The Gale Wolves that froze had shocked looks on their faces as they looked at me.
The looks on their faces made it seem as if they couldn't understand what was happening.
That was because all of them had suddenly frozen in place.
A few looks of struggle appeared on the faces of some of the Gale Wolves. It seemed like they were trying to break free of whatever was holding them in place, but they just weren't able to do it.
I looked at them with a surprised look too.
Even though I had a few expectations, this was far beyond what I had imagined.
After all, these Gale Wolves were certainly much stronger than the things that I had tested the Echo Bat's additional ability on.
The Gale Wolves were D Rank Monsters, while the things that I had tested on were the normal animals that were in the park near my house. It was hard to compare the two of them since there was a large difference in power between them.
But it didn't seem to matter as the Echo Bat's ability seemed to work on the Gale Wolves.
However, that was just the beginning…
After looking at the Gale Wolves for a bit, a determined look appeared on my face.
Since I had already come this far, the only thing that I could do was take this to the end.
"Submit." I said in a calm voice before the Echo Bat released another silent cry.
The moment that the Gale Wolves heard this silent cry, there was this strange look that appeared on their faces. With the way that their faces relaxed, it was almost as if they were being numbed by something.
Their expressions just dulled, but they also turned to look at me with these relaxed expressions.
After a moment of silence, the expressions of the Gale Wolves suddenly became much friendlier.
There were even a few of them that barked at me, which was completely different from the way that they treated me before. Instead of growling at me in an aggressive and hostile manner, they were barking at me as if I was part of their pack.
I didn't let them go yet and slowly walked forward towards the Gale Wolves that were still frozen there.
Seeing me approach, the eyes of the Gale Wolves lit up and they barked even more as if they wanted to play with me.
I could see the same look as the neighbourhood dogs when they saw someone that they wanted to play with on the faces of the Gale Wolves. In a way, it almost seemed like they were large dogs, rather than powerful wolf monsters.
I walked over to the one that was closest to me and then slowly reached out my hand towards the Gale Wolf's head. Seeing my hand coming closer, the Gale Wolf didn't resist at all as it waited for me to reach out to it.
Well, it wasn't as if it didn't do anything at all.
It actually tried reaching its head forward a bit even though it was still frozen, as if it wanted to press its snout up against my hand.
I reached out and patted the Gale Wolf on its head. With the way that it rubbed up against me slightly, to the best of its ability even though it was frozen, it seemed like it enjoyed it.
I looked at the other Gale Wolves and it didn't seem like they were planning on fighting back, so I said, "Release."
The moment that I said this, all of the Gale Wolves had surprised looks on their faces.
Then the next moment, they ran towards me.
They didn't attack me when they reached me, they just pressed their snouts up against me and rubbed up against me as if they wanted me to pat them on the head as well. But since there were so many of them and they were quite big, there wasn't enough space for all of them to stand by my side.
This caused a bit of friction between them and it even seemed like they were about to start fighting for my affection.
A bitter smile appeared on my face when I saw them acting like this.
With the way that they were acting now, it really didn't seem like they were the same monsters that had wanted to attack me not that long ago.
"Calm down, there's no need to fight." I said to calm them down.
The Gale Wolves seemed to care very much about what I said as they immediately stopped fighting with each other and turned to look at me as if they were waiting for an order.
The way that they all looked at me was as if they were large dogs, even though they were powerful wolves.
This made me feel even more bitter when I saw them like this, but I didn't have time to think too much about this.
"Grr…"
There were still these growling sounds that were coming from in front of me.
Even if I had subdued this one group of Gale Wolves, that didn't mean that I had subdued all of them. There were still other Gale Wolves that were coming through the tunnels to attack me.
However, there was no fear on my face even though I recognized this fact.
After all, it didn't seem like they posed any threat to me.
I looked at the Gale Wolves that I had already subdued and said, "Go and meet them. Stall them for me and I'll bring them into our family."
The Gale Wolves didn't immediately understand what I said, but the Echo Bat gave another cry and they all nodded before running into the tunnels, leaving me behind.
I shook my head with a faint smile as I watched them head down the tunnel, but I quickly followed after them.
…
I looked at my watch and found that half an hour had passed.
Then I looked up at all of the Gale Wolves that were standing in this space in front of me.
The first group that I had tamed only had around twenty Gale Wolves.
Now there was a large pack of over two hundred Gale Wolves standing in front of me.
The way that they acted was as if they were a large pack of dogs, waiting for my affection.
"Isn't this power a bit too broken?" I couldn't help saying to myself.