From the looks of it, the tracks were old as they were just barely visible, but this was enough for Zaroth as he began to quickly follow them.
Considering that they were old, it was hard to tell how many of them there were exactly, but he was able to tell that they were multiple at least. In other words, it was certain that he was tracking a pack of wolves and not a single one.
Shifting his gaze to Silverfang, he spoke, "If you feel any kind of danger, you will warn me, right?"
The wolf quickly barked, accepting the order.
Zaroth shifted his gaze to Luna as he spoke, "You are to do the same."
Luna sighed, "Yeah, yeah, I know, I can think for myself."
"I sometimes wonder if that really is the case," Zaroth teased with a smirk.
Luna raised an eyebrow as she teased in turn, "You are the one that failed the exam, not me, so remind me—who can't think again?"
Zaroth gritted his teeth as nothing came to mind on how to defend himself.
Or at least that was what he thought until an idea came to mind.
"Yet I am the one that is alive and not you, right?"
Luna scoffed, "Don't forget that the only reason you are alive is that I saved you in the first place."
'That is true…' Zaroth admitted to himself, and then he asked something that he had been curious about for some time now.
"You are a mythical creature, right? So how did you lose to that hero that they cal—"
"I don't want to talk about it," Luna cut him off with an emotionless voice. It seemed that even though she was a mythical dragon, she also had things that she didn't want to talk about.
The atmosphere around them got a bit tense, and not wanting it to remain that way, Zaroth sighed.
"Okay, I am sorry. I will wait until you are ready to talk about it."
After a moment, he added, "But I want you to answer one question."
Luna raised an eyebrow. "What is it?"
"The one that somehow managed to kill you—is he still alive?"
She took a moment to respond. When she did, her voice sounded indifferent. "Most likely. The bastard will not die easily."
"Then do you want to—?"
"Want what?"
"Do you want me to kill him? We are planning to kill the gods, one man wouldn't be hard to kill in comparison."
Luna suddenly smiled as it seemed she was in a good mood once again.
"Of course, he will die."
As Zaroth managed to fix the awkward atmosphere, all three of them—Zaroth and his two beasts—walked forward, slowly trailing the wolf pack.
*****
Night had come, so Zaroth set the tent. Both he and Luna were inside, getting ready to sleep… well, he was at least. He honestly didn't know if Luna needed to sleep at all.
Silverfang was outside the tent, hunting for something to eat. He was still a predator and didn't want to lose his instincts, after all.
Before sleeping, dinner was in order, so Zaroth was munching on a piece of jerky while Luna watched him coldly.
"Come on! Can't you share a bit?!"
"No," he instantly replied.
"You don't have to eat to live, but I have to, so I can't waste my food just so you aren't bored."
Luna sighed as she lay down in frustration. She wanted to eat something, even if she didn't technically need to, but her master's life was more important, so she wasn't going to eat his food reserves.
At least, not yet.
After finishing his meal, Zaroth also lay down and closed his eyes, trying to go to sleep.
The tent, while meant for two people, was designed for normal-sized people, and Luna was quite tall, so she required more space than normal.
So, the two of them were uncomfortably close to each other… or was it comfortably close?
'No, considering that I can't do anything with her, being this close to her would only make it so that I'm excited but can't go to sleep,' Zaroth thought in frustration. It seemed it was going to be hard to get some sleep.
"Can't sleep?" Luna's voice echoed in the dark tent. Surprisingly, though, it seemed her voice wasn't filled with amusement.
"Yeah, can you guess the reason?" he asked in frustration.
"You could have desummoned me so you don't have problems sleeping… and yet you did not."
"Well, I have to take the feeling of my beasts into account, don't I?"
"When have you cared about the feelings of others?" Luna countered.
"I do… but only for people that are important to me."
'And considering the only reason I am alive is you, you are the most important, though this isn't something I will admit out loud,' Zaroth thought.
Luna smiled faintly, though in the darkness, it wasn't visible.
She rotated her body as she put her hands on Zaroth and embraced him.
His face was pretty much buried in her breasts.
"If you think this is going to calm me down, it will have the opposite effect,"
"Shh… rest now," she whispered quietly in his ear.
A few minutes later, Zaroth was deep asleep.
*****
After morning came, Zaroth came out of the tent, energized as he hadn't slept so well in a long time.
Silverfang was lying on the ground nearby the tent, with a few leftovers of some kind of creature he had hunted during the night. It seemed that the wolf had not lost his knack for hunting.
Zaroth and Luna quickly packed the tent and continued their pursuit of the pack of wolves.
Before, the tracks were barely visible, but as they walked forward, they became clearer and clearer.
They were slowly getting closer.
Zaroth glanced at Silverfang as a thought came to his mind.
"Hey, how does it feel knowing that you're soon going to meet beasts of your kind?"
Silverfang looked him in the eyes and tilted his head a little in confusion.
"Maybe it doesn't matter to you either way, as you are dead," Zaroth muttered under his breath.
'I think it will be a good idea to test what would happen if I sent Silverfang into their pack. Would they welcome him or would they feel hostile to him as he isn't exactly alive?'
'This experiment could be very useful as it will give me some information on how the other beasts would react to the ones I have tamed in the future.'
Suddenly, Silverfang stopped as he got into a battle position, while Luna put her hand on Zaroth's shoulder.
He shifted his gaze to her as he asked,
"What?"
"We have arrived,"
Zaroth tried to hide his excitement as he made his footsteps quieter and advanced forward.
Going past a few bushes, his gaze fell down as he saw an entrance to a cave going into a small hill.
Around the entrance, there were bones of all kinds of slain creatures, and next to them, there were several wolves lying on the ground. Some were sleeping, and some were gazing around, searching for any threats in the area.
Zaroth smiled darkly.
He had found the pack.