"Beautiful," Zaroth couldn't help but mutter as he took a glance at Crimson Widow's opponent.
Both creatures were of Rare rank, aning there shouldn't have been a significant gap between them. The spider was a terrifying sight—nacing and dangerous. One look at it made it clear that this was no ordinary beast, but sothing far more monstrous. In contrast, its opponent…
A srizing orange fur, its white eyes were like the moon themselves. The beast was so clean that it looked like its body was glowing.
An orange fox, its body was smaller than the average wolf, yet even from a distance, Zaroth was able to feel how much power the being had.
How could sothing be so beautiful and deadly at the sa ti? He wondered.
As the nacing spider charged, the fox opened its jaws and unleashed a deafening howl. Zaroth was forced to cover his ears from the sheer volu. He had heard Silverfang howl before, but this was on a whole new level.
The audience mimicked his motion and covered their ears as well, while the spider seed taken aback by the loud noise.
Zaroth couldn't help but be impressed, he had read that one of the weaknesses of the Crimson Widow's is its delicate hearing, aning a ear-piercing howl like this would have surely damaged it severely… This was what fascinated Zaroth—it looked like the fox knew the spider's weak spot and managed to capitalize on it imdiately.
Before the spider could even comprehend what had happened, the white eyes of the fox seed to spark, and a second later, the arena was engulfed in flas.
Zaroth, having a dragon at his disposal and capable of using fire attacks, was mostly fine, but a quick glance around the arena showed that a large part of the audience had gotten up from their seats and taken a step or two back out of fear.
The spider's pained scream echoed across the arena as it felt its body being lted.
Not giving the spider a chance for rest, the fox charged, opened its jaws, and bit down on the spider's head.
"Incredible!" Zaroth couldn't help but mutter. The fox had not only moved with lightning speed, but it had also leapt onto the spider's back and sunk its teeth into its head, rendering the spider unable to move or rotate anymore.
The fox's bite was not strong enough to crack the tough exoskeleton, but it wasn't needed, as it seed the incredibly hot fire was enough to cook it from the inside out.
It made a few attempts to reach the fox behind its head, but in the end, it all proved futile.
Its limbs gave out, its eyes dimd with the loss of life, and the spider collapsed to the ground, shaking the arena as it fell.
It was supposed to be a fight between Rare beasts, yet it was so one-sided. How could this be? Zaroth wondered. The stunning fox seed more like an Epic beast than a re Rare.
It took him a mont to snap out of the trance, the fox was too srizing to be just a beast.
Shaking his head off the unneeded worry, he glanced at the body of the spider and then smiled darkly as he saw that there was a certain type of energy coming out of the corpse, indicating that the beast could be resurrected and tad.
"Bingo!" he whispered under his breath, as he licked his dry lips. He was going to acquire the spider today.
He was clearly lucky that the spider had t its match, so he could buy the corpse.
'Still, that fox is incredible…' he had to admit, and looking at the glances the audience was giving the fox, he wasn't the only one that thought this way.
After the fire in the arena subsided, the announcer stepped into the center. A group of wealthy onlookers were already eager to purchase the victorious beast, but their hopes were quickly dashed as the announcer spoke.
"The winner is the fox. Unfortunately, the beast cannot be purchased, as it is the property of Destiny."
'Destiny?' Zaroth silently repeated the na in his head. This was the first ti he had seen soone use their beast to enter the arena. It seed that, unfortunately, he wasn't the exception.
"Still, 'Hollow' sounds much cooler!"
After the audience cald down, the announcer spoke again. "Is there anyone that wishes to buy the body of the Crimson Widow?"
Zaroth observed the arena, waiting to see if sobody was willing to buy the beast. It seed that nobody was interested, and he had to thank the fox for that, because the fox was so strong it made the spider appear weak, so nobody wanted to buy the body.
In the last mont, he raised his hand to indicate that he was buying it.
'I really am lucky, not only I got it, but even for cheap!'
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"I'm not even going to waste ti thinking about whether you'd want to serve ," he said nacingly, placing his hand on the beast.
Its exoskeleton was still hot from the fox's flas, but other than that, its body was fine, aning once it was resurrected, it shouldn't look too undead.
After a mont, he heard a voice in his head—the so-called system, a mystery he had yet to begin deciphering. How it worked remained beyond him.
[Crimson Widow judges your soul.]
[What is your purpose?]
"To take everything I want." Zaroth imdiately answered, he had begun accustod to being asked the question. However, what he hadn't expected was what the spider desired…
'It would probably want to kill the fox or sothing similar,' he thought.
[Crimson Widow desires conquest over the human that killed it.]
Zaroth's words got caught in his throat, as his mind raced.
"...human?" he spoke in disbelief out loud.
'But the spider died by the hand of the fox, not by a human, unless…'
"That fox… it wasn't a beast, but a human in disguise?!"
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