Northern Forest, 18:00
Precisely at the time the night cycle was about to being, Li Wei confidently stepped into the Wolf Queen's territory. This time, he was alone but well equipped. The old lady of the magic shop agreed to sell the explosive potions at a much lower price than usual. Li Wei emptied his pocket but was only able to buy 10 of them. That meant that if he was careful, he could guarantee 450 damage to the Wolf Queen.
The Wolf Queen actually had 500 HP, but she also had minions that would willingly sacrifice themselves for their queen; it was not like aiming at a fixed target.
Li Wei walked into the woods, wolves started to appear left and right but this time, Li Wei did not hold back. He violently stabbed the nearby wolves until their death. Yesterday, even though he was focusing, Li Wei did not use his full force when striking the wolves. He instead tried to attack at the weak points of the wolves, like the connecting joints of the limbs or the neck, but today, he was going all out. Compared to the Wolf Queen's minion, these wolves were much slower.
As he did not need to share exp this time, his exp bar quickly filled up.
[System prompt: Congratulations player Seven. You leveled up. You gained one free stat point]
Li Wei smiled, he was now more confident in his victory; he now had 2 free stat points still not allocated.
Li Wei directly allocated the 2 stat points to Dexterity. If he wanted to learn the Dual Sword style, dexterity was a must. It was what Li Wei could deduce just from watching the Red Bandit fight. His movements were much faster than the normal people.
Now with 15 Dexterity, hunting became even easier and eventually, a bright shadow dashed behind Li Wei.
“You are finally here. I thought I would need to kill a lot more wolves… I suppose that’s one of the perks of going alone.”
Li Wei noticed that presence and immediately turned around, raising his swords aggressively. It was the Wolf Queen, she was still the same as yesterday, but this time, she made the first move and attacked from the shadows.
The Wolf Queen crouched for a second then ran in zigzags towards Li Wei. The latter's eyes kept swinging left and right but when the wolf was 2 meters away from Li Wei, it stopped zigzagging and jumped straight on Li Wei. Its speed was fast, comparable to the bats in the mine, but the environment here was much more comfortable for Li Wei.
Li Wei did not parry. Instead, he lowered his swords and rolled to the side. His heart was beating fast, Li Wei put back his left sword into its sheath and took an explosive potion from his inventory.
As soon as the Wolf Queen landed, it immediately turned around and howled at Li Wei. A little shock wave pushed him back, but it did not deal any damage. A new entry appeared in Li Wei's event log:
[You have been hit by the Wolf Queen's Terrifying Howl, dexterity and strength -1 for 1 minute]
"Huh! I did not see that move yesterday. So annoying! Eat that!"
As soon as the wave went pass Li Wei, he quickly got into his usual throwing stance and threw his bottle of explosive potion. The shiny yellow bottle made a beautiful arc in the air before exploding onto the Wolf Queen's fur.
The Wolf Queen did not feel any danger coming from the bottle. She did not react, treating it as a shiny object, but to its surprise, as soon as the bottle broke, it exploded on its fur, blasting the Wolf Queen away."-42"
"Aouhhhh" the wolf Queen howled in anger, it had been a long time since it felt that kind of pain. But Li Wei did not end here, he immediately dashed towards the Wolf Queen with both swords drawn. He was thrusting his left sword towards the Wolf Queen's front leg while horizontally swinging his right sword slightly above the Wolf Queen's head. This way, it would not be able to dodge by jumping.
Despite being aware of the threat, the wolf queen still decided to jump, but her claws started to shine brightly before striking towards the sword.
[Cleave]! Seeing that, Li Wei immediately activated his own skill.
"Cling "
In the end, Li Wei's sword was pushed away, but at the same time, "-27" appeared on the Wolf Queen's paw. It was not a bad trade for Li Wei, who immediately took an explosive potion and threw it directly at the Wolf Queen. Li Wei did not wait to see the result, he immediately turned and dashed towards where his sword flew.
"Boom!" Another explosion occurred just on the Wolf Queen's fur.
"Aoouuhhh" It retreated a few steps before howling, summoning 1 wolf for help. The wolf immediately obeyed its queen and ran towards Li Wei with murderous eyes.
