Pant! Pant!
Drip!
A figure stood tall among a pile of corpses scattered everywhere around him with parts, heads, guts and blood staining the area painting in a very chaotic way. He had a toned body, not too muscular but the muscles were in the right place making him as if he was sculptured by a god, he wore a t-shirt that accentuated his figure, it was stained with blood along with his hands, arms and face, the jeans he wore were quite dirty along with his sneakers. His silver eyes with deep hue around the pupils gleam dangerously as he looked around him at the paint he had drawn.
He was panting while smiling as if satisfied by what he did.
"That was amazing~" his tone was filled with excitement as he talked to no one.
"Those monsters were quite hard to fight due to their numbers, but the thrill was fucking amazing." Dylan said with a toothy grin before he twirled the mystic looking daggers in the hands.
After the mastered the sword arts and stepped into the next realm that consisted only of three stages, Dylan figured that if focused on the sword entirely, it would take him hundreds of years if not thousands to just reach the first realm, so he decided to focus on mastering the other weapons like the daggers, bow, axe, gauntlets, and spear. And frankly, he had already mastered the sword and reached the final stage-the other realm is a special case- so one weapon was mastered, that`s why he decided to focus on the other five weapon and he started with the daggers.
He had already reached the final stage of the daggers mastery where he was met with a bottleneck to completely master it. It was the same when he reached the bottleneck of the sword mastery, but maybe because he mastered it, it was quite easy to go through the daggers and progress further till the end.
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After resting for some time, Dylan decided to continue his journey into this dark unforgiven world and kill more monsters to absorb their souls and enrich his body more.
Soon enough, he met with another group of monsters, they were wolves with metallic jaws and ferocious eyes glaring directly at him, their fur gleamed as if it was metal, and their claws looked so sharp that it could metal like hot knife with butter.
Their sizes were large, nearly 2.5 meters with the leader reaching 2.80 meters, and his fur was completely black while the others varied from grey, brown to off-white.
Grrr…
They growled at him as they readied themselves to pounce on Dylan while the man himself looked amused with a grin on his face, but his eyes gleamed dangerously as he looked at them ready to attack.
Twirling the daggers once more, he took a stance before saying, "Ready.Steady…..GO!"
As if he was giving the mark, they charged at him while he ran so smoothly leaving a silhouette behind. He reached in front of them in a moment as he did before he jumped high and landed on one of the wolves making him angry that he wanted to tear Dylan to pieces, but Dylan looked amused before with a swift slash, he made a deep cut on the back making the wolf growl loudly. All of that happened in a matter of seconds that the other wolves couldn`t register what happened with their little minds, but then, looking at Dylan who cut their groupmate, they growled ferociously before pouncing on him as he still stood on the wolf`s back not losing his balance.
Swoosh!
He jumped again, evading their claws and jaws before seeing the one he injured was torn apart by them.
"And here I thought wolves were loyal to each other." He said with sarcasm dripping from his mouth as he looked at the scene before he moved swiftly with smooth yet deadly movements, killing them all within moments.
The poor wolves couldn`t even comprehend how they died as they had confused faces as they fell lifelessly.
The big wolf leader who was still standing as he watched his pack being slaughtered by Dylan looked at him with deadly gaze as if the death of subjects didn`t matter to him.
Grrr…
He growled deeply as he showed the row of sharp like sword teeth while saliva dripped from his mouth on the ground.
Sizzle!
As soon as the saliva touched the ground, it began melting immediately making Dylan look at him with quite a surprise before a toothy grin spread across his face as he gripped his daggers tightly and focused fully on the big leader who was still looking at him with deadly gaze.
Then as if the world itself stopped breathing, the two vanished from their spots.
CLANG!
The dagger was met with the metallic claws of the wolf leader who blocked the attack before the big wolf attacked with his other claw aiming to tear open Dylan`s chest.
"No, I won`t let you, Wolfe~" Dylan said before bended his body at an impossible angle then delivered a back kick at the wolf`s face sending him flying away until it hit a large, big rock.
