Chapter 84 - Causing an Accident after Attack (1/2)

Ch. 84: Causing an Accident after Attack

“Seems like there’s a lot of them. Any idea what they are?”

Loren drew his giant heavy pitch black great sword.

Lapis braced herself as she put Feuille behind her, while Feuille tried his best to hear the footsteps and identify them.

“From the footsteps, I think they are forest wolves.”

“Oh, those.”

Loren had heard of them before.

They were wolves that lived and hunted in packs inside forests and were somewhat dangerous and were responsible for a lot of the deaths of new adventurers that went on easy jobs in the forest.

As soon as Feuille identified them, they howled and started running towards the camp and jumped at them.

When Loren swung his great sword across, it went straight through the wolf in front, from its brows to its tail, and I fell onto the ground in two pieces.

A return swing caught the body of another wolf that pounced to bite him, and splattered blood and intestines on the ground.

“What the hell is this?”

Although he had killed two if the wolves in the blink of an eye, a third one immediately attacked him, and as he kicked it away since he didn’t have time to swing his great sword, he looked around and couldn’t help but mutter at what he saw.

Forest wolves usually moved in packs, so Loren had expected that there would be quite a few of them.

But the number of wolves that surrounded the camp while he was dealing with three of them was way more than he had expected.

“Maybe a few packs gathered together?”

Shielding Feuille behind her back, Lapis raised her right palm towards the wolves that surrounded them.

Reacting to her movement, one of the wolves jumped at her to tear off her hand, but in the next moment its head turned behind it along with a blunt sound.

Not minding their fallen comrade, the other wolves started pouncing on her as well, but while another one got its head spun backwards, another was twisted so hard its lower body was facing upside down with its hind legs facing upwards, and one by one, the wolves started dropping dead like flies.

“Huh? What!?”

As Feuille looked at Lapis in bewilderment, not able to believe that was the work of the priestess that was protecting him, Lapis shook her right hand, which did all the work, and looked at the rest of the forest wolves, who didn’t seem like they were going on back off.

“This is strange. Were they supposed to be this brave?”

Lapis tilted her head in confusion as she snapped off the head of another wolf that tried to attack her.

Forest wolves weren’t that brave as individuals, which was why they moved in packs, but they weren’t cowards either.

But they also had the intelligence to know that they should back off after seeing a few of them being killed so easily.

But the wolves that surrounded them didn’t run, but instead kept attacking even though they could see others being mowed down and twisted apart.

“What are these guys?”

“No idea. Maybe they want us for dinner very badly?”

As she joked, Lapis’ right hand stabbed another wolf that was aiming for her throat right in its jaw.

Feuille’s face stiffened as he watched her slam the wolf onto the ground and crushing its head with her heel.

“This isn’t something I want to show a child, but it can’t be helped, right?”

“You can just put him inside the tent!”

The blade of the great sword swung with just his right hand turned a few wolves that were jumping towards Loren into lumps of flesh in midair.

One that was caught in his left hand by its throat thrashed around to escape, but its limbs went limp as it’s respiratory tract and spine was crushed.

“Wouldn’t it be more worrisome if he’s somewhere we can’t see him?”

“I can relate…I guess.”

Dropping the wolf which he crushed the neck of, he gripped his great sword with both hands again and acknowledged Lapis’ excuse.

“I wouldn’t mind them coming at us if we could eat them, but it’s a pity we can’t.”

When he had asked Lapis about it some time ago, she had said their meat wasn’t that good to eat.

The number of bodies increased every time he swung his great sword left and right with blood flying all around, but if they couldn’t make use of them, they were nothing more than trash.

“Looks like we might have to relocate the camp.”

With all the bodies lying there, the stench of blood started flowing throughout the area.

On top of that, from the bodies that Loren had cut open with his sword, came the stench of their intestines as well.

As Loren said so, thinking that even if they managed to drive the wolves away, it wouldn’t be a place he would want to sleep in, Lapis said in an annoyed voice.

“Moving again? I don’t really want to.”

“So, you say. But do you really want to sleep with all this?”

That would keep her from arguing.

That’s what Loren thought, but Lapis seemed to have thought of something, as she caught Feuille, who was holding onto her from behind, by the base of his neck, and threw him into the tent and closed it.

As Loren watched her as he continued cutting down wolves, wondering what she was about to do, Lapis raised her left arm.

“Whoa whoa. Don’t tell me that you…”

“Swirl before my eyes, rage about, O crimson flames >”

Before Loren could even try to stop her, the spell created a strong vortex of flames.

But it wasn’t just one.