The Ginger forest was a large forest that was filled with tall trees that were slightly orange, the forest had a large population of regular animals and wild beasts, the forest was very popular amongst hunters of the Kiera region, as it was located in the middle of the region and the wild beasts that lived in it were of the lowest level, most of them being level one, very rarely will a hunter ever encounter a level two beast in it.
Dian left the bus and crossed the street to the Hunter's Agency building that was stationed near the entrance of the forest. He purchased some more medicine in there before leaving and arriving at the Ginger forest's entrance.
Before entering, he checked his resources once again before opening his phone and reporting his location in the Hunter's Agency application before entering the forest, that was done so that in the case of a hunter going missing or not returning from a hunt, the authorities would be alerted and send help and reinforcements to save the hunter.
"I'ts been almost a month since I've last gone on a hunt, hope I didn't get rusty"
Wandering around the forest sneakily, while looking for traces of wild beasts, he found some traces of a feline wild beast, Dian followed those traces before arriving in the mouth of a dark cave.
'The footprints indicate that this is a feline wild beast's cave, the only level 1 feline wild beast that lives in this forest and has the habit of cave residence is the Red Spotted Tiger, last time I met a Red Spotted Tiger I was only Private rank Martial Artist, luckily he was on a hunt of its own and didn't notice me, so I was able to retreat safely.' Thought Dian.
'Although a Red Spotted Tiger was a level one wild beast, it was almost as strong as some weak level two wild beasts, so even though I was a high tier Private, if we fought back then, I would have had a high risk of dying. Now that I broke through to the Lieutenant rank, I can hunt it easily.' Dian hung his large bag on a tree using a rope and took out a flashlight before entering the cave.
Inside the dark cave, Dian walked slowly while using the flashlight, on his back were three knives of similar size, on his belt were hung a bunch of bullets and on the sides of his belt were two handguns.
Eventually, Dian arrived in the heart of the cave, in there he found a giant spotted tiger with a shoulder height of a 150 cm (4.9 feet) it was hairier and more muscular than a normal tiger and its spots were red instead of the usual black. It was lying in the end of the cave with closed eyes and was sleeping.
'Perfect, I've come at a perfect time, it's sleeping, so I should be able to get the element of surprise and have an automatic upper hand.' Dian began quietly retreating until he was far enough that the tiger won't be able to hear him. Then, he quickly changed the bullets of his right-side handgun to special poison bullets that had a relatively small cavity that was filled with poison produced from the poison glands of a level 2 wild beast.
Dian quickly returned to the heart of the cave before aiming at the tiger right eye-lids and repeatedly unloading three shots from the handgun and immediately returning the handgun to the side carry.
"ROAR! HUR! HURR!"
The first bullet managed to enter the eye of the tiger, but because of the angle of the shot and the position that the tiger slept in, the bullet didn't reach the tiger's brain and instead entered its right area of the head, near the ear, the second bullet was shot with the same trajectory, but the tiger had extremely fast reaction time, and he moved to the left slightly, and so the second bullet only grazed its right cheek, while the third bullet entirely missed.
"ROAR!" The tiger immediately became enraged and lunged at Dian, Dian quickly took out a dagger for each hand from the horizontal carry sheathes he had sticking to his back. He moved to the right of the tiger and quickly stabbed at it after dodging its lunge.
He stabbed at the tiger's belly from the right, surprisingly, his stab managed to even slightly push the gigantic tiger. After that, the tiger continued lunging at Dian and clawing at him in an attempt to kill him. The speed of the tiger was great, and it even managed to slash at him a couple of times at the arms and torso despite it only being a level 1 wild beast and Dian being a Lieutenant rank Hunter, unfortunately, his body was covered in high quality gear, so he wasn't harmed except for some blunt damage.
After a couple of minutes of stabs, slashes, bites and running around, the tiger was covered in bloody stab wounds, and was tired and hurt, the poison from the level 2 wild beast finally kicked in, and because the bullet, was lodged inside its head, the poison quickly reached its brain, and the Red Spotted Tiger, one of the strongest wild beasts of the Ginger forest, died.