"Is it....watching me?"

The cheetah's glare is sending shivers down his spine. The growling sound that it makes is indicating that it already found it's prey.

"Crap... Well at least I can see it now, unlike earlier"

The cheetah slowly started circling around him. It never takes off it's eye from Shun.

"What the... is it going to attack?" Shun thought.

"It's so dark I can't even see it's size, I doubt that I can dodge"

Shun can hear the footsteps it makes. Shun's eyes followed the burning eyes circling around him in the dark.

Suddenly, the monster went rushing towards him, it's eyes slightly elevated indicating that it jumped towards him.

Shun quickly takes a sidestep and leaned his shoulder backwards. Luckily, Shun managed to avoid the attack but Shun didn't manage to follow it's eyes as it's facing away from him.

It didn't take so long as the monster faced towards him, ready to attack again. Once again, the cheetah rushed towards him. But this time ,it fearlessly and violently rushed towards him.

"Are you pissed off!" Shun mockingly mumbled.

But instead of dodging, Shun went offensive and attempted to counterattack.

[NOTICE]

SKILL [DARK CLOAK] ACTIVATED

Shun quickly timed the attack and swiftly swinged his dagger towards the monster. For a second he thought that his attack pierced the monster's mouth.

"What the hell happened? Just now... he's speed just... changed." Shun eyes widened when he took a glance at his weapon. The black blade was snapped into pieces with only the handle left in his hands.

[WARNING]

YOUR CREATION HAS BEEN DESTROYED!

"Impossible! My weapon... is this beast really that strong." Shun turned his head to face the beast who went behind him, but the beast who's was supposed to be looking up at him from the ground was now looking down at him. It's eyes was at least 2 ft. elevated from his head and looking at him fixedly as if telling him to not move.

"It gotten taller?!" His question was later answered when the clouds in the sky was cleared and the moonlight starts to light up the surroundings.

The figure in front of him slowly becomes visible, a beast of atleast seven feet tall and standing in his two feet is in front of him with a mascular body.

"F*ck, this is not a C-rank monster" Shun's body was glued in that position, he can't move an inch. He felt like the monster will devour him if he tries to move. The icon in the monsters head was slowly revealed by the moonlight, the 3 yellow stars above it's head that represents it's rank.

[REIZGAL]

C- RANK

HP: 4363/5000

"Now I know why this thing is called a raging cheetah, it's because it can change forms that makes it faster... no wonder it managed to wound me using it's claw earlier. Even though a cheetah normally attack using their mouth since it uses 4 of it's limbs to run. But now I get it, it's because this thing can stand using 2 feets that means it uses the other two for attacking..."

"Grrr" The beast growled and showed a grin.

"What an annoying animal." Shun slowly gulped downs the cold air as he sensed the intense bloodlust coming from the beast.

"Damn that bastard! He sure is taking long. What kind of preparation is he doing" Shun angrily whimpered in his head, remembering Rai was still preparing his spell.

"This bastard is not the type who will wait just to get killed, I need to hold it right here until he finished... Should I try exchanging blows?" Shun pondered, taking a one last glance at the beast.

"No, that's a bad idea...huh?"

Shun noticed something when he takes another glance closer to the monster. The monster started emitting black smoke through It's skin.

"What the..."

Shun looked above him, the moonlight is shining from above. Shun showed a grin of victory in his face. "I see...so you're a creature of darkness as well" Shun started provoking the beast. The monster quickly moved back in the darkness as if it was scared of something.

"You don't like light..huh?" Shun continues to provoke the monster. "Scardy cat,"

"So that's why he targeted the walking flashlight earlier (Rai), because it was afraid of light." Shun whispered. "If that's the case, with this moonlight alone...I can definitely beat you without the walking flashlight's help!" Shun spoked arrogantly, lifting his chin.

He raise his hand to create another weapon using Alchemy. "For my sake, please work!"

[NOTICE]

SKILL HAS BEEN CANCELLED

[WARNING]

MAXIMUM CREATION LIMIT REACHED(1/1)

WEAPON CREATION IS IMPOSSIBLE

Note: Previously created weapon was destroyed, wait for 11h 43m 56s to restore the creation limit.

"Huah? What the hell!" Shun grumbled in surprise. "So I can't use a weapon. If I can't use a weapon that also means that I can't use my other skills...what should I do?" he looked around him. "Should I stay in the moonlight until that bastard arrived?"

"Nah, that won't work." Shun nervously approached the beast with his fist clenched. He was now standing on the moonlight side and the cheetah is standing on the dark side.

Shun was the first one to throw a blow at the monster. "Swoop!" The monster then dondge the attack and throw a counter punch. The moon continues to rais up as the two of them exchange blows.

"Tri-ring"

[NOTICE]

DAMAGE RECEIVED

HP: 571/1200...

[DAMAGE RECEIVED]

HP: 543/1200...

As the battle goes on, their exchanged punches at a higher speed. Shun's HP began to decrease at a higher rate.

[DAMAGE RECEIVED]

HP: 516/1200...

[DAMAGE RECEIVED]

HP: 489/1200...

[DAMAGE RECEIVED]

HP: 466/1200...

"Gahhh, haaahh, haaaah," Shun stopped attacking and began panting heavily form exhaustion. "My HP is hanging low, did I even manage to damage him?!" Shun looked up and saw the monster's body is bleeding and broken bones was visible from his sight. Shun grinned as he looked at himself and realized that his body is at the worst condition more than the beast.

