I then suggest that you get out from there . If you ' re still a very low level you might take way too long to kill it . Level up and come back later when you ' re better prepared . Or you can lower the difficulty from the settings and kill it then . <| sep |> I would bump allure to 3 . <| sep |> That was the first time I was ever tardyWhy were you late ? My stepmother ' s a cunt , that ' s why <| sep |> I ' m a Physics student . Can ' t game . <| sep |> No it just smells like poop in a certain area . Doesn ' t come and go . Checked under all shoes , in the closet , every nook and cranny . <| sep |> welp . dumb theory time . you might notice that most of the time when you hit a monster , blood comes out . thus seems to indicate you are piercing the shell right ? so how can you keep slicing through a monsters neck again and again without severing it . My theory ? insane regeneration . we know herbs knit wounds together . and in this universe herbs would get eaten by , say , apatonath , which then get eaten by wyverns , concentrating all that healing goodness . thus , a monster survives by rapidly healing the wounds it receives until the sheer amount overwhelm it and it dies . at which point , though not enough to keep it alive , some parts of the monster repair enough to be useful .