The Man Picked up by the Gods – Volume 3 Chapter 82: Smash Boar Hunting (1/2)

Tl Note: Just a quick correction, the fangs of the boar aren’t supposed to be sharp.

 

The Man Picked up by the Gods – Volume 3 Chapter 82: Smash Boar Hunting (1/2)

The next day.

“Be careful!” [Miyabi]

Miyabi sent me off, and I headed to the northern gate of the town. I watched the hustle and bustle along the way as I walked, and when I neared the gate, I braced myself.

It’s a gate, so naturally, the guards would stop me, but I was able to quickly deal with them by showing proof that I was an E Rank adventurer.

Now it’s time to gather some medicinal herbs near an area the smash boar is known to frequent.

My equipment for today is a bow and a knife. I have a spear in my Item Box too, but I’m not planning to use it. Great swords and spears are effective against smash boars, but in order to make it look like I just came across it, I can’t bring weapons that are effective against the smash boar. That would be just too coincidental. The bow is also listed as my main weapon owing to the time when I first registered at the adventurers, so if can’t come too prepared, or they’ll be suspicious of me.

I gathered herbs for a while, but… I couldn’t find the smash boar.

It’s not really guaranteed to find a monster just because you know where it’s frequently sighted. Monsters aren’t herbs, after all; they do walk. Still… I feel like it’s a first for me to have so much trouble finding a monster. Actually, there aren’t any other monsters around either. It seems Miyabi-san really wasn’t kidding. There really are few monsters around here.

I started going around to areas other than those teeming with herbs to look for the smash boar while completing my herb collection job, but in the end, I still couldn’t find the smash boar, but now my quota has been met.

But then again it’s not like I have to find the smash boar today, since I still have another day before I meet up with the employees, so… But on second thought, since it’s difficult to get permission to pass the northern gate, I’ll probably be able to sell as much herbs as I have, so it shouldn’t hurt to gather more than my quota.

While I was thinking that to myself, a faint voice reached my ears.

“—uaAAA” [???]

Is that a person’s voice? Seems a bit far, though. Hmm… Maybe I’m just hearing things.

“——Save me—” [???]

…I heard it again! I’m not just imagining it. Someone was clearly asking for help just now!

I readied my bow, hid my aura, and walked toward the direction of the voice, where I found two adventurers being chased by a monster that seemed to be a smash boar.

I think calling it a pig would be more apt for its appearance, honestly. It might have some fangs, but they’re small and they’re not sharp. The only thing it really has going for it is that it’s really big, about as big as a cow.

Wait! This isn’t the time to be thinking about that!

I nocked an arrow and timed it with the movement of the boar. The arrow flew through the gaps between the trees and toward the smash boar.

The smash boar was charging through the helpless slender trees when my arrow landed right in its right eye, causing it to let out a painful cry that resounded throughout the area.

When the two adventurers heard that, they stopped and turned around.

What are they doing!? Keep running!

“Keep running!” [Ryouma]

I told them, but when they saw me, they became flustered. I tried calling out to them again, but the smash boar had already noticed me and was looking at me with its left eye.

This is going quite differently than what I expected, but… yeah. Let’s do it.

I unequipped my bow and put it on my back, then I reinforced my body with ki and glared at the boar.

The smash boar had a body like that of a pig’s, but it also had two small dull fangs growing from its lower jaw that extended toward the sides of its face. Its fangs aren’t venomous, but they do pack a punch when rammed into someone, so I still need to watch out for it.

But what I really need to look out for is its constitution. It might resemble a boar, but it’s about 1.5 times bigger than the cows I’m familiar with, so it’s clear as day that it’s covered in a thick armor of meat. Countless scars could be seen all over it – those two adventurers probably tried to hurt it – but those are probably all superficial. I doubt they managed to leave any internal damage to it with those shallow wounds.

Attacks against its body seem like they wouldn’t amount to much… In that case, I’ll go for its head where there’s not as much meat!

“GUOoOOOOO!” [Smash Boara]

The smash boar bellowed out a cry and charged toward me, but the trees seemed to have hindered its movements, as it was easy to see despite moving so much.

I dodged to the right, and the smash boar kept going and crashed into a tree. After mowing down the tree, the smash boar turned around and started charging toward me again.

This time I dodged to the left, but unlike before, when we passed each other, I hit its right temple with a ki-reinforced palm strike.

“PIGIi!?” [Smash Boar]

It was quieter compared to before, but the smash boar definitely stopped moving and cried out in pain.

Looks like that was effective. I can tell from that last attack too. The head definitely doesn’t have as much meat to it.

Alright! One more time!

The smash boar shook its head, then it tried to strike me with its fangs, but I took a step back, causing it to miss. I used that opening, to throw a kick toward its left temple.

“PI, GIi…” [Smash Boar]

The attack this time was a lot more effective, as the smash boar’s right foreleg gave way and the boar fell to its knees.

