Black Wolf Pt.II

Day 11

'Damn it! That wolf stole my dinner! I'll kill it! I'll massacre it!'

Why am I threatening to kill a big bad wolf? Well it's simply because that big bad wolf stole my dinner slash breakfast and I am still hungry.

The damned brat stole my kill. That wasn't fair. Not in the slightest. I thought wolves were creatures of honour and valour. He was just a common crook. I would kill him and regain my lost honour.

"Waba!"

"Aragagah?"

"Kekekra."

My three kids were discussing the revenge plans before me. They had made some weird markings on the ground. I guess that was the plan.

'Black wolf, tonight, I shall defeat you! And our battle… it shall be legendary! Keke… My plan to annihilate this damned black wolf is underway! Kuro, my greatest nightmare! You shall suffer greatly!'

My excellent plan to defeat that wolf was a simple one that didn't matter on the wolf's stats. I would be bringing the fight to my home field which was currently covered in poison that my resistance had grown to the point of me not even noticing its effects.

Still, I was hungry since I didn't get to eat anything. So I went into the forest to go hunting. I found a giant centipede today. I didn't know why, but the centipede reminded me of something.

Not caring much, I simply killed it and ate it. I acquired the skills [Feelers], [Sensors] and [Poison Claws]. With feelers, the antenna-like thing on my head became something like a detector. I could tell the taste of things as well as smell within a simply range of 10m. Sensors also acted in a way that let me know on pure instinct whether my opponent was stronger than I was or weaker. It was practically [Prey Instinct], but a modified version seeing as [Prey Instinct] automatically integrated into it.

What made [Sensors] better was the fact that it didn't inflict the [Fear] status into me.

This was where I explained status effects. So this world really was sort of like a video game.

You see, everyone has a status. Your status affects your stats and abilities sometimes. For example, if I had the status [Desperate], there is a 25 percent chance that my stats would go up for a short amount of time. Like an adrenaline boost.

Then there was the skills themselves. Sure a skill can be effective if used smartly, but there is the option of combining skills to produce an outcome that the skills were not originally intended for. That's what makes skills the most dangerous part of this world. How they can be used, but could also injure you if you didn't have a counter for them.

For instance, the skill combination I tried performing earlier. Sure, naturally the skill worked. The problem was that I was getting injured in place of using it. So to use that skill, I would've needed [Mental Damage Resistance] to ward off the pain and mind destruction.

So now that I knew that, I would simply use that specific combination of skills at least once every day to ensure that I would be able to do it constantly without feeling any form of pain.

Then there was the time my unique skill [Analyst] was locked. Unlike normal and advanced skills, there was no natural counter for a unique skill. Why was this? Well obviously because it's a unique skill dummy!

A unique skill appears only once, hence skills to ward off those are practically non-existent. No one has seen such a skill before and the chances of them seeing it again are pretty low. In essence, one out of a million people possess unique skills. And going by the agent's calculations, the chances of a unique skill appearing twice in two different eras is a 3.142 percent chance.

'Hehe, pie.'

So meeting a person with a unique skill was more like a once in a life-time opportunity you wouldn't want to miss. Well, if the person also came to kill you, I guess you wouldn't want to meet them. From all this, I concluded that me having three unique skills was sort of above average.

Normally I should be celebrating that I truly did have cheats, but the fact that these cheats could kill me if overused scared me. I felt like there should be a skill that protected against soul attacks and according to the agent, there was a plethora of such said skills. The problem was that, we didn't know exactly what [Analyst] was doing to my soul, so [Evolver] and [God's Voice] acted as a counter for me, blocking the skill temporarily.

So once again, having three unique skills was dope, but I could die or something worse would happen if I used them carelessly. I figured that the con of using [God's Voice] was having to deal with such a retard at times, but [Evolver] truly got me curious.

To be honest, what was the actual con of [Evolver]? Fine, it took energy, but that energy could be recovered through sleep, where it puts me in a form of stasis, meaning I don't get hungry. Sure, I would be defenseless, but if I found this ultimate fortress no one could penetrate and I kept on putting myself in absurd situations, wouldn't I simply becoming this ultimate being that is immune to everything?

No, there should have been a con for [Evolver]. The skill was simply too powerful for there not to be any.

Ah well, that's enough for my Tori talk!

It was night time. I could hear wolves howling. It was time to go bring justice to this damned wolf. I flew off from my nest into the night sky. I didn't use [Stealth] as I flew. In fact I was screaming at the creature.

If it wanted to fight, I was ready. In the forest, I saw four blurs. There were four wolves running through the forest. A brown wolf, a grey wolf, an ash wolf and finally the biggest amongst them, a black wolf.

STATUS

[Name: -

[Species: Timber Wolf 35/50

[Status: [Hungry]

[Age: 1 year

[Rank: C

[Titles: |Of World|, |Survivor|, |Savage Beast|, |Merciless|, |Man eater|

[Blessings: -

[Level: 45 Exp: 4300/7,830

[Health: 2400/2400 Stamina: 3000/3000 Strength: 690 Speed: 600 Defense: 540 Dexterity: 710 Intelligence: 125 Luck: 70

'Oi, oi… isn't he too strong? Like way above my league? No wonder it killed that boar so easily. Maybe I shouldn't do this.'

