Beatitudes

Episode 99.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Three attacks were launched simultaneously from a single tainted beast. And following the attack the next moment was the sounds of collision erupting from all three points of battle.

The sound of the collision was evidence enough to prove the strength of the force behind the attacks from both sides. And on the sides of the three trial challengers, Harry was slightly disadvantaged due to his somewhat dazed state, hence he was unable to guard properly against the attack as he was the first to stumble backwards over a distance of dozens of feet. His insides were aching somewhat as his blood surged unstably for a while.

The wolf’s attack was evidently on a different level from its previous ones and this was enough to show its strength. It was already injured considerably from Isaac’s two attacks yet it was able to still bring out such strength. It was a good thing that Isaac had managed to land the two attacks on the wolf, otherwise if it had attacked in its strongest state, the attack would be one that could essentially seriously injure them or even outrightly end their lives.

While Harry was stumbling back, evidently weaker compared to the wolf, the other two were also not having that good of a time.

Isaac felt the strength behind the claw swipe from the wolf, and he was hard pressed to guard against it even with the defense he formed that was the strongest he could muster at this point. He took one step after another continuously for about four meters before eventually coming to a stop. He stared blankly, just ahead of him at the defense he erected as he noticed the deep lines of c***k that decorated the surface of it. If the wolf had added a little bit more strength to its attack, then he couldn’t be sure if his defense would have been able to take it and still stand.

Hiya on the other hand had chosen to launch an attack of her own rather than erecting a defense. Her sword clashed with the wolf’s claw as it actually to cut into it. But the sword was only able to cut into the wolf’s claw slightly before the muscles around the sword tightened up and stopped any further attempts at tearing its claw into two. Due to that, although she was able to disperse a bit of the force of the wolf’s attack, she was ultimately pushed back as well.

What was a bit of surprise at the current moment was the fact that she was only pushed back a dozen steps before she stopped firmly in her tracks. Out of the three of them, she seemed to be the one with the least amount of taken. It wasn’t something hard to believe but it was still surprising since she had been suppressed before now by the wolf, unable to fight back properly.

Isaac breathed a sigh of relief in the end as he relaxed slightly. He could see that although they had suffered varying degrees of injuries from the attack just now, they had all been able to take it on in the end. At this point, Astral’s voice rang out in his head after being quiet for a good while.

Astral: You’re being too simple and inflexible…

Isaac furrowed his brows slightly as he heard what Astral before he replied, ‘What do you mean?”

Astral: End the fight first before we talk

He couldn’t understand the words Astral had said and since was not the best time and place, he decided to wait like Astral said.

His focus returned to the battle at hand and he saw that the wolf had paused slightly after its barrage of attacks. But it only paused for a while before it set its sights on Isaac once again, the bad intentions in its eyes clear for all to see.

It was evident that the attack that had just been executed was one that the wolf had done after receiving attacks that had been dealt to it with tricks, it hence felt that its prestige as the mountain king had been challenged and thus struck all three of them at the same time to show its superiority.

After it had seemingly established that notion successfully, it focused its gaze on Isaac, who was the true target it needed to rip apart mercilessly. After all, it was from Isaac that it had been dealt the only two wounds it had received ever since the start of the fight. It was a ruthless king, and it wasn’t one to receive an attack without paying it back.

Isaac felt its gaze trained on him and he could only curse in a low voice,

“What kind of grudge is this damn wolf holding, it was clearly the one who started it…”

But even after complaining indignantly, he braced himself for impact as he charged at the wolf again as the wolf charged at him, he wasn’t going to let it take the advantage this time. And so, the battle raged on.

Sidestepping to dodge an attack aimed his chest, Isaac swung his white sword at the wolf’s side like previously. But the wolf was prepared this time as it shifted its body nimbly and evaded the s***h.

Alas it had disregarded the fact that Isaac wasn’t the only challenger present in the mountain. It was about to swipe at Isaac again when it felt a heavy force strike its other side from its blind spot. It was Harry who had followed to charge at the wolf after picking himself up from the ground.

It could be seen that he was the one with the highest resilience at this point. He had been the one to suffer the most from the wolf’s split charge attack, and yet he was able to pick himself up as he attacked again with barely any time passing.

The wolf was thus once again thrown off its feet as it stumbled sideways, reeling from the force behind Harry’s attack. It had not expected another attack coming as it was fully focused on Isaac. And its choice to be careless seemed to be what cost it as both Harry and Isaac gave it no chance to recover on its feet as they kept on attacking. The wolf despite being unable to defend had a thick skin so all the attacks directed at it was neutralized slightly before truly impacting it. But that didn’t stop them from pressing on as they slashed and smashed on.

Hiya stared on at the two people engaging the wolf. An odd light flickered across her pupil as she mumbled to herself,

“You two shouldn’t be the only ones to hog all the fun…”

She was also somewhat willing to do battle with the wolf, but unlike the other two she calmed herself down and decided to bide her time as she waited for the perfect opening.

The situation of battle continued on as it was for a while before things finally changed. The corners of her lips tugged up slightly in a smile as she brandished her sword and dashed forward.

Harry and Isaac had chosen to press on with the advantage they had gotten as they seemed to be succeeding with it. But right as Harry was about to follow up on Isaac’s s***h at an exposed weak point of the wolf, a sinister howl rang into his ears as they seeped into his consciousness like a vengeful snake.

This was a howl from the wolf that had finally felt pushed to a corner as it unleashed another skill of its own. Poor Harry had been already been proven to not fare well against such attacks, so he was stunned immediately as he froze in his movements in midair.

The wolf took the chance again as quickly as it could as it swatted Harry away with the same force as the claw swipe from earlier. While Harry could only do nothing but be swatted away with such force, the wolf turned its gaze to Isaac as it moved forward raising a claw to smash the black and gold haired male fighter to death.

It was right at this time, when Isaac stood ready to s***h back at the wolf and probably catch the wolf by surprise with a pike to its eyes, that was when he saw a silhouette appear abruptly above the wolf, with the wolf being unaware of the figure.

And by the time it sensed something, it was already too late as a flash of silver was reflected in Isaac’s eyes.

A head was separated from its body as it flew up into the air…