Dawn was breaking, a faint blue mist hovering over the camp.
Many classmates still slept. Even Ziwan, on night watch, had dozed off against the fence.
"Jiang Xiang and his gang actually took the map! So annoying~~"
Han Lianfei wore a wide-brimmed mage hat, stomping the ground with her wooden staff. Above her low-cut robe, a dazzling expanse of white bounced enticingly. Her snow-white legs stretched powerfully from the dress slit, toes pointed in high-heeled sandals.
What vibrant energy Feier had this early morning, Lin Luo admired inwardly. Her posture hinted at dance training. Of course, noble girls learned many arts. Pity such a classic mage couldn’t cast spells.
"It’s so unfair! Lin Luo drew that map himself." Feier grew angrier. This hunt would decide her fate.
"No worries. I remember all the places I drew. Hunting prey won’t stick to just those routes," Lin Luo said.
"Shall we set off?" Lin Yuxun flicked her light purple hair, leaning against the camp gate. Dressed in a white short dress, she glowed with morning radiance.
"Then Lin Luo, you lead the way. We’ll follow you," Feier smiled.
"Me lead? Alright..." Lin Luo walked past Feier. She was tall in heels. His gaze brushed her ample cleavage, lingering slightly. Sigh, leading meant he couldn’t admire Feier’s plump rear swaying under her robe from behind...
Sharp-minded Yuxun noticed the boy’s gaze unusually. She pouted. "Must be my imagination. I’d believe it for ordinary guys, but Lin Luo? He’s so pretty. How could he like busty, womanly girls?"
Feier ran over, linking arms with the Holy Maiden class rep. Under her wide hat, seductive eyes sparkled. "Let’s go! We can have fun all day!"
"I said, hunting isn’t for fun. You’ve bet yourself on this. Aren’t you nervous?"
"Hehe, we’ll win. Lin Luo is really strong."
"Huh?" Lin Luo, walking ahead and missing context, felt flattered by Feier’s praise.
"How do you know he’s strong?"
"You haven’t even seen his skills!"
"..."
At dawn, Lin Luo set off happily with two young female adventurers.
Meanwhile, deep in the forest miles from camp.
"Bang!"
Barbarian warrior Jiang Xiang, huge yet agile from basketball, swung his heavy axe. It crushed a Goblin’s helmet inward. The Goblin rolled and died.
The remaining two monsters screeched, fleeing after witnessing his might.
"Wow! Brother Jiang is amazing!"
"Brother Jiang is mighty!"
"Six six six!"
Four or five lackeys followed Jiang Xiang, shouting nonstop.
"Six your head! Are you watching a live stream?" Zhang Da spat out grass, smacking a lackey’s head.
"Heh heh..." Jiang Xiang kicked the Goblin corpse. His barbarian body recovered fast. Yesterday’s swollen face now had slight puffiness. With traces of an allergic reaction, he boasted, "This thing stinks. Can’t be prey. So these are otherworldly monsters? Nothing special before an Awakened like me."
"Of course, Brother Jiang is a heroic barbarian."
"Hero?" Jiang Xiang sneered. "Heroes risk lives for fame but face limits. In this world, I’ll be an Overlord, a tyrant."
"With a harem of beauties, doing whatever I want, hahahaha!" Having easily beaten a Goblin, Jiang Xiang grew more arrogant.
"If Brother Jiang is Demon King, aren’t we his officers?"
"I want girls too. How about raiding an otherworldly princess?"
"Pfft! Secure beauties from our class first."
Zhang Da watched the excited lackeys with deep-set eyes. This felt different from his old gang days; it had lost its flavor.
Just then, a furry yellow shape flickered in nearby bushes.
"Hm?" Jiang Xiang and others noticed.
"What’s that?"
"Looks big. Could it be prey?"
"Let’s go! Check it out!"
Jiang Xiang led the group toward it.
"Shh, don’t scare the prey," he signaled.
Heads low, they crept slowly, circling trees. In a dark forest hollow stood a towering, brownish-yellow monster.
It was a Jackalman.
Rarely did Jiang Xiang meet anyone taller at school.
Yet this Jackalman stood over 2.3 meters tall. Thick chest muscles, broad arms. Its sturdy legs bent backward like a jackal’s. A terrifying head, twice a gray wolf’s size, glowed with predator’s light. In its hand, a curved blade over a meter long, stained with rust and blood, reeked of slaughter.
