บท 184: Wolf Pack
Translator: Cinder Translations
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"Phew! Finally shook off those villains!"
Grand Duchess Helen breathed a sigh of relief.
The carriage continued forward, and the pursuer leader who had been clinging to it had vanished without a trace. Only his disheveled clothes were pinned to the side of the carriage by a short crossbow bolt, the very one Ladia had shot at the beginning of the battle.
"I've recovered almost completely. Shall I use Featherlight Spell again?"
"Save your energy! What if we encounter something else?"
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The pursuer leader, naked and clinging to a tree trunk, watched as his four subordinates in the open space were each knocked down by the mud monsters. Then, the carriage carrying their target gradually moved away.
Anxious and agitated, he suddenly saw the two monsters under the tree turn back into a pile of mud.
The pursuer leader immediately climbed down from the tree and rushed to the side of several subordinates who were barely alive. Despite being naked, he didn't bother to find clothes to wear. Instead, he frantically searched one of his subordinates.
"Weird, I remember putting it on him... Ah, found it."
Finally, he pulled out a scroll.
"I will make you pay!"
The pursuer leader said bitterly. Tonight, he had been humiliated several times by the two women. How could he swallow this anger?
Unable to confront them head-on, he had to use other means. The pursuer leader remembered a secret weapon in his team — a scroll infused with magic.
According to the instructions from above, this scroll was meant to deal with a large number of enemies, like an army. Using it against just two women seemed somewhat wasteful.
But he couldn't afford to consider all this now. Today's experience had deeply shaken him, a self-proclaimed elite of the Arcane Society. If he didn't eliminate them, it would become a lifelong psychological shadow.
He retrieved the scroll from his unconscious companion, returned to where the horses were tied, mounted one, and pursued the direction in which the carriage had gone. He hadn't even bothered to find clothes to wear.
"Still not giving up, huh?"
Hearing the sound of hooves behind them, Ladia and Helen frowned.
"It seems he won't rest until he incapacitates us."
Standing up from her seat, Ladia looked back and saw the pursuer leader, who had been magically transported away earlier, now riding naked on a horse, chasing after them.
After muttering curses at the pervert, she secretly pondered how to teach him a lesson he would never forget.
Meanwhile, after closing the distance with the carriage, the pursuer leader tore open the scroll and began chanting an incantation.
After a few seconds, the incantation was complete. He forcefully tossed the scroll into the air above the carriage.
"Aoo~woo~"
A mournful wolf howl shattered the silence of the night.
The sound of the howl was exceptionally loud, causing Ladia and Helen to feel like their eardrums were about to burst.
"Hui~hui~"
The two horses pulling the carriage appeared frightened and restless. They suddenly stopped running and stood in place, stomping their hooves incessantly, as if something terrifying lay in ambush ahead in the dark night.
The pursuer leader's horse also stopped, constantly circling in place, no matter how much he whipped it, refusing to move forward.
"What's going on?"
He didn't know the effect of the scroll, only that it had tremendous power.
"Aoo~woo~"
A second wolf howl rang out, louder than the first.
Ladia turned her head to look at the side of the carriage, confirming the source of the sound — the scroll thrown by the pursuer leader.
"Sound Storage Spell? But why store the howl of wolves?"
The wolf howls emitted from the scroll centered around their area, spreading in all directions.
"Aoo~woo~"
Another wolf howl rang out, this time coming from a distance. The sound was not loud but unusually clear, as if responding to the howls emitted by the scroll.
Then, a second wolf howl from another direction.
Followed by a third, from yet another direction.
And a fourth...
And a fifth...
Wolf howls echoed incessantly around them, eventually resembling a grand chorus.
The night was no longer quiet but filled with a terrifying atmosphere.
Accompanying the howls, rustling sounds came from the surrounding woods, as if many creatures were lurking inside.
Pairs of greenish eyes suddenly appeared in the darkness of the bushes, resembling ghostly lights.
Grand Duchess Helen's voice trembled as she asked, "What on earth is happening?"
After all, she had never seen such a phenomenon before.
But Ladia remained unusually calm, her voice steady as she said, "The scroll that guy threw must be storing the howl of a wolf king. Judging by the way the sounds are spreading, it doesn't seem like they're here to welcome us."
She could feel her elder sister trembling beside her.
"No... no way. I remember the wolves near Niceport don't attack travelers on the merchant road, right?"
"Uh... maybe tonight they want a taste of something different for dinner."
"Ladia..."
The advisor shook the reins forcefully, but the two horses refused to take a single step forward.
"Are there already wolves waiting ahead? Fine, let's try the back!"
She attempted to turn the horses around, but they didn't obey her commands.
"Damn it, are we surrounded?"
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As Ladia and Helen contemplated their next move, the pursuer leader also fell into great panic. The wolf howls echoing around him were like nothing he had ever experienced.
However hard he tried, his horse refused to move a step — the animal had keenly sensed beasts approaching from all directions.
Desperately, the pursuer leader jumped off his horse and ran frantically towards Niceport along the road.
"Damn it! Why didn't they explain what this scroll does!"
He cursed bitterly at the person who had given him this scroll.
"You're all going to die! You're all going to die!"
Adrenaline surged through him in his fight for survival. He quickly passed Ladia's carriage.
"You fool, harming yourself as well!"
Seeing the pursuer leader rush past their carriage and continue running ahead, Ladia already guessed his fate.
Sure enough, when he ran to about ten meters away from the carriage, two beasts leaped suddenly from the dense forest beside the road and pounced on him, knocking him to the ground.
The pursuer leader struggled desperately, but now he was completely defenseless and naked.
The hungry wolves' fangs effortlessly sank into his flesh.
"Ahh!"
The pursuer leader screamed in agony, grabbing fiercely at the neck of the wolf that had just bitten him.
(End of the Chapter)
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