I attacked again. This time I gave it a nice uppercut to the jaws, grabbed its fangs, then drove my right elbow into its head.

“!” [Smash Boar]

A dull sound resounded as I clearly felt the feeling of crushing a bone. At the sam etime, the smash boar’s legs shook and then it fainted.

Did I kill it just like that? …Huh. It seems it really is dead.

“U-Umm!” [???]
“Thank you for rescuing us!” [???]
“Oh, you’re welcome. You’re not hurt, are you?” [Ryouma]

After confirming that the smash boar was dead, the two adventurers walked up to me. I didn’t notice it before because of the distance and their armor, but apparently, one of them was a woman.

“If not for you, we would’ve…” [Male Adventurer]

“One of our friends is wounded. We can’t thank you enough for saving us, but we need to go help him.” [Female Adventurer]

If they have a wounded friend, then maybe I should go too.

“If you don’t mind, I can come along too. I can use healing magic.” [Ryouma]

“Really!” [Male Adventurer]

“Thank you so much! Please come with us!” [Female Adventurer]

“Ah, but we can’t just leave this smash boar here without anyone watching it…” [Ryouma]

“I’m sorry. I didn’t catch your name…” [Male Adventurer]

“Oh, excuse me. I am Ryouma Takebayashi.” [Ryouma]

“Ryouma-kun, then. Ryouma-kun, you stay here. We’ll bring our party member here.” [Male Adventurer]

“There are some bad adventurers around these parts, so do be careful.” [Female Adventurer]

The two of them left after saying that.

Bad adventurers? This is a flag, isn’t it?

I’m sure some real bad ones are gonna come around any moment now.

I braced myself for the inevitable, but I couldn’t sense anyone nearby.

Hmm… Anyway, let’s go drain this thing’s blood first.

I had the bloody slime deal with the smash boar’s blood, then I took out my heal slime.

Huh? Done already? The bloody slime sure works fast.

 

I waited for a while after that, but in the end, no bad adventurers showed up, and the two adventurers from before came back carrying a wounded female swordsman.

 

Tl Note: Changed the theme again. Still minimal, but with a warmer white and some margins. By the way, the theme you guys keep saying is broken was actually the ‘new’ theme last time. It barely had any CSS, so it looked ‘broken’. The new theme is Susty by Jack Lenox.

A dark mode has now been installed. Due to the way the caching works, you might get pages that are cached as dark mode or normal mode, so you’ll just have to turn it back off or on. Fortunately, the button is placed right underneath the title, so it shouldn’t be too much of an inconvenience.

Also, for those suggesting to make dark theme default, there are more bright-theme users than you think. They’re just quiet, but the moment I make the default theme dark, they’ll come out of the woodworks like a swarm of angry bees. I know since I’ve already tried it twice.

Also, a sort of old change, but I didn’t mention it, but we changed to disqus for the comments, so the server doesn’t need to manage it anymore and we can free up resources. It works perfectly well with the themes as long as you set your theme before scrolling all the way down, which is going to be the case for pretty much everyone.

So in conclusion, the site lag has been fixed and you shouldn’t get much resource limit warnings anymore. You’ll still get them at certain times when the site is doing some self care, but not as much as before. Not even close. Dark mode has been implemented. There are margins now and the white is now warmer. There are still some things that need to be readded like chatango (probably just gonna switch to discord) and the logo, but the site is basically back to shape.

Now, we can focus on translating. This is the second regular release this week. Two more to go.


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42 responses to “The Man Picked up by the Gods – Volume 3 Chapter 82: Smash Boar Hunting (1/2)”

  1. Revilo7B Avatar
    Revilo7B

    Thanks for the chapter!

  2. afganitia Avatar
    afganitia

    Nice! It will make great stew.

  3. FSGInsainity Avatar
    FSGInsainity

    Thanks for the chapter! This theme is much nicer than the “broken” one.

  4. Andrei Stakov Avatar
    Andrei Stakov

    Hmm, this theme made it much easier to read than the ‘broken’ one, even compared to the theme before that. Thanks for the chappie!

  5. Bapo Lim Avatar
    Bapo Lim

    This new theme is comfortable for the eyes for some reason. I like it! Thanks as always!

  6. twinnnn100 Avatar
    twinnnn100

    thanks for the chapter

  7. tallin Avatar
    tallin

    Thanks for the chapter!

  8. cake Avatar
    cake

    Harem parties are the worst.

    Oh, and the theme’s great! But dark mode clashes with Disqus because the text disappears in the background.

  9. ThePlaneskeeper Avatar

    Thanks for the chapter!

  10. Chaz Avatar
    Chaz

    Like the new theme much better. Thank for the chapter as always!

  11. Daiz71 Avatar
    Daiz71

    Thanks

  12. Tran Avatar
    Tran

    It should be tusks, not fangs.

