Chapter 156 - Wafu!

The matches continued and all of the Kings had made it into the next round of the finals. Once again it was Cecil's turn to fight.

Just before he got out of the room, Silver, who was in Fina's embrace, jumped high into the air and landed on top of his head. The puppy formed Silver looked down at his master and immediately began to whine and yelp impatiently.

Cecil tilted his head, while Lucia and Yuna eyed the little pup. In the room, it was only these two that seemed to be able to understand him. Fina could as well, but she was like Cecil. They couldn't understand what he was actually saying like Lucia and Yuna could.

For Yuna, it was most likely because she was a sacred beast. That was probably why she could communicate with monsters like Silver. She could also communicate with Little Ruru, Fina's Frost Wyrm, and Ainz's Wyvern, Maxi.

Lucia could do the same, but it was unknown why she was able to communicate with them. It wasn't as if she was like Yuna, a sacred beast. Anyway, from what Cecil could understand, Silver wanted to fight as well. He wanted to get in on some of the action.

It wasn't fair that only his master and his mistress could have their fun while he was stuck waiting on the sidelines. What was the point of him growing stronger and stronger if all he did was wait on the bench whenever a fight broke out?

Cecil shrugged and brought the puppy out with him onto the stage. It was shocking since his friends knew that Cecil didn't like others fighting his battles.

"...maybe he grew bored." Lucia said.

"Yeah, knowing him, he's probably bringing out Silver just to spice things up." Eli added.

It was a perfect match up anyway. Cecil's next opponent was someone from the Alchemist Faction and they would normally go up on stage and have their battle pets fight the match.

On stage, Cecil's opponent had already summoned his battle pet, a large Venom Mist Land Wyrm. These monsters were found at the Anglaria Mountain Range. The Venom Mist Land Wyrm was a mutated rare monster whose original form would be a Poison Fog Land Wyrm. They were categorized as A+ ranked monsters and the mutated version was an S ranked monster. Cecil's opponent could be considered very lucky to have landed himself such a rare mutant battle pet.

Moreover, just like with all the previous Alchemist Faction Participants, this battle pet was similarly geared in battle pet equipment. Also, maybe because it was the Alchemist Faction and his opponent was an alchemist, the poison and threat that Cecil detected radiating from the Venom Mist Land Wyrm was abnormally much stronger than what he had expected, well, not like it actually mattered to him.

There was no change in Cecil's demeanor even after seeing this monstrous battle pet. It couldn't compare to the danger Cecil sensed from the Alchemist Faction Leader's Blade Ursa. Now that was a monster.

If it wasn't because of Fina's specific set of magical spells, her specialization in speed after her training and the fact that she had kept her distance, Fina would have most likely lost. It was Manden Krulle's bad luck that she ran into Fina, the only mage in the Little Kings that specialized in crowd control magic.

If she had run into Ainz, well... it would have been hard to determine who would actually clinch the win in the end. Ainz specialized in a head on confrontation, so it would have been a bad match up if he had faced the Ursa.

The Venom Mist Land Wyrm roared powerfully and announced its presence. It glared menacingly at Cecil and Silver. It exhaled and from its snout a purplish green cloud of poisonous mist flowed out.

The mist didn't dissipate. It had instead lingered in the air around the battle pet. When it grazed the ground, clear sounds of sizzling rose from the affected area and it began to smoke and blacken.

"Ohhohoh...that looks dangerous," Cecil said. "Hey, actually... that's pretty smart! This way, I wouldn't be able to close in and pummel that thing! Wow...props to you senior bro!"

Hearing Cecil praise him, the Venom Mist Land Wyrm's owner had taken it to be mockery instead. "Hey ref! Hurry and start the battle! Are we going to fight? Or are we going to just stare at each other?!"

"...Combat King Cecil, are you ready?" The referee asked.

Cecil twitched at the 2 words that announced his title. He had enough of hearing those two words. After his first fight of the day, his friends wouldn't stop calling him by his title even after the fact he implored them to call him by his name.

"Those guys...they're clearly holding a grudge...but what the heck did I do?" Cecil grumbled. He looked to the little guy on top of his head and asked.

"Ya up for it Silv?"

"Wafu!"

Silver gave a cute bark in reply. The puppy jumped off his head and landed just ahead of him. Then it began barking cutely at the large battle pet in front of him.

The Venom Mist Land Wyrm seemed to have taken the gesture as provocation. It roared back at the small silver puppy in rage. Whatever Silver had said, he clearly succeeded in pissing off his opponent.

Back in the waiting room.

"Pffftttt!!! Hahaha~ wow~ Silvy's vocabulary is pretty toxic!" Lucia said as she tried to restrain her laughter. She then turned an eye towards Yuna and laughed again.

"..." Yuna's face was twitching. Whatever Silver had said had not only pissed off the Land Wyrm, it seemed that even Yuna was triggered.

"Little thing...see how I'll take care of you later." Yuna said darkly.

Back on stage, the two monsters were growling and roaring at each other. The large intimidating roars from the Land Wyrm invoked fear from the audience. Silver's cute barks and yelps only attracted the infatuation and protective instincts of the female audience.

"Hey! Kid! Don't do this!"

"Yeah! How could you! Don't you feel sorry for the little guy?!"

