Alexia

I slaughter the wolves for hours nonstop, just killing and killing and killing. But they never seem to end. Which makes me wonder if there’s something spawning them.

So after nearly an entire day of nonstop hunting – because there can’t be enough space in this place for this many wolves – I begin to run away from the wolves, heading towards the place I sense most of them coming from. And after running all the way across the place with the wolves on my metaphorical tail, I finally find the source.

A source that has me teleporting midair and just kinda staring at it while wolves try to jump up after me.

What… is that?

The creature is a tiny little wolf with three heads. But while I call the wolf itself tiny, the heads are anything but that. They’re massive, and they’re spitting out other wolves.

Seriously. What is that?

I identify it, hoping for some form of answer.

And the one I get… isn’t very helpful.

{Candy – Wolf Brood of Cataclysm – Level 850}

And it’s a higher level than me by fifty levels. Ignoring the name

Actually, what the hell is with the System’s naming sense anyways? Why did it name this… thing… Candy?

I frown at the creature before teleporting right up to it, deciding to just go for it. Ignoring the other wolves attacking me in the process. But right when I’m expecting it to pose some sort of powerful resistance, my polearm casually slices right through one of the heads.

Uh…

The remaining two heads let out incredibly loud roars of anger and pain from it. Meanwhile more wolves rush out along with the wolves that’ve been chasing me all this way.

I fight a large number of them off while pushing my way over towards the next head. Then I repeat the process, cutting off that wolf’s head as well. Making the last one let out an even higher pitched roar of pain and anger.

And after repeating the cycle again, I cut off its last head, making the massive monster fall to the ground with all of the other wolves just vanishing in a puff of black smoke.

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[Level 850 Wolf Brood of Cataclysm Defeated – User’s earned EXP has been increased by a significant portion due to killing a being whose level is thirty or more levels above their own.]

{Congratulations! You have leveled up to level 812! Your Species has awarded you +2 VIT, +2 DEX, +2 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN. Your Class has awarded you +1 VIT, +2 DEX, +1 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN.}

{Congratulations! You have leveled up to level 813! Your Species has awarded you +2 VIT, +2 DEX, +2 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN. Your Class has awarded you +1 VIT, +2 DEX, +1 STR, +2 MAG, and +2 MEN.}

Huh.

It’s… actually dead. With just three blows.

I collapse to my knees as well while panting in exhaustion. Because even if I’m far stronger than them, killing that many wolves is… a lot of work.

What surprises me more than anything though is the fact that Candy wasn’t even a boss. It was just a normal monster, albeit a Cataclysm Class one.

That battle… was ridiculous.

Also, why was it level 850? Isn’t that a bit fast of a level jump?

When I came down here, I’d only just beaten a level 800 Cataclysm Class boss. And now it’s just jumping straight to a level 850 regular Cataclysm Class monster?

Ignoring the hidden area, of course. Since that’s not a place people are supposed to find. Hence the hidden part of the term.

That aside, did that monster just have infinite mana or something? How was it able to infinitely spawn those wolves?

Is it because the thing seemed to have pretty much zero defenses? Seeing as my polearm sliced straight through its neck without almost any resistance.

It’s the only thing I can think of for why.

I stare at the monster’s corpse before reaching forward to touch the head. Only to find the entire body also vanishing in a puff of black smoke.

My brows furrow for a second, but I collapse onto my back after that without paying the vanishing corpse any more mind. Because I already got the System Messages about its death. Meaning it can’t have tricked me.

There is no tricking the System after all.

But putting that aside, was that monster’s only power just making more monsters? Those types of monsters aren’t exactly common. Or nice to deal with.

And for one to spawn as a Cataclysm Class monster no less… not a good omen for some of the Dimensional Blocks out there.

I can’t help but imagine a Dimensional Block being overrun by these wolves. Or some other type of monster. All because a Cataclysm Class monster focused on creating other monsters appeared in the Block.

A rather frightening thing to envision.

Pretty much an apocalypse in that Block.

Of course, it wouldn’t be too difficult to solve. Assuming they figure out what’s causing it, that is.

Since the Cataclysm Class monster itself is rather weak.

But if they can’t figure out what’s making the monsters, they’re screwed.

Actually, might not just be them, but their surrounding Blocks as well. Since – as I learned with the panda – monsters can travel between Blocks so long as they pass through an opening. One created by someone with Authority.

That said, it wouldn’t be a big issue, what with the limits on how many people can travel through. Or rather, monsters.

And it’d require someone purposefully letting them through.

The Block would be overrun by monsters regardless though.

I stare up at the sky for several seconds, thinking about the monster for a bit before shaking my head.

Whatever. That’s not a problem for me. At least not now.

I stand up again before glancing at my soul and finding it to be at about a quarter left.

So I’ll just search for the exit to this place while it recovers.