Female Novel
Chapter 31
The door of the Hunting Guild burst open. "We're back!" shouted a man at the front of a big hunting party. He had multiple scarson his face and showed a victorious smile. Behind him, a gigantic two-handed sword hung, thoroughly drenched in blood. Sevenpeople with different weapons stood behind him.
Most people in the Hunting Guild released a loud "Heeeeeyyy!" in unison and lifted their jugs of ale. The group walked in,triumphantly. The leader of the group noticed that things were a little different. Usually, everyone would stand up and cheer, butmany kept quiet this time. The leader furrowed his brows.
He walked to one of the guys he knew. "Did something happen? The cheer this time seems more... subdued," he asked. Theguy he asked was the same person that called Gravis a newbie on his first day.
The person smiled bitterly. "Well, something happened when you were gone, but that's not important right now. So, | take it yousucceeded?" He asked with a grin.
The leader smiled again and nodded. "Yeah! The Earth Salamander has been slain!" He sat down at the table and took a swigfrom the man's beer. "Man, that took forever! It put up one hell of a fight. Only when it bit and devoured Mensk, did we finallyhave a chance to injure it majorly. It fled, and we had to track it for nearly two weeks. Sadly, Jacob got ambushed by a ferociousbeast snake and died too. Someone always dies in a hunt for low-grade demonic beasts." The leader sighed.
The man in front of him also sighed. "They were good men." He took another swig of his mug, but it was empty. "Hey, you drankall my booze, Anthony!" he shouted and stood up.
The leader, Anthony, just laughed loudly and ordered more beer. "Calm down! The next one's on me. We made it big this time.The corpse is pretty complete, and we should all make a couple of gold off of it. With this, | should have enough money to buy aSkin-Pill for my son." Anthony leaned back and looked out of one of the windows. "If he can get into the Elemental Guilds, he willget much further in life than his father."
The man in front of him lifted his new mug. "Cheers to that," and he took a swig.
Anthony looked at the man and felt like something was wrong. "So, what happened? You all seem kind of downtrodden,”Anthony asked the man.
The man just bitterly smiled. "Well, we have a new guy," he said as he took another swig."So?" Anthony asked, confused. "That sounds more like a good thing."The man sighed. "Why don't you look at the mission board. Then you'll know."
Anthony furrowed his brows, stood up, and walked to the mission board. When he arrived, he gasped. It was empty. Why was itempty? There always were tens of missions up for grabs. Anthony walked back to the man. "Did the new guy do all this?" heasked, concerned.
The man just nodded and took another mouthful of beer. "Not only that. When everyone realized that the missions for ferociousbeasts have grown sparse, a group formed to hunt a low-grade demonic beast. Guess what happened.”
Anthony furrowed his brows further. "What?"The man laughed bitterly. "That guy had finished all the low-grade demonic beasts before he finished the ferocious beasts."
"Impossible!" Anthony shouted at the man and stood up. "No one can hunt that many low-grade demonic beasts in such a shortamount of time, especially when they hunt them solo. Even someone with tempered muscles only has a 50/50 chance ofwinning. Even less if they wanted to kill it!"
The man just laughed bitterly again. "It's true. If you don't believe me, ask Simone." The man gestured to the lady behind thecounter.novelbin
Anthony didn't believe him and walked over to Simone, who just sat on a chair behind the counter and read a book. "Hey,Simone. Could you please show me the missions for low-grade demonic beasts?" he asked her politely.
The lady just waved her hand nonchalantly. "All gone," she said as she continued reading.
Anthony's face whitened. "But, it's only been two weeks!" he shouted.
Simone looked at Anthony with a frown. "Don't shout at me! It's not my fault. The Demon cleared all of them.""The Demon?" Anthony asked with a raised eyebrow.
Simone sighed. "Yes, that's his nickname. At least, that's what we call him." She gestured toward the tables, where all thehunters sat. "Look around! Everyone's just waiting for new missions to come. It's even harder to find any ferocious beasts in thesurroundings since the Demon also kills them. What else would you call someone that basically destroys a whole Hunting Guildwhile keeping to the rules?"
Anthony nearly couldn't believe it. He was gone for just two weeks, and now, everything had turned upside down. He walkedback to his drinking buddy and sat down. He clenched his fist and hit the table. Aloud boom echoed, and the hunters looked atAnthony, startled.
"Why did no one do anything about this?" He shouted at the whole guild. Everyone looked away from his eyes. When Anthonysaw this, his teeth clenched. "Look at you! One guy is taking all the meat for himself, not even leaving us any soup, and you alltake it like some abused kids! Does the guild not have any men left?” he shouted in rage.
Anthony's drinking buddy just smiled bitterly again. "We would if we could. You haven't seen the guy." He took another swig fromhis beer, emptying it. "We can only wait until he leaves. Someone like him won't be staying here for long."
Anthony sat back down with fury in his eyes. "When I'll see him, I'll-"BANG!
The doors of the Hunting Guild opened loudly, and the whole atmosphere changed. Every hunter looked deeply into their mugs,uncomfortably. Silence descended across the entire guild, and only light footsteps could be heard coming from the man that justentered the hall.
Gravis was pissed! The deadline forthe Elemental Guilds’ entrance examwas coming closer, and he still mneeded more pills\ Nehad finighedevery Poh he could find, but onlymade around 90 gold in total. He wasstill missing around 50 gold! Thatwas an equivalent of approximatelythree low-grade demonic beasts withmissions. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latest
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He had killed four low-grade demonic beasts since joining the Hunting Guild. The first one was the tiger. The second one was aboar. The third one was a snake, and the fourth one was a wolf.
The fight with the boar was the easiest since it made its habitat near a river. Gravis could fully utilize his elemental synchronicityin the battle. The boar had to continually fight against the water that was trying to pull it down, so it had no time to evade Gravis’attacks. The fight was over in a couple of minutes.
The snake was an issue since itsattacks were fast and venomous.After a long fight, Gravis decided torisk it all. He let the ake kite hirnine hange formiges er to penetrate
the inside of its mouth, right into itsbrain. Even with tempered organsand blood, he would have died to thevenom. Luckily, he had a plan. He hadspoken with Orpheus about it whenhe was still in his world, and Orpheussaid that it would work. The contentis on NovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
Gravis had quickly made a fire and jumped into it. He let the heat of the fire course through his veins, changing the liquid venominto gas. The composition of the venom changed, making it less effective. He still felt enormous pain for many hours, but he hadsurvived.
The last demonic beast, the wolf,didn't even have a mission. Gravisjust saw it while hunting a ferociousbeast. Wolves BE ews) than titersapdhtions| burt they mainly used theirbite as an attack. Gravis got injuredand nearly lost his arm, but he wasable to sever a tendon of the wolf'sfront paw. The fight then completelywent into his favor, and he had slainit after a while. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
In the past couple of days, he was just running around the wilderness, trying to find any beast, even if it didn't have a mission. Hestill needed 50 gold, which equated to around 100 ferocious beasts. This constant searching around made him cranky.
Gravis walked to the mission board and didn't see any missions. Then he walked to the lady behind the counter. Without himeven needing to say anything, the lady just shook her head. "Tch," Gravis spat and walked to the entrance, but about sevenpeople blocked his path when he arrived.
“We need to talk!" said Anthony.
Gravis narrowed his eyes.