Chapter 23: One hitting a Tank

If Arlom has told him to do it, he would just do it, it was not a question of yes or no, but how and when, the how was obviously with this silver spear, and the when was right now, his sense of danger was telling him to do so, but to be send to deal with a boss as his first real enemy, Cyan could only laugh to his own bad luck, nevertheless a plan is in need.

Because he was hidden under the veil of Arlom mana armor the boar could not detected him, Cyan could watch over the boar with no problem but he still didn’t knew the limits of his camouflage, that’s why he could only sit twenty meters away from the horned boar without coming any closer, the boar was still eating his food without a worry in the world.

After making carefully observations to the horned boar, Cyan gathered his information and summarized it as next, ‘First, that boar defenses look very though, that hide would be very hard to overcome, the muscles are very easy to spot, so being this big its strength should be ten times higher than mine, that is to assume we ignore the levels, and I am sure his endurance and stamina is also as huge too sigh, how can I even put scratch in that thing, that’s not a boar but a tank’.

In actual fact in Cyan mind, the boar was more like an military graded armored tank, a true monster, he could only laugh to the silly thought of killing a tank with an shard stick, what a joke, nevertheless, for some reason he knew he should be able to do it, he somebody told him, he could move as fast as he did with his mana armor and that you could also cross lava and block all the heat just three days ago, he would only think of it as someone trying to prank him.

Now he was seriously thinking how to kill a tank ‘even a tank have a weakness, they should be slower and not every part has the same grade of defenses, I just need to find a critical point where to strike… something like the engine…’

Cyan could only let out a sigh, be strength, defense, endurance or stamina he was inferior to the boar in almost all aspects but one… speed.

‘I am sure that after I put the mana armor and with the element of surprise I will be faster than it, then the only solution to win is to end the fight with one hit, and to do that I need to aim the spear to the best possible place, the engine’

The boar engine? Do boars have an engine? Of course they do, they are just called the heart, and to reach the heart he needs a long stick to poke it.

This was it, the spear was always the answer, he will just has to use the skill of the spear, it was the first time using a skill other than the passive skill he always had with him, nevertheless Cyan did not have any fear that the skill would not work this time, after holding the spear for a while he knew how to activate the skill very easily, the rest of the skill was just him to actually throw the spear in the intended direction.

Nevertheless time was running out, even if there could be a better plan, the boar will not stay there waiting for Cyan forever just eating his food, his window of opportunity was closing fast, with no other choice and not having a better plan, Cyan immediately surrounded his body with his mana armor.

It was always a weird felling for him, he would only ask mana to lend him a hand and he could feel his body becoming faster and sturdier, like he was putting an armored suit that enhanced all of his abilities.

Mana? What is that? For Cyan Mana was not something, not a tool but someone, a friend, but he only knew how to ask for her help and nothing more, he truly felt pathetic, wanting to become stronger on his own only to relied in someone else entirely, but now, it was not time to think about it and as time went on, Cyan realized how more and more he was putting things for a later time making he sigh once again, ‘one obstacle at a time Cyan’, Cyan told to himself, if Cyan tried to bring down all the obstacles in his path he will surely be crushed by them.

Adjusting his breathe and without turning to look to Arlom or asking him for his approval of his own crazy plan, Cyan charged in at full speed in the direction where the horned boar was, the first attack will be the most important one, if he missed this attack the fight will only grow harder, and if he waited more time, the boar would found them or maybe even another unexpected situation would occur, he has to act now or never...

As soon as the charged in, his sense of danger he felt from his Master, vanished and were replaced by a sense of danger coming from the boar in front of him, it seems his calculations were actually accurate but he will has to do more test in the future to understand the skill, the question ‘what is danger’ just another puzzled to resolve.

In the other hand Arlom has being observing Cyan reactions and actions all this time, and he was secretly glad that this stupid kid could actually reach to the right conclusions, it took him even less time than Arlom had calculated, ‘maybe this kid was not so stupid after all’ Arlom though, Cyan has made the most coherent plan he could think of and lunched into action believing he could pierce throughout this wall with the spear.

Of course there were other ways to do it, making traps around the boar, luring it into an specify location and attacking with all sort of weapons or maybe even using poison in a long battle, asking Arlom for advices or tricks, but all those things relied in the fact that ‘they consume a lot of time’ and they have their own set of disadvantages.

Cyan counted all those factors in and limited himself to, the time it took, the spear Arlom had given him and his own strength plus speed, and because of that he took the most direct approach you could think of, the one that would require the less time of all, maybe a little more dangerous than the other methods but the gains would be in magnitude of time, and time was a very precious resource, every second counted.