Li Wei did not need to see to know what was happening. It was something he could predict from the Wolf Queen's attack pattern. He quickly reached his sword but did not take it yet. Instead, he grabbed 2 throwing needles and threw them at the wolf. He did not throw them directly at the wolf, instead, he aimed a bit lower and on each side of the wolf, forcing it to jump upwards.
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And as he expected, that's how the wolf reacted. Li Wei faintly smiled.
[Strengthen]
He directly used his skill and dashed to the side of the wolf in mid-air. The latter could not dodge in such position. [Cleave] hacked the wolf on its stomach. It was not enough to finish it, so Li Wei followed up with a vertical swing with his other sword.
Li Wei was about to stab again with his right sword when he felt a sense of danger right behind him. He did not even turn around; Li Wei just threw his right sword towards the wolf and then drew an explosive potion from his inventory, and tossed it behind him before rolling forwards.
A few moments later, the wolf in front of him was stabbed by the thrown sword and another pitiful howl came from behind him. The Wolf Queen was once again hit by the Explosive Potion.
“Aouuuhhh!”
Li Wei did not let it rest, he immediately drew his throwing needles and threw them towards the Wolf Queen while walking back towards his sword.
Despite being hit by the needles, the Wolf Queen rushed towards Li Wei with shining claws. The two exchanged blows; claws vs swords but Li Wei was clearly not its match. He could only use guerilla tactics, fighting for a few seconds, before running away to drink a Health Potion. Li Wei used his explosive potions wisely. He made sure that the Wolf Queen would be unable to dodge when he threw it. They were precious, and Li Wei could not afford to waste them.
...
After 15 minutes of constant fighting, Li Wei was panting heavily; he was still at full health but exhausted half of his Health Potions while the Wolf Queen had about 100 HP left. It summoned its minions 3 times since the beginning. It was now the 4th time.
“Come on! So close… I must hurry before a third party turns up.”
[Strengthen], [Cleave]
Li Wei did his usual combo onto the minions; he could not afford to lose time on them. After pushing it away, he took his last throwing needle, aimed at the wolf's eyes and threw it.
[System Prompt: Congratulation player Seven, requirements reached! You have repeatedly used a particular throwing technique to kill monsters. You have created a new skill named "Weapon Throwing". Would you like to change the name?]
Li Wei was delightedly surprised, 'So this is the thing they talked about... creating our own techniques...'
"Do not change the name! Open Information!"
[Weapon Throwing(level 0)]
Passive effect: When throwing a weapon towards a target, precision +5%, Damage +1
It was a pleasant surprise. The more skills one had the better. It was a passive skill, but Li Wei did not think too much about it. Right now, he needed to focus on the Wolf Queen and he did not have any throwing needles left.
The battle continued but Li Wei was already getting used to the attack patterns of the Wolf Queen, even though he could not dodge the attacks, he could somewhat mitigate the damage taken.
[Cleave]
The attack was blocked by the Wolf Queen's claws, but Li Wei spun and swung his second sword. The Wolf Queen took the strike. It quickly howled, pushing Li Wei back. It followed up by pouncing onto Li Wei. The latter quickly took out an explosive potion from his inventory and rolled away. While rolling, Li Wei threw the potion right where he was standing, causing another explosion just below the Wolf Queen's feet.
With that, the Wolf Queen was left with less than 40HP. Her name turned completely red. She loudly howled and summoned two wolves, but she herself did not attack. Instead, it slowly retreated. It was in danger and would not risk its life.
Seeing the situation, Li Wei could not help but curse..."All this *** work and you want to flee!!"
Li Wei still had 3 explosive potions, but he did not care about saving them anymore; if the Wolf Queen escaped all would be for nothing.
[Strengthen]
Li Wei quickly used his skill and stomped the ground before dashing towards the retreating Wolf Queen. The two wolves tried to intercept Li Wei, but the latter agilely avoided their attacks.
Li Wei chased after the Wolf Queen. It was injured and could not run very fast, but it was still comparable to a rabbit. Fortunately, Li Wei was faster than that. He ran after the Wolf Queen, but more wolves appeared.
They were not minions but normal wolves that were in the surroundings. As they saw their queen in danger, they decisively attacked Li Wei in an attempt to stop him.
