Nero, the Legendary Hunter

The loud sound of the explosion echoed a moment later. It was like scenes from a movie, 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 messier than Jair, and even with some scrapes on his knees and hands.

Because of Jana's attacks, some of the wolves died, while others were injured. There was also the fact that the nearby trees had started to catch fire, and this made the wolves back away from the area in fear.

Now they knew they would have to deal with Jana first; she was too dangerous. * Woof!* The Alpha Wolf howled and the wolves started towards Jana, but unfortunately for them, that's what Jana was waiting for. Jair and Breno didn't look worried either and just stood there like they were waiting for something.

*Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!*

A series of explosions caused a chain reaction, just as the wolves had almost reached Jana.

On the ground, there was something similar to a ground bomb, but it was made of mana, using flames in the shape of a disc and hiding under the ground. The moment it was stepped on, it exploded.

To create this, Jana had made it with her feet stepping on the ground, and it was only possible thanks to the boots she was wearing. The technique was called the Salamander's Boot. By putting flame mana into the boot, the material was able to produce flames. This was normally used by fire mages who fought hand-to-hand, but Jana had different plans when wearing these boots.

"I want Choko back!" Jair complained, joking, but a little serious. When Choko was around, Jana tried to be more feminine, but now without her or Nero present...

"Shut up, hurry up and get off the ground!" Jana screamed fiercely.

Breno smiled a little, but soon his expression turned firm. "Ha!"

With a loud and powerful yell, Breno used his new ability called the Lancer's Boost - a technique he found coincidentally among his grandfather's things. For this technique to work, one must be level 5+ and must also be holding a spear and pointing straight ahead. The skill's name was Spearman's Boost.

The technique was very simple, but the result was very good, increasing the impulse speed up to 10x. Of course, Breno was only able to raise his 3x for the moment, but it was more than enough to pierce a wolf's throat.

"Very good, Breno!" Jair gave him a thumbs-up.

"Well, I want to show off a little myself, too..." With his eyes sharpened into slits, Jair closed his eyes for a second and then lifted his sword and slid down close to the ground; as if his foot had been covered with butter and the ground was made of marble, and he slashed from top to bottom, cutting a wolf's head in half, and at the same time, he pulled his sword up and cut diagonally towards another wolf and cut again horizontally to the left and cut another wolf.

*Thud! Thump Thump!*

The bodies of the three wolves fell to the ground as red blood dripped from the wolves' necks and heads.

The Alpha realized that not only was the mage girl dangerous, but all three were dangerous, and decisively, he howled and all the wolves backed away and started to flee.

Jana, conjuring another large ball of fire, saw the wolves retreat, and she was amazed, as it was not the nature of monsters to run away. As if she were holding a bomb that was about to explode, she angrily launched it towards the fleeing wolves.

*Boooom!*

The shock wave caused some of the wolves to stumble and fall, but too quickly for her to intercede again they rose to flee.

"...well, they ran away," Jana sighed, a little annoyed.

"Calm down, we're just getting started. It's good enough that we managed to kill some wolves right away," Breno comforted her.

"Well, I guess so." Jana smiled at him.

'Tsk, just say a few words of comfort, and she goes back to acting like a girl.' Jair didn't dare let his thoughts be heard, though in his mind he mocked her.

"Here, have a drink of water before we go back to walking." Jana took out a thermos of water and turned the lid and used it as a cup when filling with water.

Breno and Jair nodded and each took a glass. In this respect Jana wasn't shy, she drank the same glass with them without caring. After that, they saved the wolves' corpses and rested for a few minutes before heading back to the Nan Empire.

Walking with his hands behind his head, Jair happily commented, "Fourteen wolves from level 4 to 5. You could say it was quite an achievement."

"Yeah," Breno nodded, "If we keep this up, we can get over 100 monsters. Perhaps with that amount, Nero will be able to help us reach higher levels and actually have us be able to enroll in the Hunter School."

"Exactly because of this we need to make an effort. Nero and Choko managed to get through all this on their own. We are not Nero, who is unusually strong, but we are not weak either. For sure we will succeed!" Jana said positively.

Unlike what they thought, although they ran into a group of wolves right away, it had been over 1 hour without any monsters... Well, they found some, but they were small monsters from level 1 to 2. None were even worth wasting time hunting these little monsters. Besides, most of them were fast, like the squirrel-like monsters that hid by climbing trees, or the rat and rabbit type that hid in holes.