VRMMO: World's First Glyphborne-Chapter 34: No Biting

’Heh, Gotcha.’

Belladonna couldn’t help but smirk as the Barghest acted exactly as she expected it would. As soon as she felt the paralysing effect take over, and she wasn’t dead in an instant, she realised what this beast loved more than meat. It wanted power and to feed itself on fear.

Why else would something that can incapacitate others bother to work in a group? That was completely unnecessary, unless it was lazy and thought itself above using its ability for basic prey.

If she was as dangerous as a young stone muncher who couldn’t even shoot its pebbles, then maybe it wouldn’t have used its chain. But after killing its pack and avoiding its attack, she had done worse than cull its underlings. She had wounded its ego.

As it took its time to savour the ’easy’ and ’guaranteed’ kill, Belladonna focused her mana once again. Instead of focusing it in an area, she kept it spread through her body and activated her latest skill, infusing her body with the power of fire.

Her skin gained a soft glow from underneath, and more importantly, the chilling sensation invading her bones and seizing her muscles was burned away. The foreign thoughts, the one’s condemning her to the fate she supposedly deserved, were washed from her mind as she was filled with a tranquil clarity.

Her body was purified and refreshed, just in time for the Barghest to lunge at her throat. In one fluid movement, Belladonna leaned backwards, letting the Barghest sail clean over her in its lunge.

Her hands planted against the ground, keeping her momentum as she flipped backwards and whipped her leg upwards, right between the wolves legs.

A pained whimper like no other left the Barghest’s mouth, its eyes widening in a mixture of shock and pain as its entire body exploded with pain from the strike to its most vulnerable spot.

It’s momentum carried it clean over Belladonna, her leg sending it flying a bit further, and instead of landing gracefully on its feet, it staggered before collapsing and curling into a ball. It let out more whimpers as Belladonna laughed to herself.

’Damn... The male weak spot really does transcend species.’

Landing on all fours, Belladonna kicked off the ground and ran like a beast of her own. The few living members of the pack had already gotten over the shock of their leader being injured, and were coming at her with teeth bared and claws glinting.

Her fingernails elongated on their own, her teeth growing slightly in her mouth as the same primal instinct within her opened up just that little bit more. Her eyes glowing brighter as she sprinted on all fours and lunged at the charging Wolves.

Leaping to the left, she dodged the first lunging bite before she twisted her body and brought her elbow down onto the Wolves cranium. The sickening crack was enough for her to know it was dead before its body flopped to the ground.

She had to back peddle, returning to two feet, as she side stepped and danced out of the way of the next few lunges.

While she was distracted by the second wolf, the remaining two - Wolves two and three - circled around before lunging at her from her blind spot. One going for her leg, the other for her arm.

She couldn’t dodge both, they were accounting for her movements. She had to choose one to sacrifice.

Deciding in the moment, she moved her leg out of the way and in the process shoved her arm right into the mouth of wolf four. Its teeth tore through her armour, piercing into the skin beneath.

With her arm deeper in its mouth than it expected, it didn’t disable her like it wanted, but its jaw stayed locked as it dragged her down with its own body weight.

Twisting her body more, so that she didn’t fall from the change in weight, Belladonna lashed out with her foot and struck her heel into the jaw of wolf three and then stepped into a rising knee that caught wolf two underneath the jaw.

Its mouth snapped closed, its teeth cracking and even chopping into its own tongue, causing blood to spew from its mouth and for wolf two to stagger away in pain.

With a moment of relief, Belladonna stabbed two of her fingers straight into the eye of wolf four. Her sharpened fingernails pierced through without issue, before she gripped it like a bowling ball.

She didn’t even need to pry it off, the pain was enough to make it yelp and let go. But she didn’t remove her grip.

Her other hand latched at the bottom half of the retreating wolves mouth. Pouring more mana into her infusion, the heat burned in her muscles and filled them with even more energy. They bulged and swelled beneath her armour as, with a fearsome roar, she tore the wolves lower jaw clean off.

Wolf two was put down a few moments after, with a sling shot bullet through the forehead just like the others. That just left wolf three, all by its lonesome. She danced around with it, the last member of its pack, as she drew her dagger from her belt.

Its claws occasionally caught her armour, scraping off of it uselessly, but she never allowed it to get a proper grip with its teeth.

She took a few seconds to learn its pattern, then on its next lunge she side stepped, locked her arm around its head and held it in a headlock as she rapidly stabbed it in the neck a few times.

Letting the corpse drop, Belladonna stood up straight and flipped her hair from her face. She took a deep breath and let it out with a sigh of relief. With the same smirk on her face, and while licking the blood from the knife to heal her superficial wounds, Belladonna strolled over to the whimpering Barghest, still crippled from the pulsating pain in its private wolf parts.

"Ah, that’s better. Now we won’t be interrupted. I have you all to myself~"

The beast that struck fear into the hearts of many, the death from the shadows and which left so many utterly paralysed and helpless in its mere presence, stared at the approaching woman with terror in its eyes.

Its paws scrapped uselessly at the ground as it tried to stand and run, letting out constant whimpers as if it was begging for its life, but the woman was already next to it, her black and red eyes glowing with murderous glee.