Chapter 9 - Perfecting Technique Through Slaughter (2/2)

Thus both Will's mind and body were even more energetic than before, Will saw the giant wolf moving towards him slowly.

Its large eyes radiating more killing intent than ever, Will had stopped killing the moment the horde had attacked him. He wanted to battle so that he could gain experience and improve his technique, not to merely quench his.

When he saw the information on this wolf however, his thoughts of holding back went down the drain.

[Storm Wolf Guardian: a large variant of storm wolves. It is bigger and faster than its brethren. Its intelligence is also higher than average, making its control over wind more accurate and its attacks more deadly.

Rating: E-

Class: Commander]

The guardian was ridiculously powerful. It was fast, it was massive and worst of all, and it was intelligent.

A large collection of wind blades materialized around the guardian. Green smoke like energy coalesced in its surroundings. Will could feel the wind in the surroundings getting restless.

'This is getting interesting.'

Will knew he had to go all out if he was to survive this fight. A blood red aura covered his body like a thin film.

His body released the aura of death itself. All the blood on his body was disintegrated. All the remains around him turned into dust.

Will crouched, his body tensed to the maximum. This time he wasn't defending. This time he was planning on striking the first blow!

...

*Boom*

Will filled his body with sword yuan and leaped off the ground with a terrifying force. A large shockwave spread from where he leaped from. The wind was acting turbulent, trying to resist Will's movements.

Part of the reason why storm wolves were so fast was that they would use their control over the wind to minimize their wind resistance. Will, on the other hand, had no such skill. Thus, he didn't move as fast as he thought. This was the first time Will was moving using his full power, so his control wasn't as good as he wanted it to be.

The Guardian saw Will's sudden jump and sent a torrent of wind blades to greet him. These wind blades were much bigger and much faster than the previous ones, so they were much more dangerous. Will was moving in midair, so he couldn't dodge the blades. The Guardian mocked Will in its mind for his foolishness. It knew that Will was far lower in strength than it. Although his technique wasn't bad, that paled in comparison to raw power.

They, unfortunately, didn't take into account one thing, ”Bloodlust”.

The moment those wind blades got within 5 meters of Will, they fell apart. The guardian was shocked. When Will had activated his bloodlust, he had compressed it as much as possible, so its effects were only within a certain range. The guardian was outside this range.

Even though the wolf had seen what the ability did to Will's surroundings, it merely assumed that wouldn't happen to it due to its higher cultivation. In the system, cultivation usually determined everything. Your level and your rating were insurmountable walls, ones that determined almost everything in battle. No matter how impressive some abilities were, as long as your level was high enough, you can resist it, or even cancel it.

The guardian assumed that bloodlust was the same, but when it saw what happened to its wind blades, it realized how wrong it was.

Wind blades varied depending on what cast them. A wind blade from a normal storm wolf can split a room in half. A wind blade from a guardian can split a house in half easily. There were even some beings that can cut an island in half with one wind blade. Each time, the energy that the wind blade possesses increased with one's cultivation.

Yet here, a mere human just above level ten was canceling its wind blades, as if they were dust.

The guardian was baffled, but only for an instant. Its ample battle experience allowed it to adjust too many situations. It stopped throwing wind blades at Will.

Instead, it collected all of the turbulent winds around it, it compressed them on its right front paw. As soon as Will was within striking distance, it swung that paw with all its might. Will, in turn, swung his sword with all his strength as well.

The moment the paw was near Will, it felt it, the imminent feeling of death. Its massive body felt oppression unlike any it had ever felt before. This was a collection of all possible suppressing feelings one could have. These feelings could be compressed into one word, ”Fear”.

This fear seeped into its very soul. The guardian was so afraid, it failed to bring out its full power, in fact, it could only bring out a small portion. It could tell that whatever this red energy was that was surrounding Will, it was not of this world. It was death itself.

The two blows met, causing wind and debris to fly everywhere. The result was simple, the paw had been bisected. All of the concentrated wind energy still couldn't do any harm to Will, due to his bloodlust, Will's sword, on the other hand, cut through the paw like it was cutting a cake.

After the paw had been mutilated, the guardian howled in what seemed to be pain. Will landed right in front of it and used this opening to cut off the guardian's head. Bloodlust could not only make Will's sword sharper, but it could also extend the sword's reach, making the beheading process much easier.

All of this, from the time Will leapt to the time the guardian lost its head, may have taken time to describe, but it only took 3 seconds to occur.

A fountain of blood gushed out of the guardian. This time Will moved fast enough to avoid it. He observed the large corpse land onto the ground.

Will was surprised at how easy that was. The guardian felt much weaker than he thought.

'Maybe it was only the size that was intimidating.'

Will didn't know how wrong he was, that feeling of oppression he had felt was from the difference in cultivation the two had, and that feeling had been significantly reduced by Will's bloodlust. Without it, the aura alone from the guardian would have been enough to suppress Will.

Will's bloodlust skill was too overpowered. He had no idea how overpowered it was. He simply thought it was a very powerful skill, but it was far more than that.

When the thousands of wolves surrounding Will saw what had just occurred, they immediately ran away from the scene with their tails between their legs.

'Finally, it's over.'

The usage of bloodlust took a serious toll on Will's body. He could only maintain for short periods of time.

He stopped it and immediately felt the rich yuan surging into his body. This yuan was of a far higher quality than before; it moved through Will's body and strengthened him from head to toe, Will couldn't help but moan from the comfort, he felt that his mind now had 16 parts. He knew that he was now past level 15.

After the experience finished going into his body, Will was about to slump into the ground and rest, when the ground started shaking again.

'Man, not again.'

Will didn't want to fight an army of weaklings again. It took too long and gave little rewards.

Will looked forward to seeing what the fuss was about. Then his draw opened in shock. His limbs felt weak and he fell onto the ground in despair.

Will suddenly remembered the last howl from the guardian he had killed.

That wasn't a howl of pain. That was a summoning call!

This was another horde, that was true, but it wasn't a normal horde.

It was a horde of storm wolf guardians!