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The Rise of the Winter Wolf - Book 6 - Chapter 14 - Failed Plots (Patreon)

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Damnit, I’ve never been the biggest on teamwork. Especially after spending years in this dungeon either on my own or just alone with Sapphire.

Doesn’t exactly build up teamwork skills.

I grit my teeth as I look around at the dozens of thousands of other people all falling down alongside the rubble from what used to be the floor. Then I look down at the hydra as some of its many heads jerk upwards to snap at the people who reach it first. The ones who didn’t manage to catch themselves from falling.

And it really does become a literal blood bath. With the hydra’s heads chomping into one person after another, some heads moving faster than I’m sure some of the contestants here can even see.

My eyes track it though, and I watch as the heads go from one unfortunate victim to another. Some heads chomping halfway through the person, spiling their blood and guts down while others swallow them whole. Some chomp through parts of them, others don’t even bother biting and merely use their magic to freeze, boil, roast, poison, or disintegrate them. Amongst many other types of magic.

I frown a little at the massive amounts of blood and gore falling down into the pit where the hydra is waiting. But my attention quickly turns to the other contestants still up here that aren’t falling when some of them throw attacks down at the hydra.

Amongst the contestants, probably around only a third of them stopped themselves from falling. Meanwhile a third of the remaining contestants that did fall managed to reach the bottom without becoming hydra chow. Leaving about five ninths of the contestants remaining if my math isn’t wrong.

So almost half of the contestants died the moment this raid boss began.

Not entirely unexpected considering the fact that there were almost fifty thousand contestants left in this competition before this raid boss fight. But most of the contestants who are attacking the hydra don’t exactly seem to be doing all that much damage to it.

Actually, I can tell the stronger ones are all waiting and not attacking at all. Which is the smart move and the same one I’m making right now.

It’s best to watch and see what the hydra can do right now rather than rush in. It’s the strongest monster I’ve faced thus far after all.

All of the people who attack the hydra end up being blasted right back by some of its heads, killing a lot of them in a single blow. But not all of them. Some of the contestants are actually pretty strong, with levels a hundred or more above my own. And those ones at that level that still attacked instead of waiting just seem to be muscleheads. Even if a lot of them don’t have any, well, muscles. Seeing as they’re an insect-like crab species.

Actually, wait, do crabs have muscles? They may… but these are also insect-like in a way, so I’m not sure which they’d take after.

At least, I don’t think insects have muscles.

I at least know spiders don’t have muscles, but spiders are different from insects.

My inner tangent is interrupted when some of the other contestants that had waited before begin grouping together while discussing a plan of action. Clearly treating me as some sort of outsider and excluding me.

Not that it matters. I just decrease the soundproofing on my headphones and listen in on their plans while keeping an eye on the boss as the thing kills more contestants.

It doesn’t take long before I end up quirking a brow though.

Oh? So that’s how they want to play?

I glance at Sapphire with my brow still raised, making her ask, “What’re they talking about?”

“Oh, nothing much,” I tell her, turning to look at the insectoid crabs. “Just how they’re gonna use us as bait and a sacrifice to kill the thing.”

She doesn’t say anything for a few seconds before suggesting, “So how are we going to use them as bait?”

“Hmm,” I hum while tapping my chin and glancing between them, the dying contestants, and the hydra. “Well, their plan seems to involve them entering the shadow realm, appearing next to us, attacking the hydra, and entering the shadow realm again. So…”

I pause as the contestants in question vanish in shadows. Then they reappear again right next to me while sending a wave of attacks at the hydra below.

But I don’t let them leave, instead freezing them in place before Sapphire and I turn into lunar ice element and casually leave the area to the other side of the pit. Meanwhile the hydra goes crazy sending attacks at the frozen idiots.

“I think that works,” I state after returning to solid form while flapping my wings to stay in the air this time.

Sapphire nods her head in agreement, and the other groups of contestants turn their attention away from me. Each of them immediately changing their plans after seeing what Sapphire and I just did to those idiots.

“Looks like the others have had a change of heart,” I state with a faint smirk on my face.

Sapphire snorts and shakes her head while saying, “I bet.”

I turn my attention away from the dying contestants to focus on the hydra again. A hydra that is currently being attacked by one plan after another, actually beginning to lose a couple of its heads in the process.

But, just like a lot of hydras in mythology back on Earth, the hydra just regrows its heads after they’re destroyed. With heads that are severed in any way regrowing to form two heads.

Guess using blades and other type of severing attack is out of the question.

I glance at Sapphire to find her watching as well. Then I focus on the hydra again.

My lunar ice should be fine though.

Time to put it to the test.

Seeing just how much my ice will do against something at such a high level above my own.