Chapter 46 - The Flashback - Part 1: A Quest To Save Siara

"We have to reach the Biola clan as soon as possible."

"Walk with haste but no need to run..."

Siara was guiding all while staying in the front. She was looking out for any danger or any beast that could harm them.

The seven elite female members had spread themselves properly. The one leading the group was Siara while the second strongest member of the elite group was guarding the back.

The remaining members were at the opposite borders of the right and left sides of the group.

All of them were extremely cautious. They had to be because they couldn't afford to make any mistake.

It was night time and wolves were definitely not scared of it, but oh well, other larger beasts also roamed during the night. So, they had to be extremely careful.

Also, they had to make the least noise since it wouldn't be good to attract any sort of beast, not that they could prevent themselves from giving out directions.

They successfully managed to travel half of the distance and now they started to feel a bit safer. Since Siara had been constantly telling them that there was nothing to worry about, they were at ease.

She was motivating them to stay strong however she herself was worried because she had already started to detect some strange movements.

Her ears were extraordinarily sharp. The strange movements and the sounds produced by them were detected by her quite easily despite all other noises.

"Elen! Take them and run towards Biola clan right now!", she raised her voice as she commanded.

Elen, the second strongest member, who was at the back had also detected some strange shadows but she thought that it was her own mind making things on its own.

But after hearing Siara, she understood that her suspicion was on the mark!

Everyone else heard that and started to run with all their might towards the Biola clan. Of course, Elen took the lead almost immediately.

Since Siara was forced to scream and tell everyone, all the bears got alerted too. They understood that they had been found out and due to that they made their moves almost immediately.

Fortunately enough the wolves had the advantage because they were agile even in the smaller and narrow areas. They were swift and due that they were able to escape while taking a narrower route.

However, it was impossible to have no casualties at the moment. Some of them had already fallen prey in the hands of the bears. But Elen was tasked with taking all of them to the Biola clan so she couldn't afford to lose the momentum by stopping and turning back.

Amidst this, Shin was constant;y looking at all the areas since he couldn't spot the positions of the bears.

But he could constantly feel the killing intent emerging from almost everywhere.

He had heard Siara saying that she would stay back taking care of the bears. Even if she failed, she would at least be able to distract the bears.

Everyone wanted to bring Siara along with themselves because they wouldn't possibly let someone like her die, but her orders were absolute too since she held the second highest power in the clan.

That was why everyone ran just like she said. But that was nowhere justifiable, in reality, they were too busy saving their own asses that they didn't have time to think about Siara. In the end, everyone thought about themselves!

Already 10 minutes had passed by and now everyone had almost reached the Biola clan when suddenly Shin started to slow down.

'For real? After coming all the way here?', he was annoyed more than usual by the system notification that appeared.

'Ding'

[ Main Event: Quest 01 - Savior ]

[ Tasks ]

[ -> Save Siara from the Bears ]

[ -> Kill The Bear King ]

[ Rewards ]

[ -> Addition of Extra Class Soul User ]

[ Warning ]

[ -> Failure in completion of Quest will lead to deduction of all stats by 10 ]

'My luck sucks...'

'Now I have to run all the way back to help Siara?'

'I mean, can you be serious? I have to save Siara who is tons of times stronger than me from someone who is proclaimed to be the King of the Bears?'

Ridiculous it may sound but it was for real. The system wouldn't voluntarily send its host to die but that didn't mean that it would give him easy missions.

It was a common saying, 'Higher the risk, better would be the rewards.' and based on that, Shin thought that it would be the best to do what the system asked.

He slipped out of the group by taking the advantage of the chaos that was still present as they ran towards the Biola Clan which was no more than a mile away.

He hid behind the bushes and saw all of them vanish into the heartbreaking darkness.

"Alright then, Siara, here I come!", right after saying that he used the skill Dash to cover all the distance as fast as he could.

There was obviously no time limit for the mission. This had happened the second time probably, the earlier one belonged to hunting the Mariorack deer which was still incomplete.

Regardless, right now Shin put all his concentration in running towards the place where he saw Siara the last time. Of course, he followed the footprints or the paw markings that were left on the ground.

It took him five minutes or so to reach the place where Siara was. He could see that she was badly hurt.

She was practically bathing in blood, both hers and the Bears.

Needless to say that many bears were either fatally injured or were dead.

But that 'many' was quite little in front of the large Bear army!

'I can't believe, is this where I die?', it was too hard for Siara to keep her eyes open.

In front of her, the Bear King stood gallantly as if he was grinning at the situation in which she was in.

'Now what do I do? How do I save her?', Shin practically questioned himself. 

He hadn't decided this while running, it was only now that he wanted to know since he could see that Siara was surrounded by so many bears on almost all sides.

Fortunately, he had a system to hear his questions and maybe give advice or solutions!

'Ding'

[ Advice: Use the skill Transformation to become a Half-Dragon Wolf ]

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To be continued...