"What type of bounty are we looking for?" Rota asked as she browsed through the board, her grey eyes looking for a low-level bounty to take.
Most of the bounty here would need them to go deeper into the mountains and the surrounding wilderness where low and high-level monsters freely moved and hunted each other and any humans foolish enough to enter their territory.
"Anything easy for you to handle," Belialthorn said. They could go and hunt in the wilderness but it would be trouble for Rota while Belialthorn would have to show he was more than a level 1 caster.
"See! There's still an investigation going on with the Vores we killed the other day. They wanted Hunters to trace their nest and kill them from the source." Rota said excitedly and Belialthorn wondered if she was still high on her one gained level up, then her eyes turned down. "Oh, they wanted high Grade 1 to lower Grade 2 to take the bounty."
Belialthorn's eyes lit up then. This seems like the perfect bounty where they could level up while making money at the same time. "We should take it."
Rota whirled towards him with a stunned expression. "What? Don't you hear they needed at least a level 17 to take the bounty?"
Belialthorn snorted. "And so? We already killed half of them we should be expecting nothing more than two or three."
Rota looked at him, she should have known he would come up with an insane plan like this. It hadn't been long since she knew him and she already knew he would always come up with something that would kill them.
"We can just pick something tailored for lower Grade 1, something we can do inside the city instead of going outside and risking our lives." Rota insisted, pointing at random bounty on the board.
What she said was true. Lower Grade 1 started from levels 1 to 6, middle from levels 7 to 13, and higher was from levels 14 to 20. And the requirements for hunting the Vores were higher Grade 1 or lower Grade 2.
And that would be a team of four or five, it didn't make sense for a lower Grade 1 to take the bounty but Belialthorn was a Demon Prince and he wouldn't waste his time doing random stuff in the city while there were monsters to hunt.
"I'm not wasting my time inside this city, we are going out to hunt monsters. We have to level up." Belialthorn said.
Rota grumbled. "Are you sure we are not killing more than a few Vores?'
"At most yes." The truth was Belialthorn had no idea how much Vores they would find since they breed fast but he didn't say that out loud.
Rota patted the spear on her back. "Ok, let's do it then. I'm curious to know what this can do."
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The sawmill was just like they left it, the only difference was that the monster's corpse had been dragged away, and the only one left was nothing more than bones. It must have been done by other monsters.
"I forgot to ask, why don't we take the Vore's bodies with us?" Rota asked, covering her nose at the smell of the surroundings where blood and bits of flesh littered the ground.
"These are low-level monsters that bearly have any mana to string from. They won't make good meat." Belialthorn nearly gagged at the thought of eating the low-crawling monsters.
"Meat? We eat monster's meat?" Rota was shocked to hear that people ate monster's meat. Not that she would know, it's not like she had the opportunity to eat meat like that.
"Of course. Mana-rich areas like Havenbrook and good mana-filled monster's meat can gain you levels. And build your muscles strength." Belialthorn replied.
"Shouldn't we take the Vores meat then?" Rota asked eagerly, already planning on how to store them properly so they would last longer. Even though she didn't like the smell of the monsters maybe they wouldn't taste as bad if they were covered in spice.
Belialthorn gave her a disgusted look. "We are not taking any of those disgusting beasts back with us. If you want monster's meat so bad then let us venture into the wilderness to hunt!"
Rota gave him a calculated look. "You hate those Vores don't you?"
"They are the lowest of the low, with little value except for breeding and spreading diseases. Unlike high-level monsters, at least their body part provides different ways to use them." Belialthorn moved closer to the building and started sniffing, he hated that he had to take in the Vores smell but he had no choice.
"Different ways to use them? And what exactly are you doing putting your nose in the air?" Rota moved closer to him.
"Yes. They provide mana-filled meat and some monster's blood and body goes to the Holy Church from what I've found out. Also, merchants buy monster's part to sell throughout the kingdom." Belialthorn had gotten a scent now, he was sure belonged to a retreating Vore. That should lead him to the Vore's nest.
Rota hadn't thought about how large the monster's operation was, it was a big thing. "What are you doing?"
"I'm sniffing for the Voles, trying to trace their retreat back to their nest." Belialthorn started moving, tracing beside the sawmill and Rota ran to keep up.
"How can you can do that? Is it part of your class or skills?" Rota asked, looking at the way his nose moved. It reminded her of an animal.
"Yes. It's part of my skills." It wasn't a lie, his Demon class gave him strong senses.
That must have been such a useful skill, Rota thought, adjusting her spear on her back. They were waking along the wilderness now and Rota shuddered as she looked into the dense forest.
Thorn stopped suddenly and Rota nearly smacked into him, he glared at him. "What are you doing?"
Her jaws opened when she saw what he was looking at.