My Last Hunt

Level Four (23)

Avoid Fireballs:

Seeing that his team was in view, the team leader heaved a sigh and then jumped down from the side after luring the monster. There was no way that he could keep running and climbing away from the monster and this applied for the monster too as it was difficult to scale this hill with its body. The main difference in their situations was that now the monster was alone while the leader had his team mates along. 

"Be careful from the fireball attacks." Shiguan told them as he reached them. This monster had an average defence and its main offence was only the fireball and nothing else. It could run fast but because of its small legs it could not sustain for long distances. Now that the leader had exhausted it for some distance, they could take advantage of it. They were in a huge advantage currently. 

"Its huge mouth seems like a hole leading to hell." Someone commented and others agreed. 

"But this hole to hell spews out raging fireballs, keep that in mind." Shiguan added. They were surrounding it now and coordinated to find a gap. Throwing a trap was not a choice right now as the fire would burn it. 

"Alright, someone has to distract it so that the fatal blow can be dealt." Shiguan spoke because now it was throwing fireballs randomly without delay. Its eyes were situated at the edges of its huge head, so in slight movement it could see the movements of the team members easily. 

"I will do that." Qiao spoke up and waved the fleece in his hand which he caught on the way; he had a very mind boggling idea to bull fight this monster currently. The fleece was big and eye-catching when waved around recklessly.

He imagined how horrible a creature it was to face for bull fighting. In his world non one would be interested to watch such a creature though, as this monster could directly use its fireball to attack from a distance. But right now his aim was not to fight it, but to distract it.

He started to wave the fleece the same way a player would wave it in front of the bull and the monster seemed to catch the moment. Its attention was grabbed for a moment as it focused on Qiao. The monster spewed out a fireball that aimed for the fleece instead of him. As the fleece started burning, Qiao threw it on the ground and stamped on it to quell the flame. In this time the chasers had managed to attack the monster slightly. 

Qiao the again took hold of the now black fleece and waved it and now the team leader finally attacked. The monster came to his senses at the final moment and it hurriedly moved its body to throw a fireball, but unfortunately it instead flew towards a chaser who was moving to attack. The fireball fell in between his legs and the fire broke out. Before Qiao could react to this sudden happening, another chaser who was near him started to kick with his feet to quell the fire. 

"Stop you rascal, stop right now." the chaser screamed with agony. The chaser belatedly realised where he was kicking. The team leader got speechless to see this. They were supposed to battle the monster but it turned they were all baffled at something else. 

Another fireball came and the leader hurriedly moved to avoid it. "Everybody focus to avoid fireball and attack at the same time and for the sake of your safety, don't lose your senses please." he looked at the chaser who was kicking before and warned them. 

The chaser who was kicked mercilessly, dragged himself away from the team and the monster. He might have shouted vulgarities but the team turned to hunt the monster without any further delay. Qiao did not speak anything as he was just speechless at what happened just now. 

But from now on, he would try his best to keep a distance that chaser who could lose his sense in situations and start kicking others without taking into consideration the outcome. The chaser who faced this brutal incident was almost convulsing on the other side. It was more dangerous than getting injured by the monster in the middle of the attack and chaos. 

Another attack fell on the monster during Qiao distracting it, yet the monster kept it's stubborn attitude. 

"Qiao, it's your turn now." team leader voiced and Qiao nodded. 

He was given this responsibility to put a final attack. Then he rushed forward, taking off right after the signal from team leader and stuffed the big fleece in the mouth of the monster and then attacked with the level five sword. The monster finally fell on the ground and the team felt relieved. 

"You smartly used my ruined fleece by the way." team leader praised him. Qiao had used this fleece and waved it in front of the monster to distract it which had surprised Shiguan. He never thought that a clothing can be this beneficial for distracting and in such a way. 

The other chasers were also learning from him. This young chaser always come up with ridiculous ideas which were proved to be smart ideas in the end of the end. They needed to learn from him if they wanted to become strong and better. 

Only smart chasers become strong in their early years and could reach far. Most chasers spend many years in levelling through brute strength and when they reach level six or seven, they already become old and soon retire from hunting. Only those who had a strong grit in the very early years reach level eight before reaching forty years of their life span. 

Those who reach level eight before forty can enjoy several more years in full youth and hunt, then they become elders of the big Guilds who decide the fate of this world and the fate of stronger monsters. 

At that level they happened to be able to learn and classify many traits of the stronger monsters and venture to more than half of this world. This was beneficial for lower-level Guild and the information can help stabilize the balance between the power of the monsters and the hunters.