My Angel system

Chapter 44 Demonic Wolves

Luis didn't reply to her question as he was trying to come up with the best explanation. This gave Ella the time to elaborate more on her point.

"I know it sounds crazy but I wasn't getting this feeling when we were at the library or walking together, everything started when you were coming up with your plan, like an activated skill.

"And according to the book, I read earlier today Angels have the ability to make themselves a force of attraction to anybody. Everything is just similar to what just happened now."

Luis was contemplating whether to tell her or not, he wasn't sure he could truly trust her to that extent.

There were reasons why Luis had decided to keep his system a secret in the first place, the number one reason being that he knew that a system wasn't something everybody had, he knew that because he didn't have one before.

Everything started the night he fell into that hole and if the people here should find out, they may turn him into a lab rat trying to figure out a way to duplicate the system so that everyone could get stronger that way or in the worst-case scenario use it as a way to make money.

It was only recently that he had discovered that the system was angel-related.

Angels were powerful beings but Luis wasn't that strong yet neither was he a full Angel but letting people know about that won't be good for him.

Humans were always doing research looking for ways to improve themselves and their lives.

Who knows if they find out that he was an Angel who wasn't that familiar with his powers yet, they may also turn him into a lab rat looking for a way to inject Angel DNA into other human beings.

Sure that would help them win the war but what would happen to Luis.

'She read those books with me and has some knowledge on Angels, sure she may find out if she keeps hanging out with me but I will have a better chance of protecting myself then.'

With this thought, Luis had come up with a good answer.

"As you said, you read the books and one of those books was talking about Angels no longer being on earth.

"They are just urges Ella and to clear your worries I won't tell anybody about this."

Ella stared silently at the ground and then raised her head to look at Luis.

'He doesn't trust me.'

Luis had heard her thoughts but he had to remind her of the reason why they were there.

'She would forget it eventually.'

"Come on, we have to check out the place," Luis said, walking further into the woods.

'I thought Angels weren't meant to lie or maybe I was wrong in thinking he was one, but how come my body was forcing me to that and now all the feeling is gone like turning a switch off.'

Ella was trying to think straight as he tried to follow Luis and that was when she discovered something odd about the tree Luis was standing in front of before he left.

'The tree looks weak.' She thought touching the bark. 'Maybe it's just a lack of nutrients.'

She hurried to catch up with Luis.

Luis had walked out of the woods, standing there he couldn't believe what he was seeing now.

For what he was looking at now was what looked like an arid land with little patches of snow in some parts and then he could see a hill not far from where he was standing.

? "It's beautiful," Ella said from behind.

"Yes, it is." Luis replied ``but it's clear this place is no normal place." Luis said, walking down into the place.

He wanted to climb that hill and get a view of their surroundings from above.

The walk to the hill wasn't as short as Luis thought it to be.

There was an awkward silence between him and Ella as they both made their way towards the hill.

Ella couldn't stand the awkward silence anymore and decided to bring up a topic.

"You know for someone with no ability you really have skills." She said relating back to how he had easily knocked out that guard.

"Was that a compliment?"

Ella nodded.

"Yes, but you could do better with your lightning ability."

Ella gave Luis a long stare and reading her mind Luis knew he had messed up by saying that.

"How do you know about my lightning ability?"

Luis wasn't going to just tell her that he had a skill that could differentiate between races and also give him certain information about people, that would be admitting that he was something he just denied a few minutes ago.

"Don't you have lightning ability?" Luis asked with a nervous smile.

"Yes but no one knows that."

"What if I told you that I saw your profile the day I got registered."

Ella chuckled.

"Yes but the only ability I filled in there was my enhancement ability."

"Oh."

Enhancing her hearing Ella could hear Luis' heartbeat increase.

'He's clearly hiding something.'

Luis with his mind read had heard her thoughts and was now aware that he was in trouble if he didn't come up with a tangible answer soon.

They had been standing in one place that Luis had failed to take notice of certain shadows inching closer to them from the east.

"Answer me, Luis, how do you know about my lightning ability?" Ella was inching closer to Luis as she asked this question.

'Is she trying to intimidate me?'

At that moment Luis felt a shiver run down his spine as he received an unexpected message from his system.

"Look out!" He pulled Ella down along with him as something jumped over them.

"What was that for?" Ella asked, clearly annoyed that Luis was trying to use a trick to avoid her question but that wasn't the case here.

She quickly got up from Luis' body and that was when she could see what was standing in front of them.

It was just like a giant wolf but its skin wasn't black or brown. Instead, it was dark red, it was so dark which made the red color look like it had faded.

"What is that?" Ella asked, realizing that Luis had just saved her life.

While Ella was busy trying to get an answer from Luis she had failed to sense the beast that was about to attack her from behind.

Luis wouldn't have seen it in time to save her but thanks to his system he did.

[ Demonic Wolves detected ]

He had received the message in the nick of time and activating his aura vision he was able to catch the beast as it was about to pounce on Ella.

"I don't know," Luis said, getting up to stand in front of Ella. "But I don't think it's the only one here." This he knew because his system had clearly told him wolves, not wolf which meant that there were more than one here.

"How do you kn….." Before she could finish her question there more wolves showed up from the dark valleys and now they were connected with their backs against each other.

This was bad timing for Luis because for once he wasn't with any weapon, the one Tammy had given had broken and he still wasn't sure if she could recreate it.

"How about you fry those things with your lightning ability?" Luis suggested.

"I can't," Ella said, shaking her head.

[ Quest received ]

[ You are surrounded by four demonic Wolves with a lady in your care ]

[ Defeat the beasts or escape with the lady ]

[ Quest Reward ]

[ ???? ]

Luis had been waiting for his system to convert their situation into a quest but he never expected it to include Ella.

'It's like the system it's just telling me to protect Ella and doesn't care if I defeat the beasts. This is more like a save the princess quest but she can protect herself.'

"Why not?"

"I don't think you should know."

Luis wanted to argue further but they had a situation at hand as one of the beasts dived towards him.

The beast pounced on him pulling him to the ground, he would have long devoured him if he didn't have a tight grip on its mouth.

Ella on the other hand had enhanced her legs and led the other wolves away from Luis.

'What do I do? I can't use my lightning ability or else I might harm Luis, but how do I beat those things without it?' She thought looking back at the wolves which were hot on her trail.

On Luis' side, he was struggling as the wolf was trying to knock his hand off its jaws.

'If only I had that sword?'

Luis was struggling to get up and do something but no matter how he tried he just didn't have the strength to do so, he was getting dragged on the floor like a rag.

'I need more power.'

[ Power drain activated ]

[ 100/100 extra energy consumed ]

[ Warning: You have consumed energy associated with dark magic ]

[ Resistance to dark magic: 25% ]

[ You will lose one HP every minute until energy is used up ]

Looking at his HP bar Luis could see that it was still at thirty despite being dragged around this much but that was also an indicator that he had only thirty minutes to use this borrowed energy and get rid of these beasts or else his hp might drop to zero and he didn't know what would happen to him when that happens.

Turning to his right Luis could see that Ella was leading the wolves to the hill, which meant that she wouldn't see what he was about to do.

After the newfound energy had entered his body it felt more like he was holding the wolf in place as it was no longer dragging him around but it was still struggling.

Using his strength Luis pushed the wolf back and quickly got back on his feet.

His hands were starting to glow red as fireballs were now forming on them.

"You can't fight if you can't see."

He released both of the fireballs aiming for the wolf's eyes.

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