Pyro POV

I think I have already complained before, but I miss proper toilets

Yep, don't forget the scent remover.

Oh yeah. Anyway let's end this stuff and be on our way.

Maybe try to make a dung golem?

Really now? Let's say we made it, and what will it do? Fertilize the field?

Order it to attack the enemy. They will have nightmares after it.

Hmm... maybe will do it at some point.

After I finally finished my 'important business', I decided on looking through some traits that would remove waste disposal functions. Unfortunately

Such skill exists but it costs 1 unique token.

Oh yeah, unique are not always unique. There are often creatures with similar 'Unique' skills or traits, weapons, but not titles. And those 'unique' traits are similar, but not the same. For example experience modifiers, one creature can have either increased gained experience, or reduced experience threshold, they give almost the same results, but still different. Oh and when I asked Ken about tokens he told me that he has access to common, uncommon, rare and legendary, but not unique. I guess it's something to do with my 'blessing' from Kane.

Oh right, I am now traveling to the wolf den, along with other heroes, and it's daytime. Not that I know of specific time, but it should be around noon.

Guide: “Hired adventurers said that lair of demon wolves should be in that cave. Do you-”

JJ: “ATTACK!!!” I think that JJ have a bit of an ego. Fortunately for him he was quickly knocked unconscious by BDL... now that I think about it She's not Brain-dead, but just acts like that sometimes.

BDL: “Moron! We need a plan first!”

Pyro: “It's quite simple, let us suffocate them.”

BDL: “And how would you do it?” and again the tone of annoyed senpai.

Pyro: “Wet wood and raging fire near the entrance.”

Pervert 2: “You understand that we won't be able to-”

Pyro: “For at least a few hours, yes. But those who have air magic affinity should create air bubble which will help with the smoke.” besides I'm thinking about adding the Chuchuranga grass, or goblin weed, good, but quite weak poison. Couldn't those morons name it something like poisonweed or something?

BDL: “Good plan. What if the wolves-”

Pyro: “Archers behind warriors with wizzard support. Classics. Don't forget to make a few pits.”

Ken: “So an ambush?”

Pyro: “I think that demon wolf will ignore the fire.” I hope so. I mean demonic wolf should be a bit more sentient than regular ones, no?

BDL: “Then let's proceed with this plan. Any objections?” at this words JJ became concious.

JJ: “Why did you stop me? Let's attack the lair of-” and was knocked out by BDL's spinning kick.

BDL: “We will wake him up later.” They should be childhood friends.

So we started the gathering of wood and goblin weed, well I gathered goblin weed while others chopped trees, which ended in me getting tired of it and just using water jet to cut it, yes lost around 2000 mana, but the firewood is ready. Transferring the wood was quite easy, after which I lighted it up and made few water bubbles to soak other wood, while adding the goblin weed to the bubble and fire.

Well we had to wait around an hour before the wolves decided to run through the fire, and some of them got trapped into the pits, or skewered on the earth spikes, not all of the skewered ones died though, should be something to do with their bodies and fur, but I don't really care now. Strangely the demon wolf was not among them.

Good thing about this confrontation is that I am only one percent short to new level!

BDL: “So we wait for a bit more and enter the cave?”

Pyro: “Yep. But I will scout first, while others will guard entrance.”

BDL: “You're crazy! We don't know how strong the demon wolves are, nor their numbers! We should-”

Pyro: “I'll be careful, OK?” and so we waited a bit more, before I entered the cave.

Let me tell you this, cave was rather small. I dunno why those wolves didn't do anything while we prepared the trap, but it seems that it was only them and some pups. Yes they all were dead from slightly poisonous smoke and oxygen deprivation. No other wolves were in sight, so I checked the cave again before coming back to the entrance.

BDL: “So what with the wolves?”

Pyro: “I have good news and bad news, which do you like to hear first?”

BDL: “Good news.”

Pyro: “OK. Good news are all wolves within the cave are dead, while bad news are there was only some pups. I think they are now hunting and will come back to the cave later.”

