“Stay back and let me deal with it!” added Gerald as he quickly turned to face the boar that was now charging in his direction instead since Juno had switched her torchlight off.

Watching as the sharp-tusked boar opened its mouth wide—clearly aiming to chomp down on Gerald—Gerald knew that a single bite from it could either kill a regular person, or at the very least, maim them.

Naturally, with that in mind, Gerald wasn’t about to allow the boar to do that.

Dodge rolling to the side, Gerald then summoned the Astrabyss Sword. Though the sword’s main purpose was to deal with ghosts, Gerald believed that it would still hurt as a regular weapon.

Regardless, though the wild boar definitely looked ferocious, its humongous body made it quite slow and inflexible. As a result, it was unable to fully stop after Gerald dodged its attack, and it ended up ramming right into a large tree!

As a sea of leaves fluttered to the ground upon the boar’s impact, Gerald knew that it was now or neve