Supreme Warlock System

16 Hunt

Jerouch's ears burned with anticipation as he watched Karah make some weird hand movements.

'' Learning how to control your mana should be your priority. '' Karah muttered, waving her chain while twirling along with it in sync. 

'' Too much mana and you will drain yourself quickly, and too little mana and you will get an undesirable effect. '' She spoke at the top of her voice jumping into the air, making an upward slash. 

Space vibrated and Jerouch could feel his visceral trembling. Just her casual waves were causing so much disturbance. 

' Is there something like that? '' Jerouch thought. ' All he knew was to activate a skill and the system would take over the rest. 

Some parts of him were telling him not to be overly reliant on the system but he shrugged. Who was he even kidding, the system gave him that power, without it, he was just a vegetable. 

Not that he felt great about it but duh, who cared? 

' I can't imagine the pain of tracking and controlling the right amount of mana for each spell, ' he said to himself while wearing the facade that he was interested in learning. 

He also joined her and activated the two skills a couple of times until he got a look of approval from Karah. 

'' It seems you're not totally braindead alas. '' Karah nodded a few times. '' Your mana control is really fine, if not too fine for someone at your rank. '' She complimented. 

'' If only she knows. '' Jerouch laughed in his head, maintaining a surprised and satisfied look. 

'' They said the fastest way to advance in rank is to expose oneself to danger. '' Karah laughed cheekily. 

Seeing that laugh, Jerouch could swear that she was concocting something crazy. His heart raced not out of fear, but rather that of excitement. 

If he could find another alternative to advance besides what the system had for him, then he would gladly accept it. 

'' There's a wolf den if we move a hundred meters in our three o'clock direction. '' Karah pointed in the distance and Jerouch squinted his eyes to try and get a clue, but the tall trees were obstructing his vision. 

'' Their alpha, a monster at the B rank, was the one we saw earlier. '' She mentioned casually as though it means nothing. 

Jerouch drew in a cold breath and held it. Not until his face turned purple did he remember to release his breath else he suffocate himself.  

' B rank? A fucking B rank! ' He thought and his eyes glimmered. 

' Just who have I got myself mixed up with? ' He wondered before shrugging. 

' I'm stuck with her already, so fsr everything is good anyways. '

'' There. '' Karah pointed forward. 

Jerouch, on looking in the direction where her finger was pointing, could see an open terrain with moderately thick shrubs and sparse tall trees. There were also hills that spanned around the terrain and the air there felt less humid compared to the thick forest they were coming from. 

'' Wolf are very sensitive to mana, and they could've sensed us, but I've removed our presence. '' Karah explain to which Jerouch only nodded. 

'' The mouth of this terrain is where the low rank wolves stay and going further ahead, you will start meeting those in the D rank and C rank. ''

'' So… '' Karah gave him a knowing look which he caught up too quickly. 

'' I'll block the D rank wolves and above while you play with the rest, fair enough, right. '' karah opened her perfectly set white teeth as she finished speaking. 

'' Woosh! '' 

Karah's figure vanished and the wind blew Jerouch's robe and hair. 

Breathing in, he took a step forward and then another until he entered far into the terrain. 

'' Howll! '' 

Jerouch crept as he heard the howl of a wolf a couple of distances away. 

The wolf had brown fur and it reached a height of a meter and a half. 

[Generating subquest- clear the low rank wolves]

[Reward]

Random skills. 

'' Here comes the sweetest part hehe.  '' Jerouch chuckled. 

'' Earth spike. '' He muttered in a hushed tone. 

Even though the wolf was at the F rank, it could still sense Jerouch from such a close perimeter but even at that…

Before the wolf could jump and evade the incoming attack, the ground beneath him transformed and five thick, sharp spiked sprouted piercing its belly and limbs. 

'' Whhll. '' The wolf cried but it was of no use as he soon collapsed to the ground. 

His cry though had alerted the others and they started marching out. 

'' Dumb me. '' Jerouch cursed silently. '' I should've finished him before he had the chance to alert others. Can't you just die peacefully? '' He eventually rose from his hidden position since that wasn't necessary anymore. 

The wolves could sense him anyways. 

'' One, two, three… '' Jerouch counted the wolves in his head. 

''Thirty-one. '' He exhaled.  '' And nine in the E ranks. ''

Jerouch's perception now was high enough to read the nana fluctuations of anything above the D rank, so spotting the E rank wolves took him little effort. 

'' Cripple the head and the limbs will follow. '' Jerouch uttered. 

'' Tremor. '' 

He whispered. He could feel the ground vibrating and the confusion among the wolves. 

'' Here we go. '' He jumped forward and got ready for action.

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