The Pack

After they had roped me into their journey immediately started heading off into the forest. When walking out of the sect they all looked at me with slightly bewildered eyes. Yao Ya was the one who waved me down when she saw me. They all hurriedly asked about the change in my body shape. Although everyone else reached that level as well it seems my change was the most drastic out of everyone's.

While we were walking on the dirt roads Qiu Tu slowed down until she was next to me. Her body seemed to have changed as well. From her arms which showed from her sleeves their muscles were further defined.

"How was your cultivation? Even now I feel like that change of yours is just too much."

"It was actually great and I even got up to the 3rd level from that. As for the change I don't really know why I was so different."

"Whoa! You're already in the third level? I'm still at the second, but weren't you only at the first level a few days ago? how did you find those strands so quickly? It's like finding buried treasure without any land marks."

"To be honest I don't really even know I just kinda found them quicker then usual. Maybe it was because of fighting those guys from the day before."

"Hmm.. Is that it? I should go take more of those missions next time then." She said while speeding up back to the front of the group

As she went forward Rao Nuan came backward taking up her previous spot.

"𝘚𝘰.. 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘸𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘴. 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘺 𝘮𝘦?" She whispered slightly sensually into my right ear.

"Uh.. um.. what do you want from me?" I asked leaning away from her.

She frowned a little before telling me something and going back up. "Hmm.. Well I can't think of anything right now, I'll tell you when I do though."

"What? Then why did you bring it up?"

'This woman really just came to me to tell me I owe her something in the future. is she hanging this favor of hers over my head?'

"Just to remind you that you're in debt to me. Anyway would you mind holding me?"

"I don't think I should, Yao Ya-"

She interrupted me with a pout, "What about her? You aren't in a relationship with her, are you?"

"Well no, but-"

"Then it's fine isn't it? Alight then, since you won't hold me I'll hold you. Are you happy now?" She placed her left hand around my waist while putting her right hand on my chest and head on my right shoulder.

Right at that moment Yao Ya had turned around to see Rao Nuan wrapping around me. Immediately she stopped in place an walked over to us.

'GOD DAMN IT! What is that timing! It had to be the moment she finished too so Yao Ya doesn't even know how long I've been like this!'

"It's not what it looks likes I swear!" I begged in a pleading tone.

Instead of yelling at me like I thought she would she instead came over to my left side placed both of her hands around my neck to reach the other side and pushed Rao Nuan's head off my shoulder.

"He's mine, you can't have him." Yao Ya said sternly while peeling off the rest Rao Nuan's limbs from my body.

"Sharing is caring you know, you can't have him all to yourself!" Rao Nuan said in a cheeky tone while grabbing a hold of my right arm.

"I don't care, besides why do you even want him? You haven't even known him for half a month!"

"Of course that's just because it's true love! I fell the moment I saw him and now especially!"

'Now especially? Does she mean now that I'm not fat?'

"..."

A male voice came from ahead "Hey we're almost at the cave so can you three get ready for the upcoming fight, instead of arguing over something?"

After saying that the two let go of me seemingly finding a common ground and pulled out their weapons getting ready for the up and coming fight.

Unsheathing my sword I ready a Qi strengthening inscription and hide it in my sleeve just incase the battle gets out of hand.

Getting close enough I could see one of the beasts we're going to fight. It looked just like a normal wolf except there was a single red stripe stretching from it's tail to the top of it's head. That was really the only distinguishing feature about this creature.

The description of the quest was to go over to the den and wipe out the elemental wolf pack that lived there. They should all be of the fire element type and have the ability to spit out a few fireballs.

After we were all ready we charged into the cave and started the battle against them. Soon after heading in we saw the whole pack staring back at us. There seemed to be around 23 pairs of eyes rapidly approaching. When we saw how many there were everyone slowly backed up and Hu Daquan even tried to run away while we distracted them. His steps stopped only a second later and as I turned around to see where he ran off to another 7 pairs of eyes could be seen blocking our exit.

