More than ten pairs of bloodshot eyes appeared one after another around the forest. They moved about like will-o’-the-wisps searching for the weakest link in the circle of fire.
“Awoo! Awoooo! AWOOOO!”
The Demonic Bloody Moon Wolves’ howls became shriller, and with the foul-smelling bloody fog, they stimulated the humans’ nasal mucosa and eardrums. Then, it went further to invade their nerves.
If it were not for Meng Chao’s guidance, most of the examinees would have been consumed by fear at this point.
But now, their noses and ears were covered by cotton and strips of cloth soaked in wolf blood. They knew that the seemingly terrifying creatures were just using the darkness to hide their weakness. Under the illumination of fire, if they were to really fight against the humans armed with guns and knives, they would not be that much stronger than crippled dogs.
The students used deafening warsongs to fight against the monsters’ howls and their surging brain waves to form an indestructible shield over their hearts.
The wolf howls became even more restless, and the speed of the wolf eyes moving increased as well. It seemed like they could not find a crack in the defense through which they could attack, so they were getting anxious and their ears twitched. They circled around in a disorderly fashion.
When some of the examinees saw how helpless the wolves were against them, they laughed loudly.
But Meng Chao narrowed his eyes and twitched his nose. He could smell the stench of a scheme.
Suddenly, his expression changed drastically, and he pointed above him. “Above us, careful!”
Rustle…
The branches above their heads shook.
Everyone had thought that the branches were shaking because of the wind, and since most of the sounds were drowned out by the wolf howls and human songs, they did not pay too much attention to it.
At that moment, the wolf pack’s scheme was revealed. Dozens of red wolf eyes shone with an intimidating light between the branches as they coldly looked down from above.
Slap!
Two mangled human corpses fell among the examinees from above them. Blood splattered all over the place.
“Ah!”
Someone recognized their classmates, and they could not help but scream. The loud song was instantly cut off.
Before they could pick it up again, more than ten Demonic Bloody Moon Wolves turned into ten howling, bloody arrows that jumped into the circle of fire from the branches.
The Demonic Bloody Moon Wolves were pack monsters with incredibly high intellect.
Those patrolling in the fog were the old and weak of the wolf pack. They were there to attract the humans’ attention.
The ones who jumped down among them quietly like ghosts were the main fighting force!
When Meng Chao saw that the examinees were shrouded by the fear-inducing bloody fog and so nervous that they did not dare to breathe, a thought appeared in his head. He shouted in anger, “Ninth High School, follow me and fight!”
The first style of the future One Hundred Saber Techniques—Howling Wind Cutter!
When the first Demonic Bloody Moon Wolf’s skull split open and its blood and brains gushed out, all the examinees shuddered.
In this era, the high schools all went through militarization management, and the sense of honor toward their schools was very strong. They regarded their schools just like how a soldier regarded their unit.
They would die to bring glory to their school.
Meng Chao had called out for Ninth High School, and it was just a key high school in the region.
Quite a number of examinees came from key high schools in the city or even great schools like First High School, Second High School, and Construction High.
They had been saved repeatedly by a student from a key high school in the region, and he even stole their limelight repeatedly. The elites from the three great schools felt so ashamed that they wanted to crawl into a hole and die.
But Chu Feixiong just had to fan the flames even further. He responded to Meng Chao’s words by saying, “That’s right! Students from First High School, Second High School, and Construction High, retreat for the time being. Ninth High School will fight to the death and not retreat!”
“Bastards! You’re looking down on us too much!”
“First High School is the strongest!”
“There are no cowards in Second High School! The courageous ones will win when they meet in a narrow path!”
“Construction High School is invincible!”
The examinees from the great schools were deeply angered.
The students from the key high schools in the city also mustered their courage. They wanted to use their blood to protect the glory of their school.
They let out roars that were even louder than the monsters’ and pounced on them with their sabers.
The sabers clashed with the fangs of the wolves, and human blood mixed together with monster blood. The howls were drowned out by warcries.
When dozens of fearless teenagers released the strongest power in their lives, even if they faced demons and gods, they would not retreat!
The wolf pack hesitated.
These creatures did not expect that the food that was already in their grasp would suddenly grow a hard shell and sharp bone spikes, which pierced them so hard that their mouths became full of blood. In fact, many of them even paid the price with their lives.
