Still Loved Even In The New World
CHAPTER 189: The Wolf.

Lowen:"I'll check on him."

Lowen floated in the air and tried to figure out where the tendril came from. But after searching for some time, the tendril never appeared again.

Doglas:"How?."

Lowen:"No, I don't see where the tendril came from."

A few moments passed and the tendril never appeared again. They thought that the tendril might have been full with the two knights, so they decided to leave this place.

Eleina:"How could such a level monster appear in this place?."

Eleina really felt strange. In the past, Lowen who was only an early-level Mystical Knight could pass through this forest and arrive at the Grasslands. But now, even Pope might die if he entered this forest.

Lowen:"What's weird about this. Just like humans, monsters also became increasingly powerful. It could have been that plant monster was still too weak when I entered this forest in the past."

Susian:"Then grandpa. When we enter the forest, the atmosphere here is very quiet. Is it possible that the monsters in this area were already preyed upon by those plant monsters?."

Lowen:"That's possible. And also with its strong aura, other weaker monsters would be reluctant to stay in this place."

"Revelation..!"

From behind, suddenly one of the elders from Etienne Empire shouted. He made a magic barrier to cover the people around him. Almost simultaneously, a thorny green tendril struck the magic barrier and made a deafening loud bang sound.

Bang...!

Since the old man was at the God of War level, he could block that tendril attack easily. Before the tendril was pulled back, an energy blade shot out quickly and cut the tendril.

The plant's tendrils immediately disappeared among the thick shrubs and trees of the lush forest very quickly after being partially cut off. The pieces left behind were still writhing on the ground like worms.

Doglas:"Damn.... Does the creature even know to wait for us a little off guard before attacking again, does the creature have intelligence?."

From anywhere, the creatures that attack them are plant types. It was rare for plant-type creatures to be able to give birth to self-awareness and possess intelligence before they reached the God of War realm. Only certain plants can do that. And such plants are usually very rare and almost impossible to find.

Lowen:"Everybody stay alert..."

Lowen was the one who launched the energy blade to cut the tendril earlier. The Etienne Empire parents who installed the shield removed the Barrier and prepared to welcome the tendril again.

But something unexpected happened. The moment the magic barrier disappeared, pieces of tendrils wriggling on the ground suddenly ballooned and exploded, spitting out a lot of green sap into the surroundings...

Ahhhh .... Ahhh....!!

Some people who were close to the tendril immediately screamed as soon as they were exposed to the sticky green sap. Their skin slowly peeled to the flesh. That green sap had extremely frightening corrosive properties. Even the iron armor the people wore melted like it was melted in steel smelting.

"Hurry, heal them...."

"All right..!"

The old man from Etienne Empire was instantly giving orders to the healing magicians on their side. He was the one closest to the tendril, but as the God of War, his body had been coated by energy, so the green sap did not directly hit his body.

"The ancestor is impossible."

A healing witch said after she tried to heal them. Despite almost depleting mana, their magic could only slow the decay, but it could not stop it.

"Then save where you are."

As soon as the ancestor said it, they retreated. They could only see their friends shouting and rolling on the ground in pain. The bodies of those people continued to melt and become pools of blood on the ground.

Everyone was horrified to see such a sight. The women who saw that, they immediately closed their mouths as they felt nausea in their stomachs.

Doglas:"Even still so poisonous?."

Druma:"Uncle, what kind of creature is that?."

Doglas:"Okay, I don't know either. Lowen, do you know what kind of creature that is?."

Lowen:"Before seeing his form, I can't be sure."

Just tendrils, it's too hard to be sure. Too many plant monsters have such tendrils. Even their nature is almost the same. What's more, one type of plant can have many different evolutions once they enter the Transformation stage. Like roses for example, they can have thorny tendrils that snare prey or there are also roses that emit a scent to lure prey.

So, we cannot determine what kind of plant it is from just a little sight. At least we have to see the full form of the creature.

Eleina: "We better leave this place quickly and be careful."

Lowen:"Yes."

Although the strength of the plant was much weaker than him, but the environment here was so difficult for them. After the attack, everyone was convinced that the plant would not attack anytime soon. As long as they remained cautious and quickly left this place, they were confident that they would be out of the range of the plant monster's attack.

