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Barton stretched and looked with satisfaction at the children he had recruited, all of whom had intermediate Wizard aptitude.
"Are we done? Is there no one else?"
He glanced around and found that only the human spectators remained.
Some still refused to give up, muttering curses at their own children. Others gazed enviously at those who had passed. Even ordinary aptitude would set those children worlds apart from them in the future.
Curses, sobs, and chatter mingled in a chaotic din.
"Hmph! What a rabble!"
Barton gave a cold smile. Just as he was about to get up, gather his things, and leave—
Boom!
A snow-white shape fell from the sky.
It was the body of an Ice Giant Wolf. Humans who dealt with these creatures regularly recognized it at a glance.
But there was something unusual about this one.
Its body was over three meters long, its tail thick and sharp. One outstretched paw was as large as three grown men's fists.
Most frightening of all was its forehead, where a huge third eye sat.
Streaks of blood-red light still flowed within it.
Now its gaze was dim and its body twitched faintly. Dark-red blood seeped from its neck. A terrifying wound ran across it, narrowly missing the third eye and nearly splitting the wolf in two.
Strangely, tiny ice crystals had formed along the wound, and very little blood escaped. It looked as though an extremely cold ice-and-snow attack had struck it.
"An Ice Snow Wolf King? One of these?"
Barton shot