"You can evolve?!" Zaroth shouted in astonishnt as he looked at Silverfang.
It seed that his wolf had decided he had torn off enough of the bear's throat, as he looked at his master with a bloodied face and tilted his head in confusion.
"I guess it makes sense that you have no idea what I'm talking about," Zaroth muttered as he patted Silverfang on the head.
"Nevertheless, good job!" Zaroth praised with a smile.
His wolf wagged his tail in excitent as he let out a few happy barks.
"But to be honest, that was one weird wish… Really? All you wanted was to kill the bear?"
Zaroth was having a hard ti believing that Silverfang had such a simple wish.
Seeing the confusion on his master's face, Silverfang pointed with his paw to the cave.
"What is sothing there?" Zaroth asked as he squinted his eyes, trying to see what his wolf was pointing towards.
A mont later, his eyes widened in realization.
A smaller wolf than the others appeared—most likely female—and behind her were a few pups.
Zaroth shifted his head to the dead wolves and suddenly understood why they charged at the bear with no regard for their lives.
"They were trying to protect the pups…" he muttered under his breath.
Now it also made sense why they were carrying part of their prey back, it was so the mother of the pups would be able to eat.
The female wolf looked at her dead pack, then at Silverfang and Zaroth.
She seed hesitant to move forward, but her pups didn't seem scared in the slightest as they all dashed toward Silverfang.
"So your wish wasn't to kill a creature similar to the one that killed your pack, but to prevent the extermination of another?" Zaroth muttered as he glanced at the pups that had begun to play with Silverfang.
Zaroth had begun to feel respect for his wolf. "That is so honorable wish…" he admitted.
"But how the hell do I activate your evolution?" he asked in confusion. It wasn't like the system would return to explain the details, it seed to appear only when it felt like it and disappear a mont later.
'I think you have to desummon him,' Luna's voice echoed in his mind.
"Huh… that actually makes a lot of sense," Zaroth admitted as he desummoned Silverfang and let him rest in his soul.
Imdiately after, he heard the system again,
[Silverfang evolution in progress]
"Well, that seems to take care of the issue," he spoke as he glanced at the dead wolves on the ground.
"Let's see how many of you would be willing to serve ," he took a step forward and placed his hand on the closest wolf to him.
[Wolf judges your soul.]
[You have killed my killer, you have saved my kind.]
[Wolf responds to your call.]
[Wolf forms a pact with you.]
[You have ford a contract with Wolf.]
Zaroth's eyes shined a darker shade of green as the wolf's body shuddered before it slowly stood up. The wolf hadn't been dead for a long ti, so with the exception of the wounds on its body, it didn't look like it was undead.
"Success!" Zaroth exclaid as he patted the wolf on the head.
Even though the creature was almost two tis smaller than Silverfang, it was still a wolf, and it was sure going to co in handy later.
"It seems that saving their kind as well as killing their killer gives more chance to resurrect them," he ca to the conclusion as he licked his dry lips and smiled darkly.
"I wonder how many of them would decide to serve ?"
*****
"Five out of five," he muttered in disbelief. Out of the five wolves that he could ta, he managed to bring them all back from the dead.
"This expedition has been a complete success…" Zaroth muttered under his breath.
Suddenly rembering about the female wolf, he shifted his gaze toward her.
She was looking at her risen pack with confusion and worry in her eyes, while the pups began to play with the resurrected wolves without a worry in the world.
It seed they still lacked the ability to tell what was dangerous for their lives and what wasn't.
"You look like a strong wolf, so I'm sure you'll be able to raise them on your own without a problem. Plus…"
Zaroth glanced at the body of the bear.
"That big boy will keep you fed for a long ti."
He concluded that he didn't have much to do, so he began to head back to the capital, but the wolves he had tad didn't follow. They just stared at him.
"What is it? Are you the rebellious type?" he asked.
In response, one wolf, the one that the pups had gathered around, grunted.
'Was it their father?' Zaroth wondered.
"You want to stay?" he asked.
In reply, the wolf barked, as if affirming his guess.
Zaroth massaged his eyebrows, deep in thought.
'Should I leave him? Sure, keeping him summoned would put pressure on my mana core, even if it's minimal…'
'But then again, wasn't this the reason I needed another beast in the first place? After all, the more pressure on my core, the stronger it will beco… Plus, I'm wondering what will happen if I keep my beast summoned for a long ti.'
Having made his decision, Zaroth looked at the wolf with a grin.
"Alright, you can stay."
It seed his decision had boosted the morale of the pack, as they all wagged their tails happily.
Zaroth's gaze shifted between the female wolf and what he presud to be her partner.
'I wonder how she's feeling? She just saw her entire pack be murdered, only to be resurrected a few monts later,' he thought.
When she looked at her partner, did she see him as she did before, or was he sothing entirely different now? Would she accept him for who he was, or would she keep her distance, feeling like he wasn't technically alive anymore?
So many questions. Zaroth could decide to stay and observe from a distance to see how things would proceed, but honestly, he was kind of over the whole forest thing, and he really wanted to take a shower. So, he didn't pay much thought to the wolves.
He stretched out his hands behind his back and let out a satisfied sigh.
"Well, I hope you get along," Zaroth spoke as he began heading back to the capital.
He desummoned all the wolves except the father of the pups and summoned Luna as he began walking.
Luna raised an eyebrow. "You seem happy," she remarked.
"How could I not be?!" Zaroth exclaid, raising his arms wide as a grin spread across his face, his gaze fixed on the sky. "I've just gained five wolves, and Silverfang is evolving in my soul as we speak!"
"I have beco so much stronger, and yet I know it's just the beginning! Killing the gods is slowly becoming a possibility!"
Zaroth's pupils narrowed further, resembling those of a predator.
In that mont, he realized sothing profound. Continue your journey with My Virtual Library Empire
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