The grizzly suddenly stopped eating and looked at him with its black-purple eyes.
Noah felt the chill on his back deepen even further.
Without thinking, he pulled out the bow and shot an arrow.
But the most terrifying thing was that the arrow hit the bear yet didn't penetrate its skin. It just fell off its body.
This attempt only made the situation even worse.
Noah was running and shooting. The bear didn't attempt to dodge or catch the arrows. Every shot hit the target but failed to do any real damage.
Noah was running his brain at full potential.
He had 6 mana points. He tried to think of a gun, but it would cost over 40 mana points to create one.
The grizzly was coming closer and closer.
So he instantly thought of a spray bottle of chloroform.
He wanted to make that bastard faint and then kill it.
Instantly 3 points were gone, and he got a spray bottle.
Noah didn't know if that chemical would even work on the creature.
Because he felt real danger from the bear. It was probably a demon or a pinnacle of monsters and was getting ready to evolve into a demon.
It was most likely the latter. If it was a demon, Noah would have been a goner already.
Noah stopped running and then started again, this time toward the opposite direction from where the bear was coming.
After a while, he jumped and pressed the spray button, releasing all the medicine at once in front of the bear's face.
But he didn't stop running. He was not sure if it would work or not.
Noah then felt the bear was no longer chasing him.
So he looked behind and saw it moving sluggishly.
The chloroform had worked, though not as much as he liked.
But it gave him some time to climb a tree.
Just as he reached 5 meters near a tree, he heard a huge roar from behind and saw the violet eyes of the grizzly suddenly light up and turn red.
Instantly its sluggishness disappeared. The beast had gone into berserk mode. It didn't expect the pathetic creature it wanted to toy with could produce something that made it sleepy.
Oh shit! Noah knew this was not a good sign. The bear charged toward him like lightning.
Noah instantly jumped to the tree and used his knife to climb like a monkey, super agile.
He was running for his life.
After climbing to a very high branch, he heaved a sigh of relief.
But then he felt the huge tree shake, and when he looked below, the bear was slamming against it.
Noah was sure it wouldn't be able to break the tree since it had a trunk 5 meters in diameter.
Even a powerful elephant wouldn't be able to do much.
Still, he didn't know how long the bear would remain in berserk mode. He needed to think of something.
Maybe use poison on the tip of an arrow and hit its eyes.
Yes, that would be a good option. But the bastard was moving constantly, and aiming at its eye from this distance would be difficult. He was not a pro.
Then what could be done?
If he could use electricity on the tip of the arrow, it would send an electric shock through the bear, and even if it didn't penetrate the skin, it would surely stun it for a moment. That would give him a chance to shoot the poison arrow at its eyes.
But what could he create to generate electricity powerful enough to stun it?
Then suddenly he thought of the stun gun. If he could create that circuit with low-cost materials, just enough to deliver a single bolt of electricity, it would be enough.
Noah's breath slowed. Creation was not about building with tools for him. It was about shaping intent into reality. He focused on the idea of a stun module, not the how. The concept resolved in his thoughts like a rough sketch clarifying into lines.
A little power cell, a tiny storage node, two needle prongs, an impact switch that completed the loop the moment the prongs sank in. Nothing fancy. Just enough to make a living thing's muscles seize for a heartbeat.
He imagined the part in his hands, felt the shape, the weight. Mana flowed warm and bright through his palm. With five points of concentration and the terse economy he had learned to practice, he willed it into being. A palm-sized cylinder snapped into being on his thigh. He did not examine its inner workings.
It cost him 6 points of mana.
He only checked that it fit against an arrow shaft, that it had two thin barbed prongs at the front and a blunt connector at the rear that would bite into feather and wood like a trap.
Noah did not have time for finesse. He jammed the little module onto the shaft of a specially prepared arrow. The module hugged the wood as if grown there.
The electric arrow was ready. Now he would have to create a poisonous arrow powerful enough to knock the beast out. Even if it couldn't kill, it might at least make it faint.
After waiting for 20 more minutes, he created an arrow with the poison of the king cobra.
He sucked cold air into his lungs and calmed his mind.
He would get only a moment to draw the poison arrow and shoot at its eyes.
He drew the electric arrow on his bow and aimed at the bear, which was still slamming the tree. It had already damaged the trunk quite a bit.
If this continued, the commotion might bring other bears here. That would be a dead situation for him.
Then he released the arrow and instantly nocked the poisonous one, waiting for the electric arrow to strike and stun.
The arrow hit the bear's body. As usual, it didn't penetrate the skin, but the stun gun module worked like a charm and delivered a shock the bear didn't expect.
It left the beast stunned even longer than it should have.
Noah seized the chance and released the poisonous arrow.
The arrow hit the red eye of the bear and penetrated it easily.
The bear roared in tremendous agony, blood gushing from its eye like a fountain.
Noah was waiting for the poison to take effect, and he didn't have to wait long.
Two minutes later, he heard his most-expected notification.
[Ding! You have killed a berserk grizzly bear. 200 exp is added to your panel.]
It gave him 200 exp points. It was at least twice as dangerous and powerful as the polar bear he had killed.
Noah instantly came down and wore gloves. The blood of the bear was now poisonous.
Then he used his long knife to chop off its head with great difficulty to see if it contained a core.
He wasn't hoping much, but to his surprise, there was a core.
He felt so excited that he wanted to kiss it, but it was covered in blood, so he restrained himself.
After that, he sold the carcass for 100 coins and kept the core.
Noah then left the place in a rush. He wanted to know about the core and how to use it.