488 Scripted Event Sunclaw Kingdom Conquest 13/?: Never Trust Your Enemy (1/2)
Amidst the chaos of countless grotesque monstrosities rampaging around, a small village of dog beastmen that had not been affected by Geggoron's Nightmare Barrier effect were escaping to survive.
Gigantic beings in all shapes and sizes, which were formerly their neighbors, parents, or even their children followed them while opening their gaping mouths, drooling poisonous saliva while releasing disturbing shrieks and strange sounds, some even were able to speak despite having transformed completely.
A little girl was left behind by the group of beastmen running away and was lured by the voice of her father, which she had lost track of him amidst the chaos.
”Daddy? Where are you?” said the little, girl, she was barely five years old, with a small and petite body. She had short brown hair and two small dog ears atop her head. A little tail waved nervously below her simple dress.
”My little girl… here, come closer…” muttered the voice of her father.
After crossing through some trees, she found a small clearing in the middle of the forest, where she saw the figure of her father, his back.
”Daddy!” she said, running towards her father.
”My daughter… you're such a nice and stupid little girl,” said her father.
”Stupid…?”
The girl raised her head to see her father's face, as he twisted his body to greet her, the front of his body was a giant gaping mouth that extended across his torso, limbs, and head, filled with sharp fangs and tentacle-like tongues. Saliva drooled across his entire body.
”Ah, my daughter! You look so… appetizing!” said her father.
”A-Ah… D-Daddy…? N-No! G-Get away from me!” cried the little girl, trying to run away from where she came from, only for her former father to twist its body and capture her with its tentacle-like tongue, wrapping her entirely with it as she struggled.
”Gyaaa! Noo! Daddy! I want my daddy!” she cried.
”I am your father! Please, since I awakened to Geggoron-sama truth, I have become quite hungry, you know? How about you pay all those years I wasted raising you, and become my meal! Gyagyagyagya!” laughed the monstrosity, slowly moving the little girl towards it's gaping and sharp jaws.
”Nooo! W-Wait…!”
Flash!
Suddenly, a ray of pure darkness was fired from the sky, falling over the monstrosity trapping the little girl and vaporizing his small body!
Only his tongue was left, which remained motionless.
The little girl glanced at what happened with eyes wide open, freeing herself from the sticky tongue and gasping for air.
”Haah… Haahhh… Daddy… Daddy…”
”Your father is dead,” said the voice of a mature man, a giant shadow appeared in front of the little girl.
”A-Ah! Another monster!” cried the girl, trying to run away but falling on her knees due to her fatigue.
”Well, I am a monster, but I didn't come to eat you, you're too small, too little meat. Master has given me the task of rescuing any citizen that hasn't transformed into a monster… come with me, little girl,” said the three-headed wolf shrouded in shadows, Wagyu.
”Y-You're a good monster?” asked the girl.
”…Yes,” said Wagyu.
”You're scary! I do not believe you! I want my daddy! Buaaaaa!”
”Scary…?”
Wagyu shaped his shadows in an arm and grabbed her by force, throwing her inside his shadows, a special space was inside them which he was capable of creating, where he stored many things that the Item Box couldn't, mostly because his Item Box was already filled as well.
”Ahh…!”
The young dog beast-girl was transported to a different space. It seemed almost endless, the floor was made out of black dirt, and the sky resembled the night, filled with small stars and a small moon.
”The night…? Where am I?” asked the girl.
From within the shadows, more figures appeared, lurking towards the girl while raising their claws!
”Ah! No! Get away from meeee!!!”
However, as she glanced at them with detail, she discovered that they were other beastmen people, just like her.
”…Eh? You're not monsters?”
”It seems that that monster has captured another person…”
”Well, it is not as bad…”
”At least we weren't just eaten…”
”But what fate awaits us?! Maybe he'll eat us after he gathers enough for a dinner!”
