The Boar

[Turn right], The Divine advised.

Qing quickly turns right without a second thought. 'If it's The Divine. It must be right, right?' Qing thought

[Turn right], The Divine repeated.

Qing had already been running for 3 minutes now, so he thought little of the Divine advice, turned right, and ran.

[You have reached your destination]

In front of Qing stood a tusked boar the size of a house. 'Okay..,' Qing thought. He deeply regretted listening to the Divine's advice. Seeing how this boar would be an impossible enemy. Qing runs away from it. The boar sensed Qing and charged in Qing's direction.

[Make a U-turn and face your trial] the divine instructed Qing. A barrier formed around the area he and the creature were in.

Qing was furious at The Divine for its lie. 'That voice wasn't here to help him. It wanted him to grow. To grow like a hero or die a failure.'

Qing, unprepared for the boar's blow. Uses his tonfa and some of his slime to shield his vitals. However, the tonfa did not withstand the boar's blow and was crushed by the force of the blow. The boar knocks him into a tree behind him. Qing's body felt like it was going to burst if he could not get out of the boar's crushing weight. Qing tried to free his arms. He wiggles them around to no avail.

'Is this how I die?' Qing thought as the world around him fades gray. He never got to thank Anya for the tonfa or beat Ning in a race. If he lived he would try harder. Qing starts having his life flash before his eyes. 'The first time picking up a greatsword. That time he and Grandpa Bai crafted that sword. The color of Anya's p-…' Qing thought of all these great times and reinvigorated his will to live.

(A/N Anya's pocket-knife)

The boar backed off and was going to charge at him again. Qing by throwing his tonfa at its eyes hoping they would distract the boar. It worked to no avail.

'I'm dead,' Qing thought as he looked around to see if there was another weapon he could use. He had kept Anya's Danger she gifted him in a leg purse to help use for skinning animals. However, he couldn't find anything of use that could save his life. 'The slime by itself was too weak if only he had something harder,' Qing looked around his surroundings if there was anything he could use to reinforce the slime barrier he was going to create. However, he was too late and the boar came crashing into him again.

Qing in a last-ditch effort surrounded his body. He spent as much mana as he could in that instant to protect himself. He wanted to live and these soft slimes would not protect his frail body. In that instance, instead of a sea of soft water-like slime summoned out to absorb the impact. He had summoned a large black metallic-like slime instead.

The slime quickly forms a large barrier around Qing protecting him from being crushed by the boar and the tree behind him. Qing sees this as a chance to save himself and manipulates the mana around him. He sensed the boar was going to come for another attack. Qing continues to summon more of the back slime slowly exhausting his mana to protect himself from this boar.

'Why is this thing not leaving?' Qing thought. Normally after an animal has been hitting a tree for the past 10 minutes it would begin leaving and finding something else interesting to do. Qing continued sensing the man in the air to see when the boar would leave.

[If you can't kill this small creature. Then, you should just die. Like all the other failures of a hero] The Divine Order Qing

[The North is no Land of mercy. You live strong or die Weaker] The Divine whispered at Qing.

Qing did not know what type of messed head the Divine had. The Divine was giving a seven-year-old child a trial. "Where are the Lumberjack and Ning? Are they okay" Qing Questioned the Divine. He was still thinking about his friends while he was about to die.

[Outside]

The Divine had set a barrier for the Qing's trial. This trial was for him and only for him to clear. No outsiders were permitted to enter.

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Outside the barrier, The Lumberjack and Ning had found the barrier that Divine had set up.

"Dad, we spent an hour walking only to find this?" Ning was dumbfounded at how the air could feel so hard yet be clear at the same time.

The Lumberjack inspected the barrier and senses the Monster Qing had for Trial. "This is a Divine barrier for a Trial," He noted to Ning. he contemplates whether he should break the barrier or let Qing go through the Trial. If he broke the Barrier Qing would lose his right as a hero, but if he left Qing in the trial Qing would surely die. The Lumberjack raises his axe charging it with a mysterious black aura ready to destroy the barrier.

[Do not stop this Trial] the Divine appeared in front of them as a glowing man.

The Lumberjack grabbed his axe, and reddish-orange energy enveloped his body. Ning hides behind the lumberjack in fear of the situation. "What Right do you have to give that Child trial right now!" The Lumberjack questions the Divine's decision.

[He will be my successor as a monarch] The Divine warned back at the Lumberjack to back off.

Signaling for Ning to run back to the village to warn them. He was prepared to face The Divine. He figured if he was going to fight a Monarch he would need to use all his strength doing so.

[You Old prick. How much more must you interfere with my plans?] As both the Lumberjack and the Divine prepare for a face-off.

The Divine sets up another barrier around the forest. Not allowing Ning to go back to the village to warn the other villagers.

Furious at the divine for making a coward's move The Lumberjack jumps at The Divine with a blood-red aura. "You are a foolish coward!" he screams as he flies to beat The Divine down. "He had enough of these Higher levels controlling every aspect of the being below them.

[Don't exhaust your energy] The divine states as he disappears and reappears in the air.

The lumberjack promptly swings his axe in the direction of the divine and misses it barely.

[You are in my domain and you know very well. You cannot unleash your domain here without killing your child]

The Lumberjack recalls his energy knowing it's pointless to fight a monarch in its territory.

"Qing you better make it alive," The lumberjack whispers

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Inside the Trial, Qing continues to reinforce his defensive barrier around himself hoping to exhaust the boar to no avail. In a last-ditch effort, he adds spikes to the barrier. The colossal boar charged again at him only to get stabbed by the spikes. This stuns the great beast giving Qing enough room to run out and strike it. Figuring out that maybe he could form the slime he just summoned could be used as a weapon. He notices that the only way to kill it is to go for its head. The spike he made out of slime had made a clean dent in its head. Qing quickly tries to find a tree he could jump off of to attack the boar.

The boar had already leveled the field around him ruining his chance to attack the boar aerially. It was too late, the boar charged at him with its mouth-watering ready to consume Qing.

Unable to avoid the blow Qing gets hit and flies to the side of the barrier. The boar turns to grab his floppy body and propels him up into the air. Opening its mouth in the air ready to swallow him alive. Suddenly bright a light enveloped Qing like a seal on him had been broken.

Qing felt a sudden surge of mana throughout his body refilling him with energy his body started to glow with a pure white aura around him.

"I still have mana," Qing screams as he summons another hard metallic slime.

He imagines a large and wide pole as he continues to summon more slimes. He hoped gravity would do its thing and crushes the boar under the great weight of his slime. The pole he had created was three to four times the size of his body.

The boar saw the great pole Qing created. It quickly moves away from the area that Qing was going to stab. Qing did not anticipate this, causing him to miss the killing blow. The pole now rests on the ground stuck. Qing proceeds to summon hundreds of weaker water-like slime to make the dirt below him like mud. "You will die today in some way or another," Qing screamed at the top of his lungs. Changing the terrain for his benefit he takes control of the ground. He manipulates his slimes to increase in density near his feet.

The great boar understood the situation. It suddenly made its tusk shine green and summoned the tree around it to attack Qing. Qing was astonished and wasn't prepared for a situation like this and tried his best to block the tree branches. Qing had never seen an animal that could manipulate mana before, but this could explain why it had so much tenacity.