"It's that one, it's that one..."
The short, stout middle-aged man immediately began shouting when he saw the dark figure in the distance.
"Uh... are you sure?"
Ul looked doubtfully at the dark figure bouncing toward them like a rabbit.
"I'm sure! It's definitely here!" The middle-aged man looked panicked, as if he'd seen some terrifying demon.
Ul was about to say something, but when the dark figure finally came into full view, his expression betrayed a moment of shock. Then he nodded.
"Fine... you're right!"
Watching the wild boar hop several meters into the air, moving even more nimbly than a rabbit, Ul felt rather conflicted.
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The wild boar was fast!
After a few bounds, it reached the farm.
It was clear that after what had happened last time, this wild boar no longer regarded humans as a threat.
Once it entered the farm!
The wild boar actually began to move more leisurely.
It glanced scornfully at Ul and the middle-aged man, who was trembling as he clutched a wooden club, then ambled over to the center of the farm and began munching on the vegetables, completely ignoring them.
"Holy shit!!!"
Ul's eyes widened at the sight.
From the middle-aged man's description, he'd already gathered that the wild boar was pretty brazen, but he'd never imagined it was this arrogant.
It was acting as if he didn't even exist!
"Mage, this..."
Seeing the wild boar wreak havoc on his farm again, the middle-aged man was so anxious that he nearly started crying and sniffling all over again...
Fortunately, Ul was quick. He reached out and covered the man's mouth before he could say anything more. "Don't worry. I'm here. I won't let that beast run wild..."
Ul delivered the line with such righteous conviction that the middle-aged man was nearly moved to tears!
However!
If one of Ul's friends from his previous life had been there, they would have known just how insincere his words had been.
But Ul really had no choice!
Ever since arriving in this world, he hadn't used such perfunctory words in a long time.
If the middle-aged man hadn't been so repulsive today, Ul truly wouldn't have wanted to fob him off like that.
......
After Ul's "righteous" speech, the middle-aged man finally quieted down, at least for the moment!
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Ul began to assess the wild boar.
At first glance, it looked much like an ordinary wild boar. The only difference Ul could spot was that it was a little bigger.
But in reality!
Just as Ul had suspected, this wild boar was a "monster." He could sense magic power within it, though the fluctuations were still weak.
In terms of magical power alone, the wild boar wasn't far behind Ul!
If Ul's guess was right, this wild boar had only recently been affected by magic and begun transforming into a "monster." It wasn't one of those born as a "monster" or descended from one.
That was why it wasn't yet so aggressive. Unlike most monsters, it didn't attack and try to eat humans on sight...
However, although the wild boar's magic power was weak, it was quite intelligent. That was the main reason Ul hadn't acted rashly.
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The wild boar "monster" continued rooting around in the farm's vegetables, utterly content. Even with two humans standing beside it, their presence didn't bother it in the least.
After its last battle, the wild boar "monster" had become incredibly overconfident!
The humans it had once feared no longer seemed worth worrying about!
As the wild boar continued destroying his crops, the middle-aged man glanced at Ul several times. His mouth opened and closed, but each time he remembered what Ul had just said, he swallowed the words he'd been about to use to hurry him along...
But as the boar destroyed more and more crops...
At last!
The middle-aged man couldn't hold back any longer!
Just as he gritted his teeth and prepared to speak to Ul, Ul—who had been motionless until then—suddenly moved!
With a sharp clap!
As the middle-aged man watched, Ul suddenly pressed his hands together. A yellow-brown Magic Circle quickly appeared beneath the wild boar "monster," and a surge of magical power spread out...
Low-Rank Magic—Earth Spike!
Whoosh!
The Magic Circle burst into light. In the next instant, a sharply pointed earthen spike shot up from it, aimed straight at the wild boar "monster's" belly.
The moment the Magic Circle appeared!
The wild boar "monster" sensed the danger. It let out a strange cry and tried to flee...
But Ul had waited so long to launch this ambush, deliberately choosing the moment when the wild boar "monster" had completely let its guard down. How could he let it escape so easily?
So although the wild boar was as nimble as a rabbit, it only managed to dodge the most vital areas by a little...
And then!
The earthen spike created by Earth Spike pierced a certain part of the wild boar "monster"—a part even more vital than its vital areas...
"Aaagh~~~"
A shrill, piercing scream rang out through the dark night.
Hearing the horrifying wail, Ul and the middle-aged man instinctively drew their legs together and sucked in a sharp breath.
"Yikes!!!"
Both of them looked a little uneasy.
Especially when they saw the thing beneath the wild boar "monster's" crotch, impaled clean through by Earth Spike, their faces turned pale.
Some injuries in this world were so horrifying that a single glance could make one's heart race with fear.
And now...
The injury suffered by this wild boar "monster" was one of them.
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