Monster Hunt: Notes from a Hunter

"so good"

Gale was holding a chewed lamb rib bone in her mouth. After finishing her lunch, she was still muttering, "I also want a serious and smooth title like Hayata."

"As for 'Ms. Nirma,' just think about it as much as you want." Anhil sneered.

"***I will die with you!"

Gordon Hayata and the others spent some effort to pull the two apart and push them back to their seats.

Fortunately, it was not uncommon for drunken people to get into fights in public taverns, and their location was relatively remote, so they did not attract too much attention.

At the table, the master holding a cup of hot tea looked at this scene with a smile and did not stop it.

Young people, it’s better to be more energetic.

"Master, why did the great elder summon us this afternoon?" Gordon put an arm on Ancier's shoulder, suppressing him, and asked the master, "Isn't it another urgent task?"

The master put down his tea cup and said, "No, with the great elder's impatience, if it is an urgent task, he will only summon you immediately instead of setting a time to summon you."

"Too."

"Relax, it should be a good thing, cough cough." The master took a sip of hot tea to relieve his cough, and looked at Gale, "Gale should also have received the summons notice, right?"

"yes."

"That's right. The reward for the defense of Styracosaurus should be a commendation meeting."

Gordon nodded, as he thought.

"By the way, Gordon, did the Great Elder tell you anything before?" Master Jiang narrowed his eyes and asked, "The Great Elder called me over yesterday and praised you and Julius.

Ke Ke said that I have two good disciples and led two good teams and so on, then he laughed and let me go. "

Gordon probably guessed what the Great Elder was referring to. He crossed his arms and said, "Didn't the Great Elder intend to promote a few of us after the defense of Metabetate? We used the excuse that the interval between our last promotions was too short. Declined.

The great elder said at that time that he would promote us after we hunt the ancient dragon species next time.

I thought it would be a long time later, and then the Styracosaurus happened to attack."

"It's true, cough." Master Jiang's expression was a little helpless, "Julius and Bi are in the same situation. After defeating the rusty steel dragon, the great elder also wanted to promote them.

From this point of view, summoning you this time is likely to be a large-scale collective promotion. "

Anhil was a little confused, "Master Campbell, why is the Great Elder so eager to promote us high-ranking hunters?

Are we seven-star or eight-star? Is there any essential difference?

It's just a name. It doesn't mean that by being promoted to eight stars, we will become stronger.

If there is a real crisis, will seven-star hunters or eight-star hunters be drafted equally? "

"Anhil, you are right, cough, cough, cough."

The master took a breath and continued: "Actually, many of the tasks you have performed in recent years have exceeded the difficulty standard of seven-star tasks. The great elder promoted you to eight-stars not out of consideration of 'ease of use'"

"What's that for?" Anhir asked.

The master was silent for a moment and did not answer immediately. Instead, he got up and took everyone to a quiet room on the second floor of the tavern. After closing the door, he said:

"With your hunter level, you will soon be exposed to this information. Please keep it confidential."

The hunters nodded one after another, and even Feng Ying and Gale became serious.

"In recent years, Gulong incidents have occurred frequently. The causes of each incident seem to be unrelated, but in terms of overall data.

Let's put it this way, do you know how much the incidence rate of cologne-related incidents in the past two years has increased compared to ten years ago? "

"How many?"

The master raised three fingers.

"Thirty percent?" Anhir asked.

"Three times."

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The master craftsman rubbed the umbrella handle in his palm and continued: "So, over the years, the guild has made a lot of layout and preparations in places that you can't see.

This includes but is not limited to urging local guilds to build new fortresses, expand training camps, recruit more hunter students, encourage hunters to bring disciples, and so on.

It’s been a long time since you guys learned about the one-star and two-star missions, right?

Cough cough cough. In the past two years, due to the graduation and influx of a large number of novice hunters, today's low-star missions, not to mention the backlog, may even be in short supply. "

Gordon scratched his chin. He really hadn't paid attention to this for a long time.

But he still remembered that when he first became a one-star hunter, there were too many collection tasks and tasks to hunt down small monsters, which were too many to handle.

The master continued: "After the bottom-level strength is sufficient, or even surplus, the guild began to relax the promotion restrictions layer by layer.

