Reincarnated as a dragon’s egg ～Lets aim to be the strongest～

Chapter 462

462 – Fenrir Counterattack

I continue to watch the three shadows carefully. Should I attack first? No, there’s three of them. I can’t afford to make any careless moves.

I clear my mind and calmly breathe in.

“GuuOOOOOOOOh!”

I [Roar] at the shadows. As though lured out by my voice, one of them steps forward.

“Giiiii!”

The beast prowling towards me is the same fenrir I met by the river, its back still bloody, and its four eyes burning with rage.

In other words… The other two are also fenrirs!?

“GiiOOOO!” “GiiAAAAah!”

After the first fenrir emerges, the other two show quickly themselves. Four sinister eyes loom above each of their pitch black bodies.

Aren’t fenrirs supposed to eat everything in an area and then move on!? Why are they getting along so well?! Fight each other already! I suppose the one I killed did have the [Ally Call] skill, but I had thought that it must have been a remnant from a previous evolution.

…I guess this means that this area isn’t a one-sided fenrir hunting ground. There must be B+ to A rank monsters dangerous enough to force them to not be lone wolves.

“GiiOOOOh!”

I twist my body backwards to dodge the bite of the first fenrir. The second launches itself at me in a tackle the moment I move. While keeping the third in my sight, I dodge to the right to avoid the tackle…is what I had planned to do but, underestimating the reach of its arm, the claws of the second tear through my shoulder.

“Guruoh!”

The second fenrir lands neatly and turns to face me, howling in satisfaction. These guys are used to this. They don’t plan on letting me break free of their encirclement. I could easily take a single one of them down if I charged while prepared to take some damage, but if did that, the other two would seize the chance to attack.

They’re swarming me like the red ants of the desert. Though in terms of strength, each of them is about equal to the giant centipede.

“Dragon-god-sama!”

Aro calls out to me.

Aro is B+ rank, but the fenrirs’ average level is 70 while hers is only half that. She has a lead on them in terms of HP and magic so it’s not completely impossible for her to fight, but she’s too far behind in terms of speed. To compensate for that, the only option is for her ride on my head and fire off magic continuously.

“GuuOh!”

I nod slightly. Aro nods back.

“[Gale]!”

Aro’s body is wrapped in wind, and she shoots up to my head.

“It seems I have a role to play this time!”

Volk charges out by himself and swings at one of the fenrirs. The fenrir catches the sword in its claws and swipes him away. The moment he touches the ground, he swings his sword again to release a [Shockwave] towards the face of the giant wolf, before kicking off the ground to close the distance once again, leaping high into the air.

With a look of annoyance, the fenrir lowers its head to dodge the [Shockwave], and then swings its claws at the midair Volk. It appears for a moment as though the claws have pierced his body. But then I see Volk standing atop the fenrir’s arm.

“Gih…”

He runs along the fenrir’s arm and jumps off, landing on the ground. Blood spurts from one its eyes.

“Leave this one to me, I’ll draw its attention.”

Volk grins, then dashes away.

“GiiOOOOOOOOh!”

Its eye wounded, the fenrir gnashes its teeth and chases him… Is Volk really a human?

The two remaining fenrirs exchange a glance and then begin to run in a circle around me. They must want to strike me from a blind spot.

“[Dark Sphere]! [Dark Sphere]!”

From atop my head, Aro fires magic into the path of one of the fenrirs. The black lights explode, kicking up dirt. That’s good, keeping them coming! When you run out, draw from me with [Mana Drain].

As expected of the fenrir’s speed, her attacks aren’t close catching them, but cracks are beginning to appear in their plan.

“Gih…!”

Sensing that their current strategy isn’t working, one of the fenrirs appears about to retreat. But as it begins to move away, Aro’s [Dark Sphere] crushes its escape route, causing it to stop for a second. This can work! I shoot a [Wind Slash] and gouge out the fenrir’s thigh.

“GiAaah!”

The wounded fenrir screams. I immediately charge at the other fenrir.

With its leg injured, the first fenrir shouldn’t be able to attack me right now. I’ll use this chance to take down the second.

The second fenrir seems to hesitate over whether to run away or attack, but with a twitch of its eyelids, it changes its course to head towards me. Nice, its overconfidence is showing!

It kicks off the ground and pivots through the air as it leaps towards me. This one seems to be fond of this kind of attack. It’s taking the simplistic approach of repeating an attack that has worked once before, and is trying to bury its speed disadvantage in the irregular movement of its spin.

But, the situation is different from before. Back then it was three-on-one, and I couldn’t focus entirely on the single fenrir. It’s alone now, and I have Aro with me.

“[Gale]!”

Aro fires wind magic into its path. It stretches out its legs to land and avoid the attack. It was quick to give up. It probably judged that it was impossible to sneak an attack in against me the moment Aro forced it to slow down. But, it should have made that judgement just a little sooner.

“GuuOOOOOh!”

I jump towards the fenrir and tear through its back with my claws. It slumps down, its belly hitting the ground.

“[Dark Sphere]!”

A black bullet of magic flies towards the fenrir’s head. Its skull caves in in a splatter of blood and flesh.

【1076 experience points have been acquired.】

【Due to the title skill [Walking Egg: Lv -], an additional 1076 experience points have been acquired.】

That’s one of the three down. It looks like Aro got a lot of the experience. Her level has risen from 【Lv: 35/85】to【Lv: 39/85】.

Finishing off the last one is a simple task. Having healed its leg with [Autoregeneration], I end up having to chase it a little further than I would have liked, but between me and Aro, we easily accumulate enough medium-range damage against it for me to safely leap in and finish it off.

Covered in blood, Volk returns with a satisfied expression. A while later, I go to collect the three fenrir corpses and butcher them again and hang them with the nightmare’s thread to drain… The cavern entrance has become full of hanging meat, but that can’t be helped. It’s quite the grisly sight.

However… My level didn’t go up this time. The 120s seem to be particularly hard to raise.

I’m surprised that didn’t increase even after killing two high-level B ranks. I only need two more levels to evolve, but it’ll still take a while it seems.

It might be better if I was hurrying a bit more. There’s some risk to it, but it’s possible for me to take on three B ranks at once. Compared to fighting the chaos ooze, the ruin, or Beelzebub, that level of danger is almost nothing. I could leave a fenrir on the verge of death to get it to call for its allies.

The flies’ eyes are obstructed by the poor visibility here, but Lilixira has Laplace. It wouldn’t be strange for her to show up as early as tomorrow. I should to be operating with a little more tolerance for risk. Volk is strong enough for me to be able to rely on him to protect everyone.

We’re in an unknown land, and the visibility here is poor. There’s no telling what monsters will show up. However… The danger that Lilixira poses is more important. I might have been a bit overly-cautious as a result of narrowly surviving a crisis.