Arlom was thinking to lunch Cyan into action himself if he did not moved to do ‘something’, but all of his worries were for naught in the end, ‘to think he would do such direct approach in the end, ha!’, Arlom could let out a dried laugh to himself, maybe everything was not that hopeless.

Shooting like a bullet Cyan tried to aim the spear to the best vital point, the heart, even if he didn’t knew anything about the body anatomy of the boar, he knew this was his best to aim his spear if he wanted to kill it with one hit while the boar was still distracted and unaware of his presence.

His only thought was, the faster they finish here the sooner they would move to other things, like the promised new ‘training’ and to do that, there was only one way to do it and three places to throw the spear at, to accomplish that goal, he had to strike one of those places, the head, the neck or the heart.

The head where the brain was an obvious target, but it was also surrounded by the skull and Cyan did not feel any confident into breaking the skull of a boar boss of an unknown level or defenses.

Then no problem just aim to the eyes right? Cyan could only laugh to thought, aiming to the head was already hard enough to the amateur spear throwing Cyan, aiming to the eyes would be just impossible as his first try ever.

Then the neck? The second target was even harder, because, ‘has you seen an actual boar neck? It was almost nonexistent, even if the boar grew in side his neck actually grew shorter, Cyan could only discard those two targets very easily.

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So the best target was the body, and inside the body the most critical point should be the heart, settings this target in mind, Cyan aimed his spear to where he believed was this critical point.

Even if it was only 20 meters away, for Cyan this distance took an eternity, at this point in time Cyan forgot about everything else, he felt he was running yet he felt he was not moving nor he thinking about running or gaining speed he was just focusing in one place.  

Afraid of the horned boar? Killing the boar is wrong? Nothing of that matters, Arlom has given him a spear and pointed out a target, then his job was simply, he will hit it as hard and as fast as he could, if he wanted to be of any help to Arlom in the future not doubt can be there in his mid, as this was his chance to proof his worth, this was his first big step, he can’t miss.

Cyan was relying heavily in Arlom, what are his limits? How much could he do? Can he really kill this boar? Without knowing nothing Cyan could only shut his mind and believe he could do it, and with Arlom at his back there was nothing to be afraid of.

Soon the boar he entered the range Cyan felt more comfortable activing the skill and throwing the spear.

Even if this was a boss, there was still hope, as it was still not aware of Cyan presence, the camouflaged Arlom has put on him made him almost invisible, and after putting his mana armor, and Cyan speed was vastly superior to the reaction speed of a boar that was looking in the other way.

Cyan purred all the mana he could gather inside him over the spear to activate the skill, [Spear Throw], such a silly name and unimaginative name for an skill, nevertheless, the spear started to vibrated and to spin in his hands very fast, the heat generate because of the friction was huge, but thanks to his mana armor he could handle the fast rotation of the spear as well as the heat, and without thinking it twice Cyan felt it was time as he threw the spear as hard and as fast as he could, to his intended target, at the heart of the boar boss.

As soon as the spear leaves his right hand, the spear shot into the air like a bullet shot from a cannon, with an a speed that was impossible for Cyan to catch with own his eyes, the effects of the skill were not a joke, and its power was vastly superior to own Cyan expectations.

Nevertheless this power didn’t come without a price to pay, as the recoil for activating the skill was also felt, Cyan expectations for the skill fell as he felt his arm breaking in different places, and the mana armor that was surrounding his right arm, cracked and break into pieces that dissipated into a blue mist, Cyan was feeling like if someone was trying to tear his arm apart while he was throwing the spear, if he did not let go of the spear fast enough he was sure his arm would be flying in the air together with this spear, because of the heat and the suction of the air, his hand was almost glued to the spear.

He would had fainted from the pain and the shook he felt, if not for his previous training with the pain poison, even if the pain was huge as well as unexpected, this pain was nothing for him now compared to back then, but it did hurt quite badly, almost having your arm ripe off from the base was never painless experience.

Nevertheless this skill was even more crazier than he thought, because he was using his mana armor to hold the rotating spear as soon he tried to throw it, the spear lunched forward, almost taking his own arm with it, in the end Cyan could only crouch into the ground holding his right hand while looking speechless to the results of his crazy plan that almost costed him his right arm.

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A little back in time.

When the boar took noticed of Cyan presence, it was already too late to move out of the way, Cyan was already preparing to throw something at it, nevertheless the boar did not panicked to the unexpected attack this was not the first time nor it would be the last either.