BDL: “Wait, pups? Like there were some little puppies?” she looks quite sad.

Pyro: “Yep, why?”

Girl 1: “We could try to tame them!” oh... that's the reason why those three look sad.

Pyro: “You can always ask king to-”

Girl 2: “That's not the same!” honestly I don't care and so I disappeared, well more like ran away from them, as I really don't like those who fight for animal rights. No really, animals are food! Nothing more, nothing less. Humans are animals, but humans don't eat humans as... well they are rather chewy? Dunno, I don't mind eating human meat.

So after the failed hunt, we came back to the city and started minding our own business. I was looking around the shops for some interesting weapons, Ken was on a date with his harem, JJ along with most of the guys were drinking, and girls had gone on shopping.

It was rather boring day, but I found a magical bow. They use mana crystals to generate arrows, and work for as long as the crystals are charged. I bought a few of them for experimenting purposes. If I learn about their arrow generation function, I could create a magic firearm.

Narrator POV

It was a nighttime. The wolves were traveling back to their lair after successful hunt. Few of them were still carrying the animals they hunted, while the rest of the pack were traveling home.

Most of the pack were regular gray wolves, but their leader and few others were black. The black wolves were known by adventurers as demonic wolves, but in reality they were just strengthened by miasma flowing from demon continent, and not 'corrupted' as many would think. In reality only humans would think so, as elves could easily tell that so called 'miasma' was actually a non-purified mana. Elves would purify mana, just as some plants and creatures, but demons could not, nor anything on their continent. Many creatures can purify mana to some extent, humans can do it, but unlike the elves the amount their bodies can purify is miniscule, dwarfs are the same as demons, but the fungus in their caves and some plants work as purifiers.

When the pack neared the lair they smelled death, death and smoke, they smelled the blood of their own. Pack started running towards the center of the cave, where most of the pups were trained, but now, now only the death was there. All of the pups were dead. Wolves howled. Their howl was full of sorrow and anger, anger to those who killed members of their pack. They searched for smell, and found the smell of humans. Fortunately for them they knew where humans usually resided. It was the mine. And so the pack started their venegance.

Pyro POV.

New day new possibilities! I'm quite lazy to recreate the magic bow, so I will talk about it with Gramps. Three days already passed and so the staff should be done by now. So I proceeded to the shop.

If skipping the boring stuff, then I got staff, it was made as I wished for it, but... let's say that this staff is rather... ominous, creepy, strange? Whatever you call it, but the staff is rather funny, not that good for me, but interesting, so Ken will be rather pleased, just as his harem. If something then...

Staff of Demonite (Custom)

Spell power +10%

Elemental power +1%

Spell cost +5%

Charge 300/400

See? Effective, but it's rather useless for me. For Ken it's quite useful though. For me spells are useless, as I use skills and manipulation. Also I don't really get what magical mastery means, but it's something is similar to manipulation, I guess?

Anyway after the shop I traveled to the adventurer guild, where I noticed quite a commotion. Long story short, the wolves attacked the mine. I guess it's the same wolves that should have been at the cave. Whatever. They posted a quest for the subjugation, and guess what?

Subjugate the wolves B-Rank

Wolves attacked the mine, and killed all the miners and guards.

Reward 50 gold.

And system generated.

Miasma wolf subjugation.

Due to the mistake you killed only a small part of the pack and it's pups.

Kill the rest of the pack.

Reward

1 Unique, 3 Rare, 5 uncommon tokens.

See no points in the reward! But if I can exchange the tokens, then it means I get around 8'000 points. Not bad, but I prefer using them on something I need. Besides exchange rate from points is ridiculous! It's almost three times as high!

Anyway seeing the new quest I decided to take it. Well more like tell that it's the wolves we were supposed to track down, so... I blamed the scouts. No seriously it's the fault of scouts, right?

