By the time I came to settle with the system now restricting its functions and I being in a new world nighttime has come again.
"You vile human, how dare you to put your foot on the blessed land of our deity" I heard a grim voice from my left. It felt like that one was aiming to kill me. It was filled with murderous intent. Although I could not say how I know it, somehow I do.
"Oh, Gerit, you have also come here. In any other situation, I would have fought you if we met like this, but this is concerning our deity so I shall restrain myself. Let us get rid of this weak human and that clueless beast who thinks he can trespass on our diety's land without any repercussions" Another voice albeit with a little less bloodlust and more curiosity came from my left.
"Gerit and Gayla both of you keep that wolf busy, I and Grite will take care of the human and come to assist you. From what I see, that wolf is no ordinary one. Also to try to keep it alive we need to ask it some questions later regarding the disappearance of our diety's aura" Another voice came from my back.
And I could see another black wolf like the one that attacked me last night come running towards me from the front. Surrounded. Not just these four wolves but there seem to be more wolves behind them waiting, maybe to assist them in battle. Just when I thought I should just become stronger, Just when I resolved to train myself to be stronger to survive... Even if I wanted to fight I am just as helpless as last night. As before I have again been just thinking without acting. If I ever come out of this alive, I just need to start training. As I am in a pinch and not understanding what to do in the face of these monsters, I hear a familiar voice
"Master, these bugs seem to be hostile. Shall I exterminate them?"
"You. You can do that?" I ask
"Yes. From what my instincts tell me, these are of a lower race than me. I should win"
I thought for a second."Ok. Try your best then" I say with a mildly calm expression. Even if of a higher race, there is no way he is going to win against all of them. But I have just given up at this moment like an idiot. This is not the time to be afraid, this is the time to calm down and think of a plan. I still have my fusion skill. Even if he cannot kill all of them, fusing bodies with myself and he should give us an upper hand.
Suddenly I hear a woosh sound. At that very moment, I looked towards my right, where the sound escaped to. There was blood on the grass, a body on the ground, and a pool of blood where its head should have been. As I was astounded by what I had seen, I heard two cries from my front and left. They seem to be in extreme discomfort, wailing and then burning to a crisp, falling lifelessly on the ground.
As I was busy watching the battle around me, I forgot that there was a wolf-headed towards me. I heard a screeching sound on my back, just like the one last night. It opened up a wound on my back and I was thrown away 5 feet forward.
"You puny being, HOW DARE YOU HURT MY MASTER?" A loud howl could be heard and then a plant, blood spilling everywhere from where I was before. When I turned back to see what caused my injury, there was a spiraling column of wind, around ten stories high with branches, blood, and occasionally a leg spiraling in it.
Before I even came out of the shock, a cooling sensation entered me and the pain of the wound on my back disappeared.
"NOW YOU HAVE DONE IT" A voice filled with rage somehow echoed in a plain and then a calm and cold voice followed as if passing a judgment
"Sneaking up to my master, how vile. There is no use for you bugs to live"
Then the sky lit up and hundreds of swords formed above the four sides where the other wolves were and rained down killing hundreds of wolves on either side. But that was not the end of it; hundreds of wind spears, fireballs, and water bullets, paired with some wind bullets, fire spears also shot out from the center, with more swords raining down from the sky. Tornadoes seemed to be ravaging the earth and it was like a picture painted as heaven's punishment. After 10 minutes or so this all subsided. Surrounded by thousands of dead bodies of wolves, I did not know what just happened. I mean I know what happened because I saw it with my own eyes, I just can't process it. I thought he would use his skills to get out of this predicament, but his first subordinate, oh so easily, killed thousands of monsters.
5 minutes of silence later... "Is that the end of them?" I spoke to break the silence.
"No. There seems to be more lurking around. Maybe around a few thousand" said my subordinate.
"A few? They are more than you just killed, isn't it? Even I can say that seeing how many swords and magic you threw out. Can you take care of it?" I said with a bold tone, especially the last part, to convey my confidence in him.
"No. I just used up all my magic power for these attacks"
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Just as I hear my subordinates' assurance, Hundreds of howls come from all sides and the air seems to be filled with bloodlust.
Used up all your magic power? Aren't you supposed to be a mage? How can you run out of magic? Wait, I can still fuse, right? If I fuse these thousands of bodies, wouldn't he become powerful enough to handle all of them? Just as I was about to ask the system to fuse them, an Image of a wolf, much bigger than my subordinate, and with a majestic white fur flowing with air appeared above my subordinate. Just then, again swords started to form, but this time the number was not in the hundreds but thousands. The whole sky was filled with a blinding light and as a heaven's judgment depicted in myths a column of light, filled with countless swords descended on the surroundings, all sides with a hole in the center where I and my subordinate and were. Countless wails and fearful whimpers could be heard from all sides. It was enough to give a human PTSD to those ghostly sounds for years to come.
