With his shocked eyes, Raia stared at the charging beast. It was a six meter-tall boar with dark brown fur with two huge protruding fangs.
It looked like an ordinary boar beast at first site except its size. The big difference was that boar beasts in Rhost were at most at mid-rank 3 and this guy in front of Raia was at high-rank 5.
It was even stronger than the spiked- green tiger. He already didn't want to fight a spiked-green tiger that was at mid-rank 3 more so for a high-rank 5 beast.
'This boar is as strong as the starlight wolf!'
The boar charged at Raia quickly. It immediately swung its head as a form of attack. The boar was several times faster than Raia so he didn't have the time to react and evade the attack of the boar.
It hit him and he was sent flying until he crashed a tree. He collapsed to the ground and spat a mouthful of blood. His bones were crushed and it was a miracle he didn't die after taking that hit.
"This guy is so fast! It's very fast for its size." He said as he wiped the blood in his lips.
He stood up weakly and stared at the boar. The boar stopped moving and stared at his eyes.
It then took a stance like it was getting ready to run to him again.
The boar kicked the ground and its body disappeared into a blur as it was traveling at a speed much faster than before.
"Swoosh!"
Raia skin crawled the moment he saw this and instantly exited the world inside.
The boar charged and it hit the tree which then exploded into bits.
In his room, Raia was still scared of the pressure he felt.
"I genuinely almost died, again..hooh..that was scary." Raia quickly took a high-grade recovery pill to heal himself.
He decided not to go return for the moment because the boar might still be there guarding the blue tear fruit.
"But I don't want to let go of the blue tear fruit. But I also don't want to die."
After thinking for a few minutes, he settled on coming back into the world inside after some time. He couldn't do anything to the blue tear fruit if the 'charge boar' was there.
Raia rested until morning.
"I hope the charge boar is gone."
Then he entered the world inside.
When he appeared at the forest, his body felt a pressure and a sense of danger.
'Bang!'
'Boom!'
At this moment, he turned around and saw two beasts exchanging blows with each other. A wide part of the forest was already destroyed. There were trees burning and earth craters everywhere.
"These guys were crazy!" Raia said as he watched the starlight wolf and charge boar battling each other.
The starlight wolf kept shooting beams at the charge boar. It also attacks with its claws and tail.
On the other side, the charge boar was fast and it was evading the beams of the starlight wolf and attacks it a few times.
Raia was seeing all these scenes and was shocked and scared.
'These two beasts were really strong.'
However, the starlight wolf and charge boar sustained some wounds from their battle. There were claw marks on the body of the boar and the starlight wolf has a broken front arm.
'Boom!!'
Their attacks clashed and created a wave of violent energy that made Raia's heart trembled.
'I should run!'
He stepped back and was prepared to retreat to a far away distance when a familiar blue glow reached his vision.
Raia saw the source of this light and saw the blue tear fruit fully bloomed at one side of the forest.
'It's still here!' Raia quickly sprinted towards it. He saw the untouched fruit although the two beasts were fighting around it.
Raia realized that this fruit can withstand some of the toughest conditions out there. He stared at it with shining eyes.
'So that's why they are fighting. I should know better.'
When he reached the blue tear fruit, he grabbed it and instantly ran away as far as possible. He didn't want to enter this place again.
The moment he put the blue tear fruit into the storage, the two beasts sensed its energy was gone and quit their battle. They looked around and searched for the one that stole their fruit.
Raia was already far away when he felt that the aura of the starlight wolf was closing to him.
Good thing that the starlight wolf was wounded and tired because if it was at its good condition, it would be on his tail right away.
He fled for half and exited the world inside.
The starlight wolf sniffed around the place where Raia left, roared angrily then destroyed that part of the forest.
Meanwhile, Raia was back in his room, staring at the blue tear fruit on his hand.
"A huge chunk of my luck played this time. The starlight wolf probably arrived after I left and fought the charge wolf for the possession of the blue tear fruit. That guy is really unlucky. I kept getting the blue tear fruit under his nose."
However, he was still frightened about what happened. Those two beasts were very strong.
"I have a long way to go before I can defeat those two."
He laughed lightly and then swallowed the blue tear fruit.
An already familiar feeling enveloped his whole body.
His foundation trembled, enhanced and became even thicker and was shining brighter.
Every aspect of his body was destroyed, repaired and were stronger than before.
The process took only about three hours before stopping. It was shorter than the last time but it was not the only one that changed. The pain that Raia endured was not even half of what he felt the second time he took the blue tear fruit.
He can bear the pain easily now.
"It's starting to lose its effects on my body. However, there are still spaces for improvement. I am not yet at my peak. I will still take a few more of the blue tear fruit."
He checked his body and was astonished. It was several times stronger than before.
