Chapter 16: The First hunt

Soon, it was evening.

Once again, Allen started practicing the Body refining exercise.

Today, he should be able to complete the muscle refining, so he was filled with extra enthusiasm.

He started slowly and started speeding up and soon started the Muscle refining.

After the very first session of muscle refining, the pain always reduced bit by bit and during the last 2-3 sessions, it was almost negligible.

This time, he expected it to be the same but just as he was halfway through the refining, pain started coming out of all the parts of his body.

It's as if all the muscles in his body are being melted and it became very difficult for him to exert force through them.

But Allen knew he could not stop now. Even though he did not know why it was so painful, he had a feeling that if he could get through this, he would have immense benefits.

So, Allen could only grit his teeth and hold on. In order to stay conscious, he started biting his lips ruthlessly.

Moving at a snail's pace, It took him more than three time the usual time taken to complete the Muscle refining volume.

After completing the Muscle refining volume, his whole body has become completely stiff and he could not even move a muscle and became completely still.

By this time, his face had become completely pale. He was completely drowned in his sweat. All the parts in his body are screaming with pain.

An oily, pungent substance was mixed with his sweat. How pungent is it? Sorry, but his nose had already lost the ability to detect any smell after taking in the first whiff.

May be, only the dead flies around him and the fainted rat in his room can answer that question.

But, Allen felt that all the hardship was worth it. He could feel his muscles undergoing fundamental transformation.

This time it was completely different from the previous sessions. it was a quantitative change leading to a qualitative change.

He wanted to examine his body, but could not move and could only wait for the transformation to end while enduring the pain.

This torturous wait lasted another 10 minutes.

Allen slowly started feeling the control of his body being restored. But, by this time, due to the torturous pain, he was already mentally exhausted and directly collapsed on the floor and lost consciousness.

It took him nearly an hour to get up and first thing he felt was the how comfortable it was to move his body.

He once started the small and slow movements and slowly adapted to his new strength.

Soon after adapting to his new strength, he started doing some basic tests to discover the changes in his body and the results made him excited.

His muscles have become very strong and flexible which made him capable of doing some exaggerated movements and stretches. If not for tearing his tendons and bone, he could even even become a contortionist.

Even the endurance and recovery time of his muscles have improved.

He quickly opened his stats to check his strength.

"Host: Allen Mackrel ( Amos Redcloud)

Strength: 656kg ( Muscle refining,100% absorbed and transformed)

Martial arts: Spirit suction exercise( Not initiated), Body cleansing exercise ( 86% proficiency), Enhanced body cleansing exercise (86% Proficiency), Rock fist ( Not initiated), Rapid fist (96% Mastery), Muscle coat (88% Proficiency), Balance foot (86% Proficiency).

Bloodline: Fire Bird ( weak, inactive)

Energy points : 1.1251 EP

Wealth: 4,400 rups, Grandmaster level virtual experience card (79/100),Void eater bloodline( cannot be refined), Free lottery chance."

This single session had almost improved his strength by 90kgs. This made him even more assured about the upcoming hunt.

This kind of strength even before bone refining is very rare. Mainly because, even if a normal person at peak muscle refining wanted to exert this much strength, one ha to remember that the body is more than just muscles.

Even if someone could refine his muscles to such an extent, his bones could not take so much load and the backlash of such exertion of strength could directly break them.

So, only people with innate strength or people with some special methods could exert such strength.

As for Allen, the effect of flawless body cleansing affected every part of his body and during these days, while he was practicing body refining, the residual effects of the potion completely integrated into his body and thoroughly improved the quality of his body.

Even though they are not refined, every part of his body is of higher quality and is of better functionality than his peers.

After he was done checking his body, Allen hurriedly checked his watch.

During this session of exercise, there were many notifications and the only ones who could send messages to the new comm are the Hunter's organization.

Looking at the messages, it was Javid from the rookie hunter program.

He said that there was a hunter team ready to go to wild tomorrow morning and asked if he was okay with the timing.

After reading all the messages, Allen was very happy and immediately started typing back.

"Thank you very much Mr. Javid! I am free tomorrow and would like to go along with the hunter team."

After discussing some more details and requesting the details of his team members, Allen closed the communication panel.

Looking at the time, it was almost time for his visit to the Giant eye consortium.

Allen hurriedly went to take a bath and requested a land taxi after getting ready.

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Giant eye consortium, Agar city branch.

After the first 2 days, Randal no longer came together with Allen and handed his affairs to a non-combat member of consortium.

He got the training slot for 7 days and 5 days have passed and tomorrow should have been the last day but with his trip to the wilderness, today will be his final practice session.

Allen decided to make the best use of it and take on tougher opponents today.

After getting into the virtual cabin, he once again came to the familiar white space and began to select his opponent.

This time, Allen decided to fight with a group of monster rather than individual combat.

After setting the number of opponents to 10 and going for random selection, the virtual assistant V-SB06 quickly helped him set things. He only set the arena to a forest.

The white space quickly started morphing and he once again appeared in a forest.

Allen quickly started observing his opponents.

This time there are different kinds of animals in the surroundings.

There is his old partner white ape who appeared a little bigger than its usual self. Allen concluded that it should be due to his increase in strength. Its fangs became longer and its claws are shaper. It was together with another green ape holding two thick vines in its hands.

There is a Flash sparrow which is very small in size but one of the quickest level 1 monster.

There are a pair of cobras which are around 10 feet long with poison dripping down their venomous fangs.

Before he could observe the other monsters, suddenly there was sense of oppression coming from behind him and he quickly dodged by exerting strength into his left foot while looking to the side.

There, he could see a flash of light and it soon landed at his previous position. Looking at it, Allen was surprised to see that it was a small Tiger the size of his forearm.

The Tiger cub released an annoyed cry which sounded like a cat's cry seeing that it's prey had escaped.

With this cry, 4 more wolves appeared behind the tiger and the rest of the animals surrounded him from the other side.

Looking at this formation, Allen felt dumbfounded.