As we were peacefully collecting Materials, we ended being greeted by a rather unsightly surprise! A giant, mutated Wild Boar, which the Great Spirit called "Great Tusk". The monstrous wild boar was incredibly tall, perhaps two times as big as an adult sized wild boar, and it had a pair of very sharp tusks, with red streaks around its fur.

"GRUOOOOHHH!"

The furious Great Tusk charged forward with all his strength, leaping towards me in mere seconds, and pointing its sharp tusks to pierce through my body. Its eyes were glowing bright red, to make things worse.

"[Wooden Wall]!"

I hit the ground with my shovel, channeling Mana into it as if it were a staff, and immediately after, a wall made of thick and hard bark emerged in front of me.

CLAAAAASH!

The Great Tusk's enormous body was as strong as that Warrior-type Hollow, easily managing to pierce the wall with his tusk and then shatter it into smithereens.

However, I managed to escape in time and then emerged around the Great Tusk with my shovel, imbuing it with more Mana.

"HYAAAAA!"

BAAAAAMMMM!

I hit the Great Tusk with all my strength, as my Shovel's Special Ability [Explosive Blow] activated, generating an explosive shockwave of Mana which intensified my attack even further.

"GRUUUUOOOHHH!"

The Great Tusk suddenly lost one of its tusk, as the leg that got in the way of my blow looked broken and half its body was covered in blood. The beast panicked, running away from me and then leaping at Rita!

"RITA! Evade!"

"Shit!"

Rita quickly evaded, jumping away as the Great Tusk hit a tree behind her.

BAAM!

"Take this you damn pig!"

Rita, who had already charged her Magic Gun with Bullets, began to shoot them all against the Great Tusk. Her Aim was quite alright, but not too good either.

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

She missed three shots out of five, and the other two only hit the wild boar's back, making it only angrier. She had to aim either to the eyes or the stomach to deal good damage.

"S-Shit"

"GRUOOOHHH!"

The Great Tusk jumped off the ground, as if attempting to crush Rita with its own weight! Mark, however, was close by, swinging his knife and unleashing an Aura Slash with it, slicing through the Great Tusk's belly.

SLAAAASH!

"GRAAAAH!"

BAAAM!

The enormous creature fell into the ground before it could manage to get to Rita. As I leaped forward, controlling the nature around me.

"[Thorny Vines]!"

FLAAAASH!

The surrounding glass quickly transformed into countless vines, wrapping around the Great Tusk and inhibiting its movements.

"GRUOOH! GRAAAHHH!!!"

The beast furiously struggled, attempting to free itself, but my vines were very tough and it was having a hard time with all the wounds over its body.

"Rita! Are you alright?" I asked Rita, running to her side.

"Y-Yeah, I am fine That thing's so strong though, it made that tree fall off when it hit it" Rita sighed.

"We have to kill it before it frees itself!" Mark said.

"Right, let's go!" I nodded.

With Mark's help, we slammed the Great Tusk's head with everything we had, until it finally stopped moving and it died.

"Ahh, its skin is so tough, and so its skull! If it wasn't for these magic weapons we would had never been able to kill it." Mark noticed. "Even normal bullets wouldn't had worked; Rita's bullets barely did some damage."

"Yeah, monsters Are much stronger than normal animals. Perhaps modern weaponry won't work too well, unless they're giant tanks and gatling guns or something, which we can't really get as civilians." I sighed, sitting over the ground.

"Meow!" Blackie showed up, he had been off for a while and finally came back.

"Blackie! Why weren't you here when we needed you the most?" I sighed.

"Meow!" Blackie was crunching something on his mouth, and his aura of mana was growing slightly stronger.

"What are you eating?" I wondered.

"Wait, his mana's growing stronger" Rita pointed out.

"Oh! The little rascal has been helping us, seems like he has hunted two Hollows on his own already." Laughed the Great Spirit. "What he's eating are the hollows cores. He can feed on them now that he evolved into a Familiar, and slowly grow stronger. Only monsters can do this though, you guys will get sick and die if you try."

"Wait what?! You defeated two on your own?!" I asked in shock.

"Only like F- Rank at most I would say, he can't beat stronger things on his own." Said the Great Spirit. "But I've sensed him wandering around."

"Incredible, your cat's super useful. I guess this is the reason we've had a peaceful exploration for the most part, although the Great Tusk broke that illusion." Sighed Rita, standing up. "Alright! Can you store this big guy inside your Inventory?"

"I can!" I said, touching it and then making the entire monster disappear in a blink.

FLASH!

"In the game- I mean the other world, this power doesn't even seem like anything special because everyone has it" Said Mark. "But in Earth, it really feels like an amazing ability Can you store more things?"

"Yeah, have you tried doing some crazy stuff? Like maybe storing a living person inside." Rita laughed.

"I have tested it a lot already while I was alone. Living things can't be stored. Neither living plants, so I can't touch this tree and store it, I would need to either cut it, uproot it, or take its branches. Its similar with other living beings. I can't store people, nor I think I can store things that are "equipped" on them. Though if something falls off their bodies or is taken away, I think I could steal them really easily" I said with a smile.

"Huh Maybe we could steal some stuff and get rich quickly, heheh" Rita began to giggle.

"E-Eh?! No, Rita, that's going too far though! The Gods said that they would take it away if I used this power to do evil things I think." I said.

"Ahhh, what a bummer." She sighed.

Her dreams of becoming phantom thieves vanished in a second.