He froze and watched as the blade slowly came down at him and saw his reflection in the side of the blade.
'So is this how I'll die? But I haven't even gotten the chance to live my life and yet I will die so soon. Is this how it is meant to be? Is this my end?'
The sword came down slowly but he felt that he couldn't dodge it. His body refused to move and he was just still waiting for the sword to come.
The sword came down and the quick sound of flesh being torn through by a sword rang out. A wolf howl was heard in the silent break of dawn.
{Evolving primitive beast, Night howling wolf king killed. Beast soul obtained. Beast shard gained.}
Michael heard the system whisper into his ears. "Ehh. What just happened?" He turned his neck to look at the body of the wolf king sliced in two and the lady in white holding her sword over it.
Blood dripped from the sword unto the ground but she was stood unmoving. She turned to stare at him with her empty eye sockets.
The glare she was giving Michael gave him the chills but she did not attack him. Instead she floated away as if he didn't exist and went back into the broken temple.
When Michael regained his sense again. He found his clothes drenched in cold sweat.
'What just happened?' He had gotten the beast soul of the wolf king even though he wasn't the one that killed it.
And the lady in white just ignored him but killed the wolf that was attacking him. He held his head and wondered if this was a dream...or a nightmare.
"Let me check out the beast soul first". He summoned the beast soul and a dark light came out from his body and unto his hand.
A talisman appeared and wrapped itself around his wrist.
{Beast soul type : Enchantment}
{Night wolf buff}
Michael was rather surprised. This was a different type of beast soul clearly.
"What does it do?" As the talisman wrapped around his hand, he didn't feel anything quite peculiar about it.
But when he summoned his night howling dagger. He saw a blue aura come out from the talisman and envelope the dagger.
It gleamed with a faint blue light and he could instantly feel that it was a more stronger and sharper.
The effect was the same on his armor but the effect was not too good. Maybe it was because it was on a different rank but the buff hardly did anything.
"This must be the reason why the wolves would suddenly get faster and stronger sometimes. It was because the wolf king was giving all of them a buff. It must be why it kept on getting faster as well". Michael was pleased to have figured out the reason for the pack of wolves strength.
He was getting even more powerful now but he knew that if not for the lady in white, he would have died under the attacks from the wolf king.
'I wonder which rank she would be in to be able to kill the wolf king with such ease.' Michael retreated into his thoughts and went to have some shut eye.
The black fog had already lifted and the sun was starting to come up but he just slept peacefully with little white who did not even know he was gone.
After the battle with the wolves, Michael decided to take a rest and ended up doing nothing throughout the whole day.
The airship they had seen pass them by a couple of days ago was returning after one week. But the airship still didn't see them.
After the one week had eluded, Michael decided it was time if he left the broken temple and find a better destination.
The lady in white had not caused the any trouble and her usual nightly routines didn't end. They left early in the morning and went south.
To their relief when night came, there was no fog and the night was peaceful. They slept on a tall tree and waited till morning before continuing in their previous direction until one morning, as they were picking fruits from a tree to eat. A spatial gap suddenly appeared and they were sucked in along with the entire groove of trees.
"What the f*ck is happening?"
The new place they found themselves was very strange. The trees that grew were in different shapes and sizes and freaky enough, they were all red and felt like real flesh.
"Where the hell are we?" Luckily little White was still with him. The spatial gap also sucked him in too.
Right now little White was very scared and was clutching his ankle very tightly with the same grip it used to block his throat.
"And why are you scared. We've not even encountered any monsters yet?" The rabbit was looked hurt by his words and if it could speak, it would dish out insults to him.
Little White looked at him in disdain and stopped clutching his leg and instead made a pose as if it were an independent animal.
Michael sneered and returned his gaze back to the strange place they had found themselves in. "I wonder the kind of creatures that live here?" Immediately after saying that, he heard a loud roar resound from the crimson forest and the trees shook as if in fear and their leaves started retreating into themselves.
The tall trees were now shaking in fear and tried to make themselves look as small and insignificant as possible.
'What monstrous creature could make the trees tremble.' But he didn't wait to find out, instead he ran and hid behind a tree that had a s-shape. Even though the trees had tried to reduce their sizes, they were still big.
Michael felt the ground tremble and when he looked up, his face paled, he shuddered and cold sweat instantly drenched his body.
'What the f*ck'