Preparing for trouble

'There has only been a few creatures recorded to be able to talk to humans and shade wolves aren't one of them that mean Apateon, the rest of the vassals and the king are mutated wolves. What mutated them and what is the source of negative mana I am feeling from Apateon'

Looking intently at the wolf and waiting for a response I looked towards Asta's area. Seeing all the wolves died and him with a few battle scars around his body, still breathing leaning beside a tree to rest put me at ease

'he's defeated them all as expected from my Rival. I will heal him up after this'

"Well?"

"I can tell you why I am able to talk to you, but I do not know about the negative mana you speak of or what it is"

"Go on then"

"I was not original born with the ability to talk in fact the memories of my younger self are very foggy when recalling them the first clearest memory I can recall is being selected to be the 3rd vassal for my king and going through the ritual, surviving and retaining my sanity. After that I slowly developed the ability to understand human language and speak it"

"Tell me more about the ritual you had to go through"

"The ritual was pretty simple task to do, surviving it though was not. You see there were multiple candidates to become the 3rd vassal of our king. I was one of them. We had to undergo a ritual and survive it to become the 3rd I was the only one that survived and maintain my sanity the rest turned into blood craving beast"

"The ritual we had to undergo was to spend 14 days around a large, weird obsidian rock and to never leave the area but as the days went by our sanity diminished and our body started to transform, getting stronger and more resilient. Some of them could not handle it and went mad, they started to attack others. I was lucky to survive due to gaining my new magic physical illusion"

'OH so that's why he can talk maybe the large obsidian rock he talks about is also the source for the negative mana I sense in him. It would not be strange for negative mana to augment and give new magic affinity to someone just look at Patori when he was overfilled with negative mana'

"That pretty much all I have to ask, like I said I will make it quick and painless"

Apateon closing his eyes, a feeling of acceptance and regret washing over him, Acceptance from being defeat by this human and about to die by his hands and regret for not being able to finish the task he was given and never being able to serve his king no longer

As I raised my hand above my head, a glimmer of understanding passed between us. With a swift motion, my hand fell as a powerful wind blade quickly rushed towards Apateon head cutting his head off, ending his suffering.

Leaving my fighting area and heading towards Asta with new information on the pack and its formidable members.

"Yow Asta you good let me heal you up"

"Yeah, I am just a few scraps here and there"

[Wind Magic: Healing winds]

Cool green winds surrounded Asta as his wound very slowly healed

"My healing magic is still lacking so it might take a while to completely heal you I will heal myself after "

"that's alright, what where you talking about with that wolf back there"

"i was getting some information from him on why they ambush you"

"what did you get then"

"They were after me and used you as bait also it seems they are going to attack the village"

"WHAT ARE YOU SERIOUS!"

"Yeah, that's why we should hurry up and go tell father also we better take up his corpse to prove that what we are saying is the truth"

I pointed towards the large, decapitated wolf that was behind.

"Yeah"

*10 minutes later*

After 10 minutes of healing Asta, we rushed back to the village straight towards the church where everyone was as Asta carried the body of a wolf.

As the door slammed wide open Asta shouted towards the man kneeling down and praying in front of a statue

"FATHER!"

"DAMN it punk can't you see I am going through evening prayer what is it this time..."

As Father quickly turning around looking for the loud brat to hit him on his head for disturbing his prayer suddenly had his attention snatch towards the large thing the brat was carrying

"W-W-What is that"

Not giving father the chance to look closer at the creature he was holding Asta dropped it and try to explain the situation to father.

"Father we are in danger a pack of shade-wolves maybe over a hundred are going to attack the village"

"What are you talking about Asta shade-wolves attacking the village, if that was the cast, we would have seen a few of them in the around the outskirts of the village. You are just talking rubbish Asta"

Butting in I confirm what Asta said

"Unfortunately, father what Asta say is true here is even proof"

Kicking the corpse that was at my feet it turns over towards father giving him a better look at the body.

"That really is a shade-wolf a very large one too did you find it somewhere"

"No, they attacked us when we were in the woods earlier. There are dozens of shade-wolf corpse still in the woods from our fight"

"YOU FOUGHT THEM! Are you guys alright did you get any wounds"

Father franticly looked over us to check for any wounds. Finding none he was relieved

"it's alright father I can use a bit of healing magic the only pain I still feel after fighting is from my arm broken arm but its healed up"

"Thank God then if you guys where actually severely injured, I might get one of sister Lily famous holy first. But if what you say is true, we must alert the villagers and send a request to the magic knights. I will tell the chief about this matter while you two should stay here and rest "

""Yes father""

[A/N: Hey by the time you guys read this it will be Sunday I wanted to create a longer chapter but things came up and I won't be any able to write for next week I will try my best to keep a time schedule on chaps in the future. Thank you for reading am out]