Chapter 389: Mythical Creature

David Watson woke up from a medical bed.

A person who looked like a doctor was working nearby. The other party pulled off the various electrode patches on his body and then said to him: "Congratulations, Sergeant Watson, you are now a War Wolf."

After his body adapted slightly, he was guided by medical staff to a treadmill to test his cardiopulmonary capacity, followed by grip strength and boxing tests, and then various tests such as arm strength, jumping, and endurance.

Then they injected a bunch of things subcutaneously to verify whether his body had any abnormal immune reactions after the transformation.

After half a day of testing, all his conditions were very good. The doctor said he was as strong as an ox.

Finally, he was taken to the "Transformation Project Department" and finally saw his second form, and thoroughly understood why this special operations force would be crowned with the name "War Wolf."

He turned into a legendary werewolf, with a long wolf snout, a body covered in gray wolf fur, and sharp claws between his hands and feet—he was almost a giant upright wolf.

This appearance did not make David feel afraid; in fact, he was excited about it.

David was born in Hampshire and grew up near the "New Forest." His father was an archaeologist and an outdoor adventure enthusiast, often taking young David deep into the forest. He learned many jungle survival skills, which also made him full of emotion for the forest.

Now transformed into a wolf, he felt as if he were closer to nature.

Therefore, during the first outdoor training, he threw the activity range mentioned by the instructor behind his head, rushed into the depths of the forest at once, and began hunting like a real wolf.

He missed the time to return to camp, and wanted to spend the night in the forest, but the instructors found him.

A young man in a strange robe appeared accompanied by a distortion of space, and then several instructors tied him up in wolf form with a large net, and used that strange space travel magic to bring him back to the camp, and then hung him outside the camp for a whole night.

That guy in the robe later became his teammate.

His name was Draco Malfoy, and it was said that he was a wizard.

Yes, a wizard.

David Watson now knew many things. It turned out that this world possessed a kind of energy that scientists called "void particles," but which ordinary people habitually called "magic."

It was this energy that transformed him into a werewolf.

Wizards are masters of controlling magic energy. Unlike werewolves who can only borrow magic potions to transform into wolves, wizards can shape magic at will according to their own ideas, using their weapons—a small stick called a wand—to release dazzling spells.

Therefore, wizards are the absolute core of the team.

Their squad had a total of seven people. Except for Draco, the other six were werewolves.

They later received a lot of training. Unlike what David thought, besides being familiar with the werewolf body, there were more conventional training sessions such as tactical cooperation and familiarity with firearms.

It's just that those firearms still opened his eyes. What kind of lock-on guns that can automatically aim at targets, rainstorm guns that can copy one bullet into ten, etc., all shocked his worldview.

Besides these, they also needed to take a "Magic Disaster General Knowledge Class," taught by several wizards. From this, David learned about many strange creatures and also learned how to deal with them—David was not very good at this class, only remembering that it was usually enough to just beat them into a sieve with enchanted bullets.

After three months of training, the Draco squad received a mission to assist a pure wizard team in handling a magic disaster.

They completed the mission ten minutes after arriving at the scene: beating a group of Quintapeds into a sieve with rainstorm machine guns.

Subsequently, they officially took office and became the rapid response force under the Countermeasure Bureau—War Wolf Force 12th Squad.

Their missions were not heavy. Usually, there would be a mission every two or three days, and most of them were very simple. Sometimes they didn't even need to participate in the battle directly. The leading wizard sometimes called for aerial firepower, which was enough to eliminate the enemy.

But such comfortable days ended in a mission.

They encountered a Chimera.

That thing was as big as a heavy truck and was extremely intelligent and cunning. The first time they entered the forest to search, it ambushed and killed a team member.

David watched helplessly as the giant beast tore off Zat's head, and then used its tail, which was as thick as a tree trunk, to smash Rooney more than ten meters away.

David subconsciously pulled the trigger at it, but the bullets that could easily penetrate thin steel plates only rippled like water waves when they hit the giant beast.

"It has magic protection! Use magic-breaking armor-piercing bullets..." Captain Yulian had just shouted this sentence when he was burned into coke by the flames sprayed from the giant beast's mouth.

"Retreat! This Chimera is not right!" Deputy Captain Shamira grabbed Draco, whose spells were equally useless against the giant beast. "Retreat, use the Portkey amulet!"

"Damn, how can a Chimera be so strong?" Draco kicked the trash can angrily. "It's more than twice as big as what's written in the book!"

"We were too careless. We should have applied for magic satellite detection before entering the forest. If we knew it was a Chimera, we would have been more careful!"

"Zack, Captain... and Rooney..."

"This is not right, we must report this situation," Deputy Captain Shamira said. "Did you notice the way the giant beast defended against bullets? It didn't just defend through fur; it seemed to be able to use protective magic, and it could also spray fire. This was not mentioned in the original data at all. This is very abnormal."

"Could there be a wizard helping it secretly?" someone said.

I heard that many wizards in other countries are dissatisfied with British wizards. Maybe this is their trick?

"Doesn't look like it. If it were a wizard, our Portkey might not be usable," Shamira said.

"Evolution," David suddenly said.

"What?"

"Or rather, it's restoration," David murmured. "Didn't those scientists say that the level of magic is rising? The scale and number of magic disasters are increasing, which is why we are needed."

"Draco, you also said that learning and using magic is easier now than before, right? Then is it possible that for those magical creatures, it is the same?"

"Chimera, isn't it a very powerful monster in mythology?"

"My father told me the legendary story of Bellerophon killing the Chimera when I was very young. The Chimera in the story was born to Typhon, the ancestor of all monsters, and the snake monster Echidna. It is a mythical creature."

"Now, perhaps they have just restored some of their original power."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 390 =====