As Ragnar walked down the road with this man, a man who now that Ragnar had thrown under the bus slightly as he claimed that he was the one who fought and killed the rogue wolf. Ragnar realized that maybe, just maybe he had missed out on an opportunity to fight someone that was most likely very strong but he did rationalize this as a chance to see how well his new partner could do in a fight as so far he had seen very little of his capabilities and wanted to see some of them if at all possible.

As they both approach the rather large werewolf they had meet earlier, along with Cameron they pointed over to a very large werewolf and looked directly at Masami and said " The big one in the middle is Amarok, he is the leader. He is the one that you will want to challenge to combat. You will need to do this by walking up to him and showing no fear, as they will simply eat you alive then but you need to show pride and strength when walking up there otherwise you will not be taken seriously. You will walk up and challenge him as the one who killed the exiled wolf, this will give you the right to challenge him as alpha. He will not kill you before then if you introduce yourself as the one who killed the exiled wolf, as that would be against the rules of the pack. "

Achak looked at Masami to make sure that they got all of that information.

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Ragnar listened to this information as well as he hoped that Masami would get it, as he wanted to see what this guy could do. He clearly was something, he smelled like similar to his Lord's realm though different enough that it clearly was not his Lord but never the less. As Ragnar thought about what this could possibly mean he heard Masami say " my master who slayed such beast" and then pointed at him. Ragnar was surprised but also not as he should have seen this coming as an honorable man would have done the same thing but he was surprised in the fact this man seemed to not be powerful enough to stand up to him but here it was. As Ragnar stood there and thought about it, he also wondered why he used the word master. Ragnar had no slaves or people that served under him, but they didn't know that and now Masami had put the effort of this fight on Ragnar.

Ragnar then realized that things escalated very quickly as Masami was pulled out of a circle that had appeared around them and Amarok and Ragnar were the only ones left in the middle. Ragnar shrugged his shoulders, he wanted to see if his temporary companion had any strength in him but clearly he did not so he had to come up with something else.

Ragnar pulled the club off his back and in that moment three massive magical circles appeared around him as Ragnar roared a battle cry. As his muscles grew in size and density he also started to grow in size, slowly at first before rapidly expanding so rapidly that the circle had to break ranks and spread out just to get big enough to allow Ragnar's growing form to still fit inside of the circle. Ragnar eventually stopped growing when he was a massive 6 meters tall, his weapon alone was nearly 5 meters long in his hands and over two dozen centimeters thick. This transformation seemed to surprise Amarok, and he backed up as he tried to decide how to best deal with a monster this large now.

Sadly there wasn't much he could do as Ragnar swung his club at him, sweeping it across the ground at him at full speed, aiming to end this fight in a single blow if at all possible. Amarok while faster then Ragnar, even more so in this form, simply did not have the speed to be able to move up half of his body length into the air before the blow hit and didn't have enough time to move back the two meters or more it would take before the blow slammed into him. This blow sent him flying into the distance, where his body slammed into a tree and as his spine could be heard snapping against the wood of the tree. This blow also killed several other Werewolves in the arc of the swing that didn't move far enough back to avoid the swing of his club.

Ragnar roared into the air, with his new size this sounded more like a thunderclap going off directly above these people's heads, so loud that most of the werewolves covered their ears due to how loud it really was. Once this was done, Ragnar then started to go back down to his normal size of over two meters tall. It only took a moment but it was long enough for Ragnar to then turn around and give a signal for Achak to show up and walk back into the camp.

Once this was done Ragnar would turn to Masami and say simply " That was a disappointment, as is the fact that I will continue to figure out why you smell like my Lord... How would you like for us to deal with this? Do we give them back over to Achak or do we use them to simply kill the village and take what we want from it? " Ragnar said this last part as a matter of factly and without emotion as if he asked Masami if he wanted beef or chicken for dinner.

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As Ragnar watched the old wolf appear and his 'companion' come and tell him how good of a job he did. Ragnar did notice that he felt a bit stronger then he should have during that fight even with the amount of magic running through him, so he knew that this man had clearly had to have given him some magical buff as well as his own but that wasn't important right now. Ragnar listened to what the man had to say before he walked away from them. Ragnar walked through the circle of wolves, over the bodies of some that had been killed by the massive swing that Ragnar took earlier but none of mattered to Ragnar.

Ragnar reached the corpse of the dead werewolf, his slain foe, and he reached down and grabbed the head of this wolf and from the back, nothing could be heard but the sound of bones snapping and the sound of flesh ripping along with the ground below Ragnar slowly starting to be stained with the blood of the dead werewolf. When Ragnar finally turned around both of his hands were covered in blood, but the most disturbing thing was that the head of the werewolf was in his hands. Ragnar looked at the head as he moved it around in his hands as if judging it like a gem or a piece of art before he said into the crowd. " You will follow Achak now... I have no interest in leading your people and I feel it would be a disservice to you to follow my Lord without your complete commitment to the cause. " As Ragnar said this the head in his hands started to smoke and burn as the flesh, blood and organs started to burn away to ask. By the time that he had finished his sentence, the skull was completely clean and down to the white of the bone.

There were no scorch marks or anything else on the skull before Ragnar said a word. The word was not human or even of this realm, though Masami might recognize it as the words of a Devil. After the sound of a thunderclap, a sound of the beast coming running through the forest could be heard. Out of the forest came something that no one could reasonably expect. a beast that was as big and wide as a water buffalo while being far heavier. The horn on his head was a single one, forming a T shape on it, though on top of the flat of that T were large spikes, where it appeared skulls had been placed. It's appeared to be closer to a massive dog in shape and size, it's mouth appeared to be big enough to bite a man's head off with room to spare, its teeth were as long and sharp as shortswords. From a distance color of the fur of the beast looked a dirty brass only as it got closer would people realize that it was not the color of the fur, it was armor. Sheets of Brass covered armor covered every inch of this beast and it didn't seem to slow it down at all in any way. The chains that were used to 'control' this beast was attached to a massive spiked collar around its neck. As it approached and slowly came to a stop, small gaps in the armor showed something possibly more terrible. This beast had no skin, it appeared to be made of machinery and parts mixed together with a living beast.

This beast came running next to Ragnar, at which point Ragnar tapped the side of it, welcoming it back into this realm for a moment as Ragnar put the skull into a pouch on the mount. Ragnar then got onto the mount, even as the mount started to snap and growl at the local werewolves who backed up quickly to get away from the beast. Ragnar reached down and grabbed the chain used to 'control' this beast and the beast walked towards Masami. When the beast was mere feet away from Masami, Ragnar turned it so that Masami would be facing the flank of the animal before Ragnar said simply " My name is Ragnar Asgeir, the Skulltaker, and Paladin of Zalambur. I hope to one day realize why you smell like my Lord, but until that day, I wish you well even if you are now my enemy. "

Ragnar then turned and rode away into the distance, Ragnar knew that the next time they meet it was unlikely they would be on the same side.

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