The Goddess' Champion

Constantine's gaze moved left and right, on one side there was those molluscs sort of creatures, on the other side aside from some burns his bomba hadn't done anything to those werewolves except for some burning, thankfully, however, there was now a very convenient cloud of smoke that was covering the entire field, but with the forest's wind, it would disperse soon.

"Zamira, take her away back to the horse!" He yelled while halting one of the werewolves.

The purple-haired girl was momentarily bewildered, 'what horse!?' but she then recalled the name of the flower they had used, Dead Horse, he just said it like that for the werewolves not to know where that location was just in case.

"... Okay!" Without doubting his orders or his capabilities as she knew that would only be a detriment, Zamira rushed to grasp a surprised Nia who couldn't believe they were just going to run and leave him here.

"You're not going-"

*BOOOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!*

Another one of the explosive arrays exploded in front of that werewolf's face, having him lose sight of the pair of girls who rushed into the distance.

"It's me you're fighting, furry..." Constantine had successfully garnered the attention of both groups of monsters, but one of them had already fallen into his trap, he needed to get rid from at least one of them and his flora magic in one of his cores was already working full throttle for the sake of that purpose.

"A mere adept dares to act-" When he was about to step closer to Constantine, only then he noticed the floor to be a little, slippery as something grasped his leg tightly.

With the roots bonding his legs like a vice and the cloud of smoke still distracting his burning friend, the werewolf who once again underestimated his adversary, would pay a big price.

In his belief, Constantine was an elf hybrid who surely had control over wind and earth elements aside from his innate light capabilities that he hadn't yet shown, a genius in all sense of the word, what he couldn't possibly expect was for him to have yet another element, three more in fact.

When Constantine's hand turned scalding hot all of the sudden, shining in an orange colour even, he didn't expect that.

<Heat!>

"What? are you going to underestimate me as well?~" Those were his last mocking words towards this disgraceful foe.

"You bastard!" Trying to escape the werewolf realise that those roots weren't soft by any means, they were as hard as steel.

*BAAAANGGG!!!*

Constantine's scalding hand burned the tissue and went through the skin with difficulty but successfully nonetheless, he came to realise too soon that those werewolves' kind was surely durable if even with this method it was costing him so much.

The despaired fool had enough time to deliver to punches to Constantine's ribs, ones that he felt a little too much if the blood spilling from his mouth was anything to go by, but he didn't relent and kept sinking his hand inside the werewolf's chest where he believed the heart to be, squeezing between two thoracic bones and eventually arriving at his target, when he grasped the heart directly, a gasp of pain as despair was what remained visible in the werewolf's face.

He had read it in the magic books he took from the library.

A basic spell, 'heat' but this time being used in the right way and with the capacity that only his ether cores could deliver.

"AHHHHHHH!!!"

"Yonbu!!" His companion who had just gotten rid of the cloud of smoke, regained his visibility just to see how his companion's heart was exposed like a trophy, melting inside Constantine's scalding grasp.

"How lucky, so the heart was indeed in this position~" He retracted his hand and the werewolf's corpse fell, crushing what remained of the werewolf's heart, Constantine saw the creatures around them... start to retreat slightly.

*CHYAAAAAA!!!*

They all yelled threateningly but after the earlier display, it was as if they were not as willing as before to attack.

The same couldn't be said about the remaining werewolf who quickly lunged at Constantine, but his gaze contained seriousness, obviously he wasn't planning on underestimating this enemy.

"Haha~ Careful, little dog." Constantine evaded constantly, not willing to engage in a full-fledged physical battle, but he made sure to counter some of those attacks by sinking his still-heating hand into several spots of the werewolf's skin, burning him to a crisp!

[Be careful, this spell is taking a lot of your energy, you're less than 30% in all your cores!] Zebellia added some important information that made him frown, the situation wasn't looking all too great.

The shock of the creatures pursuing the corpse of the other werewolf and them, started to shake the entire foundation of the clearing and unbeknownst to the two of them, cracks spread through.

