It was the middle of the night, thick clouds were covering the sky so no moon or starlight illuminated the earth.
A pack of wolf monsters was circling in on a small group of humans.
The unaware travelers gathered around a campfire, not knowing that they entered the monsters' territory.
Two adult humans and two human children, two horses.
Just enough for the pack of twenty hungry wolf monsters – but it would do.
It would definitely do...
Creatures of their kind were known to form packs that counted into dozens and even hundreds of specimens, so their current number didn't seem all that impressive.
But this particular pack had something that most of the other ones could not compete with.
Even with their species being highly attuned to earth magic and therefore having similarly-sized mana reservoirs to human earth magicians, every single member of the pack had enough mana to outlast an average water magician in a duel of endurance.
