His clothes began tearing off as his body kept getting bigger, then a towering black wolf emerged, looking down at the two skinwalkers.
The two felt an immense pressure on their shoulders and knew that the fate of the sacred rules depended on them.
"ROARHH!"
Lucas raised his head, and the sound shook the heavens and earth. Clouds gathered in the sky, seeming ready to punish this monstrosity.
He then took a step forward, and his body vanished. Right in the next moment, he appeared in front of the two skinwalkers.
You would think that his size would have less dexterity, but the transformation gave even the emotionless skinwalkers a chill.
A big paw swept toward them, and they instantly turned into sand, appearing a dozen meters away. Lucas glanced at where they were and at the girls.
Then he repeated this attack a few more times. What the skinwalkers didn’t realize was that with each attack, they were getting further away from the lone skinwalker that was fighting the girls.
The girls noticed immediately, and Allison teleported behind the girls and whispered. "The transformation is the cue, we can start."
Lydia and Malia nodded, then Malia, for the first time, started to attack the skinwalker aggressively, even ignoring the increasing wounds on her body.
"Malia!" She suddenly heard Lydia’s shout and immediately rolled away from that spot.
In that moment, the scream of a Banshee hit the skinwalker head-on.
"Ahhh!" She clasped her ears, and even tried to use the sand to teleport, but she felt the sound acting as an anchor.
Before the skinwalker could recover, Lydia threw a handful of ashes in the sky, and it instantly formed a circle around her.
Lydia then immediately stepped out, and Allison knew it was time, so she instantly teleported behind the skinwalker and hugged her from behind.
Before the skinwalker could struggle, Allison teleported her into the circle.
The skinwalker was on the ground and was shocked. "You trapped us both!"
"Did I?" Allison smiled, then teleported away. For a brief moment, the mountain ash barrier lit up, but Allison still appeared right outside the barrier.
Only now did the skinwalker realize that if Allison was able to get in, she would be able to also get out.
Outside the circle, only Allison remained. Malia and Lydia walked further, knowing what was about to happen.
"Your connection with the sacred ground must have weakened by now, hasn’t it?" Allison gazed at the skinwalker as she grabbed what seemed to be a grenade from her belt.
"Whatever your plan is, you will die in the end!" The skinwalker calmed down and gazed at Allison coldly.
Allison shrugged. "Maybe, but you will not see that day." She then took off the pin, threw the grenade right inside the circle, and teleported beside Malia and Lydia.
Just as the skinwalker was confused by what it was, the grenade exploded, and a cloud of mountain ash formed in the barrier.
The skinwalker tried to get out and hit the barrier head-on. The ash entered her mouth, even her eyes, and this acted like a stun grenade for her.
"Lucas! Now!" Alison spoke and knew he could hear it.
And indeed, Lucas heard it and looked in their direction. By now, they were a couple of thousand meters away from them. Even in the dark, he could still see what happened.
"Finally." His ferocious mouth broke into a grin, then he instantly turned into a shadow and headed in that direction.
"Oh no!" The leader of the skinwalkers finally realized Lucas’s motives and anxiously teleported in that direction as well.
Unfortunately for her, Lucas’s teleportation was faster, and he almost instantly appeared in front of the mountain ash barrier.
Not even seeing what was happening, the skinwalker inside the barrier got the treatment of the Nogitsune, and her head was directly bitten off.
"Crack!"
A sound was heard by all present, and it wasn’t made by Lucas. The earth where the skinwalker died split open, and the fissure began spreading for a few kilometers.
Lucas just jumped away and landed not far from the girls. But there was something different about him. A third of his pupils turned from red into silver.
In that moment, Lucas instantly felt a connection with the earth underneath his feet, and he smiled.
Alison felt it as well, but through Lucas, he was like a tunnel channeling a sacred energy into her. Then she felt her strength increasing, and even felt that she had an infinite amount of energy as long as she stood in this desert.
The two skinwalkers arrived as well, but too late. The leader’s body trembled in fury and looked at Lucas with an unbelievable expression.
"How is that possible?! You actually-"