Chapter 36: Guster

*Growl!*

The dark silky fur of the wolf slightly stood erect as it growled at Insig with apprehension and cautiousness. Its eyes were scrutinizing him carefully, watching his every movement.

All along the war, all it has seen was the cruelty of man. It has been enslaved forcefully and it was treated as a tool all along. The wolf fears that the man in front of him was one of them.

*Angry Wolf noises* *Bark!*³

As a person who was traumatized by a dog, Insig felt threatened and scared. Even though he knows that he can kill this big and scary wolf, the trauma of the past still lingers in his heart.

His heart raced and sweat was starting to trickle in his temple, however, he still smiled but he didn't dare to look him in the eye. A friend once told him not to look in the eye of a dog and it became a habit.

'I need him to escape from this place. I have to do everything to make him submit! You can do it, Insig!'

Insig conjures a cloud of green smoke— life energy, and puts it in front of the wolf.

"Ummh... I don't know if you can understand me, so.... you just have to check them yourself. By the way, do you even hear me?"

Insig tries to talk to the Wolf like a human, but all the wolf heard was '@&#&^€÷Π|÷€°'. Regardless, the wolf didn't mind it but just looked skeptically at the life energy.

He was instinctively aiming for it, but he felt... helpless. Since birth, he has been abducted by humans and he was forced to obey them. He knows that this man in front of him must also be aiming for his abilities.

But he himself knows that he has to live. Even though it was just a will produced by instincts, he can't help but feel desperate. He wanted to cling to someone so bad.

He knows that he is a tool, but he knows that it is the only way to live. It looked at Insig only to see him looking at him kindly.

He was not releasing a suffocating blood lust like the other humans that he met and when he saw those bright eyes, he wanted to trust again, he wanted to be happy, but he was also scared.

Scared of getting hurt and abandoned, scared of being treated cruelly. But he also knows that it was his only option. He was the only rope outside this cliff, the only ladder away from this hell.

After making a decision, the dark wolf shakingly stands up. Slowly but surely, step by step, the wolf approaches the whiff of life magic.

It then absorbs the life magic by inhaling it. Like soft rain on a barren land, the wolf feels rejuvenated. Starting from its nostril, to its larynx, to its lungs, to its blood vessels, to its whole body. The life energy passed through it, giving life and healing all injuries.

*Howl*

"Awooo!"

The wolf howls in pleasure. Unlike where it feels like its whole body was heavy, the wolf now feels like a mountain has been removed from his back. His legs can now stand straight and light has been brought back to its eyes. He felt like he could jump or run for miles.

When the wolf stood up, he was actually as large as a car, making Insig feel pressured and small, as if he was standing in front of a large building.

'Oh my fucking god. Those fangs! Look! They're even shining, like, what the fuck!?'

Insig's heartbeat sped up and he couldn't remove his eyes from the wolf. His legs were involuntarily shaking.

*Thud*

Suddenly, the wolf approached him slowly with doe-eyes, but Insig was focused on its mouth. Insig felt like death was looming over him. With saliva flowing out of its mouth, the wolf looks like a hungry beast.

'Oh fuck! Oh fuck! Oh fuck! Oh fuck!'

Insig wasn't able to move because of fear. His mind was full of his childhood trauma, getting bitten by a dog.

Its sharp fangs felt like he could split him into pieces any moment. Like they will split his bones and crack him. Blood would rain down and he would cry but the wolf won't stop. It would just enjoy his pain and despair while he was being eaten alive.

Insig's eyes became slightly moist and his heart jumped out of his chest when he saw the wolf in front of him open up its mouth.

His legs gave up and he kneeled on the ground, preparing for his death. However, what he felt was a warm and sticky feeling.

'H—Huh!?'

Insig's mind went haywire and he looked up to see what was happening. He saw that the wolf was... licking him.

Its large tongue, which is rough, is slightly smooth because of the sticky... saliva. The clear liquid was stickily flowing in Insig's face.

His face was cleaned of dust and debris, however, he now looked.... like he was a girl from a H*nt** who got c*m all over his face.

'....What the actual fuck?'

After a brief confusion, Insig immediately felt repulsive. He feels like something was stuck at chest, about to puke out of his mouth any moment.

"Yuck!!!!"

Insig screamed involuntarily. Even though he can bear not bathing for weeks, he only does it when he's locked up in his room. However, once he touches something sticky, smelly, yucky, slimy, or moldy, he would immediately wash his hands.

Carefully but desperately, Insig swipes his face in the way that the saliva won't spread, or stay in his face for that matter. Every time he touches the saliva, he would hurriedly swing it away.

'Yuck! Iww! Disgusting! I shouldn't have saved this large dog! Fuck!'

Insig imagined that the dog would eat raw food or even leftovers, and then the smell would stick to the saliva and then linger at his body for days, and this thought made Insig more nauseas. He even saw one post in f*facebook about a dog pet eating its own sh*t and kissing its owner. His picture of dogs has changed since then.

'Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!'

At the thought of that, Insig couldn't take it anymore and he puked. The girl he was carrying was accidentally dropped, but he ignored it.

"Bleergh!*

*Splash!*

The stomach acid stacked in his throat burst out of his mouth. The acidic taste and the repulsive and pungent smell lingered in Insig's mouth, but Insig didn't focus on that.

