Chapter 1745 - 1031: Who Do You Think Invaded Us?

To describe the adventurers’ feeling right now.

It’s like seeing a character who was originally green and friendly suddenly turn red and displays a health bar, yet everyone is clueless about why it turned out like this.

Could it be because Chaos demonstrated some Abyss Magic?

But why didn’t it attack earlier and instead chose to do so now?

Maru immediately spread her hands to show that she had no hostile intentions and said, "Wait a minute, there must be some misunderstanding."

Talking to beasts may seem awkward, but this is the Sain Dungeon, and she prefers to believe that the monsters here can understand human language. The Pokemon in the food area are living examples; she even suspects that some Pokemon have higher intelligence than humans.

Tami picked up his sword and shield, guarding against the young wolf without letting his guard down despite its juvenile status.

After all, everyone has seen its swift combat stance among Abyss Monsters. This creature is on par with an Elite Monster.

"I always feel this isn’t the normal development path," he said to his companions nearby, "We must have done something wrong."

"How could we have done something wrong? Isn’t it obvious!" the magician cried out.

Indeed, thinking about it now, the only reason the young wolf appears here in a hostile manner must be due to Chaos scaring it away with a Dark Bomb earlier.

Chaos scratched his head with a troubled expression.

"Alright, it’s already like this. Let’s just consider ourselves sacrifices to explore the correct route." Tami stopped the others from speaking further.

In the past, if someone in the group made an incorrect move that severed the storyline with a residual shadow character, there would have been much more resentment than now.

However, times have changed, and the version of the Sain Dungeon has been updated. Even if a storyline error occurs with a residual shadow character, it can be reset through the act of extinguishing.

Even if not everyone has the ability to extinguish, at least the choice of "resetting" is before us, making adventurers bolder and more proactive in their exploration.

Now, there’s not much fear about errors in interaction with residual shadow characters.

"We weren’t trying to scare you earlier, you see, we’re also fighting Abyss Monsters, so...." Maru was still trying her best to communicate with the young wolf, regretting that she hadn’t chosen to become a druid who could communicate with nature.

The young wolf didn’t give them a chance to explain.

Its limbs slightly bent, its back arched, and a low growl rolled out from its throat as an unmistakable warning sound, heralding the impending attack.

"Watch out!"

Tami had just issued a warning to Maru, who was increasingly closing in on the young wolf when he saw the wolf propel itself with its hind legs and rush forward like a gust of wind.

Though Maru’s face still showed a look of regret, her hands had already grasped weapons aimed at the young wolf. However, unexpectedly, her Slashing missed—because the wolf actually passed directly by her, heading straight for Tami.

"Is its target actually me? Does it hate me?"

Tami showed a helpless expression and had no choice but to raise his shield to block the opponent, using only a fraction of force in the shield bash, as he was holding back.

Of course, the young wolf dodged his shield bash, countered with a Longsword slashing at Tami, who sidestepped, letting the opponent’s blade graze his bracer and strike the stone wall behind him, the sound causing the surrounding Ulashiro residents to crouch and tremble in fear.

Pebbles dusted out from between its teeth, and the wall surface gained a deep Slashing mark.

The young wolf missed its strike, kicked hard on the wall surface with its four paws, using the counter-force to flip half a circle in the air, clashing swords with the adventurers charging over. Then it landed steadily on the ground, darting to an unoccupied area to avoid the trailing Magic Attack, the whole action smooth as flowing water, with no unnecessary pauses.

This creature isn’t large, but both its combat awareness and agility are precise, evidently honed through extensive training. It’s not a typical beast’s movement but footwork tempered through countless real battles.

Maru tilted her head slightly, and after witnessing the young wolf’s agility up close, she felt a familiarity with those moves. She’s certain she has seen this series of maneuvers before.

Speaking of wolves, especially in relation to the Sain Dungeon, people would immediately think of the Fran Undead Team, right?

"Its fighting style is very similar to the Fran Undead Team." Maru said to those around her.

"Isn’t it the Fran Undead Team that resembles wolves? Their techniques’ inspiration comes from the Wolf pack, doesn’t it?" Tami said, "So, isn’t it normal to resemble wolves?"

"Normal?"

Maru watched the young wolf’s movements, thinking of Dal’s Wolf pack at home. Now, Dal’s Wolf pack has become the symbolizing mascot of Fran Guard, having naturally witnessed scenes of Wolf pack collaborating with Fran Guard in battles.

In her impressions, the techniques Dal uses to train the Wolf pack are similar to what the young wolf is employing now.

The young wolf launched another attack, this time not directly charging at anyone but swiftly weaving between the crowd. Its gray figure created residual shadows in the dim buildings. Its paws landed silently on the debris, with only tiny stones occasionally kicked over rolling down, its goal not to harm but to create chaos.