The Guardian gods

Chapter  79

The expression on Maul face changed as soon as he heard that, looking intensely at Wulv he asked "Did she say those exact words" Wulv nodded before continuing his story, "After the creature declared on not wanting to be an enemy to us, it took off once again into the stormy snow, but she left a word before leaving "I will be paying you kingdom a visit in the near future, I hope on being welcomed with an open arm" Wulv said as the palace fell into silence, which Maul broke by asking out loud "Is there a possibility of the creature being one of the things that fell from the sky" Wulv shook his head, "I don't think so father, the way the creature moved and talked showed it wasn't new to the area" Hearing Wulv word, Maul sighed as he thought to himself "A creature that knows about mom, possibly other gods, but for whatever reason I have never heard of such creature not even from mom and dad" " We should have no need to worry about the creature for now, since it plans on paying us a visit in the near future, we should be ready for it then and things will be different then as the kingdom strength will have grown stronger then" Maul said to calm the elders who now looked uncomfortable in their seats. Hearing their king words seemed to calm them down as they all nodded vigorously, "Indeed the kingdom strength will be a lot stronger, it seems I have to put in more time learning of those powerful treasures, in order to quickly boost the kingdom strength" Erik thought to himself. Seeing everyone was back to normal, Maul nodded before asking "Apart from the elders and my son Wulv, has there been another werewolf that has broken through to the Celestial initiate stage" An elder named Lars who hasn't spoken till now and was in charge of understanding the miracles from their goddess, it can be said this elder was one who led to the power system of the werewolves. "There hasn't been any breakthrough yet my king, but I believe we will have a boom of members who will break through to the celestial initiate in the next full moon and celestial event" "Have you discovered the next stage after the celestial Initiate?" Maul asked intrigued. Different from Ikem, who was taking a different approach to his people power system, Maul and his people also created a power system that worked for them. It can be said that Maul and his people may have taken a similar path as Ikem but because of the environment and continent they lived on, their path diverged. Different from other continents, the Northern continent is a place with a lot of snow and ice, the ice and snow were so much you would think most of the mountains found in this continent are made of ice. The extreme weather led to most elements not compatible with the area to stay away from it, meaning elements such as fire and earth are rarely found in this continent. That is not to say that such elements aren't available in the northern regions but it can only be found at the centre of the notorious continent which different from the snowy plains is a sunny place and stretches for miles and this place is where most humans have made their home as they can deal with the extreme icy weather and conditions. Now what this has to do with Maul and his people is that most werewolves are mostly born with an ice elemental attribute, some rarely are born with the wind attribute. One affinity which is also exclusive to werewolves is the moon affinity. Lars was one of the first werewolves that received grace from the statue of their goddess Mahu, after Maul requested that a power system should be created to enhance their people's strength, at first it started with Maul explaining to Lars his process of training which the same way Ikem was trained. At first the elder situation was the same as Wulv when Maul taught him, it took a while before the elder got started with his mana training, and compared to the apelings the werewolves have it easy when it comes to mana training. Even though the element isn't eager to move towards them the same way it does with the demigods, but because of the extreme snowy environment leading to large amount of ice elements, the werewolves don't have to sort out the element they are compatible with instead they only have to focus on getting the ice elemental to move towards them. Maul seeing that the elder was able to get started was happy as that means the other werewolves can be trained in a similar way but then Lars said "my king, I feel like this way isn't really bringing out the full strength of our werewolf race" Maul was intrigued as he asked "What do you have in mind" Lars at the time took a while to gather his words before speaking "I was thinking if we are to create a system with our goddess at the centre of it all" Lars said as he pointed up to the glowing moon up in the sky. "We seem to be full of strength when the full moon shows its form, our strength increases, senses become sharper and we also enter a state where we fell our blood boiling, thankfully we are still capable of keeping our senses together, I was thinking what if we integrate this method into our power system" Maul, hearing that, thought for a while before agreeing, but at the same time the way of mana training was spread among the werewolves and their strength was increasing with a werewolf knowing about mana. This outrage of mana training led to a lot of geniuses in the way of mana training being discovered, to which Maul took action to gather these geniuses with elder Lars as the head where they all worked together to bring to life the idea Lars had in his head. One day a breakthrough was found when Lars and the whole werewolves pack prayed to the statue of their goddess under a full moon, like usual blessing came out from the statue which fell on him, but this time something was different as Lars felt that the blessing accumulated in his body led to a quality change as he began to feel closer to the moon where their goddess resides. This led him to stand up from his paring position which led to people looking at his as his action was in a way disrespecting their goddess and messing up their praying ritual, Lars didn't min their expression but instead he looked up to the moon as howled out loud "I feel it, the goddess presence" With him howling, silver dots of light like stars appeared around him as he buffed up with his height increasing at the same time, he raised his hand with ice appearing in it taking whatever shape he wanted it to be, but soon immediately after the transformation wore off as he slumped to the ground. Maul ran to pick him up, which Lars tightly held Maul's hand before whispering "I found the way my king" and then he passed out. When lars woke up, he was surrounded by everyone ready to hear how he achieve the result, Lars got himself together before speaking " We have may have been using this goddess blessing the wrong way, instead of using the blessing for making our weapons stronger for hunting, we are supposed to let the blessing accumulate which will then lead to a quality change, which you saw what happened" "After the change, I feel a constant small connection to the moon in the sky, which i know with each improvement the connection will be stronger" Lars said as he looked at his paws before clenching them. Maul nodded hearing Lars word, "What about your mana, is there any difference" Hearing that the elder immediately sat down as he looked inside to see elements now surrounding what he assumes to be the blessing of their goddess, wanting to see if there more changes Lars tried attracting the elemental around him to towards himself but nothing changed he still had to convince the element to move toward him but then he looked at the blessing inside of him. A thought came to Lars which he acted on immediately, the silver blessing soon surrounded his figure, at the same time he tried absorbing the mana element around him, he expression soon changed as he felt the element easily moving towards him as soon as he makes contact with but soon he grimaced as he felt the blessing rapidly wearing away showing that this state can't last for long.

This was how the werewolf created their own power system, which for now has four stage namely called: The Moonlit Novices, in this stage the werewolf undergoes a symbolic initiation ceremony under the statue of the goddess and full moon, where the pledge allegiance to the moon goddess, in this stage you are granted minimal control over ice manipulation and exhibit physical attributes in the expense of your mana and saved blessing.