Versatile System Online

Chapter 72 A Retreating Wolf

"Awooooo",

A loud howl reverberated through the campus.

Ray who was in the cafeteria snapped his head in the direction of the howl.

Taking his phone out, he dialed Tim's number and called him,

"Where are you", Ray asked with urgency.

"We are coming back to the cafeteria", Tim said.

"Is Noah with you? And what about the girls, are they there too?", Ray asked.

"Noah is with me, but the girls aren't. We split up to search more effectively", Tim said.

"Well, Tim do one thing. You and Noah don't come to the cafeteria. I figured out where Sirius is. You and Noah go towards the forest at the back of the Academy. We will meet there", Ray said.

"Okay, we are heading there right now", Tim said and cut down the line.

With that, Ray called Aliya.

'Beep!, Beep!, Beep!',

"The number you are calling is not available at the moment, please try again later or press one to send a voice mail", A robotic voice came through.

"Damm'it Aliya, can't do one thing right. So much for being the only healer in the team", Ray said in anger before he dialed Elina's number.

"Pick up, pick up, pick up", Ray continued to say as he called Elina,

'Tring!, Click',

"Hello, who is it", A female voice came from the other side of the line.

"Yes! Elina, it's me, Ray. Is Aliya with you? If she is, then ask her why she isn't picking up the call", Ray asked while he sighed in relief that the call went through.

"Oh, hi Ray. Did you find Sirius? And yes, Aliya is here. Yeah, let me ask her", Elina said.

"Yeah, I asked her. She says her phone died, well is it important? I could hand her the phone so you could talk to her", Elina said again.

"No, don't. I just called to say that I know where Sirius is, so you guys meet me and the other boys at the entrance of the forest behind the Academy", Ray said coming to the matter instantly as they had no time to waste.

"Okay, we will see you guys there", Elina said and then hung up the call.

Meanwhile, Ray also put his phone in his pocket and made a run toward the forest.

As he was running in the direction of the forest, he asked Aurora,

"Hey, Aurora. Did you pinpoint his location from the howl".

"Yes, I have set a marker at the location. He isn't much deeper into the forest but it might take you guys 10 minutes to reach there", Aurora replied while a holographic marker lit up in front of Ray pointing forward towards the forest.

On the other hand,

Within the forest,

Sirius had transformed into a werewolf while his whole body had a strange yellowish glow on it.

The glow was the moon empowering Sirius's abilities and empowering him.

"Form into groups of 5 and attack from all sides", John commanded his goons while he took another two steps back.

As for the goons? They all got into formation and activated their abilities.

But strangely, the second-year seniors stood at the back and in front of John. It seemed that the seniors were there for protecting John rather than to fight against Sirius.

In total, there were 20 students amongst which 5 were seniors while the rest were freshmen students. Therefore, 15 students prepared their attacks and at the same time attacked Sirius.

Of the 15 attacks that rained on Sirius, very few were elemental while most were melee attacks.

"Swish, Whooosh, Sizzle, Crack, Splatt",

A few lightning bolts flew in the air, but Sirius dodged them perfectly by jumping on the trees.

As for the melee attack, he didn't let them go well too. While he dodged many, he enlarged his claws and swiped once at one of the students who were closest to him.

"Splatt",

"Argh", the student cried out loud as he saw his hand flying in the air while blood splattered all over the place.

Though, no one cared for the crying student who fainted from blood loss the other second as all other students gathered again and prepared for the second volley of attacks.

"Swoosh, Shringg",

This time, another student got close to Sirius but didn't suffer the same fate as the previous one. The student used his twin daggers to parry Sirius's claws before breaking off.

On the other hand, another student Sirius with a fire blast the second Sirius parried with the student with twin daggers.

"Gawrr", Sirius howled in pain as the burnt fur over his shoulders fell while new fur grew almost instantly.

"Keep attacking you idiots. He is but a single person and you 15 can't even take him down", John cried out loud at the students as he saw Sirius recovering from the injury instantly.

Well, John's concerns were not wrong. Sirius was a werewolf and if one kept his regeneration powers in check, Sirius could go on forever. As long as he had energy though.

But John wasn't a fool to believe that Sirius had unlimited energy, but he was still careful as he knew that he couldn't be caught by some roaming teacher patrolling the forest area at night.

That's why he wanted to finish off Sirius as fast as possible.

The students attacked Sirius once more, but this time they didn't manage to get him.

Quite the contrary, Sirius took down two more students from their group. Making the total fall down from 14 to 12.

John, upon seeing that things weren't going anywhere good, ordered two second-year students to step in and close Sirius's matter for good.

But, the moment the second-year students stepped forward, Sirius went mad.

His claws extended to the limit, while his muscles clenched and his yellow eyes glowed even more furiously. Before anyone could comprehend what was happening, Sirius snapped his head towards the moon and,

"Awwooooooooooo",

An even louder ear-piercing howl rang out in the surroundings, momentarily stunning everyone around Sirius.

"Whoosh",

While everyone held their ears from pain and had their senses distorted, a gush of wind blew by, and the next moment,

"Silence",

"Bastard, I will kill you", John's hateful shout rang out breaking the one-second silence after Sirius's howl.

As for why John was angry? Well, why wouldn't he be, Sirius had just used the momentary disorientation caused by his howl to run away.

After all, Sirius wasn't a fool to fight two second-year students and 12 freshmen all by himself.

John turned to the second-year student on his left and said,

"You have a tracking system. Now, track him and bring him back to me",

"Yes", the student simply replied and activated his system.

"This way, he hasn't gone far", the student said as he pointed deeper into the forest.

"To think that he would run away deeper into the forest", John said with a smirk before he started following Sirius along with everyone else.

On the outskirts of the forest,

"You guys heard that howl, it means things are getting serious. Or else Sirius wouldn't use the emergency sound wave we agreed on", Ray said as he looked at everyone in front of him.

As for the emergency sound wave, it was a special technique that everyone from the team had practiced. It was very easy to practice and had an area of effect based on the amount of mana used. As for its purpose, it was just as the name implied.

It was a sound technique that Ray had acquired in System Online and he had shared it with everyone on the team to use in case of emergency.

It used the mana in one's body and amplified their sound while also having the chance to stun anyone around them within a radius of 100 meters.

As for the emergency wave, it was a special frequency that traveled and reacted to only those who had learned the technique and linked themselves and their mana.

The technique was easy to learn and use but based on the distance, used a lot of mana.

And from what Ray understood, Sirius used this technique to inform them that he was in danger, and seeing the distance the wave traveled, Ray knew it was serious as the amount of mana Sirius must have used wouldn't have been small.

Ray didn't ponder on the fact that Sirius knew they were near or not as this wasn't the time to do so.

And from the marker getting away, Ray knew Sirius was on the run.

Therefore, Ray looked at his teammates and spoke again,

"We don't know in what condition Sirius is at the moment, nor is it the time to ask questions. Now, it is the time to go forward and help our friend out. So I say, you all follow me, and let's save our friend first, and then we could ask the questions".

"Yes, let's go", Everyone said at once.