54 – Battle with a pack of wolves
“Crrrn…”
The wolves approached us slowly, as if searching for us.
Richari seemed to have already started casting, and was muttering something while glaring at the wolves.
‘There was a casting method like that…’
When I was learning magic, I learned general-purpose magic spells, but there wasn’t much difference in speed between them and silence, so I skipped them.
Magic teacher Seliana said that most wizards use both spells and starter words.
I guess it is quicker to suggest something if you spit it out directly with your mouth.
I took my eyes off Li Shari and quietly placed her hand on the dagger at her waist.
But as they got closer, the wolf in the lead felt particularly large.
‘It’s so big, crazy…’
The regular wolves standing on both sides were easily larger than a large dog like a malamute, but that bastard seemed to be four or five times their size.
“Great Wolf!?”
Rishari, who was standing next to him, shouts.
It was a questioning cry, as if it was strange for a guy like that to be here.
I wanted to ask what was strange, but the battle had already begun.
“Khuong!”
The Great Wolf took the lead and charged toward Calia, while the other three scattered to the left and right and rushed at us.
‘Damn it!’
They are animals, so they must have felt it instinctively.
He decided that he could easily win if he killed Lishari and me in the back row first.
But the moment they started to disperse,
“Animal type restraint!”
After finishing casting, Lee Shari shouted her starting word.
It was my first time hearing magic. It’s probably a higher level magic in the level 1 grab magic system that I learned.
A complex yellow magic circle appeared under the feet of the four wolves, blocking their movements.
“Sigh!”
Jespa let out a short burst of energy and kicked the regular wolf that stopped right in front of him.
“Awake…”
A wolf faints and falls with just one hit.
“Haaa!”
Meanwhile, Calia pulled out the shortsword from her belt and rushed at the Great Wolf.
A short sword aimed precisely at the eye.
“Keuuung!”
However, the Great Wolf used his strength to break the binding spell and narrowly escaped his sword.
“Wow!”
Li Shari, who was concentrating with her softly glowing orb forward, had her binding magic broken by the Great Wolf.
Her body swayed and she fell to her knees on the floor.
As a result, not only the Great Wolf but also the other two wolves were released.
The Great Wolf, who had just straightened his posture, thrust out her sword and was about to attack Calia, whose posture had collapsed.
“Sigh!”
Jespa saw him and ran towards Calia with all his might, but it was already too late.
The Great Wolf’s sharp, dagger-like teeth flew into Calia’s neck.
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“Cal…Lia…”
Li Shari placed one hand on her floor due to the extreme dizziness caused by her forced dispelling of the spell and barely managed to raise her head to survey the situation.
The Great Wolf, a monster that broke the level 3 binding magic with ignorant force.
They reign as the kings of wolf packs in an area and are known to live for hundreds of years or more.
A monster that is treated as a ghost, with only a few records of encounters.
High-level entities of that level rarely appear in the human realm.
The only ones that come out are the alpha wolves who were expelled from their territory.
There is no way a guy like that would appear on a street where people like this walk.
Their strength was considerable, so even as platinum level adventurers, they were quite difficult opponents unless special measures were taken.
As a result, the sharp teeth were about to sink into Calia’s neck.
“No…No…”
I tried to use all my willpower to use magic bullets, but with my current wavering vision, I couldn’t even visualize it.
The moment the great wolf’s huge maw reached Calia’s neck,
“Shield.”
A low murmur was heard from next to me.
When I turned his head with difficulty, Tom was still standing there with an expressionless face.
I was momentarily dazed by the starter word he suddenly spat out, as he had no sign of casting, but soon returned to reality.
‘Nothing like a shield can stop those tooth attacks!’
Li Shari closed her eyes tightly, unable to bear to see her close friend who would soon die.
-Chang!
Sure enough, the sound of the magic breaking…
-Chang!Chang!Chang!Chang!Chang!Chang!Chang!Chang!Chang!Chang! Kang!
“Khuong!”
Calia’s neck was still attached, and the Great Wolf stepped back, as if he had chewed something wrong with her.
‘How many layers are there…’
The shield is almost as transparent as glass.
But now, the shield surrounding Calia’s neck was almost hazy and translucent.
At that time,
“Kwaaang!”
Taking advantage of the confusion, two ordinary wolves attacked Lishari.
“Ugh.”
But Li Shari still found it difficult to even get her body up.
At that time,
-Puck, puck! Puck! Puck! Puck! Puck! Puck!
“Kkegaeng!!”
A sound like drums being beaten in succession was heard, and the two wolves that were running ran away.
‘Without even a starter word!?’
Tom, who fired magic bullets in an instant without any warning, approached Li Shari and held out something of hers.
“Drink quickly.”
It was a blue magic potion.
A high-purity magic potion that is difficult for commoners to even look at.
Rishari drank it in one go without a second thought and stood up.
I grasp the situation again with a clearer mind.
