Chapter 137 A Tough Fight
" Hrrrrrrr "
The werewolf bared his teeth towards Max and company, only to find himself surrounded by 25 nether beasts baring their teeth towards him.
[ Draconic Werewolf ] - A lesser found species known for their superior defences and solo mentality despite being primarily from the werewolf clan.
[ Derek ] ( Draconic Werewolf ) ( Tier 3 ) - A neutral faction werewolf player with no titles.
Max instinctively took two steps backwards, this was not a simple beast to fight, most likely the werewolf had already scouted out the group and still decided to barge in knowing full well that it was outnumbered.
" Guys we need a plan " Max said as he tried to think of a strategy, however, for some reason Asiva decided to ' Yolo ' this fight as she threw exploding daggers towards the werewolf and charged.
" Siv, NO! ". Max shouted, however, it was already too late, the werewolf had decided to engage with Asiva first.
" Cover her! " Max shouted so that his nether beasts and Anna both heard the command and sprung into action.
' Kid, grab your mask first ' Drax said calmly inside Max's mind as he reminded Max that in his hurry to face the intruder he had forgotten to put his mask back on since having discarded it before.
' Oh shit' Max thought as he rolled over to his Mask first putting it on before returning his attention back to the fight at hand.
Asiva was fighting the werewolf tooth and nail. It was as if she hated him with all her passion, almost like the fight was personal.
Although the passion was there, she was clearly not strong enough to take on the werewolf as despite countless nether beasts running interference she could not create any major openings.
The werewolf tore through the nether beasts like they were puppies, biting into their necks and tossing them aside like they were trash as it continued to attack Asiva with his paws, trying to rip her head off with one clean stroke.
" Aghhhhhhhhhh " Sebastian let out a roar as he charged into the tier 3 werewolf, however, his 4 feet tall body charging at a 15 feet long werewolf was just an hilarious attempt at he was caught in the beasts jaws by his beard and tossed aside like a rag doll as his body slammed into a nearby tree.
The only real damage that was being dealt to the massive beast was from Anna who kept shooting arrows into its gut, however, to her disappointment its hide was unusually thick and although the arrows landed, they failed to deal major damage.
[ Death Circle ]
Max activated the death circle by asking one of the nether beasts to bite it's leg and run around the territory in a small circle, as Max intended to create psychological pressure on the beast by constantly draining it's HP.
-2
-2
-2
-1
-2
The beast began losing HP every second and it looked slightly annoyed as it could not figure out the reason why, but looking at the calm Max staring at himself with his blood red eyes, the werewolf concluded that he was the perpetrator.
" Oh no you don't! " Asiva shouted as she realised that the beast was singling out Max as its target and immediately used ' Illusionary Daggers ' to score a critical hit on the beast.
-1200 CRITICAL HIT!
The beast's HP went down a little but it was nothing substantial compared to its overall massive green HP pool as the reality of the situation finally hit the group that even with a critical hit they could only deal a total of 1200 damage on the beast.
Now the beast's confidence made sense, no wonder it dared to take on the group alone when its defences were so damn strong!
" My regular arrows do a pitiful -125 damage guys, I have to go for the power arrows and the elemental ones, but it will take me time to energise then with mana and shoot, so you might have to hold up till then by yourselves" Anna shouted as Max rolled his eyes at the woman.
" It's a werewolf Anna, it can understand human language, go on, scream our strategy even louder ". Max retorted as he used a fireblast on the beast.
-550
" Grrrh " The werewolf growled looking at him and Max felt his heart jump looking at those ugly teeth so he did what any scared person would do.
-550
-550
-550
-550
Max recklessly used all 5 of his fireblast shots back to back as he scared the shit out of the werewolf in the process.
-70
-70
-70
-70
-70
Since his fireblast spells were over for the day, he could only reluctantly go for fireballs and those did a pitiful -70 damage on the beast.
Using the distraction, Asiva tried to jump on the werewolf from his blindspot as she managed to slam two daggers over his spine.
-2300 Critical Hit!
-2300 Critical Hit!
The werewolf shook it's body violently to throw Asiva off its back as it continued to ram its head into Asiva, knocking her down and winding her as he charged towards Max.
