The smaller wolves did not retreat out of fear.
They retreated because whatever the larger Wolfthrall was building in its mouth, they knew enough to be clear of it.
Hide watched the circular mana formation rotate inside the beast's open jaw. It had started as a faint glow at the skull, the anchor feeding mana down through the vertebrae column into the throat... and in the four seconds he had been watching it, it had grown into something the size of a fist, dense and dark-edged at the perimeter, rotating slowly on its own axis.
Mana can change its properties depending on the user's body... and what the wolf bastard was making had a dark edge to it, that meant dark mana or for simpler terms.
...Corrupted Mana!
Even hide knew about it, it was the main cause of mana poisoning.
He gritted his teeth, the thing looked like a hole.
A sphere with the visual quality of a hole in the air, and somewhat as if it was pulling the space inwards.
Hide's eyes narrowed.
