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The Rise of the Winter Wolf - Book 6 - Chapter 15 - Executing the Plan (Patreon)

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2024-04-22 00:16:01

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Don't mind this fluff. It's so that free readers can't read half the chapter.

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That said, I don’t just attack the hydra right away. Instead I transform back into lunar ice element before flashing across the pit to appear next to one of the idiots who was clearly planning an attack on me and Sapphire earlier but decided against it after our display. Then I send a wave of lunar ice element straight at the hydra, freezing one of its heads solid. But the head quickly shatters my ice thanks to the significant difference in power between us. And just as I expected, the head fires off a bolt of electricity at me.

I casually dip out and return to Sapphire though, avoiding the blow. So the only ones who are actually hit by it are the idiots who planned to attack us. And even they have a shield set up to protect themselves.

They set it up the moment I arrived next to them.

So they aren’t stupid.

Not that it helped much since the electricity shatters their barrier and kills half of them anyways.

I return my attention to the hydra down below. And to my surprise, I find that its attention is not on me. Meaning it doesn’t have a big enough attention span to focus on anything but the threats currently attacking it.

Interesting.

Then again, there are tens of thousands of people attacking it. So it makes sense.

Even I can’t focus on every last person in this pit. Not that I necessarily need to since they aren’t stronger than me.

I just need to focus on the stronger ones. The ones who are actually dealing damage to the hydra.

And that’s what I do. I narrow my eyes at the hydra and watch every last attack that lands on it. Seeing what does what.

Sapphire and I move through the pit to avoid attacks as we study the hydra, not sending any attacks of our own at it again after the first fail.

Several minutes pass while the commentator continues blabbering on, and through this process, I manage to figure out a few things about the hydra.

For one, the hydra seems to be weak to magic. Blunt and non-directly damaging magic, to be exact.

Things like fire, poison, freezing, and the like. Stuff that doesn’t leave clear wounds like cuts or bruises or broken bones.

It heals a lot slower with these less-clear wounds than the clearer ones.

The thing also doesn’t regrow a second head from them, like it does when the entire head is separated.

We continue watching for a bit as the number of contestants here dwindle down from the original fifty or so thousand to around twenty-four thousand. Which is a rather large decrease. And slightly intimidating.

But I’ve noticed something during the time it’s been rampaging about.

The hydra seems to be slowing down a little. Whether that’s from exhaustion or due to getting overconfident.

After all, no one has done any major, long-lasting damage against it. So I wouldn’t put it past the hydra to be overconfident.

But I don’t think that’s the case.

It looks a little tired after all. And the ones who have died thus far have been the weaker contestants of this little quinzel.

The strongest contestants are still alive and kicking. Not to mention sending attacks at the hydra non-stop.

In the end, Sapphire and I continue roaming around the air of the pit without really attacking the hydra while leaving it to the other contestants for another half an hour. Then we finally go on the offensive, putting our plan in action.

A plan to take advantage of the hydra’s exhaustion.

I transform into my hunter form again before spreading my arms out and setting up a large wall of lunar ice in radiance form in front of me. Then I control that lunar ice to send forth a powerful and enormous wave of lunar ice in ice form straight at the hydra from above.

All of the other contestants turn their gazes towards me, but I ignore them for the most part as I pour a large amount of lunar ice in liquid form right after the ice form. And just as I expected, the moment the ice shatters against the heads of the hydras, the liquid form ice flows right over the thing, freezing every last head in the process.

“Attack!” I shout at the other contestants.

And they don’t waste even a moment of time as they all send one attack after another at the large hydra.

I briefly nod my head at Sapphire, making her grin and continue my barrage on her own. Then I shrink myself down while changing my form to my regular wolf form, albeit in the size of a puppy.

The next step of our plan.

To use this battle as a distraction.

I feel a wave of excitement fill me as I rush through the many powerful contestants, biting one after another and spreading my infection amongst them.

But I make sure to stop the infection from spreading just yet. Something I didn’t realize I could even do before. Control the infection to only spread when I want it and how fast I want it to spread.

Probably a new power I got from becoming a pseudo progenitor.

I continue moving through the contestants, even as they grow warry of me and try to block me with shields. But most of them are too preoccupied with the hydra to do anything that really stops me.

So I go from one contestant to another, infecting thousands upon thousands of them.

All the way till the remaining ones join together in a large group and make a barrier.

I stop outside of the barrier before nodding my head and going straight back to Sapphire while returning to my hunter form again.

“How’d it go?” Sapphire asks as I take control of the barrage of attacks on the hydra again.

A wide grin spreads across my face when I answer, “It went well.”