Chapter 15 - Blood Calamity Part 3 (2/2)

The wolves shut their mouths and instantly turned around, once more lunging for Will. Their ignorance, rage, and their misfortune, ultimately led to their very painful demise. This eventually led to what the other wolves had seen.

The convulsions were the result of the activation of Suijin no Ikari. It was a technique where rotating compressed water exploded like a grenade, releasing a torrent of incredibly fast and sharp water blades. Due to the fact that they exploded inside the bodies of the wolves, they did damage instantly. If the blades had attacked the outside of the wolves, they would have only caused some flesh wounds.

The defense of storm wolf generals was nothing to laugh at. The fact that no water blades had been able to escape their bodies was a testament to this. Will had been planning to attack their undersides, the part he knew from his countless battles, was the weak spot of storm wolves. That would have been a gamble, Will had some contingencies in case that failed, but lady luck smiled on him. The fact that he was able to put the Suijin no Ikari inside the wolves, was a massive stroke of good luck.

The Suijin no Ikari destroyed the insides of the wolves. Although they were tiny, they were made up of countless water blades, waiting to come out. The blades were incredibly thin, almost to the point where they were hardly visible. They invaded and cut every inner organ inside from the brain, to the heart, to the other organs, nothing could escape the wrath of the water god.

The generals died almost instantly. When they had crashed into the ground, they were already dead. Will could tell because he could feel yuan entering his body from the corpses.

Another good thing was that Will learned an important aspect of custom skills. The creator of a custom skill could modify them and control them, assuming they had enough skill and talent. These were called custom skill variants. These were the main reason why custom skills were so dangerous. Originally, Suijin no Ikari was meant to be an AOE attack, but Will turned it into a single target attack with relative ease.

The greatest advantage Will had at the moment, was that he had managed to kill three of the wolves, without the others learning of his abilities. All the remaining wolves knew was that Will could call out an eerie blood mist. What he did within that mist, they didn't know, and like Will had assumed, fear of the unknown was a powerful tool in battle.

Even though the king still believed that he was more powerful than Will, he was still hesitant about how to act at the moment. Even if you are at a higher cultivation level than your opponent, it does not guarantee that you will win; strategy and skills also affect the tide of battle. Take for example a fight between a male lion and a male tiger.

Tigers are bigger and more athletic than lions. They are also solitary creatures, so they are used to being by themselves. Naturally, you would assume that the tiger would win if it entered into a deadly fight with a lion, but nature it seems would disagree.

Tigers primarily fight by aiming for your throat. Male lions have manes on that area, thus it would be very difficult for them to kill male lions via normal means. This leads to the lion obtaining victory most times if the two beasts fought. At the end of the day, power, strength, and experience are not the only thing that can allow you to survive. Often, luck has a major part in it as well.

Will opened his eyes and stared at the trio of wolves. He still had a large mountain to climb. The battle was far from over. Not in the least. The true battle was only just beginning. These wolves were prideful, especially so for the stronger ones. So retreat was not an option. They could only continue the fight and put their lives on the line.

Will was no different in this respect, he was not really prideful, but he would not run. It wasn't what he wanted to become. Victory or defeat lies not only in the hands of fate, but can also lie in your own hands. The question is whether or not your hands have the power to seize it.

Keeping these words in mind, Will decided to stop playing games. Thanks to his previous victories, his power was now enough; just enough to allow him to defend himself.

He had only held power for a few days, yet now he felt like it was now a part of him. Absolute power absolutely corrupts, absolutely. That's what Will was told growing up.

His thoughts at this instant had changed on that topic. Power could only corrupt if it was given to you if it was an external force. But what if...just if...that power became a part of you? What if you became the very source of power? To Will this was a chance, to make this power a part of him, to see if he, was worthy of it.

As Will thought of such profound thoughts, he took his rusty katana out of his ring and gripped it with all his strength. Now was to time to act, whilst the wolves were still hesitating. This was Will's first time to experience with what he had always read about but didn't think he would experience. This was going to be Will's first earth-shattering battle!