Wild boar tusk (1)

“System, can you calculate the success probability of killing the beast combine with charge and my other skill targeting its beating heart?”

Isaac decided to ask the system without much thought. He didn’t think that depending on the system might be considered biased. Isaac didn’t feel guilty about it. Some might think having a system, while others don’t, was a cheat, but it didn’t mean he wouldn’t make use of the blessings he received, right?

It was like you were asking a child, birthed by a noble parent, to stop depending on them. It was ridiculous, to say the least. It wasn’t his fault he was born with an astonishing background. The same situation applies to Isaac; the system chooses him, so he should make use of it.

[Analyzing is in the process…]                 

[Analysis complete. Data has been gathered.

The wild boar tusk had an enormous body, and it was disadvantaged against little creature….]

Isaac continued to listen regarding the system’s thoughts and didn’t hasten to direct to the point. He patiently waited until he learned about the system’s data. In the end, the probability was eighty percent, it included the probability of every scenario despite having a low chance to happen.

Although the result wasn’t higher than Isaac expected, he still couldn’t stop overthinking about the other twenty percent. The system had already explained what the other twenty percent could happen, which would result in a failure. Isaac knew the chances it would happen were slim to none. However, there would be a question popping into his head of why would the system raised it and deemed it twenty percent if it was unlikely to happen.

In the end, Isaac decided to execute the plan. He doesn’t want to waste any more time. He waited until he could activate the charge, which was a conditional skill. The skill would be canceled once Isaac would change direction. Since the heart of the wild boar was located in the lower chest, behind the shoulder, Isaac didn’t know if his needle part, which served as a catalyst of his other skill, was tall enough to reach it.

He felt conflicted.

Although, he could have charged in a curve direction and injected his needle mouth below the wild boar tusk body, which should have its heart near the skin. The charge skill was conditional, so it would be interrupted. Furthermore, the charge skill needed a distance to cover, so it could deal more power. Therefore, Isaac couldn’t hover below the wild boar tusk and activate his charge to penetrate the heart at such a low distance.

Isaac now realized that his decision was leaning on the twenty percent that the system said. Just like what the latter had explained, the other twenty percent practically have zero chance to happen because of the flaws regarding his skills.

“As expected, common skills such have a huge flaw.”

 If it wasn’t because of his bloodlust, which killed the wild boar tusk earlier, it would have been impossible to kill it. The reason was that the bloodlust gave him the location where the veins were near to its skins, so Isaac could penetrate it, not the muscles. However, now Isaac wasn’t in such a state, Isaac could only depend on his vision.

“The system had already given me the plan to execute? Why am I trying to create my own, which completely contradicted the system?” he thought.

He couldn’t help but laugh inside. As expected, he was trying to deny the other’s helping hand towards him. He had been acting this way back when he was still living on Earth. One of the reasons why didn’t have a long-term friend.

“I should trust the system and follow the thread he created.”

Whenever the wild boar tusk moved, the transparent thread would move. The thread was pointing toward the beast’s beating heart, while it was telling him to follow it. If he followed it, he could kill it. The thread was firmly straight, which told him to activate his skill charge and follow the thread. And once the thread enter the beast’s body, Isaac noticed what it enter was the softest part of the wild boar tusk.

Only a minority of them was a muscle, but enough to penetrate with his needle mouth.

“Skill charge activate.”

[You have activated the skill, Charge.]

Following the system’s voice, Isaac flapped his wings a single time and straightened them for propulsion. The distance was five meters, and each meter the skill covered, it would increase twice the amount of speed. Hence, when Isaac covered five meters, his speed would increase five times!

Isaac could feel the barrier of the wind, trying to slow his dashed, but it was useless. Isaac didn’t even blink, or so he tried but he couldn’t and continued to stare at the thread, following it obediently. Once he was near the outline, which he thought should be the skin of the wild boar tusk, he activated his other skill.

[You have activated the skill, Mosquito bite.]

He ignored the system’s voice and continued to follow the thread. Once his needle mouth contacted the skin, he imagined a scene, in which his nose might bend due to the toughness of its skin. He felt scared and tried to deactivate the skill but to no avail.

[The skill, Charge, can’t be stopped.]

“Bullshit!”

Isaac cursed, and wanted to close his two large compound eyes but he couldn’t. Surprisingly, he saw he had now entered the wild boar tusk body, and remembered the feeling when he cut the tofu with his sharp knife. It was the same feeling when he entered the beast's body with his sharp needle mouth.

He felt it was thrilling.

Once Isaac penetrated the beast’s heart, and in a second, he absorbed all its blood, from head to toe! In a single split second! The beast couldn’t react as it died without knowing how! It couldn’t even shriek for Isaac didn’t give him a chance!

Since the charge couldn’t be stopped, Isaac continued to dash and exited the wild boar tusk body! The latter landed on the ground with a thud! Its noise was loud enough to be heard by the other wild boar tusk as it stopped eating the grass for a minute.

It didn’t know where the noise came from, and hearing there was no other noise. It decided to forget about it, and continued to eat the grass without care, not knowing its fellow beast died!

Isaac continued to charge and eventually collided with the wall of the dungeon. It was tough, as he could only penetrate not deeper than ten centimeters despite the speed, and his sharp needle mouth penetrated the wild boar tusk in a single second! Isaac could only wonder how rugged the materials were to create the dungeon wall.

“Ouch, Ouch!”

Isaac struggled to stand up as he felt tired and ached all over his body.

[Host is in an exhausted state. Does the Host want to activate the skill, Digestion, to replenish your energy?]

“Yes.”

[You have activated the skill, Digestion.]

Isaac’s bulging stomach slowly became slim while feeling the euphoria of his energy recovering. Isaac indulged the pleasure of his stamina recovering, and he couldn’t help but be astonished as he felt he return to his peak.

“If I keep killing others, devour their blood and digest it. Does that mean I can become a killing machine?”

He wondered as the voice of the system interrupted his thought.

[Provided the condition has been met. You have acquired the Chain skill, Charge > Mosquito bite.]

“Chain skill?”

Isaac was familiar with this skill, but he couldn’t help but be surprised the system had this feature. He then recalled how he activated the different skills at once, and it’s indeed a chain skill.

Isaac admitted if it wasn’t because of the thread the system showed to him and followed, there would be some failure or blunder regarding activating the same skills simultaneously. However, with the help of chain skill activation, Isaac didn’t need to worry about meeting the condition to activate the skill without interrupting the other, even without the aid of the thread.

“Does that mean I could now activate both the skills, which is only activating the chain skill, instead of activating them individually?”

“System?”

[The host is correct.]

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