Bill gently placed Iris beside the back wall of the shelter and quickly joined Mako as they rushed toward the front of the shelter to find out what was happening. Iris tried to resist and insist on going with them and prove that she could help out too, but she had expended too much energy recovering from the sword wound making her very weak.
As soon as Mako and Bill reached the front side of the shelter, they were greeted with a view they never imagined they would see again. Erin and Leon were standing back to back and fighting a horde of around 15 Silver Wolves.
There were several dead bodies of Silver wolves on the ground with semi dried up blue blood which showed that they had been fighting for a while now.
Leon was the first one to spot Mako and Bill and finally adopted a relieved smile on his face as he could go all out without worrying as now they had backup.
Leon's foot began to glow which was one of his skills in which he could concentrate his momentum and get a burst of agility. However, this time, not only was Leon's foot glowing, his leg armor started to glow as well as Leon activated its active skill.
While Leon was charging up, Mako and Bill quickly subbed in for him and prevented any of the Silver Wolves to attack him or Erin's back. With his agility charged up to the max, A brand new smile appeared on Leon's face as he was enjoying the incredible rush of power, and with that, he locked his eyes on his first target and started running.
As soon as Leon took the first step, he was propelled so fast that it looked like Leon was teleporting but that was simply not the case.
Leon had learned from his last time when using Blue Dash active skill and that was to focus on his path rather than on his running. He understood that the Blue Dash skill would make it so that he would reach his top speed whether he focused on his running or not and it was important for him to focus more on his path so he wouldn't crash like last time.
He was running so fast that the blue streak that followed behind hadn't even begun disappearing from his initial position.
Leon had equipped the Dark Wing shiv that Mako had given him and using his speed and momentum, Leon began stabbing all the silver wolf's vital spots with such force that it killed them in an instant.
Leon was moving so fast that he couldn't physically make a turn while he was running as by the time he could make a turn, he would have run out of ground to run on and would have fallen off the mountain.
Instead, he used the bodies of the wolves as a barrier to disrupt his speed a little bit and change his direction. All Mako and Bill could see was a zigzagging blue streak that was able to quickly deal with all of the Silver Wolves at once.
It was a shocking display of skill and ability and Mako was quite surprised that even with all the help that he got from the system, there were still people who could match up to him and give him a good fight with decent odds of winning for both sides.
After dealing with the last Silver Wolf midair who was in the process of lunging at Erin, Leon forcefully came to a stop and deactivated his skills. Leon was completely drained after executing that move and covered in sweat all over.
The group quickly regrouped at the front door of the shelter and everyone was quickly updated on each other's situations.
Erin and Leon told them that after Mako had left to look for Bill and Iris, they were going to try and fish so that they could prepare that feast that they had planned, but as soon as the sun was about to set, they began to hear several growls coming from the bushes near the shelter.
They quickly took a stance and covered each other's backs as they sensed the presence of multiple decent-level being which turned out to be Silver Wolves.
Without any warning, the Silver Wolves began attacking them and the two of them quickly went on the defensive. They understood that if one of them were to get injured the other person wouldn't be able to protect them and they would both end up losing their lives so they decided to just hold out and only attack if necessary and wait for Mako and the others to return.
For some reason, Erin could still use her ice ability and everything but she didn't feel as strong as before. Instead, she felt quite fatigued and tired. This was because Erin had used up her Mutant Ice Gene completely and it took quite some to regenerate hence making it so that Erin was unable to tap into her additional power, rendering her quite weak against the wolves, with the only saving grace being the boost provided by the combat knife that Mako had given her for the time being.
"Why would they attack us all of a sudden again?! Is it that bi**h's doing again?!" Bill asked as he was quite confused regarding the whole situation.
"No, this time it wasn't her! Remember carefully, the last time the wolves attacked, they were organized and were clearly following orders whereas now, they were completely feral and wild which meant that this was a natural attack." Mako concluded as he knew this wasn't Natasha's doing.
He knew this because he analyzed them once again and this time the skill showed that they weren't in any condition.
[Analyze]
[High-level Silver Wolf] (Hypnotized)
[Ability: Speed (Level 3), Lunar Influence (Level 1)]
"There still has to be a logical explanation to this, none of us have come across a type of silver wolf den which means that they came here on purpose, somewhere which doesn't suit them at all," Erin added raising a valid argument.
Everyone went into deep thought as they began thinking of why such a thing had occurred. Seeing everyone so focused on thinking of a possible reason for the problem, Iris who was leaning against the wall of the shelter eating one of the MREs in order to regain some energy, suggested that Mako check the tablet to see if there had been any news regarding such an event.
Mako agreed with Iris' suggestion and pulled out his drone controls which were stationed right next to the information tablet.
Mako took manual control of the drone and maneuvered it so that the drone's arms would open the notifications tab and once he did, his mouth was left hanging as the very first news that was displayed in front of him explained everything that was going on.
"A HORDE NIGHT!?" Mako exclaimed out loud as he read the headline of the important notification.
"A... what now?" Erin asked as she didn't understand what Mako said.
"A horde night is where a horde of different level beasts swarm certain areas of the map in multiple different waves," Mako replied as he read the description of the notification.
"Tonight, there will be a total of five waves of beast attacks, each occurring an hour after the last wave of beasts. It is advised for cadets to avoid or get out of the red highlighted areas of the map for if they don't they would have to face the horde." Mako said as he kept reading off the description.
"This event will last for three days with every night, new areas being chosen and will be highlighted in red indicating the horde's domain. Good luck!" Mako said as he finished reading the description.
Everything automatically became sense now. By using this clever tactic, the military was forcing the weaker cadets to lose the comfort of their shelter and be on the move which would lead to their downfall as the only reason they were able to survive for this long was because of hiding away and cowering inside of their shelters for the maximum amount of time.
Since it had been 35 minutes since the wolves had attacked Erin and Leon, they had 25 minutes to figure out their next move and prepare for the next incoming horde because they couldn't possibly get out of the boundary of the red-highlighted areas in time as the entire west mountain was covered in red.
First and foremost, they had to deal with this situation in the most effective way possible and make sure to always plan ahead. they couldn't go all out as Leon did earlier and waste all their energy because they wouldn't be able to recover in time for the next wave of beasts.
Right now, Iris and Bill were quite tired from the whole situation that had occurred during their walk and now, Leon was tired too as he had expended all of his energy on that last move. This left only Erin and Mako, and out of the two, Mako was the only one who was strong enough to fight as even though Eris had the energy she had completely exhausted her Mutant Ice Gene and couldn't receive an extra boost.
Seeing that the situation was dire Mako came to the most logical conclusion as to how he was going to tackle this predicament.
"Iris, Leon, and Bill, head inside the shelter and try to recover as much of your energy as you can," Mako instructed.
All three of them were confused as they thought that all five of them would fight together, and so they asked him," What are you going to do?"
"I am going to face the second horde on my own!" Mako said.
