1. Prologue (where it all began)

Somewhere on the continent of Midjaz stood a dark tower that had countless floors packed with monsters. There was a party of five climbing up the tower in the search of power and fame. Three men and two women were walking in a straight line in pure darkness.

"Damn it Lucy can't you just put up a bloody light!" Yelled Andrew a middle aged man clad in silver armour holding a battle axe.

"S-sorry, I d-don't have enough p-prana left." Stammered a girl who looked to be in her late teens with twin pigtails wearing a green mage robe.

"C'mon Andrew no need to be so harsh on her she is afterall a newbie in this field." Says a woman in tight fitting black attire which hugged her curvy figure.

"Tch!" Andrew clicked his tongue and continued to press forward with his younger brother Matthew ahead of him holding onto a sheild.

As they continued to press forward suddenly they group could hear mixed sounds of snarling and growling ahead of them. But surprisingly they never heard any footsteps coming closer to them. 'Well isn't that just weird' thought Andrew. Suddenly what happened to be muffled sounds of giggling could be heard if one concentrated enough.

"Light!" Said Lucy and suddenly the surrounding darkness dissapeared and in a well illuminated circle around 50 metres a pack of wolves could be seen surrounding something dark in colour. The wolves notice the change in the environment and all snap and look towards the direction of the light.

5 of the wolves stood 2 metres tall and one at 3 metres tall and blood-red eyes with fur as dark as night and pearly white teeth and mouths dripping with saliva. "Fuck me they just had to be a pack of direwolves with an alpha. And six of them at that!" Exclaimed Matthew.

The wolves stopped looking at the strange black object. And started to advance towards the group of five. Matthew held his sheild high as a direwolf charged straight at him and swiped it's claws producing sparks as the claws and sheild collided. Another direwolf pounced at Andrew and opened it's jaws ready to bite at his neck. Andrew swang his axe upwards missing most of the wolf and instead manged to slice it's left eye.

Whimper!

The wolf whimpered in pain as blood dripped from its face onto the stone floor. The other wolves decided to jump into action leaving the alpha with its back turned towards the black object. "Fire blast!" Shouted a man in red robes and a magic circle formed at the feet of the wolf with and injured eye and then a spiral of flames rose up from the ground encircling the wolf.

When the fire died down what was left was a wolf burnt to a crisp.

"Shadow blades!" Shouted Amelia the woman in black clothes and three blades of pure darkness could be seen travelling to the wolf that was in combat against Matthew. The shadow blades made contact with the back side of the wolf leaving three deep gashes on its back that started to leak blood. The wolf grunted and wipped it's head towards the direction of the attack and nothing could be seen. Suddenly Amelia jumped onto Matthew's shoulder and leaped into the air and twisted in the air with twin daggers in each hand as she descended onto the wolf slashing an artery on the neck other wolf. It slowly fell to ground due to severe blood loss. "Thanks for the help Amelia." Said Matthew

"Pay no mind to it brother-in-law." She said with a smile on her face.

After seeing two of their brethren die the other wolves decided to take the fight seriously. The wolves begun to emit a dark aura and their teeth and claws turned dark crimson. The wolves lunged forth and attacked the party of five. Two wolves decided to block the fighters as one sped past them to attack the mages. The fire mage then cast "Blazing chains!" As chains made of fire started to wrap around the wolf. Once the wolf was locked in place he shouted "Fire lance!" A flame appeared in his hand as it too the shape of a javelin. He threw it straight at the restrained wolf.

Boom!

The spell exploded on impact with the wolf spraying rocks and raising a dust cloud. The mage fell down onto his buttom heaving greatly. "Damn my prana has run out. Curses. Oi Lucy cast a recovery spell on me dammit can't you be more useful for a support!" He said out of frustration as Lucy was stuck on the spot and trembling.

Suddenly the dust cloud settled down and what was see was only a severely injured wolf still standing and staring at the two mages hatefully. It started to move slowly towards them as it was limping. The wolf seemingly telling the girl in green was the weakest out of them all and lunged at her and it's fangs bit hard on her throat ripping off her head. The wolf heard some shuffling and noticed it's brothers were long dead and the three lightly injured warriors were coming to support the mage. The wolf lunged towards the mage and slashed his throat as an axe came down on its next beheading it.

Looking at their fallen team members with sorrow on their faces. Suddenly the body of the wolves started to turn to black dust and was pulled to a different direction. The remaining three noticed something was wrong and then they turned to see the alpha was still standing in place and then the black dust started to wrap up around the wolf. The wolf started to transform suddenly it stood on two legs and then above it's head were (LVL 51: Lycan). "Holy shit it's a fuckin named boss!" Screamed Matthew.

Howl!

The wolf standing on two legs with a muscular body and hands with crimson claws stared at the three humans left. It stood in it's place not moving. The three looked at one another and rushed towards the boss.

The wolf swung it's arm down and then crimson energy blades could be seen flying towards Matthew and he raised his sheild. The crimson energy then cut through the sheild seemingly like butter. And three gashes appeared in his armour. "Arrrrgh!" He screamed through the pain as blood started to pour down his armour. Andrew swung his axe at the wolf and cut it's leg. It raised it's fist and punched him on the face suddenly Amelia appeared right behind it and cut the back of it's neck.

Blood splattered out and it then turned around and slashed her face. She fainted from the wound and Andrew got really angry at this sight. "Beserker!" He shouted as a red mist covered him and his eyes went bloodshot. In this state it takes a toll on the users body and takes away their thoughts as it slowly chips away on their vitality.

Andrew let out a fury of attacks towards the wolf and he seemed evenly matched with it in a 1v1 match.

At the end of it all both parties had fought furiously and Andrew only left with one arm the wolf had held onto its last strings. Andrew fell onto his knee with his axe supporting his body upright. He then looked up to see the wolf was crawling away from him towards the strange black object and he noticed the strange behaviour. When it got closer to it, it coughed up some blood and touched the black object and smothered it in its blood and then it started to dissapear.

Andrew suddenly got a message from his system 'host has levelled up' it said in a static voice.

Suddenly he heard crying and he noticed it was a baby's cry. He hoisted himself up and put his brother on his axe as he dragged it and put Amelia on his shoulder and looked at the black object that now resembled a blanket with a baby in it with the name 'Darcio Ajal' embroidered onto the blanket. He was shocked upon this sight and realised the wolves were actually protecting this baby. He lifted it and soon a notification appeared asking 'head to next floor or return.' He clicked return an they were suddenly teleported out of the tower.

Reporters could be seen everywhere and as he tried making a step he suddenly collapsed.