The convoy was moving much slower as the wolves came charging out of the forest. There was a total of 10 carriages with each about 2 knights to each carriage. Although each knight can fight against 3 wolves easily, these wolves were quite coordinated. Most likely they had planned ahead with the alpha wolf in the front of the convoy. Two knights were quite busy engaged in fighting the three wolves in the front; however, the magus seems to continue watching.
The magus on the front carriages were patiently waiting for something, not making a move. Julien and Andre were located near the middle of the ready to fight. The knights here were holding the wolves at bay; however, there were quite a bit of screams.
As Andre looked to the back of the convoy, a carriage could be seen being turned over with screaming children being chased down by wolves.
"Please ! No! I don't want to die!" screamed one of the girls running from the turnt carriage.
Knights were too busy keeping the wolves back to save her and she could be seen tackled and her throat ripped apart by a two tail wolf. Blood had sprayed over the dirt road and screams could be heard from the other carriages.
"Shall we make a move now" one of the magus's asked another.
"Not yet. This isn't a danger level that we need to act on... the knights should be able to take care of it."
The wolves number were slowly being cut down and they seem to be regrouping.
"Watch it! We might have sent them back! But they're comming in for another run!" yelled a knight that was covered in wolf blood.
5 Wolves came running towards the cart of Julien and Andre.
Two knight managed to hold back four wolves.
"SHIT ONE GOT THROUGH... YOU TWO GET READY TO FIGHT."
Clutching the swords Julien and me were about to face our first real monster. The wolf leaped while opening its massive jaws filled with sharp fangs ready to rip apart the two of us.
"HIDDEN BLADE!" Shouted Julien, he almost seems like he disappeared but appeared near the wolf swinging the sword towards the wolf's leg, cutting it slightly. As expected it has a tough skin underneth its thick mane. Yelping in pain the wolf fell and did a roll regaining its stance, growling before jumping towards Andre.
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My eyes glimmed and I took a deep breathe. "Billows Chain attack!" Running foward I used a four chain attack, dodging his jaws I slashed at the sides of the wolf dealing just scratches to the wolf.
"Shit, how strong are these knights to be able to kill these wolves when me and Julien can barely scratch him!"
The wolf fell on his paws and turned his head but at the same moment Julien had already stepped forward and shoved his sword into the wolf's eye.
"The wolf might have a strong hide! But the eyes aren't!"
The wolf yelped in pain, clearly pissed that his eye had a sword in it, shaking his head Julien was thrown away from the wolf. The sword was still stuck in this wolf's eye.
Seeing Julien doing something so amazing gave me the courage to continue.
"Its my turn! Hidden Blade!" grabbing power in my right hand I swung the sword upwards towards the bottom of the wolf's jaw. The sudden force knocked the wolf backwards and making it fall onto its back.
"FLOWER BLOOM BLADE!" With two hands on the handle of my sword I jumped with the blade aiming towards its belly, stabbing the wolf with all my might. Shoving the blade deep into the belly, the wolf cried in pain but it was pinned to the ground with a sword in it's eye. The blood had squirted out like a flower that had bloomed, with the wolf flopping around it had slowly died.
"Great teamwork Andre!" pulling his sword out of the sword's eye. "If these wern't reinforced... they would have snapped so fast."
A knight came walking by with a head of a wolf. "Great job you two. but its not over!"
The three tailed wolf in front was the only wolf left from the pack; although, there were still many wolves, they were injured and chose to retreat.
"ENOUGH!" shouted a magus standing up, a fire lance two meters long had appeared from its hand and it flew towards the wolf piercing the wolf's body and setting it ablaze.
"Let us continue, the commotion had caused me to lose my sleep!" and he put his cloak over his head and seemed to go back to sleep.
The power of a magus is truly terrifying, as the wolf had already killed two knights there were fighting it but with a single spell, it was killed as if it was an ant. Truly the strong stands on top of the weak.
As the convoy had started to move again, the carriage that had fallen was burned and the corpse's along with it. The faces within the other carriages were filled with fear and sorrow, their friends were murdered in front of their eyes and they could not do anything to help them. But to me, this would not happen if you have power, the power to be strong, to fight back.
The convoy had continued out of the forest into a small town, after resupplying we had already been on the move as our schedule was behind. Continuing for another five months we had stopped over four different villages and three towns, we had finally reached a the last leg of our journey. The carriages were down to seven from the original ten, more and more deaths had happen as our journey had been met with many different monsters but it seem to stabilize as the weak has all disappeared. Sadly even Donny had perished while trying to protect his younger sister, the only one that seemed to look after her now was Ruth. Beth was never the same again, her eyes seemed to have lost all life after seeing her brother get his body torn in half by an enraged Demon Bear; however if not for his sacrifice we might not have gotten away. Incidents like this were just too common, the weak will always be dominated by the strong and we were the weakest. If anything this journey should teach us all to strive for power, to never feel so powerless and weak ever again.
We were about a two weeks away from the meeting point and we had reached the edge of Vikito Beach! Although a beach could be a bit of a stretch as it was more of a dessert leading towards the ocean.
As we were descending onto the the sandy road Julien and I were in the front of the carriage beside the driver, bewilderment had filled our eyes. The dessert was quite vast, and the ocean could be seen and in the far off distance there were mountains with a snowy peak. The world of Eliya is truly beautiful.