Chapter 11 Fight to The Death

Everything happened so quickly that Derrick and Jacob were left speechless. However, after a few seconds, Derrick regained his composure and began speaking to himself, "HOW! How can this be? The conditions were perfect! Why! Why did he turn into a Poison werewolf? This can't be right!"

Jacob grabbed Derrick's clothes with one arm at his chest and pointed at the beast with another while asking, "Care to explain?! What in Melwyn's beard is going on here? My soon-to-be-dead fucking man! HUH?!"

Derrick can't come up with a decent explanation for several seconds until Jacob punches him in the face and by doing so gets his head straight.

"Oh! God! It hurts, phew," Derrick spits out blood and continues speaking, "Stop! I think I know what happened... the beast... It leeched off some of the girl's mana to turn himself into a poison werewolf."

"Oh! That's just great, Derrick! We! Are! Fucked! Goddamit! I'm gonna kill this beast! And then you if I don't get paid for this shit trip. Everyone is dead! For fuck sake!"

Derrick gets all shaking in his boots after hearing Jacob shouting this pissed off and tells him, "I pay! I pay! Just get me back safe! I even add a bonus for you! I give you everything I have."

As Jacob and Derrick had a conflict, the beast grew in strength. His arms and legs regenerated quickly, broken fangs popped out almost instantly, and his hide turned back to black with a dark purple shade. By channeling all the mana he absorbed from the girl into his body, the werewolf grew in size two times and shattered the wall that Jacob had created.

The beast stood tall at over four meters in height. It let out a deafening roar and immediately picked up the unconscious Kane and hurled him at Jacob and Derrick. Jacob quickly pushed Derrick out of the way and dodged Kane's body flying towards them at high speed. Kane's body flew past them and landed in a field, forty meters away, where it hit a four-wheeler. The impact caused Kane's instant death and bent and flipped the four-wheeler over. As Kane's body was thrown, the beast retreated back into the rubble it had created from Jacob's wall and grabbed the largest piece of debris.

 Derrick hid behind one of the rocks and waited for a chance to run away. After dodging, Jacob didn't have cover to hide and the beast threw a block piece at him but Jacob had a spell ready and made a ramp to deflect the incoming projectile sending it upwards and flying deep into the forest.

 The beast started to throw everything he could at Jacob while he was hiding behind his ramp preparing for another attack. The beast decided to get close and lunged at Jacob but the spell was ready. Jacob hit the ground with his both palms and made a big column, almost the same size as a werewolf, and launched seven rock spikes from it at the beast.

 Rock spikes made a few scratches on the beast but nothing close to damage. The werewolf rushed at Jacob and with one powerful kick he crushed the column in the middle sending the top part flying further infield and the lower part pushing to the ground. After witnessing beast power Jacob thought to himself, "Goddam! I need to go all out if I want to beat this bastard! No more saving up mana!"

While hiding in the dust cloud created by the beast as it crushed his column, Jacob made a clever move by creating twenty identical columns to the one the beast just destroyed. He then surrounded the beast with these columns and launched a barrage of rock spikes from all directions, causing the beast to take cover on the spot.

 After the barrage of spikes, the beast stood strong, without any big damage just a few spikes stuck in his skin. The beast let out a loud shout and started to break columns to get out but this attack was only a distraction. While the beast was concentrating to defend himself Jacob made five meters deep pit with an opening under the beast's feet. 

The beast tried to jump over columns but his footing collapsed and the werewolf fell into Jacob's made pit. The moment the beast fell in, Jacob made a huge lid one meter thick to cover the pit so the beast couldn't get out and he would have time to launch his next attack to crush him underground. 

The moment hole was covered with a huge lid Jacob let out a sigh of relief but the beast didn't let it end so easily. With all his might, the beast broke in half a huge block lid Jacob made and crawled out even angrier than he already was.

 The beast lifted one half of the lid it had broken and landed it straight down on Jacob, flattening him to ground level. The beast stood still for a moment to confirm Jacob's death before turning towards Derrick's location. 

Upon seeing Jacob's fate, Derrick thought to himself, "The hell with you all! I'm running away alone! All I need is a chance to get myself into a four-wheeler."

As they fought, the sun hid behind the trees and it started to get darker by the minute. Derrick began to run toward the MPFW while the beast slowly began to walk toward him.

As the beast closed in on him, Derrick panicked and tripped on his own leg, falling to the ground. In a desperate attempt to defend himself, he searched through his utility belt for crystals and threw everything he had at the beast. 

However, the werewolf simply closed his eyes to avoid being blinded by the flashbangs, and they only tickled him at most. The beast then waited for Derrick's vision to return before lunging at him with wide-open jaws.

Jacob was still alive, before the beast could flatten him he buried himself six feet underground and pretended he was dead. He stopped attacking the beast to fool him into thinking he was dead. 

While the werewolf was distracted, Jacob infused all of his remaining mana into his earth magic, gathering all the iron in the soil. He then formed it into sharp, huge spikes and placed them under the beast, using his scan power to find the perfect opportunity to launch his final attack.

"Okay! If this miss... I'm spent! And everyone is dead. Well... me dead, fuck Derrick."

The beast was about to attack Derrick when Jacob suddenly launched three iron spikes from below the ground. The first spike pierced the beast's head through its mouth, the second spike pierced both legs, and the third pierced through its rib cage from one side and came out the other. Derrick sat there in shock, staring at the impaled beast on the iron spikes without realizing what had just happened.

Using the last of his mana, Jacob dug his way up to the surface and collapsed on the grass. The sun had gone down, making it dark in the forest and creating an uneasy atmosphere. Derrick came to his senses and realized that the beast was finally dead. He stood up, looked around, and after a while, noticed Jacob waving his arm at him as he lay on the ground.

As soon as Derrick saw Jacob, he ran to him as fast as he could. When he reached Jacob, Derrick fell to his knees next to him and said, "Oh! Preys to Melwyn all mighty! I thought you got crushed, Jacob!"

While facing Derrick, Jacob pulls out a badge from under his jacket. It is the Magic box power wielders badge with three stars, given to him by the Hunter guild. He laughed.

"Hahaha! Derrick ma man! You know, three stars on this badge are not for impressing girls in taverns!"

Derrick lets out a little giggle as he's happy that they survived and asked Jacob, "But how did you survive? I saw you crushed by the beast with your own made rock plate! How!"

"Oh, Derrick! What kind of earth mage gets killed by his own magic?! And besides, I made a promise on Dixson's grave that I would take care of his family... I can't afford to die here... but honestly, I was at my end there for a sec."

Derrick's smile disappears and he asks, "Wha... what? What do you mean?"

Jacob cowers his eyes with his hand and tells Derrick while looking at stars through his finger gaps, "I'm all spent! I mean, I used up all my mana! I am dry! Like puff... running on steams."

Derrick gets scared again and with panic in his voice asks, "But... but what if... what if some other monsters attack?!"

Jacob tells Derrick, "Oh! About that... well, don't worry... you see, the beast scared off all other weaker monsters from the area, not even birds around. We should be fine even if we stay here for a few days."

Derrick gets his act together after hearing that, Jacob gets up on his feet and said, "Well, I better go check to see what's left of my men... well, no need to check on Kane, he sure is dead, after being used as a cannonball. I better go check on Alex and what's left of a little girl. Hey, Derrick, are you coming?"

"Yes! Yes! Just don't leave me here!"

"Dumb ass! They are right over there... oh! Wait! I hear... the little girl still alive?"