Nero, the Legendary Hunter

West of the city gate, Breno had already arrived and was waiting for Jair and Jana. Second to arrive was Jair, and he got strangely close to Breno like he was hiding from something or someone. Minutes later, Jana arrived. She then saw Jair. Jana was so angry that she clenched her fists and hit the air repeatedly.

Jair shuddered at that. 'So scary...'

"Jair, just wait and see!" Jana said in a grim voice.

"Did something happen between you two?" Breno arched his brow.

"I don't know, did something happen, Jair?" Jana challenged him to speak the truth. If he did, she wouldn't have minded teaching him a lesson.

"N-No, no biggie, just a simple sibling fight, haha..." Jair said with a dull laugh with sweat running down his forehead.

"Brother, you're sweating. Let me clean that up for you." Jana approached him, holding a handkerchief with a cute smile, but to Jair it was scary as hell.

"Th-thank you, haha." Jair began to regret what he had said.

Breno didn't know what had happened, and to be honest, he wasn't interested in it. It wasn't the first time these two had fought like this, and he also knew it wouldn't be the last time.

"Let's go then." Breno took the lead.

When they started to leave, they felt a suffocating sensation. This was because, unlike when they would go hunting and the whole trip wouldn't take more than a month, however, going abroad to study, it would take months to come back to see their families.

The hearts of the three teenagers were pounding. The feeling of wanting to go back was great. It was the feeling of not wanting to lose their comfort zone, but they struggled with it and continued to walk one step at a time, until finally, they were more than a kilometer away from the city.

"We made it; we're really going to the Nan Empire…" Jair sighed emotionally.

"Calm your emotions, you idiot." Despite saying this in a serious, reprimanding tone, Jana could barely hide the excitement in her voice. "This will be a new start in our lives. If we are accepted into the Hunter School, our glory days will follow shortly."

"Glory days…" Breno muttered.

Like any other teenager, he closed his eyes and imagined himself wearing majestic shining armor. Holding a spear, he was fighting a fire-breathing dragon. Shaking his head, he stopped imagining all this nonsense. Blushing a little, he pretended to cough and went back to normal.

'How cute!' The teenage girl in Jana's mind didn't miss this scene and was vibrating inside, but she tried to maintain a nonchalant expression.

After walking a bit, they were already 5 kilometers away from Esfin Town. The presence of the monsters began to become evident.

"Be alert, there are a lot of monsters that move silently. We can't let ourselves be careless and get surrounded by a pack of wolves or something," Jair said seriously.

"Obviously!" Jana tightened her grip on her staff. She, as the group's mage, had a greater sensory perception and could feel the threads of mana more easily.

"On the one hand, I wanted to run into a horde of monsters, as we need to take a fair amount to Nero. On the other hand, I just want to have a safe trip to the Nan Empire," Breno sighed, and added with a piercing look, "But in the end, I still prefer the situation where we can hunt a lot of monsters along the way."

"Whatever God wants, I just know I want to get there alive," Jana said jokingly, but deep down she was a little scared. After all, it was their first time traveling to such a far away place. It was very different from when they went hunting in the Beginner's Forest which was, as its name implied, a place for beginner hunters.

"Looks like we're completely unreliable. Sigh, it can't be helped; we're still novice Hunters after all," Jair said regretfully.

"Don't talk nonsense. I just think we have to be extremely cautious." Jana punched his arm.

"Ouch." It didn't even hurt, but Jair pretended it did, rubbing the spot where he'd been punched.

"That is true." Breno said with a serious look, "It could take up to 5 days before we get to the Nan Empire."

"Speaking of the devil, we are surrounded!" Jana snorted and turned serious. With her extra senses, she saw them being surrounded by wolves, and it didn't take long for the wolves to appear.

She started to cast a gigantic fireball in the meantime, and Jair took the Hunter Card and used 'Assess' to see the level of these wolves.

"They are around level 4 and 5, but there are too many. It will be difficult." Jair drew his sword after tucking the Hunter Card into his pants pocket.

Breno held tight to his spear, and began to channel his mana into the tip of the spear.

"Try to get them to stick together and back off," Jana said quietly enough for just the two of them to hear.

The two nodded. It was almost impossible to get all the wolves to huddle together in one place, but it wasn't impossible to get more than 5 of them together.

*Woof! Woof!*

The wolves howled and attacked as Jair and Breno approached them. With his spear, Breno cut from left to right. He knew he wouldn't hit, but he just wanted to make the wolves back off. Jair did something similar, but only three times.since he was faster, he did it in three groups of wolves which has two wolves in each group After that, Jair went on the right side and Breno on the left side, and isolated some wolves in the middle.

"Stand away!" Jana yelled.

Jair and Breno jumped back and at the same time turned and ran as fast as their legs were capable of running.

*Booom!*

The loud sound of the explosion echoed a moment later. It was like a scene from a movie, and because of the shock of the explosion, the wind hit Breno and Jair, causing them to be thrown forward.

*Cough! Cough!*

"That was close…" Jair, with sand in his face, had a horrible expression when he saw Breno's current state.

The two looked at each other and sighed. Jana could be a little crazy sometimes. If they didn't know her, they would have been caught in the explosion. Luckily they ran fast enough, although Breno was a little slower and ended up getting a bit messier than Jair, and even had a few scrapes on his knees and hands.