Chapter 776 The Valley Becomes Lively

Chapter 776 The Valley Becomes Lively

Running away as fast as he could, Alex heard lightning crack behind him, followed by a loud explosion, which he felt blasting past his shoulder. The heat and pressure signalled it had blown up very close, and he gulped.

'Lightning moves too fast for me even to detect it before it's too late. I can't afford to get hit...' he thought.

A cacophony of howls resounded behind him as the ground started rumbling again.Ñ00v€l--ß1n hosted the premiere release of this chapter.

Turning his head slightly to the left, Alex could see the pack of dire wolves had given chase, and he snickered.

"Yeah! Come get me, you dumb dogs!" he taunted them.

He didn't know if they could understand him, but he reckoned they did, judging by the angry snarls and vicious growls escaping their maws.

He rushed toward the valley where the rest of the team awaited him and quickly bolted past the entrance, yelling at the top of his lungs.

"Now, Violette! Split them!"

Grinding to a halt, Alex spun around, looking toward the gap, awaiting anything that got here too fast.

But Violette was ready for him and was already casting her spell.

A wall of water rose from the ground before him, forming an inverted T at the mouth of the pass before turning to ice in a single moment.

The wolves rushing behind Alex were now forced to split in two directions, the path too narrow and their momentum too fast for them to stop. From the valley walls, Jack and Violette smiled.

Immediately, a loud bang of gunfire echoed through the valley as one of the dire wolves dropped dead.

Pulling the bolt on his rifle as the bullet casing flew out the side, Jack grinned.

"One down. Twenty-eight to go."

He wasn't expecting to kill every wolf with one bullet, as they now were aware of his presence. But this first kill was satisfying to him.

Juan felt a shiver down his spine as a shadow loomed over him. Before he could understand what was happening, a powerful force slammed into him, pushing him sideways.

But a lightning-fast claw swipe ripped into his arm, making him almost drop his weapon.

Slamming into the valley wall, Juan howled in pain.

Margarett saw this and used her speed to her advantage.

The massive zombie bear that had pushed Juan aside was already tangled with the Raijū, but it wouldn't last long.

She dashed toward the young merc and grabbed him by his armour. Using her momentum and newfound strength as an awakened, she threw him toward the healer kid.

She could afford to dance with the Raijū for a few moments as long as Alex came in to help her quickly enough.

But another issue arose.

Even though Alex was meant to keep their attention, the Raijū ignored him in favour of taking out some of the nuisances to their pack. This meant another person was suddenly in danger.

Jack's hair rose all over his body, and he reacted off instinct alone, jumping down from his perch.

The next moment, a ball of lightning appeared before it, as the second Raijū clamped its jaw on the now empty air where he had been. But it wasn't done.

It lunged downward, setting its paws on the wall, trying to get its prey.

A column of ice grew out of the valley wall, slamming into the Raijū's body, sending it tumbling back toward the ground as Violette reacted to the threat.

But Jack was still falling to the ground.

He might have a solid body, but the hundred-foot drop would not spare him.

Jonathan saw his grandfather fall, and the image of his dying parents in a burning car flashed in his mind. The fear of losing a loved one gripped his heart, freezing his movements.

Things were beginning to devolve too fast for anyone to react.