My Summons Are Mythical Beasts

Summoning Spot, Lucas pointed at the boar a hundred meters away from them.

"Can you defeat it, Spot?" He asked.

At this moment, Spot had more or less recovered to his full state already. Although he was not in tip-top condition yet, he was also not far away from it.

In his current state, Spot should be able to fight without much of a problem.

Spot turned and traced the location where Lucas was pointing.

After staring for a while, Spot tilted his head to the side cutely and barked softly to Lucas.

Hearing his response, Lucas nodded his head in affirmation.

Spot seemed to be quite confident.

"Let me lure it over here then. You stay here and ambush it at the right moment, understand?"

Spot barked in response. He then found a place to hide and then barked at Lucas as if saying that he was ready.

Lucas nodded and walked closer toward the boar eating the cogon grass.

The reason why he chose to make himself the bait was to avoid creating too much commotion. By luring the boar beast over, Spot would be able to ambush it and finish it in an extremely short period of time—if possible.

They did not know anything about the beast, and a prolonged battle would not be suitable. Finishing the battle as soon as possible would also prevent the beast from using a lot of skills to its disposal.

Fighting beasts in the wilderness was always fraught with dangers and uncertainty. Not knowing what kind of beast you will encounter, the environment, and what kind of skills they might use should always be considered before starting a fight.

Due to the nature of the wilderness, though, summoners tend to fight their battles here mostly unprepared.

As he grew closer, he also observed the appearance of the boar.

It has a massive and wrinkly head. The red eyes looked menacing and full of hidden ferocity as it gobbled up the cogon grass in front of it. Two upturned tusks protruded out of its mouth; the tip of each was so sharp that Lucas felt threatened upon seeing them even from afar.

Its body was as massive as he initially assumed earlier. It looked pretty muscular and had black fur in some parts of its body too.

Uncertain of what kind of skills the boar might have, Lucas did not carelessly approach it as well. Maintaining a distance not too far from Spot, he picked up a piece of stone as big as his fist and threw it toward the boar beast with all his might.

The rock flew at quick speed and fell in parabola a few meters away from the boar.

The cogon grass that was hit by the rock rustled, attracting the boar beast's attention.

It snorted angrily and looked around warily.

It was then that it noticed Lucas standing clearly at the center of its field of view.

Without a hint of hesitation, the boar let out an enraged roar as it charged toward Lucas wildly.

Judging from its speed, it would be able to reach Lucas in a jiffy.

"Shit!"

Realizing that it was dangerous, Lucas did not wait for it to come closer; he immediately ran back to where Spot was hiding with all the speed that he could muster.

The boar seemed to be charging toward him with some kind of skill. With its speed, the distance between Lucas and the boar gradually decreased.

Fortunately, Lucas did not go that far from Spot.

The boar swiftly arrived a few meters behind him. In that distance, it leapt toward him with its two tusks aiming toward Lucas' back.

Feeling the threat behind him, Lucas did not hesitate and lunged forward to avoid the two tusks aiming toward him.

Dodging by a hair's breadth, the boar was about to follow its attack when an equally massive creature dove toward from the side with an equally terrible speed.

Spot had appeared at the exact moment with his Hellhound Manifestation form.

His claws extended toward the boar. They had already elongated and sharpened themselves as they traveled forward.

As if cutting tofu, Spot's sharpened claws easily cut through the boar beast's neck.

Blood spurted out as the boar beast stumbled forward weakly. It let out a terrified growl and was about to get back up when Spot leapt toward it and finished it all together with a quick slash to its already injured neck.

The boar beast was not able to utter any sound anymore after that strike.

It struggled to get up one last time before its head fell to the ground weakly. Blood kept on gushing out of its wound. Its body went still, and the next moment, a new log appeared on Lucas' grimoire.

The boar beast was dead within two strikes.

Lucas ignored the log for now as he went to tie the hind legs of the boar together with the remaining weblines he had. After he was done with that, he ordered Spot to bite into the tied hind legs of the boar and hang it upside down on a tree in a different location.

Spot was quite strong and was able to lift the boar easily from the ground.

He then told Spot to create more cuts in the boar's body, particularly around its neck and wrist, to make it bleed out even more profusely.

Draining the blood of a meat has several benefits, especially in the wild. Not only does it improve the meat quality, it could also reduce the likelihood of spoilage and make the meat last longer.

From what he knows, it also prevents bacterial infection from easily forming. Curing it would also be easier after draining the blood.

The meat snake tasting horrible was also due to the bloody and gamey taste it has. It has also spoiled easily for the same reason.

Knowing the importance of food in the wilderness, Lucas decided to prepare some dry food before continuing to move forward.

He planned to cure the meat of the boar and store it inside his bag for his journey to the west.

Fortunately, this kind of thing was taught in the academy and from his grade school days, so Lucas was not unfamiliar with the process of curing meat. He was lacking some materials and tools, though, so he could only use what was available to him to the best of his abilities.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

In terms of taste and physiological burden, eating a boar also seemed not as strange as eating a snake. Though if left with no choice, Lucas would still eat the meat of a snake.

As the blood continued to drain off the boar's body, Spot looked around in alertness, as per Lucas' order.

Lucas had also decided to harvest some usable materials out of it, such as the sharp tusks that had protruded out of its mouth.

The tusks were quite hard to pull, though, so he ended up asking for Spot's help. After some time, Spot was finally able to pull the two tusks out of the dead boar's mouth.

It was only when he held it that Lucas realized just how sharp its tip truly was. His previous description toward it was an understatement. This tusk could probably pierce a hard stone easily. If he was pierced by these tusks, he would probably get skewered like tofu as well.

The two tusks were around thirty centimeters long and had the thickness of a baby's arm. It was also pretty hard, but the surface itself was quite smooth with just a few scratches present on it.

Using those same sharp tusks, Lucas created incisions on the boar's body that was now barely dripping with blood. Cutting the thick skin on its belly, the innards of the boar spilled out and unfurled on the ground like a falling chain.

Lucas had only done such things with ordinary frogs before, so such a large innard was very new to him. He let all the guts fall to the ground and continued to cut the middle section of the boar's belly all the way to its sliced neck.

As the guts fell, though, Spot came forward and dragged those innards away and began to eat them.

Lucas wanted to stop in at first, thinking that the innards probably taste very horrible; however, after thinking about it, a horrible taste to him might be delicious for his Gentle Dog.

So instead of stopping him, Lucas just let him eat the innards as he pleased. Spot seemed to be enjoying the meal too.

Lucas ignored him and continued on with what he was doing.

Using the sharp tusks of the boar, he began to cut the meat into pieces, cutting the whole body and separating them into multiple smaller parts. Lucas focused on the hind legs more, planning to cut them into thin strips for him to sundry and cure it that way as he does not have access to other methods other than it.

He hung the other pieces in the branches, tying them with some cogon grass that he casually bundled together.

After he was done, Lucas was about to begin cutting the hind leg meat into thin strips when he heard the sound of water bursting out not far from him.

Sensitive to the sound of it, Lucas hurriedly turned his head in the direction of the sound.

There, he saw Spot, now in his Gentle Dog form, munching on the intestine of the boar crazily.

As he bit into the huge intestine that was almost as thick as his head, murky water gushed out of the hole made by Spot's fangs. Under him, a puddle of the same murky water has also formed.

Seeing that, Lucas' eyes widened in excitement.

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A/N: Added image and character of Spot. You can check it out and vote for him in the book page.