Dagger

Under the moonlight, there were no monsters that could be seen and patch was accomodating rocks and boulders.

"No enemies? Let"s go check if the treasure is here.", Allen said.

Kate nodded and the both of them went towards the middle of the gra.s.s patch.

-rumble-

The ground suddenly quaked, before they even got to the center, a large boar whose tusks were made of sharp stone was charged right at them coming from behind the trees.

The boar uprooted the trees on the way and even crushed a boulder, it was obvious that it was no ordinary animal.

Allen narrowed his eyes and checked the boar, he said to Kate, "Don"t attack it! It"s a rock boar, it"s skin is as tough as a boulder, even dagger flashes won"t injure it!"

Kate believed Allen and the both of them sidestepped to the left and right of the boar respectively.

"How will we kill it then?", Kate shouted as the boar charged right at her. She dodged in time and backed off.

"Wait, I"m trying to remember!", Allen said.

"I"m going to hold it off then!", Kate took out her dagger and sent attacked the stone boar with dagger flashes.

-clang- -clang-

The flashes only made sparks on the boar"s skin, nonetheless, it still attracted the beast"s attention. Afterwards, the monster only kept attacking Kate.

...

"Hurry up!", Kate shouted. She knew that she couldn"t hold on much longer, her stamina was decreasing everytime she dodged or attacked the boar.

"I remember now!", Allen shouted. It was rather hard to remember something about the stone boar, specially that he also read about other monsters too.

"What"s it"s weakness?!", Kate exasperatedly asked.

"A pickaxe! It is afraid of pickaxes!", Allen shouted back.

"..." 

Afraid of a d.a.m.n pickaxe? What kind of a concept was that?! Those were the thoughts of Kate.

"Are you kidding me, right?", Kate asked as she closely dodged another charge of the boar.

"No! It"s true.", Allen said.

"How about weak spots instead?", Kate was almost hit by another charge of the boar.

Allen paused and shouted again, "It"s eyes are soft, make him blind!"

Kate heard what Allen said and she immediately hid her dagger and took out two throwing knives, then she threw one towards an eye.

-sou-

The boar didn"t react on the time and it"s right eye was. .h.i.t by a throwing knife!

"Roar...", the boar was now blinded on it"s right eye. It roared in anger and now charged at Allen instead. The boar somehow felt that it was this kid"s fault that he"s feeling excrutiating pain.

-whoosh-

Even though it"s just a stone boar, it"s speed was still very fast!

"Oh no.", Allen was caught off guard and was almost hit by the boar, luckily, he dodged right on time.

He started backing off from the boar at a fast pace, however, the beast closely followed him.

"Don"t get too far away!", Kate climbed up on a boulder and aimed at the other eye of the stone boar.

Allen knew what to do and led the the boar right at Kate"s location so the latter could easily aim on the remaining eye.

On the other hand, Kate smiled knowing what Allen was doing and focused on the other eye of the boar.

Suddenly for Kate, time seemed to stand still as she started to throw the throwing knife at the eye of the boar.

-sou-

The throwing knife was launched and flew towards the remaining eye.

-pshew-

The eye was successfully hit!

"Roar...", this time, the boar roared louder than it even made the nearby birds fly away in fear!

"Now, it can"t see us.", Kate said.

Allen immediately sticked his back at the boulder where Kate was standing, "Yeah, but let"s just be quiet for awhile."

From the name of the stone boar alone made the said beast separated from the normal boars, like earlier it"s difference is that it"s skin is as tough as a stone to the point it could destroy boulders. Just like a bloodthirsty wolf, the stone boar focuses on it"s strength too, however, like the former, the latter also has one shortcoming, and that was it"s instincts were much weaker than the former!

Suddenly, in a flash, a third eye appeared in between the boar"s two eyes. The eye was in pure color green.

When Kate saw what, she asked at the boar"s third eye, "Umm... should we be worried about that?"

Allen then looked at the stone boar"s third eye, he sucked in a cold breath under his mask and nodded.

He then said...

"Now we really need a pickaxe."

***

Meanwhile, back at the Crescent Town...

In the necromancer"s temporary residence...

The necromancer was still awake in his room, under the candlelight on top of a desk, which was the only serving light in the room, he was writing something on a blank piece of paper. 

He suddenly stopped and muttered, "I hope my apprentice will be alright in the woods."

"Oh don"t worry, he probably will be.", a deep voice echoed out throughout room.

The necromancer immediately stood up and grabbed his staff beside him.

He aimed the staff on the darkness around him, "Who are you?"

"I think I should be the one asking the questions first. What are you doing in this city?", the voice asked.

"You"ll never know!", the necromancer said.

"Let me rephrase that question then... what is the treasure that your organization seeks for?", the voice asked.

The necromancer was surprised and summoned skeletal guards around him.

"Hehe... how cute, I"ve killed thousands of those already.", the voice sneered.

The necromancer however, seemed unfazed and sighed, "Hais, an a.s.sa.s.sin, I will never win in the dark." Suddenly, the necromancer made a devilish smile. "But I"m already a step ahead of you."

