Fire Crab Dojo

It was two in the afternoon, and all the disciples of the dojo were resting after a gruesome round of training. Standing in one corner, the teachers assessed the students’ performance.

"Not bad. Everyone seems to be doing well."

"As expected, their recovery speed has gone up a notch after consuming the fiery pills."

The teachers continued making remarks in loud voices.

In one of the training areas, a little girl of roughly ten years old, with a head full of red hair and training clothes soaked in sweat, dragged Aella away from the training ground.

That was right—this was the very dojo Aella attended.

Fire Crab Dojo, according to rumor, had been established by a Gold-Rank hunter. It was because of that reputation that Jackson had admitted Aella into this place. Although public schools were decent enough for receiving training and basic nurturing, compared to private places like this, public institutions simply could not produce the same results.

The difference in outcomes was so great that it was hard to put into words. While public schools often failed to produce even a single six-resonance talent, dojos like Fire Crab had a history of producing at least two or three six-resonance talents every year.

Keeping all of this in mind, Jackson had firmly decided to admit Aella into this place. He himself might not have received the best resources, but he was going to make sure Aella received the best treatment possible.

Compared to every other day, this time Aella did not resist being dragged away by the hand. For the first time in a month, she was actually willing to rest.

Noticing this, Aella’s friend—the red-haired girl—could not help but feel pleased. To think that all these days of persuasion had finally begun to bear fruit.

Thinking of all that, a small triumphant smile automatically appeared on the red-haired girl’s face.

When they were some distance away from the crowd, the red-haired girl, Morina Brightstar, turned and stealthily placed a glass bottle filled with fiery red pills into Aella’s hands.

"Morina, what are you doing?"

Aella looked at the bottle in her hands and asked in puzzlement.

Morina, however, did not answer immediately. Instead, she looked at Aella with a knowing smile.

"Still acting tough? If you had accepted these pills from me earlier, you wouldn’t have had to suffer all these days."

Once Morina opened her mouth, she became just like a chatterbox, speaking nonstop without even pausing to think.

"Hmph... where is that good-for-nothing big brother of yours? Just take me to see him one day. I promise I’ll give him a good beating. After that, he definitely won’t slack off."

Hearing those words, Aella’s expression turned slightly cold.

Although she knew her friend did not really mean any harm, she still could not tolerate someone speaking badly about her big brother.

"Morina, please don’t say such things about my big brother. Forget about some pills—if I wanted, he would even pluck the moon and stars for me."

Aella said those words in a solemn voice.

She fully believed them.

There was silence for a moment.

Morina looked around in confusion, almost as if she thought she had misheard.

But the way Aella looked at her made it clear she definitely had not.

Then suddenly, with a wide smile on her face, Morina burst into loud laughter.

"Kekeke... ekekek...!"

Her laughter was so loud and reckless that for a moment the entire dojo’s attention shifted to the two girls.

Feeling the weight of everyone’s gaze, Aella’s eyebrows twitched uncontrollably.

Suddenly, she had the urge to smack this loudmouth.

And she did exactly that.

Bang!

With her face slightly reddened, Morina immediately shut her mouth.

Aella did not say anything more. She simply returned the glass bottle Morina had given her.

"Take this back. I don’t need your help."

As she said those words, Aella revealed the glass bottle that Jackson had given her that morning.

Morina had still been thinking of all the ways to convince Aella when she saw the bottle in her friend’s hand, and her eyes immediately lit up.

"It seems that big brother of yours isn’t that useless after all."

Aella, however, simply snorted.

....

Jackson stood just outside the border of Sector Sixty-Seven. Ahead of him stretched the grim and oppressive forest, filled with bloodthirsty monsters.

He did not immediately rush inside. Instead, he recalled all the information he had gathered.

According to the forum discussions, the chances of encountering those corrupted monsters were much higher deeper in the forest, in the true Blood Demon Forest.

All this time, the place Jackson had simply been calling "the forest" was actually the Blood Demon Forest. Although on the surface it looked like one endless horror house, in reality it was divided into two major areas: the outer region and the inner region.

The first hundred kilometers fell into the outer region.

It was precisely this outer region that Jackson had been hunting in all this time.

Compared to the inner forest, which was already considered highly dangerous, the outer forest had been cleared of any truly overwhelming threats by the Hunter Association through large-scale operations led by veteran hunters.

With all these thoughts in mind, Jackson’s resolve hardened.

Although the outer forest was relatively safer, if he truly wanted to make good money while increasing his strength at the same time, he had no choice but to take additional risks and move deeper.

After that, he wasted no more time and simply stepped forward.

Then he headed inside.

By now, the news of the minotaur’s successful slaughter had spread widely among the circle of awakened hunters who primarily hunted in the outer forest.

So on his way to the inner region, he encountered far fewer hunters than usual.

Still, as long as Jackson moved alone, his figure attracted quite a bit of attention.

It was rare to see a lone figure in the forest.

But precisely because of that, no one dared take him lightly.

Anyone who could move through the forest alone was either a complete madman or an expert. In either case, most hunters had no desire to cross paths with such a person.

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