"Is it....watching me?"
The cheetah's glare is sending shivers down his spine. The growling sound that it makes is indicating that it already found it's prey.
"Crap... Well at least I can see it now, unlike earlier"
The cheetah slowly started circling around him. It never takes off it's eye from Shun.
"What the... is it going to attack?" Shun thought.
"It's so dark I can't even see it's size, I doubt that I can dodge"
Shun can hear the footsteps it makes. Shun's eyes followed the burning eyes circling around him in the dark.
Suddenly, the monster went rushing towards him, it's eyes slightly elevated indicating that it jumped towards him.
Shun quickly takes a sidestep and leaned his shoulder backwards. Luckily, Shun managed to avoid the attack but Shun didn't manage to follow it's eyes as it's facing away from him.
It didn't take so long as the monster faced towards him, ready to attack again. Once again, the cheetah rushed towards him. But this time ,it fearlessly and violently rushed towards him.
"Are you pissed off!" Shun mockingly mumbled.
But instead of dodging, Shun went offensive and attempted to counterattack.
[SKILL: DARK CLOAK ACTIVATED]
Shun quickly timed the attack and swiftly swinged his dagger towards the monster. For a second he thought that he's attack pierced the monster's mouth.
"What the hell happened? Just now... he's speed just changed"
Shun eyes widened when he took a glance at his weapon. The black blade was snapped into pieces with only the handle left in his hands.
[WARNING]
YOUR CREATION HAS BEEN DESTROYED!
"Impossible! My weapon is harder than tungsten, is this beast really that strong!"
Shun turned his head to face the beast behind him, but the beast who's was supposed to be looking up at him from the ground was now looking down at him.
It's eyes was at least 2 ft. elevated from his head and looking at him fixedly as if telling him to not move.
"Did it gotten taller?!"
His question was later answered when the clouds in the sky was cleared and the moonlight starts to light up the surroundings.
The figure in front of him slowly becomes visible, a beast of atleast six feet tall and standing in his two feet is in front of him with a mascular body.
"F*ck, this is not a C-rank monster"
Shun's body was glued into they position, he can't move an inch. He felt like the monster will devour him if he tries to move.
The icon in the monsters head was slowly revealed by the moonlight, the 3 yellow stars above it's head that represents it's rank.
"Now I know why this thing is called a raging cheetah, it's because it can change forms that makes it stronger and faster...no wonder it managed to damage me using it's claw earlier.
Even though a cheetah normally attack using their mouth since it uses 4 of it's limbs to run. But now I get it, it's because this thing can stand using 2 feets that means it uses the other two for attacking..."
"Grrr" The beast growled and showed a grin.
Shun slowly gulped downs the cold air as he sensed the intense bloodlust coming from the beast.
"Damn that bastard! He sure is taking long. What kind of preparation is he doing" Shun angrily whimpered in his head, remembering Rai was still preparing his spell.
"This bastard is not the type who will wait just to get killed, I need to hold it right here until he finished... Should I try exchanging blows?"
Shun pondered, taking a one last glance at the beast.
"No, that's a bad idea...huh?"
Shun noticed something when he takes another glance closer to the monster. The monster started emitting black smoke through It's skin.
"What the..."
Shun looked above him, the moonlight is shining from above. Shun showed a grin of victory in his face.
"I see...so you're a creature of darkness as well" Shun started provoking the beast.
The monster quickly moved back in the darkness as if it was scared of something.
"This is to buy us time" That's what he thought.
"You don't like light..huh?" Shun continues to provoke the monster.
"So that's why he targeted the walking flashlight earlier, because it was afraid of light" Shun whispered.
"If that's the case, with this moonlight alone...I can definitely beat you without the walking flashlight's help!" Shun spoked arrogantly, lifting his chin.
"KUROKATTA: BLACK CUTTER!" Shun chanted attempting to create another weapon to replace the other one that he broke earlier.
[SKILL WEAPON ALCHEMY ACTIVATED]
[WARNING]
MAXIMUM CREATION LIMIT REACHED(1/1)
WEAPON CREATION IS IMPOSSIBLE
Note: Previously created weapon was destroyed, wait for 11h 43m 56s to restore the creation limit.
"Huah? What the hell!" Shun grumbled in surprise.
"So I can't use a weapon. If I can't use a weapon that also means that I can't use my other skills...what should I do?"
Shun nervously approached the beast with his fist clenched. He was now standing on the moonlight side and the cheetah is standing on the dark side.
Shun was the first one to throw a blow at the monster. The monster then dondge the attack and throw a counter punch. The moon continuus to rise up as the two of them exchange blows.
[DAMAGE RECEIVED]
HP: 1786/2210...
[DAMAGE RECEIVED]
HP: 1678/2210...
As the battle goes on, their exchanged punches in a higher speed. Shun's HP began to decrease at a higher rate.
[DAMAGE RECEIVED]
HP: 1239/2210...
[DAMAGE RECEIVED]
HP: 988/2210...
