My Werewolf System
chapter-656

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When Blake caught sight of the red axe, he was certain it belonged to Innu. Its familiarity was too uncanny to belong to anyone else. But the question that lingered in his mind was when exactly Innu had thrown it. Unbeknownst to him, there was actually yet another individual who had taken action simultaneously.

With a firm grip on the axe, Innu tapped into its inherent energy, allowing it to surge through him. This time, however, he went a step further, infusing his own energy into the weapon. It mirrored the technique he had been diligently practising, the very same method that had allowed him to throw the axe and strike Midwak with precision.

Innu took advantage of the fact that the beast was consumed by its bloodlust, fixated on the single unfortunate Hunter it was trying to devour. Its immobility only bolstered his confidence, as he became increasingly certain that he could seize this opportunity to strike it down. With his axe charged and brimming with energy, he hurled it forward.

The weapon had sailed through the air, bypassing the motionless Hunters who remained frozen in awe, their senses temporarily paralysed by the sheer ferocity of the beast. The only one who had noticed this was Fang that, and that was solely due to him paying extra close attention to Innu after finding out that Ashen had taken him as his student.

Around the same time, Blake had moved and lifted his sword to thrust it through the back of the beast's neck, but the axe had already hit the beast’s side of the head, digging in deep enough to reach the brain. Out of the two of them, Innu’s attack was faster, leading Fang to announce the kill as his achievement.

“That makes no sense,” Rad commented, holding a spear in his hand. “He struggled so much in the last assessment, but he can do something like that. Maybe he just swung his axe and prayed. I guess that's the real part of this test, if you have the guts to fight.”

“What are you all standing around for?” Edvard shouted, waking the other Hunters from their stupor. “The first Hunter has managed to get a point. If you want to pass this assessment, you better get down there and do the same.”

The Hunters were still nervous. If anything, they were even more nervous after seeing the viciousness of just a single beast. They had confidence having fought Altered, but all of that was thrown out of the window.

There was a winding pathway that went down the mountain to the special place below. At a fast walking pace, it would take around thirty minutes to get from where they were to the bottom.

Most went off in groups into the jungle, while the four-star Hunters had split up, following them at a distance behind to help minimise the risk of casualties. It didn’t take long for the groups to encounter their first beasts in the large jungle-like space. Alas, despite grouping up their courage seemed to have disappeared after the earlier show.

‘Why is my body shaking so much? I’ve taken out a few Altered before, so this should be no problem!’ One of them asked herself while trying to stop from shaking. Her group could still be considered to be lucky, as other groups were encountering groups of beasts, and not all of them were the same as the one that had been in the cage.

“We're surrounded, there are like six of them here!”

“It looks like they can smell us… we're not the ones hunting them, they're the ones hunting us!”

A group of five Altered Hunters were surrounded by a mixture of monkey and wolf-like beasts. The beasts went in at the same time, and the Hunters fought back, but they were unable to fight the way they usually would. Their movements proved sluggish, and their minds were hesitant about the right moves.

In the end, the beasts were winning out. Most of the Hunters got injured during the first clash, with parts of their armour cut up and ripped, and they could barely stand. The wolf-like beast charged in once again until a Hunter wearing a mask came out and, with a swing of his sword, sliced the neck of the beast, killing it in one go.

“Now that I have gotten involved, you should know that you have all failed,” the Hunter pointed out the obvious. He continued to take out the beasts one after the other, and the others watched in awe. Putting his sword away, he walked up to them.

“All of you have fought Altered, so it should have posed little problem for you to take down those beasts who are physically weaker. You could have easily used your group’s strength to win.”

“What? That can’t be true,” one of the Hunters cried out in disbelief.

“Why should I lie to you at this point? You see, the real test of this assessment isn’t whether or not you can defeat five beasts. It's if you can overcome the feeling these beasts produce, bloodlust. There are Altered out there that can emit the same amount of bloodlust as these beasts, so it's an important step for you to improve.”

The Hunters' task was to overcome the overwhelming feeling of bloodlust, but there were those in this assessment who had already overcome a larger amount of bloodlust, so for them, it was a walk in the park.

‘Two more, and I’m done,’ Blake thought. ‘I wonder if I’m faster than Innu.’

Innu had just finished killing his second beast, giving him a total of two points. He was by a river with a large bed of rocks to its side. The beast lay bloody on the ground, along with his axe.

In the jungle, up on one of the trees, a distance away, one of the Hunters had carefully been watching him.

‘I guess it would make sense. If he has been around a Werewolf or seen a Werewolf before, then these beasts will mean nothing to him. I wonder what his connection is,’ the Hunter thought.

Turning his head, Innu heard rustling from the trees and lifted his two axes in a defensive stance.

“Look who I managed to run into,” Rad greeted him with a huge smile on his face. “I was really looking for your friend, but I guess you will have to do. I can’t wait to see his face when he finds out his friend failed the task.”

‘All I wanted to do was join the Hunters… amidst fighting living beasts why do I now have to deal with this psycho,’ Innu inwardly sighed as he understood that it would be impossible to leave without fighting Rad.

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