100 Hunting (1/2)

After the meal, everyone spent the night cultivating before they got some sleep in the tents.

It wasn't difficult to get everyone up in the morning, not when the sweet aroma of breakfast filled the entire campsite.

Once the students were gathered and enjoying her cooking, Ania spoke up, ”Remember, today is the first of seven days to hunt. I'd recommend that you gradually go further into the jungle and learn just how far you'll have to go to find your desired prey, so spend today in groups while you figure out the jungle.”

”And don't worry, we'll be here to help if you just shout,” added Klor with a mouth full of food.

With that, everyone started to plan out their day while finishing breakfast.

Oli looked at his three friends. ”So, do you guys want to travel in pairs? Even if we aren't getting the most beasts that way, we'll be able to get better quality beasts. And I think facing adepts beasts would help us break through the adept plane fastest.”

”Makes sense.” Yeter nodded, excited to face beasts stronger than himself.

”Also, they won't have cultivation techniques or battle arts like us. So in a way, we'll actually have an advantage,” added Karos.

Netra smiled. ”Exactly, that's why I agree. I'll go with Oli while you two take care of each other.”

”How about we travel together today, the four of us?” asked Oli. ”That way we can really test ourselves and figure out the territories here. We don't want to run into low or mid adepts without a way of defending ourselves.”

”Yeah, let's do that,” agreed Karos.

As Netra nodded, Yeter shouted, ”Let's go already! I can't wait to win!”

Karos shook his head. ”Let me finish my food first, and don't be so loud when we're actually hunting.”

”Oops…”

The others laughed at the anxious Yeter as they finished their meal.

After breakfast, all the students started to form teams in order to test the hunting grounds. Once they were ready, they started to slowly trickle into the jungle.

Oli's group was the first to leave thanks to Yeter pushing the others to hurry.

Karos led the way, having the most experience hunting prey. He guided the others at a quick pace through at the beginning, getting slower the further in they went.

The group saw plenty of low and mid novice beasts, but they didn't bother with them.

When they found mid and high novice beasts, they were surprised to find even more of those than low or mid novice beasts. It was tempting, but they still didn't choose them as their prey.

A peak novice beast was the first to attack them, sensing that those in the group were just as strong as itself. Sensing a threat, it lunged after Karos.

But the beast was easily pushed aside and thrown into the trees by Karos.

After seeing that, they all agreed that Oli's plan was best, to travel in duos to face adept plane beasts that could actually prove a challenge to them.

That peak novice beast retreated, glad that no one in the group bothered chasing it.

They continued further into the jungle, having walked for about half an hour from the campground and entering the area for adept plane beasts.

Karos' squinted as he came to a gradual stop. ”There should be a beast in that nearby tree. I can't sense its level, so it should be at least an early adept.”

”Good, then let's get closer. Any guess kind of beast it is?” asked Oli.

”It's a bird, and it's as big as you.”

Surprised, Oli chuckled, ”Sounds like we'll have some fun. Who wants to be the first one to test themselves against the bird?”

”Oh, let me!” Yeter stepped up and took the lead without waiting for a reply.

”Fine, just be careful. We're only testing its strength, so we'll step in if you need it.”