Zectas Volume IV: The Salubrious City of Centzo
silent and stood motionless. He couldn't find it in himself to finish off Tracas. Then, the anger in the brown werebear’s eyes started to fade and his body collapsed to the ground.

"Thank you, lord Adder....Horrabelle still holds some children captive...in the crater on Mount Foudre. Please...save...." Tracas spoke his final words in a soft, child’s voice before his life bar displayed zero.

Slowly, Adder knelt down next to Tracas' body and let go of his sword. With a heavy heart, he wiped the blood on the sides of Tracas’ mouth.

"You may be right. The promises I made might have been just wishful words born out of confidence or hope,” he said quietly while closing Tracas’ eyelids. “But I ask of you, believe my words one last time. Because I promise you, I will save the ones on Mount Foudre."

With Tracas' body starting to disappear, Adder stood up, tightly gripping his sword and shield.

“And that damned Witch who made you suffer will be brought to justice.”
 
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    The two towering figures of a red Maneator and black Werebear overshadowed the werewolves and members of Vagrant Vigilantez surrounding them.

It had already been several minutes, but none of Stark's attacks dealt significant damage to Vexant. However, the same thing could’ve been said for her, as she couldn't get pass Stark's defenses. Their life bars were almost on par, with Stark at (342,298/389,000 HP) and Vexant at (376,190/392,000 HP).

Looking to gain the upper hand, Stark gambled with a wide strike with his glaive.

SLASH

Stark's glaive gashed a long wound on Vexant's shoulder, but his successful attack came at a price. The black werebear swiftly took a step forward and sunk her claws deep into his stomach.

While trying to pry open the red Maneator's abdomen, she felt a strange, draining sensation. Her Strength was greatly decreased.

Stark used this opportunity to release himself from Vexant's clutches and attacked her from the side. The black werebear backed away and saw that the werewolves around her noticed the same effect she did.

All members of a pack of Therianthropes receive a significant stat boost if the pack is led by both a male and a female Alpha. Vexant knew that having her power suddenly reduced could only mean one thing: Tracas died.

"Werewolves, slaughter the man who killed your Alpha! Gardes du Corps, you stay behind," she roared and pointed to where she had last sensed Tracas’ presence. Almost all of the werewolves near her hurriedly left the enemies they were facing and scrambled through the Vigilantez in order to hunt down Adder.

AWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOO

The irrepressible group of werewolves howled menacingly in unison as they moved towards their prey. A bright purple light in the sky then caught their attention as it passed straight through the treetops and came crashing directly at them.

CRASH

Molten rocks flew everywhere. Smoke had landed smack in the middle of the werewolf pack, stunning and damaging ten of them with his Comet Crush ability. Equipped with Digger's Wand, he pointed it directly under his feet and created a wide pit.

Smoke and the stunned werewolves lost their balance as they went free falling down a depth of a hundred meters. As they were falling, the stunned werewolves came to and went after the DarkElf. He used his Claws of Chiropterra to hold onto the side of the pit and stop his rapid descent. The werewolves tried to do the same, but Smoke used his Earth Manipulation ability to make sure that their claws don’t get a proper hold.

Once the werewolves hit the bottom of the pit, he created layers of earth bars above them and locked them up. His Cunning of the Dire Fox sensed that there were no more werewolves waiting for him outside of the pit, so he quickly scaled out of it. With Adder leading them, the Vigilantez had made sure to clear the path for their guild leader to safely come out.

Adder was fighting against three werewolves, while Laernea and

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