His muscles in the stomach were contrasting, forcing his acids out. He felt like his chest and stomach were being squeezed over and over again. He was salivating all over and he felt hot in his chest.

*Splash*

"BleeeEeèéêëe3ēEeeErgh~!"

Yellow liquid and some unknown bits were thrown out of his mouth. Sometimes it would even slide back into his throat, but would come out again once the next round of puke was released.

This scene attracted the others' attention for a while, but they ignored it because it was quite common in war. Others' even peed or shit in their pants.

*Huff*⁴

After a while, Insig finally felt liberated. He felt like a load of unnecessary baggage was thrown out of his shoulder.

He was panting heavily and he was holding on to his shaking knees, desperately trying to stand. He felt like he couldn't lift up his body and his vision was slightly blurred.

Insig manipulates his life energy to heal himself. The life energy circulates in his body, making him feel rejuvenated and energetic. The slight dizziness he was feeling dispersed like smoke.

After calming down, he looked up to see the wolf looking at him worriedly, as if it was innocent and didn't know what it did. Seeing this, Insig looked at it begrudgingly.

'This damn large dog!'

Insig felt his heart full of anger and his trauma against the dog was cleared away... well, not all of them, actually.

*Cough*³

Insig coughs partly to clear out the saliva in his throat, but mostly to clear out his embarrassment.

Insig looks at the wolf in front of him. He suddenly had an idea and smiled devilishly. He approaches the wolf with a smile and shakingly hugs the wolf....

The wolf was baffled and he looked at the human who was scared one moment but was happy in just a moment as if he was a psycho. But when he saw the human, he was... speechless.

The human was using his fur to wipe the saliva off of his face. However, once he saw that the person who saved him smiled happily, he became happy too.

The wolf was about to lick Insig once more but when he saw the approaching tongue, he immediately moved away.

Insig frowned sternly at him, but his legs were subtly shaking.

"Sit!"

Hearing that, as if it was an instinct, the wolf immediately sits and obeys. Its posture and its attitude was almost perfect, as if it was trained to the best of its performance.

Beasts that came from the beast tamer facility had always been tamed first before being sold, this was because there was an event that once made them lose credibility.

A rich, talented, and arrogant customer once bought an untrained legendary beast from them, causing the beast to kill its owner. But this was rather common in the past, because you have no right to own the beasts if you can't control them.

Except for the fact that the customer had a really solid backing. It was said that the headquarters was breached and millions of personnel were unreasonably killed by the ancestor of the said customer.

This has given birth to the trained pet rule since then, and they trained the beasts by any means possible.

"Good boy."

Insig praises the wolf and pats its head. The wolf doesn't dare to lick Insig but he wags its tail. The surrounding dust near the tail was blown away due to its size, but all of it was ignored.

While petting the wolf, Insig moves his energy and heals the Wolf. He also took this opportunity to check his condition.

Insig sensed that after the energy entered the wolf's body, it circulated all around the body and healed all the wounds that needed more energy.

The wolf's tail once again wags its tail in delight. Its eyes brighten up once more and it licks Insig's hands a bit.

Insig kept on petting but he focuses on the energy inside the pet. After healing other wounds, the life energy then focuses on one particular spot— the spine. There seems to be a wound in the spine, but all of the life energy sent to it was cleared away, as if there was something dangerous in its spine.

After discovering this, Insig frowns and looks at the skin near the spine of the wolf.

Feeling where Insig was caressing him, the wolf involuntarily lies down and shivers in pain. Its lively tail curls down and its fur erects subtly. Its eyes dimmed a little bit and he looked scared.

Insig noticed this but he still searched for something, until he finally saw a black dot directly above the wolf's spine. It seemed to have been pierced by something.

"Don't tell me.... This is....!"

Insig eyes widened and he involuntarily caressed the wound. However, when the wolf felt Insig touch the particular spot, it intensely shuddered in fear.

*Whimper*

The wolf weakly whimpers and it uses its hand to cover its eyes. Seeing this, Insig felt even more pitiful and he immediately tried to sooth him.

Insig pets his head and sends bursts of healing magic that makes the wolf slightly calm down.

After calming down, Insig hops into the wolf's back. He picks up the still unconscious girl and rides the wolf.

The wolf's fur was surprisingly soft and silky. Its dark color seems to reflect the stars in the night sky. Insig, unfamiliar with riding wolves, can't balance himself above. He was about to order the wolf when he suddenly thought of something.

"Wait a minute. I haven't given you a name yet, right? It's rude and inconvenient calling you 'wolf'..."

Insig, frowns and asks. He looks at the wolf underneath him but the wolf just looks at him. Seeing this, Insig smiled helplessly and thought for a moment, when a bright ray of light flashed through his eyes.

"Ahh! I know! From now on, your name is Guster. If you wanna know why, well, I don't know either. Hahaha!"

Insig laughs to himself, but he was actually quite guilty. This is because the name of the dog has a meaning that he kept to himself.

Hearing his savior laugh, the wolf wags its tail happily and licks his hands. Its bright eyes were brimming with energy and its ears were so fluffy.

"Let's go! Guster!"

*Thud*⁴

Like a train, Guster bolts towards the gate. Insig held Guster's neck tightly in fear of falling. The ride wasn't bumpy, but it was overwhelmingly fast.