"Don"t worry... I know I"m just talking to a clone, hahaha...", the deep voice laughed, coupled with the darkness, it seemed like it came from h.e.l.l.

The necromancer"s clone showed an ugly expression and grabbed at the paper he was writing, however, before he even got hold of it, his body was cleanly cut in half the middle.

Afterwards, the clone"s body and the skeletons around it turned into piles of dust.

A hand stretched out from the darkness and grabbed the paper that the clone was writing on and retrieved it back to the darkness.

After which, another hand stretched from the darkness and crushed the fire on the candle.

"Nighty night, necromancer, don"t wake up ever again.", the voice chuckled.

***

Inside an inn...

An old man suddenly woke up from his sleep, he was sweating all over his body. "d.a.m.n it, I must escape this town! I shouldn"t have sent Warren by this time."

***

Back at the woods...

-crack- -boom-

"Roar...", the boar roared as it destroyed another boulder. It already destroyed a lot of boulders in this area!

Behind a particular boulder, Allen was panting in fear while Kate has a solemn face. Both of them had already recovered most of their stamina by now.

"I remember now, we need to destroy it"s third eye, then it would get killed! Most of it"s life force is focused on that place, it probably opened that eye as a last resort to kill us.", Allen quietly said.

"I don"t have any throwing knives left.", Kate then looked at Allen, the boy said, "I don"t have any throwing knives at me, but you can use our daggers."

Kate shook her head and said, "They"re too heavy to throw with my strength."

Allen relaxed a bit and said, "Then that stone boar has to be killed at a close distance."

"I could try to flicker near it"s eye and stab it.", Kate suggested.

"No, that eye gave the boar sixth sense, it could just sense you appearing near it before you even appeared.", Allen disagreed.

"What should we do then?", Kate asked.

"I have a plan...", Allen explained his plan to Kate.

...

In a few seconds, the boar was about to crash onto an another boulder when...

"Hey, I"m here! Come right at me you big chunk of chewy rock meat!", Allen stepped out from behind a boulder and shouted at the stone boar.

The stone boar looked at Allen, as it was about to charge, it seemed to hesitate at the last moment.

"A stone boar with sixth sense is really good at discerning tricks... but it"s low wisdom is it"s weakness.", Allen inwardly said as he shouted again, "So are you staying there? You really are a piece of chewy, scared, pile of meat that just got a little bit of wisdom!"

The stone boar seemed to understand what Allen just said, first it roared in anger because of being insulted by a human and charged like a maniac at the kid.

The boar"s speed is now faster than before! The third eye has obviously gave it a considerable amount of strength!

However, Allen just smiled and when the boar was about twenty meters away from him, he said, "Now!"

The boar sensed something was wrong but it was too late already! It was already ten meters away from Allen and the boulder, and it was already in the range of Kate"s flicker ability.

Kate"s body disappeared from behind the boulder and reappeared on the air in front of the stone boar! 

Due to the stone boar"s momentum, it couldn"t stop, afterwards, Kate stabbed towards the incoming beast"s third eye.

-clang-

However, the boar closed it"s eye on time and let out a snort, Kate then fell on the ground and rolled away.

The stone boar opened it"s eyes again, however, it forgot one thing ~ rather, it forgot one human, and that was Allen!

After the monster closed it"s eye, Allen already charged at it and stabbed towards the third eye after Kate rolled away! 

The third eye at the same time was already opening when Allen met it with a cold dagger.

-pshew-

The dagger penetrated through the eye and the monster let out an anguished howl! Allen immediately backed away from the beast, there was nothing he can do right now, but one thing"s for sure... and that is the stone boar is already considered dead at this point.

The boar was about to charged at Allen in fury once again when it lost all of it"s strength and collapsed to the ground!

-thud-

A loud thud echoed into the surroundings.

Allen panted as he smiled under the mask in glory.

Kate suddenly said, "Catch." She then threw a pill at Allen.

Allen caught the pill and looked at Kate, hoping to answer his unsaid question.

Kate on the other hand, seemed to know what was Allen thinking and said, "It"s a pill that can replenish stamina." After which she got one under her sleeves and swallowed it.

Allen immediately swallowed it too and felt a relaxing sensation all over his body, and once again, he felt that his adrenaline went back to normal and exhaustion was all gone. He then retrieved his dagger.

The girl then took out another orb and crushed it. After which, the crushed remains of the orb glowed.

Kate smiled and looked at Allen, "It"s near here. Come on, let"s report it back."

"Nope, you"re not going to report it back... ", a voice caught the attention of the two a.s.sa.s.sins.

Kate was about to charge into the newcomer from far away when a figure made of black smoke rushed to her and the both of them disappeared.

"Kate?", Allen called out.

"Don"t worry about her, the both of them were just teleported away.", Warren paused and examined Allen. "A ghost is actually haunting you for killing it?"

After another pause, he said, "Die!"

He pointed staff he was holding at Allen and released a series of death energy b.a.l.l.s as attacks.