82 Chapter 10 - Raid the Slavers (1/2)
”Kragg does not trust you, creature,” Kragg snapped.
Kenji in using the copy of the Troll body from his [Forbidden Slot] gave the large werewolf a long squinty look. The creature reminded him of George in his dark black mane, powerful aura and authoritative stance. Yet only in that exact manner, otherwise this creature and the refined butler of the Mayor couldn't have been any different.
Far from brushed, this werewolf's fur was bracken and coarse, his temper constantly flaring in a most undignified way, and the meaty spear in his hands tipped with gleaming silver.
”Let me guess, silver is critically effective against werewolves?” Kenji said.
Kragg laughed.
”Hardly. Silver can, however, be infused with magic rather easily, and this spearhead was imbued with the Wolfmother's power in ages past. I discovered it, and have used the spearhead ever since when fighting my own kind in an attempt to awaken the Lost back to the path of conscious thought.”
”And has that worked?”
”No, the magic is too weak. The priestess might be able to accomplish something when she awakens, however,” Kragg growled.
Nodding, Kenji turned to squint into the dark. Far away he could see little dots of light, although the Troll's vision was so terrible he couldn't tell much more than that. It reminded Kenji of those horror games that insisted he put the light of his screen way down to get some cheap jumpscares, although this time he hadn't the ability to refuse. This time the jump scares would do more than make him agitated, they'd more than likely end with his guts torn about and eaten.
”You're certain the slaves are there? Also, if we're just fighting humans then is this really all necessary?” Kenji waved to where he assumed all those werewolves and regular wolves had gone from before, now just the occasional glint of yellow eyes revealing their continued presence.
”They have unsouled werewolves on their side, driven on by whatever drug they feed them. They don't care about their own safety or who they fight. Utterly ferocious, and humans are both pathetic and reasonable intelligent. By themselves, they are not that strong, but working together their separate abilities create a much stronger group capability. Breaking that ability to work together will be your responsibility, creature.”
”Thankfully 'breaking' things is this bodies specialty!” Kenji flexed his huge arms and found the large werewolf unimpressed. ”Also you seem to have been misinformed, my name is Kenji Aztec, not 'creature'.
”Then we go, Aztec,” with that Kragg vanished into the darkness, the yellow eyes all around them winking out of existence. Kenji had to start wading through the forest after them all alone, left to crash into every tree, twig and bush as he slowly approached the distant torchlight.
Through the forest howls, roars, and screams echoed. Kenji's huge heart pounded as he constantly awaited the teeth that stalked the dark. They never came, only increasing his stress as he knew quite well that the amount of sound he was making should have alerted every damn thing from here to the hidden moon.
Finally getting a line of sight of a collection of humans behind a wooden barricade, something came screeching out of the shadows to his left. The blur of fur left a deep gash across Kenji's shoulder before fleeing back into the forest, a second blur managing another gash across his back, Kenji's slow fist crushing only earth.
”Gah!” Kenji shielded his eyes as arrows slammed into his side with the force of spears, the distant formation firing at breakneck speed until Kenji was forced to hide behind a series of trees. Pulling out the arrows Kenji found them aflame too -
Kenji flung into a rage, primordial instincts activated as the magical fire ate away at his body. Flung into a state of maddened terror, he crashed his back into a tree again and again, uncaring that he drove the arrows deep if only the attached fire would suffocate. A werewolf attacked from right in front, Kenji flung his entire weight onto the creature and pinning it to the ground.
The werewolf tried to bite into this leathery neck with limited success, Kenji picking the werewolf up by its leg and thrashing it around the ground while roaring incoherently. By the time he was done the creature was a crumpled mess, yet lifting the werewolf high, he used it as a living shield.
Turning the corner, Kenji charged the enemy formation. Their arrows slammed into the Unsouled werewolf, Kenji approaching in quick steps to crash into the wooden barricades. When the dust settled Kenji found a human wizard with tongues of flames forming in his hands, before Kenji could raise his peppered werewolf shield high a torrent of fire washed over him.
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Screaming, Kenji charged through arrows, spears and more fire to grasp the enemy wizard by the head. He squeezed, the woman's head popping like a grape before Kenji grasped her by the legs and sent her body crashing through a crowd of hunters.
As the fire ate away at his flesh Kenji threw himself into a hunters building, smashing the fire with wood to smother it and managing to set the building alight at the same time. Arrows continued to slam into his back, as the fire rapidly ate away at his body until an especially brave hunter appeared before Kenji to let loose an arrow bound in magical flame from point-blank range right into his skull.
Fire devoured Kenji's brain, his world going dark.