Chapter58

She launched forward, pushing off the ground with everything she had, and the moment she was in the air, mana surged through her arms and her claws extended into sharp, glowing blades that caught the light.
The boar barely had time to react before she landed on its face, her claws tearing through flesh and bone with a wet crunch that sent blood and bristles flying in every direction.
It thrashed a few times then collapsed heavily to the ground without making another sound.
Hajin stood where he was, watching the whole thing, his eyes locked on the mess she had just made while his brain tried to catch up.
'Wait, her panel only showed one skill,' he thought, staring at the glowing claws that were slowly retracting back to normal. 'I swear she only had hunter's nose. So where did that come from?'
She hadn't used any skill activation, just pure instinct and mana shaping itself through her hands.
'Did she just learn that on the spot?' he thought, feeling a little stunned. 'That's insane, is this what they call a genius?'
Juna stood over the dead boar and stared at her hands, slowly opening and closing her fingers while blood dripped from her claws to the ground. The glow faded completely, but the feeling of power still sat in her arms like it was waiting for her to use it again.
'Is this because he summoned me?' she thought, rubbing her thumb over her palm. 'Is this one of the benefits of being summoned?'
She looked at Hajin from the corner of her eye, then back at her hands while her ears twitched once.
'I never heard of a summoner who can summon beastkin,' she thought, swallowing once. 'And dead souls too... what kind of summoner even does that?'
The smell coming off him reached her again when the wind shifted, clean and strange in a way that still didn't match any human she knew.
'This human is really weird,' she thought, her chest feeling tight for reasons she didn't want to name. 'But maybe...'