Dawn of a new day.Both of them were ready to go. The forest was around 1 hour of walk from the village in the north. The village was actually middle of nowhere and it wasn"t joking. The closest city was 2 weeks to walk from here. The area around was actually not very fertile and crops wouldn"t yield much. The villagers didn"t have many cattle so plains weren"t used either. This place was ideal for herding but cattle must be expensive in this world.
They finally reached the forest, the lecture began. The hunters mostly relied on three main skills in the forest. These were tracking, stealth and setting traps. Most of them caught, the small animals like hares or quails. There were times that you could hunt boar or deer, however, this kind of hunt was dangerous and sometimes price was bigger than the game.
The high perception with the help of Eagle"s eyes made tracking easy. The range of his sight was very big and while Roger was using the trails to track the prey. Aron was looking around and could see it from afar.
"I won"t pick this skill if I continue to rely on my eyes like this."
The boy started to search for trails and focused his entire attention on it.
[Tracking skill generated. Tracking level.0(1/50)]
They decided to track a deer. They followed its tray for around for an hour. The deer was tens of meters away from them.
ROAR! They heard a very loud roar. Roger became extremely cautious and said.
"Fast! Climb the tree."
Aron didn"t hesitate and jumped on the tree. Roger did the same and both of them stopped moving. The deer didn"t know in which way to run. It was a futile anyway because something appeared with high speed and ripped deer"s head off. Aron decided to appraise it.
[Name: Female Black-eyed Demon Wolf.]
[Desc. Pack spiritual beast with black eyes. It"s extremely fast and it loves to rip off heads of its prey.]
[Stats:????]
[Traits: High regeneration, Demonic Eyes, High-density muscles, Predator, ??]
[Skills: Berserk, Charge, Highspeed running, Call for help, ???]
"It must be rumored beast, we are only on outskirts, and we can already meet something of this level. They didn"t lie about the danger lurking in the forest."
The beast took its prey and left. Roger, signaled that it"s time to climb down.
"What was that?" Asked Aron with a curious look.
"I don"t know its name, yet I would rather not mess with this beast." Roger was terrified and looked into the eyes of Aron.
"When you ever encounter it alone. Never ever try to attack it. I don"t know if you are aware, it was aware of our presence, but we were useless for it. No meat, no fun. Just remember it, kiddo"
After this, he showed him how to set up traps and how to move around without prey noticing him.
[Skill Traps generated. Traps lv.0(1/50)]
[Skill Stealth lv.0 generated. Stealth lv.0(1/50)]
"I was taken by my father to the forest like you. After teaching me basics, he gave me a test to hunt something. You know what?" He asked and Aron didn"t know what to say.
"I failed miserably. I didn"t even track anything properly. So don"t worry if you fail to hunt in your first hunts. I will come with you until you be ready to hunt something on your own. The only important thing is to be cautious and careful in the forest."
Aron looked around him and saw boar few hundreds of meters from them.
"I have found a trail. Follow me." He said and started sneaking around using stealth.
After he found a clear position to shoot, he stood up and whispered.
"It"s not actually a part of your lessons, so I hope you are not mad at me."
He stood up and took weird posture and pulled the string to its limits. The part of an inch more and the bow would break. Roger looked at him with confusion.
Swis.h.!.+ Screech! Thud!
"Gotcha!" Roger was shocked, did this boy sniped animal from more than a hundred meters away.
"Come, it"s dead already!" Aron said and started approaching the position of his prey.
A half minute later, they were next to a few hundred kilograms boar that was lying on the ground with arrows inside of his skull.
"I don"t believe it... You killed it like it was nothing."
"How do we bring this back to the village?" Aron couldn"t expose his s.p.a.ce to the Roger, so he wanted to know how normal hunters dealt with such heavy prey.
"We need to dismantle it into smaller parts and carry it." The Roger took his dismantling knife out and started to demonstrate the process of dismantling. After skinning the boar, he handed the knife to the boy.
The hardest part was actually cut in the right places or you would actually waste precious meat. Aron wasted some meat before getting the skill.
[Skill Dismantling generated. Dismantling lv.0(1/500)]
Aron took out some rope and created an improvised backpack. Thanks to that, they would leave only the most useless parts. Roger was a really strong man, even if he was old now. He could carry more than a hundred kilograms of meat on his back and walk at a normal pace.
Aron prepared his backpack and said.
"You can start walking, I will gather these herbs over there for the village chief."
He pointed at red flowers far from them and said.
"Ok, kiddo. I will slowly walk to the village. I will wait for you at the outskirts."
Aron went toward the flowers and saw Roger leaving slowly. He waited until Roger is far enough and absorbed the most of the flowers and started running around absorbing all necessary things.
[New plant detected..]
[...]
He inserted the rest of the boar inside the s.p.a.ce and put the backpack on his bag and started walking toward the Roger. His pack was loaded with more than 150 kg of raw meat. It was heavy as h.e.l.l, yet his point was to create a scene of coming back to the village with a great game.
"I need more time, to find all things for village chief." It was regretful, this time he wouldn"t finish this quest.
After 3 hours of a walk, they reached the village, heavy loads of meat attracted the attention of villagers.
John approached Roger and said.
"I thought you retired from hunting..." Before he finished the sentence Roger cut him off and said.
"I did. I was only instructing, the new generation." John looked around and saw Aron, however, he couldn"t believe that"s the same brat that cheated him out of wood. He tried to find another person...
"Don"t look, your first guess was right it"s this little brat. Meet new hunter in our village, Aron."