No More Pain For This Villain.



"You look over there, and I'll head over here." Marylin gave me the direction to venture further into the forest, and she will search the woodland's margins.

"What brings us here to seek Thargtusk?" Other mana beasts are quite simple to locate," I grumbled.

Despite the fact that thargtusks have a tiny population due to their poor birth rate, it is permissible to hunt them down.

"Nope, even if it takes us days to find one, I want you to hunt one." Regarding the whole hunting business, Marylin was somewhat adamant. 

"Okay, we'll get together in two hours at this very spot; if we can't find one, we're going back, and tomorrow, we can resume." I said.

According to my experience, it's uncommon to discover a thargtusk readily; it's not as if I'm going to come across one contentedly munching on grass.

After replying, "Okay," Marylin quickly departed to look.

"We should also leave," I said. Along with that, I started looking for footpaths and anything else that would indicate if a thargtusk had gone through or not.

Thargtusks are extremely challenging Mana creatures to control. The adventurer guild has rated it as level C on the danger scale, and it is advised that you be at least a B-rank adventurer to hunt a Thargtusk or be in a party with at least two C-rank adventurers. For your kind information, if there is only one Thargtusk, they are always in pairs, a male and a female.

By appearance, thargtusk can be compared to a yak that's similar to a woolly rhinoceros but without horn; it has long, sturdy tusks that grow out of their skull.

Thargtusk resembles a yak that is akin to a woolly rhinoceros but without a horn in appearance; it has long, strong tusks that extend from its skull.

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Two hours later

"Nothing here.What about you, princess? No luck?"  The Blaze was hovering around the whole forest. He claimed to want to assist, but at the moment he is merely flying from place to place.

I found out today that because of our connection, he can only move a short distance away from me before being drawn back into my body. Odd, huh?

"Nope, Smokeball  We won't be able to easily spot a thargtusk in this woodland, I grumbled. 

The Balcker Forest is around three times the size of the entire Sephra, including the border walls.

Then there is an adventurer's zone, and no non-magic person can enter there even with the approval of the Adventurers' Guild; only half of it is safe for one to search, but I can go there as long as I show my guild ID.

"It's been two hours already; I think we should go back," I suggested.

"Aye, aye, captain!" Blaze returned near my core.

I walked back to the spot where Marylin and I decided to meet up and saw that Marylin was already waiting for me there, like she never left her spot.

"Looks like you found nothing," Marylin said as soon as she laid her eyes on me.

"Let's go back now; we'll come here tomorrow and restart our search," I said.

"Very well," Marylin said, turning around and starting to walk in the direction that leads us out of the forest, and I followed behind her.

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Two days later

"Mrs. Marylin, how long do we have to do the same thing every day?" I asked, "This everyday cycle is getting on my nerves."

"Until I am satisfied, keep pushing." Marilyn then stroked me on the shoulder and gave me a push.

"Bye-bye, good luck for today." Marylin waved her hands and saw me leave.

Sigh

I sighed and left for my quest that I've been doing for the past few days. For the last two days, I have been searching for those Thargtusks, but none have ever been spotted by us, and for some reason, I think Marylin is not even searching; she is just waiting for me to find one on my own.

"Hey, look there." Soon, when Marylin was out of our site, Blaze came out of his shell.

"Where?"  I turned my head in the direction where the blaze pointed and saw a Serpuler.

A serpa is a thin, three-foot-long, blue-coloured serpent that is born from a silver-shelled egg. It's not rare to find one to begin with.

The only thing that's special about them is that they are harvested for their unusual eggs. It has a thin layer of silver covering its entire oval, palm-sized egg.

"Hehehe!! Those eggs are precious."Blaze said, Why is his wording always so weird?

"Their poison is not that venomous but is also deadly if not cured within twenty-four hours." I said,

Sigh

"Let's keep going; it's no use for us." I kept going deep into the forest; a Serpuler is not useful without its eggs, and I don't have time to look for its nest.

In these past two days, a lot of other magic beasts, like Arcenos, Clockglick, Berose, and many more, passed before my eyes, but the only one I am finding was nowhere to be found. 

"Hey, you know what? I am getting bored now, and I think it'll be better for me to practise my spells than search for some non-appearing damn mana beast." I was pretty annoyed by this weird training session this time. I wasted a lot of time in this forest instead, where I could've spent that time improving my casting abilities, and then I would have reached, like, near a second star.

Right now I am in the deepest part of the forest that I've ever been in. Balcker Forest is divided into two parts, and this is the deepest place in the first place with no one present.

A lot of mana beasts prefer living in the restricted part, while some live in the non-restricted part, and I am in the middle of two.

"Okay, then, let's start with accuracy." After saying this, I formed the inferno bolt spell in my right hand and looked around for a good target.

"There!"  Blaze found a target for me,I saw a small bird pecking in the fallen leaves; maybe it's eating worms or bugs there.

The bird is like ten metres away from me, right in front of a large bush. It's a great target to test accuracy; it's small, agile, and is able to fly when it senses an upcoming attack, making it a challenging target.

Fush

I attacked it with Bolt; it swiftly shot through the air and was about to strike the bird when,

Flap flap

The bird flew away right before the spell hit it, and the spell crashed on the bush.

Tch

"I think it's a bad day for me," I clicked my tongue as I turned to look for another target.

"Umm, Master, I think you should take a look here as well," Blaze quickly shot back into my chest and I turned to see what happened and the following scene was kinda bitter-sweet.

Grrrrr

"Uh-oh,"  I don't know how to react to this one.

"Yep, it's definitely the worst day." I don't know if I am happy or sad anymore, but one thing I can say for sure is that the search is over now.

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