132 The Choice on the Battlefield, Force it Through (2/2)

One Snow Wolf that was furthest in the outer-ring realized something. It rolled and stood up on its feet. Before, it was extremely lazy and comfortable. But now, it was fully alert, serious and fierce. With deep and ominous roars, the wolf revealed its fangs and growled.

Fifty pairs of ferocious eyes reflected an adventurer who wore violet clothes and held a golden magic staff. He was alone when he stuck himself at the entrance to where the wolves were. There were traces of Water Elements gathering in that spot. He taunted the wolves from where he was.

Awoooooo!

One of the Snow Wolf, which first discovered the presence of their enemies, howled. The other forty-nine Snow Wolves behind that wolf followed suit.

The howling of the wolf echoed through the entire valley. It sounded like the howling was being broadcasted with a megaphone, scaring Qin Ruo who was luring the monsters until he was soaked in cold sweat. If he did not see that the wolves suddenly charging towards him out of the sudden, he would have misunderstood those wolves, thinking that they were trying to summon their ”brothers and sisters” from the other islands to help them.

Qin Ruo saw his plan working. Without saying a word, he turned around and started running.

The distance between the entrance to the narrow passage and the small lake was less than a hundred meters. The distance between the Snow Wolves and where Qin Ruo stood was also about a hundred meters. However, as they were playing tag, Qin Ruo managed to arrive at the lake before the Snow Wolves were able to get near him. The Snow Wolves came out of the passage in a very orderly manner. They closing in on him now.

Qin Ruo did not dare to let his guard down. He rapidly cast a Frostrampart from the snow.

”Explode!”

The moment when the word ”explode” was said, Qin Ruo also activated his Aquamorph and charged straight at toward the small lake, transforming himself into water. Naturally, the resistance that came from the lake water was gone. His movement speed had also improved and he rapidly moving to the center of the lake.

Qin Ruo was startled and happy at the same time because of the feedback he got from the system. Although the Snow Wolves had high resistance and resilience against the Water Magic Attacks, the fact that each of his attacks could reduce more than 100 HP had given him some hope.

He regretted not setting up his Twelve Frostrampart Formation when he was still stuck at the entrance to the passage. He could have detonated all the Frostramparts at the same time when the Snow Wolves were gathered behind him when he was moving away from the entrance.

The amount of HP for each Level 39 Snow Wolf was only 1,800 points. If the Frostramparts were all detonated at once, the result should be satisfactory…

But then again he had considered about what he should do, and he was actually dumb enough to lure them to the middle of the small lake. Now that he looked at his action, he felt stupid.

Fortunately for him, the lake was a good battlefield as well.

***

The horde of Snow Wolves did not lose their target despite the fact that Qin Ruo had activated Aquamorph. Their sense of smell was still strong enough to sense Qin Ruo's position.

Splash! Splash!

The Snow Wolves lunged into the lake one after another.

Qin Ruo was surprised and happy when those Snow Wolves went into the small lake, all of their four feet touched the bottom of the lake as they approached Qin Ruo. Their movement speed was reduced by a lot. Although the sound and the momentum of the fifty Snow Wolves leaping into the lake were extremely spectacular and amazing, for Qin Ruo, those wolves were, now, no threat at all.

Qin Ruo stood in the middle of the lake. He then deactivated Aquamorph!

He allowed the Snow Wolves to approach him slowly, he rapidly cast an Aquabarrier and an Aquashield as he swiftly controlled two transparent Aquarampart of two meters wide in front of him. He also started mentally calculating, 'Casting Aquamorph would use up 7 MP. Casting Frostburst would use up 4 MP. Casting Aquabarrier would use up 4 MP. Casting Aquashield would use up 5 MP. Casting two Aquaramparts would use up 2 MP. The remaining MP should be 123 points.'

He should be able to pull that off.

The Snow Wolves had finally forced themselves near enough for Qin Ruo to enter their attack range. Skills such as Icicle Barrage, Frostburst, Frostlances, and Frost Arrows were thrown at Qin Ruo with loud howling. As the number of Snow Wolves entering the attack range increased, the Magic Attacks that were launched at Qin Ruo increased as well. The attacks became more densely packed together with each passing second as attacks were showered upon Qin Ruo.

Boom!

Aquaramparts popped up one after another like wild beasts that suddenly emerged as they rose before Qin Ruo with ”raging roars”.