[DAMAGE RECEIVED]
HP: 605/2210...
Shun stopped attacking and began panting heavily form exhaustion.
"My HP is hanging low, did I even manage to damage him!"
Shun looked up and saw the monster's body is bleeding and broken bones was visible from his sight. Shun grinned as he looked at himself and realized that his body is at worst condition than the monster.
"Tsk...I messed up! Its stronger than me"
"Sorry for the wait!" A familiar voice from above spoked.
Shun anchored his attention to the person speaking, it was Rai. A large blue magic circle started to form in the sky.
"Get out of there!" Rai shouted, but Shun didn't understand what he was saying. Shun's attention was greatly focused into the large magic circle that appeared below him, where he and the beast was standing.
Shun was confused, he doesn't know what was that for. Until he hears the thunder sound coming from above them.
"Awww crap!"
He shouted before swiftly dives outside the circle with all his might and covered his ears.
The blinding lights blocked his vision, as the lighting strikes the ground, deafening sound can be heard even when he covered his ears.
[THE TERRITORY BOSS HAS BEEN SLAIN]
[REIZGAL "THE RAGING CHEETAH" HAS BEEN SLAIN]
EXP GAINED
[Rewards has been added to your inventory]
After the blinding lights vanished and Shun regained his vision. He quickly recognize the figure in front of him.
"MAI! is that you?" Shun uttered.
"My name is Rai, idiot!" Rai quickly responded as he helped Shun to stand up.
"What took you so long?" Shun mumbled.
"I assumed that you're doing well, so I rested for abit to regain my HP...but it turns out that you almost died"
[IGN: HUNTER]
PARTICIPATION REWARD: 2500 EXP
ACHIEVEMENT REWARD:2500 EXP
ASSISTANCE REWARD: 6000 EXP
[TOTAL EXP GAINED:11000]
[YOU LEVELED UP]
LEVEL 14: EXP 1505/5900
[BONUS REWARDS]
• 200 golds
• 2 Mana runes
• 3 Health runes
"Hmmm, the rewards are pretty good!" Shun mumbled.
"Maybe because we fought against a D-rank boss!" Rai mumbled.
"No, that was actually a 3 stared boss that means it was a C-rank!" Shun grumbled.
"Really! If a knew a should have hurried to help you!" Rai responded.
"Thanks for the concern!"
[IGN: BOLT]
BOSS SLAIN REWARD: 14000 EXP
ACHIEVEMENT REWARD:5000
[YOU LEVELED UP]
LEVEL 11 :EXP 3278/4900
[BONUS REWARDS]
• 500 golds
• 6 Mana runes
• 4 Health Runes
• 1 Teleportation crystal
• Rune of the raging beast (Only usable for assassins)
• Hunter's Dagger
"Wow, I received plenty of rewards!" Rai happily spoked.
"Really, maybe that because you're the one who slain that monster" Shun humbly stated.
"Yeah, and I also leveled up 4 times from my previous level, that's a lot!" Rai responded.
"INVENTORY" Rai chanted and caught Shun's attention.
[INVENTORY]
• Gold pouch
• Mana runes (3×)
• Health Runes (4×)
• Teleportation crystal
• Rune of the raging beast (Only usable for assassins)
• Hunter's Dagger
Rai touched the dagger and the rune of the raging beast icon. The item then appeared in front of him, he grabbed the two items and handed it to Shun.
"Here, I don't need those since I'm not an assassin. You're the one who fought that monster head to head anyway" Rai kindly spoked.
"Ehh, really! I can take them?" Shun lifted his eyebrow.
"Yeah sure, it's yours!" Rai responded.
"It's a good thing that I received a new weapon, my weapon was destroyed a moment ago"
Shun grabbed the items and started putting them in his inventory.
"What is this?" Shun curiously glanced at the Rune he was holding.
[Rune of the Raging Beast]
Breaking the rune will grant you a skill
Out of curiosity, Shun squeezed the rune until it breaks.
[NEW SKILL UNLOCKED]
[RAGE(Level 1)]
ACTIVE
Rank: C
Mana cost: 50 (-1 per second)
• Damage increase 10%
• Speed increase 10%
PASSIVE
[CREATURE OF DARKNESS]
Staying in the darkness will double the buff received from the skill.
"I see, so I we can gain the boss's skill by killing it and obtain it's rune stone" Shun mumbled.
"Shun let's go!" Rai yelled from a distance.
"Where? I thought after we get the teleportation crystal, we're going to Yuya's location" Shun curiously asked.
"It's still 5 hours before dawn,Let's go hunting for a bit! We need to level up more to gain strength for our upcoming battle!" Rai explained.
"Upcoming battle?" Shun give a confusing look.
"Don't ask too many questions!" Rai shouted.
"But my HP!" Shun responded, worried about his HP.
"Just use the Rune of Heath! It will increase you health by 500 points, atleast" Rai stated.
"Ok! "Shun replied as he runned towards Rai following him.