Chapter 22: Horned wolf king
The horned wolf king was quickly gaining onto Alesia so I have to step in very soon or Alesia will be in a lot of danger.
I couldn't do the same as with the black bears, because I needed to protect Alesia as well. So I decided to pull its attention with throwing a fireball followed with a wind cutter.
Both hit its mark but only managed to graze the horned wolf king a little. Spells at this level just aren't enough to hurt a beast like this, so I had to come up with something better.
Luckily the horned wolf king noticed me, but just after giving me a glance it continued going after Alesia.
Damn this beast has some intelligence. It wanted to kill the weak target first as it saw I couldn't hurt it a lot.
I was doing everything I could to draw its attention but just wasn't able to. And after half a minute Alesia tripped and fell onto the ground.
The wolf who was right behind her leaped towards her trying to impale her with its horn. Alesia had a horrified look on her face as she knew her end was nearing. She couldn't even move her legs anymore and tears started welling up in her eyes.
Just right before the horn would hit her I body-slammed the horned wolf king making it miss its target.
I was all out of ideas and could only come up with this to save her life.
"Alesia run, I'll hinder the wolf."
But even after I said this she didn't move. Not because she didn't want to, but because she couldn't. Her fear had taken over her body and she couldn't move a muscle.
I didn't have time to convince her as the wolf was already up and running at me. Luckily I got its attention right now as it wasn't focusing on Alesia anymore. It definitely wanted to get rid of the one who was hindering it.
I couldn't dodge as Alesia was right behind me. So I had to use something else for the first time. Just before the wolf arrived before me, I cast an earth magic spell. A wall of earth appeared before me and the horned wolf king hit it full on.
Luckily the wall was strong enough as it completely stopped the horned wolf king. Only for the wall to crumble into nothingness after the collision. I quickly threw a wind cutter at its legs to try to immobilize it.
I grabbed Alesia and ran in the direction of the campsite. Trying to put some distance between us. But the horned wolf king quickly regained its composure and charged after us. It was like the wind cutter didn't even graze it.
I had some lead and my body was strong enough to at least not let the horned wolf king get any closer. But right now I was carrying Alesia so I was slower than normal. The horned wolf king was quickly catching up to us.
I was running for my life as I knew that when the horned wolf king reaches us it would doom us both. So right now I was putting all my strength into my legs to just run as fast as possible.
But nothing I did really mattered. The horned wolf king was almost in leaping distance and it wouldn't take long for it to kill both of us.
The moment soon arrived and I had to make a choice. Either discard Alesia and make a run for it. Or try to protect her. The latter option would spell both of our doom, but with the first at least I could make it out. So it should be quite an easy decision.
Then why was I protecting Alesia with my body right now? Why was I protecting the one who hates me?
I didn't really have any answers to these questions. But I couldn't just leave her to die. So I shielded her with my body and waited for the impact of the horned wolf king.
"Whooosh, BOOM."
I could hear something flying past me and hitting something.
When I looked up I could see Angelica and Bianca standing in front of me. Looking behind me I saw the corpse of the horned wolf king. Charred and sliced apart. Definitely the spells from these two.
"Drake Alesia, are the both of you okay?" Angelica asked us.
"Yes, I'm fine Miss Flamery."
But no answer came out of Alesia's mouth. She was still filled with fear.
"It's okay Alesia you are safe now." I could feel her shuddering lessening, but she still gripped me tightly as to now let me go.
"Can you walk yourself?"
After which I saw her shaking her head slightly.
"Miss Flamery I'll carry her to the camp, don't worry."
Angelica had a somewhat surprised expression on her face. Her cousin who, like everyone knew, didn't like me at all was clinging onto me right now.
I carried Alesia in a princess carry and started to walk towards the campsite. A small blushed appeared on her face. There are two reasons for this.
One, I activated my aura to change her fear into one of pleasure. I couldn't let this chance slip away. A cute girl was lying in my arms, so this was definitely a chance to make her more aware of me.
The second was the place of one of my hands. It was placed on her nice perky butt. I was really surprised as to how a flat-chested girl with not a lot of meat on her could have such a booty.
So I definitely didn't let this go without taking a bit of advantage from her. There was an occasional grab disguised as changing her position in my hands. Her face started to get redder with the second.
But unlike I expected she didn't say anything and she just let me do as I pleased. I'm not a guy who doesn't take advantage of the situation, so I treated myself to a nice meal. It was also a chance to get a bit closer to her. She was still a target I needed to conquer.
I walked to the campsite with Alesia in my arms and just right before we arrived I asked her "Do you think you can walk now, you wouldn't want to be seen in my arms when we arrive at the campsite now do you?"
She nodded and I put her down on the ground. I could see her fear was diminished greatly and the blush on her face still remained. Well, I had activated the sexual pheromone aura and fondled her butt the entire time so it would be a miracle if she didn't feel anything after all that.
Before walking away I said to her "don't worry about a reward for your savior."
I could hear her yelling after me "you idiot don't think I don't know what you did to me and without my cousin, both of us would be dead. So it should be you giving me a reward."
"Haha seems like your back to your normal self. Well, I'll walk away first so it doesn't seem like we arrived together." As I said this I started walking towards the campsite.
I could still hear a small voice of Alesia "Thank you"
Most people wouldn't have heard it, but I definitely did. Seems like the barrier between us is falling down bit by bit.
When I arrived at my tent most people didn't even know what happened. But one did, Brett came running towards me and asked me immediately what happened.
After I explained to him what had happened and that I wasn't hurt he was very happy. I could see a smile coming onto his face. I'm very lucky with a friend such as this I thought to myself.
After eating dinner together with Brett someone walked towards me and said: "Teacher Flamery is looking for you."
"Alright, I'll go towards her now."
She probably wanted to ask about what happened. I definitely wanted to know why the teachers didn't come any earlier, so I quickly made my way to the teacher tent.
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