CHAPTER 131: CHAPTER 131: THE WOLF PACK

Zerra knitted her eyebrows in turmoil. She sensed that the pack leader of these wolves was a mutated animal with a high level of intelligence.

However, when she tried to communicate with it, the pack leader glanced at her sharply before turning away, refusing to respond. The wolves looked feral, staring at the ability users with predatory glints.

They weren’t zombies, so Zerra couldn’t order them around forcefully.

Her eyes narrowed at the surroundings, at the area where new, smaller mutated animals had come. These wolves must have been called those here.

"Mr. Valez, what should we do now?" Arnold swallowed hard.

Nyra created the fireballs in her hand, bigger than her usual ones. "We should attack. These mutated animals are very vengeful. They might stop at nothing just to get us."

Darren pondered over it, and he turned to Zerra. "How many explosives do you still have?"

She thought about it. "A lot."

As she handed over the explosives to Darren and others, the wolves were slowly advancing towards them, like predators teasing their prey.

The leader let out a long howl. They instantly charged at the group of ability users. At the same time, Darren shouted a command. "Attack! Keep your focus!"

A few wolves tangled with a single ability user. The leader of the pack watched from the side, scrutinizing. Its eyes landed on Zerra, and she frowned.

The pack leader had marked her as its prey, most likely because she had tried to communicate with it. This wolf was a little crazy, and inside its mind was somewhat chaotic.

Her eyes scanned the surrounding animals, and she suddenly had an idea. Her pitchfork stabbed the last wolf coming toward her, and its head exploded.

Ha, take that! After she grew another tail, she officially declared that she was no longer a weak chicken! She could even feel her physique strengthening.

"Zee, where are you going?" Laziel shouted in alarm. He was about to follow his younger sister, who had gone near densely packed mutated animals, but he was stopped by the two wolves in front of him.

Frustrated, he could only deal with the wolves, full of anger.

Zerra jumped to the area near the mutated animals. The wolf pack leader followed her. The feral eyes cast a predatory glint toward her slender figure.

Without warning, it jumped at her. However, before it could get her, she leaped away, throwing the explosive on her hand.

The smoke rose a bit, getting to the mutated animals’ side, which suddenly went crazy without reason. As the smoke settled a little, it revealed the wolf pack leader, who was now glaring at Zerra.

Before it could target her again, however, the mutated animals started acting weird. Instead of joining the wolves in attacking them, they were going after the wolf pack leader.

Zerra retreated slightly, going to a safe distance.

"Eh, what is happening?!"

"Those little mutated animals are attacking the wolves. Am I seeing it right?"

Exclamations of surprise reverberated around.

Zerra frowned, a little fatigued. Controlling so many little beings needed a lot of mental power. Hers wasn’t as monstrous as Cassias, whose specialty was such a power.

After all, if Cassias were a zombie, he would make a terrifying one.

How could she control the little animals? Because some of them had turned into zombies. As long as they were within her range of influence, she could control them.

She was forced to take this measure, or they would have a hard victory this time. It was still possible to win, but some people might not survive...

Just look at those wolves’ sharp fangs.

"Zee, you... don’t run... around..." Laziel panted as he arrived beside Zerra, grabbing her arms.

In order to end his fight quickly, he almost got scratched by wolves. Luckily, he narrowly escaped and managed to stab them with his water blades.

"What are you thinking?" He was about to drag Zerra from the dangerous zone, but he found out she had become so heavy. He couldn’t pull her away at all.

Zerra was still staring at the little zombie army in front of her tearing at the wolf pack leader with their little paws. She took out her whip, cracking it in the air.

Laziel almost jumped at the sudden sound.

The wolf pack leader could easily kill the critters. However, it was the number that had become the problem. There were too many of them.

Previously, Zerra didn’t control the little zombies of the mutated animals because of the temporary effect. She had to whisper the command while focusing on controlling them. Hence, killing them with explosives was easier.

Her zombie control has also improved tremendously after she grew a second tail. It was really a qualitative leap in power for her.

"Those wolves are going away..." someone said.

Just as he was about to stab the wolf with his weapon, it had abandoned the fight with him and ran away. They were going after the overwhelmed wolf pack leader, who was howling loudly to call them.

The pack leader couldn’t handle the little zombies alone.

Zerra found out a strange fact today. Mutated animals could control others who were lower compared to them, even if the mutated animals had become zombies.

Those mutated animals that weren’t zombies were essentially similar to human ability users.

However, there was also a disadvantage of mutated animal control over zombie animals. Once a high-level zombie wrestled for the influence over the zombie mutated animals, they would lose.

The wolf pack leader’s control was also the reason that both zombie mutated animals and normal mutated animals could mix. Its high power kept them in balance.

The hierarchy among animals was indeed strange.

Zerra didn’t know whether those wolves would turn into zombies. It could be dangerous if they were out of her control range, so she shouted, "What are you waiting for? Chase and attack them!"

The ability users quickly recovered their senses. They followed Zerra’s words. She took out her pitchfork and engaged the wolf pack leader in another round of battle.

She didn’t hesitate to throw explosives at the wolf pack leader, which at the same time wiped out the surrounding little zombie animals. Quickly, she controlled the little zombies to reorganize themselves again.

It drove the wolf pack leader crazy. She didn’t hesitate to take this chance to run toward it, catching the wolf pack leader off guard by stabbing its heart.

The other wolves became disorganized in an instant, trying to run away, but the ability users didn’t let them.

Zerra jumped a few steps backward, wiping the blood smearing on her face. The wolf pack leader was in its death throes.

A moment later, it finally took its last breath. She approached the dead wolf and dug out its crystal core.

"Miss Zerra, how did you do it?" Someone suddenly asked. "Instead of attacking us, the little mutated animals went after the wolf. It’s really strange!"