I Became A Zompirewolf

"But the man told us to rest~" Vimur yawned while complaining, but Ashton had none of it.

"Train the soldiers, and then you can sleep as much as you like." Ashton barked before turning toward the rest of them, "All of you E and D graders, you'll have to train for two more hours. That is if you don't want to get demoted."

Ashton thought he would hear more whining and complaining, but to his surprise, no one said a word. His soldiers were more than willing to train harder and improve their grades, as no one liked being weak.

Obviously, they needed help to achieve that; that's why Vimur and Laihud were in charge of training them to be decent warriors.

"What are you going to do?" Laihud politely asked.

"I'm going to train Bella." Ashton replied, "She's been having trouble with some techniques, so we'll work on that."

"Oh, I'm sure you'll be working on something," Vimur winked.

"I hope one day your brain starts working as well."

Saying so, Ashton and Anna left the group and headed towards the forest. The training was an excuse to keep everyone else busy while the duo did what they had arrived to do in Occuna.

Sadly, the Occunian soldiers were manning all exits out of the city. Since the beast horde could attack at any moment, no one was allowed to enter the forest.

Although the soldiers said it was for their safety, Ashton thought otherwise. No one was allowed entry to the forest because they didn't want anyone inciting the beasts to attack when they weren't prepared.

No matter the reason, if the beasts attacked the city now, the result would be devastating.

"Hm, if that's the case, what are they doing outside?"

Ashton pointed at the GW mercenaries who were roaming outside the fortress walls.

"They have explicit permission from the supreme commander." The soldiers replied, "Now, go back inside if you don't want any trouble."

"Your hospitality is amazing," Anna chimed in, "no wonder we drove you, idiots, out of the earth. Let's go, it's no use talking to them."

[Shots fired! I repeat SHOTS FIRED!]

Ashton was not expecting Anna to react with such ferocity. But when she did, he couldn't help but smile.

'She's got a mouth a hundred times deadlier than mine.'

[Yeah, for once, I'm glad I'm not inside her-]

'Watch your words, bastard.'

[Sorry, my bad.]

Unfortunately, the soldier did not find Anna's remark as hilarious as Ashton did and grabbed her shoulders as the duo was retreating. While Ashton could stop him if he wanted to, he did not move from his spot. Why? Because Anna was more than capable of handling idiots like him on her own.

'What a moron.' Ashton thought while Astaroth began saying prayers for the guard's unfortunate soul.

The next moment, the soldier was thrown right outside the gates he was protecting so eagerly. A single punch is all it took for Anna to neutralise the threat.

The loud noise of the soldier banging on the doors attracted much attention. A couple of them rushed to check on the guard who was flung away, while the rest starred daggers at Ashton and Anna.

They obviously didn't know the whole story and assumed Anna was in the wrong just because she was a werewolf. Talk about being racist. The pedestrians were angry and immediately took to arms. Although Ashton thought their reaction was cute, he did not like the idea of a clan of Hyenas challenging a pride of lions.

"It doesn't look like the guards have any plans of stopping them," Anna mumbled.

"You beat one of them and still expect them to maintain order?" Ashton smiled, "Well, it's not like we can't handle them."

"Want me to burn them to a crisp?" As golden ember began circling around her fingers, Anna suggested, "Or do you want to chop off their limbs instead?"

"Calm the fuck down, woman!" Ashton was surprised by Anna's readiness to kill people, "I knew leaving you with the twins was a bad idea. What did the three of you do on your trip?"

However, their amusing conversation was cut short when one of the guys rushed to swing a heavy stick at Anna. Unfortunately for the man, the blow was stopped by a skeleton twice as tall as the one using the stick.

Within moments, the entire crowd was trapped by the skeletons on the outside and inside. The moment they saw armoured skeletal soldiers rising out of the ground, all of their fighting spirits evaporated.

Even the uncaring soldiers realised the graveness of the situation and rushed to control the situation before all hell broke loose.

Fortunately enough, Ashton didn't need more skeletons to join the ranks. Otherwise, the place would have transformed into a graveyard before the beast horde appeared.

"Alright, tell me whether you are a bunch of fools or racists?" Ashton remarked, "We are mercenaries employed to help you out of a crisis, and yet you think it's acceptable to attack us?"

After a lack of response from the crowd, Ashton spoke up again.

"Alright, let me rephrase my words. We are mercenaries called to take care of something that you fools, can't, and you think you can take us on? I don't know about you, but humans back on earth, do have brain cells. So use those if you can, and think, people, think!"

[Xyran's research was accurate, humans are dumbasses.]

'It appears the Xyrans are closer to humans than previously thought.'

[...bitch, I was on your side!]

'It doesn't matter whose side you're on; I'll roast you whenever I can. That's the rule of law.'

[...]

Eventually, Ashton called the skeletons back, and the crowd immediately dispersed. As soon as they did, Ashton heard the sound of someone clapping.

"It's rare to see a fellow mercenary use words instead of weapons," The man said, "You are a unique one amongst us, Mr?"

Ashton looked at the brown-skinned man and knew it wasn't his first time facing beasts. There were countless scratch and bite marks spread throughout his body, but the unique thing about him was his eye patch and the triangular skull tattoo he had on his shoulder.

This wasn't the first time Ashton had seen the tattoo, and it was the logo of one of the many blacklisted mercenary groups. However, this particular tattoo belonged to the same group that kidnapped Anna back on planet Euphoria.