Raia reached the peak 8th level Martial Physique State but he has now the combat power of a 2nd level Martial Spirit State.
"Maybe I can take the low-rank 3 spirit crystal now." However, he didn't take it because he might break through the next state while still not on his peak and that is not what he wanted.
Raia washed his body from the impurities that was removed from it. It was way less than the last time but they were still stinking.
He ate breakfast with his family then hunted beasts in the forest the whole day. He easily massacred low-rank 3 beasts around the forest. He also fought some mid-rank 3 ones. Although he didn't kill them with one strike, he defeated them with much more ease than the last time he battled with the purple python.
Raia returned home after selling his loot to Gran and buying high-grade recovery pills. He obviously took home the spirit crystals of the beasts he hunted that day for his family. None of them could not handle the spirit crystals from the world inside at the moment.
He also didn't sell the materials that his father can use at the smithy.
When he arrived at the smithy, his father was working on something so he came to his mother first. Raia gave him the credits he earned that day. Seeing that his account have additional 200,000 credits on it, Rose eyes widened then thanked his son.
Raia went back into the smithy and gave his father the materials he collected that day in the forest.
"I was trying something on this material that you got for me. I'll show it to you in a few days and hear your opinion about it." Hauran said to Raia.
Raia was puzzled but still nodded. 'It seems like father thought of something good. I'll just him do his thing.'
He trusted his father. Raia knew that his father will create something good using the materials he got.
Hauran didn't ask for his assistance so he knew he can do it alone.
Raia washed his body first then went to have dinner with his family. They were still eating the four-horned goat's meat. Rose did a good job cooking it into a different dish every time.
'The charge boar should taste really good.' He thought to himself.
After dinner, Raia washed the dishes and played with Rina and Rome afterwards. Then he returned to his room.
"The two beasts should be gone by now."
With that, he disappeared in his room.
In the middle of the forest, Raia inspected his surroundings and when he learned that there are no traces of the two beasts, he was happy. However, there were evidences that someone destroyed the forest around him making his skin crawl.
He quickly left and began searching for the blue tear fruit.
"I haven't encountered any other valuable fruit except the blue tear fruit. Is this the only fruit that is worth something in this forest?"
He pondered while moving around.
After an hour, he finally found a blue tear plant and it was starting to bloom already. Beside it was a low-rank 3 black-tailed beast.
"Guess I'll just fight for it this time."
Raia took out his amber sword and attacked the beast. It turned around and when it saw Raia, it quickly used its long tail and whipped it over to Raia.
The young man didn't evade it and just let it hit him.
'Pak!'
The tail hit his chest but surprisingly, Raia didn't get hurt. He felt some pain, but it was bearable. He grabbed the tail and pulled it hard towards him, causing the body of the black-tailed beast to be yanked at a very fast speed to his direction.
The black tailed beast was helpless against the strength of Raia. It couldn't fight back.
At the time its body reached Raia, a stab on its neck quickly ended its life without any resistance.
"I think I can handle the low-rank 3 beasts in this world. Now, I am not at the most bottom part of the food chain."
He disassembled the body of the black-tailed beast while waiting for the blue tear fruit to fully bloom.
"I should make something out of its tail and skin." There were already two bodies of this beast in his storage space but he didn't know what to do with them.
The beast didn't have any fur and only have a black thick skin.
"Maybe I can make some boots from it."
While thinking of a way to use the loot from the black-tailed beast, the bud fully opened and its blue light shone and disappeared. Raia quickly plucked it out, store it, and then ran away.
"The starlight wolf didn't appear this time. What a lucky day."
Raia began wandering around the forest again.
Three hours passed and he didn't find any signs of the blue tear fruit. However, he killed the large group of four-horned goats that he met on the way. There were about eighty of them and he killed them all without breaking a sweat.
An hour later and he discovered another blue tear plant.
Raia was celebrating. This time, there were no beasts guarding it. He approached the plant and stared at it happily.
It was not yet giving any signs that it would bloom anytime soon, so Raia have to wait.
However, waiting beside something that many dangerous beasts wanted for a long time is a bit risky.
Raia was thinking of a solution when it suddenly hit him.
"Can't I just send the whole plant into the storage space?"
He held the leaves of the plant with both of his hands and tried to send it to the storage space.
A second later and the whole plant disappeared in front of him and made its way into the storage space.
"It worked!" Raia shouted. He sensed its presence inside his storage space.
"I should just take the whole plant the next time I find one."
He resumed his search for the blue tear plant with a smile on his face.
"But I know that the time inside the storage space is frozen so the blue tear plant would still not bloom even after I exited this place. Well, I'll just think of a way after I leave."
Half an hour passed and his eyes were shining as he stared at what's in front of him.