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

Four storms made of fire appeared around the camp and engulfed the wolves surrounding them, burning high up into the night sky.

“Hehehe, what do you think about this mastery of magic. It’s more powerful than before because of the amount of mana that I don’t need to use for left arm anymore!”

Lapis said proudly, but Loren silently raised his fist and dropped it into her head quite strongly.

As Lapis crouched with her hands covering the top of her head with a moan, the four vortexes of flames disappeared as they were released from her control.

“What are you doing…?”

“You know…What were you going to do if someone saw you!?”

“A mysterious sage appeared from the forest to save us!”

“You want another one?”

When Loren waved his fist in front of Lapis’ eyes, she put her palm against it as she shook her head with a slightly pale face.

“Please don’t. It’ll sink right in.”

“Geez…Well at least that should’ve made them run off…”

Before he could finish, Loren raised his right hand as if to protect his neck.

The next moment, a forest wolf that suddenly jumped towards him bit him on the arm.

“Loren!?”

“These guys…”

Listening to Lapis’ cry of surprise, Loren couldn’t believe what was going on before his eyes.

Many of the forest wolves that surrounded the camp were turned to ashes by Lapis’ magic, and the rest should have retreated.

But the wolves didn’t run away, and instead, waited for the fire to die down, and attacked Loren when he let his guard down.

The wolf growled and tried to sink its fangs deeper into Loren’s arm, but its upper and lower jaws were grabbed by Lapis.

By the next second, disregarding its jaw strength completely, Lapis peeled the wolf from Loren’s arm and tore it in half.

“Are you okay Loren!?”

“It’s nothing. But what the hell is wrong with them?”

Not fearing the fire and continuing to attack their prey despite seeing so many of their comrades die, could only be described as insanity.

From the actions of the forest wolves, which seemed to ignore their survival instincts, Loren could even feel something bloodcurdling from them.

“Do we look that delicious?”

“You look hard and not that delicious so it’s probably either me or Feuille.”

An awkward look appeared on Loren’s face when he heard that.

There was nothing happy about being told that he looked good to eat, but hearing that he wasn’t, right in his face, wasn’t a good feeling either.

“I don’t think my guts are as bitter as a demon’s, though.”

“Are you trying to say that mine are!?”

“By elimination, Feuille is the one who looks good.”

“I would look delicious too, right!? I’m just as good as Feuille! My skin and flesh are youthful and look so ripe for the picking!”

Lapis said things that could be misunderstood by others if they were listening in a loud voice, but Loren looked towards the forest wolves, which were still surrounding the camp, even though their numbers decreased drastically.

They treaded the burnt ground, with the leftover heat burning their paws, but they didn’t look like they gave up on attacking them.

“We’re going to have to kill them all, huh…”

Loren haven’t heard of animals that continued fighting until the whole herd was wiped out.

But he could imagine the pack of forest wolves in front of him attacking them until the last one died, and a shiver ran down his spine.

This definitely wasn’t something normal.

“If you get pressured, your legs could get swept from under you, you know?”

Lapis warned Loren in a callous voice, as if she had sensed something from his words.

“I won’t stop you if you want to become their food, though.”

“Screw that.”

One of the forest wolves sank to the ground before it even reached them, killed by the heat from the ground.

Although they saw their comrade wasn’t moving anymore, they others didn’t stop coming forward.

With the stench of burning skin, fur, and flesh reaching his nose, Loren gripped his great sword again, but confusion could be seen on his face.

“We’ll think about the cause later. We have to get through this first.”

“I know that. I know, but…”

Two of the wolves jumped towards them.

Loren swept his great sword through their stomachs, and the bodies dropped to the ground.

One of them died instantly, but the other didn’t, and even with its insides spilling out of its wound, it crawled towards Loren and tried to bite his foot, but Loren crushed its head.

“This is disgusting.”

“Yes, this is quite…unnatural.”

In the end, the forest wolves that attacked them didn’t retreat until the last one of them died.