“Boss, I think we need to take tomorrow off.” After an unknown amount of time, one of the members of the Ember Party said to Amare.

  “Sure, do as you like.” Amare himself didn't have any energy. He worked the hardest when faced with the Level 4 Elite boar.

  After that, he continued chasing the boars for hours to hunt them down.

  “Boss, we should train an archer. If we had an archer, we wouldn't have to spend so much energy.” Another exhausted voice sounded just a few meters away.

  “Boss, if a monster wandered over, I wouldn't be able to do anything.”

  “Boss, I don't think I can walk back. Maybe we should hire someone to carry us back.”

  “Me too! Boss, I can't walk either.”

  Soon, one after another, voices kept sounding around Amare.

  “Shut up and let me rest,” Amare angrily shouted as he had enough of these teammates.

  “Boss, I don't care. Either someone is carrying me back or I am not moving an inch.” After Amare's angry shout, there was silence for a while before a voice sounded again.

  “You…” Amare didn't choose to reply and just closed his eyes.

  Today they not only fought and killed a Level 4 Elite monster but also hunted 43 boars, whose running speed is no less than a horse's, maybe even faster.

  Thankfully, boars are easily scared, otherwise they would have died the moment all the boars charged at them at once.

  But after the death of the Elite Boar, the boars seemed to have entered a grieving state, as they would run for a while before stopping, turning, and wailing toward the body of their dead leader.

  This made hunting easier, otherwise how would they have hunted 43 boars.

  After around an hour, a group of people arrived at the vast grassland they were resting in.

  “Okay, get to work and start gathering all the carcasses.” Seeing his teammates lying on the ground, looking lifeless, Thompson immediately ordered the workers to start gathering the carcasses of the boars.

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  “Okay, that's enough resting. We should head back, it's about to get dark.” A quarter of an hour later, Amare stood and said.

  Seeing that it was really about to get dark, everyone immediately stood up without a complaint. No one in their right mind would want to stay out of the city at night, as many deadly monsters only come out at night.

  As everyone became active, they started guiding the workers with the weight distribution.

  At the end, Kenji got two small boars, one on each shoulder.

  Soon, workers steadily started walking back to the city. Along the way, they encountered a few vine monsters, but they were easily dealt with by the members of the Ember party.

  “Huff… puff… finally!” Dropping both carcasses on the ground, Kenji started breathing heavily.

  The whole way, Kenji had most of his focus on controlling the circulation of Ki; this is why his brain felt oxygen-deprived.

  After getting his Silver coin, Kenji immediately sets off.

  Arriving at the housing complex, Kenji placed 50 copper coins on the table and headed back to his room.

  Today, Kenji didn't increase his reserves even by a single unit and he wasn't planning on doing so today.

  After putting away his stuff and changing into something clean, Kenji headed downstairs and got something to eat.

  [Ancient Calendar: 14 Feb 0001]

  The next day, Kenji woke up, increased his reserves, ate food, repeated chores and then headed toward the city gate.

  Arriving at the notice area and looking around, Kenji saw no sign of Marconi. So, he went looking for another job.

  Soon, he came across a small team who hunted too many monsters for the first time and needed workers.

  Without thinking much, Kenji immediately joined.

  Following the person who came back to the city to get workers, Kenji and the other two soon arrived at a waterfall, which was a relatively new place for Kenji.

  “This…” Looking at around 10–12 small lizardmen, Kenji immediately understood that the lucky party came across one of the breeding grounds of the lizardmen.

  Without asking many questions, Kenji tied four small lizardmen in a cloth and put the load on his back.

  The other two also followed suit and soon they started walking back to the city.

  Entering the city, Kenji dropped the sack near the Fairy table purchasing herbs, ores and carcasses of monsters.

  After selling the carcasses of young lizardmen and the water pearl they found, the lucky team paid each worker 50 copper coins and then headed home.

  The whole trip only lasted for a little over an hour.

  Putting away the money, Kenji started looking for another job, as he was still 6 Silver coins short to buy all the materials needed for his first heavenly trial.

  Looking around a little, Kenji spotted Marconi, who was busy looking for workers willing to follow his lead.

  “Eh, Kenji. Hurry over, just need one more worker before heading out.” Marconi, who was looking for two more workers, was delighted when he saw Kenji and immediately pointed toward the place where workers of the Silver Party were gathering.

  Arriving at the place, Kenji only saw a few familiar faces. It seems Marconi had replaced everyone who wasn't willing to pay his cut.

  Soon, Marconi came back with one more worker and they immediately left the city.

  Reaching the previous location of the large cave, Sekou guided the workers to collect the carcasses of the Fire Lizards.

  “Any luck?” Sekou asked his teammates as they returned from exploring the cave.

  “Nothing, maybe we will find one in that cave,” replied Max. Today they explored the whole cave but didn't find any Fire Core, so he just pointed toward another cave to their left.

  Hunting Fire Lizards wasn't a losing business. In the past week, the members of the Silver Party had adapted to hunting in caves.

  “Let's get going,” Ramses ordered, and everyone started marching toward the city.

  Today, Ramses was feeling a little down. Yesterday, he heard that Amare and his Ember Party succeeded in hunting a whole sounder of boars, including a Level 4 Elite Monster.

  So, he wanted to find the Fire Core as soon as possible and undergo his third heavenly trial. But unfortunately, even today they didn't find any.

  “Watch out!”

  As Ramses was lost in his thoughts, a sharp wind blade came flying toward him.

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