Philip wanted to retort.
But he didn’t have a proper answer. When Sam said it out loud, even he cannot deny the fact that he is indeed acting that way. Still, he doesn’t want to admit it.
He wanted to be stubborn and deny everything.
Only if he had the strength.
Without giving any chance for Philip to think of some random bullshit story to cover this up, Sam started speaking again.
“I know you are scared that something like before might happen again. But this is not the way to go. We cannot shield ourselves from every danger that comes at us.
We cannot just go on with trying to find an easier way out. As I said, this experience only increased my vigilance and my approach to the dangers that we will face in the future will change. But I am sure that it won’t include running away and finding excuses to escape.
That is not a good practice.
Now, do you want to come with us to hunt the Boar or not? It will really help you in your cultivation.”
Philip stayed silent for a moment and just nodded.
“Alright. That’s more like it. First, we are going to weaken it, to get it to our level, and then we will slowly chip its strength down.
Don’t tell me that you slacked while I was away. Show me what you have and don’t disappoint me.”
“Same goes for you. You are away from that body for so long that I think that even we might kick your ass if we gang up now.” Jack said as he took out the Black Meteorite sword.”
Sam smirked and made his move. He jumped to the tallest tree nearby and climbed it to the top as he looked into the horizon. After checking various spots, he nodded and contacted the trio through communication token.
“All three of you, hide in a triangular formation around this tree. Don’t make your move prematurely. I will lure that Boar here and you attack after you get a signal from me.”
“Alright.”
The trio went to hide in three different trees around the tree that Sam was on.
Sam took out his bow and five arrows that have some special tips. He looked in the direction where the beast is at.
There is a large black-colored Boar on the horizon and it seemed to have been grazing on some weird grass.
Sam nocked an arrow and shot it at the boar.
The Black boar that was grazing seemed to have sensed the danger before the arrow stuck and an energy barrier came out of nowhere. The arrow hit the barrier and exploded.
*BOOM*
The explosion is fierce with spiritual energy liquid. But it is not exactly large. It only exploded in a very small space since Sam put up a very small amount of liquid in the arrow tip. The barrier broke down…
*SWISH*
Boar heard some more whistling sound before it could come back to its senses and an arrow managed to brush past its hind leg.
It didn’t injure the hind leg completely but when it was going past it, the arrow exploded.
*BOOM*
*ROAR*
The Boar roared to the sky as it looked in the direction of Sam and started running angrily. Its hind leg has an injury. The flesh was torn apart and a portion of it is missing.
It is bleeding profusely.
But the boar didn’t care as it ran towards them.
Sam shot the third arrow at that moment and this time, the Boar didn’t react. Because the arrow was shot into the sky at a spot and it exploded before it could even reach the boar.
But as it exploded a large splash of black cursed liquid occurred. The Boar was caught off guard as it took the full brunt of the splash.
It felt like the body burning with an extremely painful sensation and the worst part is obviously the wound on its hind leg.
It couldn’t see it, but the flesh actually started rotting in that particular area.
Sam held on to the remaining two arrows and said.
“The Boar is injured and cursed. I think you guys can manage from here. When it reaches twenty meters away from us, Philip will attack first.
Use your best-ranged attack. Don’t hold back at all and don’t need to target anything sensitive. You just need to target a leg.”
“Alright. I am on it.”
“Jack and Watt, both of you get ready with your attacks. Whether Philio’s attack fails or not, you should land your next blow right after his attack is dispersed. Don’t miss it. Because no matter what happens, with Philip’s attack, there would be an opening in the barrier of the boar.
And if you land your attacks at that exact time on the legs, you will have a better chance at dealing with the beast.”
“Okay.”
“Alright.”
When the Boar is at a considerable distance, Sam suddenly stopped concealing his presence and aimed his arrow at it once again. This time it is a normal arrow as it was just shot with pure spiritual energy.
The Boar blocked it pretty easily and roared at him before charging with an increased speed.
Meanwhile, Philip is gathering energy with his attack which the Boar seemed to have sensed as soon as it reached the twenty-meter mark. It instinctually activated a barrier.
Philip who is hiding in a tree could be clearly seen now as flames and rocks moved around crazily. The whole tree was destroyed. He activated partial fusion as the flaming rocks revolved at a high speed.
They are so fast that they could only be seen as some red flashes in the air and the Boar felt a bit tense as sit made its barrier denser.
Sam didn’t want to lose its attention and shot his fifth arrow. This one has the largest amount of spiritual energy liquid inside making it most lethal.
The Boar seemed to have sensed this and changed its direction of movement to dodge it. Which successfully happened as the arrow landed to the side.
*BOOM*
Even though the Boar took some force from the explosion, almost everything was blocked by the barrier.
But the Boar didn’t feel safe, instead, it became even more vigilant as it sensed danger.
Philip who was gathering the energy and rotating these flaming rocks stopped in his tracks and slammed his arms into the ground.
*BAM*
It sound like thunder clapped in the sky as he slammed his palms. The rotating rocks suddenly zoomed into the ground as they disappeared. Philip closed his eyes and all of a sudden, the surrounding temperature started increasing.
Not from the wind or the sun, they could clearly sense that it is from the earth. The soil lost all of the moisture within seconds and the grass rapidly dried out as if everything is being sapped out of them.
Even the trees lost their lushness before they rapidly dried out bit by bit.
The Boar appeared confused. It could sense the danger, but its senses are confusing it as it looked in all the different directions.
It could sense danger from all the directions, but he couldn’t see anything or feel anything. And it didn’t believe that danger could be coming for it from all directions.
It couldn’t make sense of a situation just based on the instincts and even though it is very powerful it is useless when it doesn’t have anything to attack for.
After some thought the Boar went crazy and started stomping its legs. Each stomp created an energy wave that destroyed the surroundings. Everything within a certain radius was uprooted and even the earth cracked.
Only at that moment, did it notice something from onside.
A large red rock that is covered with flames is moving at it from underground and after looking at it, the boar finally started focusing on it as it tried to defend itself.
But what it didn’t notice is that its senses are right when they picked up the danger from all of the sides. When the Boar started focusing on this one rock that was coming at it, what it didn’t notice is five more rocks are coming from different sides.
All of them are focused on that one hind leg that was already injured and they popped up just a few feet away from it only they did Boar see them and it also noticed something else. The rocks are actually not large. The large size is just an illusion created by a large amount of earth and fire elemental energy clubbed together.
It is just a coincidence.
But the Boar couldn’t do anything about that information it just got. The five rocks targeted the boar’s leg.
The barrier is still intact so, the first tree rocks didn’t do much and the fourth rock on which the Boar was initially concentrated was also destroyed by the barrier, by the fifth one the barrier was destroyed and it landed on the leg with some residual power.
But the last one landed and clean hit on that leg.
*BOOM*
