Chapter 43 Green rivers response 5 (1/2)

as Mars looked down on the greater shadow wolf he had set as his target he measured the distance and after a few seconds he silently jumped of the breach he was sitting on

'please don't notice me'

his worries ended up being in vain as the greater shadow wolf being the alpha of it's pack was the boss of the local area and even in it's wildest dreams had it thought someone would ambush it, witch ended up being it's doom as Mars landed his sword on the crown of it's head with all his weight behind it easily piercing it's skull and with a quick twist he ended it's life without it ever even knowing what had happened

'that's one!'

Mars jumped off the wolf and while he was in the air his sword slashed through the necks of another 2 darkness wolfs before the alphas lifeless body even hit the ground

'that's 3'

when Mars landed on the ground the rest of the darkness wolfs intimately discovered him and surrounded him but as they had not noticed Mars had killed the alpha they just stood there waiting for a command, giving Victoria ample time to aim the 5 darkness lances that descend from above and instantly killed another 5 members of the pack, at this point the surviving wolfs finely discovered something was wrong and

”...really?”

turned and ran with their tail between their legs

”well... i guess that's it”

Mars was a little disappointed by the short fight, but also quickly decided not to chase after the 12 wolfs that had escaped and promptly began to gather the 8 wolf corpses in a pile after he removed their cores and stood before the small hill made of dead wolves for a second before he gave a sigh

”yeah no way I'm hauling all that meat back... let's just take the 2 biggest corpses”

Mars picked out the 2 biggest corpses and took a leg in each hand and began to drag them back to the camp while Victoria followed after him and after almost 2 hours of dragging over 1 metric ton of wolf though the forest he returned to the camping spot were the elvers were resting

”we're back”

”how was the hunt... don't you think that's a little too much?”

Alvin looked at the 2 wolf corpses Mars was dragging after him and was a little taken back

”well... we kind of killed 8 in total so it felt like a waste to leave anymore behind then we already did”

”well in that case i guess it's fine”

”besides i think me and Victoria should be able to eat half a wolf by tomorrow, then we can harvest the best meat and carry it and eat it for dinner tomorrow”

”...i had almost forgotten about your absurd appetite”

Mars gave a slight smile and began to disassemble the 2 wolf corpses to make the most of the remain sunlight only when Chloe walked over to him and had watched him for 2 minutes looking like she had something to say but didn't want to disturb him did he put down his bone sword and stopped working

”what's up?”

”do you have some time Mars?”

”yeah sure”

Chloe look visibly relieved and gave a sweet smile

”then i want to show you something”

”...okay”

Mars followed after Chloe and walked out of the camp and after walking for a few minutes they reached a particular tall tree

”it's up here”

Chloe jumped up and grabbed a low branch and swung herself up further into the tree before she looked down at Mars with a slightly teasing smile

”don't tell me that the great living god of energy can't climb a little tree?”

”oh you're on”

Mars backed up a little before he kicked off the ground and jumped a little before he reached the tree before he stretched out his leg and kicked off the tree propelling him further up past Chloe just reaching a breach with one hand before he looked down a Chloe with a wide smile as he hang with one hand

”what are you waiting for?”

Mars saw he had ignited her competitive sprite as she quickly began to agilely climb with well practiced technique that was as smooth as flowing water rapidly climbing further up the tree quickly passing him, while Mars didn't have any climbing technique he made up for his lack of skill by pure strength as he, with the one arm he was hanging in launched himself almost 5 meters up where he grabbed another branch and launched himself further giving Chloe quite the challenge but still she managed to stay in the lead for the first 60 meters until Mars managed to build up a lead by a few meters that lasted until they reached the top of the tree that was about 160 meters of the ground

”what took you so long?”

Mars had sat himself on the highest branch and looked quite relaxed when Chloe made it to the top, looking a little frustrated over her loss

”I... was... just... admiring... the... view”