As they had expected, after a while of walking, they were completely out of the range of the plant monster's attack. They went back to find a place to make camp after the sun started to sink. The night in the forest was so dark that there were many large trees blocking the moonlight.

The fire lights up the dark forest at night. There were many people around the campfire, yet the atmosphere was so gloomy and somewhat sad. Of the more than forty people, there were now only about thirty-four people left because of one monster. The knights and warriors were still better off, but the freight carriers that were only low-level fighters had already started to fear.

Lowen:"If such a monster were many, we would really have trouble going through this forest."

Doglas:"That's right. So, what should we do?."

Druma:"There must be a person strong enough to explore the path ahead."

Everyone nodded upon hearing the proposal. Anyway, that's the best way for now. If not, then the casualties will be more and there will probably be team extermination before the meadows are seen.

Lowen:"Let me and Lumesus go."

Lumesus:"I don't mind."

Lumesus' face looked a little angry. He was the God of War of Etienne Empire protecting those people from the attacks of the plant monsters earlier. He felt deceived by the plant monster. Moreover, out of all the groups that were here, he had lost around four knights from all the casualties due to the attack of that plant monster.

How could he not be angry. He hoped to explore the path at least to let his people pass through this forest safely.

Lowen:"Then it's decided. Kita_"

Auuu.....!!

Suddenly the sound of wolf howls broke the darkness of the night and shocked Lowen and the others.

Gozales:"This forest is really not a place for humans to be."

Although the howling of the wolf sounded very far away, but anyone who heard it would know that it was the howling of the wolf to summon its herd and start hunting.

Viruda:"That's why humans haven't extended their territory to this forest."

Rome:"Don't worry. One day, humans will be able to defeat these monsters and take over the entire land."

The two academy representatives spoke to each other. Defeating the monster race and expanding the human space of movement was the hope of everyone. Initially all the God of War held great hopes of re-entering the monster territory and defeating them, reclaiming the human territory.

However, after the war actually happened, that was when humans learned that the monster race had many extremely powerful warriors. Even many of them were above the God of War level. From that moment, humans began to accept their fate of always living in the shadows of the monster race and only held the hope that one day, humans could defeat the monster race.

Lowen:"All stay alert tonight. I think we've entered the hunting grounds of the wolf pack."

Everyone nodded. If normally only the knights were on guard, this time all the strong players from Angel and above were all on guard. Wolves are not monsters that only know bloodthirst, but they are very intelligent monsters and know tactics to defeat opponents stronger than them.

Bang....!

From a distance, a huge explosion rang out along with a cloud of dust rising into space, making the deep night even more concentrated. The silence of the forest completely broke with that voice.

That's not the last sound. After that voice, many sounds of explosions and the cries of the knights who were fighting from a distance. In addition, the howling sound of the leader of the wolf pack was also heard from time to time to give instructions to the herd.

Eleina:"What happened?."

Lowen:"Maybe the wolf pack met another group."

Viruda:"Are we going to go and help them?."

Doglas: "You guys wait here, I'll go see it."

Doglas flew over the forest and went towards the origin of the sound. Judging from such a destructive force, perhaps a God of War was fighting a pack of wolves.

Doglas continued to fly towards the sound and finally saw a bright light in the distance that made the night sky appear reddish like twilight. But it was not the sun, but a burning forest.

Doglas floated above the forest and looked into the distance. More than a hundred wolves were surrounding a group of humans. There were already many corpses of wolves and humans lying on the ground covered in blood.

What frightened Doglas were four wolves looking at the entire battlefield from a boulder. They did not participate in the battle, but they only saw the battle while directing the herd. The biggest wolf that looked like the leader, he had white hair and a cyan crescent moon on his forehead. His cyan-colored eyes lit up like the moon in the sky. Under the rock, there were three other wolves that appeared to be accompanying the white wolf. The three wolves below had jet black hair color with glowing red eyes. Even more frightening, the four wolves had energy fluctuations equivalent to a God of War. Especially that wolf leader who might be stronger than himself.

If one-on-one, Doglas still had the confidence to fight him despite not being able to defeat him. But, wolves are creatures that fight in groups. If Doglas was determined to fight with them, he might not even be able to escape.

