Meanwhile, inside the main hall, all of the guests were currently dancing and enjoying themselves without a care in the world as they drank and ate, believing that they were the elite for even being at a party such as this.
"No stop them!" A voice suddenly shouted, coming from the side door where the slaves would come and go with food and drink.
A huge mass of beast girls suddenly burst free from the doors and broke into the hall, causing the guests to scream in fear and panic.
The beast's girls were running like wild animals, not caring what they had to do to gain their freedom, with some even attacking a few of the nobles or other men they recognised and wanted revenge on.
The duke was shocked to see all of his playthings free from their prison, and he was quickly surrounded by his guards who cut down any of the girls who tried to attack him.
"Get the duke out of here!" One of the men shouted above the screams.
The guards from all over the hall had rushed down the stairs and from the other places they had been stationed, trying to get everything under control.
The beast girls were surprisingly strong, however, and were able to put up a good fight and keep them distracted.
Amongst the chaos, Grayson had slipped back into the hall with Luna, whose appearance he had also changed so that she didn't look like a beasts girl.
The two of them quickly made their way up the stairs, Luna using her ability called wolf sense to find the duke.
Xolvion had also stolen the wolf sense ability for her, finding its uses amazing. It allowed him to use an almost sixth sense like feature that could detect any living thing within a certain radius.
And when paired with his appraisal ability, he could even see what skills a person possessed, something that would certainly come in handy.
Using wolf sense, Xolvion could see that the Duke had been taken towards a panic room, filled with guards. He could also see that the duke's daughter and the Holy saint were on the other side of the castle, with only two guards.
Xolvion decided they would deal with the Duke first, before he took the holy saint on, not knowing the full extent of her powers.
"This way Luna!" Xolvion said, leading the way. Luna followed him and was impressed by his speed and agility.
"Hold it!" Two guards said as they spotted them, not that Xolvion had cared.
"What are you doing up here this is a restricted area!" One of the guards said, seeing that Xolvion was a guest, thanks to his disguise.
"Well, you see," Xolvion said as the guards came closer.
Xolvion suddenly took the guards sword from his hip and used it to slit his throat between the gap in his cheat plate and helmet.
The other guard tried to reach for his own weapon but Luna suddenly dived through the air, growling as she ripped through his armour with her claws, before killing him.
"She really is a beast." Xolvion thought as he watched her work.
"Impressive" He also thought.
"Good work, let's get moving," Xolvion said, leading the way to where he could sense the duke.
Luna smiled, covered in blood as she followed her new master, eager to gain her vengeance.
Xolvion finally reached the door to the dukes panic room and kicked it open, breaking the steel bolts with ease.
"Surprise!" He shouted with a sinister grin on his face.
The duke and all of his guards looked in shock at Xolvion, not knowing what was going on.
Luna also showed her face and glared at the duke as Xolvion changed her appearance back to normal.
"Y-Y-You!" He shouted as he pointed at her.
"How did you escape my dungeon!" He shouted, enraged that she was free.
"Guards get her! I want her locked back in my dungeon so I can break her!" He then shouted not wasting any time.
Luna's rage started to boil over as she growled. Her hot breath becoming visible in the air as her eyes turned red.
Her body started to grow in size, as hair covered her all over. She grew so large that her clothing started to rip, while her face started to elongate, taking on the form of a wolf.
"You will pay for what you did!" She roared as her transformation became complete, turning into a large werewolf-like monster with razor-sharp claws and fangs.
(See comment her for a picture.)
"Holy shit!" One of the guards shouted.
Xolvion was thinking the exact same thing, not remembering getting that ability from her.
"She's from the black wolf clan!" Another yelled in fear.
"Shit only silver weapons will work!" Another said before Luna charged forwards, ripping into them one after the other as they screamed.
Blood soaked the walls and the floor as her claws cut through their armour like butter. The duke dropped to the floor and crawled as far back as he could, trembling in fear while Luna cut down his men one after the other, literally ripping them in half.
