“What is going on…..” As if sensing Kenji's will, the strange force willingly stopped fighting and let the Source Ki tear it apart bit by bit.

  Feeling the strange force inside his body decreasing with each passing moment, instead of feeling happy, Kenji felt a sense of loss.

  The feeling that he experienced only a few times in life.

  Kenji's chest tightened up, and something felt stuck in his throat.

  “Aghhh…..” Unable to hold himself back, Kenji let out a mournful scream.

  A few minutes later, the entirety of the strange force was devoured by the Source Ki, and the sharp pain in Kenji's chest began to slow down.

  “What was that?” As the feeling of immense loss was gone, Kenji was confused.

  What was that energy that suddenly appeared in his body? Why was the Source Ki fighting that energy? Why was he feeling such strong emotions when the strange energy was being devoured by his own Source Ki?

  Kenji had many questions, but no answers.

  A quarter of an hour later, Kenji got out and headed back toward the notice area. He didn't want to, and couldn't afford to, continue wasting his time wondering about things he had no knowledge of.

  Leaving the alleyway, Kenji looked around the notice area and found a job.

  So, along with a band of workers, Kenji followed the man named Argus to the location of his party’s hunting grounds.

  After just an hour of journey, Kenji, along with the other workers, arrived at an open field with many carcasses of various monsters lying around.

  Most of the monsters were Wind Rabbits, with some Storm-thorns and a single Pangolin.

  “You guys even killed the Pangolin.”

  “Why wouldn't we? He was already exhausted from fighting Wind Rabbits.”

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  “So great. Not only did we get an entire burrow of Wind Rabbits, but also a Pangolin.”

  “Let's head back now, today we are going to have a feast.”

  The members of the New Moon party were very excited.

  When the Monster Tide started, two of their members were killed, and they didn't dare to go outside for the entirety of the Monster Tide.

  However, the moment they left the city, they hit a jackpot.

  While searching for suitable monsters to hunt, they came across a burrow of Wind Rabbits under attack by a Pangolin. So they played fisherman.

  Which not only got them 15 Wind Rabbits, but also a Pangolin. Selling them, they could easily earn more than 20 gold coins.

  Even the biggest parties in the city don't earn so much in a single day.

  “You guys pick the Pangolin, you kid pick these five Wind Rabbits.” The leader of the New Moon party started guiding the workers.

  Soon, Kenji had five tied Wind Rabbits on his shoulder and headed back to the city.

  An hour later, Kenji had an additional Silver coin, and he headed back to the housing complex. He was mentally exhausted, and mobilizing Ki was getting a little difficult.

  Along the way back to the housing complex, Kenji bought a pack of bread sticks, which cost as high as 150 copper coins.

  Returning to his room, Kenji wolfed down a bread stick, leaving the rest for another time.

  [Ancient Calendar: 24 Feb 0001]

  After waking up, Kenji spent three hours breathing Ki and then left the housing complex to head toward the city gate.

  [Ki: 336]

  By now, Kenji was adjusted to a new lifestyle, where he no longer needed to do chores just to eat leftovers. Instead, now he just needed to work hard as a transportation worker, and he could easily afford food.

  Although yesterday's bread stick couldn't come anywhere close to the leftovers, it was still a leap in his previous living standards.

  Along the way, Kenji popped a food pill, and soon he was at the gathering point of the Moonblade party.

  Today, instead of Emli, Vespera was responsible for guiding the workers.

  As Kenji joined the group, he found that today the workers seemed to be a little down.

  “...What’s… wrong?” Kenji asked, wondering if someone had an accident yesterday during their second trip.

  “Can’t you see, today Goddess Emli isn't here.”

  “Yes, even Sasha would have been better than her.”

  “You are a new kid, so you don't know. But Vespera is already married and even has a son.”

  “Well, I would have pursued her if that madman wasn't alive.”

  “Come on, be a man. I know you like her, the worst that can happen is you getting kicked out. But what if she is having difficulties with her husband? You would hit the jackpot.”

  “I only like Isla, her sword moves are so beautiful.”

  Seeing the workers get into a heated argument over the members of the Moonblade party, Kenji felt like a fool for feeling that something bad might have happened.

  “Yes, yes, don't worry about it.” Ending the call, Vespera looked at the workers and said, “Today the team unfortunately wasn't able to hunt any monsters, so you guys are free to go.”

  “What, no way!!” Hearing that the Moonblade party wasn't able to hunt any monsters today, all seven workers were shocked.

  Everyone in the Moonblade party had undergone their second Heavenly Trial and were quite experienced in hunting.

  “Miss Vespera, can you tell us what happened?” Instead of being angry over the fact that they wasted so much time, the workers were worried about their goddesses.

  “Today everyone went hunting Wind Rabbits, but they hardly had any success.” Vespera spoke in a slightly disappointed voice. Today, she was looking forward to enjoying Wind Rabbit meat with her family.

  Yesterday, they caught wind of a party hunting as many as fifteen Wind Rabbits in a single day, which led to them believing that hunting Wind Rabbits wasn't as hard as everyone made it out to be. So today, they went after Wind Rabbits, hoping to earn big.

  But instead, the whole morning was spent chasing after Wind Rabbits and getting ambushed every other minute.

  A quarter of an hour ago, the whole party was suddenly attacked by a group of Wind Rabbits, and three of the members were injured badly.

  Right now, everyone was rushing back to the city for medical care.

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