Doglas did not want to stay longer in this place. Especially that the group fighting here had already been almost annihilated by the wolf pack. There were only fifty humans in the group and more than twenty were killed. The rest were still struggling desperately against that pack of wolves. But there were only three God of War protecting them, of which two were only the fourth level of the God of War, and the strongest God of War only had the strength of a seventh level God of War that was impossible to be an opponent of that group of wolves.

Doglas didn't think much and immediately flew away from this place to return and inform what he knew of the rest of the group.

.....

One of the fourth level God of War flew into the air, he made a fireball in his hand and threw it towards the wolf that surrounded them, he said, trying to make a gap so that others can escape.

Seeing that, a black wolf that had been sitting and watching began to move and fly with all four feet stepping on the air. The wolf directly blocked the fireball that the person threw.

Dark red demon flames enveloped the wolf's body and formed a flame armor that protected its body. A magic Barrier was formed in front of that wolf. As soon as the fireball hit the Barrier, a fierce explosion formed in the air, making the air temperature soar and burning all the tree hoods within a hundred meters.

The fight between the God of War was not something that the people below could withstand. All the people and wolves that were still fighting below were directly hit by the shockwave and many of them were thrown. But since the bodies of the monsters were much stronger than humans, the Wolf that was knocked down due to the shockwave received almost no injuries. Different from humans who have multiple wounds on their bodies.

The wolf that resisted the attack stepped slowly in the empty air without the slightest wound other than the tip of the slightly burnt hair. The wolf growled at that God of War warrior and bared its glittering fangs reflecting the shadow of the flames around them.

He ran very fast in the void with a red flame under his feet heading towards that fighter. A shadow of a huge red claw formed in the air. Together with the swing of its front claw, the shadow of the claw also shot towards the human warrior.

The fighter does not want to lose. He clasped his hand and punched forward. A huge golden fist shadow formed behind him and shot out swiftly to face the shadow of the wolf claw. The clash of two enormous energies instantly exploded in the air, leaving the entire tree within a radius of several hundred meters blown away and crushed into powder.

Due to the other two God of War, most of those people survived. They were amazed and scared as they watched the two God of War fight in the air.

"We can only fight hard."

"Old man, looks like we're gonna end up in this place."

"It's great to work with you guys."

Two of the three God of War warriors in the group were warriors who came from a certain power while one of them was a freelance adventurer who gained the fortune to break through to the God of level War. Because the two of them had been friends, he invited his former best friend to join this exploration group. Who would have thought that they would die in a place like this.

Right now they could only fight hard until the end. With the existence of the wolf leader and the other three God of War level wolves, it was impossible for them to escape safely. Although it might be possible, they would be severely injured and could not go far. With the sharp smell of wolves, how difficult it is to find a seriously injured person.

In their group other than the three God of War, there were two levels of Arcangel and three Angels, yet one among the three Angels had been torn apart by wolves at the same level.

"I have no regrets about dying at this time. As an adventurer, dying in the middle of his adventure is a matter of pride."

"Haha... Brother, if the so-called next life exists, we'll be brothers again."

"Yes." Yeah."

"Older.."

A wounded Angel-level warrior approached the elders to ask for instructions. They also knew that they already had no chance to live, so they would follow whatever orders from the God of War warriors leading them.

"We can only fight to the bitter end."

"Yes, elder."

Everyone started moving and preparing for battle. Not just the wolves, but the wolves. The wolf leader realized that the human side was starting to move, so he also started to stand up and howl to give the command ready for battle. The two black wolves that were still lying under the rock immediately stood up and followed their leader.

Tonight, it's gonna be bloody...

.....

The Doglas who left the place immediately flew back very quickly, ignoring the explosion and the rampaging clash of energies behind him. From time to time, the shock waves in the air were transmitted to him, but Doglas did not care and continued to fly away.

Unnoticed by Doglas, a shadow appeared at the top of the tree canopy and saw him flying away. Looking at Doglas, the figure smiled and disappeared between the darkness of the night.

Druma:"Uncle, what happened."

As soon as Doglas arrived, Druma immediately approached him with a worried face. Seeing Doglas' somewhat pale expression, he became even more worried.

Others also came to find out information from Doglas about what happened.

