Zectas Volume IV: The Salubrious City of Centzo by John Nest, You The Reader Page A

Gandiva—on the backs of their stag moose—were each faced against one. Sharur was firing his poison bolts at the lycanthropes as he stood beside Sharanga, who had already immobilized two of the beasts with her five-trap system.

Meanwhile, the Armored Farmers split into groups of four, each group trying to contain one werewolf while the Bowed Fishermen dealt damage to it from afar.

ROOOOOAARR

Vexant cried out as soon as she saw Smoke climb out of the pit.

"Gardes!" she yelled and five werewolves started fighting Stark in her place.

Freed from the red Maneator, she hurriedly plowed through the Vigilantez blocking her way. The black werebear was set on killing the flashy DarkElf who ruined her revenge.

However, before she could reach him, a red werebear blindsided her and tackled her to the ground. Sierra unleashed her feral claws at Vexant's throat, but despite her surprise attack, the black werebear managed to push Sierra off and regain her balance.

"The famous rogue werebear..." Vexant snarled as the two circled around each other. "Lady Horrabelle has a special message for you. But first, I will make you pay for getting in my way."

With her claws at the ready, Sierra replied strongly, "I don't care what—"

Not letting her finish her sentence, Vexant lunged through the air and tackled her down. The black werebear's canines sunk deep into Sierra's left shoulder. She cried out in pain and forced Vexant off of her with a knee strike. The Lady of Verbrannt instantly turned the tables and mounted her opponent.

SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH

Blood and fur flew everywhere as Sierra's claws scratched Vexant's face. She quickly brought down Vexant's life bar to 70%. Then, she stopped her claws midway into another attack as her Animal Instinct ability detected two werewolves heading towards her.

Sierra looked up and got clawed across the face by Vexant in response. She was forced to release her hold on the black werebear and backed away. She did a quick scan of her surroundings and estimated that there were about fifty enemy werewolves left, ten of which were trapped inside the pit Smoke created. She was already having a hard time against Vexant alone, and now she would also have to face two of her werewolves that were coming to her aid.

She looked at Smoke and found him fighting against three werewolves at the same time. As he was about to kill one of them, she yelled, "Vigilantez! Don't kill the werewolves! We just need to kill this black werebear."

Shortly after Sierra's order, three poison bolts pierced Vexant's back, followed by four Durcules beetles' horns, forcing their target to the ground.

A torrent of arrows and bolts rained down on Vexant, and her life bar was quickly reduced to 45%. From among the crowd, a charging red Maneator leapt forward, with his glaive aimed at the temporarily-immobilized enemy.

However, before his weapon could pierce the back of the black werebear, Adder's Condortlian Shield blocked it.

"Stop! We can't kill her yet," said Adder as he defended Vexant. He needed her alive in order to get more information on Horrabelle's hidden lair.

As soon as the black werebear saw the murderer of her mate, she swiftly got up into a crouched position and used Double Slash on Adder, knocking him back.

Smoke, who had leapt away from the two werewolves he had been fighting earlier, wondered what Adder was doing. At the sight of the black werebear rampaging once more, he called out their master trapper.

"Sharanga, use your eight-trap system!"

The WoodElf Huntress and her falcon Ranga threw a series of traps onto the black werebear. The individual traps stuck to Vexant's black fur and instantly interlocked with each other, creating a cumbersome weight of one metric ton.

The alpha werebear tried to break free, but found herself unable to move at all. "Werewolves, run for your lives and report to lady Horra..."

KLONG

Adder bashed his shield into Vexant's face and stunned her, but