"You!!!" She growled as she cut the last guard down, turning her attention to the duke.
"N-No! I command you! I command you to be a good doggy and get back in your cage!" The duke shouted, clearly having lost his mind.
Xolvion couldn't believe he even dared to say such a thing to her, watching as she ascended over him with an intense blood lust.
"You killed them all... My mother... My father... My sisters! You killed them all!" She roared as she raised her hand into the air, readying her claws to cut him in half.
"Nooo!!!" The duke cried out, cowering like a pathetic insect.
Suddenly ice sprang up from the ground, slamming into Luna from four different angles trapping her in between them.
"Arghh!" Luna roared in pain as she felt the ice break a few of her ribs as she tried to break free.
Xolvion was shocked as he turned around to see the empress of ice herself, pointing her staff at Luna.
"No way... How didn't I sense her?" He thought as he looked back at Luna and then at her.
"It's alright now my lord, I will protect you from this monster!" The holy saint said, looking to Xolvion, not sure if he was a friend or foe.
"Kill them! Kill them both now!" The duke said through his faltering.
Xolvion looked at the Empress of ice and she looked back to him, each of them trying to react before the other had the chance.
"Holy ice blast!" She yelled as she pointed her staff at him.
"Fire blast!" He yelled as he let loose a massive ball of inferno from his hand, countering her ice magic.
The magic attacks burst and exploded, causing a powerful shock wave that knocked everyone in the room back.
The empress of ice regained her footing trying to find him as she scoured the room.
"Where is he?" She said before getting kicked in the back.
"Ah!" She yelled as she crashed into the wall with some force, clearly not adept at close combat.
But she was anything but weak, as she quickly recovered and pointed her staff at Xolvion.
"Take this!" She shouts as she fired a barrage of icicles at him, trying to impale him with them.
Xolvion used his sword to smash any of the icicles that came his way, ducking and weaving out of the way of the rest.
"She's strong." He thought as he raised his hand and fired another two blasts of fire magic at her, evening the odds.
The holy saint raised a wall of ice with her free hand, shielding herself from the fire attacks while Xolvion ran over to Luna.
Quickly he broke the ice that had trapped her and took her in his arms. Thankfully she had reverted back to her normal form, otherwise, she would have been too big to carry.
"Heal!" He shouted as he quickly tossed her through the air to safety, avoiding the ice spikes that suddenly shot out of all four walls.
Xolvion hadn't been able to dodge that attack and felt the ice rip through his flesh as it priced him.
"Got you!" the holy saint said taking a breath of fresh air.
Xolvion smiled though as he broke the ice away and cast heal on himself.
"Sorry, but it will take more than that to get me!" He shouted as he raised his hand.
"Emperors blast!" He shouted as he unleashed the most powerful fire attack he could muster.
"That's a saint level magic attack!" She shouted as she did her best to summon as much ice as she could to protect her, knowing that ice was weak to fire.
(See the comment here for the different levels of magic!)
Xolvion roared as he unleashed his massive fire blast, letting it rip through the ice walls and smash into the empress of ice's final barrier.
The blast was so strong that it blew a hole in the side of the castle, knocking the empress of ice out into the stone garden below.
Luna was amazed that she had been fully healed in an instant, feeling no pain whatsoever.
Xolvion finished his magic attack and looked at his handy work, impressed as it was the first time he had used that spell.
"Master!" Luna shouted as she ran over to Xolvion to make sure he was ok.
Of course, he was fine, having already healed himself and restored his mana to full, thanks to the hack of his holy healing.
"I'm alright Luna, but we should settle this soon." He said, sensing that more and more guards had been alerted to their position.
Xolvion suddenly turned around, sensing that the duke had escaped during the battle.
"That slippery bastard," Xolvion said as he used his wolf sense to find him.
"Alright, Luna I leave the duke and his men to you. I'll take the empress of ice." He said, seeing that the duke hadn't gone far.
Luna nodded, also sensing his whereabouts.
