Ch.125 The Birth of Death

    Blood.

    The wolf who found it signalled the rest of the pack with a howl and they all rushed over, thinking that they had found the trail of prey. But as the alpha made his way over whilst doing an instinctive head count, he noticed that 2 wolves had gone missing.

    He was confused at first but he quickly summarised that they had gone too far and were taking a while to get back, something he would definitely berate them for later. After all, it would be a hassle if they got killed and endangered the pack.

    However, when he reached the sight of the blood, he immediately realised why the howl that had notified them was so filled with alarm. The blood belonged to 1 of the wolves in his pack!

    His hackles raised immediately as fear coursed its way down his spine. Although he was just a Wolf, he was a very smart one as a result of the strange and painful things that the humans used to do to him before he escaped. So it wasn’t hard for him to speculate that whatever could kill one of his own without him even knowing, was something that he could not contend with. He quickly signalled the pack to be alert before they began to slowly pace their way to where they came from with their eyes scouting for any possible danger.

    When they exited the vicinity of the crater, the Alpha gave one bark to his pack before legging it without any regard as to whether they were following him or not. But of course they did.

    Roughly 5 minutes later, the pack had gassed out and they were unable to keep up their terrific speed. The alpha could have gone longer, but it was best to remain with the pack for now. Whatever danger was back in that crater should have been unable to keep up with them, but there might be other forms of danger if he abandoned his pack, and that was not something he could easily accept.

    He ordered his pack to rest, and they quickly dropped to their bellies or sides with their chests huffing and puffing and their tongues lolling out. Obviously, they were quite tire-

    ‘???’

    The alpha’s head snapped up to attention when he finally recognized something that made his heart skip a beat.

    ‘9... Only 9 left?! Were the others all killed?!’

    Even up till the moment that his entire body was devoured by one of those heads.

    ...

    5 minutes later.

    The alpha stepped out of what used to be his body and was now a dead corpse, and rose to his new height of 1.2 metres tall. His new form looked like his previous one, but it was not only completely black, but also slightly transparent.

    And yet, despite his groundbreaking changes, his now non-existent heart was completely at peace. A peace that he had never felt before because of his previous daily struggles. There was no fear, no stress, no shock. He didn’t feel... anything.

    He looked up and landed his sight on the figure of the creature that had done this to him. There was no hatred, no anger, no terror. Nothing.

    =You must serve.=

    A feminine voice spoke within his mind. It was somewhat like the way humans spoke, but... if something as incomprehensible as darkness itself was able to speak, he reckoned that it would sound just like that.

    “Yes, sire.” He responded with his head bowed.

    The only desire that he now possessed was the will to obey.

    And nothing else.