Chapter 36 - Hunt

Joan assembled the hunting party in the morning to hunt again. They were already on their turf which became their hunting cabin.

Joan arrived but they were already prepared to hunt. Bows tucked in their shoulders and arrows already full in their quivers.

As Joan saw them, he can't help but be impressed.

"Will you look at that! You are already prepared! Okay, now. We will hunt again and I will be with you hunting. This time, I will be hunting for our table also. But you are all capable enough with yourselves. I would like to congratulate you once again on a successful hunt in the past. You have your whistling arrow with you, right? Just notify me if you found a monster. I will be there immediately," Joan said to them..

After making a briefing, they all moved towards the forest. With their parents harvesting the salvaged wheat, they also made efforts to bring food to their tables.

They paired each other with their assigned partners and Joan was leading them.

Also making some tips on how to hunt more efficiently. Some of his tips were just a review but they soon realised that they were already at the entrance of the forest.

"Wow! We are here already. We sure talked that much and didn't mind the time flew by." Said Ben who scratched his head.

Joan can only smile at his reaction. He instructed them to be careful as he didn't know what will happen to them. Just making sure that they will be safe going home was what made his priority first.

"We will be careful out there master! I know you are worried but we will hunt carefully. We have your whistle here, you know?" Kendrick said to him.

"Hah, I know I know. I will be monitoring also just in case. I will hunt too to have food. Well, you are all full-fledged hunters and I can never be not proud to have you as my students. Good luck there and be safe." Joan said to them.

They went on with their ways to hunt. Separating themselves into different directions.

Joan immediately used his skill [Clairvoyance] and hunted while monitoring them.

Scanning his surroundings, he went to the north side of the forest. Moss covered the trees that were as large as a house. Being centuries-old was their age and as old as his grandparents, or even older than them.

The canopy of the forest was hiding the sun's rays and he ventured where the forest was the thickest and oldest.

With the help of his instincts of hunting, he immediately found tracks of a drove of pigs. They ate a chunk of fallen peach on the ground. Some were half eaten and others were only bits dropped from their mouths while eaten.

Considering that the tracks were just fresh and clean without distortion, he can assume that they were just a couple hundreds of meters from his foothold.

Thinking that they were loud as a group and can be heard when near, he closed his eyes and be silent.

The forest was silent so he thought of equipping the job class suited for his situation–Lycan.

Having the acute senses of this job class what made the Lycans the best hunters in their lives.

They tend to be hunters in their human form using their skill [Beast aura] or even in their werewolf form. What he needed was the skill in their arsenal.

So Joan thought that it will be a good thing to have. Sadly, his body was not a Lycan. Joan of the past didn't have Lycan blood running through in his veins.

So what made the old Joan mastered Lycan Job class was him comprehending the will of the werewolves. The fierce beast raging inside you, letting it rampage until you will comprehend the [Beast aura].

It started with just an aura at first but Joan knew that it was the important one. Lycan was a job class and not an exclusive race. But not all have the affinity or the potential to it. It was just Joan has the potential of comprehending things. The Lycans has automatically the potential as it runs to their blood. All Lycans can transform and call forth beasts to their calling as natural as dragons breathing fire or humans breathing even asleep.

While meditating, he imagined the beast and the form he has in the past. From the eyes to the hairs, paws and feet. Fangs and feeling of being a werewolf. All were vividly imagined as a nostalgic feeling struck him.

"Deja vu,"

He can now feel the [Beast aura] gush out from his body and maintaining it.

He has the white [Beast aura] as a first stage. Making all his senses to be enhanced. His reaction time becomes faster and he can see in the dark like it was the day.

The lowest aura was white which was heightening the senses and his reaction time, then green which was able to increase his stamina, next was yellow which results in toughening of his body, then blue which was increasing his strength and speed, then the last was red which is responsible for regeneration and life steal, delaying of becoming old and resulting in longer life span and longevity.

He felt that he can see in the dark, hear the slightest noise and smell the scent of his prey.

He can also see that his nails were sharper like claws. His canines were longer by half an inch and his eyes were golden brown.

He smelled the scent of the pigs and hear them located in the west.

He jumped and landed on the trunk of the tree and jumped to another trunk.

Having the agility and strength needed as he was hopping from tree to tree. Not able to hesitate as he was doing it in the past.

Gripping the trunk with his claws and able to stick to the trunk with just his grip. Digging the trunk with the strength of his grip. Able to stay there as he smelled the air again. Finding their location and then jumped again.

Seeing the drove to bathe in the dark river that has barely any light. No sunlight can penetrate the place and it was due to the big trees from the riverside and on its wide branches on the top of the river.

A log was eroded on the river and it blocked the flow of the water. It made the river flow to be slower and the water level has risen to the point that the swine were swimming freely to the river.

"They can swim huh?" Joan can only smirk, showing his fang on the process.