When I woke up, everything was a blur, the events of the day were slowly returning to me while my body struggled with the poison.

I remembered everything up to the point where I killed the alpha, but after that… I’m not sure, the memories are slowly returning to me.

The first thing I remember after the kill was a sudden intense dizziness, then I stopped thinking, and then I started flying towards the nearest wolf, not caring about the poison in me. I then got struck by another wolf, which sent me flying in the nearest tree, knocking the wind out of me.

But I got back up.

Then I rushed towards the wolf that had struck me, dodging any attacks sent my way, to then use a point blank [Spike launch] on its throat. It didn’t kill it, but it sure as hell damaged it. Then two other wolves did a coordinated attack, which I was able to dodge one part of it, but not the second which sent me barreling towards the ground.

But I got back up.

I then rushed to the injured wolf, which the other wolves saw coming and were prepared for. They all tried to bite me in a way that made it impossible to dodge, so I used [Thread manipulation] to make one of the wolves close its mouth prematurely. Then I retaliated by using [Poisonous dart] in their eyes, following with a [Poisonous bite] in the wound of the wolf I originally targeted. Sure it was at least out of the battle for now, I turned my attention back to the other three wolves, but… There were only two, so I hurriedly looked around and used [Presence awareness] to try to locate it. Too little too late. As I was panicking, I felt a searing pain in one of my legs. It had just been bitten through, how it was still attached to me was a mystery, but I did not have much time to ponder over it since the wolf used my leg to swing me into another tree.

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But I got back up.

The mate of the alpha then jumped on me, but I used a well timed and weirdly accurate [Spike launch] to blast off her remaining eye. As she stumbled backwards, the other three rushed me with weird skills activated. The first one seemed to be at three places at the same time, the second one seemingly caught fire and the last one started howling, really loud. I did my best to outmaneuver them, but whenever I tried to attack the first one, I was just hitting an afterimage. Whatever I threw at the second one just instantly melted. The final one started howling whenever I got remotely close, which pierced my ears and made me stopped for a few seconds. Then the second one caught me, biting off one of my wings and greatly burning me. Then, to ensure I would stay down, the last one started howling right next to me.

But I got back up, I tuned out the howling, I ignored the burning pain in my back, I ignored the bleeding in my leg, I ignored the fatigue of the poison.

I. Simply. Got. Up.

Then, a window popped up, I ignored what was written on it, and I fought.

What happened next was a cacophony of strings, bites and spikes.

Then the mate joined the effort… somehow. I guess she has some kind of detection skill. No matter. As I continued fighting, I managed to hit a spike on the wolf with afterimages, I managed to bite the wolf with the howling, but most of all, I used my string to swing off a tree branch and used the momentum to accentuate the damage of [Spike launch], which I shot right between the eyes of the mate, killing her.

Then, the other three retreated and I woke up here.