"Thank you, master, be safe." She said, nodding to him before she ran out of the room.
Xolvion smiled as he walked over to the hole in the wall, looking out over the stone courtyard.
"Still alive after that attack eh? I'm impressed." Xolvion said, seeing that the empress of ice was still standing.
She looked hurt and her clothing had been damaged from the attack, revealing even more skin.
Xolvion Jumped down from the window, smirking at her as he stood to his feet.
"H-How did you use a Saint-level magic attack? Only we holy saints can use such a high level of magic!" She shouted, demanding him to answer.
"Not anymore." He said, knowing full well that his brothers and sisters could use saint level magic too.
"You leave me no choice but to unleash my full power upon you." She then said as she suddenly broke her staff over her knee into two halves.
"As a holy saint and the empress of ice, I will defeat you!" She said before she suddenly burst to life with power.
Her aura became so great that it was even visible to the naked eye, her magic spilling out of her before she gained control of it.
"I don't know if you knew this, but we holy saints only carry a staff around with use to limit our powers... half of our power is sealed away in our staff, so we don't cause havoc upon the world. However, if our life is put in danger, we may break our staff and unleash our full power!" She shouted, suddenly freezing everything her hand pointed to.
Xolvion could see the ice spreading rapidly as her magic attack almost reached him.
"Holy shit! This changes things!" He thought as he quickly dashed around, doing his best to evade all of her attacks.
She was impressed as he dodged her blasts of ice, one after the other. But she quickly grew tired of his games and decided to get serious.
"This is the end!" She said as she suddenly raised her hand into the sky.
"Looks like she has complete control over ice without even saying the basic name for the attack." Xolvion thought, knowing that only the strongest magic users could achieve such a thing.
Ice spears suddenly formed all around her as she froze the very moisture in the air, creating a huge amount of them all behind her.
"This will end it." She said throwing her hand forwards as she commanded the spears to fly at him.
Xolvion had no choice and this time extended both hands forwards.
"Double emperors blast!" She shouted as he pumped almost all of his magic into the attack.
Normally doing such a thing could leave someone drained of mana and in a near-death state. But thanks to his divine healing, he would be able to heal himself and restore his manner to full.
The empress of ice was shocked again as her spears were all turned to ash, quickly trying to create a barrier of ice to protect herself.
"You underestimated me!!!" Xolvion shouted as his attack broken through all of her defences at the time, hitting her with the full force of the attack before creating an explosion that shook the entire castle.
Xolvion felt his body going into shock as his mana had been drained from a duel saint level magic attack.
"H-Heal..." He said, casting his divine healing on himself just before he passed out.
Falling to his knees, he felt his body become restored and he took a large breath before the dust settled.
Xolvion knew his attack had overwhelmed the express of ice only because she let her guard down and underestimate him. Knowing the gap in their power was far too great for him to have won a fair battle.
"It's crazy to think that it would still take the other 11 of them just to be a match for father..." He thought.
Walking over to where he could sense her small life force, he could see she was in bad shape.
Half of her body was covered in burn marks with her right arm having been completed disintegrated and her left leg hanging by only the bone.
The sight was sickening and Xolvion wasn't sure that even his divine healing could save her like this, not that it would be a good idea to try in case she killed him faster than he could cast his charm magic on her.
"Y-you may have defeated me... B-but the others..." She said coughing a little.
"The others are stronger than me... T-They will..." She tried to say.
Xolvion watched as she smiled, just a moment before the light left her eyes.
"What in the?" He said as he watched her body suddenly freeze over, watching as a light slowly exited her body through her mouth.
"What the hell is that?" He said, watching as it slowly hovered above her.
Xolvion went to take it, but the thing suddenly burst forth heading to the castle and disappeared through a window.
"What was that?" Xilvion said to himself as he looked at her body.
It had frozen over and started to crack, until finally, it crumbled into snow, leaving nothing behind.
"Not even a drop of blood left to taste." Xolvion thought, realizing that he wouldn't be able to absorb her power now.
