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The Rise of the Winter Wolf - Book 4 - Chapter 62 - Bizarre Events (Patreon)

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2022-12-21 06:30:28

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2023-02

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The miasma bolts don’t really do much, considering that they are wiped out by a simple wave of my hand that sends an arc of voided ice element at them. But they do look intimidating, nonetheless.

“Papa, can I go explore?” Sapphire asks, still hanging on by her arms wrapped around my neck.

I glance at her, then at the floor around us before shrugging and saying, “Sure. Just be careful.”

A wide grin spreads across her face and she hugs me tightly while exclaiming, “Thank you!” She then simply lets go of my neck and falls down to the ground, leaving a crater where she lands that has me staring in surprise.

Huh. Never really tested how strong I am against anything that’s not a monster of the same strength, for the most part. So seeing something like that is still a little bizarre.

After the dust clears, I can see Sapphire giving me a wave before rushing off with that same wide grin on her face.

Well, she looks happy. So that’s good.

Out of nowhere, my head jerks upwards right as a small portion of the eerie, miasmic clouds overhead clears to let moonlight from a full moon shine down on the haunted lands below. And for the first time since becoming what I am, I have to fight the urge to turn and howl at the moon.

Then, for just a single split second after I manage to fight off the urge, the moon appears to flash blue. But it happens so quickly that I find myself tilting my head in confusion, wondering if it had actually happened or not.

I stare up at the sky for a few seconds before the miasmic clouds cover the lone opening once more and darkness covers the floor again.

That was… weird…

Just what was that?

A few seconds pass in silence, with the only noise being that of the revenants on the ground being wiped out by Sapphire.

Well, maybe someone will have recorded it and will post it on the forums later for me to see.

I turn around to look towards one of the mansions before quickly flying over to it and stopping right above a window. But the moment I try to break in through said window with my fist, I find myself suddenly flying away from the building instead.

What the what?

Once again, I turn around and fly straight into the window, only for the exact same thing to happen.

Guess the dungeon doesn’t want me entering through the window.

So I lower down to the ground and walk up to the fancy – but degraded – double door entrance to the large mansion before trying the doorknob and finding the doors locked.

Okay… so what now?

After looking around the door for a few seconds and trying several things, including looking under the carpet, checking the door’s hinges, looking around the front entrance, and even peeking through the keyhole, nothing works. So I resort to the last thing I can think of.

I grab the door knocker and knock on the door while shouting, “Hello? Is anyone home?”

Then the doors open inwards almost immediately with a click, revealing some strange butler on the other side. One who seems to be hiding his face under a veil.

“as;dlfasdvn;osaida;lsdknfpoasi,” the butler says in some weird distorted language while motioning me with his arm to follow him. But I can’t help but gawk at the thing before snapping out of it a few seconds later to identify it.

_-| Unnamed – asdf;lansodf – Level ???? |-_

This has me gawking again.

After a few seconds of staring, the butler looks up again at me and seems to ask a question, “as;dlnasdovpkansd?”

“Oh, uh, sorry,” I answer the thing, having absolutely no idea what it just said but deciding to be polite anyways. “Lead the way, sir.”

The butler thing nods its head at me and begins to walk further into the mansion, so I follow it. And follow it. And follow it. For over five minutes straight as we continue walking through seemingly endless – and quite eerie, considering that there aren’t any lights – hallways.

Eventually, I can’t help but ask, “Uh, where are we going?”

The butler finally stops, as if triggered by my question and motions for me to enter a random room.

I have absolutely no idea what is going on right now. But it’s more interesting than the boring patterns of the previous floors, so I might as well play along.

The instant I open the door, I close it again and turn to the butler.

“Can I have a different room?” I ask with a straight face.

I don’t know what’s up with that room, but I am not sleeping in a room seemingly distorted in space with what looked like a slime made of mud as a roommate. Assuming I was to actually sleep in this place that is.

The butler tilts his head at me then shrugs and motions for me to follow him again. So I do.

For another five minutes.

This is getting boring.

Deciding that I’ve had enough playing around, I let my voided ice element leak out of me, freezing the cobweb-coated walls of the hallway and sending a wave of ice throughout the halls. This freezes everything here, including all of the paintings, the nearby rooms and judging by the EXP given to me, their occupants, and damn near everything else.

Everything except the butler. Who just turns to stare at me with its head tilted in confusion.

“Uh…” I mutter while staring back at it, wondering why it isn’t a popsicle. “Why aren’t you dead?”

As if me asking that one simple question was a more horrific action than me attacking it, the creature suddenly lets out a screech, making its veil fly off to reveal… nothing. It has no face.

And the instant after I see its faceless face, everything goes black, and I can’t see a thing. But I can feel several things similar in texture to tentacles slamming into me, only to not be able to pierce through my defenses. Defenses that are coated in my ice.

The attack does send me flying through a wall though.

I have no freaking idea what’s going on right now, but if Mr. Butler wants a fight, I’ll give it one!

So I transform into my hunter form and jump to my feet while lowering the soundproofing on my headphones.

Let’s see if I can’t find you via sound…

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