Everyone would have to fight at least 5 of the fire wolves since there was 6 of us. This seems like a place where our ultimate ability had to be used, it's not like there should be many people nearby in these forests right, maybe? The only problem was that Hu Daquan doesn't the ability and Liang Jia probably couldn't just carry his weapon around everywhere he went. Only the girls and I probably have our weapons with us which I just confirmed with them. When things get really bad we decided that we'll just pull it out.

The first wolf charged at us while opening it's mouth. A small flame could be seen from the back of its throat, quickly expanding and being forcefully ejected towards us. The the little fireball that was shot out after 10 seconds was the size of a tennis ball. As the fireball got close someone slashed it in half making the both halves disappear. Soon after the wolf came and was promptly killed by everyone ending the scuffle in less then a dozen seconds.

'Why didn't the other ones try and help him? That wolf was decimated by us.'

A moment of silence appeared after the death of the wolf before every other wolf howled and growled. After which every single one started started charging their fireballs aiming at us.

We were still in the middle of cave and a place where there was no cover what so ever. As the 29 wolves has us trapped in the middle we had to break out. There were only 7 wolves around the entrance so I decided to use our ultimate weapon.

Shoving my hand into my robe I took out our savior. With our ultimate weapon in my hand I aimed it towards the wolfs near the entrance. With my index finger placed on a slightly curved extension I pulled on it.

*BANG* *BANG*

Our Ultimate Weapon!

=GUN!=

"We have to escape their ambush, come on back outside!"

A moment later the three others with guns pulled them out as well and started shooting while running towards the light.

We had almost reached the exit and had killed the guard wolves blocking us, but the fireballs shot out before we could all escape. As I turned around I saw a wall of flames closing in on us. But the wall wasn't flawless, there were plenty of openings and space to dodge to. It was whether or not we chose to do something.

Everyone tried to do something though whether it be dodging, blocking, or just attacking. I had chosen to attack as the memory of someone slashing the fireball in half was still pretty vivid in my mind.

Slashing one directly in the center it split in half and disappeared into nothingness, but there were still 3 quickly enclosing in on me. I slashed another and dodged one, but the final one hit my left leg burning up part of my robe as well.

As we got out I turned to the others, but miraculously they seemed to of not been hit by any of them. The most they had was just a small missing burnt patch on their robes like Liang Jia's robe sleeve.

As we exited the cave we immediately dove for some cover behind trees and started returning fire of a different variety into the cave. After changing my mags for the first time the others had to reload too. As we stopped shooting the wolves suddenly came running out, but only 7 came out from the cave. The rest must of died from the small hail of lead we shot in there.

The 7 split up so everyone only had to fight one. Well except me apparently, who had to fight against two of them by myself. Standing up I emptied my new mag into one of them taking him down. Putting away my gun I gripped my sword preparing for it's attack.

The wolf leaped forward towards my arm. As I had anticipated a bite attack I stepped back just far enough for the wolf to miss it's leaping attack.

Thinking that a vertical slash downward would be easily dodged I swiped horizontally. It's reflexes were quick and jumped back out of reach before the blade reached it.

It lunged forward once again looking like it was going to try the same attack, but this time It opened it's maw and a quickly forming spark appeared. Realizing the distance between us if I didn't kill it soon I would have to take the full brunt of his attack.

Instead of trying to leave it's range I charged it and readied my sword into a stabbing motion. The wolf unable to change direction mid air watched as it landed right onto the tip of my sword. The sword pierced through the beast's head through it's open mouth.

The flame within it's mouth slowly disappeared into thin air as the body of the animal quickly became limp.

Pulling my bloodied weapon out of it's head I had a thought. Perhaps I start to cut into the creature to see if there are any valuables in them. In novels before there were sometimes monster cores which were expensive, but even if I did I wouldn't know what to look for and being covered in blood with nothing to show for it wouldn't feel good.

As I finished looking at the body I looked around and saw the last of them being taken care of.