remain as long as they are within the forest or territory of their leader. In the distance reminiscing howl were heard.

"Aooooow" Many wolves howled throughout the forest.

This was to alert the Shadow Wolfs' leader where he needed to head next. The Shadow Wolf sped off following the sounds of the wolves.

To the southwest of Koa's Campsite.

Lix was still running for her life, but being injured and bleeding her movements were becoming somewhat erratic. She would stumble every so often; causing her to panic in case she was about to be attacked by a Shadow Wolf when she stopped to take a break or let her guard down.

A few minutes pass and her breathing was very ragged. She stopped and leaned over with her hands on her knees; trying to catch her breath but every breath almost had a piercing pain within her lungs. Then the sounds of howls reminsied in the woods around her. There distance was a little way off, but so the sounds of breaking sticks and crushed leaves started to become louder. It was loud enough it took over the sounds of her heavy breathing.

"Damn… it… their.. still following me after all this distance. Just how large is the territory of these damn wolves. I find it hard to believe they will follow me into other beasts' territory, just because we kill a few wolves." Lix said raggedly.

She began moving again to distance herself from the pack of wolves that are following her. Her thoughts were to distance herself from the wolf's territory hoping that they would not trust pass the territory of other magic beasts. This would be her mistake cause her group already said that there was no magic beast in Ingran Forest, so this would make Shadow Wolves tyrants of Ingran Forest. This meant the entire forest was under their control and no beast could contend or survive in the Ingran Forest. She also could no longer lose their scent because she was bleeding and leaving a trail of blood.

Under the moonlight glow Lix walked into an open clearing. She moved towards the center and found a rock to finally sit on. She was able to because the clearing was large, so she could she when something was trying to sneak up on her. This let her catch her breath, when she was looking around and she found no wolves internally she was happy beyond belief. But such things rarely seemed as they truly were.

Lix final caught her breath and was more confident in her position. Her happiness quickly ended when she started to see a wolf in front of her at the edge of the clearing. The wolf was staring at her, as if it was a subordinate that was to make sure she was not able to move from where she was.

"They haven't made any moves against me, now one is just staring at me from the clearing. What is it thinking?" Lix said as she was staring back at the wolf.

As the staring contest was going on; she heard the sound of leaves being heard from behind her. She span her head around to she multiple pairs of glowing eyes all around the clearing she was in. None of the wolves moved an inch they merely stared at her. The pairs of eyes made her feel intense danger, but there was no space for her to escape between the eyes. Then all of the wolves act as if they were a single entity, they all howled at the same time.

"Aaaaooooooowwww" The wolves surrounding the clearing.

As the howling became to an end; the sound similar of bones crunching began to be heard from in front of Lix. The sound was getting louder and louder. Almost as the sound was reaching its peak it abruptly stopped. This almost caused Lix to jump.

In front of Lix the beast that made that noise revealed itself. It was the Shadow Wolf that caused all of their group to go into a panic.

"haha.. so I was chosen by you to die huh." Lix

Only a low growl was heard from it.

"Well I'll tell you it wont be as easy as you think, to kill me I'll at least take a part of you." Lix

Lix got off her rock and got into a fighting stance welding two daggers. The Shadow Wolf stared at her ready to attack. The shadow wolf dashed forward, Lix ran to meet the wolf head on. In close proximity Lix dodged the bite of the wolf and stabbed it in the neck. This caused her hands to be covered in the warm liquid. As she was satisfied by her move a smile started to be reviled on her face. She felt like she had killed this wolf, but a sharp pain came from her leg.

She was then dragged to the ground by what ever attack her leg from behind. When she looked it was a pitch-black figure that resembled a wolf, but everything was black. Just as she was about to kick the black thing the wolf she stabbed in the neck appeared before her blood was dripping on her face. Then she finally figured it out this wolf was not ordinary. She made a attempt to stab the wolf again, but it was useless the wolf bite into her throat ending her life in a swift moment.