Free Web NovelChapter 29: Situation Called For It.
I was held up in the air, by Quinette meters off the ground, managed to keep the sword still in my hand.
I glanced down at the wolf. It crawled closer, its claws unsheathing from its paws. Like ice daggers.
Our odds against six. Very, very slim.
But if we played our cards right we can get out of this unharmed.
I looked at Quinette, she struggled to keep up in the sky she wasn’t depleting from strength but. Her wings was already timing out from the exposed cold, its rhythm chopped. Occasionally we dropped before she flapped her wings harder lifting up higher.
Running wasn’t an option, flying out not possible, couldn’t continue to torture her.
Her eyes were fixed on the Wolf with the face of someone calculating our chance of survival.
"Quinette. Drop me."
"You have a death wish? The moment I drop you that wolf would tear you apart."
"No I don’t think so." I watched the wolf circle us while keeping its eyes up on us. It was cautious. The earlier damage we had caused wasn’t present on the Wolf’s movement but it knew we were a threat.
"Quinette, if it wanted it would have leaped at us. Just now. It’s scared of us also."
"We have to leave I can fly us out of here."
"Sigh... you can’t keep us stable in the air for a second. How would you possibly fly us out of here immediately."
I shook my head. Tired of this back and forth argument.
What would it cost if she just accepted the moment I order her.
Staying in the village had taught me a lot, especially. When my father used to hunt for fun. Very adventurous man he was.
One thing about predators they’re cautious of their prey if they bite back. But if the prey turn around and run with their tail between their legs, they strike back this time making sure they kill.
If we were considering to run out of here. We’d need to be faster than the wolf. Which we weren’t, it was a bad idea.
Still Quinette didn’t lower to the ground which suggested she still considered retreating for now.
Not me.
I peeled her hand from mine. Released. I dropped before she could react.
My robe flapped in the height of the wind. Cold permeated me to the bones.
The ground grew closer. Till eventually I landed with my feet.
My force was surpressed by the bed of snow on the ground.
But that didn’t stop the force to send stinging pain to my spine.
Couldn’t stand upright, falling back to the snow.
I stared up at the thick clouds. The sunlight spilling through in grey shades.
I didn’t get up like I had given up on fighting.
Well the pain was intense to even stay seated up.
"Get up this isn’t the time to lay around."
Quinette barked, standing firm before me in a protective stance against the wolf. As much as her voice sounded angered I knew she enjoyed it.
Being the one doing the protecting.
While I was in a mild trance, I stared at the drifting snow.
I raised my palm.
A tiny snowflakes dissolved on my palm on contact.
[Absorb: Ambient Mana (Snowflake)]
[Mana Level: (Insignificant to record: Below ’E’ Rank)]
Of course it would do such. I wasn’t surprised, remembering Aria’s teaching, mana stone are created by ambient mana sinking into them, same happening to the snow now.
The SSS rank dungeon was emitting so much Ambient Mana it was sinking into the snowflakes.
Unfortunately the mana level was too small to mean something. On the other hand.
This place was covered in snow.
Hmm.
Soon enough the thunderous charge of the other wolves drew closer, heavy streaks, bone-deep howls.
They soon burst from the dense forest, knocking down some trees, canopy coated icy.
"What are you doing, they got us surrounded now. Get up NOW!"
Quinette once again barked an order which didn’t sound like one.
I didn’t get up yet, but I could feel the heaving of the wolves, the ugly smell of iron, from their drool as their eyes gauged on us.
They stalked us, circling us.
Quinette was eye darting through each of them, expecting an attack.
When the pack let out a series of violent growls and then pounced.
I rolled up, then drove my hand into the snow. The cold wrapped my hand, with [Adapt] running in me.
Its freezing cold lost their effects on me gradually.
Then I let out the words like a spell.
A bare whisper swallowed by the wind.
"Absorb."
A frequency surged out from my palm, in waves. Glowing sky blue.
My aura flared. frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓
The force surfaced the snow all around.
A second layer of power.
Then I drew it back, the tiny ambient mana gathered as the frequency of the wave converged to me.
It piled up. Built pressure, my body surged with power, the beat my heart took rhythm with the absorption pace.
With its icy properties from the snow modified in the ambient mana.
Left my veins, changed in temperature and color matching the tint of my Mana.
The pack about to strike. With claws ready, jaws, they closed in.
I pulled my hand from the snow.
Clapped them together.
[Amplify: Ambient Mana (Snow:C Rank)]
It compressed and amplified with force,
Turning the small mana in my palm. Radiating a vibrant glow. Ice crawled up my hands.
[Amplify: 100%] [A Rank]
It wasn’t enough to one shot them but. To fight with the environment.
I slammed my palm back to the snow and released the amplified mana out.
The snowy surface flash-froze into a frictionless sheet.
Excluding where I stood with Quinette.
The pack of wolves lost their balance when they tried to attack. They slipped, scattered, clawing for purchase as they collided with each other.
Left uncoordinated.
"Let’s get out of here."
I straightened up, stepping to Quinette’s side. She was surprised, more impressed.
"You have ice affinity?"
"Now I do." Which wasn’t a lie, I hadn’t expelled all the mana absorbed from the snow, I cupped my hand felt the little left.
With [Adapt], my subskill [Adaptive Learning] I can learn magic by adapting to it. With so, I will be able to conjure ice later on, now I had an affinity core I can use affinity magic.
All this ability was buried deep in [Dragon Potent].
The Triangle Of [Adapt] [Absorb] [Amplify] expanded to sub magic.
With [Perfect Knowledge] their use resurfaced one by one.
First wolf, claws finally found its purchase on the ice holding in. While I deep in thoughts.
’Can’t stand here longer.’
’The wolves still have their eyes on us. Tsk.’
"Quinette we have to leave. Now." I threw my hand to her. To grab me.
I had never used this before.
The situation called for it.
