Astral Apostle
chapter-141

After waiting for two days in the Imperial Hunter Base, Zhou Jing roughly understood the situation. There were all kinds of facilities here, and everything was for the service of the Empire’s hunters. There were also many settlements nearby.

Tarn City was both the capital and the safest fortress city in the current Terra Empire. Foreigners flowed in all year round, and the fortress city could not be easily expanded. Therefore, it was divided into three areas, namely the inner city, the outer city, and the subsidiary towns.

Those subsidiary towns were villages and towns attached to the capital and scattered around the city walls. With the restrictions on living and land prices in the capital, most foreigners chose to live in the subsidiary towns. They were separated according to customs, culture, wealth, and other factors. There were eight subsidiary towns around the capital, and the Imperial Hunter Base was one of them. It was just that the nature of this town was more special than the others.

Apart from hunting, the Empire’s hunters did not produce anything and had nothing to do. Due to their powerful physique, they had a higher level of hormone secretion and were full of desire. Most of the time, they were even more restless than adolescents and had their own ways of venting.

Some people slipped away to other towns to look for brothels daily, while others spent their days on the training ground wrestling and sweating.

Zhou Jing’s strength, displayed in his short spar with Cole, had spread like wildfire over the past two days. The army hunters in the base knew that a rather powerful Second Enhancement newcomer had come. Every day, there would be people inviting Zhou Jing to wrestle.

Hunters valued martial arts and respected the strong. Furthermore, intense activities often brought about more daily harvest. Zhou Jing did not reject anyone. Whoever came, he would challenge. This was enough to keep him satisfied.

Over the past two days, he had gotten to know many people through wrestling. The name “Jace” had also spread among the Imperial Hunters.

On the third day, the few hunting teams that were out hunting finally returned to the city.

The commander of the Imperial Hunters, Keriber, had returned. When he heard about Zhou Jing’s situation, he did not even change his clothes that were stained with the blood of mutant beasts. Instead, he immediately asked Cole to get Zhou Jing to meet him.

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Zhou Jing followed Cole to the entrance of the encampment. He saw a convoy of more than ten beasts pulling wooden boards at a glance. On them were the corpses of various mutated beasts.

Among them, there were a few mutated beasts that had been captured alive. They were covered in wounds, and their entire bodies were tied up with special ropes. Their bodies had been injected with a paralysis potion and, furthermore, had not eaten for many days. They were all listless, not even having the strength to struggle.

A large group of workshop staff was surrounding the convoy, loading and unloading the corpses of the mutated beasts and dragging them out of the vehicle. Beside the convoy, many hunters, including Cole, were surrounding a person.

Zhou Jing looked over and got a surprise.

Unlike other tall and burly hunters, this person was less than 1.7 meters tall. However, he was extremely stocky, and his muscles were bursting out like an explosion, almost protruding out of his leather armor. He looked very hard, like a rock with clear ravines carved onto it. On his back hung a hexagonal spiked war hammer with an extremely exaggerated head ratio, and there were mottled bloodstains on it.

He had thick eyebrows and white hair at his temples. He looked quite old and had sported a beard.

“That’s our commander, Keriber,” Cole introduced quietly.

“He’s a little different from what I imagined…” Zhou Jing said honestly.

“I understand.” Cole lowered his voice and laughed. “The commander’s figure wasn’t like this originally, but during the fourth enhancement, he chose a Dwarf Turtle Dragon. His bad luck caused him to inherit the side effects… In short, it’s best not to mention his height in front of him. Whoever mentions it will fall out with him forever.”

Zhou Jing’s face twitched when he heard this.

… It seemed that it was necessary to get one or two more Mutant Blood Warriors to clear the life objectives. If he, unfortunately, obtained a side effect from a certain enhancement, his main body would at least have a backup option that could be replaced.

At this moment, Keriber saw Zhou Jing and immediately pushed through the crowd.

“You must be Jace! I heard that you could defeat Cole? Alright, we Imperial Hunters need talents like you.”

Although he was laughing, his voice was extremely deep, almost causing the air to tremble.

Zhou Jing greeted him simply and sized up Keriber curiously.

So this was the current Chief Hunter of the Empire, the strongest in existence.

He quietly opened the interface and spent 10 Astral Points to activate the reconnaissance.

The next moment, Keriber’s attributes appeared on the interface.

[Attributes: Physical Fitness 74, Resistance 80 (Second Order Max), Perception 42, Spirit 18, Energy 10]

“He has three attributes which have broken through to First Order. Furthermore, his Resistance is really high. He’s already at the threshold of Third Order… An ordinary person’s Fifth Enhancement should be lower than this. After all, Keriber definitely knows a lot of skills to increase his attributes as well… Speaking of which, he actually still has 10 points in Energy.”

Zhou Jing was very interested.

According to others, Keriber was a 55-year-old hunter. He had been the commander of the empire’s hunters for seven years, with rich hunting experience and also highly proficient in many weapons. His body was extremely strong, and he could even kill most high-risk mutant beasts with his bare hands. He could also deal with the fatal-risk mutant beasts with ease.

With such an attribute for Physical Fitness, he had already exceeded most mutated beasts. In this world, only a few creatures could threaten his existence.

Zhou Jing compared it with his own body parameters. He felt that with Keriber’s attributes, the latter’s strength was more than 10 tons, even reaching 20 tons. Even if he was not fast, his minimum top speed was at least 120 to 130 kilometers per hour. His strongest aspect was his defense, and he could withstand attacks much stronger than even Zhou Jing’s maximum strength.

While he was calculating and thinking, his mouth was not idle. He chatted with Keriber, and both of them got to know each other.

Although Keriber was the peak of the existing hunters, he did not put on airs. Although his voice was powerful, his words were quite amiable.