Hunter (3)

As Aurora continued to hunt the snow wolves that spit up, a battle was happening within the snow wolf den.

In one of the caverns of the snow wolf den, a girl with black hair and azure eyes is wearing a white dress. She was the real Aurora. The Aurora that was hunting the snow wolves outside was an ice clone.

"Using the ice clone is taxing on my mana. I'm wasting all my mana stones on replenishing it. Only if I had my large mana reserves still." Aurora muttered as she walked through the cavern, looking for her prey to show up.

[MP: 247/800]

Since the majority of the snow wolves had left the den, she decided to create an ice clone to follow them and hunt them as she would be entering the den, but that came with nearly drying out her mana as it hadn't been made into a skill. This led her to have no choice but to replenish her mana by using her mana stones.

After traversing through the tunnels of the den, she still hadn't found any snow wolves, but she knew thirty were still here, with only forty of them leaving. This brought her to the conclusion that the ones who left were the ones who hunted and scouted, while those who stayed were mothers, pups, and fathers who protected them.

Looking around, Aurora soon found herself looking below her. 'Ninety feet below, I can see the cold outlines of wolves.'

She had used thermal detection—this allowed her to see anything that created heat but also cold. Aurora wasn't using it to see heat signatures, as nothing here had heat. She was using it to see the differences in the cold. Thus, outlining everything that was cold. The snow wolves were colder than the environment, allowing her to see them.

…

Hours passed. She had finally reached the cavern where the snow wolves, along with their pups, hid. Once they sensed she entered the cavern, the fathers immediately stood up in front of their wives and children to protect them.

"Why are you attacking us? We haven't done anything to you." Sierra, the alpha female wolf, asked, angered and concerned.

"For me to leave this dungeon, I must kill all the inhabitants. That's all I'm doing." Aurora said, in complete seriousness.

'She's doing all this slaughter to leave this dungeon.' Sierra thought, her anger rising. "If you wanted to leave, why couldn't you have waited for the dungeon to break? All of us could've made it out alive."

"It's true that I could have waited for this dungeon to break, allowing everyone to make it out alive, but I would be under the control of the dungeon boss, which I don't want." Aurora responded.

"The dungeon boss is my husband, so I could tell him to let you have freedom." Sierra still wanted to persuade her, even though on the inside, she wanted to kill her.

"I'd rather kill you... If I agreed to what you said now, you would treat me like a slave and beat me up. That is the opposite of what I want." Aurora slammed her foot onto the ground. Ice spikes erupted from the ground, killing all the snow wolves but Sierra.

She walked up to Sierra and broke all her legs, and grabbed her by the neck, dragging her through the tunnels of the den, soon exiting the den.

"I'll be killing you in front of your husband, since you thought of enslaving me." She said in a cold tone.

Sierra tried to escape, but her legs were broken—her life had been placed in the hands of this devil. Her anger was still there, but another emotion was rising inside her: fear. She felt fear towards this girl for the first time. But she knew she couldn't avoid her death, even though she kept struggling.

They arrived at the battle where the broken ice clone, who had lost an arm, half her head, and a chunk of her torso, kept fighting. There were five snow wolves left: the alpha male wolf and four high-level snow wolves.

The snow wolves were about to attack when ice spikes shot up from the ground, piercing their abdomens and killing them seconds later. The only one that didn't have an ice spike erupt from beneath was the alpha wolf.

The alpha wolf looked at the newcomers and saw the condition Sierra was in and asked in anger. "Are you the real one? And what happened to the ones who remained in the cave?"

"You already know the answers," Aurora said, lifting Sierra by her broken front legs. She pulled on them until they extended as far as possible. "Now watch the show."

She pulled Sierra's legs further away, using all her strength to tear the arm off. The tendons began to tear, followed by the muscles and blood vessels. Her screams were so loud, but no one listened to them. Her husband was frozen from shock, while Aurora ignored her screams.

Soon, her arms could no longer take the force any longer, and ripped off—blood splattering all over Sierra's body and the snow beneath them. Her screams became louder, but no one responded.

Aurora threw her arms to the side and grabbed her last pair of legs, flipping over. She held her by her legs and did the same. Sierra's screams continued, but neither of them responded to them.

Sierra's eyes were swollen from crying from the pain, as she looked at her husband, who hadn't moved a muscle since this torture began, 'Why isn't he trying to save me? I'm his wife.'

She had a hard time keeping her eyes open with this much blood loss. Her torso was about to be ripped in half, but her husband hadn't moved—this broke her heart. Seconds later, she had finally succumbed to her blood loss.

It wasn't that Sierra's husband didn't try to save her out of shock, but he couldn't move with Aurora's ice clone freezing his movement.

"I'll kill you!" His eyes turned red. He easily broke through the ice trapping his feet.

Aurora inspected his status.

[Alpha Snow Wolf - Level 30 Boss - Enraged]