Noah squeezed, his fingers applying pressure that collapsed the wolf's windpipe and crushed vertebrae without any mercy.
These beasts that had surrounded him deserved it. Every single one of them deserved the death that was approaching without exception.
The dire wolf thrashed desperately for several seconds before its struggles weakened and finally ceased entirely. Noah released the corpse and let it drop to the ground like discarded garbage.
[You have killed a Tier 4 Thunder Wolf!]
The remaining beasts had managed to form their defensive cluster, but the formation was already compromised by panic and terror. They watched Noah with expressions that showed they finally understood the magnitude of their mistake. This wasn't a vulnerable human they could overwhelm through numbers—this was a predator operating on a completely different level than they could match.
