4 Chapter 4


Several days later, I came upon a type of magical creature that was above that of the magenta rabbit or the eggplant squirrels. But lower than the black fox. The creature was a cross between a wild boar and a duck. It was lime green with yellow tusks, bill and flippers.

Bizarre coloring is one thing, but a combination between a duck and a boar?

Really...


There has to be some sort of lake included in its habitat, otherwise the webbed feet seem completely useless too me and it.


Stalking the duckboar, I watch as it treks through the magical forest at a snail's pace.

Watching how it interacts with the surrounding environment, I feel that I should trap it in order to make it completely motionless. Because if there's anything I remember about boars from my home world, is that they like to charge towards the enemy.

Though they charge in a straight line, those webbed feet from its duck half probably gain it some advantage on land. And no way am I going to try to trap it in the water.


Yeah I can manipulate water through magic gestures, but that doesn't mean the duckboar doesn't have its own magic script!


Running around the duckboar and to a place in the forest where I believe the duckboar will pass through, I set my trap.


It's a very simple trap, vines.


I found out a couple of days ago that my gestures towards earth magic also extends to plants as well. Sadly the most I can do is control vines. I can't grow plants or make them materialize out of thin air. So all I'm really doing in planning on tripping the duckboar as it charges and once it falls have the vines ensnare it. Simple, right?


Not....


So apparently those webbed feet of the duckboar make it so it can maneuver in an additional direction while charging, up.


Just when I thought that I had tripped the duckboar, it leaped into the air and dodged my vines. Doing a quick 180 in the air as it spins toward my direction, and activates it's green magic script.


A single blade of wind is created by the magic script around its tail and is launched towards me. Rolling to the right from behind some bushes, I narrowly avoid the wind blade. As I get back to my feet, the duckboar is charging towards my current location as soon as it finished launching the wind blade from midair and landing on the ground.


Moving my hands as quick as I can, I command the vines that failed to capture the duckboar previously to once again tangle the duckboar from behind.


Near inches from colliding with me, the duckboar fails to notice the vines in time as they gain purchase on its hind legs and pull the duckboar in the opposite direction.
Losing its momentum, the duckboar falls to the ground with a thump and is dragged away. The vines under my command start to wrap around the duck like a snake and slowly constrict its movements, while rising it above the ground.


Watching the duckboar struggle to break free of the vines. I gesture to a single vine and have it wrap around the duckboar's neck. It slowly starts to twist the duckboar's neck in an unnatural direction, until a clean snapping sound is heard from the duckboar's neck.


All previous struggling put forth by the duckboar ceases as the vines loosen their grip and slowly bring the duckboar to the forest floor.


With a single hand gesture, the vines creep back into the bushes and I approached the dead duckboar.


Using my previous experience in dismantling magical creatures, I gesture toward the earth to form a primitive and dull knife out of the the clay beneath the topsoil and create a small flame with my other hand to harden the clay.


I get to work draining and dismantling the duckboar. Making quick work of the dismantling so I'm not caught by approaching predators attracted by the scent of the sparkly black blood.


Hastily, I part the earth with a magic gesture under the carcass of the duckboar and bury it. Closing the earth back up, I leave the area with my duckboar meat.