He did what he always would do, something that has never failed him until now, and it was what Cyan was expecting the boar to do, the boar trusted in his thick hide as his best layer of defense to block any attack, his hide could resist any kind of magical or physical attack to a certain point, and without moving an inch, the boar took the best position for tanking the attack, the key to this were his four legs ready to dissipated the strength of any attack and transferred into the ground.

His skin that was as though as steal, no weapon can put a scratch on it, and his fourth legs muscles thick as trees and could dissipate any attack, but as soon he saw the small creature in front of him throwing something at him, the boar felt a huge amount of danger coming for it, not from Cyan but the spear he was throwing, that spear was nothing to trifled at, nevertheless it was already too late to move out of the way, the spear that Cyan threw, shot with an amazing speed and it went right through the boar body without any resistance what so ever, like if the boar defenses amount for nothing or were not even there in the first place.

Of course this was because that spear, was well-crafted weapon, forged by a Master Blacksmith and it was made with the intention that it could go throughout the scales of a dragon without losing his edged, the thick hide of a boar did not represent any problem for it, and what it is more, after being split it has become two halves sun and moon, even if the spear had become individually weaker, every time someone threw one of them, it would start searching for their other half, while moving with an uncontrollably speed for almost anyone to handle, transforming them into great weapons, maybe even more powerful when they are used together compare to when they were just a single weapon.

But for you to able to use them, you need first, to be able to supply them with a great amount of mana, second, you need to be able to handle the spear without losing a limb, something that not a lot of people could accomplish, and third, you need both of them, if you only have one, then after throwing it once you would lost that spear maybe forever.

Needlessly to said, this the spear, moon, was a very powerful weapon, and for Cyan to be able to throw it without losing a limp was already a great achievement on his own, to able to handle that powerful recoil of the skill and being fast enough for letting go of the spear at the right time not everybody could do it, even less, in their first try, nevertheless it would be a long time before Cyan could pull out all the strength of the silly named skill, well, that’s is of course, if Cyan could found that spear ever again.

Cyan watched as the spear went lost into the forest, going right through tree after tree, and the boar screamed in pain as it fell into ground not moving at all, a huge amounts of blood was oozing out of the hole the size of a fist in boar body, the boar had fainted from the pain and the shock of having his prided defense utterly defeated and the hole that was made in his body.

The resulting sight of the power of the spear moon and its only useable skill was quite the sight, but the resulting recoil of that skill was to powerful, it was something you would use as last resort in a battle because you would be weaponless after that, but Cyan used it as his first attack, he could only laugh to his own ingenuity, this was truly another whole world where his previous common sense meant nothing at all.

The spear went right throughout the boar body without a hitch and shot deep into the forest, finding moon now would be impossible in Cyan mind, but for some reason he has quite the dread feeling now, the danger he felt before has still not disappeared, not allowing him to drop his guard, it the boar not dead? Are there any other dangers? Why was he still feeling danger, and it was coming right in front of him? From the dead body of the boar.

Just as Cyan was putting a confuse expressing and was thinking what exactly is going on, the body of the horned boar twitched as the hole that was still oozing with red blood stopped pumping blood and closed with amazing speed, visible to Cyan the eyes, soon the boar opened his eyes again, and this time, they were completely red instead of the black color they had before.

That powerful attack has not killed the boar in a single hit, and it has missed the heart by a long shot, and what is worse, it did not leave any lasting effects on the boar either, well, you may say that being unconscious for a solid 30 seconds was quite a good opportunity for some people but not to weaponless Cyan.

Cyan did not accounted for huge vitality and the amazing the regeneration capabilities a boss should have apart from his other characteristics, it was not just any boar but the king of the horned boars a boss, it was something that you could not kill by just ‘wounding it at lot’, you killed or you don’t, as simple as that.

Even if the attack did not kill the boar at least Cyan though that at least it should leave some lasting effects, what is this? Is this a joke? Has his attack counted for nothing? It had not even leave a lasting wound on the boar?

Now the spear Moon was long gone, and even if he knew the boar was not dead, how could he use the 30 seconds windows when he did not had any other weapon that was capable of finishing the boar in that time frame, no, Cyan stopped his train of thought. This were just excuses Cyan was saying to himself, he has failed in his plan and he has now to deal with the consequences, his sense of danger has never stopped warning even once, he should had known better, this mean he is doomed now?

The boar turned around to look for Cyan, with a huge roar started to activated his own skills

[Iron skin] [Steel skin] [Steel wall] [Giant strength] [Enhanced regeneration] [Enhanced vitality] [Enhanced stamina] and finally [Berserker]

His already red eyes had become even redder now.