"Hah... hah..." Nicholas gasped for air.
Instead of the mild blood stains on his clothes, he now looked as if he had been bathing in an ocean of blood.
He was covered in it from head to toe.
Even with Mira backing him up, he still felt heavily drained from the effort they had to exert.
'If this is the kind of trouble we're having, there's no telling how the other prodigies are faring... Only the top prodigies like us have the energy and strength to deal with these types of beasts, but even we probably won't last much longer. Just what is with these dire wolves?'
He glanced over at Mira, and her eyes had a glint of gold to them as she was fighting madly with a dire wolf.
After the first few wolves, she had let go completely.
In every stroke of her blade, she vented out every piece of anger and rage she had built up over her time on these damned floating islands.
She brought her blade down on a dire wolf, slashing towards the ground.
Her body twisted in such a way that she exerted more and more strength from her waist, and used centrifugal force to make multiple slashes.
Her blade itself even seemed to be releasing a dim golden light, as if it had even undergone the same effects as Mira herself from Golden Presence.
"Now!"
Nicholas shouted, making use of the opening Mira had made for them. .net
Advance!
Attack!
Lightning crackled between his fingers as he singed and electrocuted any dire wolf that came within attacking distance of him.
The amount of time they were shocked for was enough for Mira to come in and deliver a devastating, killing blow to them.
It was this combination of strengths that the duo were utilising that kept them afloat.
After killing one more dire wolf, they were now only down to two in total.
But even though the challenges they were facing were lesser than at the beginning, they were thoroughly exhausted at this point.
Not to mention that Golden Presence's effect would run out in a few minutes!
But there was also a factor of luck at play, as he was also relying on the other wolf targeting Mira and saving its companion rather than going straight for Nicholas who was in quite a vulnerable state at the moment.
Thankfully, it seemed luck played in his favour.
Zzapp!
The lightning spear left his hand and almost instantly later, like there was no distance at all between the two parties, it struck the dire wolf under Mira's grasp.
Yelp!
"AOWUUUUU!"
The dire wolf it struck let loose an ear screeching howl as the volts coursed through its body, paralysing it deep down to the core, charring and burning its insides.
Mira clamped her arms down around its neck shortly after this, using the advantage of the poor beast's stiffness to grab and pull as hard as she could on its neck!
Crrackkk!
With enough force, she succeeded in snapping the dire wolf's neck in two, putting the beast out of its misery instantly.
Whimper!
It was only after seeing its last comrade succumb to death that the last dire wolf seemed to snap out of whatever frenzy it was in, and it yelped, whimpered and whined as it made its pitiful escape.
Mira and Nicholas were too exhausted to give chase, so luckily it was the only dire wolf out of the ambushing pack that luckily got to survive another day.
"Haha! We did it! Those were all Variant class beasts and we just beat them in a 5v1!"
Nicholas let out his excitement immediately.
Yet almost poetically, Mira's hair returned to normal and she slumped back down to the ground moments after Nicholas celebrated.
"Your transformation ran out?"
Nicholas asked, looking at Mira as she lay on the ground unable to move.
"Yea-"
But as she answered him, she received a boot straight to the face, and she was knocked out cold.
Nicholas silently walked up to her and grabbed her hair, and started dragging her away from the site of carnage in silence.