The humans’ originally disorderly brain waves also became stronger under the encouragement of the blood, flames, and warsongs. Gradually, it suppressed the bloody fog.
Meng Chao pushed his Master Level One Hundred Saber Techniques to the limit. His contribution points and Skillfulness chased after each other and kept jumping up in numbers.
As he continued fighting while bathed in blood, he became more skillful with his saber. It was like the scythe of the God of Death that harvested the creatures’ lives.
Crack!
After killing the umpteenth Demonic Bloody Moon Wolf, his saber finally bent and got stuck in a wolf’s bone.
But the Demonic Bloody Moon Wolf did not die. It pushed down on Meng Chao. It bit down on the air beside his ear. Its fangs crashed into each other, and sparks flew everywhere.
Meng Chao did not have the time to draw the saber, so he decided to just hold the beast, wrap his legs tightly around the weakest part of its body—its waist—and like a python, suddenly release a huge burst of power to twist his body.
A loud crack came from the wolf’s spine. It let out a howl and fell limp on the ground.
The other Demonic Bloody Moon Wolves finally felt terrified. They retreated to the edge of the empty ground.
“Awoo!”
At that moment, an exceptionally fierce wolf howl came from the depths of the forest.
The Demonic Bloody Moon Wolves who remained looked as if they had been struck by a whip. They jumped up and gathered together to wait for their leader to arrive among them.
Meng Chao’s pupils shrank. He used the wolf’s blood to wipe his face, and with an intense gaze, he looked through the fire.
There, standing on a strange rock illuminated in the forest by the bewitching blood-red moon, was a Demonic Bloody Moon Wolf that was several times larger than a lion.
Its fur was dark and shiny, and it gave off a crystalline feeling.
On its chest was a patch of red that sparkled, but it was not made of fur. Instead, it had condensed together to form something similar to a crystal.
It resembled a blood-red crystal which had been forcefully embedded into its body.
The creature’s eyes were profound and filled with a brutal and cunning light.
Blood-red fog kept on spreading from its body in waves, and it dyed a circular area of nearly one hundred meters. The examinees’ nerves were instantly trampled by fear.
This was… the presence of a king! Only superbeasts had that sort of presence!
‘A Bloody Moon Wolf King!’
Meng Chao’s heart sank.
Each wolf pack naturally had a wolf king.
The difference of the wolf king’s strength varied greatly based on the wolf pack’s size and strength.
Based on the size of the blood-red jade on the wolf king’s chest, it was at least a Nightmarish Beast!
“Hiss!”
The Bloody Moon Wolf King opened its mouth and released a puff of blood-red fog.
It came out like flames that raged in the air and spread out.
Many of the examinees were affected. Their expressions twisted, their muscles twitched, and they could not breathe.
Even Meng Chao felt that the area around him had become much ghastlier, that the monsters around him had bared their teeth, and that his group could not win through their strength alone.
“It’s a mind attack from Bloody Moon Wolf Kings, the Bloody Fear Flames!
“They’re the upgraded version of the normal bloody fog. They’re highly invasive to the nerves, and it’s an area attack that he can release at will. It can attack an area which is dozens of meters wide, but it can also be condensed to attack an area of only around eight meters.”
“It’s… a superbeast!”
“The wolf king has appeared! We can’t possibly live anymore. It’s impossible…”
“We can only run!”
The examinees were surrounded by the Bloody Fear Flames and quickly showed signs of nerve poisoning. Their mental strength indices started falling.
Only Meng Chao remained with his eyes shining. He refused to give up on hope.
‘This doesn’t make sense. Since the wolf king is a Nightmarish Beast, it should have rushed over a long time ago. Why did it watch so many of its descendants get killed by us?
‘Even now, it’s just spitting bloody flames. It didn’t quietly charge in. What’s it worried about?
‘Wait. It looks like… it’s injured.’
Meng Chao looked through the bloody flames and the fog with an intense gaze. He could clearly see that the Bloody Moon Wolf King’s body was covered in wounds. Some of its organs had even slipped out a little.
There was a dagger stuck in its neck. Even if its windpipe and jugular vein were not severed, it largely affected its ability to move its spine.
