Chapter 20: Title [Berserk-Hunter]
Chapter 20: Title [Berserk-Hunter]
Hours passed and it was already afternoon when Shane hunted seven more berserk mountain boars.
In total, Shane killed 8x2nd-Wild adolescent mountain boars and 18x3rd-Wild matured mountain boars, while not a single mid-Wild stage mountain boar had been scouted by him.
Umbra was still looking around interested, but he couldn’t really help out, as his strength was way too weak for even the adolescent mountain boars.
There had only been one time Umbra helped out slightly, as it manifested a thin shadow attributed needle to attack a berserk mountain boar, piercing its eyes, saving Shane from sustaining an injury.
Before that, Shane didn’t even know that Umbra was able to do that, because his affinity was the lowest-basic and he was only at the peak of the 1st-Wild stage which was almost nothing.
But it was fortunate for him and after this happened, Shane tried to figure out a fighting style that included Umbra’s help, even though it would only help by a marginal degree.
He was about to go back to the shelter when he suddenly saw a large group of more than 10 mountain boars with four female mountain boars, five younglings, and two male mountain boars.
Looking at this large group, Shane felt that it would be nice to have four berserk mountain boars, but fighting against ten opponents at the same time seemed unreliable.
Deducting the weak force of the low-2nd Wild youngling boars which he could easily massacre with his physique and combat prowess, the only problem would be fighting four berserk mountain boars at the same time.
Shane also ignored the fact that two male mountain boars were present as the only threat coming from the whole group were berserk beasts.
Still, Shane wanted to give it a try as he had already imprinted the behavior, intelligence and common movement pattern mountain boars normally took once a brethren had been killed.
Furthermore, he roughly knew his surroundings after a few hours and there was a special place he could use and forming a plan in his mind, Shane began to smile widely.
Positioning himself, Shane sneaked closer to the larger group of mountain boars and circulating the mana inside his lower body, he pushed himself from the ground with fast strides, reaching a decent speed.
Appearing in the center of the grazing mountain boars without them noticing, Shane thrusted out with his dagger in a nimble and elegant manner before twisting his body to inflict serious injuries towards the mountain boar younglings that stood in the center to protect them.
Noticing a hostile being appearing amongst them, the matured mountain boars roared out enraged and noticed their offspring’s blood splattering through the air which caused their mind to go blank as they heard a painful squeaking in front of them.
The male mountain boars charged at Shane but they had to stop in between, as the sole opponent in front of them was amongst their offsprings which laid on the ground with blood littering the ground.
Smiling lightly, Shane waited for a second, before he took out the prismarine-luminous crystal and injected mana into it caused a bright light to appear, dazzling the mountain boars around him.
Before long, the prismarine-luminous-crystal shattered, while Shane’s mana was completely used up, but the bright shining light gave him enough time to escape out of the mountain boars’ shallow guarded center.
Once the mountain boars could see again, they noticed Shane’s disappearance and the life force in their offspring dissipating, which caused them to cry out in agony.
All four female mountain boars’ hair stiffened, while their eyes turned red, causing the male boars to be intimidated.
Looking around in their berserk state, they noticed Shane far away waving at them.
All six mountain boar’s were infuriated by him and they mindlessly charged at him.
If they had even the tiniest speck of intelligence in their small brain, they would have noticed that Shane jumped across a four-meter width cliff that was difficult to see without looking carefully around.
The cliff was slightly less than 15 meters deep 50 meters long and only four meters wide and without caring about anything except Shane the murderer of their offsprings, they charged straight at him.
Once they were five meters apart from him, a sane male mountain boar noticed that there was a three-meter width cliff between them but with their speed, they couldn’t stop their charge.
As such it tried to jump across the cliff but with its short leg and heavyweight, the male mountain boar was barely able to cross a distance of two-meter before it’s smashed into the wall down below, falling down the cliff, breaking its legs and many more bones in its body.
Six loud THUMPS could be heard and Shane had to be fast as the possibility for the mountain boars to die before he arrived was definitely present because bones piercing through internal organs was not something to scoff at.
Descending the cliff, Shane arrived at the ground within a minute, and seeing the berserk mountain boars struggling to stand up, he could only smile apologetically.
Seeing him, they roared in pain and wrath but they knew everything was over when Shane pierced at the nearest male mountain boar that was close to them.
They could never accept this outcome, as such, they still tried everything in their power to injure their opponent even though it was hellish painful.
Unfortunately, most of their bones were shattered and they couldn’t even move around freely anymore when Shane ended their life with a clean cut through their neck, dissipating their lifeforce.
KIlling the third berserk mountain boar within this group the long-awaited mechanical voice resounded in his head
[Host killed 10 berserk beasts and is rewarded with the title [Berserk-Hunter(F)
Grants Skill [Berserk(F)] as long as the title is selected.]
But Shane had no time to celebrate, as there was still a berserk mountain boar and another male mountain boar left alive.
Ending their lives, Shane stored them within his store, before he climbed up the small cliff once again to store the youngling mountain boars away.
While climbing up the cliff, Shane looked at the message he received, and before long, he inspected the skill he received through his newly obtained title.
[Berserk(F)]: Strength, mana circulation, and mana-outburst increase by 10%, for 10 seconds.
3 uses/day
Right after reading through the description, Shane was disappointed because he dreamed about an OP skill, but after rereading it multiple times, it could still be considered a decent ability.
Fighting against an opponent with the completely same combat prowess, this skill could immediately change the outcome, as not only his strength but also his mana circulation and mana-outburst increased.
Right now, he could only use the increase in mana circulation and strength thanks to him not owning an affinity or skill which required his mana outburst.
Considering the 10% and 10 seconds, Shane found it sufficient for one of the easiest obtainable titles, and thinking about the things one could do in 10 seconds, he thought it might even be labeled as above average, while the 10% increase in all aspects was at most average.
After he stored the carcasses inside his store and occupied the last spot of his store with the youngling corpses, Shane went back to the shelter, where he arrived an hour later.
Entering the shelter, the first thing Shane did, was searching for a hotel, where he would sleep tonight!
Paying 50 bronze coins, Shane went inside and locked the door to force himself not to go outside, because he had a bad feeling that he would once again sleep somewhere else.
Slithering out of his robe, Umbra hissed, demanding food, which Shane took out of the spatial ring, after washing his dirty hands and the completely brown face, he noticed within the reflection of the water.