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Chapter 11 - Trap festival

Chapter 11 - Trap festival

Here we are, today is the day the wolves should attack… man, I really hope my traps will be enough. I’ve been hard at work and now each wolf should have about seven traps each, for a total of 49. While it might sound overkill, it’s better to be safe than sorry. Maybe I could’ve been spared from the effort if I simply flew away to a spot where the wolves would have a hard time getting to me, but I don’t know how long lasts, so worse case scenario, I would be hunted for the rest of my life.

When the timer for the effect ended, I was in a much more dense part of the forest, waiting. I didn’t need to wait for long to see the first wolf arrive. It immediately triggered one of my traps, receiving a log to the side and getting launched by it. I then rushed to it and used [Poisonous bite], [Poisonous dart] and [Poisonous touch]. This way I was nearly certain it was out of the fight. Then, I felt two wolves approaching from behind, unfortunately it was not a place I set up a trap, so I went to the nearest trap… and then stumbled across another wolf. Which took one step forward and activated a pitfall with wooden spikes covered in poison at the bottom. Since this trap was used, I went to the next one before the other two wolves could catch up to me, nearly bumping into another one in the process. As I was getting ready to make the three wolves that were following fall into another trap, the one that fell into the pitfall suddenly attacked from behind, it nearly missed me but I hoped it would’ve stayed longer out of the fight. I then managed to make all four of them fall into a trap each, making sure to kill the last one using [Spike launch] and [Poisonous bite] multiple times.

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Then, the two missing ones made their appearance.

I would assume it was the alpha and its mate, but I didn’t know for sure, all I knew, is that they were trouble. I immediately started flying towards the next set of traps, but this mad lad charged straight through them like they were nothing! It went through nearly half of my traps before showing some sing of them affecting it. That’s when the mate decided to attack, while I was expecting, I wasn’t ready for another attack from the side from the first wolf I thought I had taken care of.

I managed to avoid most of the attack but it still scratched me. As I was making those three go through the rest of my traps, I noticed something strange.

I was getting worryingly tired.

It’s not before my last trap was activated that I noticed that the reason why the wolves were still standing despite my poison, was because they were poisonous themselves…

Man, give me a break.

How am I supposed to survive the onslaught of six weakened wolves while poisoned myself?