Chapter 50: Crucible
In the snow-covered dungeon of Fralhame, an unlikely trio treaded. Their group was led by a two-meter-tall black golem. Following close by was an elegant white-haired ghost in a ponytail. Bringing up the rear was massive ten-meter-tall white wolf.
Despite their eccentric combination, no one paid them any attention. How could they? Everything around the vicinity of the three was no longer alive. Even with the sun long setting, the three moons in its place gave excellent visibility.
Corpses littered the fields. None of them in one piece. Body parts of wolves and blood-soaked snow stretched as far as the eye could see. It was not a scene for the faint of heart. But those who remained had already grown desensitized.
"Fluffy, you sure you are fine with me eating all your friends?" Elian asked.
The Snow Wolf Alpha paused for a moment but eventually nodded, "I am sure. To invoke a new expedition, the current one must be eradicated. That’s the only way a new Tyrant can be chosen—at least for Earth."
"For the Celestial Crucible, right? We have been killing thousands of your people. Are you certain you are fine Fluffy?"
"Thank you for your concern, Master. But I am fine. Apart from my parents, the rest of my pack stayed behind. Thinking about it now, we all underestimated the preliminaries. We have been here for equivalent to decades in your time yet accomplished nothing."
"I am starting."
At Elian’s warning, baseball-sized onyx spheres dropped from his back. They all began to melt and formed a black sea. Then without warning the corpses and blood drenched in the fluids all melted at terrifying speeds.
Fluffy made a grim frown as she witnessed the last moments of her fellow wolves. Elian and Bianca knew to keep silent in respect for the departed.
It must be like witnessing another group of humans get killed. You were the same species, but they were technically strangers. I wonder what that would feel like?