35 Chapter 35 - Godly Wolf Book Two (1/2)
Time had slowed down significantly; the clashing of spearheads had seemed to have ceased as an inevitable silence ensued, just like in all battles. Bewildered eyes glared at one another creating an unforgiving tension and the only sound that could be heard was the hastened heartbeats of merciless warriors. A single bead of sweat scrolled down Lidya's forehead revealing two sharp eyes which intently focused on the surrounding spearmen, fortunately not one of the Elatus. This bead of sweat traveled down further encouraged by the light evening breeze until it dripped from the end of her nose and continued down uncovering each and every battle scar fresh and old.
Lidya's eyes narrowed in suspicion as all of her opponents had seemingly lowered their weapons and had fixed their gazes on something else entirely - but what could it have been? She felt an enormous intimidating aura behind her, however, she didn't want to look back and allow her enemies to exploit the fact that she was distracted.
One man with radiant white skin lowered his spear even further and placed it onto the ground next to him before kneeling down altogether. She watched his every move intently yet still remained indifferent about the terrifying aura behind her thinking that it was some kind of ploy to take advantage of her. With every second that had passed, there was still no movement and other than him kneeling it genuinely felt as though time had stopped completely.
Despite her efforts to not look away, soon Lidya was faced with the reality that she had to turn around... whenever she edged closer with her spear towards her opponents, they didn't even have the courtesy to spare her even a cautionary glance. The lack of aggression had surprisingly made her annoyed yet she appreciated every second that enabled her wounds to heal even for a moment.
The terrifying aura had become much greater and she felt the air become thicker, almost suffocating her. After taking a deep breath of whatever was left to breathe in, Lidya slowly drifted her head to the side - still staying cautious - until she finally fixed her eyes on the monstrosity that the group was staring at.
At first, she couldn't make sense of it, the beast was terrifyingly massive and she was wondering what could the beast possible be. She studied his large fearsome claws and striking beautiful yet dangerous white eyes... eyes that she remembered from a past memory that she didn't have the time to recall. It was a wolf - nothing which she had ever seen before, it's fur was black and white as any other but it's aura which had materialized as a purple-black smog.
”Lidya?”
The wolf had actually spoken, it's voice was crystal clear and as intimidating as one would expect it to be, however, what was much more interesting was that it was her own name - which only a few had the privilege of knowing. Picking up the pieces of the puzzle together, Lidya remembered only one wolf she spoke her name to and she couldn't believe her eyes that the same beast she once spoke to was right in front of her!
”Wolf... we meet again, how are your youngsters doing?” She asked, her heart had stopped beating as fast and she felt a bit more at peace, now that she had an ally at her side.
”I killed them all, they proved to be a nuisance to me, what is going on here?” Zaro inspected each of the other men that had their spears stained with blue blood - the same color as the blood dripping from Lidya's wounds. Lidya was momentarily baffled at the calmness of his voice, after hearing that he killed members of his own species!
”I was summoned here along with them... you see they are enemies of mine...” Zaro nodded at her response and then unleashed some of his killing intent towards them. However, this new aura that he unleashed just a 'bit' of was much more terrifying to everything else around him. The man that was kneeling down had smacked his head off the ground and grit his teeth while the rest fell back onto the ground in fear. Although none of the killing intent was targeted at Lidya, she could still feel the pure greatness of his power.
”Spare me Guardian of the Godly Forests! Father of all wolves! Please! This measly life of mine will not trouble you or the witch ever again!” He cried, tears falling down his cheeks and his forehead was now another shade of red from smacking it so hard. Zaro sighed to himself, it felt different, he no longer felt empathy to anything anymore, except Lidya... perhaps she reminded him of the time where he was a bit more humane but right now he didn't care whether this odd race of Aelfs lived or not. His core hadn't even awakened yet and he was already such a powerful being, it was only a matter of time before he became a real threatening foe. Just as he was about to take action against these helpless Aelfs, another aura had appeared in the distance - similar to his own. The other's didn't look like they discovered it yet but that might've been his own aura which quenched anything else.
All the entities in front of him were currently nothing more than just a few plants for him to snack on and so without much thinking, he decided to ignore them. Zaro recalled his killing intent, then looked over at Lidya, ”Climb onto my back, we are leaving.” The sudden command had taken her off-guard, however, the wise thing to do was to follow his instruction and so with the help of his fur she scaled the beast as the Aelf watched, their white faces now much paler.
With a casual leap, Zaro had left the Aelfs behind and started running straight for the strange aura that he had detected. The closer he got the more uncomfortable Lidya had become, the once powerful Elatus warrior was now nothing more than a mere bug which he had become friends with. She held on tightly to his fur and looked off into the distance where she could feel an aura much like Zaro's radiating like a star.
”What is that, wolf?” She asked hesitantly.