My Last Hunt

Not Much

Worth paying the price

"The scar is healed in shortest time?"

The hunter successfully activated the stone which was a sign that nothing was stopping his spawned commands. There was no more need to test so he returned in the training room. It was not that he mistrusted the young hunter. The time he took in healing was less than the menders mentioned before. Now he has no doubt about it. He went back to hear what favor he could render in return. The hunter sat on the chair in front of the young hunter. Qiao was sitting with closed eyes supporting against the back of chair. 

The hunter did not disturb him. Qiao fell asleep on the chair. It had been many days since he last rested. The hunter side smiled and also closed his eyes. He finally healed his scar. It can be taken a good return of his decision back then. He went against the team of Diggers to save this low level hunter. Apparently it was equal to turn two powerful Diggers his enemy. But he found two friends too. One of them was also going to take the upcoming test trails of the Hunter Kings and this one young hunter also became his good friend according to his words. 

The hunter's lodges were silent now. Half of lodges were empty because the hunters were on big missions. Few who recently returned back were now retired to sleep. Only few were awake practicing the skills or learning the attack sense of the stones. Rucha was wandering to search the young hunter and kill while he sent back the other team mate because he thought the revenge was on his shoulders not the otherwise. This said Rumble returned back and he happened to see the third digger that went against them in the middle of the battle. It was taken an open challenge. 

Rumble was brewing with hatred against Dachin. He vowed to get back to him whenever he found a chance. He cannot do anything inside the boundaries of the Hightown. Any type of actions could lead to the anger of the Rank Masters and then one should forget to take next breath alive. Whatever he has in mind can only be executed outside the Hightown. The night went past slowly. Only three entrances worked at night hosting the returnees. Some of them brought back with news and reports; few returning from missions. 

The Rank Masters which were gone to meet some of the hidden Nests also returned with secret information about the beasts. The day time recruited Rank Masters would process these reports for the First Level Rank Masters to take a look and decide the grim matters. Overall this was the normal routine work assigned to everyone and this keeps on. The routine would not break no matter if all the sides of the Hightown were set on fire unless beasts directly came attacking the Hightown. So it was best place for relaxing and resting. Those teams sent on missions rarely rest especially without the fear of monsters or beasts. 

When the day begins the activities started in the Hightown. Qiao opened his eyes wondering that he was sleeping on the chair. Dachin also slept the same way. This was the life of a hunter. Qiao fixed his appearance and wait for the hunter to wake up by disturbing the flow of the stones. This disturbance would wake him up. The hunter has complete command on the stones and his rest did not interrupt the active stones. The hunter immediately opened his eyes and saw the hunter smiling. Qiao was playing with the flow of the stones. 

"Haha good way to wake up a sleepy rogue." He rubbed his eyes and gestured Qiao to come along. At another part of the lodge fresh water was available. They splattered some water to wash the face. "Now that you have healed my scar do tell me the price in detail." The hunter dried out water from his face with a flip of his hand. Qiao picked his extra cloth and dried the water drops from his face. "I want this senior to teach me the higher level hunting. I am short of time to get in the classes of Hunting Schools and wait for the time. It would bring disastrous situation for me. I cannot relate what are my concerns." Qiao voiced in detail. 

The hunter heard and nodded. "The Hunting Schools not only teach the hunting method in fact they provide some sources for the students. However the sources are not worry I have everything to begin with but teaching hunting…" Dachin was hesitating whether he has some mentoring guts after all it was not a simple and easy job. The performance of the hunter depended whether he was able to mentor well and he was not confident about this type of ability. 

"Mentoring is not difficult if the pupil is ready to learn since I have a smart pupil then I think I should give it a shoot to test whether I can mentor or not. Success would lead me found a Guild in the Hightown and failure means I have no such capacity. Good that Hightown has two more slots for the Guild camps." Dachin shook his shoulders to give it a try. Qiao secretly rejoiced though the hunter did not tell him directly he was in the middle to make his mind. 

"Since I have already promised and I can understand your concerns so I am planning let you learn hunting. I have plenty of sources and rest of them can be bought easily from the market of the Hightown." The hunter voiced. "And this lodge will be a place where we will initially practice." He waved his hand agreeing on the price of healing. Qiao sighed deeply; finally there was someone who could prove helpful in learning faster. This was the result of his hard work and the slowly developing nature where he was learning to occasionally commit good deeds without thinking a return over. 

Before being sent to this world the only good deed which happened to commit and get caught in the circumstance forced his stubborn nature to test out several such type of deed. It would be a test how many times he would fell face down. However most of time the good deed returned back in a way of favor and often times it was bigger than he expected. It turned out that good deed was not behind his circumstances at all. It must have related to his fate or luck. The fate wanted him to gain bigger and sent here with time limit. 

'Pretty sure his fate has planned this long ago' he thought in his head. The hunter was oblivious of his thoughts getting ready compose all the lessons of the hunting one by one. The training room was big enough. The hunter picked a stone and it started engraving some symbols on the wall of the room. He seemed much invested in what he was doing. Before starting lessons the material should be detailed or at least few important things should not skip his hand. Every hunting class let the hunter learn some aspects. Let's believe that half of them were useless in practical hunting just like the algebra and trigonometry. 

The hunter was also skimming the useless or unimportant aspects which the mentors drag in the class. Some cemented symbols started to appear just like the ancient Egypt slabs where the age old humans left some of their findings in the form of sign language. Qiao was witnessing how diligently the hunter was working to bring the mentoring material in existence. Well he cannot tell what it was. It took some time and Dachin finished setting up whole three sets of classes and their requirements. 

The class above from level eight does not bear any lessons it was all in practical field. Limited numbers of restrictions were already taught in the level seven class. The hunter sat on the chair and stared the big wall scrutinizing whether he did miss anything. After some time he nodded. Qiao did not disturb him and his eyes kept following the actions of the hunter. There were several questions which he would ask the hunter once the learning begins. It was beginning of the long day. "From this day to onward two days you can learn by heart all the aspects while for practice depended on you how long you need to take and grasp the basics. Most of the hunters prefer stone as a weapon in the advance hunting but if you want to design your own weapon then you have to learn the profession how the weapons are built." The hunter voiced leaving this choice for the hunter. Qiao thought and decided. For learning profession would take extra time and placement. "I would skip weapon hunting." "Hm good but if someone renders a stronger weapon or grants a wonderfully designed weapon then you should not hesitate to take it." The hunter chuckled saying this.