"Grrrr" they revealed their fangs at Li Wei, but the latter ignored them. He swung his sword at them. Even though he could not one shot them, the strike was enough to push them away to allow Li Wei to continue chasing after the queen.
The Wolf Queen continued to run and more and more wolves appeared to attack Li Wei. Soon, 13 wolves were chasing behind Li Wei, who was himself chasing after the Wolf Queen.
"This situation cannot continue... I need to do something."
Li Wei could only throw the explosive potion, but in such situation, the precision would be very low. The Wolf Queen wasn't stupid; it was not running in a straight line, constantly taking turns behind trees.
'Let's try this'
Li Wei suddenly stopped running, he took out the explosive potion and threw it. Compared to last time, this throw contained much more force. The bottle followed a straight line. However, it was not going towards the Wolf Queen, the throw was totally off.
The bottle hit the roots of a tree in front of the Queen and exploded.
Frightened, the Wolf Queen slowed down and hesitated. It looked at Li Wei for a moment and was about to continue when suddenly...
"Crraakkk"
Loud cracking noises were heard and shortly after, the tree that was hit by the explosive potion, slowly tilted and fell in front of the Wolf Queen, blocking its escape path.
As soon as he finished throwing the potion, Li Wei immediately started to chase. When he heard the cracking sound, he knew he had succeeded. He immediately drew his swords and stabbed towards the Wolf Queen.
The latter was still surprised by the fall of the tree. It fell barely 50cm from it. The wolf queen did not react before feeling the intense pain on its shoulder. " Aouhhh". Its HP decreased even more, only 13 HP was left.
The Wolf queen was even more desperate, she turned and tried to run on the side of the tree, but Li Wei immediately used his ring's skill and blocked her escape path.
[Earth Wall]
Li Wei widely smiled. He raised his sword and swung it down with a vertical strike. The Wolf Queen looked at the sword with despair in its eyes, but it fought till the very end. Its fangs started to glow and as the sword was slowly falling onto it, it launched itself and bit onto Li Wei's right leg.
"Ahhh"
Pain flooded through Li Wei's body. His leg guard was completely pierced by the fangs but at the same time, the Wolf Queen's life ended. Its sacrificial strike was very powerful. Not only did it totally break the leg guard, it inflicted 38 damage to Li Wei, leaving him with only 27 HP.
Even the Wolf Queen's head was still attached to Li Wei's leg. He could only endure the pain and quickly drank a health potion. But there was no time to rest, the 13 wolves that were chasing behind them had arrived.
They immediately saw the state of their queen and howled in anger; the howl not only contained anger, but also pain and sadness. Their queen had died but had dealt a heavy blow to the enemy. And now it was time for them to avenge her.
"Aouuuu"
The wolves were mad, they immediately dashed towards Li Wei who was still being bitten by the Wolf Queen's fang.
"Sh*t... You really made my life hard till the end!"
Li Wei immediately took out the last two explosive potions he had. The wolves were still closely packed and injured; one good shot would finish most of them. Li Wei took one potion in each hand, he then aimed and threw the first one slightly to the right of the pack. Closely after, he threw the second to the left; that was to maximize the area of damage.
The wolves were all blinded by anger and continued to rush forwards... "Boom!!!" The two potions exploded almost simultaneously, killing more than half of the wolves. The remaining ones were all barely standing, with less than 15 HP left, but they did not stop. They used their last forces to inflict as much damage as possible.
Li Wei was moved. It was rare to see such spirits, most humans would have already run away if they saw their queen dead, but these wolves fought till the very end. But, there could be only one winner and Li Wei could not let go of the Core. Despite not being able to move his feet right now, Li Wei grabbed his swords and swung them whenever the wolves jumped at him.
"Slasshhhh"
Finally, the last wolf lost its life. A tired Li Wei was still standing in the middle of the silent woods.
[System prompt: You have slain the Boss "Wolf Queen". You are awarded 4000 exp. Do you want to share your name?]
Li Wei calmed down and let out a sigh "No". There was no point in sharing his name. Li Wei was not after fame and did not want to become the target of envy.
He sat down to regain his breath and shortly after came the announcement.
[Announcement: The Wolf Queen has been defeated. Congratulations to player XXX for this feat]