Limits Chapter 43

We ran through the forest at night. I tried to follow the general direction of the path we were supposed to take. I could hear the howls behind . Judging by the amount of howls the wolves produced, they would number to at least 20. That was a large pack and it would be difficult to fight all these wolves. There was a large probability we would survive but 20 was the lowest estimate. The number could even reach 40 and the one very distinctive howl I heard from ti to ti was the most worrying.

We ran like this for an hour and I could still hear so howls in a far distance. I said to Shelly "We have to get away much further. Otherwise too many problems can arise". Shelly looked tired but still nodded its head. We traveled for another 30 minutes and the howls now were very distant and low in number. I said to Shelly "Rest here. I think we are far enough for the wolves to not catch up". Although wolves were adapted to running and survival in the forest but a full speed chase would no doubt tire out most if not all wolves in that pack.

I sat down next to Shelly and rested a bit. Shelly was quite weak because it over exerted itself. I needed to find so animals for it to feed on 'Where would I find so animals at night?' I thought.

My thoughts were disturbed by a loud howl that sounded not very far away from our location. I got up and imdiately listened to my surroundings. After awhile, I could hear so noises coming from the direction that we ca from.

Then I noticed a large wolf. It was about twice the size of normal wolf and it had silver grey fur. The wolf noticed as well and after howling once more, it pounced at . I wasn't scared of just one wolf but this one must've been the leader of the pack. Either way, I mobilised my daggers and threw one after the other at the wolf. The wolf managed to dodge one dagger, then another and finally the 3rd one finally hit the target.

*Cling*

I was dumbfounded. The dagger just bounced off producing sparks. Normally this throw would kill a normal wolf, yet this one had no injuries. The wolf was getting closer and it was quite fast but not as fast as I was. I pounced at the wolf as well, with a dagger in each hand.

In seconds, I was tres away from the wolf. I calculated it's next actions and evaded to the left then slashed my dagger at its throat while spinning and slashing my other dagger at its belly. When my first dagger connected the only thing that it achieved was more sparks. 'It seems to have tallic fur!' I thought and when my 2nd dagger connected, it finally managed to wound the wolf.

"Awooo!"

The wolf howled. I now knew it's weak point, which was it's belly. I stabilised my footing and pounced at the wolf that was crying in pain again. I aid both of my daggers at the wolf's belly and slashed. Two more wounds were inflicted on its belly but not without a price. The wolf in rage ramd with its head.

The impact was so strong that I flew a few tres back. I was quite shocked 'What type of strength is this?' I thought to myself and picked myself up. I wasn't unscaved eaither, Although nothing broke, I felt a lot of pain nevertheless. The wolf in anger pounced at again. I readied my daggers and awaited it's next move. When the wolf was close, I again evaded it's attack and slashed with my daggers at its belly.

The wolf howled again and wanted to ram but I wouldn't be stupid enough to do the sa mistake. I rolled to the side and attacked again. The wolf surprisingly was also quite cunning and so my attack failed. What welcod was the wolf's tail. I evaded it and the tail hit the tree behind . When I saw what happened to that tree, I was shocked. 'This guy's tail is like a sword, it almost cut the tree in half!' I scread in my mind.

Because the wolf had to turn away from in order to swing its tail at , I now had a chance to do whatever I wanted because the wolf's vision lost for a mont. I hid in the wolf's blind spot and suddenly attacked it's belly again.

This ti the wolf fell down and howled in pain. I didn't give it any chances to stand up and slashed multiple tis at it's belly. After such a barrage of attacks, the wolf finally died. I was exhausted. I opened up the wolf's belly and took out all the intestines, then I took so at and brought it to Shelly.

Shelly looked quite pitiful and when it slled the at it instantly gobbled it up. I went back to the wolf and extracted more at. I repeated this process until half of the wolf's at was eaten by Shelly. Then I started the fire and cooked the at. I had to eat sothing as well. I was already exhausted. One and a half hour of running then fight with this monster, spent a lot of my energy.

I cooked large portions of at over the fire and ate like it was my first ti eating at. Shelly ca over and also wanted more. I gave it so more. This monster weighted at least 100 kilograms, when I was taking out the at, I noticed that the fur was still very sturdy and hard to cut. I decided to extract so fur and use it for my clothing later.

It was hard to skin the wolf because the fur would just give out sparks when I tried to cut it with my dagger. I had to cut it from the inside and then the fur separated easily. I cleaned up the fur and rolled it into a bundle. I turned towards Shelly and said "Can you carry this around?" it was a turtle after all and had quite big shell so I wanted to know. The fur was quite heavy about 15 kilograms and that was after I cleaned it.

Shelly didn't seem to like the idea of transporting my stuff around but it nodded it's head in the end. I didn't want Shelly to think I'm using it for cheap labour so I said "When we do dinner tomorrow, I will cook more at for you, how about that as a treat?" Shelly nodded it's head in agreent.

We went back onto our path a traveled for another couple of hours with breaks of course, until I found another suitable place to spend the night at. The next day, late in the morning. I woke up and stretched myself. The night was quite eventful but other than the encounter with the wolf, nothing else happened.

I woke up Shelly and said "Alright, it's ti to move now. I think we will be at our destination at about evening". Shelly got up and followed after .