tong… tong…
The bell rang to signal the start of class.
Students sit in order before the teacher appears in the classroom. He was a thin, middle-aged man in business clothes.
The morning classes were simple things that Liu Yang had already learned when he was in the lab, but he had to attend school for six months to receive a school degree before he could go to university.
The money he had was enough for that.
If not for that, he would have stayed home or worked as a Hunter to pass the time.
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tong… tong…
The sound of the afternoon bell was for lunch.
Liu Yang stayed alone on the roof eating and reading the messages that some people had sent him.
Most were from the scientists who taught him and asked if he was okay on the first day of school. Other messages were from the military, whom he befriended during training.
For some time, some gazes were felt in various directions, because of his cold and distant aura, the other students were a little afraid to approach him.
Someone who was trained by the military from a young age could be a scary person.
But not everyone wanted to approach out of curiosity, there were also those malicious and disdainful looks.
With nothing out of the ordinary happening during lunchtime, the moment was relaxing and quiet.
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Mid-afternoon is when classes end and students leave for home.
Liu Yang returned home, which is in an apartment complex. He lives in this kind of place because he felt it was better than a house.
The interior could be considered ordinary without any kind of expensive and luxurious furniture, but there were all kinds of video games, books, toys, and other things that a young person would dream of having inside.
But what he did do was sleep for an hour before waking up to grab something to eat and rest a little longer to leave the house in a new set of clothes.
The previous school uniform was exchanged for leather boots, gloves, jackets, and a backpack on his back. He looked like an adventurer ready for an adventure.
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The streets at night were much busier and full of people walking in all directions. But most wore casual clothes, only a few people wore leather clothing or armor.
These people were hunters hired to watch the streets or go to hunting areas.
Hunting areas were the places the creatures dominated, but not all of them were outside the cities. Some areas are within the city but in another dimension.
When the creatures first invaded the world, they came out of the portals that appeared, but not all the portals were closed.
Some portals remain open to this day.
The ones that remain open portals were used by Hunters for hunting, but it was only low-level because no group had the guts to maintain a portal that leads to some high-level dangerous place.
If some extremely powerful creature is hiding in some unknown location and comes out of the portal, a great massacre can ensue. Also, places with open portals were hard to find.
Only a few had extremely sinister creatures that no one could defeat. Even using an army.
Also, it would be a big problem if the portal is closed when a powerful group is fighting. That was a big loss.
It doesn't matter for which country or big shot. That kind of loss was too heavy.
So cities only had portals with low-level creatures.
Unfortunately, other portals also appear from time to time and major massacres ensue.
Hunters always need to be on standby to save people.
After much discussion around the world, the name chosen for those who risk their lives to fight the creatures and level up was Hunter.
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Liu Yang's goal was a building in downtown Guangzhou. The building had one of those low-level portals inside.
Not to lose the habit, he always trained during the night before going to sleep.
Beginner Stadium
The venue was a small sports stadium, but it was just the outside, the inside was something else entirely.
The interior was like a big room and a portal could be seen covering half of the stage.
A distorted image of the other side could be seen.
Hunters stand on the other side to ensure that no creatures will invade the portal and appear in this world.
But if it was a portal, why were most of the people in the place young-looking fifteen? Only a small part were adults.
Each group had five to ten young people, and one or two adults together. These were the novice groups supervised by the adults.
Awakening was at age five, but no one would ask a child to fight, so it was necessary to wait for them to grow up before fighting for the first time. Before that, many theory and simulation classes were held to prepare them.
Only the big shots train their youngsters from the age of five to be stronger than others. But many die before reaching the age of ten.
So they had to use another approach to avoid these unnecessary deaths.
The groups were being guided by the adults before they entered the portal, only a small number of Hunters entered the portal alone.
Liu Yang was one of those who entered alone.