BOOM!
Hearing the sound of the explosion. Zhen Yi and the others startled, the wind of the explosion also blown to their face. This was indicating the explosion was not far from where they were.
They could not watch the fight between Randy and Primeval Nether Wolf as it was on out of their sight after Primeval Nether Wolf ran away from Randy in shadow's form. Zhen Yi and the others thought Randy would win for sure, so they didn't chase after him to watch.
Zhen Yi also thought so as she saw Primeval Nether Wolf ran away. But now… Her heart could not help but worry again as the sound of explosion sounded from Randy's direction.
Without a second thought, Zhen Yi rushed to the source of the sound explosion.
...
Meanwhile, Randy was blown up by the explosion for over twenty meters from where the shadow descended.
He was only blown up, there was no injury from the explosion but when the explosion took place, there was a black smoke swirled. At the start, the swirl black smoke only had two meters high and about two meters wide. But the black smoke was becoming bigger and bigger. Also, it was spinning faster and faster.
Randy didn't know what the black smoke was. He didn't understand at all what happened in the front of him. If the Primeval Nether Wolf still alive or not, he didn't know too.
But he was sure there was a shadow descended from the sky and that shadow enveloped Primeval Nether Wolf before the explosion happened.
"Shana, what is that?" Randy subconsciously asked Shana, but there was no response from her.
After a while, he realized Shana was getting punished by central? She said it was because she told him which she should not. But, here Randy puzzled, she was an AI, a program. But it was like she had her own self-awareness, she did what the program should not to.
Nevertheless, he felt warm in his heart. Shana broke the rule and got punishment to help him. But what the heck central was? The more he thought, he was sure Shana was not a normal AI or program, but a creature instead.
But now, he didn't have time to think about it now as the black smoke was getting bigger and bigger. The smoke already reached eight meters high as it kept swirling.
Randy grew nervous as he watched the black smoke.
'Should I run?'
Thinking of ran away, Randy immediately shook his head. His revenge had not done yet, he must see directly the Primeval Nether Wolf's corpse with his own eyes.
But he felt uneasy as the black smoke was becoming bigger and bigger. After the black smoke reached 10 meters high, the swirl became slower and slower, and the black smoke became thinner before the black smoke clotted into a ball with two meters of diameters.
Afterward, the ball descended with a lighting speed, shot toward the ground which later overspread before the black smoke congregated back to Primeval Nether Wolf.
Now, Primeval Nether Wolf already stood majestically, but its body covered by the blackish smoke, only its red eyes could be seen. From the head to the end of its tail covered by the blackish smoke.
The blackish smoke was wavered by the wind. The deep injuries could not be seen. Randy didn't know the injury was still there or already been healed. But from its stance, it was likely the injury was healed.
'This is Shadow Transformation?'
Randy asked himself as he was not sure what happened to the wolf. Shana told him the Shadow Transformation could only be used for ten minutes.
He didn't know if the Dragon Roar still effective on Primeval Nether Wolf in its shadow's form, but one thing was sure, the physical attack was not working on it when Primeval Nether Wolf transformed into shadow's form.
So, the only solution was to wait for the Shadow Transformation expired if the Dragon Roar was ineffective. As the other solution was when it attacked him, Primeval Nether Wolf could not harm him in shadow form, so it must change back to the wolf form to attack.
But it was likely hard to attack it as its movement was unpredictable for him. As Randy thought how he should face the wolf, he noticed something.
There was a movement from fifty meters on his left, he noticed it was Zhen Yi and the others. Randy made a gesture to them stop and shouted,
"Get back!"
Randy's voice echoed through the forest made Zhen Yi and the others stopped their steps. They also noticed Primeval Nether Wolf had not died yet. They also noticed the change of Primeval Nether Wolf.
Randy grew even nervous when Zhen Yi and others were coming. He, himself could do nothing when the wolf in shadow form. So, it was hard for him to protect them as the others.
"Get back! Don't come closer!"
Randy kept shouting to them, he also put the Dragon Roar in his shout.
Zhen Yi looked at Randy's figure, even though she could not see clearly but she could discern there was no injury. She let out a heavy relieved sigh.
She knew from Randy's condition now, likely he could not protect them while fighting the wolf. So, he was asked them to get back. She looked back at the wolf. It's body changed to pitch black, the same black when its movement early.
Without hesitation, Zhen Yi said, "Let's go back! We can do nothing here…" Likely we will become a burden for him.
Of course, Zhen Yi didn't say it out, the last sentence. She afraid they would misunderstand her by saying they were useless.
Akihiro also knew the severity of the situation now. Usually, Randy would not ask them to retreat when they were raiding a Territory King. Even he asked them to attack the Territory King first to share the EXP.
But now, he asked them to get away from here. This was indicating Primeval Nether Wolf, not the normal Territory King which could be killed with ease like the beforehand Territory King.
"Let's get back!" Akihiro also nodded his head.
They were retreating. Even though they stayed away, the fact was they only backed for fifty meters. Especially for Zhen Yi, Akihiro, and Asuka, they stayed back at a hundred meters from Randy.
If the worst scenario happened, Randy lost. They could provide Randy help to retreat. It was what in the three thought.
The Garuda's members backed further. They knew they could do nothing but a burden if they stayed. So they chose to stay away further.
Randy's attention was on the retreating Zhen Yi and the others. As he looked forward, Primeval Nether Wolf already moved, it became a shadow rushed toward him with a bolt speed and arrived in the front within the seconds.
With no hesitation, Randy slashed his sword but the shadow split because of the sword, but it didn't stop the advance.
The shadow clashed with his body, passing to his back. Before even he could react, he already felt the pain in his back before his body blown by the force from his back.