Chapter 198: Pursuit
Sitivian, coal ash district.
In the afternoon, on the outskirts of the Coal Ash District, a loud noise erupted in the Stek Museum, attracting the attention of scattered pedestrians around. The other hunters who were originally arranged to distract the guard immediately began to evacuate the ordinary people around, but the noise was too loud and attracted too many people. They could not cope with it for a while, so several black-level wind magicians saw the situation and simply used their abilities to stir up dust again at the scene around the museum. The full dust rose again and blocked the vision of ordinary mortals again.
These hunters were doing their secret protection work while looking at the hall where strange visions kept appearing. They were confused as to why the two captains were exposed so quickly after infiltrating, because they were all Cretaceous "Shadows".
Even in the center of this dust storm, the unusual movements in the Stek Museum became more and more intense. As the noises grew louder, the tightly closed windows and doors of the museum began to be blown open one by one by the strong airflow. Broken glass and furniture fragments were blown out of the windows by the strong wind. There were even occasional severed limbs or wounded servants. The melee on at least three Cretaceous steps was causing serious damage to the interior of the museum.
In the distance of the Stacker Hotel, on a tall building, Ed and Adele continued to look at the vague outline of the hotel in the distance above the spreading dust, and Adele said anxiously.
"Those guys are fighting inside. Now is our chance. Your flesh puppet is already in the museum, right? Have you found any trace of my teacher?"
"No, my flesh puppet is searching the bottom floor of the museum right now. We found the dungeon of this museum. It's very bloody and there are many prisoners. There are many ritual props and magic arrays, but I haven't seen anything like your teacher. The guys on the upper floor of the museum are too destructive. We can't get up there at all."
Ed said this to Adele in a calm voice. Adele had told Ed about her teacher's characteristics before, but Dorothy didn't find anyone similar. Listening to Ed's words, Adele frowned and murmured.
"Perhaps... my teacher is locked in some secret room that cannot be entered by ordinary means?"
"That's a possibility, but in that case we have to get relevant information from Alex. He's currently fighting the two hunters, so we need to observe the specific situation."
Ed said calmly. After listening to Ed's words, Adele thought about it for a while and nodded slightly.
"Well... then let's wait a moment."
Dorothy and Adele chose to continue waiting, but at this moment, the hotel in the dust began to change. As the fighting in the hotel became more intense, the noise inside became louder and louder. In addition to the whistling, the windows and doors on the floors below were also broken. The increasingly violent noise brought vibrations. Under the waves of tremors, cracks began to appear on the walls of the hotel, and the roof even began to collapse.
"boom!"
Finally, after a loud bang, a wall of the hotel exploded on a large scale, and a corner of the building collapsed on a large scale. A tragic howl burst out from the dust, and a huge figure as tall as two stories rushed out from the dust. It had black fur, wolf-like claws and head, and a long tail behind it. This was an absolute huge beast, the werewolf that Alex had transformed into.
At this moment, this huge black werewolf had many horrible wounds on his body, and dense bloodstains almost covered his entire body. His eyes were dizzy and his face was angry. One claw held a cloth-wrapped scepter and the other claw was holding a middle-aged man with a mustache. That was the captain that Edmund had called from the headquarters before.
"Die! Black Dog!"
Howling, Alex, who turned into a werewolf, was about to crush the thing in his hand, but at this moment, a gust of wind burst out from the huge gap in the wall of the hall, and a figure rushed towards Alex at a high speed. After passing by his arm, his arm holding the mustached captain's arm burst into a thick blood mist, and the whole thick arm was almost cut off by the wind, and the figure showed the appearance of Edmund when he stopped.
Alex's hands couldn't help but loosen while he screamed in pain. The mustached captain who got rid of the restraints immediately launched a counterattack. He raised the walking stick in his hand and fired an air cannon shot at Alex at close range. Alex, who was already covered with scars, was directly blown away by the air cannon and fell awkwardly on the ground in the courtyard of the museum. Edmund followed with a wind blade that cut a deep bloody mark on Alex's body that showed the bone, but this still did not make Alex, who was already covered with scars, lose his ability to move. The abnormally powerful vitality possessed by the Cretaceous "cup" could not be defeated so easily.
Seeing this, Edmund and the mustached captain prepared to continue their pursuit and attack, but Alex took the lead, staggered to his feet, opened his bloody mouth forward, and let out a sharp and loud howl, which was the werewolf's howl of fear, which could make all enemies within the affected area run away in fear.
