The beast turned its attention to the team. Vale led the charge, shouting,
"Attack with everything you have, tear through its hide!"
Yet, his sword barely left a scratch on the thick, impenetrable fur of the Hell Wolf.
Lucas lunged forward, his dagger aimed at the creature's side.
"Fuck! I'm giving it all I've got, this damn beast is like a goddamn iron wall!"
But the Hell Wolf shrugged off his strike as if it were nothing more than an annoying bite.
Delilah hurled a fireball with all her might, her fiery magic blazing across the dark cavern.
"Taste the fury of my flames!" she roared, but the enormous fireball from the Hell Wolf countered with an even larger burst of flame. The impact scorched Delilah's clothing around her midriff, leaving ragged burns that exposed her skin, yet the beast remained undeterred.
Marcus, still guarding the little girl, cried out in alarm as the Hell Wolf slowly advanced toward him. Desperate, he summoned a protective wall with his power. However, the creature merely extended a leg, shattering the wall as if it were made of paper, and trampled Marcus, inflicting grievous injuries.
Just as the Hell Wolf prepared to devour Marcus, something inexplicable happened. Marcus, expecting excruciating pain, had closed his eyes in resignation. When he opened them a few seconds later, he found that the Hell Wolf now trembled in terror, as if paralyzed by an unseen force.
At that very moment, the little girl began to emit a strange black-and-white glow, slowly levitating into mid-air. The stitches binding her eyes and mouth started to loosen and unravel. With a sudden, eerie clarity, she opened her eyes, and then raised a delicate finger toward the trembling beast.
The Hell Wolf, as if bound by invisible chains, began to drift upward, unable to resist the pull of the girl's command. No matter how it struggled, it could not break free. Then, in a voice as cold and final as death itself, the little girl shouted,
"Die!"
In an instant, the Hell Wolf's body convulsed and exploded in a burst of blood and gore. The horror of its death was as swift as it was shocking.
Vale and the others stared in absolute terror. All their previous attacks had been as ineffective as a mere tickle compared to the devastating power unleashed by that single command. The sheer force and the eerie aura of the girl were beyond comprehension.
As the Hell Wolf's remains scattered, the girl slowly descended, collapsing to the ground and lapsing into unconsciousness once more. At that moment, the white-robed cult leader, clearly horrified, cried out,
"This is impossible! She's a failed sacrificial offering, there's no way she could possess such power! It's impossible!"
Enraged beyond measure, Vale stepped forward, gripping his sword with lethal intent.
"You fucking bastard! I'm going to end your reign of terror right now!"
He advanced relentlessly toward the cult leader, who, in a panic, began to crawl while begging for mercy. But Vale's fury was unstoppable. Without a word of mercy, he drove his sword straight into the cult leader's heart. As the man gasped his final words,
"The... Great Leader will help me... avenge..."
he fell silent, his body collapsing lifelessly.