What followed was utter silence and my subordinate fainted. I tried to move toward him to catch him, but I was too slow. Now is the time to fuse! I exclaim. Although I did not contribute to the battle, from my previous experiences, waiting is always bad. So I ask the system to divide the wolves into 3 parts. One part has the highest number of wolves, for me, so I can reach the level of my first subordinate and not be a vulnerable party in a battle. The second was to fuse a new subordinate and the third and smallest part was to strengthen my first subordinate. I thought about getting a new subordinate so that it will be easier to fight numbers, like now when we were outnumbered
[Ding... The host is not compatible to be fused with the wolves. Please choose other subordinates to fuse]
What? Compatible? I am not compatible to be fused with? What is this new condition? As I curse the system for introducing something I didn't know, I open the status to see the fuse skill's functions
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Name: Prot
Race: Human
Tier: Apprentice 1
Class: None
Skills :
[Heroes Cheats]: Growth and comprehension are greatly increased. Has the blessing of God who summoned them. Rank - SSS+
[Fusion]: Fuse compatible dead bodies with oneself or subordinates. Subordinates can be created, but have a max limit of 5. All subordinates are loyal to the host. Rank - indescribable
Subordinates :
[Lesser Fenrir (Nameless)]
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Shit, there is a compatible condition. Now, this changes my plan. I thought I could create more subordinates, but with a max limit of 5, making a new subordinate with the same compatible bodies seems to be a waste. Having all of them different distributes the power, and all bodies can be used to fuse with different subordinates.
Ok, I have made up my mind. I will fuse all these wolves with my first subordinate, and find new bodies for creating other subordinates. Yosh! the system, fuse all of them into my first subordinate.
[Fuse 7 bodies with subordinate Lesser Fenrir(Nameless). The time for fusing is 3 hours. Do you wish to proceed?]
Wait 7 bodies? Are there thousands of them? System
[All other bodies are out of range]
Range? Oh, I am so stupid. I just assumed all of them can be fused with however far away they were. Now I need to drag the bodies near. I try to go to the nearest dead wolf and try to pull it. It did not budge. As expected I am still weak. The most I could do is drag around 10 more bodies till I am out of energy. As I drag the 9th body, I stop feeling my legs. So I think this is enough and start the fusion with 16 bodies.
[Fuse 16 bodies with subordinate lesser Fenrir. The time for fusing is 5 hours. Do you wish to proceed?]
Oh.. the time increased with the number of bodies. Anyway, start. As I say the command, the 16 bodies slowly disintegrate and form a streak of light, entering my first subordinate. But I made the same mistake again. I did not take precautions and did not start to train. I was content with the fusion and thought that all monsters were taken care of.
Assumptions are a bad way to arrive at decisions. And as expected a pair of eyes were focused on me. This time though, I heard something and turned around, and there it was an injured wolf, baring its fangs at me. It had a deep wound on its back, probably from that sea of swords. But somehow it survived. And I was back to step 1. No strength, no fighting experience, a sitting duck, watching a show in the wilderness, a prey that gifts itself to the predator. Then I heard a voice. It was not filled only with murderous intent, but also sorrow.
"You vile human. You enter the land of deity and then slaughter all my brethren. How dare you. I will avenge them. Yes, I will avenge my brothers and sister by tearing you apart and that wolf there.HAHAHA!" It said with tears flowing from its eyes.
It is then it struck me. They too have emotions. They are intelligent and have bonded. That is why they kept coming even while their family was dying. To avenge the fallen. But they attacked without explanation, and probably now won't believe me if I said all this was a misunderstanding. Now, at this moment what matters is who kills who. For the wolf before me, it may be revenge, for me, it may be saving my life, but at the moment when we decide to battle, none of that matters. It's only who kills who.
So I take a stick in my hand, which coincidentally is also the stick I took on my first night. The wolf is vigilant, we stare into each other's eyes for a while and it makes its move. It closes the distance with a swift dash, but due to its wound, it goes a little left than expected. Then I put my foot on the right and wedge the stick into the wound on its back. Wailing could be heard for some time and then silence. That is how I killed my first being in this world. A weak injured being. With a stick.
Right then, even though I was tired from moving the bodies of the wolves, I got up, took a stance, and started swinging the sword. I did not know if my stance was right, or if what I am doing will strengthen me, but I was done doing nothing, I was done waiting for death when a monster attacked me, like a powerless ant that can be pinched to death by nobody. I need to become strong, and for that, I need to give my all.
