Strange didn't she say that she'd lead me to a place where no one could see or hear us? Yet she brought me to a huge square like this. Far from making noise, if anyone so much as looks out the window of their homes we would be noticed.
Before he could ask why Zesshi had chosen this location Lycan noticed that Zesshi had taken out a strange looking glass orb. The orb seemed to radiate a faint red glow with strange markings appearing every now and then within the orb, only to fade away after a while.
Lycan was immediately on guard.
Even though he had a certain level of magic resistance. Against an unknown opponent with an unknown level of magic power he had to be wary.
"Don't worry, this is just a barrier stone that can set up a barrier around this place so we can fight in peace."
Zesshi revealed a mischievous smile as she tightened her grip on the orb, which began emitting a fierce wave of magic energy.
Quickly the wave of energy swept over Lycan and covered the most of the square. What formed was a dome shaped magical barrier that seemed to isolate any sound or light from outside. Fortunately the light of the barrier itself made everything inside clearly visible.
"Hoooh… never seen a magic item like this before. So now we can go wild as much as we want?"
Zesshi simply nodded, confirming what Lycan said. As long as she didn't break the orb or dispel the magic herself, no one would be able to disturb the two of them. Not even other members of the black scripture could easily break into this place.
"Well then since I can't let you go don't blame me if I kill u. consider it your bad luck that you came looking for trouble by yourself. I'm not gonna hold back even though you're just a little gi…"
Lycan couldn't finish his sentence.
Before his very eyes something glistered.
Without him being able to see the precise moment when she began her approach, Zesshi had already closed the distance between the two of them and now within range had swung her war scythe at Lycan with ferocious intensity.
"Guuuh…"
If only due to his instincts, but Lycan was able to narrowly dodge the attack by a hair's breathe. After jumping back quite a distance in order to give him some breathing space Lycan now realized that this girl was not a person to be easily trifled with.
"Attacking me mid-sentence, not a very praiseworthy warrior's spirit you have!"
"Then don't provoke me by saying I'm a little girl, I'll have you know that I'm older than I look. Besides that attack was just a greeting to see what you were capable of."
Zesshi's expression suddenly darkened as a hint of disappointment showed on her face.
"That said, to only be able to narrowly dodge an attack that weak… pathetic. You call yourself a monster? All the warriors on my team could dodge that in their sleep!"
Lycan simply said nothing. This comment of Zesshi only made him form a horrendous smile on his face. The abnormally large canines inside his mouth shone in the artificial light of the barrier and would make many feel a disturbing sense of panic in their hearts.
Zesshi felt it. This man was definitely the source of the bloodlust that she had felt earlier. She didn't know how but she could sense that in a few moments the real fight would begin.
And then…
The human standing before her disappeared. Gone without a trace or sound. What stood before Zesshi was a beast that emitted a murderous aura that caused even her to flinch. In an instant without any slow metamorphosis but faster than one could blink a monster had taken the place of the man. A monstrous crimson haired abomination with fangs and claws the size of daggers and equally sharp. Even though it stood on two legs it carried no hint of being human. Before her stood the monster known as 'werewolf'.
"Werewolf? Impossible! There's no full moon out tonight, no there's no moon out tonight! How on earth can you transform?"
Unsure if this beast even could understand her anymore what she heard was the monstrous voice of a being that had cast off the notion of being even close to human.
"HAHAHA… you humans are all the same, you see one monster and you think you've seen them all. Only low level werewolves require moonlight to transform. I'm no ordinary werewolf, I'm Lycan Thropius the Crimson Werewolf Emperor."
Zesshi was surprised. In history there have been recordings of werewolves that could transform during a full moon and take on a dozen or more armed soldiers.
But this creature radiated a strength far above that.
Looks like after such a long time. I'll be able to enjoy myself tonight
Zesshi readied herself. Now that her foe had revealed his true power the battle was finally on.
With frightening speed, the two charged at each other.
Now that Lycan had transformed, there was no longer any need to be on guard. Even though he had to admit that this human's capabilities were above what he expected, in this form he truly believed that there was no human that could match him.
Zesshi chose to engage her foe head on. Being overly cautious now would only cause her to lose the initiative.
The fierce dash of the two, the razor sharp claws of Lycan collided with the blade of Zesshi's war scythe. A sharp metallic sound was produced followed by a shockwave of power that flung both fighters several meters apart.
Lycan was stunned.
To be able to not only match him but win was simply unbelievable to him.
He had felt it. Beneath the seemingly innocent and cute appearance of this young girl slumbered a lion?
"I have to give you credit you monster. It's been a looong time since anyone has been able to make me use that much strength but you're still below some members of my team how disappointing."
Lycan felt a deep rage in his heart at what Zesshi said. There was a very profound reason as to why despite his high level he fell behind even some of the lower level NPCs of Nazarick in terms of power.
He as an NPC had 80 levels in the racial category which mostly were used to provide passives and resistances and only very few active skills or stat boosts. As such, because he only had five levels in his job category he could be considered a very weak fighter for his level.
But…
In exchange for that sacrifice of strength, Lycan possessed a skill that very few had and was regarded in Yggdrasil as potentially one of the most dangerous in the game.
"Guess I'll have to fight without holding back anything if I want to win."
Lycan took a deep breath as he prepared himself for the next attack…
"Skill activate [summon Pack]"
Immediately from out of his shadow emerged seven black shapes that then assembled in formation in front of Lycan in order to protect him.
These were 'shadow pack wolves', one of the few active skills that Lycan had was due to a racial class of his called 'Pack Leader' that on top of granting resistance against fear to his nearby allies, allowed him to summon seven of these wolves to aid him in battle.
"Hooh so you're actually going to resort to summoning minions to aid you? Cowardly, cowardly."
Zesshi could not help but mock Lycan's actions. In this one on one duel against two warriors he actually dared to summon other creatures. She could only sigh in disdain as these whelps would not be able to put so much as a scratch on her.
"This is a fight to the death, the winner decides what is right and what not!"