Chapter 122: The First Fatality

Chapter 122: The First Fatality


As the mother wolf maintained her distance, with none of the trio twitching a muscle, her eyes shifted to the daggers, and Nova noticed this immediately, dispelling them in an instant. This seemed to have made the female calm down slightly. As she was still on guard, though much more relaxed.


From behind her, pups came; they were very small, as if born just three weeks ago. The pups went to the female wolf, and Elesch realized instantly that the female wolf was a mother, and she was only startled because she wanted to protect her litter.


The other two also clocked it after a few seconds of their brains overheating. The mumma wolf had her eyes towards the trio, as they slowly shifted to the left, their hands still up, not wanting to cause any trouble between the mother and her cubs.


The pups played as the mother inspected them. The pups then started to drink the mother’s milk, which melted the trio’s hearts, as they slowly kept walking away. But then, from the corner of their eyes, they saw a person with water balls summoned in their hands, aimed at the family of wolves.


The person launched the water balls, which the mother wolf wasn’t able to defend against. The pups were wide open, so the person created a water tendril aimed for the pups who were running towards the mother, who was on the ground, barely able to get up.


The mother howled at the pups, telling them to run, though they didn’t clock that, and the water tendril was immediately launched at Mach ten, but was intercepted by Nova, who looked at the person with disgust. Nova cut through the tendril, dispersing all the water immediately into nothing, then lunged at the person, as Elesch and Adam took care of the mother and her pups, though the mother was still feral and nearly bit both of them.


The person created a shield of water, which Nova carved right through, then accelerated by touching the ground once, to be just in front of the person, who he saw was a guy with his first evolution. Nova didn’t care about his rank, since he knew he would win; he had to.


The guy created more water tendrils and a ball, aimed at Nova, but Nova deftly carved each of them out, but then got slammed against two water walls that the guy created, who thought the fight was over, or at least close to being over.


But Nova was right behind him, not a single scratch anywhere on his body, slightly nicking the guy’s neck, as if to play with him. The guy summoned more tendrils, which Nova destroyed right away, giving him no chance to go on the offensive.


"Who the fuck are you?" The guy screamed nervously. "Why are you protecting a monster?"


Nova scoffed as he thought the guy couldn’t differentiate between a mother and a monster. "That wolf has pups, and you were going to kill them, even though they didn’t do anything to you? How can I just sit here and let that happen?"


"Those creatures wreak havoc and destroy thousands of lives in day-to-day life. Mothers, fathers, and children all die because of them, and you’re trying to protect them? Are you fucking retarded?"


"Why the fuck do I give a shit about what happens to people I don’t care about. Please explain that to me. I mean, just look at you, you’re about to die," Nova said coldly, his voice cutting through the guy’s mind. "And you’re here lecturing me on what to do and what not to do. So, I would say you are the one who’s actually retarded."


The guy gulped, falling to the ground, sweating from his forehead, as Nova appeared right in front of him, making the guy’s heart sink deeper than the singularity of a black hole. Nova then cut the guy’s hand, only the right one, to make him scream.


Elesch and Adam helped the mother, giving her a spare yellow mana crystal that Marcus had given them. They fed her one, which seemed to have brought her back to her normal self, attending to the pups, as she licked Elesch on the face.


Then, Nova threw the guy in front of the mother wolf, who snarled at the guy. He created another water tendril, but before he could do anything about it, Nova cut off his other arm fully from the shoulders. He screamed even more as the mother wolf slowly crept towards him, snarling, then lunging at him in an instant to tear him limb from limb, with her pups joining in. Though inflicting no damage.


The guy’s guts fell out, his blood spreading everywhere, as the mother wolf stopped, walking with her pups to go in the opposite direction of where the trio were headed. She howled one last time as though to thank the trio for saving her pup’s life, then turned forward to walk where all the other wolves were headed.


The trio also left the guy’s dead body, moving forward, mapping out the labyrinth, before Nova heard noises again from a distance, though they were human noises, and it felt as if they were calling for someone.


"Gabe, where are you?" one of the noises said, sounding like another male.


The trio then realized that the person that Nova had just killed may have been what the noises were about. They quickly encountered the people from whom the shouting was coming, with nine of them in total. It was the nation of Ireland, and when those Adventurers saw the trio, and then their dead comrade behind them, they were irate to the bone.


"You fucking..." one of the guys said, sounding slightly American, the same one who was shouting. "You’re gonna pay for his death, you fucking wanker."


"I won’t, but I would love to see you try," Nova said, stepping forward, readying himself for a blood bath as the guy summoned a war hammer, twice the size of him, with incredible thickness to the hammer.