GARRRR!
Blood flowed out of the big wolf`s mouth before it looked at Dylan with the same deadly gaze before, then he stood up before suddenly-
GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWL!!!!
It growled so loudly sending a very powerful shockwave at his surroundings breaking and destroying anything in sight.
Dylan just stood there as his hair fluttered in the wind while his grin didn`t fade at all.
"Show me how serious you are, Wolfe~" He said before the big wolf suddenly disappeared and appeared behind Dylan who smiled widely before he spun and blocked the wolf bite with his right dagger, then with a fist on his left hand that still held the dagger, he punch the wolf in the jaw making it feel dizzy as if the world was spinning around him, but he immediately regained his focus and attacked Dylan with his jaws again trying to bit his head off, but Dylan delivered an upper-cut making the wolf stagger and feel pain, but he didn`t fall back and stood his ground making Dylan look quite surprised and amused at the wolf`s will and determination.
"You know, I like you more, Wolfe." He said before he threw the dagger in his right hand in the air then punched the wolf in the face sending him flying back.
But the wolf dug his claws on the ground to stop himself, then dashed at Dylan again with incredible speed, reaching Dylan who caught his dagger again within a moment before delivering a high speed attack with his claws that Dylan saw with his keen eyes and deflected them effortlessly but then the wolf used this and aimed at biting the feet intending to cut them off, but Dylan jumped up slight and with a flip, he gave an ax kick to the wolf`s head making it crack the ground and form a small crater.
The kick wasn`t in full power, so the wolf survived, otherwise, his head would have turned into a mess of blood, brain matter, and bones.
Shaking, the wolf leader stood up again surprising Dylan even more at his relentlessness.
The wolf leader had his pride, the pride of being a leader, a powerful one at that, if not, he would have been rotting like a corpse or even devoured by the strong wolves in the pack.
He would not give up till his last breath, he would not die pathetically like that, he would growl and rise every time Dylan attacked him, no matter what.
That was his pride and power as the leader of the wolves` pack.
But despite that, he couldn`t stand Dylan`s heavy attacks, and no matter how he attacked-claws or jaws- they would be either blocked or deflected.
His body was bloodied, while his bones screamed for him to fall and rest, but he didn`t want to, he wanted to fight till the end and die as a leader at least.
Dylan, who saw all of this, looked at the wolf leader with respect in his eyes and it was the first time he had shown respect to a creature since he arrived in this world, but maybe it would be the last time he would show it.
No words were needed, Dylan with decisive movement, struck the wolf leader in the heart making him fall on the ground breathing his lasts. But till the end, the wolf leader still had the same ferocious and deadly gaze as he looked at Dylan before his eyes dimmed as a puddle of blood formed around the body.
Dylan knelt in front of his dead body before putting his hand on the head and muttered, "You died as a leader."
And as if these were like key words, the soul of the wolf leader flew out of the body and entered his body strengthening him more.
Dylan held some respect for that wolf leader as he showed a great will and relentlessness to fight and continue till the end, it made him realize how great a leader he was.
From the beginning the wolf leader knew that his pack wouldn`t survive against Dylan as he sensed great power coming out of him, that`s why he didn`t react much when he saw his pack die like that.
Because he knew that only the strong survives in this fucked up world, but he decided to honor their death by fighting till his last breath as their leader which earned Dylan respect in the end.
Unbeknownst to Dylan, a part of the soul of the wolf leader he absorbed was slowly fusing with his own soul while the other six demons watched this silently with amused expressions.
Some seconds passed like that before one of them said-
[I think it`s my time to go~] her voice dripped with sweet and allure that could make the heart of men flutter and beat like crazy, but this was all a trap, a fallacy that would take their lives within moments.
[Good luck.] an enigmatic yet majestic voice said making her nod at them before disappearing in a pile of black silky smoke.
'I`m coming for you honey~'