Raizen moved around the forest hoping to find some hog tracks or a water source. Since wild boar's usually lived near water sources and thick bushes.
He had some hope of finding a boar since it was evening and nearing nighttime. Boars were usually active at nighttime.
He also didn't have any bait that he could use to lure the boar out except he himself acting as bait. As he was walking he noticed players scattered all around the forest doing various things.
Some were hunting, some were collecting herbs, and he even saw a guy cutting wood and a guy getting stung by bees while trying to steal honey.
Raizen observed all these scenes feeling kind of refreshed. Sadly some players thought he was going to kill steal and looked at him with hostility.
Raizen wondered why the players were suddenly hostile to him. He didn't care and went on with his work. As he was walking deeper into the forest he noticed some tracks.
'Seems my luck is quite good' Raizen thought as he recognized them as boar tracks. Minimizing his presence as much as possible he followed the tracks.
After a few minutes of following the tracks, Raizen saw a lone boar drinking water from a small pond. Raizen was now facing the boar's front. It had some juices on its stout.
'Seems like it's drinking water after eating some wild berries' Raizen thought. Raizen used basic appraisal and saw the boar's stats.
[Wild boar
Level-5
Health 100/100
Attack-30
Defense-15
Skills- Wild rush, Ramming boar]
After seeing boars stats Raizen looked at the stats of his sword dumbfoundedly.
[Beginner sword
Rank- Unranked
Durability- 7/10
Attack power- 3~5
Attack speed- 1~2]
How was he supposed to hunt the boar with this weapon? He remembered the skill Slash increased the damage of his attacks by 5 points and it only had a 5s cooldown.
If he hit the weak spots of the boar he could trigger critical hits that would ignore the defense of the target and deal the maximum damage along with an extra 5% of the target's health.
Raizen deduced all this just by observing players hunting.
'It seems I still have a chance' Raizen thought as proceeded to take action. He took a stone from the ground. He moved sideways from his position as slow as possible to move out of the boar's field of vision.
After reaching the boar's side, he threw the stone toward the boar.
He took out his sword and waited for the boar to react. He would have preferred a spear or pole-type weapon to hunt boars.
The stone fell into the pond of water rather than on the boar. It was precisely Raizen's intention.
The boar sensed the disturbance in the water and thought a fish was about to surface. Even though it ate wild berries just now it still prefers meat.
So it inserted its mouth into the water to swallow the fish. Sadly there was no fish.
Using the momentary disturbance in the boar's concentration, Raizen immediately moved and started to attack the boar.
The boar sensed its attackers lately due to its momentary lapse because of not finding the fish. So, it failed to avoid the attack. struck the boar's side but didn't deal any damage due to the boar's defense.
The boar immediately swung its head towards its attacker and saw its attacker. It was a puny human female. But when it met the human's eyes, the boar met a primal fear.
[The boar has entered an agitated state] Raizen saw the notification. The boar immediately tried to rush towards him but Raizen used the skill evade at the correct timing and struck the boar's forehead using the skill Slash.
[Critical hit!! Ignoring the target's hit. Damage dealt -15] the boar lost 10 health. The boar grunted ferociously and charged toward Raizen.
Wild rush!
Since Raizen didn't have Evade as it was on a cooldown he had to evade it manually. Since it was just a forward rush, Raizen waited for the accurate timing and just sidestepped.
But the boar surprisingly turned its head and pursued him. Raizen quickly moved out of its tusk at the last second. But the boar tusk grazed him a little.
[-16 Hp] Raizen saw his health reduced by 16 with just a graze of a tusk. He smiled helplessly. Honestly, he could easily track the boar's movements and attack with his body but his body is too slow to respond.
But he was even more amazed as he felt pain in the grazed area.
'This game can even simulate pain?' Raizen thought in wonder.
The 5 seconds cooldown ended. The boar also momentarily stopped its frenzied attack and regained some clarity.
Using this opportunity Raizen once again accurately hit the spot he attacked previously and once again triggered a critical attack and dealt 15 damage.
Fortunately this time the boar didn't enter an agitated state and use Wild Rush. But the boar instead used the skill Ramming boar and rushed straight towards Raizen with its tusk shining ominously.
Its speed was at least twice as before and ran towards Raizen with great momentum.
[Due to the effects of the skill Ramming boar, your movement speed is reduced by 10%]
Raizen didn't panic and used the skill Evade which increased the movement speed by 10% for 3 seconds. But the boar's violent speed was faster than his.
Its tusks violently slammed into his abdomen. Raizen quickly grabbed the tusks ignoring the pain in his abdomen. This amount of pain was nothing to him.
[-58 Hp. Under bleeding. -3 health every second for every 10 seconds]
Ignoring his dropping health, he violently stabbed his sword on the same spot he attacked.
[Critical hit!! Ignoring the target's defense. Damage dealt -15. Bleeding effect achieved. -5 damage per second for 3 seconds]
The boar violently swung its head sideways. Raizen loosened his grip. He was swung into the air but he landed safely.
He quickly took out a health potion and chugged it down.
'Good only 40 health remains' Raizen thought in satisfaction.