Sol is surrounded and outnumbered, he has nowhere to run, even if somehow he can make a breakthrough there is no way he can outrun a wolf.
He about to throw more of his bottled sulfuric acid but they already lunge toward him, leaving him no chance to throw one.
He was barely able to block one wolf with his left hand when another one tackles him to the ground.
Sol had his back on the ground while a wolf mounts him, it about to bite on his throat but Sol uses his left hand to block the bite, making the wolf bite Nerodia's hard skin rather than his soft neck.
Seeing the chance, Sol stabs his knife toward the wolf's carotid arteries, blood gushes out from its neck, soaking him blood red.
Three other wolves about to claw at him, but then they stop midway, a howling sound can be heard behind him.
Given the chance, Sol gets back on his two feet, he looks at the group of wolves but they already move back a few meters from him, keeping their body closer to the ground.
Looking at their strange behavior, Sol turns his head toward the direction of the howl, there hi find another pack of wolves, around a dozen wolves being lead by a bigger wolf.
"Fuck, they have another backup" Sol lamented. "The big one is most likely is their Alpha!"
Feeling the horror, Sol's face turns white, if he had a 50% chance of survival, then now his chance is close to zero.
After waiting for a few seconds for his end, Sol becomes confused, "why don't they start attacking."
The alpha only howls at him and start circling him slowly, Sol rise his knife toward the wolf, he starts turning his body, following the wolf.
Sol won't give his back toward the wolf because it will be seen as a chance to attack him.
" is it asserting his dominance by challenging me?" Sol puzzled.
The wolf is taller than him by almost half a meter, it probably weighs almost trice his weight.
Sol rise his hand slowly toward his bag, he wants to take a bottle of sulfuric acid for a weapon.
The wolf seeing the chance and lunges toward him, Sol roll to the side, barely dodging it.
If this alpha pushes him to the ground like the last wolf, he won't be able to move at all, it weight just too much for him to fight him on the ground.
Sol gets on his foot as fast ash he can, he starts distancing himself from the wolf, the wolf starts circling him again.
Sol moves closer toward a big tree, when gets close, he starts to climb it as fast as he can.
Seeing him turning his back, the wolf runs toward him, it tries to climb toward him, with both of its hand occupied with climbing the tree, it tries to bite at Sol's foot.
Sol pulls his foot up, barely save his foot from turning into a meat paste.
While at it, he also throws a bottle toward the wolf open maw, it was shattered in one bite, Smokes start to comes out of its mouth.
It lost it's grip and fall to the snow, it was rolling in pain, if you ever drink boiling hot water, then what it feels now is ten times worse than that.
"Now is the chance!" Sol hurriedly reloads his gun and shot it toward the wolf that still rolling on the ground.
From twelve shots, Sol only hit it trice, once the side and twice on the back.
Seeing that it's still rolling on the ground, Sol jumps down from the tree, stabbing it on the neck.
His knife pierces it but it still moving, it swats him away with a backhand swing, sending him rolling on the snow.
Sol get back on his feet, he reaches out and his knife reappears on his hand, he had tried this before and it is like what the cop said, armament can be summoned by its owner.
"fuck is that thing immortal? After drinking acid, being shot, and stabbed on the neck, it still moving like crazy.
Sol about to stab at it again but it is already back on its feet, despite all the pain, it runs toward him.
Sol blocks it with his left hand while slashing at its outstretched arm, Nerodia's old skin blocks most of the impact but it still sends him rolling back a few meters.
This happened a few time, Sol's body was bruised all over from rolling on the ground and being sent flying toward a tree.
Every time Sol always trying to touch it with his knife, he was trying to make his knife sharp enough to cut off its arm.
He didn't block with his knife for he is afraid that it notices his knife is getting sharper.
The wolf about to get enough of him, it strangles him and rises him by the neck, it about to smash his head to the ground when cutting off its arm in a single swing.
"Roarrrrr..." it roars in pain, holding it's stump hand.
Sol runs toward its foot before it recovers, cutting one foot, it falls on the ground, landing with its face.
He jumped to its body, mounting it, with a single motion he beheads the wolf, its body turned limp.
Sol feels his body was sore all over, he wants to lay on the ground and rest but he has a pack of wolves to handle.
Sol looked toward the group, the pack lower their body toward the ground in submission.
"luckily they accept me as their new alpha" Sol sigh in relive.
It's all good but Sol can't rest, if he shows weakness, another wolf will challenge him for his position.