Doglas:"That's a group from the Prussian Kingdom and the Wind Warrior Academy. They met a pack of wolves."

Lowen:"Then, what happened."

Doglas:"They may be destroyed.."

Eleina:"What, how is it possible..?!"

Viruda:"Don't in the group they have three God of War warriors, what happened?."

Everyone is wondering. The group from the Prussian Kingdom was only slightly weaker than their group, how could it possibly be annihilated by a pack of wolves. And again, it hasn't been more than three hours since they started fighting.

Hearing his friend who was wondering, Doglas told him what had really happened. The horror and ferocity of the pack of wolves, he told me everything.

Rome:"Damn it, how could such a group of wolves exist in this place?."

Viruda:"Seeing from the composition of up to four God of War-class wolves, then maybe they were originally some separate wolf group then put together by the leader."

Lowen:"Yes, that's very possible."

Eleina:"It seems like the more days the monsters become stronger. They grow faster than humans. In the future, is there really still hope for humans?!."

Eleina was a little helpless. Humans once dominated this continent. But suddenly those monsters became stronger several tens of thousands of years ago and drove the ancestors of mankind to the outskirts of the continent and into the barren lands. If it wasn't for the land that humans occupied had limited resources to the point that the monsters weren't interested, then perhaps humans would not have any place to live anymore.

Druma:"Uncle, then what should we do?!."

Everyone panicked a little when they found out the strength of that group of wolves.

Doglas:"We'd better all get out of here. This place was too close to that group of wolves. With their numbers, that group of Prussians would not be able to keep them full."

Lowen:"Yes that's right."

They immediately cleared everything in a hurry. After everything was done, they did not delay the time and immediately went away. Eleina who stayed behind, she spread a green powder in the place where they had originally set up camp.

It was a powder that was referred to as forest incense. The incense had a refreshing, forest-like scent. Eleina used it to cover their tracks so as not to be tracked by the sharp smell of the wolves.

After running for nearly five hours, just in the early hours of the morning, Lowen and the others stopped to rest. Despite running for such a long time, those high-level fighters were only gasping for breath. However unlike the low-level fighters and the freight carriers, they were already lying on the ground with extremely heavy breaths.

The carriers were at best only at Knight level, so they had already exhausted all the energy in their bodies. Only one carrier leaning against the tree with a hood covering her face still had a calm breath without the slightest sign of exhaustion, but no one noticed him because he was in a very inconspicuous place.

Doglas:"You can rest first."

Doglas and top-tier fighters, who were higher than Transformation, they were still in excellent spirits without any visible fatigue on their faces.

All those exhausted fighters, they immediately lay on the forest ground without caring about the mud that would stick to their clothes. Lusian and the others were also looking for a cleaner place to sit.

Eleina:"Drink this."

Eleina handed out a small size glass bottle with light blue liquid inside to everyone. This liquid can restore stamina quickly, so they can recover immediately and can immediately prepare if there is an approaching danger at any time.

Lowen:"After everyone's me_"

Grosas... The grosa...!

Before Lowen's words were finished, there was suddenly a rustling sound of leaves in the distance. Everyone immediately went on alert and took out their weapons.

Lowen:"Damn, it's a wolf!."

Before the wolf appeared in sight, Lowen could already guess what kind of creature it was from their mental fluctuations. If Filia was here, she would know that Lowen was a detection-type mental talent.

Moments after Lowen's words, a white-haired wolf appeared in the distance. The wolf growled and bared its fangs towards Lowen and the others.

Looking at the wolf, Doglas instantly turned pale. It was the same wolf that annihilated the group from the Prussian Kingdom.

Lowen:"Doglas, what's going on?."

Looking at Doglas paled expression, Lowen asked doubtfully. Despite the fluctuations in energy that the wolf was emitting, that the wolf was at least a little stronger than itself, but it shouldn't have been so pale Doglas, right?!.

Doglas:"That, it was the same wolf that annihilated the group from the Prussian Kingdom."

"What!!."

Hearing that, everyone was shocked and panic appeared in their hearts.

This... How could this possibly happen...

(The end of this chapter.)

I have to apologize for not being updated yesterday. During the day I have a busy day, and for the night, you have to blame the ball game between Indonesia and Thailand...

As a sign of my apology, I will make one more chapter, please wait.