Chapter 413 The Cursed Shackles
"Hu!" Mike opened his gaze. He was back in his wolf form. And instead of his fur being black they were back to normal. Ashy white.
Looking around he quickly spotted Asher.
"Lead-er." He spoke weakly. His eyes trailed around the place. He saw Asger the wolf pup who had three needles stabbed into his chest but Andrea... She was missing?
"Wh-er-e is An-drea." Now that it was revealed that Amael was the traitor the possibility of Andrea being a traitor was high.
Listening to Mike Asher sighed. "She's... Dead."
As soon as he heard these words many possibilities ran through Mike's mind and the most likely possibility was that Asher found some evidence she was a traitor and killed her.
"Was s-he th-e traitor?" Listening to him Asher smiled bitterly. "She wasn't. it's natural, that you don't remember what happened, after all, you used a skill that gave serious injuries to a tier -2 celestial. As he was blasted away when you used your skill, he too used a highly offensive skill targeted toward you. Though you could easily dodge it, you couldn't sense anything else. I was thinking of setting up a mana barrier at the cost of half of my life force but Andrea did it first.
Unfortunately, we underestimated the power of a celestial due to which she... The attack passed right through her body killing her but the attack was weakened so using some of my life force I blocked the attack by setting up a mana barrier." Listening to him Mike's pale face became paler.
He gritted his teeth. A few movements earlier Muke had accused Andrea that she was a traitor and when Asher went to the castle he didn't hesitate to say she was a traitor in front of her face. Now he regrated doing that.
"Leader- doesn't that mean you lost some levels."
Asher nodded his head. "Yes I did but they are far lesser than the ones you lost trying to protect me."
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The current head of the heavenly wolf family looked toward Orion, Asher, and Mike.
"So we lost a tire -5 celestial artifact, a very strong wolf of our family Mike lost many of his levels and so did one of our greatest leaders. We even lost a strong healer wolf." The head of the heavenly wolf family said these words as he looked at Asher and Orion. The Needles from his chest had been removed with the help of the heavenly wolf family.
Looking at all of them Orion had a terrified expression.
"You know Asher, your kid is going to face heavy consequences." said the head looking toward Asher
"Leader, I will face any consequences instead of him. I will face all the punishment, in fact, you can even give me more dangerous consequences." Saher said hoping that the head would agree to his words.
"Asher, no. He brought the risk, to the heavenly wolf family. Taking into account that he is just a child I will lessen some punishment and my final words are that he will be chained for 4 years. His mana will be blocked by a special kind of shackles and only food will be delivered to him so that he can survive." The head said.
Asher didn't try to argue as he knew the head wouldn't agree to anything unless he can do something that would be profitable to the heavenly wolf family.
"Well Mike, don't be disheartened. With your talent and the skills you have, you can definitely regain all of your levels within the next forty to sixty years, and with the resources and artifacts we will provide to you, the process will be even faster." The head said looking toward Mike.
"My lord, I'm not disheartened due to that. I request that You don't punish Orion at all.".
"That's impossible I believe. But if you want to sacrifice all the resources we were originally going to provide you then his punishment will be reduced by 2 years. But there's a condition. You'll have to reach your previous strength by the next forty years."
"I agree with your conditions, my lord." Mike respectfully said. Asher looked at him. He was very grateful.
[4 months later]
"Ha! Haha Haha hahaha haha haha haha haha haha haha hahaha hahaha haha!" Just like the leader said Orion was chained with a cursed shackle which was previously used on criminals in the past. The shackle contained enough Mana to rival a celestial above Tier -1.
By now it looked as if Orion was going crazy.
"I... Want to see you again. I- want to be... Free again! Haha! Hahaha! Hahaha! Hahaha!" Another round of laughter came out of his mouth. "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" And the next moment a blood-curling screen escapes his mouth. He wanted to escape the shackles.
He felt as if there was a door in front of him. The door of freedom. The doors seemed very close yet very far away from him.
The shackles were restraining him. Restraining him from reaching where he wanted to.
And then suddenly. Cr....crack! The shackles that were around his paws and connected to the wall suddenly cracked and shattered.
Even though the cursed shackle was around his neck as a collar that was restraining his mana he could still walk.
And the metal gate in front of him... Too shattered.
"I- I can go." His eyes widened as he felt as if he was hallucinating. He dashed towards the gate but he felt weak.
He felt as if... He was going to faint.
He felt that he would die but...
"Run! Run for your life!" Screamed a cold voice in his ears. Even though he felt they were just a hallucination, for some reason he felt his will returned. His will to reach the doors, the freedom.
And even though as he was running he felt as if the door were getting farther and farther. But still, the cold voice kept on shouting in his ears strengthening his will.
And before he realized he was out of the heavenly wolf family.
Suddenly he couldn't hear the voice anymore.
His body stopped as he turned around only to see a giant forest.
"Mo-my?"
He remembered his father's words.
'If you ever go out of the heavenly wolf family's area and can't find the way, then activate the tail move. You will see the path.' Remembering these words he tried to activate his tail but he couldn't. He felt weird.
'Why? I can't activate it.' Dread came to his mind as he once again tried to activate his tail move. He quickly tried to transform into his human form but couldn't even do that
'Is it, because of this chain.' He looked at the chain around his neck. He quickly tried to bite it and remove it but that didn't work.
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Shin frowned as he listened to Orion's words.
"Then how did you level up" Shin questioned making direct eye contact with Orion.
"Well, for some reason I could still level up like normal after hunting."
Shin frowned and after a few minutes, he started to laugh.
"Haha haha! You are such a big fool." Shin said as he started to cringe. " A voice and you thought that it was a hallucination that made your will stronger. And honestly, did you think you managed to escape the great heavenly wolves? It just means that you might have fallen into some enemy's plans or your father or someone would have helped you." Shin said.
"Anyways, forget about that since I managed to break the chain that means they will come here?" Shin questioned to which Orion nodded.
"Yeah, they will come here."
"Is that a good thing or a bad thing?"
"Well, it could be a good thing since people with that skill are very less while it could be a bad thing as they could think that you are from one of the enemies clan and planned all this so that you can come to know where the heavenly wolf family is located."
"Yeah, and if I take you to them doesn't that mean they will reward me."
"They might. Hey, wait if you are going to do what I think your going to do then let me say you definitely can't do that." He said as he quickly went a meter away.
"Haha don't worry I will knock you out painlessly unless you don't try to resist."
"You think I'm weak!" Exclaimed Orion as he looked towards Shin and the next movement something shocking happened. Mana surged through his body which suddenly started to increase in size.
He soon started to look like a human kid who was 12 years old.
And suddenly... A wide grin appeared on his face. 'I can grow the tail!' He exclaimed within his mind as his ears started to change and something was growing behind him.
Once the tail grew completely his smile widened even more.
'Now I have to just activate it! Father said the power of tail in human form is on the next level!' He grew excited as he once again felt mana surging through his body moving toward his tail.
Gulp! Shin gulped a large amount of saliva as he felt a terrifying amount of pressure descending on him.
'This strength!' Orion felt as if he could destroy anything with a single punch.
He tried to walk but suddenly his body was shot toward the shin like a missile.
It was so fast that Shin didn't have the time to react. Orion's body crashed with Shin's body throwing him many meters away.
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