"Be a man! Pummel the monster with your fists like you normally do! How could you let that adorable little thing fight for you?!"

"Aren't you his master?! Where's your heart?!"

"ANIMAL ABUSE! I CALL ANIMAL ABUSE!"

"Gah! How do we not a have any animal protection laws?!"

'That's because all the animals on Alterna are monsters!!!' Cecil retorted in his head.

He was pretty amused seeing the reactions from the audience. Even the referee was hesitating to start the match because of this.

"Oi, ref. Start the match already," Cecil said, looking up to the referee who was at a loss.

"A-are you sure? I mean you don't pl—"

"Just start it...even senior bro over there is growing impatient."

"...fight..." The referee announced in a subdued voice. His declaration to start the match only earned him the berating from the female audience. Silver was just too cute, too precious. They obviously didn't want to see the little guy getting hurt.

Not to mention, that his fur and everything seemed to be so well groomed, courtesy of Aquafina Neftersea. He didn't look anything like a battle pet at all. There was no menacing battle pet equipment. Silver was just there, bare furred.

"Silv...stop messing around. The fight's started." Cecil said with a yawn.

"Wafu!" Cecil turned around and replied. Then he walked forward and stepped a couple of meters away from the Venom Mist Land Wyrm.

"Aaaaaaaaahhhhhh—WWWWWWWOOOOOOO!!!"

What started as a cute howl soon turned into a powerful roar that rang inside the entire stadium. The ambient mana began to rush and gravitate towards Silver as he unleashed the mana inside body.

Sparks of golden lightning flashed all around his body, he was entering his battle form, but he did this in the most eye-catching way possible.

"Haha, showoff," Cecil said, he then turned around and walked to the edge of the ring. He took out a chair from his spatial ring and sat on it.

No one paid attention to this because currently, everyone's eyes were on Silver. His battle form transformation slowly enlarged his body. The flashes of golden lightning around his body only further accentuated to his eye-catching transformation.

Along with the enlargement of his body, Silver's aura began to grow as well. His claws and teeth grew out. The beautifully groomed fur on his body began to flare around. The lightning sparks began to strike at his body and his muscles enlarged.

His tail grew and the fur on it seemed to have solidified together and his eyes changed. No longer was the adorable and naive puppy eyes present, it was replaced by a cold, menacing and intimidating gaze.

After his transformation, the small little puppy was nowhere to be seen. What replaced it was a large powerfully built white wolf. Silver's height stood at 6 meters and his body length was almost twice that.

A steel-like powerful tail that had a shape reminiscent of a curved blade, black steel-like claws on all four of his paws, menacing large and sharp teeth that poked out from his mouth and an intimidating pressure that caused everyone's breath in the stadium to be stifled.

"S-shit!"

"Puppy?! You call this a puppy?!"

The female audience was no longer complaining at Cecil. They were still complaining, but at something else.

"Bring back our cute little puppy!"

"What did you do? What did you do?!!"

"Ahhh!!! Our cuteness! Give us back our little white wolf cub!!!"

Cecil's face turned dark hearing this... just how unreasonable can you get. First you say don't let him fight, and now you want him back? Make up your damn mind already!

"...Silv, I don't care if you wanna play around, but hurry up already."

"AWWWOOOOOO!!!"

Silver unleashed a howl and slammed his right forepaw onto the ground. A large magic circle quickly formed right under the Venom Mist Land Wyrm.

At this point, the overflowing intimidation that Silver was radiating had frozen the battle pet in fear. His owner wasn't any different; he had already fallen on his butt. It was only after the green magic circle had formed under his battle pet that Cecil's opponent quickly snapped out of his fear.

"DODGE IT!"

It was too late. The magic spell had already been casted and the Land Wyrm was turned into an Air Wyrm.

Silver's magic spell had pushed it up into the air. Silver lowered his body and jumped into the air, giving chase. Multiple magic circles formed on Silver's body and in the next instant, his speed accelerated and he split into 8 copies of himself.

There were now 8 Silvers in the air and they were sky-stepping their way to the air borne Land Wyrm. All 8 Silvers smashed their claws, tails or bodies onto the hapless Land Wyrm.

It was already stunned at being thrown up into the air, it couldn't make any proper response and Silver's assault had come too suddenly.

The 8 Silvers quickly joined back together to form one. He was positioned just above the Land Wyrm and his tail began to glow green and the wind began kicking around him. The wind gathered around his tail and it formed a tornado.

"ROAAAAARRR!!"

With a roar Silver slammed his Tornado Blade onto the Venom Mist Land Wyrm. Throughout the entire fight, the poisonous mist had never once dissipated around it, but Silver's wind had pushed it far away from his body, so no harm could be done even if Silver assaulted the monster with a physical attack.

The Venom Mist Land Wyrm powerfully slammed into the ground causing a mini-earthquake in the stadium. It was embedded into the stage and it looked like it couldn't get back up again. Silver had descended from the air and howled in victory.

Once again, the flashes of golden colored lightning formed around his body and his large body slowly returned to his puppy form.

"Wafu!"

Silver jumped on top of Cecil's head once again and made himself comfortable.

"Had your fun?"

"Wafu~!"

Cecil quickly kept his chair and walked down from the stage.

"WINNER! CECIL!"