Of course, knowing that they were encountering werewolves, Edmund and Captain Moustache must have made preparations. They had previously used symbols that could resist the influence of fear to buff themselves. Although Alex's fear made them feel timid and retreat for a moment, the degree of timidity and retreat was not enough to affect their actions.
However, Alex's method was not just this. After he saw that Edmund and the others resisted his howl of fear with all his strength, he immediately manipulated the scepter in his hand, which seemed very small at the moment. As the head of the scepter wrapped in cloth emitted a faint glow, the slight timidity and retreat in the hearts of Edmund and the captain with a small mustache were instantly aroused and magnified, and the desire to escape emerged in their hearts. Under the influence of their inner emotions, they stopped attacking and flew backwards with panic on their faces, wanting to get away from Alex as soon as possible.
Edmund and the others' actions gave Alex a chance to catch his breath, and he howled again. However, this howl was different from the previous howl of fear. It was deeper and longer, as if he was calling for something.
Along with Alex's first howl, the servants who were originally blown out of the window and covered in wounds but not yet dead began to move strangely. They struggled and wailed in pain. Their muscles began to swell, and black hairs grew visibly on their bodies. Their hands turned into claws, and their mouths were filled with fangs.
Those servants who were still alive in Alex's battle, quickly turned into wild beasts at Alex's howl, and pounced on Edmund and Captain Moustache who were retreating in fear.
"Alex used the howl to turn his servant into a beast?" Dorothy was secretly shocked when she saw this scene through the corpse doll. Then she controlled Ed to say it to Adele beside her. Adele, who couldn't see the situation in the distance, pinched her chin and spoke thoughtfully after hearing this.
"This... seems to be Alex's ability as a werewolf, the awakening of the wildness. Those awakened by him are not extraordinary beasts, but extraordinary mutants of beastmen."
"Beastmen?"
"Yes, beastmen... When ordinary people are bitten by extraordinary beastmen, they will be poisoned by wolf poison. When they are poisoned by wolf poison, they will look fine, but as long as the werewolf that bit them uses the Wild Awakening, they will be forced to transform into beastmen. These beastmen are somewhat similar to the beastmen of the Black Earth Stage of the Path of the Beast. Their overall ability is not as good as that of the beastmen, but it is worse than that of the ordinary apprentice-level hungry beastmen.
"These beastmen are not extraordinary beings, but mutated creatures under the influence of the extraordinary abilities of werewolves. They have only pure primitive wildness and no intelligence. Once the beastmen infected with wolf poison are awakened and mutated, they can only become beasts like that and cannot change back. Werewolves can control the beastmen they have transformed into. Wolf blood will often deliberately bite people to give them wolf poison, and then threaten them to cooperate with them, otherwise they will use awakening to turn them into beasts."
Adele explained this to Ed. Listening to Adele's words, Dorothy was stunned for a moment and thought to herself that this werewolf actually had such an efficient ability to create subordinates. Ordinary people who were infected with wolf poison only needed to be awakened to become more powerful than ordinary people. I don't know how much spiritual power is needed to use wolf poison.
While thinking this in her mind, she continued to observe the battlefield in the distance. There, Edmund and Captain Moustache, who were forced back by the powerful version of fear, were besieged by several orcs, but this did not pose any threat to them. Although the influence on their minds had not been removed at this time, they still easily used wind blades to cut the attacking orcs.
At this moment, something unusual happened in the inn behind them. From the exit of the dungeon on the first floor of the inn, groups of black beastmen swarmed out and pounced on Edmund and his friends madly, biting and tearing them apart. The number of beastmen Edmund and his friends faced suddenly increased to dozens. The captain, who had just calmed down, was overwhelmed by the dark and crazy beasts and was unable to cope with them for a while.
These beastmen were transformed from the prisoners imprisoned in the dungeon of the inn. Apart from being used as blood food, the prisoners he imprisoned were also a reserve of combat power for emergencies. They were the spare troops accumulated by Alex and his trump cards, which he had used up now, just to deal with Edmund and the others.
Seeing that Edmund and Captain Moustache were overwhelmed by the large number of beastman troops he had accumulated, he did not go forward to attack, but took this opportunity to turn around and flee all the way away from the museum.
Alex was not stupid, he knew that he was facing two Cretaceous and he was the only one, so he would not win the fight by force. He had suffered quite serious injuries in the previous battle inside the hall, and he had used up most of the talismans and extraordinary props in his hand, but he still could not reverse the disadvantage. Now he handed over his trump card, just to delay time and take the opportunity to escape.
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