So... few quick notes on those wolves. Man the blackies are BIG! Like horse big. Well those two wolves at least. Well seeing as there won't be any witnesses I will do it my way, well more like the way of the shadows, but in this case more like a hunter, too bad I don't have invisibility like predator. Would be quite fun running through the cave shooting plasma bolts and skewering the morons on my spear and beheading with that disk. Oh good old predators... Oh right, so I decided to go with the old 'spidey' motif... let's sing about wolves this time?

Narrator POV

After extracting the venegance on the humans that supposedly killed their pups, wolves started on settling the new lair. Unfortunately for them out of 15 females only 6 remained, so the breeding program, as some humans would say, started. Only the strongest, fastest and smartest, as much as the wolf could be, would mate with females, but not the Black ones, gray wolves can't mate with black wolves as gray ones don't have enough mana to sustain new life forming inside them. Sometimes gray wolves would produce an offspring which would be a black, or as some say demon, wolf, but most of the time they would be gray like their parents. Unfortunately for the black wolves they had no females in their pack.

Difference between male and female black wolves were in size, while males were much bigger, females were much faster and more cunning, but the ratio of them was 9 males to 1 female. It had something to do with amount of mana needed for proper female evolution. Sometimes gray wolves could evolve into black wolves, but it was such rare occasion, that only sentient races could know, not the wolves or other short lived species. Especially that particular pack that were soon to meet their number one enemy.

The enemy slowly creeped to their new lair, while singing song

???: ”In the olden times of Earth

Little ones were born on Earth

They were hunters, they were prey

Some liked bathing in the day,

Others liked smelly stuff

Some of which liked dirty stuff”

Wolves were surprised, as they couldn't smell the intruder, but they could see and hear it. For them intruder was just a nuisance, not even strong enough to offer them resistance. They leaned long ago that those who are good at sneaking, usually quite bad at fighting. Unfortunately for them this was not the truth this time.

???: “Soon the little ones grown up

Started running all around

Found some caves, some forests, swamps,

Other started building dams.”

That was the time when their instincts kicked in. And it was the primordial instinct, that all creatures had. Fear. Wolves howled in anguish, to rally their pack for the protection of their lair.

???: “But one creature liked the hunt,

Not for food, but thrill of hunt.

Creature hunted all around,

Hunted every bunny found,

Every bird, mammal, rodent,

Fish, insects and then...

Creatures hunted on themselves.”

If the wolves could understand the english, and had some more intelligence as well as some knowledge on the world, they could easily predict about what this unknown creature sang.

???: “In the end the hunters fell

Killed by the fellow men

Killers started telling lies

Of the creature of demise

And so on, in times of need

Humans made the ruler's creed.”

But the intruder didn't attack the wolves, but just stood there, at the entrance, covered in darkness, singing his song, waiting. But wolves couldn't do anything, as they were paralyzed from fear. Even the black wolves couldn't move a muscle.

???: “Builders started building walls

Farmers started growing crops

Hunters were dead already,

Killer instincts dying steady,

So the men became the Guard

To protect the lands of realm

From the evil lurking deep

Forming order of the Keep”

That's when the intruder started changing. Few more creatures like it emerged from darkness, then the natural light provided by the cave started shimmering, until it died down. Black wolves still could see in the darkness, unlike the gray ones.

???: “Finally to nature true

Killer instincts born anew

Builders started building bombs

Farmers poisoned their crops

And guards just changed the name,

But it's not what I will tell

But the Keepers of this Hell”

As soon as the creature stopped singing the 'song', gray wolves started dropping as the puppets with their strings cut. Black Wolves just couldn't move a muscle on their bodies.

???: “Don't you worry little wolves

You're not the last one to fall

My hatred is strong, my power is growing

My enemies don't know me

But I know them.

So die and know that you won't be the only one to die by my hand.”

Wolves couldn't comprehend what the creature told them, but they were already resigned to die, as it was the only way left for them.

???: “Author please

Stop setting those annoying signs.

You know who I am, so why deny it?”

And as usual the bastard, known as Pyro, broke the fourth wall...*sigh*