The five of them were easily able to gather the twenty imp monster stones within an hour, and they rushed back towards where Bella and Ava were waiting for them. Both Rosie and Anna were astonished at Xavier's and Mickey's strength and calmness when it came to hunting monsters, something that quite a bit of the prisoners lacked. Maria was left feeling useless the entire time, as her newly acquired weapon proved useless.
"Make sure that no one steals our shit, alright." Xavier said to Mickey as he carried two of the bags and the weapons. Even with how high his strength attribute was, he was barely able to carry that much with no problem. The girls carried the other bags and Xavier handed the monster stones to them.
"Yeah, I got it." Mickey said and he and the four girls left towards the Sanctuary.
"Let's go." Xavier said and started walking
"Aren't we gonna kill more imps?" Rosie asked when she saw the direction he was walking in
"No, I still want to see how powerful the wolves are." Xavier said, and after an hour of walking, they started to encounter trees with red leaves and thick red bushes everywhere. Xavier looked up and he could see a yellow mango like fruit above.
"Be careful, those wolves are good at hiding and they are even better at launching sneak attacks." Rosie said, gripping her sword and Maria loaded an arrow into her bow. As they walked, Xavier heard the sound of a twig snap, and looked behind him, but he didn't see anything.
"What is it?" Maria asked
"Nothing." Xavier said and continued to look behind him for a few seconds before he continued walking.
"Ok, where are all the wolves? We should have ran into a few by now." Rosie said with a frown, after walking for thirty minutes.
"Let's just continue moving." Xavier said and after fifteen more minutes, they heard the sound of fighting ahead. Xavier quickly gestured for them to hide, and up ahead, they could see Tsubasa, wielding an axe, fighting against a large black wolf with glowing red eyes and fangs that looked like they were made of iron. Above it's head were the words Iron Fanged Wolf E-. He was laughing like a madman as he fought the giant wolf and around him, were others fighting against the smaller wolf variantd, the Savage Wolves F+. Xavier could tell they were at it for a while as there was blood and corpses everywhere, corpses of both people and monsters.
"I've seen enough, let's go." Xavier said and he prepared to leave, when they all heard a terrifying howl, which made Xavier shiver, and he turned around. Both Maria and Rosie were frozen in place, trembling with horrified expressions on their faces.
"Come on let's go." Xavier said, but they didn't move and he looked at them confused. He poked their cheeks and they still didnt move, and so he turned towards the battlefield. He watched in horror as the wolves tore into the flesh of the frozen humans, except for Tsubasa.
"Damn it." He shouted before smacking the giant wolf in the face and making his escape. The paralysis soon wore off though, and the members of the Rising Dragons screamed as the wolves finished them off.
"What the-" Rosie shouted, but Xavier quickly covered her and Maria's mouth. He slowly pointed towards the wolves and all of them looked at the scene in horror, as the wolves ate the humans.
"You guys should get out of here." Xavier said
"Us? Don't tell me you plan to fight them on your own?" Maria asked with a frown
"Yep, that howl didn't affect me. And that's a literal treasure trove of wolves." Xavier said, as he looked at the ten wolves whose monster stones were still inside their body, and the remaining six wolves that were munching on human flesh.
"I'm not leaving." Maria said
"But if that thing howls again, you'll die." Xavier said
"And I might die tomorrow as well. What difference does it make." Maria retorted and Xavier looked at her weirdly
"Aren't you two cute?" Rosie said and Maria blushed
"What about you?" Xavier asked
"I'm staying as well. I want a share of the monster stones and we might be able to collect those weapons." Rosie answered and Xavier sighed.
"Alright, let's kill some wolves." Xavier said