I was reconsidering my decision. I came to the conclusion that the best option was to retreat for now, wait till I got strong (At least having equal stats with it), then I could get my revenge.

I was about to fly back to the nest, but then the wolves paused. The black wolf sniffed the air around them. What was happening? There was something wrong.

One of the wolves then squeaked in pain. It kept scratching at its face as if there was something there. I tried my best to zoom in on them and there, to my surprise, was San. Hadn't I ordered them to stay back at the cave? What the hell was he doing?

'Oi! San! Retreat you little bastard!'

San heard my order and then left the wolf's face. It landed on the ground and stuck its tongue out at the wolves, before running towards the nest.

'What the fuck?!'

I couldn't hold the words back.

I flew at full speed towards the nest. Unlike the wolves, there was no obstacle in my path since I was in the air, so I should have been able to get back earlier. I underestimated their speed.

These bastards were so fast that they easily caught up to San. San however jumped on the grey wolf's face and began playing around. The ash wolf tried to hit San, but the little guy dodged, making the attack hit just the grey wolf's face.

The last wolf however was about to pounce on San. I saw no escape route for the little fella. Normally, I should have just observed, but on instinct, I jumped in to save the little guy, taking the hit for him instead and tumbling to the ground with it in my embrace.

"Wawawa! Aga!"

I looked at the cheeky brat and he was screaming with a creepy smile on his face.

I didn't know why, but the thought of San almost dying pissed me off. I couldn't let the little bastard die.

I threw the cheeky brat away then got up to face the wolf. It towered over me like some kind of demon. Its dark violet eyes glowed eerily.

'Hehe. In the end, it seems I was going to have to undergo great adversity to truly become strong at an early stage in my life.'

'Let's do this! Like real men!'

The wolves all gathered up behind him. As if he understood what I said, he barked at the other wolves and they reluctantly left us alone.

Now that we were alone, I needed to figure out a way to beat this beast in a head to head confrontation. I started. I quickly flew around the wolf, circling it while shooting out black threads. The wolf didn't let the threads touch him, instead he swiped at them with his claws, completely destroying them.

He used his [Timber Wolf Howl] and [Predator Instinct] to set me off. [Prey Instinct] practically weakened me in the face of anyone possessing such an ability. Right now, my mind was all 'Run! Run! Run!' but I wouldn't. Fortunately, with [Sensor] I knew it was just a trick I could resist. Although I think it was mostly [Mental Damage Resistance] and [Evolver].

I then tried [Terror] on the wolf. It paused in its track once the skill hit it.

'It's go time!'

I activated [White Viper Scales], [Sprint], [Peck] and [Poison Generation] for my new Tori Original: [Verwesen]. My body was immediately coated in white scales and possessed a yellow glow with a maelstrom of poison spilling from my mouth as a span like a fidget spinner.

My goal was to hit it right on the head and hopefully break its skull open or melt right through it. However, things weren't so easy. The wolf snapped out of his daydream and as if even more enraged, its aura blew out of proportion.

[You have acquired the skill [Murderous Aura Resistance]]

'Eh? Eh? What?!'

It opened its maw viciously. It was like the devil that had come to collect my soul. With that thought in my mind, I veered away, narrowly missing his fangs. In fact, some of my feathers had been bitten off. When I looked back, the wolf was glaring at me. It spat out the feathers then pounced at me.

I swerved it but barely. Without wasting time, it pounced on me again. In complete fear, I activated my plan too quickly. Using [Fire Breath], I blasted the beast's body with my weak flames. As expected, its coat was way above any damage my flames would cause, but then the spores which touched it earlier would set it ablaze.

'What spores touched it earlier?' you ask? Well the spores I placed on the black threads I fired at him earlier which he ripped to shreds. Yes, those threads were coated in my spores so now that they were set ablaze, even if the beast's defenses were high enough to ignore the flames, they wouldn't go out.

Now that they wouldn't go out eventually they would start leeching off his health points, right?

I flew back, slamming into a tree by accident and falling to the ground. I just got flight yesterday, so flying was still tricky, especially with obstacles all around me. And my confusing bird vision made it a bit harder.

Yes, even though I had spent roughly a week as a bird, the vision was still confusing me. You think it's easy having close to a 360 degree view on everything? Practically nothing escapes my view and it's so hard keeping up still.

Maybe my spirit animal was a bird?

Maybe that was why I reincarnated as a bird?

Honestly, I was really grasping at straws here. Why the hell was I reincarnated? Why was I thrown into hell? Did some great deity see me as deserving of this piece of crap reincarnation?

I wanted to ponder this some more, but the wolf pounced on me again. To be honest, its skill set was quite limited. All it had going for it were its stats.

It tried to bite my head off, but I ducked underneath it. I tried a peck to its belly, but it barely moved. Seeing that wouldn't work, I tried to fly off, but the wolf collapsed on me.

'Oi! No fair! That's a dirty trick!'

I complained, but that wouldn't work here. While I struggled to move from here, the wolf rolled all about on me, crushing my body and slowly draining my health.

[You have lost 10 health points]

[You have lost 5 health points]

[You have lost 7 health points]