Tom, who gave him the potion, approaches the two fallen wolves holding a jet-black dagger with a eerie aura in his hand.
He was quite large and had quite a tough look. As he walked like that, I felt quite intimidated.
‘Oh, I’m scared…’
It seemed like there was no need to worry over there. Rather, I felt sorry for the wolves.
Turn your head.
Calia and Jespar are fighting the Great Wolf together.
But they were slowly being pushed back.
Rishari came up with the fastest and most effective spell to cast.
“……………..Blocked view.”
“Kwaaa!!”
The Great Wolf was embarrassed by his suddenly narrowed field of vision and ended up allowing several attacks from Calia and Jespa.
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After handing the magic potion to Lishari, I approached the two guys who were yelling at me after being hit with magic bullets.
First, I approached the one on the right and tried to point a dagger at the one struggling on the floor.
But I couldn’t bear to move my hand.
It is different from the time when the water buffalo was dismantled.
At that time, I had already cut down a dead person, and now I am trying to end his life at close range with my own hands.
I could have killed him with magic, but the only magic that can definitely kill me now is the Ice Spear.
The risk was too great to use it now.
And since I’ve already used 20 layers of shields and a few magic bullets, one shot is probably the limit.
His hands were shaking, but I closed my eyes and held the dagger to his throat.
“Kae gang…”
The guy who struggled for a moment soon fell limp.
‘f*ck….’
I had a bad taste.
But,
Suddenly, something like a black aura rose from the body of the killed wolf and was absorbed into the dagger.
“Well, what is it?”
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And I felt the dagger’s magic power build up a little.
It was a hideous production, as if the dagger had absorbed the soul of a wolf.
At that time,
“Keuuung!”
Similarly, another guy who had been struggling after being hit by a magic bullet seemed to have come to his senses and attacked me.
I barely managed to stop it from being bitten by blocking its neck with my elbow.
“Kung!Kung!”
But the force with which he struck his head was stronger than the strength of my arm.
His spit splattered all over my face.
I immediately cast a body strengthening spell.
For a moment, my power, which was raised to maximum output, easily exceeded his.
“Get away from me!”
“Kkegaeng!”
I pushed my elbow as hard as I could, and the guy fell off.
Then he approached the guy right away and punched him in the head.
-Puck!
The wolf’s pain bursting like a watermelon.
I was surprised by the stronger effect than I expected.
Then I plunged the dagger into the guy’s neck.
This time there was no absorption effect.
‘He’s already dead.’
It seems that the magic power is absorbed only when the final blow is struck with a dagger.
It looks like he already died instantly when I broke his bone.
And then look at the situation again.
The Great Wolf was barely being blocked by Jespa and Calia, and the wolf that Jespa had knocked out in the beginning was finally getting back up.
I immediately ran to him and killed him with a dagger.
After absorbing that magic power, the magic power of the dagger has now reached almost its maximum level.
Looking towards the Great Wolf, there was a lull for a moment.
“It’s just right.”
I created an ice spear in each hand.
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“Heo, heo, heo…”
Calia took a deep breath and lifted the broken circular shield that was only half her size.
‘Damn! ‘If only I hadn’t let my guard down.’
It’s that level of a monster.
I should have anticipated that the binding magic would be lifted and attacked carefully.
I thoughtlessly attacked with all my might in an attempt to end it in one blow, and the situation came to this point.
“Tal…..Jin….”
The sound of a difficult magic being activated was heard from behind.
Rishari has already used crowd control magic several times.
“Rishari! Don’t overdo it!”
It was probably the last magic that was cast by squeezing out all the magic power that was missing.
Now we have to see the end.
Kalia rushes in first and wields her shortsword.
Jespa’s kick followed.
The two exhausted attacks were now noticeably slower.
However, the great wolf under the exhaustion spell also slowed down significantly.
Once again, it’s a whistle-stop situation.
But,
“Crumbling…”
Suddenly the Great Wolf’s movements became faster.
“Damn it!”
It seems that Lishari’s magical powers have finally run out.
The exhaustion spell has been dispelled, and they are now at a disadvantage again.
The Great Wolf rotated its body once and shook off Calia and Jespar.
“Kwaaak!”
“Wow!”
The two people, with a distance between them, stared at each other for a moment and faced each other.
But then,
-Wedge! Sigh!
Something flew at the speed of a beam of light and crashed into the side of the Great Wolf.
It looked like a long silver spear and flew so fast that a large body of the size of a Great Wolf could stumble.
“Quuu…”
The guy let out a pitiful cry, but still held on without collapsing.
The moment Calia tried to run away,
-Wedge! Sigh!
The silver spear flew one more time and pierced the Great Wolf’s temple.
This time, he couldn’t even make a sound and fell sideways like an old tree.
Kalia carefully approached and checked.
“Whoa…”
– Shake it off.
After confirming that the bastard had clearly stopped breathing, Calia flopped down in her place.
It was a long and difficult battle.