After increasing his stats he ate a bag of chips. He immediately exited his house to Level Up. He took his mallet and knife. He left the house and crept down the street to the nearest car. He frankly felt really dumb that he didn’t check if the nearby cars had keys in them to drive. He also felt thankful that he didn’t live in a area with high traffic. He could drive around in his neighborhood and maybe a bit further but couldn’t travel to most places as the cars would block the road.

He checked a bunch of cars, a couple of cars had keys but the engine did not start.

After searching a bit more he finally gave up.

He wandered around a bit more in search of enemies. He saw a pack of four wolves. He felt that he could take on them. The pack had eight wolves the last time he saw them. Either a bigger predator had taken down the rest or this was a different pack. He decided to engage because no risk no reward.

He circled behind the back of the pack. He leapt at the wolf at the back of the pack and smashed his mallet against its back. There was a cracking sound and the wolf howled in pain. The other wolves were alarmed at the sound of their companion. Before they could recover he leapt at the next nearest wolf swung the mallet sideways. It tried to jump up and almost escaped but the mallet clipped its front two legs. The other wolves recovered and leapt at him. He pulled a risky move and threw the mallet at one of the leaping wolves while jumping to the left side of the other wolf. Sadly, he wasn’t able to escape unscathed. The claws of the wolf mauled his right leg near the tibia. He fell down and couldn’t get up due to the leg wound. The wolf pounced on him again he grabbed the wolf by the neck using one hand and grabbed his knife using the other hand and slashed at its throat. The slash was shallow and he was tired. The wolf struggled attempting to slash at his chest, few of which were successful. He slashed at its throat again and again until it died. The wolf body collapsed on top of him. This was the most difficult battle he had ever faced. He’d almost died and his shirt was in tatters. he then fell unconscious.

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He woke up with a pounding headache. Immediately he was bombarded with System Messages.

[You have defeated 2x Level 5 Wolves]

[You have defeated a Level 8 Alpha Wolf]

[You have reached Level 6]

[You have gained 10 Stat Points and 4 Skill Points]

He noticed that most of his injuries had faded into scar. When he stood up he felt no pain in his leg. He went home and sat on his couch watching some TV. It had been a while since he had any entertainment other than fighting.