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The Rise of the Winter Wolf - Book 6 - Chapter 18 - Bugs for Days (Patreon)

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2024-08-20 19:08:05

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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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I’m not entirely sure how I feel about this particular event. Because when I first started it, I was bored as hell just wandering around looking for a crystal.

But not long after I started complaining – in my head, of course – about how bored I was, I started getting attacked by monsters.

Lots. Of monsters.

And these monsters all seem to be immune to my element somehow. So no matter how much I try to freeze them, the ice just doesn’t stick to them, and they ignore it.

Leaving me fighting these pests with my physical strength alone.

Which wouldn’t be a problem if it weren’t’ for the fact that there are thousands of these pests.

And I mean it when I call them pests, since they’re all bugs.

Ants, mosquitos, flies, beetles, roaches, and so on.

Except jumbo sized to the point that they’re larger than me. And made out of crystals.

On the other hand, Sapphire is probably having a good time. Since I know she likes to eat bugs. What with her being a large spider and all, even if she spends more time in her humanoid form than her spider form nowadays.

A spider will always be a spider after all.

Plus she’s stronger with her physical strength than her use of lunar ice. So she’s probably fine with this method of fighting.

I continue tearing apart the bugs with my claws in my hunter form, finding my armor and jacket to be repeatedly cleaning themselves off every single time bug guts gets on them.

And I continue tearing them apart for hours. And hours.

And more hours.

It takes me two entire days to find anything of note in the damned caves. And that’s in the form of some faint crystals growing on the walls.

But I don’t feel anything particularly special about the crystals.

Crystals themselves though mean that I might be getting somewhere. So I follow the path that the crystals make.

Only to find stronger bugs while doing so.

Bugs that are over an entire hundred levels above me.

At this point I’m beginning to grow tired, and I have to actually fight them seriously instead of swatting them like the insects they are. Jumping around the tunnel to avoid their strikes while striking back at their weak points. Occasionally using my element to maneuver myself around.

Unfortunately for me, when I tried elemental shifting at some point earlier, I found it to not be working at all.

Overall, this fifth of the Second Centurion Quinzel is a major fucking pain in the ass. And it was very clearly made directly to counter me in every way.

I’m guessing the other competitors’ caves are likely the same way. Since it said they were unique to each competitor.

Probably made it so that these caves all counter the competitor they were made for.

Although that doesn’t include Sapphire, since she’s in here with me.

I continue fighting against the large bugs one after another, still finding them to be gradually growing stronger and stronger as time passes. And after another six hours, I find myself entering a massive cavern filled with crystals all around the entire place.

Not to mention more bugs.

Even larger ones to compensate for the larger space.

I let out a sigh.

Then I frown when I check the levels and beta dictionary of some of these pests.

What. The. Fuck?

This thing is stronger than the hydra in terms of levels. Although probably not in physical or magical strength.

Except that it’s immune to my element, just like all of the other monsters in this place.

This is bullshit.

At least for the others they weren’t too much higher level than me. But this one is nearly two hundred levels above me.

I’m only level 6320 after all.

And if I’m struggling this hard, I can’t help but wonder how hard the other competitors are struggling.

I jump straight up into the air, using my lunar ice element to shoot me up and keep me in the air before slashing down with my gauntleted claws to meet the closest wasp’s stinger. Leading to an even clash with the two of us both sending each other flying.

Then I jump back up again when more wasps begin to fly my way from deeper down in the cavern. But there are too many of them, and I’m sent flying back and forth, with me barely even getting a hit in. Only managing to kill one of them despite my own injuries covering my entire body within seconds of the battle starting.

Fortunately for me though, I have my regeneration. So I heal back up both with my own natural regen and my healing magic. Which does still work, thankfully.

And just like this, the wasps and I – and they are all wasps in this particular cavern – clash over and over again. With me only occasionally killing while they all go ham on me, treating me like a damned punching back.

But I manage to avoid their stinger entirely, even occasionally taking other hits to keep avoiding the stinger.

Because something tells me that getting stung is a very bad idea.

And it’s not just the fact that their stinger is larger than I am.

Although I’ll admit that it’s part of the reason.

But after fighting them for half an hour, something happens that changes everything.

A loud screeching sound echoes throughout the cavern, following which a wasp even larger than the others flies out of a crevasse in the wall deep down in the cavern below. In a large pit.

And this wasp is at least fifty meters long, with a level over a hundred above the others.

Well, shit.

This won’t be fun.

I hope Sapphire is alright, because I might not be.

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For those of you who can't view the image:

Crystaline Royal Jacket – Lunar Ice Variant

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A wasp averaging at thirty meters in length from head to stinger made entirely out of a special type of crystal.

One completely immune to all lunar ice elemental attacks and effects.

These creatures have a special venom in their stinger that will rapidly drain the target of elemental energy when injected.

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Level – 6518