Max knew that he had little to no chance of fighting the beast with swordplay. The difference between the beast's speed and Asiva's was not even close and Asiva was a dagger wielder.
If Max, a sword user thought that he could get a hit on the beast with his long weapon, it would be near suicidal and delusional mentality on his part.
Max knew that of all the moves in his arsenal there was only one that could effectively deal with this beast, as after all even though it was a werewolf, it was still a ' Male werewolf '.
" Come ". Max said as he gripped Bloodsucker tightly and waited for the werewolf to pounce.
Max took a low stance, creating an illusion that the moment the beast would jump he would try and stab it from underneath, which was why the werewolf adjusted its trajectory right before jumping as it rammed straight towards Max with a low jump, instead of jumping really high.
Max dropped his sword and deliberately crashed onto his back laying flat on the ground as the werewolf's momentum carried it forward even though it didn't mean to as it barely passed over Max .
Immediately upon landing the werewolf tried to turn, but found himself unable to as it realised that Max had clutched onto a rather sensitive organ of its body….. the ' balls '
[ Ball Crushing ]
Max destroyed the male werewolves manparts with a devastating squeeze right how his master Jhonny English had taught him, sending waves of unbearable pain throughout the werewolves body.
-12,600 Critical Hit!
" AWOOOOOOOO" The beast roared in pain as it felt both it's sacks being turned into mush with the interior organs being probably damaged for life.
Also, its HP dropped into a dangerous orange zone.
[ System Notification ] - Your enemy is paralyzed for 5 seconds due to unbearable pain.
The beast buckled onto the floor in pain as Max tried to rip the ball sack off its body in one violent pull.
" Anna, now's your chance to shoot ". Max shouted and right on cue Anna released a powerful mana enhanced arrow straight into the werewolves eye, into its brain.
-15,000 Critical Hit!
It was a miracle shot, one only possible because the beast was paralyzed and because of it the group got a highly unlikely victory over a tier 3 beast.
[ System Notification ] - You have killed a neutral tier 3 player of the werewolf race, ' Derek ' inside a wild-zone.
Since the opposing player is a tier higher than you, the EXP reward is increased.
+15,700 exp!
+ 1430 Gold
+ 2 high quality werewolf hides.
[ System Remark ] - Going against someone's man parts is in violation of the bro-code.
You have failed as a man.
[ System Notification ]
You have gained +1 level!
Max read the system notifications and smiled, this was a true miracle win against a stronger opponent in his eyes.
" Nice shot Anna " Max complimented as he turned to look towards the werewolf's corpse only to find it to be missing.
" Ughhh, where's the corpse guys? " Max questioned as all eyes turned towards the spot where the werewolf had died moments ago, only to find the body to be missing.
" The hell? " Anna wondered as she looked at the bow in her hand and pinched her skin to make sure she was not dreaming.
Max panicked and used a scan only to find nobody in the vicinity. It was like the corpse had just vanished into thin air.
" Let's get a move on, we don't know what might be lurking in these parts of the woods, but I definitely don't feel safe ". Max said as the group quickly gathered their belongings and started moving through the dark forest with little visibility in the night.
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( Meanwhile in the turtle cave )
" Tastes good, is it draconic werewolf meat? " Rhea asked as she drank the stew made from draconic werewolf meat and herbs.
" Yes it is " the old turtle replied in a calm but ragged voice.
Rhea wondered how the vegetarian turtle cooked meat so well, but she did not pry into it too much.
From what she had observed, the turtle did not even kill a fly even if it pestered him, however, somehow managed to bring food for her everyday, with different sorts of wound marks on the body of the dead.
Today's draconic werewolf body that he had obtained contained an arrow mark in its head and two dagger marks over its back while it's donger was mutilated beyond recognition.
Rhea understood very well that it was not the turtle's kill, but somehow he had managed to snatch it from under the party who had defeated it.
Every passing hour, a new mystery seemed to surround the turtle. Rhea understood fully well that he was no ordinary character.
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/// A/N - This bonus chapter has been sponsored by generous patron Cole_Bromley, please thank him in the comments for this one.
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