Chapter 13

The next day I woke up and met up with Rain, same time as yesterday by the guild.

After entering into a horned rabbit quest, we were walking down the road, to the trail we used to look for horned rabbits.

A horned rabbit jumped out onto the road as we were going to the trail.

Rain enthusiastically or I should say desperately attacked it before I could draw my sword, it was almost as if she didn't want me to fight.

Works for me, horned rabbits are not that fun to fight.

I guess I don’t really have to worry about her anymore when I leave for Acton.

Speaking of leaving.

“By the way Rain, I’m going to be leaving in a few days”

“You're leaving…?”

“Ya, I’m taking on an escort quest to Acton”

Rain was a bit sad and surprised when I said that I was leaving.

“You can come if you want”

“Sorry I can’t because of my circumstances, I can’t really leave Forsborrow”

“What kind of circumstances?”

“I can’t say too much on it but you could say it’s family”

“Okay”

It’s her family circumstances again, I wonder what kind it was, but I shouldn’t really push it any further since I have my own family circumstances to deal with.

“So, what are you going to do in Acton”

“Dive into the Dradevow dungeon and learn magic”

“Wait! You can use magic?”

Rain was surprised by a misunderstanding, so I corrected her.

“No, I just want to learn how to make magical tools”

“Oh, I see. But why do you want to make magical tools?”

I took out the adventurer card that the adventurer guild recently implemented and I told her my goal to figure out a way to make magical tools, like the card I was holding, that can be used by normal people who can’t use magic.

After seeing the adventurers guild card, I wonder if I could replicate something similar to it.

“That’s a big goal to have."

“Ya, don’t worry I’ll come back by if there is an opportunity to do so”

As we walked, for some reason something seemed off. Usually there would be more people traveling along the road but there were only a few.

Then I spotted an adventurer running, no sprinting down the road.

“Help!”

The guy was gasping between breaths as he stopped in front of us.

“There… there's a direwolf.”

Rain and I were surprised, hardly believing what we heard from the guy. There shouldn’t be any dangerous monsters near us since this is Farborrow, a beginner adventurers town, so they only have low level monsters, especially direwolves which are B rank monsters.

No, he said it was a single direwolf, so it goes down to a C rank monster which is only rank B because of them always staying in packs. It led to the question of why there is a direwolf separate from its pack.

“I… I need to get help, for everyone so they won’t die”

With that, the guy continued running with even more desperation in his eyes.

“Rain go help him. I’ll go help deal with the direwolf”

I didn't get much information from him, but he probably sent to get help from his party and there are people already fighting the direwolf right now.

“Why? I’m coming with you. I can help"

“No, you’ll only get in the way. It would be faster if you go with him to get help”

Rain was contemplating it and decided to do what I said.

“Alright”

I ran in the opposite direction of the guy as he continued to sprint to town, with Rain running to follow him.

As I ran, I began imagining the worst case scenario, expecting dead bodies and blood everywhere.

I heard people fighting and somebody shouting out orders, so I ran even faster till I saw around 15 adventurers managing to fend off the direwolf that was the size of a horse on their own.

They were dealing with the direwolf decently and thankfully nobody is dead, some look like they are injured but it doesn’t look life threatening.

Their strategy looks to be attacking the direwolf in pairs to get its attention, while another pair attacks it and have it switch its attention to them. There were also 3 people in the back row helping by shooting arrows at it.

Running as fast as I could, taking out a knife, I saw that one of them was about to be bitten down the massive jaws of the direwolf, so I threw it at the direwolf from roughly 30 meters away.

My knife managed to hit its head and lodge itself into the direwolf’s forehead, causing it to miss the adventurer it was about to bite.

I wanted to end this quickly, so I ran past the adventurers that surrounded the direwolf, jumped on the back and thrusted my sword into the back of its neck.

However I didn't expect how tough the thing’s pelt was, my blade barely pierced through its pelt.

The direwolf began thrashing around, while I was desperately trying to hold on, not letting go.

In the end I couldn’t hold on and was thrown off. I rolled on the ground and landed next to what I presume the leader of the group since he was shouting out orders.

I got up, quickly checking myself if I had any injuries.

“You okay?”

He asked if I was okay, he was an average looking guy with equipment that looked slightly better than the others.

“Ya and I think you could need the extra help”

“I’m Neil, thanks for the help”

While we were talking, Neil had commanded the other adventurers to keep the Dire wolf at bay.

“I’m Nyx, what do I need to do?”

“Just help us distract it”

It shouldn't be a problem since I just piss it off by stabbing it in the neck.

The Dire wolf ignored the other adventurers' attempts to hold it off and went charging at me.

Neil and I jumped away to get out of its jaws as it tried to sink its fangs at me. I slashing at its underbelly as I dodge to the side to see if it would hurt it. From my experience fighting kaijus in my past life, most kaiju have a weak under belly, so I wonder if it would also work the same.

Plus the monster's encyclopedia book I’d read only just says direwolves' pelts are really tough to pierce or cut through, which doesn’t say what or where are its weaknesses. It works but the slash was shallow and wasn’t deep enough.

I continued dodging its lunges at me for a bite, trying to find an opportunity to attack its under belly or leg, so I can try to immobilize it somewhat since my slashes at its under belly doesn’t do enough damage.

As I have the agro focus solely on me, Neil orders the adventurers in pairs to attack it. For some reason I am the only one that is somewhat hurting it, the others are barely even harming it.

Now it was Neil’s turn to attack.

“Zack, now!”

He ordered an adventurer that was holding a spear, who he was familiar with, which I’m guessing is somebody in his party, to attack the Dire wolf together with him, while I distracted it.

However the wolf had gotten used to Neil’s strategy, switching its focus from me to them, then immediately lunged at Mark instead of me without much warning and bore its fang onto Mark.

I could hear his bones being crushed by the Dire wolf as Mark was screaming in pain.

“Zack!!!!”

Seeing Zack was in the jaws of the direwolf, Neil lost his reasoning and rushed in to try to get Zack released from the direwolf, but Neil was flown back by the direwolf shaking Zack violently side to side in its jaws like a toy, then threw Zack’s body away.

The group was frozen, staring at Zack's lifeless corpse and the blood dripping out of the direwolf mouth, after watching someone getting killed in front of them.

“AHHHH!!!!”

Some of them screamed and some had their legs give out from fear and fell to the ground. However there was one who shouted.

“You bastard!”

God dammit, one idiot rush in with anger and grief all over his face

“No, stay back!”

I shouted at him to stay back but he didn’t listen and blindly charged at the Dire wolf.

Taking out one of my throwing knives from my belt and I threw it to get its attention.

The knife hit one of its right eyes as it was about to bite that idiot. I ran in and shoved the idiot out of the way as the direwolf nearly got me.

I got its attention now and I pissed it off even more. Thinking of a plan, the others would not be much help fighting it and they will probably get killed.

Their weapons can’t hurt it and looking at them right now they are still frozen in fear or shock right now after seeing somebody die.

I think that I should deal with it alone, having it chase me through the forest and leading it away from them is best.

The Dire wolf snarled at me and was readying to charge. Just as I wanted, I began running away into the forest as I was being chased.

“Nyx, wait, where are you going”

It seems Neil regains some sense of reason as he gets up.

“I’m dealing with it, don’t follow”

As I ran through the forest, I sigh then a smirk appears thinking it would be a very dumb idea. I kinda expected I was going to be in a life or death fight as an adventurer. It’s nothing really new compared to my past life but the only difference was that I’m alone and not in Aais fighting a giant Kaiju.

Man… if Norn was here, she would be really jealous of me fighting this thing right now.