Four days after the test, at the hunting zone, Nanning fortress's inner area.
Since Nanning is one of the four major fortresses of China (Nanning Kunming Lasha and China coastline which the main department in Fuzhou). It barely found any residences located within a hundred kilometers radius from the fortress. Its terrain was river valley plains with jungle.
Especially the inner area which was deep down from the fortress, there are no signs of human being except the hunters and military camp.
Somewhere between the inner and outer area, there was some movement in the forest near the giant tree. It is a huge brown cricket, its length from head to end is about one and a half meters. It has a sharp claw and spiky thorn on its legs.
The cricket moves slowly to a carcass on the ground before use the claw to rip it apart and eat it slowly. But at the moment, a dart immediately shot from the top of the tree that was about the meter away, before pierce through the cricket's head.
The cricket wriggles for a moment before the shadow on the tree shot the second dart to end its life.
"Hah, this method works out very well, l can kill a dozen of creatures on the first day we came here" Hoshi smile and climb down from the top of the tree. He doesn't look like a scholar any more when he was in thick fabric set like a hunter.
He held a crossbow in his hand, this is a special crossbow that could shot three darts in a row. The crossbow and the darts cost him 700 Drak in total. When combined with hiking equipment set and magic formula drawer tools, it makes him use all of his savings.
He looks to the cricket corps with satisfaction. To decrease the pressure from the dragons, the military had allowed hunters to hunt in the inner area. Eliminate the threat that crossed the wall from the outer area and will give a reward to a hunter by their performance. If he wasn't missing calculation, today, he could make money about 3000 Drak. He asks Saturn with a hopeful voice
"Maybe if we continue hunting..."
[Don't overestimate yourself, kiddo. This creature is nothing compared to the real dragon. Moreover, you don't have a proper weapon yet. Even arachnid-type creature could kill you easily.]
The creature was an insect that affected by the mana. They would get bigger and stronger, sometimes even bigger than an elephant. But no matter how strong they are, the creature was just a dragon's food. However, it could kill a normal human with ease, including Hoshi.
"Yeah, I know. I just joking. Let's start your plan. Where should I put the extractor?" He asks with a depressed attitude, jut think about giant spider or centipede made him shivers, so he decides to stick to the original plan.
Three days ago, Saturn tried to find a way to save is life from the backlash before figuring the way.
Just extract the mana by themself.
Hoshi can't hunt the dragon or creature in exchange for pure mana, so heir plan is to gather mana in the air and refine it to liquid. Saturn knew the extracting magic formula so this plan could be done easily. As long as they found a place with high mana-density and make about ten to twenty formula, the backlash problem could be solved temporarily.
This plan sounds very reasonable, so after the examination, Hoshi told his parents he wanted to go travel to find some experience about two weeks before rushed to Nanning's fortress.
Hoshi inquires the mana-density in the air to find the best spot before put magic formula about pizza size on to the ground and start the process.
Seeing mana slowly gathering in the formula, he let a sigh of admiration and relief. One magic formula could produce 50-80 milliliters in 24 hours. He has eleven magic formulas in total, so if everything went according to the plan and he could harvest mana in these two weeks, he will have enough pure mana for many months.
While Hoshi walking to another harvest spot, he asked Saturn about the formula.
"Saturn, where did you get this, these formula is priceless. As far as I know, no one can extract pure mana from the air, and this forged hunter ID... Who are you actually?" He asked and picked up the yellow ID card which had the same size as an identification card. The back of it has a very complicated magic formula written on it. This fake hunter ID was the one that Hoshi created according to Saturn's words. It looks exactly like the real thing, even the machine at the fortress didn't detect anything when he registered to go to the inner area.
With extracting-mana formula and making fake hunter ID, he thinks Saturd was already suppressing many other professionals. How come he never heard his name?
[It's a little bit complicated. If possible, I don't want to tell you anything because right now our souls communicate with each other directly. If you know about me too much our souls might clash with each other. If that happens, you might die or at least gone crazy.] The voice said [All I could say is I come from the second great war. At that time, there are many heroes and invention that was born and disappeared between the war. It's normal that you don't know it]
There were two great wars since born of the dragon. The first great war happens twenty years after the dragon appeared and occupied many islands and mountains. Then the next war was two hundred years after that or eighty years ago. The second great war was a war that every country join forces to fight against six dragon kings, the wars last about seven years, countless people died at that time.
The second great war could be called a huge blow to humanity. They lost almost all of the countries in Asia. Japan, Korea, Laos, etc. Just a colossus like China that can withstand it and the refugee from every fallen country were build their own community in China like Hoshi's Japanese community.
This could be described for other countries like India, some parts of Russia, Australia, The countries in Africa located below the Mediterranean sea. As for America, because of the roar dragon king, Neptune, dominate the seven seas and made sailings impossible. North and south America were occupied by Thunder dragon king, Jupiter, since the first great war.
"Alright, I don't ask you anymore," Hoshi said, he doesn't want to gone crazy too "Then, what do we do next?"
[Next... It's training time.]