He slowly turned to the castle, casting his wolf sense to see what was going on.
"That can't be..." He said as he felt the same life force that had come from the empress of ice coming from the duke's daughter.
"Does that mean her powers passed on?" He thought not understanding what had just happened.
He then sensed Luna who was currently extinguishing many other life forces.
"I guess I had better go and check things out."
Meanwhile in the castle...
"Look out!"
"Arghh!" The guards screamed as Luna ripped them to shreds as she made her way to the duke.
"You can't hide from me! I will find you no matter where you go!" She roared in a deep and demonic voice.
She had left a trail of blood along the castle, killing anyone who tried to get in her way, until she finally reached the duke's daughters room.
Luna slashed the doors to ribbons, entering the room as she snarled.
Two guards rushed at her, one of them stabbing his blade into her stomach and the other slashing down at her neck.
The sword that hit her neck bounced off her thick fur, while the other sword only pierced her about an inch.
Both of the guards looked at her in horror before she grabbed each of them by their heads, holding them off the ground before she started to squeeze.
"Aaagghhrrhrgrgrhrhr!!!" Both of the guards screamed as she slowly crushed their helmets around their heads, each of them flailing their legs around in pain until she finally crushed their skulls.
The duke was at the other end of the room, standing behind his daughter as he feared for his life.
"No! Please! Take her instead!" He said, pushing his daughter, who was disgusted by his words, in front of Luna.
She fell to the ground in front of Luna and slowly looked up at her, fearing for her life as she trembled.
"No one else will ever suffer by your hand!" Luna said as she ignored his daughter and walked over to him.
"You will never kill or enslave anyone's family ever again!" Luna roared.
"No! Stay back you monster!" He cried.
"You are the real monster!" Luna said as she grabbed his head, lifting him off the ground slowly as he kicked and screamed, begging for his life.
"Curse you! Curse that holy saint, she was supposed to protect me!" He squealed.
Luna snarled as she opened her jaws.
"No one can protect you now!" She yelled before she finally sank her fangs into his neck, getting a horrified look from him.
Luna crushed his throat with her teeth and ripped his head from his shoulders, pulling it off his body before she spat it onto the ground.
Luna dropped his body before she placed her wolf like foot onto his head, crushing it on the floor.
"For the black wolf clan." She said, before she slowly reverted back to her more human form.
Tears were flowing from her eyes now as she stood naked, covered in the blood of everyone she had killed, feeling free at last.
"I did it, mother... I avenged you." She whispered to herself.
The duke's daughter was sitting against the wall in horror as she rocked back and forth, not knowing what she should do.
Luna turned to look at her, not sure what she should do with her, herself.
She was about to walk over to her when a bright light suddenly smashed through the window and shot straight into the girl's chest, stunning Luna.
"What is that?" She asked as she watched the girl's body suddenly glow before she dropped to the floor.
"I've never seen that before..." She said as she walked over to her, giving her a nudge with her barefoot.
Luna turned to look at the door as she soon sensed Xolvion, forgetting about the girl as she ran over to him.
"Master!" She shouted as she flung herself at him, wrapping her arms and legs around him as she pressed her naked body against his.
"Luna... How are you feeling." He asked, hugging her back.
"I did it... I got my revenge, just like you promised." She said, kissing his cheek.
Xolvion smiled and kissed her back, using his tongue as the two entered a steamy embrace.
"I promised didn't I." He said as he broke the kiss, leaving Luna wanting more.
Suddenly, Xolvion and Luna could sense more guards approaching and Luna hopped off getting ready to fight.
"No Luna, we have done enough. I think it's time we took our leave." He then said with a smile.
Luna nodded in agreement.
"Where will we go, master?" She asked.
"We won't be able to stay in this city for long..." He said, knowing that they would search every inch of the place to find the dukes killer.
"But first, we have a mystery to solve." He said as he looked over to the duke's daughter who was lead on the ground, unconscious.
Smirking as a sinister thought entered his mind.