16 Fighting the beas (2/2)

Yet, despite the immense pain he felt, Dorian forced his body to roll away, barely dodging another attack from the Werewolf.

Dorian thanked his luck when he discovered that the Werewolf's claw went through the wall, and it had trouble taking it back.

He wanted to go into stealth, but his blood would attract the beast, and it wouldn't even need its eyes to locate him.

The room suddenly shook violently, and Dorian saw the Werewolf taking its arm out of the wall. It suddenly gave him an idea.

Dorian looked around and chose an untouched wall, before glancing at the beast. It was already rushing at him. Dorian threw the dagger he had picked up earlier, toward the beast's eyes.

The beast reacted on instinct and covered its eyes with its arms. As the dagger went into contact with its flesh, it broke itself, doing the wolf no damage. The beast grinned and attacked in front of it with both claws, covering a large area with its long arms.

But damaging its eyes had never been Dorian's aim. When the beast covered its eyes, it also blocked its sight, and it thus failed to see Dorian roll away, running toward the door.

The Werewolf's immense strength teared open the wall, going deep into it, and causing the already weakened room to be damaged even more.

The beast didn't understand what was happening though and looked around in confusion, wondering where its prey went.

Using its snout, it turned around and saw Dorian at the door of the room.

It ran on all four to reach Dorian when the trembling room started breaking down. The wolf finally seemed to regain some of its intelligence as it picked up its pace, trying to get out as fast as possible.

But it was too slow. A big rock fell on one of its hind legs, crushing it. The Beast looked at its leg viciously and decisively slashed it apart before jumping through the door.

That wasn't enough though. Before it could completely get out of the room, the room completely fell on itself, and the beast's lower body was crushed under the ruins, leaving only its upper body.

Dorian looked at the dying beast in relief, and fell on the ground himself, unable to move. But as he thought he had finally won, he saw despair.

The dying wolf howled and its body began transforming, its muscles and bones shifting, its hairs disappearing. It finally transformed into a man. But more importantly, he had his two legs.

The man looked at Dorian and said with a weak voice ”You little rat, you almost killed the great Arteon!”

He began walking toward Dorian who asked in an even weaker voice ”Who are you?” Arteon replied ”I am the dignified 10th Stinger, Arteon, as well as this region's Alpha Wolf! You can be proud of dying by my hand!”

Dorian smiled and said ”Good, you are my target. Could you listen to a dying man's last words though?” Arteon frowned but still said ”You are a great warrior, you deserve this honor. Speak, be quick!”

Dorian asked ”Where is the Leaf's family?” Arteon laughed out loudly and said ”So that little shit asked you to save his family? Too bad, I already ate them!”

But in the middle of his laughing fit, he stopped abruptly, before coughing blood and kneeling. He continued coughing before asking with rage ”What have you done to me!”

Dorian forced his body to get up and said with a smile ”I poisoned my daggers, so the poison is still taking effect despite your form change… Interesting.”

Arteon's eyes grew wide in rage as he said ”You treacherous bastard, you have no honor! What kind of warrior are you?!”

Dorian walked toward Arteon and said ”The kind who survives, idiot wolf.” Before Arteon could say another word, both of Dorian's daggers stroke, beheading him.