"Dian, listen... I don't want you to hurt yourself out there."
"I know mom, I'm not new to hunting, I promise you I will be careful and keep myself safe."
Dian Dom, a young brown skinned man of slightly above average looks that had long curly hair that reaches his shoulders, and seemed to be around 170 - 180 cm tall was reassuring his worried mother while they sat together in their living room sofa and watched the news.
Even after hearing her son promise to be careful while hunting, Liana Dom couldn't wipe the worry out of her face. After all, hunting monsters isn't exactly what you would call a safe job.
A hunter risks his life every time he goes on a hunt in beast infested areas. Hunting wild beasts that are capable of breaking walls and running at speeds that make a super car look slow in comparison, isn't easy.
'I hope I can awaken some powerful Deviant ability soon, only then will I really be able to go hunting without risking my life every damn time' Dian thought to himself.
Many people in this world possess unique powers named Deviant abilities. Those that possess Deviant abilities are called Deviants, and they all share one thing in common, they all awakened their powers when they were either experiencing a great amount of physical strain, usually in battle or some sort of sickness. Or, when they experience a great amount of mental strain, such as the passing of a loved one, heart break, or even mental illnesses.
There was no pattern to awakening a Deviant ability, and after thousands of years of history and studies, it was determined that basically every person had the ability to awaken one, it was just a matter of luck.
Other than Deviant abilities, there was one more way to gain access to great strength, that way being practicing Martial Arts.
After thousands of years of development, and the comparably recent creation of the Martial science branch of scientific research, the Martial Arts of today allow the user to become very strong, enough to combat the average wild beast. Dian was one of those that practiced such Martial Arts.
In this world over 90% of the land was occupied by wild beasts and regular animals, great forests that were full of various wild life filled the continents.
The forest animals were composed of wild beasts that had terrifying strength, alongside normal animals that lived there.
The percentage of the land that the humans had was so low because of the fact that even with the many Deviants, Martial Artists and modern weapons, the strength and number of wild beasts was too much.
Recently, people started noticing that encountering powerful beasts in the wild was becoming easier and that the wild beasts of the world were becoming stronger and stronger.
As such, the many governments of the world formed an alliance to combat the growing problem, and came up with solutions to the growing beast population, Hunters.
The alliance created a new field of work that encouraged the people of the world to fight the wild beasts and slay them.
Until now, many of the Deviants and some of the strong Martial Artists would hunt beasts and sell their carcasses for money, but now, with the announcement that being a hunter is an official government supported job, many people registered.
The alliance has given many reasons and benefits to becoming a hunter, they would receive high salaries that depended on their ranks, they got to keep their loot, and, they gain access to the highest rank of military training and scientific discoveries. This was the main attractor for most of the population, as the percentage of Deviants was pretty low, the only other way to gain strength was to train yourself with Martial Arts, but not all Martial Arts were of high rank, and so, many Martial Artists didn't even have the chance to truly raise their strength. The military Martial Arts were publicly known to be the best and the fullest, they were the only way to gain peak Martial strength, so many people became interested, once they heard that if they become hunters they gain access to those Martial Arts, without joining the military and gaining a high position in the military.
'I'm finally a lieutenant rank Martial Artist though, growing through the outskirts of ginger forest should be way easier for me now' Dian excitedly thought to himself, while preparing a bag full of medicine and weapons for fighting against wild beasts, before going out to catch a bus towards the ginger forest.