”Poor girl, you're so young…”
A voluptuous woman appeared, carrying the surprised girl, she seemed quite motherly.
”Calm down little girl, everything will be fine… for now,” she said.
”Everything…? Where are we?” asked the girl.
”We are… inside the wolf monster body… I think,” said the woman.
”We were eaten?!” shouted the girl, her dog ears raising in the alert.
”No… I think we were rescued, but everyone else thinks that we will be eaten… That wolf, although it was intimidating, did not seem to have any maliciousness in his presence neither voraciousness like the monstrosities… he probably is rescuing us. It may be further proven by how he was killing other monstrosities indiscriminately…” said the woman.
”We were saved by that scary wolf?” wondered the girl, glancing at the night sky and the moon.
Outside of this space, Wagyu kept slaughtering monstrosities while looking for survivors.
”Hey, they think that we are going to eat them…” said his first head.
”We won't eat them of course; they will be future citizens! They're allies, friends, and family!” said the second head, the head in the middle.
”Well, I don't really care what they think…” said the third head.
Wagyu was the second companion on Kireina's adventures and was the strongest wolf in the entire Empire until Kekensha began to catch up with him.
After many adventures and fights, he grew exponentially stronger. Deciding to explore a dungeon entirely with his party, which counted Kekensha in, he became stronger through the dozens of trials that the Dungeon offered, and fought against the last boss, the Thunder Dragon Overlord, defeating it quite easily.
Although he and Kekensha did not evolve yet like the rest of the party, he was still happy that everyone became stronger.
But due to fate, or perhaps the will of the God of the Dungeon, they were teleported to a different room, where he and Kekensha had to fight against the 'Secret Boss' by themselves without the rest of the party to assist them.
The two wolves happily embraced the challenge and came victorious after a long and bloody fight, both of them meeting the God of the Dungeon himself, Nyzzet, the Dragon God of Thunder who rewarded them with riches and blessings, in exchange for a meeting with their Master in the future.
Due to the Experience Points gained after defeating the Secret Boss, both Wolves evolved into greater and stronger forms.
Wagyu acquired a greater height, his fur became long and phantasmagoric, resembling pure shadows and crimson colors converging together. He did not gain a new head, but his three heads became more independent and were capable of thinking better on their own.
Wagyu evolved from a Shadow Abyss Cerberus Wolf to a Shadow Satan Abyssal Cerberus Skoll, gaining the names of two legendary dogs from Earth, Cerberus, the watchdog of hell, and Skoll, the shadow wolf that chases the sun.
His powers developed the most, as his shadows evolved, he was capable of generating a space inside of it, which he used to move or save things inside.
This ability was something similar to Kireina's 'Inner Realm', and it had its own scenery inside, with the ground, a sky, and even stars and the moon, which were just mere illusions to make the place comfier.
Inside of it, Wagyu saved countless treasures, monster corpses, and many other things that he could not save on his Item Box or in one of the others because, through their exploration, they were all filled with things already.
Wagyu also discovered that he was able to store conscious living beings inside which did not need to be in an induced coma, unlike the requirements of the Item box, and he could even build houses inside and a small little world.
Using this advantage, he rescued the people he found across the battlefield, storing them inside.
As he wandered around slaughtering monstrosities and rescuing future citizens, he felt the sudden presence of a being a bit stronger than the one she had been slaughtering.
A large wolf beastmen that towered over two meters fell to the ground from within a rift in the domain's space. His hair and fur were gray, his body was packed with bulging muscles and his hands had large and furred claws, while his feet also had the feet of wolves. He had two-pointed wolf ears atop his head and a long gray tail.
He was bare-chested, showcasing his impressive physique… but he seemed rather troubled.
This was Barion Gray Sunclaw, the King of the Sunclaw Kingdom, a firm and heroic man beloved by his people... who had succumbed to Geggoron. His former self was no more but an alter ego of the wicked Demon Demigod of Hateful Distrust and Nightmares.