Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 37 The Wolves
The barbecue was very fragrant. Rhodes ate a small half of the thigh by himself. Even without adding any seasoning, it was the best meal of barbecue he had ever eaten. After all, this was the first wild boar he killed with his own hands.

He drew a fine steel dagger in the system, and then used the dagger to cut the wild boar's meat into small strips for roasting. Small pieces of meat cook faster.

Aya may have not eaten meat for a long time, and he ate a lot, but according to him, the meat was a bit fishy.

It was completely dark after they finished eating, and Rhodes was just about to fall asleep when he heard the continuous howling of wolves.

Probably attracted by the barbecue and wild boar corpses, Rhodes saw a few wild wolves hiding in the shadows through the light brought by the campfire.

They are afraid of fire, so they don't dare to get too close, they only dare to peek not far away, and it is estimated that they will muster up the courage to try to steal the wild boar carcass later.

Rhodes, who was surrounded by wolves, was a little nervous. Although he felt that these wolves combined could not kill the wild boar, he was still instinctively afraid.

Aya didn't dare to make a sound after seeing the wolf, and kept leaning towards Rhodes. He kept a certain distance from Rhodes during the barbecue.

The wolves may have sensed the smell of fear, and they got closer and closer. Rhodes picked up a burning branch to drive away the wolves that got too close.

Even though he was a little scared, he didn't want to just snatch his hard-earned prey away.

If I had a sword, I could kill all these wolves, Rhodes thought to himself, he didn't wear iron armor on his body, and wondered if the iron cloth shirt with the golden bell cover alone could stop their bites.

He still remembered that when he killed the Frostbite Spider, he was the one who killed the big spider with his iron armor and iron cloth shirt.These wild wolves are not big in size, not as big as the huskies I have seen before.

Even if there is no iron armor now, my third-level iron cloth shirt with admiralty cover should be about the same as the previous first-level iron cloth shirt plus iron armor.

Could it be that he was frightened by the sharp dagger of the Death Cult priest last time, and had serious doubts about his skin thickness?
"Be closer to the fire, it's better to take a burning branch, they are afraid of fire." Rhodes said to Aya who was holding his clothes.

He tore Aya's hand from his fur coat, and approached the wolf with a thick burning branch. The wolf kept backing away, baring its teeth and snarling at him.

The best way to beat a dog is a stick, followed by legs.Rhodes picked up a branch and lashed at the wolf. This branch was much thicker than the previous mop stick, and it made a painful whine when it hit the wolf.

He felt a pain in his calf, looked down, and saw a wild wolf was biting his calf.

Rhodes kicked that leg towards a nearby tree, and the wild wolf let out a mournful cry when it was hit on the tree. He pressed the wolf to the tree wound with his knee, and when he was about to give the wolf a fist , felt that the hand that was not holding the branch was bitten by a wolf.

After being bitten by a wolf, he only felt pain and no blood flowed out. Wearing such thick fur clothes should also increase his defense ability a lot.

Rhodes let go of the branch of his right hand and grabbed the wolf that was biting him. The wolf let go of his left hand and bit his right palm.

There was a twitch on his face from the pain and he almost cried out. He suddenly had a bold idea. He released the gravity technique with his right hand. The magic was forcibly dissolved, and the out-of-control magic power in the palm of his right hand exploded, making the mouth of the wild wolf biting his right hand dripping with blood, and then fell limply to the ground without moving.

And his right hand was bitten by the wolf's canines with several blood holes, and his gloves became tattered.

If the gloved hand is bitten, it will be injured. If one's unprotected neck is bitten, wouldn't it be fatal?And will I get rabies?

Thinking of this, Rhode didn't dare to be like before, and began to concentrate.

He raised his left hand and gave the wolf who was caught between his legs and the tree a hard blow.

After the knuckle-wearing fist hit the wolf's head, there was a crackling sound, and the wild wolf's skull was cracked by Rhodes. A large piece of the head was dented, and blood seeped out from the fractured part of the skull.

Rhodes let go of the leg that was holding the wild wolf on the tree, and began to observe the surrounding situation. The torch fell to the ground and went out. The remaining wolves of the wolf pack did not dare to move forward when they saw that their companions were two dead and one injured. They bared their teeth and circled around Rhodes trying to find a suitable time. Aya next to the campfire not far away was still safe, and no wolf dared to approach the flames.

One of the strongest wolves roared suddenly, and the wild wolves attacked Rhodes from all directions.

Seeing this, Rhodes turned his head and ran towards the bonfire. He kicked away a wild wolf that stood in front of him, and hit the wild wolf that was jumping in mid-air and was about to bite his neck with his hand.

When they got to the campfire, the remaining dozen or so wolves approached Rhodes step by step under the leadership of the head wolf.

Aya hid behind Rhodes, "What should we do?" Aya asked in a crying voice.

"It's okay." Rhodes looked back at Aya and said.He took a burning branch from the fire and threw it at the wolves. None of the wolves were hit.

Rhodes was actually panicked. He could definitely kill these wolves with only a slight injury, but Aya was not as rough-skinned as him, unless he could disregard Aya's life and death.

Even if he just met Aya today, he didn't want such a cruel thing like being torn to pieces by wolves to happen to Aya who was still at an innocent age.

Not to mention Baron, even Hamer is enough to deal with this group of wolves. Last time Hamer was able to deal with stronger and more agile werewolves for a while, facing these beasts is probably a massacre.

I am still too weak.

It is impossible to escape in front of the wolves. Even if he is better than the best long-distance runner before crossing, he is still far behind animals like wolves.

Rhodes suddenly remembered that Aya seemed to be very good at climbing trees. Their bonfire was in an open space with no trees next to it. It would be fine if Aya was allowed to climb trees, and wolves couldn't climb trees.

"I'll hold you later and take you to a nearby tree. Then you have to climb up the tree quickly and don't come down." Rhodes said to Aya.

Aya nodded, and Rhode immediately picked up Aya and ran back around the campfire. The wolves behind him also followed, ignoring the wild boar corpses next to the campfire, as they were ready to take revenge.

He ran under a tree, raised his hands to lift Aya up, Aya quickly climbed up the tree, and looked down at Rhodes who was thrown to the ground by the wolf.

A wolf weighs seventy or eighty kilograms, and several of them pounced on Rhodes together. Even if Rhodes had learned a few martial arts now, they were still thrown to the ground.

Falling to the ground, he tried to protect his neck and head with his hands as much as possible.Enduring the stench from the wolves' mouths, Rhodes used all his strength to knock down a few wolves lying on him and then stood up.

He leaned against a tree to take a few breaths, and faced the wolves that were about to move, he assumed the posture of Taizu's long fist.

It seems that only one party can or will leave here tonight...

(End of this chapter)