The wolf was actually injured severely, and its strength had fallen drastically. That was why it did not want to charge in to kill them!
Who did it?
But Meng Chao did not have the time to think about it. He swung his bent saber at the wolf king and shouted, “Everyone, don’t be afraid! The wolf king is badly injured! It’ll die at any moment! Its goal is to make us scatter! Don’t fall for its tricks!”
Quite a number of students were already taken by fear and were prepared to turn tail and run.
But when Meng Chao shouted at them, their minds cleared up a little.
When they thought about it, it made sense. The Bloody Moon Wolf King was a Nightmarish Beast, so if it rushed in to fight against them, it could have easily broken the formation they set up in haste. There was no need for it to sneak around.
“That’s right! If we scatter and run, we’ll only die! We have to stay here and fight to the death!”
“We’ve already stalled for a long time! The reinforcements must definitely be nearby! Light is bright over here! It’s very easy for them to find us!”
“Since we could kill so many Demonic Bloody Moon Wolves, there’s no reason why we can’t withstand the next wave of attacks! If we persevere to the end, we’ll win!”
There were wolf carcasses all around them, which meant that the monsters were not undefeatable.
Meng Chao’s brain was like a signal tower that continuously released powerful brain waves, which helped the examinees’ brains release a lot of superbrain endorphins that managed to minimize the effect of the Bloody Fear Flames.
With Luo Hai and Chu Feixiong taking the lead, the examinees became high in spirit again.
When the Bloody Moon Wolf King saw that the humans did not fall for its trick, its howls turned exasperated.
It stared at Meng Chao with great resentment.
It patrolled the area behind the flames for a moment, but in the end, it could not accept fleeing with so many wolf carcasses around.
It revealed its sharp fangs at Meng Chao and turned into a bloody afterimage that charged over at high speed.
‘It’s fast!’
Meng Chao’s hair instantly stood up. Instinctively, he moved to the left to dodge. Pain flared at his chest, and a large piece of his flesh was torn away.
The wolf king might have been large, but it was not clumsy. It was twice as fast as a normal wolf.
As it stared at the wound on Meng Chao’s chest, its eyes flashed, and it grinned in a cruel manner. The bloody flames around it grew ten times brighter and stronger, as if someone had poured oil on them.
In an instant, Meng Chao felt that his world had turned red and he had been dragged into an abyss of death by wolf fangs.
He had sucked in a large amount of Bloody Fear Flames, and nerve poisoning started raging in his mind.
All his cells froze over. His body spasmed, and he could not react in any other manner.
The other students wanted to save him, but the wolf pack had launched their attack and entangled them in a brutal fight.
The wolf king jumped up again to hide the blood-red moon in the sky.
Meng Chao gritted his teeth and swung his saber. All he could think about was dying together with the wolf king.
There was only one meter left between the wolf king’s fangs and his saber when a small but built figure showed up.
It was small because the person had a slight hump on his back. His spine was curved, and he looked like an old man with a hunchback.
But he was built. His arms were filled with muscles full of explosive strength. They were like cannons, and his blood and will seemed to be cannonballs that filled them up!
Boom! Boom!
The cannons roared and tore through the sky as the man drew his arms back.
The first punch rammed into the hilt of the dagger on the wolf’s neck. Like a hammer hitting a nail, it buried the dagger a few inches further into the wolf, causing great pain to the wolf king. No matter how it tried to claw it out, it could not do it.
The second punch rammed accurately into the spot above the wolf king’s left eye. A loud crack rose. The creature’s forehead, which was as sturdy as metal, caved. The left eyeball exploded like a balloon full of blood.
The Bloody Moon Wolf King had been a mighty presence a moment ago, but now, it let out a whine like a wretched dog and retreated behind the other wolves.
“Principal Sun!”
Meng Chao looked as if he had woken up from a dream, and he recognized the person who saved him. It was the principal from Ninth High School, the old man who usually looked harmless and bleary-eyed.
At that moment, Principal Sun’s skin was shrivelled, his chest caved in, and bones were protruding from his body. Wisps of white hair danced in the wind around him.
But the spirit flames that burned around him were brighter and more violent than anything else. They made him into a God of War who descended from the sky!