Chapter 63: Sudden Attack (1)
Huh? Won’t this solve all my problems?
Is this just a coincidence, or is life in White Plains Town always so exciting?
Zhou Jing was secretly exclaiming.
Barong’s face tightened when he heard the news. He put down his cup and quickly explained.
While the Terra Empire had already been established for 40 years and a portion of the mutant beasts in the human residential areas had been expelled and cleaned up, there were still mutant beasts that would break their defense lines.
Accidents like this would occasionally happen. The range of activity for many mutated beasts’ was not fixed. Sometimes, mutated beasts would run to the area where humans lived. They could be looking for food, or they might have entered by mistake. The town’s fortifications were mainly used to deal with mutated beasts.
The sentries around the town were responsible for surveying their territories if such an incident occurred.
Once they discovered traces of mutated beasts, they would issue a warning and come to the tavern to issue a bounty as well as provide intelligence for the hunters to choose their targets.
If the mutated beasts posed a direct threat, such as approaching the town, the lord would immediately recruit the hunters in the city to suppress the threat.
The few of them could not be bothered to continue chatting. They surrounded the guards with the hunters in the tavern to ask about the situation.
“What kind of mutant beast is it?”
“What position are they in? How long do we have?”
Zhou Jing was a total newbie at this and did not speak. He allowed the other hunters to ask the crucial questions, and he also learned the exact situation from the flustered guards.
Not long ago, the sentries had sent an emergency report that two highly dangerous mutant beasts had appeared around the town. They had already killed a caravan and were advancing towards White Plains Town. The pedestrians on the road were all in danger and became a huge threat.
As for these two high-risk mutant beasts, they were both bear-type species with outstanding strength and defense. They were called Claw Rending Bears.
There were many types of high-risk mutant beasts, but there were three types of creatures that were troublesome. One was extremely fast, the second could control certain elements like spitting fire and ice, and the third was extremely thick-skinned. The Claw Rending Bear was the third type.
“Both of them are Claw Rending Bears… They won’t be easy to deal with this time… How many of us can be activated?”
Weiss had stopped grinning at this point, and his expression was deadly serious.
A hunter spoke out, “There are only seven of us here, but there should be a few more hunters in the city. Besides, I also saw Weber a few days ago.”
“Weber is here too? That’s great.” Weiss quickly exhaled.
Zhou Jing’s heart skipped a beat.
When he looked at the name list just now, he deliberately remembered the names of the three second-time enhanced hunters. This “Weber” was one of them.
At this moment, the guard hurriedly urged them.
“His Lordship is gathering his troops at the city gate. Hunters, please hurry and gather. Someone has also gone to inform the other hunters in the city.”
“Alright, let’s go over first.”
The hunters did not object and rushed out of the tavern towards the city gate.
Zhou Jing also followed the team. He poked Barong, who had a serious expression, and asked in a soft voice.
“Is the lord’s summons to the hunters forced?”
“Of course not…” Barong shook his head and said solemnly, “But in the face of the threat of the mutant beasts, we have no reason to retreat. This is our duty. If we don’t even fight, who can resist the mutant beasts? ”
“I understand.”
Zhou Jing nodded slightly, gaining a deeper understanding of the concept of a Mutant Beast Hunter.
Mutant Beast Hunters were an ancient and glorious profession. They dedicated their lives and spirits to this profession and risked their lives to obtain strength. They fought with their lives on the line in order to protect the peaceful lives of more people.
They were still quite reliable.
At this moment, Barong sighed and instructed, “I didn’t expect such an emergency to happen. I wanted to find you a low-risk mutant beast to practice with after you got used to your strengthened body, but we don’t seem to have that luxury.
“The results of your enhancement should be good, but you haven’t practiced physical control yet. It’s enough for you to follow our pace during the hunt. Don’t act rashly. The Claw Rending Bear has destrcutive power. If it hits you accurately, two or three hits will be enough to severely injure a hunter.”
In Barong’s opinion, even if Zhou Jing was talented and his mutant blood strengthened him to obtain greater strength, he still needed time to adapt.
Barong was not afraid that Zhou Jing would not be able to unleash his full strength, but he was worried that he would be confused by the sudden increase in strength. It was common for novice hunters to underestimate the difference in strength between themselves and mutant beasts.
As seasoned hunters, they knew very well how capable they were. They knew the strength of the various mutated beasts’ attacks and how many times they could withstand them. It seemed like they were taking a risk, but they would have it all calculated beforehand.
While Barong didn’t think that Zhou Jing was prepared enough, he would not show him any favoritism or care by asking him not to participate in this particular hunt.
Regardless of whether it was a newbie or a seasoned Mutant Beast Hunter unless they really lost their combat strength, one did not have the privilege of not participating in battle.
“I’ll see how it goes.” Zhou Jing nodded.
Although he had just obtained supernatural powers and felt very fresh, he knew his power was limited. He had already adjusted his mentality last night.
However, hunting high-risk mutant beasts were one of the life objectives of the Astral Apostles this time. Thus, he did not reject this battle.
Moreover, Zhou Jing thought that this was a good opportunity. It was better to surround and kill the high-risk beasts than to hunt alone.
Although he did not have much hunting experience, based on his past experience playing games, he could come up with simple logic.
It was definitely better to KS[1.Kill Steal] than to fight one alone!
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Everyone hurried to the city gate, only to find that it was already quite lively here.
A large group of soldiers had gathered here. At a glance, there were already more than 50 of them. They were busy moving all kinds of trap tools.
A middle-aged man in luxurious clothes was anxiously patrolling amongst the troops under the escort of a few guards.