Chapter 175 - 169: Wolfbear Hybrid
In the time it took him to come to terms with all the horrible news in the message, Tulland had cancelled the spawning of two more monsters. It was clear he wouldn't be able to keep ahead of that process for long. There were miles of pillars all beginning to shatter and gel into dark, amorphous forms, and only one of him.
"What do we do?" Tulland asked.
"We run. We find the real pillar. And we keep each other safe," Yuri said. "It's our only choice."
They took off running, with Tulland in front and neutralizing anything that got close enough to pose a threat.
"This isn't going to work." The forms were now starting to grow what looked an awful lot like stocky, powerful legs. "How do we find the pillar?"
"None of them look different," Yuri said. "And they don't feel different. Not to me. Necia?"
"No ideas. Except we can't keep running in a straight line," Necia said.
"Why not?"
"Because if we do, and the pillar is something we can only recognize from up close, we might miss it. I don't want to run in the wrong way until it's too late."
Tulland began to curve as the others followed. He wasn't getting anything from his senses either, and the monsters were becoming more and more numerous. He put down as many as he could, sometimes even chopping through the pillars before they broke apart to try to make sure they couldn't later.
Then the monsters started to move. They were like the bears from before, except smaller and tighter-framed, looking almost canine despite still being more ursine than anything else.
| Wolfbear Hybrid Some kind of jumbled concept driven by the explosion of chaotic power and the general warp the blight brings to all things, the Wolfbear keeps the most effective parts of each beast while fully breaking balance with a beast that's as fast and strong as the better half of each. As you have already seen, they fall to damage only slightly greater than their standard, unmixed forms would. The larger problem is the seemingly infinite amount of them this room seems ready to produce. While not literally without end, there are enough to overwhelm you if you take more time than necessary to find a way to resolve this matter.
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