"AIM!" Verdandi would shout, another badge of five wolves was advancing their position. "FIRE!" She would scream as they rained a hail of bolts towards their targets. One of the men shot a wolf into it's eye and it instantly died. The remaining four would be heavily damaged but kept charging towards them. "SHIELDS!" she screamed, lifting her own that she had gotten from the armoury. "SPEARS UP!" she followed and the men repeated in a chorus of "HAH!" and as the wolves collided with their unified shield wall most of them got instantly impaled by the spears. "SWORDS!" she followed up and the remaining wounded wolves would be stabbed by the soldier's swords to their ultimate fate. A complete success. No casualties. Enemies eradicated. The soldiers found themselves in a rush of pure adrenaline. They felt powerful. Under the lead of Verdandi, more and more of the creatures would fall to the simple tactics of war. Wound the enemy with bolts and arrows. Defend yourself with armor and shield, impale them with long range weapons, eradicate what is left of them.
Every time they advanced further Verdandi let the men set up some sort of stone formation and painted in in blood. A distance marker. They would give each of them a number to keep track of how far they were away from the village and how much closer they would get to the wolf caves. Verdandi was aware that Haka had taken out one of the elders. But also knew that if the hunters were to remain and tread here safely. All of the ancient wolves would have to go away. They were a threat that could tear those soldiers apart even with their perfect defence. A mother wolf would simply crush into the pile of soldiers and tear them apart with no regard to her own wounds. They moment they arrived in front of the wolf caves. Verdandi commanded the soldiers to set up camp. Moving always together as one group and not dividing into smaller ones to keep their ultimate strength bundled up together. Never showing weakness. The wolves weren't completely stupid. If they would get one chance to single out a prey they would instantly kill one of the men. So together they moved. Obtaining wood and stone and returned to the new central spot in front of the caves. Quickly building up some sort of defensive walls, a roof made of wood and various wooden pillars that Verdandi would stomp into the ground with brute force.
They had made themselves a hunting lookout. Adding a few layers above would even turn this improvised hunting hut into some sort of a spy tower. Four soldiers were appointed to be on the lookout and scan into all four directions while the people below would properly set up camp and make a fire. None of them was allowed to let their guard down. None of them was allowed to sleep or eat. They could do that when they would get back to the village, they simply were allowed to rest a bit. During their encampment, some smaller wolf packs would charge them. The soldiers on the lookout would quickly signal the attackers and the remaining soldiers would form the usual defence and slaughter their prey with more and more professional skill.
Verd was certain that they could stay safe like this for a while and decided to head on alone. One of the soldiers had a horn he could use to signal Verd in case one of the large ones would appear at the encampment. She made sure to tell them, that if she did not return within two hours. They would go home without her and so she left her shield behind and slowly vanished in a quick charge towards the caves.
Once inside them. Verd could hear an almost endless number of wolves move within the caves. But they were all divided in small packs. If they would recognize her being here, she would have a large problem to get out of this. Verd took a good thirty minutes to mentally map the cave system and it's insides. Counting over two hundred wolves within and… one mother. Considering Haka must have taken out one of them, it was highly unlikely that more of these giants were still alive. Hence if Verd would manage to kill this one, the soldiers should have no problem to come back here for continuous hunting over a very long time.
Verd would move closer into the central cave where the large mother was sleeping. She needed a distraction. One that would keep the children busy for a while. Quickly she formed the seals to create six basic shadow clones. Starting to move them all towards the north exit while she came closer and closer to the south exit. Despite the clones having no smell once they appeared in the caves visible to the wolves, the wolves would instantly mark them as intruders and a loud, very very loud howling and growling began. The mother would wake as her children would charge after the intruders. But she wasn't to be fooled. She could smell Verdandi's real body. Verd would quickly move into the now almost empty cave. Her sword slice through a myriad of minor weak wolves in her path as she jumped forth in an attempt to shove her blade into the mother's throat.
The creature would paw her large palm into the air and hit Verdandi straight. This was golem-punch all over again. Verd's blade yet would shove itself deep inside her paws flesh and make her squeal and bleed. As Verd crash to the ground the mother would quickly charge her. Spreading her mouth wide open and threatening to tear Verdandi into pieces with her razor sharp natural weapons. Verd had no choice. She had to use her trump card. With a loud gasp and intense amount of chakra removed from her pool. Verd would channel all the Hyouton chakra she could muster up to send it onto mum and freeze her just a hair away from digging her teeth into Verdandi. With a certainly scared look on her face, Verd would gaze upon the scary creature. It has been twice already in this weird world that she had nearly been killed. This was about to become a very unhealthy habit. Verd would pull her sword from the mother's frozen paw. Move up to her chest, allow the ice to melt just around the chest area a little bit and then she struck her ice blade. Wyrm's bane. Deep into her heart. Her guttural scream could be heard even past the ice that was trapping her. Verd clicked the button her sword that would activate the mechanical trigger to turn her sword into a saw. Pulling it back and ripping the wolves heart into pieces. Ultimately killing the monster and basically showering Verdandi in a thick disgusting layer of blood.
