Chapter 68: Triggered

Sk wanted to screech out again and ask the others to run without her, but when the blizzard calmed down, and the surrounding became visible, she no longer had the gut to say so.

Reason number one was the gigantic figure standing just at a distance from her. She didn't want to shout and become the first one to get stomped by that giant Great Wolf.

Reason number second was the condition of her comrades that was beyond the point of helping at that time. Ron and the other teammate were bleeding heavily. Judging from the severity of the wounds, they would need emergency surgery to stabilize their situations. If not, then there is no hope for them.

On the other hand, Simon had utterly lost his senses before the majestic figure, and the absolute power of the Great Wolf all he could see was despair, despair, and despair! 

He was already aware of their end and accepted that they have no way to escape from there. Amidst his contemplation, a bullet sound echoed in the air, dragging him out back to his current situation.

The bullet was fired by a semi-automatic Ak47, and the one firing the shot was none other than his teammates.

It was a basic protocol set by the team leader to fire a series of bullets before reaching an emergency site. The motive was to fend away the wild animals (if there are any).

But little did they know at that time that there wasn't any wild animal in the first place, and waiting for them was a gigantic divine beast.

If it were any other occasion or other situation Simon would have been happy after hearing the noises of the bullet firings, but right now, he was greeting his teeth and cursing his teammates deep inside, 'Mothe**fckers! Don't fire the bullets randomly, and try to observe the situation here. If I die now, I swear I will hunt you down by becoming a ghost.'

The bullet firing sound was getting louder as the members of his team were getting closer. At one point, Simon's heartbeat stopped for a second when the great Wolf before him glared in his direction.

"Shit, I am dead. I am dead. I am dead!" 

Simon was repeating those lines again and again. He had a shotgun on him with plenty of bullets to take down a gigantic elephant. But for some reason, he had lost his courage to do so.

The Great Wolf before him was emitting a prideful and majestic aura. Not only that, but he was also getting shivers and ominous feelings after seeing the crescent moon mark on the forehead of that great Great Wolf.

'A prideful king with a devil soul' was the phrase coming to his mind. Just when he was submerging deep into his contemplation, his teammates arrived on time and gave him another heart attack by firing directly at the Great Wolf from a distance.

Bam! Bam! Bam!

At this point, even Ron and Sk were cursing in their heart, 'Barbeque fckers don't shoot at that great Great Wolf randomly. You have plans to visit the graves? Sure, go on. Don't drag us in with you!'

Sia, one of the female members of the team and the cousin sister of Jia, was firing bullets at the Great Wolf with a semi-automatic Ak47.

She was one of those characters who kill first then ask herself the reason for her action. Upon seeing a big white-furred wolf, her vision became focused on her prey. She didn't consider nor observe the situation around her. All she was doing at that time was to fire at the Great Wolf from a different position.

The other members were aware of her frenzy behavior and took the chance to reach near their wounded members. Two of the girls reach out near Sk. Another two reached out near Simon, and the rest went near the two severely injured members.

The two girls didn't know what happened there and how Sk lost her hand, but they were sure the wound wasn't inflicted by that great Great Wolf. If it were that great Great Wolf then Sk wouldn't have been alive by them.

"Ahem, Sk that wou-" 

Before one she completes her sentence Sk raised her hand and pointe it towards that Great Wolf.

The female teammate wanted to ask her the reason, but Sk didn't wait for her to beat around the bush and directly told them the reason.

Their eyes widened with astonishment. Now that they were seeing it before their eyes, they realized its size was comparable to any Asian elephant.

"Oh, my holy shit!" Exclaimed one of the team members helping Ron and his other teammate, "That Great Wolf is a fcking monster. How in the world did it grow that large?"

Ron somewhat knew the answer and eagerly wanted to spit it out before his teammates, but he was not in the correct state to do so.

While they were busy dealing with the Great Wolf, Luo Rin, their personal doctor, was applying medicines on Jia, the group's youngest member.

After giving her proper treatment and applying ointment, she went out of her tent and let Jia rest inside. Luo Rin wanted some water for Jia and went out of her camp to ask for water. But to her surprise, not a single member was there.

The campsite was completely empty.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Bam! Bam! Bam!

Luo Rin jumped back upon hearing the firing sound and tripped over her feet to fall back on the ground. 

"Aaah~" She groaned in pain and stood up as soon as possible.

Judging from the sound, she was sure the poachers had gone for another round of hunting. Though she was feeling bad for the wolves, she was helpless like the other creatures.

She had to pay the intern fee, and team Alpha was sponsoring that money for her. She had to work for them for an entire year without any failure.

While she was reminiscing about the past events, something weird happened inside her, and her body began to glow. She was trying her best to understand the situation, but the current phenomena were something out of her expertise.

She was trying to control the light, but to her despair, it wasn't stopping at all. Instead, it was glowing brighter and brighter.

'What could be the reason for this light on my body?!' Luo Rin questioned herself in a severe tone.

'Is it soul awakening? Or an evolution?! No, no, no wait…  Stop getting funny ideas, stop getting funny ideas!!'

Luo Rin was a serious student from the very beginning of her academic years. In her entire academic year, she had followed the same routine till her graduation.

Wake up early in the morning, do some workout, yoga followed by stretches. After that, a shower, breakfast, then directly to the school. In school, she was a nerd girl who was found with a book all the time.

Be it sports day or annual function or cultural festival, she always had a book in her hands. The same trend followed till university last year, and it would have continued for a lifetime if not for the accident she went through.

After the accident, she was advised five months of bed rest and four months rehabilitation period. She was feeling bored all this time. She even asked the nurse and doctor to provide her with some medical books, only to be denied strictly by the doctor.

According to them, during these nine months, she wasn't allowed to put any stress on her brain. 

It was yet another dull day when a TON (Typical Otaku Nurse) entered into her life. Seeing the patient was getting bored, she lent her a manga from her collection.

Since she had nothing to read, Luo Rin took on the book and gave it a read. As the story progresses, her interest developed even more in such genres. 

Back to her current situation, her condition was somewhat similar to the symptoms written in that book. It was a manga describing the evolution of humankind.

A holy light was coming out of her body, and she was feeling as light as a feather. Her body was experiencing something that she had never felt before.

Back to the main plot, Xin was almost done with his job. From the last few hours, he had been supplying the Asclepius twins with plenty of Magiculus Particles. 

Since they had just awakened from their sleep, they had little to no power in their body. But after devouring all the magiculus fed to them, their power was recovering slowly.

At one point, they couldn't devour anymore and had to undergo an unplanned breakthrough. The moment this phenomenon happened, a virtuous light spread throughout the city.

No one knew the source of the light, nor they wanted to know at the time of a crisis. But suddenly they felt a warmth from this light.

Citizens throughout the city were suffering from coughs and blood coughs, but when this light fell on them they got a sense of relief in their minds.

It wasn't a permanent reliefe, but was more than enough for the patients on the last stage of the blood coughs.

The same light also fell on Luo Rin, and triggered….