  13. Decim Avatar
    Decim

    Good to see you made the text look better. I did like the old look of the site more, but this works just as well. And I wholeheartedly think that switching to disqus was a good choice. Keep up the good work!

  14. KuroHaruto Avatar

    Thanks for the chapter!!! As well as the dark mode, margins and disqus!!!

  15. Zaowchen Avatar
    Zaowchen

    Danke!

  16. Yaki A T Avatar
    Yaki A T

    Thanks for the chapter.

    Random: I tend to swap (manually) the color palette from sites that are too bright, for the following:
    {color: #6c757d;
    background-color: #212529;}

  17. Titouan Lannuzel Avatar
    Titouan Lannuzel

    Thanks for the dark mode and the chapter :3

  18. Isaac Cunningham Avatar
    Isaac Cunningham

    Disqus yay

  19. ZaX Avatar
    ZaX

    Love the added dark theme. Thanks for the chapter

  20. Anonymous Monkey Avatar
    Anonymous Monkey

    rip the picture of Jigglypuff.

    Thanks for the chapter 🙂

  21. Ethereal Rainbow Canvas Avatar

    Thanks for the chapter!
    The softer background color makes it very nice to read.
    & I’m one of those day mode users who used to beg the translators to lighten their backgrounds when they used black or dark grey, before I got tired of explaining. It is painful for me to read in dark mode, it exhausts my eyes (& it affects them even more since I’m a fast reader), on days when I’m tired, I can get a headache after one long chapter.

  22. Aidan Dillon Avatar
    Aidan Dillon

    Thanks for the chapter!

  23. Mikan Avatar
    Mikan

    nice!

  24. Adi Avatar
    Adi

    Need a green theme with yellow dot please 😀

    Thanks for the chapter

  25. Shiory ^^ Avatar
    Shiory ^^

    Thank you soooo much for the softer background and double thanks for the dark background!!!! and the margins make it easy to read, really thank you so much!!

    BTW… I was so emotional for the changes… that I almost forgot to thank you for the chapter! thank you! ^^

  26. cerlancelo Avatar
    cerlancelo

    Thanks for the chapter. Just wanted to know if you could add back the dates at the beginning of the chapters. It helps when looking to see if it’s a new chapter.

  27. Katsu Avatar
    Katsu

    most of the users are Light Mode users after all, i was once one of them, so i know how many are……

    changed to dark mode since my new monitor kills me and my vision when i try to use light mode……

  28. Iwatani Naofumi (Kuroi Ame) Avatar
    Iwatani Naofumi (Kuroi Ame)

    Thanks for the chapter, the theme feels fresh and quite easy to read, though i had to lower my monitor’s brightness lol the white light’s gonna blind me then i noticed, there was a dark mode toggle *facepalm* i’m guessing the bad adventurers are them but if they have 2 female adventurers then they aren’t bad right?

  29. MikeLima52 Avatar
    MikeLima52

    Thank you for the chapter!

  30. Kariage Avatar
    Kariage

    Thanks for the chapter! 🙂

  31. sfcipher Avatar
    sfcipher

    Error:

    At the sam etime -> At the same time

    Thanks for the treat.

  32. IonDrako Avatar
    IonDrako

    What’s up with the ToC for this though? The Https version seems like the theme is broke on it, the unsecure version has the theme working fine but both of them don’t show this chapter existing (at the time of me posting this) If I hadn’t gone to the main page and seen it I would have had no idea. Thanks for the chapter though

  33. The Almighty 404 Avatar
    The Almighty 404

    Bright theme user here. I don’t get what’s all the fuss about the dark theme, so please, don’t make it the default mode. If there’s a way to make pages load in the last used theme, it would be the best choice.

  34. Jim Avatar
    Jim

    If i have complain about dark theme, is the text are glowing with weird colored aura.
    Further readings suggest that it was caused by ClearType system.

  35. darkLoki Avatar
    darkLoki

    Thanks for the chapter, this had changed much without me take a note of it.

  36. MokadSana Avatar
    MokadSana

    I LOVE DISQUS

  37. ToManyMadDogs Avatar
    ToManyMadDogs

    “At the -sam etime, the smash boar’s legs shook and then it fainted”
    -At the -same time

    Thanks for the chapter

  38. caoimhinh Avatar
    caoimhinh

    LOL, why didn’t he just put the Smash Bear in his Dimension Home or Item Box?

  39. Iomoon Avatar
    Iomoon

    Thank you! <3

  40. KuroPanda Avatar
    KuroPanda

    wouldn’t it be cool to call it body enhancement intsead of ki?

  41. acedia96 Avatar

    What kind of degenerate uses light theme? Lol

    Anyways, it’d be nice if the white was a little less white, especially on dark mode. The contrast strains the eyes and it’s quite uncomfortable for reading

  42. ABC Avatar
    ABC

    The TL Note seems longer than the content. LOL.

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