Verd would cut the remains of the mother into somewhat sizeable pieces. Pulling her remains under a large amount of pressure past the cave entrance. The young wolves would soon return and she didn't want to be caught carrying their mother's remains while drenched in her blood. As Verd arrived at the camp the soldiers seeing her like this were staring at her in disbelief. But the chopped up corpse of the monster wolf was prove enough of what happened. It was over. Mission accomplished.
While Verd was away, they had fended themselves wonderfully against some more wolves that came to attack them. The net of the guards would be filled with over twenty corpses as they added all of them to the ones they already slaughtered. Leaving their new hunting post behind. Verd would make her way back. Figuring if they all went to be that successful they would probably need a cart or something else. Cause the power to drag all these creatures including the mother was an annoying task. For once she was jealous of Haka for her nifty sealing technique.
Soon they would arrive back at the gates of the village. All soldiers still alive. All of them now giving off a complete different feeling as to when they left. They had tasted blood. Killed. Defended and survived under the leadership of the ice princess. As they walked back into town past the gate Verd was still completely drenched in blood from head to toe. Surely to Haka's amusement of sorts. She knew how much Dandi hated to be coated in filth. The soldiers moved towards the storage area. The cooks and helpers would have a lot of meat to cut into pieces now. Combining it with the food they already had from Haka's first hunting trip this would last them for months. Enough time for them to go on smaller, less dangerous hunting trips on their own in future.
Verd had finished her job as perfect as you could expect from the ice princess. She was going to take a looong bath in the tub pebbles had fetched for them yesterday… and clean her clothes… hopefully her suiton control was strong enough to pull all the blood out off her fabrics. She didn't know. But she had to try, since well, you know. Blood is 80% water, isn't it?
1570 / 3470
- Chakra= 175/200:
Name: Doppelganger Technique (影分身の術 ~ Bunshin no Jutsu)
Canon/Custom: Canon.
Rank: E.
Type: Supplementary.
Element: None.
Range: Clones can go up to 15 meters away from the user before dispersing.
Specialty: Ninjutsu.
Duration: Clones last until dissipated or cancelled.
Cooldown: Five posts after all clones are dispersed.
Description: Using this technique, the user can create up to five intangible clones that appear physically identical to the user; these are created within 3 meters of the caster. The clones do not disturb the area around them, don't have shadows or body heat, and as such, in applicable situations, ninja can pick them out with varying difficulty. The clone has no physical form, and as such cannot attack. When any foreign presence passes through the clone, be it physical (a fist, a rock, a sword) or an opponent's jutsu, the clone will dissipate. It's mainly used to help mask the user, helping them attack an opponent who is superior at dodging. It costs 5 chakra to create clones.
Name: Ice Release: Ice Prison
Canon/Custom: Custom
Rank: C-S
Type: Offensive
Element: Hyouton
Range: Moderate (50 m)
Specialty: Ninjutsu
Duration: 3-6 posts
Cooldown: 4-7 posts
Description: This technique allows an ice user to make use of the water or frost deposits underground. It will gush onto the surface around the targets legs and start to rapidly encase and crawl up the targets body. It will aim to completely encase the target until it layers over every part of their body. But the effect of it binding the targets legs to the ground are instant.
This is the offensive tech to it's twin Ice Armor. The offensive technique aims to freeze the target to the floor beneath. The ice quickly creeps up on the targets body and will completely encase them by the end of the first post.
The usual elemental reactions are given:
Contact with katon element will be regarded as 1 tier weaker against ice.
Contact with raiton element will be regarded as 1 tier stronger against ice.
Contact with any body of water will freeze the water over time.
Rank | Techs to break (No./Rank) | Strength to break (Rank) | Duration | Cooldown | Chakra |
C | 1 C or 2 D or 3 E | B | 3 | 4 | 15 |
B | 1 B or 2 C or 3 D | A | 4 | 5 | 20 |
A | 1 A or 2 B or C B | S | 5 | 6 | 25 |
S | 1 S or 2 A or 3 C | SS | 6 | 7 | 30 |