Locked in the encirclement of the three wolves, Freddy calm yet at alert watched as they slowly prowled closer, shrinking the circle.
'The level 4 wild boars already had around 500 HP, which means these wolves are on the lower end in terms of defense and health.' Freddy quickly analyzed, glancing at the wolves individually to compare their information.
Even as a noob, Freddy had watched his little brother play games many times to know some things.
'But it's most likely made up for in attack power and speed, coupled with wolves cunning ways of fighting, this is going to be tough.'
As soon as he reached this conclusion one of the wolves lunged forward, aiming a bite at his heels.
Freddy on the other hand, launched a flying-kick which hit another wolf, effectively dodging while launching a surprise attack.
-30
Seeing the damage, Freddy sighed, at the same time rolling to the side to dodge another attack. 'How nice would it be to have a weapon right now.'
The first wolf that attacked his heels attacked again, this time aiming for his stomach.
Freddy out of reflexes, lifted his right leg and delivered a powerful knee to the wolf's jaw.
-Critical Hit
-60
-Stunned
"Nice" seeing the repeated words floating up above the wolf, Freddy couldn't refrain his excitement.
Immediately following up with a kick to the head, he sent the stunned wolf flying back.
-Critical Hit
-62
But just then, another wolf landed a claw strike on his outstretched thigh.
A intense burning sensation assaulted him, the pain so much that he let out a muffled groan.
-58
Yet he immediately rolled to the side just in time to avoid a bite an attack from another as a bloody number appeared above him.
'What high damage, if I take three more of those I'm definitely finished.' he thought with a frown, retreating to escape their encirclement.
Looking down at his thigh, he didn't see the mangled bleeding flesh that he expected, instead he saw three red line across his thigh indicating a claw strike.
'At least they toned it down on the gore part.' apartfrom those lines and the pain, one wouldn't even believe that he was injured.
'What a foolish mistake I made, allowing myself to be encircled. Good thing I invested in speed.' Now standing before the three wolves, Freddy realized his mistakes.
However having invested majority of his points to agility, the wolves couldn't suppress his in that aspect.
The three wolves also didn't immediately rush to attack, having realizing that this particular prey could contend with them in terms of speed, they decided to adopt a different tactics.
[Bloodthirsty Wolf
Level 5
HP: 328/450]
[Bloodthirsty Wolf
Level 5
HP: 450/450]
[Bloodthirsty Wolf
Level 5
HP: 420/450]
Looking at the remaining healths of all the wolves, Freddy turned his attention to the one with the lowest health.
'Gotta concentrate fire and take them out one by one.' having reached this conclusion, Freddy decided to attack first.
Shooting himself towards the left, Freddy launched a running knee towards the wolf with the lowest health.
These were moves that would have been difficult, if not outright impossible for him to perform in reality. However, thanks to the system stats he could easily perform them in the game.
But to his surprise, it leaped backwards, dodging the kicked while at the same time as he moved, another lunged at him and bit into his waist.
-70
Intense pain assaulted him again, however fueled by adrenaline, he smashed an elbow into the wolfs head, forcing it to let go.
-Critical Hit
-61
Leaping back, he wasted no time in retrieving a fresh bread from his inventory, ate it and soothing feeling washed over him slightly easing the pain.
Green number suddenly began to floated up above him as his HP slowly rose.
+4
+4
+4
...
HP: 92/180
'Damn, clever canines. Using the baiting tactics.' he cursed inwardly.
Checking his inventory, he realized he had only six fresh breads left. 'The situation is worsening.'
The wolves as if realizing that Freddy was in a bind, attacked again.
The low-health wolf lunged at him while the others prepared to attack according to Freddy's reaction.
However, they never expected that Freddy didn't dodge, but instead delivered his right ankle to be bitten.
No one noticed that his amber-colored pupils had suddenly turned blood-red.
At the same time that the wolf sank its fangs into him, Freddy trying his best to ignored the pain smashed his left elbow into the wolf's head.
Immediately following it with a heavy punch from his right hand to its left eye, before grabbing its neck and hurling it into a nearby tree.
-52
-Critical Hit
-62
-Stun
-Critical Hit
-70
-Blind
-15
[Aegis Kaelos
HP: 40/180]
[Bloodthirsty Wolf
HP: 181/450]
Freddy immediately followed after the stunned wolf, withdrawing two breads and chewing them along the way.
The other two wolves lunged at him hoping to rescue their comrade, but what happened next was outside their expectations.
Kicking the stunned wolf into the tree again, it bounced back out into Freddy's already waiting hands.
-30
-15
Grabbing the wolf's front paws, Freddy swung it around with all his might smashing the other two away with the body of their comrade.
-30
-30
-30
Still not letting go, he lifted it up and smashed it heavily into the ground. Immediately lifting his leg, he repeatedly stomped on its neck.
-30
-Critical Hit
-62
-Critical Hit
-62
However, two stomps in and the wolf howled miserablely as its HP bar emptied out.
A sudden system Notification also greeted Freddy.
Ding
-----------------------------------------
System Notification
Level 5 Bloodthirsty Wolf killed. Due to level difference exp gained +20%
Exp +60
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Lifting his head to stare at the other two wolves, Freddy got into a fighting stance ready to continue fighting.
But the two remaining wolves immediately tucked their tails and ran away, leaving Freddy completely dumbfounded.
"The animals even know to run if the situation becomes unfavorable." Freddy muttered and clicked his tongue in amazement.
At that moment his blood red pupils finally returned to normal.
Unbeknownst to him, seeing his eyes the wolves instinctively felt like this wasn't a prey but a dangerous predator.
Taking a step forward, pain suddenly made him wince. After the adrenaline subsided the pain from wounds finally assaulted him.
Crack!
However as he took out a fresh bread to eat, the sound of twig snapping suddenly came from behind him.
The hairs on his neck stood on end and without even thinking he rolled forward as a dagger narrowly miss his neck.
Quickly standing up and looking behind him, Freddy saw a familiar figure standing behind him. The person was soon joined by two more people.
'Of all the f*cking people in the world.' Freddy sighed.