The wolf and Constantine continued to fight during the entire ordeal as the cracks in the room continued to spread across, the weight of the stalactite creatures didn't seem to be helping either.

"You're stubborn!"

The werewolf continued to be surprised at Constantine's prowess, a hybrid elf with the capacity to use at least four elements, not only that he hasn't shown his light elements innately belonging to his elf race either.

"What kind of monster is this?!" The more he thought about it, the more he thought that perhaps killing this elf wouldn't come unwarranted, he must belong to some prominent family to have this much talent.

"The one that's gonna end you." Those were Constantine's words but they couldn't be any father from the truth, he noticed that the wolf was way more physically stronger than him, therefore a fight of attrition wasn't optimal, there were too many variables as well like the other creatures that seemed to have started getting irritated as their home was being wrecked.

Constantine saw the time to flee the moment Zamira and Nia's figures weren't visible, the way he said it just now, Zamira should understand that the meeting point is where the stink flower is, the one that has the name of a 'horse'.

"Who are you with?! why will you meddle in the Wolf Empire's business!" The werewolf yelled impatiently and evaded one of the creature's tentacles, he delivered a swift kick that blew that creature away in a surprising fashion.

Upon hearing the werewolf's question, Constantine contemplated, this was a chance to do so many things, with the most deceitful smile he yelled.

"I'm from the Zephyr clan of the elves, and Princess Nia now belongs to us~ don't worry, we will make sure to breed her properly~ by then, taking control of your Wolf Empire will be like eating cake." Those words were said with arrogance, inwardly however, Constantine was working hard to not break out into a fit of laughter as even Zebellia wasn't far off.

"BASTARD! Do you know who you're messing with! that's the Emperor's daughter and General Daijou's niece, even the Beast Goddess won't let you off!"

"So what? what can your bunch do against my Zephyr family? the princess is already on her way to the Elf Kingdom and there is nothing you can do, we even have the Queen's support, once they breach the border, all of your heads will roll~ You should instead be a good doggy and clear out from this place before you make me upset, you can still run... I don't want to waste my energy with you."

"..." The werewolf body shook at Constantine's threats, and the possibility of fleeing while he still could be floated in his mind like a wicked temptation, he didn't know where the princess had gone to, knowing General Daijou, their heads would roll if they didn't find her, but escaping meant also forsaking the Wolf Empire where he had lived all of his life and where his 'pack' was.

*BAANG!!!*

The brief distraction was enough for one of the creatures to hit the werewolf square in the face only to grunt and hear the evil laugher of the elf before him, a smile that wouldn't be long-lasting.

Constantine resumed his chase, but an unexpected event took place first.

*BOOOOOMM!!!*

The ground crumbled beneath under all the weight produced in this clearing, and upon feeling the influence of gravity, he gasped.

'This ground is hollow?!'

[Grasp unto something!] Zebellia yelled immediately and he felt her power start to influence the surroundings.

*RUMBLE!!!*

Constantine felt how the entire time slowed down around him, but it didn't slow him down... sadly, the margin was still too great... there was nothing to do, the entire ground several dozens of metres in circumference crumbled as if this had been some sort of trap.

He saw in slow-motion how the werewolf jumped across fragments of falling debris trying to make his way out.

Constantine rotated his wind magic and fire magic in an intent to propel himself to the edge of the pit, extending his hand as far as possible.

But it wasn't enough.

*BAAANGG!!!*

His body crashed against the edge and bounced pitifully, falling into the pit.

"Dammiit!!!!"

His body collapsed together with the rest of the creatures only to see how the werewolf panted with an evil smile, having saved himself and seeing how the entire area crumbled.

He never knew that such a trap existed in this area.

'That's what you get, Zephyr family huh? to think the elves had already started colluding with the princess, this is bad, I have to report this news back to General Daijou... perhaps if I give him this news, he will allow me to live and will kill the others'

That's what he hoped at least.