Chapter 28. Battle for the Alpha Seat

In ancient times, before the war that happened ten years ago, the Battle of Alphas happened frequently. It is a fight between the already acknowledged Alpha of a pack and any other Alpha who wants to snatch the pack. Among wolves, strength is everything. Therefore, no powerful Alpha wolf will willingly submit to a weaker wolf. Because of this, the Alpha of a wolf pack is usually the most powerful wolf of that pack. And due to the nature of this battle, it is typically a fight to the death. 

Because of the effect of the civil war that happened after the continental war, 10, 000 years ago, the werewolf clans became weak due to the massive deaths. The Supreme Alphas who rose to intervene and stopped the civil war, therefore, adopted the political ways of humans. Instead of Alpha wolves just randomly fighting for power, — an act that often ends up with devastating infighting within the ruling families of a pack, — a careful selection of Pack Alphas was created. This is done i