36 Passed To Fail More Miserably.



 

One thing that I forgot to mention regarding the thargtusks is that they are peaceful by nature until someone doesn't mess with them, and I believe I may have stirred the hornet's nest.

 

"What will you do next?Fight or flight?" Through mental transmission, Blaze asked.

 

A thargtusk has just materialised from a bush after I attempted to attack a small bird a short while ago, but my strike missed and struck the bush behind the bird instead. Perhaps it had been there all along.

 

As I could see that the Thargtusk had a wound on its forehead, my inferno bolt struck it, and now he is clearly enraged.

 

 

ROAR!!

 

Thargtusk revealed himself and prepared to charge, raking the ground before charging towards his foes. 

 

THUD!

 

As the beast charged into me, I cast fireballs with mana, but each bounced off of his thick fur and hid.

 

Thargtusk continued to charge at me, leaping aside just before the mana beast struck me. 

 

 

Crashh!!

 

 

"Grrr," It crashed into the large tree behind me, turning with a roar. 

 

 

"Hahaha, you stupid animal, you think you can defeat me?" Suddenly, Blaze came out and mocked the beast. Why is he making it sound like he did something?

 

Charge*

 

It looks like the beast heard Blaze as it balanced itself and started charging again.

 

I leapt over Thargtusk and ran along the beast's back as it juddered to a halt and began to shake his body, which forced me to leap off. 

 

Roar!!

 

Thargtusk turned and charged as I landed.

 

"Whoa! He's fast," I evaded the attack by jumping and hanging on the nearby tree branch; of course, I used mana to do so.

 

The Thargtusk was looking upwards at me with his eyes that are located on opposite sides of the head, finding a way to attack me. They don't have good binocular vision like humans and other Mana beasts do, and they also lack colour vision, causing their other senses to develop to a high degree.

 

I climbed on the branch and stood there. There was too little time until Thargtusk found a way to pounce on me.

 

"Let's try this." I formed a highly concentrated inferno bolt in my hand and lunged it onto the Thargtusk from above, wishing it to hit the target.

 

Thunk

 

Thargtusk easily dodged my attack.

 

It looks like I have to fight him by going down there. If it's going to dodge my ranged attacks, then there is no other way but to defeat it with brute force. 

 

"Hup!" I jumped to the ground. The Thargtusk charges again when he sees the opportunity, but this time around there is something different about him: there is a thick layer of raw mana covering his almost two-foot-long tusks.

 

I pushed mana into my calves and lower body muscles, and when the Thargtusk was just on my face with his long mouth sabre, I leapt sideways, and the Thargtusk collided with the tree behind me, but unlike before,

 

 

Thad!!!!

 

A large tree fell on the earth. The tusks are certainly doing their job perfectly, and the Mana beast turned around and started scratching its hooves on the ground to indicate that it was ready to launch its next attack.

 

At this point, this is just like a bullfight, but without a red cloth to lure the bull.

 

The fireballs are useless against him because of their low power, and the inferno bolts are not cut out for the job because the time I can maintain the spell is too short.

 

"Ah!?" At that moment, a great idea passed through my mind: if I could make it work, maybe I'd be able to butcher this fellow easily.

 

Fuu

 

I relaxed my whole body and stopped all the mana that was running through my body at the moment. Thargtusk also stopped whatever it was doing because of the sudden change in my behaviour.

 

Silence,

 

There is tension between the two of us.

 

Step step

 

I backed away a little by little with my eyes still focused on my enemy, and soon came the dead end I was expecting. There is a tree just behind me, blocking my path.

 

I placed my right hand behind my back and formed an infernal bolt on my palm.

 

Zzzzzch

 

 

"Hm?" I felt a small current of electricity in the pulse below the base of my thumb, just lightly.

 

 

"Wow, princess, if you make it alive from this place, then there's a big surprise for your own body." The Blaze was now moving, not outside but inside my body, like he was inspecting me.

 

"What-" before even I can ask,

 

Roar!!*

 

Thargtusk roared and lunged forward to attack. I just waited for it to come closer, and when it was on my radar,

 

Dash,

 

I jumped vertically and twisted my body in the air, upside down, and getting the inferno bolt in front, I stabbed the Thargtusk in the back of his spine, like a five- or seven-inch-deep hole in its back. 

 

This is the benefit of learning gymnastics in a previous life—you can kill a mana beast using that experience, maybe?

 

It bellows in agony as I try to balance myself on its back and prepare for the next attack.

 

Roar!

 

It raises its two front hoofs off the ground, and I trip down its back.

 

Thud

 

"Ahh," I said, falling hard on the ground with a not-so-pleasing sound since I fell on my back and was not strengthening it with Mana.

 

*Crack*

 

I also heard a small cracking sound; maybe I broke a vertebra or two.

 

Roar!

 

"Sh*t" Before I could even try to get myself up from the ground, the thargtusk came on to me with its long tusks, and this time the tusks were aimed at my skull because it was at the same level as the ground.

 

Grrr

 

Just as its tusk was ready to dig into my skull, I ducked and rolled over, not aside from the thargtusk's path but into its path, like just under his jaw, and now,

 

Stab

 

I immediately formed a bolt with every last ounce of mana that was left in my core and stabbed it through the throat. The inferno bolt passed from its vocal box and came out of the top of its head. It was a weird angle on how I stabbed. The bolt dispersed, and my body got limp. I used everything in that one attack.

 

Thargtusk wobbled a little and started coughing blood, getting tired quickly, and soon the eyes lost their shine, and it fell on its side.

Silence

 

The Thargtusk is dead now, and I am also alive. I know I had to sacrifice my whole mana pool and a few vertebral columns, but I think it was worth it since I won.

 

I can't move for a while, and I have to refine the ambient mana to fill my core again. It'll take me about a few minutes to get back on my own two feet.

 

"Hahaha, I did it!" It was my first hunt, and I was able to kill a C-rank Mana beast. There's no bigger joy than this right now.

 

"Umm Master?" Blaze was called for, and I don't have a good feeling about this. Whenever this parasite addresses me with respect, something unfortunate happens.

 

 

"Don't tell me anything," I said. "I just don't want to hear it."

 

"Just turn your gaze to your left." "I wonder why you are so unlucky; it's like the whole world wants you to die." Blaze said, "I am lying on my back." "I turned my face to my left, and there I saw."

 

A huge Thargtusk is looking at me and at the corpse of its partner simultaneously, and it doesn't look happy at all.

 

"I passed just to fail more miserably." These are going to be my last words.

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[A/N: Rest in peace.]