The storm dissipated as quickly as it was created. The wolf collapsed breathing as heavily as it was bleeding. The kludde kept one eye open. Its once bright yellow eyes started to dim, it was obvious that was its last ditch effort to wipe the attackers out.

Two of the warriors stepped forward. Their armors noticeably burnt, some parts of them charred while others bleeding relentlessly, both held on clumsily to their swords.

They raised their swords to land a finishing blow on the already half dead kludde.

Their swords were stopped when I appeared with my Terrier Blade.

To my surprise however, despite their extremely tattered and exhausted state, when I intercepted the attacks, the force that impacted my body was enough to leave a creator below my feet.

The force was powerful enough to shock my entire body into surprise. Despite the pain I held a blank expression swallowing it to hold my composure.

My hatred for them and their murderous kingdom seemed to dull the pain. Just the site of their emblems brought disgust and flashes of my father and uncle's head rolling.

The look of total shock and confusion on their faces were priceless.

They were astounded to see a child block their attacks.

Using my gravity magic, I pushed them both back, they looked at each other dumbfounded.

“Kneel!”

I commanded, using my gravity magic and every ounce of mana.

they both fell to their knees before me.

Upon a closer look I realized they were a man and a woman.

I felt an unknown force call to me. With one eye still open the kludde stared at me, almost shouting at me spiritually.

I touched the wolf on its forehead as it lay there half dazed on the precipice of death, our minds connected.

The wolf searched my mind, and I searched hers. Rage, pain and annoyance filled her mind, it was an ocean with raging seas.

In a split second I found myself reliving the life of the kludde. I saw its days as a pup how It grew without its parents. She was always filled with fear and clung to the darkness. She spent all her days hiding and scurrying for her life. It was only through ruthless life and death fights did she start to grow in strength.

Despite the growth in strength the kludde spent half of its life nursing fatal injuries and living in pain. It was not until it had evolved into a stronger lifeform that it truly got to enjoy life.

If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the violation.

The memories continued and Alric could feel a more feral nature invading his mind. The flood of memories seems to be affecting his psyche.

The memories from the kludde’s last couple days were especially bloody.

The kludde had just spent the last two days giving birth and had left its den to find food. Already feeling weak from childbirth it hunted only small animals and hid from anything larger than a deer.

Despite the caution it found itself surrounded by humans. At first it tried to scare them off with a wave of dark pulse but the humans were more than prepared. The humans erected their shields and blocked the attack and started their onslaught of attacks.

At first it tried to stand and fight but even after a full day of attacking and invading the humans were still relentless in their blows.

The kludde wanted to escape but she did not want her pups to suffer being alone like she was even worse was her pups being captured as slaves for these humans.

As the humans continued to attack the kludde was filled with rage at their underhanded tactics they tried to bind her feet with plant magic but the kludde lashed out with a wave of electricity and destroyed the bindings.

The kludde felt it would die and tried to escape while the shields were still up.

But once again the dash was cut short by another wall of humans who replied with swings of their swords.

Due to this the journey back to its den that should have only taken a few hours took two days.

By now it was tired, bleeding and wearing deep wounds. It had all the rage of a feral beast but lacked the power to do anything to the humans. Now that they had survived not one but two of its most powerful attacks the kludde finally fell into true despair.

With great sadness the kludde took its final look at its newborns and felt even worse knowing they would be set for slavery to the humans who killed her. her rage boiled even more.

That was when another human stopped the final attack of the humans. The kludde was confused and decided to get to the root of the matter and searched his heart directly.

Finally catching up, Alric was pulled into the mental space of the kludde.

At its center were four of her pups, they weathered the storm however from the far distant came a dark force that withered all it touched to nothingness.

The darkness creeped closer and closer to the center and the world shook violently. It seems death was ready to destroy the mind of the wild beast. I wondered why the wolf invited me to her subconscious.

Then without knowing myself, my deepest request was asked.

“Help me wipe that kingdom from the map!”

My subconscious screamed without even me realizing.

Surprising myself that that's what I truly wanted, I heard a response.

“Protect and feed my pups until they are strong enough. Give them a good home and make them strong.

Then kill as many of these pests as you can. So long as you do this, You will have the blessing of an emperor kludde.”

Hearing how perfectly my inner hatred and rage aligned with her request I nodded with a smirk, accepting the proposal.

Within my mind the four pups jumped at me and then disappeared to a smoke of darkness. The world that was already withering had now been fully consumed by the darkness and collapsed.

With two basic thoughts, a contract was made. A wolf tattoo appeared on my left shoulder and a mist of darkness seeped into the wolf tattoo. The kludde's eyes closed, as she sank into a deep sleep.

Then I walked over to the pups, stretched out my arm and the tattoo on my shoulder glowed in a black hue. Then the kluddes vanished into my shadow as though they never existed.

The darkness magic covered my body and my eyes glowed yellow as I felt my senses heighten. I turned around to look at the warriors further behind, the two were still kneeling.

A sly grin covered my face feeling the rush of power and the intoxicating feeling of darkness running through my veins.