This time I am going out of the defence wall with no back-up and no support from Dawn. This will be my first time going out alone after the awakening.
I am planning to go to the Bamboo forest that is near the defence wall to hunt for the Elks that are living there. It will be a good way to gain materials which will gain the credits I have expended on the armor.
These Elks have the element lightning and are damn fast and territorial. They are as tall as a human and are good at offence with the help of their speed and element.
If my parents and sister would have known I am coming to the Bamboo forest, they would have outright rejected it saying I am out of my mind to enter such a dangerous territory without any back-up.
Even the hunters will come here only when they are teaming up with at lease 3 other hunters, but I have the courage or as others will say, stupidity to come alone.
I want to fight the elks with the speed i have with my Air Armor. So, I have activated my Air Armor the minute I entered the forest. I don't want to take any chances and focused on my surroundings to make sure I am not ambushed.
It took me less than fifteen minutes to find the elk which I am going to hunt. I have also decided not to use the Air Strike often and to keep it as my last option, as a trump card in all the missions and hunting expedition I am going to take.
I moved closer to the elk as stealthily as I can as it will either run away or attack me if it notices me before I can get close to it. It will be waste if it runs away and will be dangerous if it attacks me.
I went as close as five meters to the elk before it noticed me. It wailed when it noticed me clearly angry in intruding it's territory.
It starts to run towards me with it's antlers down ready to pierce me. I dodge it's attack by jumping over it and catching a tree branch just on top of me.
WAIL.. BUZZ
It again wailed looking at me hanging on the tree branch. It's antlers crackles with lightning as it prepare to attack me again.
I swing a few times and jump on top of it before it can charge it's attack and pierced my Red Blade in it's back. I missed my target and only inflicted a minor wound on it.
WAIL
It wailed in pain and start to run towards a tree to slam me at it. I jump from the elk and because of it's speed, it slammed against the tree injuring itself.
The injury I inflicted has caused it to lose it's control and now it is having trouble in balancing itself. One of it's antlers have also broken because of the force it slammed against the tree.
It again start to run at me, this time it's speed has reduced, but it started to move it's head in a way that the antlers will hit me from my side.
CLANG.. STEP STEP
I used my sword to block it's attack and had to take two steps to diffuse the raw power of the attack. I just smile at it and start to perform the Battle Exercise to increase my strength and speed.
It is difficult for me as it is the 1st time I am performing it while fighting and I almost dropped my sword because of the pain I felt when I started the 2nd move of the set.
I gripped the sword tighter using both my hands and swing it at the neck of the elk and missed it. It jumped back and dodged my attack, but still it took a few seconds to balance itself.
I didn't want to wait and give time for it to balance itself, but I didn't have much choice as I am trying to control my movements and to overcome the pain I am feeling because of the exercise.
As soon as it stabilised, it came at me and tried to pierce my chest with it's antlers. I barely had time to dodge it. I got grazed at my left shoulder and blood started to drip from it.
I swing my sword at it's neck and was able to slice it. The elk, fell at my feet wailing in pain for a few minutes before lying still. I pierced it's head to confirm the kill.
I took out the fist size bandage I brought from the house as I do not have any healing potions. I applied the bandage to the injury in my shoulder.
This bandage is a high tech bandage which will automatically cover the entire wound by expanding itself after applying on the wound. This also has a good healing property which will heal the wound I got within a day or two.
After applying the bandage, I look at the elk which is the cause of my injury. It is my luck this elk is not strong enough to toss me away when I was riding on it's back at the beginning.
I start harvesting the raw materials from elk, but I am feeling a bit disappointed as one of it's antlers is broken in the fight. It's antlers are one of the best raw materials used to craft spears and shields, but now it will fetch very less credits.
It took me a while to harvest it's crystal and raw materials as I had to focus on the surroundings too, to make sure no other animals are attracted to the blood smell that is coming from the dead elk.
After harvesting the elk, I decided to go deep into the forest to hunt for other animals. Electric Elk is the most common animal in this forest, but there are other animals too which will gain more credits than this elk, if I get the chance to hunt them.
With that in mind, I moved deeper into the forest looking for another animal I can hunt. This will also be a good chance for me to perform more moves in the Battle Exercise as I am yet to complete the 2nd move.