Torn Apart (I)

The madness of the wild wolves was not only about them attacking the slaves; they also attacked the thousands of giant tarantulas the slaves bred on this ranch.

They acted like mindless, crazy monsters instead of simply some gigantic creatures that were starved and wanted to eat their little prey.

The wolves ferociously destroyed the cages of thousands of tarantulas like how they did it with the barracks here. They also stomped on and killed the venomous animals without mercy.

But what was strange was that none of the mad wolves ate these desk-sized tarantulas; they only killed the 8-legged animals by stepping on them if they weren't dead yet after their cages were destroyed.

More than 100 tarantulas even managed to escape from this ranch after the wolves destroyed their cages. Not a single wolf tried to chase them like how they hunted the slaves who wanted to save themselves.

Whether it was because the tarantulas were too small to be eaten by them or not, not eating any of them and truly just killing the multi-legged animals was still quite intriguing and odd. But it was how it was; these 22 giant wolves were only interested in chewing and swallowing the limbs of the slaves.

"No…! Please don't!" The helpless scream of a slave not far from him broke Roman's silence. He turned to the slave, who was about to become a wolf's dinner.

The slave cried out in fear and could do nothing but beg for the wolf not to eat him. However, of course, the wolf would neither understand nor hear him. He was cornered, unable to get up and walk again because his left leg had been severed, while a wolf the size of a barrack ambled towards him with a frightening glare.

Sweat, tears, and blood adorned his face, which showed great fear. His body, which could only sit on the ground, shook violently, especially his two hands. His voice that once again begged the wolf was also quivering… and this wasn't even the most horrific sight on the ranch at the moment.

Another slave far away from Roman was faced with two wolves at once just moments after he thought he would be the sole survivor of this bloody night. A wolf somehow made a surprise appearance before him, even though he had previously made sure that there wouldn't be a single wolf in his escape path, as literally none was seen.

The wolf appeared suddenly and mysteriously when the slave looked back for a moment to see the situation of his friends, who were all almost dead and being chewed up by the gigantic wolves.

The slave hit the wolf in front of him just as he looked ahead again; it sent him crashing to the ground, and he only realized what he had hit a few moments later.

"Huh?!" he whispered in extreme shock after seeing the giant wolf with those terrifying eyes. His body immediately shook, and his throat swallowed his saliva at the same time.

The slave had previously lost half of his right arm, and tears were still visible in his eyes. The images of the moments when he lost half of his right arm still haunted him. That pain when his body part was bitten and pulled by the sharp teeth of a gigantic wolf he still clearly felt, so when he realized that he was about to experience something worse than that, his soul flew away from his body.

Even so, the slave's body was still able to shift backwards. He unconsciously was still trying to 'escape', and it was clear that the slave was unaware that his body was moving on its own because his mind was wholly fixated on the horrific images that haunted him.

His pale face, which showed an expression of extreme fear, instantly changed when suddenly his back was pulled hard by another wolf from behind him. The slave screamed hysterically after that.

His body was then thrown quite close from there, but the skin on his back came off along with the back of his shirt, stuck in the wolf's mouth.

He stopped his hysterical scream as soon as his body fell to the ground in a prone position, but his head quickly lifted slightly into the air. His eyes looked blank at that moment; he didn't show any specific expression as he realized what terrible thing was to come next…

His mind went blank as he learned that two wolves simultaneously would break his initial assumption of him being the sole survivor of this incident, not one but two wolves at once.

Without waiting any longer, the two wolves immediately finished off the slave. They tore his scalp, pulled the skin of his face, stabbed his eyes with their fangs, bit and crushed his skull, pulled out his internal organs through his back, and pulled the flesh out of his thighs to be chewed and swallowed along with his fresh blood.

On the other hand, Roman still froze, looking at the slave not far from him. The slave eventually also became a wolf's fresh dinner, making him feel excruciating pain when one by one of his limbs were torn apart and eaten by the wolf.

In the midst of his sobs and screams, the slave accidentally turned to Roman and was quite surprised to see him frozen there.

"Wh-what… are… you… doing?" the slave asked Roman weakly while still crying and enduring the pain.

"Go… run…" he added.

'Huh?!' Roman seemed to be just 'awaken' after hearing the slave's words. Somehow his mind seemed not to be here for a while.

'What happened?! My body…' he thought. He then realized that his body mysteriously could not be moved, in the sense that he was currently like a statue.

'This is… just like before,' he continued, remembering the time when he froze entirely with a blank mind as soon as he came out of the toilet and saw what had happened to Zoro, just a few moments before the scream of that slave near him made him 'awaken.'

But strangely, Roman was previously able to make small movements after he was 'awakened,' which was when he turned to the slave near him when the slave screamed, while this time, Roman totally couldn't move his body no matter how hard he tried, and this made him upset quite a bit.

'What the fuck is this?!' he thought again not long after because he still couldn't move his body, not even to just turn his head the other way.

'Shit! Shit! Shit!' Roman eventually could only curse in his mind.

This also left his eyes no choice but to continue to look at how the slave not far from him slowly died as the wolf ate his vital body parts. However, Roman then tried to look back at Zoro, and it turned out he had no trouble looking at another point without moving his head, which made him quite happy initially.

Roman was shocked afterwards when he saw Zoro's body in a state almost out of shape. The only part of Zoro's body that was left intact was his head, even though the skin on his face was not that intact anymore. But at least his eyes, nose, and mouth were all still there, while the body parts under his neck had been completely eaten, except for some internal organs such as intestines which had been cut into smaller pieces and scattered on the ground.

Seeing this scene, Roman immediately set a dramatic look in his eyes. His eyes also didn't blink anymore, not because they were frozen, but because Roman was wholly fixated on sight.

'Zoro…' he thought. He didn't even know what to think anymore.

It was certain that by this point, 198 of 200 slaves on the ranch had died being killed/eaten by the wolves. Roman, who mysteriously couldn't move, was the only one left here, and strangely until now, there hadn't been a single wolf attacking him.

The wolves were still busy eliminating the remains of the other slaves, but this was quite odd considering that so far, none of them had acted as if Roman was there.

Moments later, Roman suddenly felt like his body had just been freed from something. He didn't feel any pressure anymore and could move his body again. It caused him to lose his balance for a moment, which made him knelt on the ground, taking him by surprise.

"Huh?!" Roman said. He also looked confused. At this point, he was still focused on himself and was looking down, but only 2 seconds later, he felt a solid sinister atmosphere around him. The atmosphere intimidated him and was like crushing him to pieces from within.

Roman quickly raised his head again after that. He was shocked when he found 22 giant wolves were staring intently at him with great horror.