Even within my Wendigo form I was still unable to see above the tall grassy plane. Also with my advanced hearing, the only sound I could make out was the uncontrollable laughter from Leroy. His skill filled him with a sense of overwhelming pleasure and strength.
Soon Leroy had arrived at my position in the matter of three seconds, his explosive power was insane! It took him one dash to reach my location and deliver a barrage of swift jabs to my abdomen. Each punch would send me exactly 1.5 meters backwards which said a lot considering that my endurance stat was higher than his!
Then even while in this crazed state he found a way to always follow up with his punches. Though even after feeling the impact of each punch and having my world spin, I could see it. His punches were fixed, after a jab soon a left hook would follow.
Then a kick towards my right side. Leroy was amazing! I state this because even while in that crazed state he was able to fight back and control his body, almost negating the side effects. Even so, this pain was slowly becoming unbearable.
As I coughed up two handfuls of blood, a notification relaying that I had received twenty points of damage in the time span of three minutes dawned upon me. I was going to lose, and I hadn't even left a mark on the beast before me. 'He'll stand over my lifeless corpse or maybe he might even give me away to that woman,' with that thought a shiver ran down my spine.
Me, a mindless slave used to only produce successful heirs for a goal I didn't even support. All while I had finally achieved my goal of getting accepted into the golden academy, and lastly the woman I'd become a slave for was about as ugly as a rat.
If this wasn't a fate worse than death I didn't know what was, maybe just dying would be better…Wait am I already giving up, there are still so many things I haven't tried yet! Plus that laugh, its driving me crazy!!
"System activate Dodge! Force activate Survive at all cost!" I shouted before a blow that I'm sure would have blown my head clean off missed due to dodge.
[⅘ Dodges remaining!]
[Survive at all cost has been activated! You have received a 30% boost in your agility stat for five minutes!]
"I've been meaning to get some practice in with this for a while now anyway!" I told Leroy assuming he could hear me just fine as the spine in my hand turned to ash. The wind element followed and began to gather In my right hand while bone began constructing into a minute javelins in my left.
Upon Leroy's next charge I predicted his fixed attack patterns which were most likely due to his Berserk skill, and unleashed my small javelins. Then with the large amount of compressed wind in my right hand I changed its shape and amplified the speed of my prior attack. The attack was a success, I had managed to locate an opening on his left side below his armpits, on the side of his ribs.
The pain from my attack hit Leroy all at once and I followed up with a left hook of my own to the damaged area. Although, I would have died if not for my skill Dodge. It allowed me to instinctively dodge a heavy right hand from Leroy.
[⅗ Dodges!]
Then he and I began a series of cat and mouse exchanges, one striking a punch and the other dodging. This was until I felt as though my legs could support me anymore. It was as if I would drop to the ground at any second, but this time fate had decided to be kind.
Leroy's ten minutes of supreme strength were up. This featured his skin turning a dark shade of purple and beginning to stick close to his bone. The bulky buff werewolf was now almost as thin as a pretzel, even so his eyes still burned with determination to win the fight.
Then my legs gave out, crumpling under the fatigue I had accumulated from our battle. While Leroy quietly began walking over towards me, I began gathering enough wind element mana to end this fight.
I was so exhausted that my Wendigo form began reverting back to my human one and within that flash of red light I fired my small wind javelin which was far bigger than the ones I had created previously.
It made a screeching sound as it flew through the air before impaling Leroy in the middle of his chest and then it slowly faded away.
"Arghhh! It seems that I've lost this fight…even if it could have been a drawl." The half-wolf half man said before puking up far more blood than I'd ever had during our fight.
"It was a great battle kid, tell me what is your name, young warrior?" Leroy asked with his last breath.
"It's Marcel…Marcel King." I said between a rough breath of air and hesitation. Although the man had already died, it seemed as if he had heard my reply because on his face was a smile unlike the crazed one I'd seen in our battle but a peaceful one.
"I'm an anomaly even among both beasts and humans. I use both powers free of backlash but I wonder for what purpose was I given this power over a prince with such a strong will like Leroy?"
[Ding! You have defeated a werewolf of Royal blood, which Wendigo Bloodline skill would you like to revive?]
[Illusion Manipulation, or Greed Embodiment?]
"Can a brother rest for once System?" I used the name system on purpose this time, it didn't won't nor deserve the name of my dead friend even if it had saved me many times before or made the impossible possible. It would still try and make things difficult as I grew.
And It's never given me anything I haven't ever requested for anyway, plus how could I taint Nora's name like that.
"I'll feel really bad once I receive my memories of her, I'll take the skill of greed embodiment, whatever that means." I said before suddenly being transformed into my Wendigo form and growing a golden antler out of the middle of my head.
[Bloodline skill Greed Embodiment received!]
[Details if the skill will be listed after the host completes the second scenario!]
"Right, I need to hurry and find those two before they kill off the Clark family." I said before willing strength into my legs and dashing off towards the cave.