Just as I imagined, I was able to practice the Fury Slash skill within a day and my System recognized it as a skill. With my understanding, I made a few changes while practicing.
I don't have to perform a Slash, instead I can point my sword at the target and activate it by thinking the skill name, an arrow made of compressed air will be fired from the tip of the sword.
The people who wants to learn a skill can understand in their own ways, but mostly all of them will listen to the video provided along with the skill to understand it easily which I don't do.
I did the same for my Air Armor which should give a better defence. But with my understanding, I tweaked it to give boost to my speed, attack and defence instead of defence alone.
Now the Fury Slash is recognized, I changed the name recognized by the System to 'Air Strike'. It increased the damage and the piercing effect of the attack by a notch. This skill will by my best offence in mid range till I reach grade D.
The attack and the speed of the attack is boosted which will kill anything below grade D in a single shot if it hits the vital area. I am happy about this and eager to use it in the field to see Dawn's reaction.
The energy consumption also increased to 10% of total energy, which means I can't use it as I like. I have to time my attack and keep it as my last resort.
We got our armor a day earlier than the said 3 days. Dawn has changed back to her usual calm state while I am eager to go on my next mission.
This time, we are going along with Max's team as their company 'Hammerand' requested for volunteers to assist their team. It is because they have spotted a Steel Teeth Rat nest near our town's defence wall.
If it is left unchecked, there is a possibility it will endanger our defence within a year or two. They are sending a group of 30 hunters to destroy the nest and most of them are volunteers.
Only 10 hunters are from Hammerand because the companies will never send all their hunters in a single mission in case it goes south.
We will be joining them tomorrow to exterminate the rat nest and there are 30 hunters involved as we have no idea how many rats we will have to face.
We should be ready for it, but it is still early 9:00 am and we still have a full day which we decided to use for a hunt. I only have 13000 credits in my account after purchasing the Air Strike, so I have to hunt to earn more credits.
We have planned to go into the Figaro forest this time as Dawn didn't want to step into the Saminga swamp anytime soon which I agreed immediately.
We moved to the market near the Figaro forest and purchased few energy potions which I will need for using my new skil. I was able to get 4 energy potions and my credits came down to 1000.
I can earn it back if we are lucky today and get good hunt. We are going in to hunt the wolves in there as Dawn wanted to fight them again.
We entered the forest at 9:50 am and moved towards the Sahadin lake where we could find many monsters. We just have to lure a few monsters away from the lake and I will be able to get my credits back.
This forest is also the territory for the Shadow Leopards which are good at sneak attacks. Good thing I can sense their movements if they are within 50 meters, they will have a hard time sneaking around me.
We moved into the forest with extreme cautious as this is not an official mission and we are on our own. I have activated the Air Armor the minute we entered to keep my senses at maximum.
Dawn walked only a few inches away from me which I didn't like. We have to be atleast a meter away so the monsters can sneak attack only one of us, but she didn't want to leave my side.
When we were close to the lake, I sensed a movement behind us. I held Dawn's hand and she looked at me with a surprise. I pulled her to the side and jumped behind a tree.
I gestured her to be quiet and after a few seconds we saw a Metal Tusk Boar moving towards the lake. This will be a good chance for us to kill and harvest it.
I took a stone that was near me and threw at the boar which hit it's head from the side which surprised me. I just threw at it to get it's attention, but never thought it will actually hit it.
The Metal Tusk Boar roared in anger and looked at the direction the stone came from and found nothing by a few trees. I hid immediately after throwing the stone and was just looking at it from behind a bush.
We have to work together to kill this monster as it is good at both, attack because of it's hard tusks and defence from it's thick skin. I am a little worried if the Air Strike can penetrative it's thick skin.
Dawn activated her skill Fire Armor and jumped in front of the boar trying to distract it so I can hit it from a better position. I climed the tree I was hiding behind and waited for a few seconds.
The boar and Dawn were fighting ferociously which made me shudder in fear. I have never seen anyone this ferocious. Even my mother who looses her cool soon have never been this ferocious.
I could feel a strange suppression emanating from her which is because of this battle. I looked at the boar waiting for the right time which I got when the boar tried to ram her with it's metal tusks.
Dawn was either brave or stupid as she stood her ground and used her sword to block the attack, which backfired sending her flying away.