"What are you two looking at? I see nothing in front of you. And yet, you and rleen are fiddling with sothing that I don't know!!! Are you keeping secrets from ? Because if you do, I will pulverise you into pieces!"
That puzzling reaction from Fenrir made realise she did not have a system. The villagers, too, were not wary about this system and the upgrades they should have. If I had not introduced those powers to those people, maybe we wouldn't have had a chance of fighting Uruk-hai.
That event reminded of the past. And now, I had the power to share it with Fenrir. I just needed to guide this overpowered hound girl to fight by my side throughout this journey.
It was a wish reaching for the stars.
"I can share the system with you, Fenrir. Just promise not to use that power against ," I asked, and waved my hand, activating the set-up from the system.
All I had to do was add Fenrir to my party, just like what I did to the Morgana Family. When I added Afenos and Rain to my party, those pairs imdiately received their shared powers. The system appeared in their eyes, showering them with massive arcane.
However, when I nearly died and fell from the cliff, that party got severed, kicking out from the team. We had no other ans to contact each other, and the friend's system refused to work until now.
If I could apply the sa theory to Fenrir, that wolf girl would also get the system. And since she was not a villain in my eyes, I believed Fenrir would take the right path of justice Well, as long as she would stay by my side.
"System? Additional power? Why do I need one of those, and why do I have such ability, Arthur?" Fenrir asked, but I couldn't give her my answer.
I knew little about the system in this world. All I did was apply everything I learned from the ga while knowing that this world beca mine.
"I will explain later once I give you the system," I announced.
After a brief silence, Fenrir nodded her head and replied, "what should I need to do? Since I could sense powerful magic surrounding you despite your... weak aura, I will trust you, Arthur."
Those words ant a lot to since nobody from my previous life trusted . It was as if that phrase beca the saving grace of my brain.
The system finally blared a high-pitch sound, telling that the party request went out successfully. After a few seconds, the translucent window appeared before everyone, surprising the wolf girl beside .
"What's that, Arthur?" Fenrir asked, as she pulled out her claws and prepared to launch an attack.
Fenrir had the eyes of a tiger despite being with the sa species of a dog. She growled at the floating box, expecting sothing horrible to happen to her. The only thing that stopped Fenrir from using force was my hand blocking her view.
"Hold it, Fenrir. That box you're using is the system. And you can't destroy the system, since it belongs to you and inside your mind," I explained, while analyzing the texts written on the party set-up.
"My what?"
Thousands of question marks appeared above Fenrir's head, wondering the aning behind the blank square. Within a few monts, the box filled itself with words, confirming sothing to her.
[Congratulations! You added Fenrir as your Comrade and a Party mber!]
[You need at least ONE mber to complete the party set-up!]
[Arthur Wyllt- Leader (Knight)]
[rleen Sylvestris- Partner (Mage?)]
[Fenrir Cavall- Comrade (Lycanthrope)]
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The sa old texts with their design welcod our eyes as they popped up before us. These words already appeared when I introduced the system to rleen. It was as if the system knew that I would need more party mbers to stop sothing throughout my journey.
But I pushed those pessimistic thoughts aside and focused more on the present.
Fenrir received a different title compared to rleen. That wolf girl had "comrades" beside her na. I could only think that the system thought of her as my friend from our recent exploration. However, little did this system know that she just joined the party. And Fenrir never treated as her equal or a friend.
If I had to put it in words, that wolf girl thought of as a decaying food on her plate.
Fenrir also received extraordinary statistical power. That wolf already had the power to kill the mightiest foes I could ever think of. And yet, the system granted her more arcane, statistical power, and status points in her identifications. I could only hunch that she was now three tis stronger than her usual self.
However, the problem was that I could not see through her identity. My system obstructed my eyesight every ti I tried viewing my party's information. I even tried that to rleen, but it did not work.
"W-Wha?!" Fenrir gasped, as she tried waving her hands, shooing those boxes away from her.
That girl looked like a dog having fun with a toy given by her owner. But if I told that to Fenrir, I better prepare my death wish and pack everything I owned inside my bag.
As soon as Fenrir realised she could not get the boxes, she stopped and rested on the ground. Even in this situation, that wolf girl still acted tough, telling us she did not break a sweat.
"Is this the power that you talked about, Arthur?" Fenrir asked.
I gave her a nod.
"I gave you that boost since you'd accompany us throughout our journey And you don't seem to be a villain in my eyes, considering that you're a mother of... four puppies?"
That last sentence I said ca out as a question, not a declarative sentence. Fenrir widened her eyes upon hearing my phrase.
"What do you an by 'mother'?" she asked. "Are you talking about the ti you tried to play the hero with the rcenaries-which I did not need your help?"
Fenrir had a sharp tongue when talking. She would always spout whatever ca inside her mind, letting everyone know her thoughts without giving a damn.
And that theory I deduced turned out to be the wrong one. Fenrir was not a mother even though she had puppies by her side. It was from the first event we t inside the dark arcane forest.
"Then why do you have puppies beside you?" I asked.
"It's because I'm training them to kill This world is going to experience famine, and I need to let those puppies learn how to kill! But I underestimated my powers, and got cornered by those bastards.. They took three of the puppies Those were my warriors! They. Nevermind."
Fenrir cut off her sentence and stord ahead. rleen shouted for her na and went after her. rleen also told she did not want Fenrir wandering on her own inside this village.
And around an hour, the world would soon cover itself with the night sky once more.
"Let her be We will look for her later, okay?" I suggested, and caressed rleen's crazed hair.
rleen trusted my words while nodding her head. That mage girl flashed a faint smile as she looked at the road Fenrir ran off.
From the world I knew before, people did not want to get their pride trampled by others. When I brought up the fight between the rcenaries and her, Fenrir did not wish to accept that she lost that battle. If it were not for , maybe Fenrir would have badly injured herself with the puppies wiped out from existence.
According to her story, Fenrir lost three puppies before rleen and I appeared in the fray. When Fenrir said that, a sting in my heart reminded to feel it again. I blad myself for coming to her aid late.
"If only I rushed towards that area... maybe I could have saved her?" I kept pondering inside my brain, imagining reversing the events.
However, that part already happened. And Fenrir could not accept that she was getting less powerful every passing day. I could only guess that stress and the famine hit her hard like a truck.
After five minutes, I urged rleen to look for Fenrir. Those minutes might have been enough for Fenrir to self-reflect on her actions. I did not want Fenrir to bla herself too. So rleen and I needed to comfort her when we would see her.
"Speak of the devil," I murmured.
Fenrir's figure welcod my eyes as she stood in the forest's depths. As rleen and I approached the shape, the eerie background howled through our minds. It was as if we went inside a haunted house in the middle of nowhere.
And the ghost was... Fenrir herself, pressing our dreadful thoughts. She showed her true coloures behind that dark fur.
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