For example, it was originally necessary to complete thirty one-star missions before being eligible to take the initiative to receive the assessment mission for promotion to two stars, but now the number has been reduced to twenty-five times, and in some local guilds it has been reduced to twenty times. "

Hayata's eyes widened, "In this case, wouldn't the casualty rate of the promotion mission increase a lot?"

"Yes, cough cough cough." The master's expression was slightly gloomy, "Although when promotion restrictions are being relaxed, guilds in various places have repeatedly emphasized that novice hunters are warned to act within their capabilities.

However, the casualty rate of the assessment task has still risen significantly. "

Ancier looked serious, but he agreed with the guild's approach, "The guild will not force low-star hunters to be promoted. If you feel inadequate, no one will care about you if you do a hundred one-star tasks and then get promoted.

The guild hopes to improve the quantity and quality of the entire hunter group from bottom to top.

Driven and talented young hunters will get ahead faster.

If this momentum continues, in another five years or at most ten years, the younger generation of high-level hunters will emerge in large numbers, and the number of four- and five-star elite hunters will also increase greatly.

Only in this way can we maintain an advantage in the next "species competition".

Otherwise, ancient dragons appear frequently and attack cities, but the number of hunters does not increase. Hunters sacrifice in large numbers, cities fall one by one, and the population base decreases, forming a vicious circle. It is not impossible that human civilization will be destroyed. "

"Is this, such an exaggeration?" Feng Ying stuttered, "There is also the Great Elder. Isn't the Great Elder super strong? A monster like Styracosaurus can be chopped down with one knife. With him here, there will be no problem, right?"

The master shook his head, "Unless taboos are involved, the Great Elder will not take action. Well, by using his sword this time, he has already violated the 'not to interfere' agreement with the hero and the craftsman.

That stubborn old man blamed himself a lot. "

"But, why?" Feng Ying continued to ask.

Gordon interrupted her, "Parents have to take action in everything. Children cannot grow up. Although parents live long lives, they are already old and will pass away one day.

If children are protected too well, without the ability to protect themselves, they will not be able to survive in a dangerous future. "

Feng Ying, who understood what she meant, shut her mouth.

"So, what does this have to do with the promotion of the upper hunter?" Gail asked in confusion.

“As the leaders of the younger generation, we are the role models and goals for young hunters. Only when we stand high enough and perform dazzlingly enough can we be called role models.

Besides, don't we go up and stay where we are as goalkeepers? "Anshir, who had already understood everything, said casually.

"It feels weird." Hayata sighed softly.

As a "role model" who was almost picked up to hang on the wall, she was quite repulsed by this kind of promotion with other purposes.

Knowing what Hayata was struggling with, the master patted her shoulder and said, "Don't think too much. You have grown up now and can shoulder this honor and responsibility, ahem."

Speaking of this, the master glanced at Fengying and said with a smile: "Maybe your juniors will soon catch up too?"

Hayata was startled. She thought of Feng Ying who had just come of age, Lie Yan in Yanhuo Village, Aiden in Pen, and Jean in Bokai Village.

There are also "newcomers" who are constantly striving to climb up all over the world.

She also felt relieved, "Yes, if you don't speed up your pace, maybe you will be caught up in a few years."

Ps.

Don't think about the "darkness of the guild". The hunter guild in this book is still very decent. This part of the description is just to rationalize the "quick promotion".

In fact, the more you write to the later stage, the more obvious this kind of problem is. Are the protagonists' promotion speed fast? Of course it's fast, it's a bit unreasonable to be so close, but

For example, you will understand this distress. One month after Luffy defeated Doflamingo with great difficulty, he defeated Kaido.

It seems that only half a year has passed in Tian Hui Long, but the chapters are almost 300. If we don’t fast forward the timeline, the curve of time and experience growth will be very sharp.

But if you pull the timeline, the protagonists are not immortals after all, and if you pull the timeline frequently, they will suddenly become middle-aged.

In fact, his strength has reached the standard, and he has killed several unblocked monsters. If Gordon is still forced to stay at seven stars, everyone will probably feel uncomfortable.

That's the only way it feels reasonable.