The wolf is fast. In just a few second, it's almost reach Daniel position. And then, it's jumped at him. It's claw poised to strike at him. Startled, he doved to the side. The wolf, carried by it's own momentum, flew fast him.

The second it's feet touched the ground, it's immediatly righted itself to faced him. The wolf growled, and running toward him once more.

Hurriedly, Daniel scrambled to get up. He tried to run away, but he didn't get far before the wolf is upon him. The wolf tackled Daniel from behind. They both thrown away from the impact.

The wolf get his bearing first, and in second tried to mauls Daniel with it's teeth.

Luckily, he's able to take ahold of his branch in time, it's flew from his grasp when the wolf tackled him.

He hold it up, so instead of his flesh, the wolf's mouth found the branch between it's teeth instead.

Their faces is so near one another, Daniel can feel it's hot breath on his face.

Before the wolf can get the bright idea to skewer him with it's claw, Danield push his branch up, and with it, the wolf flung away from him.

Hurriedly, Daniel gets up and swung his branch with two handed grip. He swung it so hard, it's whooshed in the air.

The branch and the wolf's head connects with a loud thwack.

The wolf flung away for the second time, and when it's gets up, it's make a pitiful whining noise and shaking it's head as if dazzed.

Before the wolf could take it's bearing, Daniel is upon it.

He swinging his branch again and again. A few of it hit the wolf with a meaty thwack and the rest is avoided by the wolf.

In retaliation, the wolf lashed out with it's claws at him. The claw hit his arm and shredded both the sleeve of his hodie and the skin of his arm. His arm immediatly leaked out blood and it's stained the sleeve of his hoodie.

"Fuck!" Daniel swear. His arm feels tender. Those claws are sharp. He immediatly take a few step back to get away from the wolf and to assess the situation.

The wolf itself used this time away from each other to take it's bearing.

Suddenly, a thought hit him. He remembered the container with it's green content that he got from the slime monster that he defeated earlier. He immediatly draw it from it's place safely tucked away in his hoodie's pocket. Luckily, it's didn't broken.

Stolen novel; please report.

Right on time too, because the wolf is once again pounced on him. But, this time, when the wolf flew past him, Daniel threw the container at the wolf.

It hit the wolf right on it's left flank. The glass shattered on contact. Immediatly, it's flank started sizzling and then melted. It's howled in agony and shaking it's body to tried to get it off it's skin.

But, it just keep sticking and the part where it hit just gone and started to leaking out blood. It's lost so many blood, and not long after that, it's just end up drop dead. Whining piteously all the while.

Watching all of this, Daniel just stood there, lost for words. That stuff is more dangerous that the Green Slime he though.

Suddenly remembered his injury where the wolf has managed to hit him. It still leaking out blood and hurt like hell. He tear apart his shredded sleeve to make a makeshift tourniquet.

He is still in outskirt of the forest, because the fight didn't drag him too far. So, he sit down under a trees to rest his exhausted body. The fight take a lot out of him. He's never went to the gym, and developed his body. So, even though the fight doesn't take long, it's still managed to tired him out.

Suddenly, a sound like a bell chimed went off in his head. The sound accompanied by a flash of light. The flash of light is not harmful, it's just surprised him. When he opened his eyes a message appeared in his vision.

[Level Up!]

[Warrior Level 2!]

[Skill: Sure-Grip!]

When Daniel finished reading the message, it's simply disappear.

The message again he though. Is it even real?. And what kind of Skill is Sure-Grip?.

When he finished with the message, he send a searching looks around the wolf's corpse.

And sure enough, he found a chest on it's right. The chest looks similar with the chest from the Green Slime, if somewhat longer and bigger.

Danie gets up to take it, inside he saw a double-edged short sword, with ivory hilt, an ivory wolf's head-shaped pommel, a black straight crossguard, and a black and silver sheath.

As before, when he take the short sword, the chest burst into wispy white smoke and disappear.

Daniel pull the sword from it's sheath, the blade is the color of polished steel and it's gleamed in the sunlight. It's look really sharp.

While he admiring the sword, he noticed that his grip felts more firmer, more right, somehow.

Huh, it must be the effect of that Skill Daniel though.

He doesn't have anywhere to put it, so he just hold it with his hand.

It's already past noon when he suddenly got here, and he walked for hours. When he looks up, the sun is started to dipped down behind the horizon.

He don't really wanted to walking in the dark. Not to waste time, Daniel prepared to makes camp for the night and he started to collecting dry wood and dead grass for making fire and dump it under a tree some way away from the wolf's body, in case of a scavenger, where he decide to take shelter for the night.

He put the dry wood -stick really- between his palms and spin it to create friction. And he do it for a really long time, 'till his hands is sore, but he didn't succed to make a fire.

So, he just give up and lay down on the hard ground. That night, he cried to sleep, because the event today felt real and that mean he stranded here, in the middle of nowehere, alone, without help. He is exhausted and his body felt sore all over. His arm is wounded from the fight with the Green Slime and the wolf.

So, that night, he sleep under the night sky, under the stars. At least, there is no mosquitos. Small mercy.