"Tsk...I messed up! Its stronger than me" Shun is beginning to regret his sudden decisions. "I should've waited for that guy."

"Sorry for the wait!" A familiar voice from above spoked.

Shun anchored his attention to the person speaking, it was Rai. A large blue magic circle started to form in the sky. "Speaking of the devil." a wide smirk was painted in his face.

"Get out of there!" Rai shouted, but Shun didn't understand what he was saying. Shun's attention was greatly focused into the large magic circle that appeared below him, where he and the beast was standing.

"Wha–" he was confused, Shun doesn't know what was that for. Until he hears the thunder sound coming from above them. "Is this some kind of summoning circle that summon demons."

Not too long before he finally understand what's going on. "Awww crap." He shouted before swiftly dives outside the circle with all his might and covered his ears. Ablinding lights blocked his vision, as the lighting strikes the ground, deafening sound can be heard even when he covered his ears.

[NOTICE]

THE TERRITORY BOSS HAS BEEN SLAIN

THE RAGING CHEETAH "REIZGAL" HAS BEEN SLAIN

EXP GAINED*

[Rewards has been added to your inventory]

After the blinding lights vanished and Shun regained his vision. He quickly recognize the figure in front of him.

"Mai, is that you?" Shun uttered.

"My name is Rai, idiot." Rai quickly responded as he helped Shun to stand up.

"What took you so long?" Shun mumbled.

"I assumed that you're doing well, so I rested for abit to regain my HP...but it turns out that you almost died"

[NOTICE]

[YOU LEVELED UP]

LEVEL 14

[BONUS REWARDS]

• 200 golds

• 2 Mana potion

• 3 Health potion

(Items automatically added to your inventory)

"Hmmm, the rewards are pretty neat," Shun mumbled. "Show my [status]!" he chanted.

Name: Shun Futaro

Level 14: 895/2200

Guild: NONE

Title: NONE (2 more)

Job: Wizard

Technique: Alchemy

[STATISTICS]

HP: 471/2300

MP: 103/230

Magic: 150

Physical: 80

Agility: 2.5

Endurance: 19/140

Vitality: 23

Intelligence: 96

"Maybe because we fought against a D-rank boss." Rai mumbled.

"No, that was actually a 3 stared boss that means it was a C-rank." Shun grumbled.

"Really, I should have hurried to help you." Rai responded. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah somehow, It's like me choosing between dying from a claw or dying from lighting strike." Shun complained.

"Sorry, seriously sorry." Rai apologized with an innocent smile.

An unexpected pop-up appeared in front of Rai. He curiously stared at his status window.

[NOTICE]

YOU LEVELED UP

LEVEL 11

[BONUS REWARDS]

• 500 golds

• 6 Mana potion

• 4 Health potion

• 1 Teleportation crystal

• Rune Stone: Rage (Only usable for assassins)

• Hunter's Dagger

"Wow, I received plenty of rewards." Rai happily spoked.

"Really, maybe that because you're the one who slain that monster." Shun humbly stated.

"Yeah, and I also leveled up 4 times from my previous level, that's a lot." Rai responded.

"[Inventory]!" Rai chanted and caught Shun's attention.

[INVENTORY]

• Gold pouch

• Mana potion (3×)

• Health potion (4×)

• Teleportation crystal

• Rune of the raging beast (Only usable for assassins)

• Hunter's Dagger

Rai touched the dagger and the rune of the raging beast icon. The item then appeared in front of him, he grabbed the two items and handed it to Shun.

"Here, I don't need those, since I'm not an assassin type and I don't use daggers. You're the one who fought that monster head to head anyways." Rai kindly spoked.

"Ehh, really! I can take them?" Shun lifted his eyebrow. "This is..."

"Yeah sure, it's yours." Rai responded.

"It's a good thing that I received a new weapon, my weapon was destroyed a moment ago" Shun grabbed the items and started putting them in his inventory.

"What is this?" Shun curiously stares at the stone Rai gave him.

[Rune stone: Rage]

Breaking this [Rune stone].will grant you a skill.

Out of curiosity, Shun forcefully squeezed the stone until it breaks.

[NOTICE]

NEW SKILL UNLOCKED

-RAGE(Level 1)

ACTIVE

Rank: C

Mana cost: 30 (consumes 1 mana every second)

-Agility increase 3%

"I see, so breaking a rune stone will grant me a skill." said Shun.

"Shun let's go!" Rai yelled from a distance.

"Where? I thought after we get the teleportation crystal, we're going to Yuya's location." Shun curiously asked.

"It's still 5 hours before dawn. Let's go hunting for a bit. We need to level up more to gain strength for our upcoming battle." Rai explained.

"Upcoming battle?" Shun give a confused look.

"Don't ask," Rai shouted. "I can't tell you just yet."

"But my health points," Shun responded worriedly. "I'll die at this rate."

"Just use the heath potion. It will increase you health by 500 points, atleast." Rai stated.

"Health potion?"Shun replied as he runned towards Rai following him. He slowly look at the inventory screen and quickly summon the item he needed. Shun without hesitation gulped down every last drop of the potion. "This taste like hospital food," he said while making a disgusted face.