Swallowing the Stars: Eternal Glory

Chapter 10 A good start
Several hundred miles north of the Jiangnan Base City, there is a military region stationed.

"Rumble--"

Several hours later, the train speeding along the tracks began to slow down and came to a slow stop at the military district station.

"Wow!"

The train doors opened, and a group of fully armed martial artists, including Lu Jin and his two companions, disembarked.

"Lu Jin, this is the military's martial arts supply base. Martial arts warriors who hunt monsters in the wilderness can replenish their supplies and sell monster materials here."

Li Tao said to Lu Jin.

"Ah."

Nodding, Lu Jin glanced at the scorching sun and asked, "Shall we set off again in the evening?"

In August, the Jiangnan region is in the middle of summer. Even wearing light casual clothes feels hot, let alone wearing heavy combat uniforms.

It's better to travel at night than to travel under the scorching sun during the day.

In any case, martial artists' night vision is far superior to that of ordinary people, so nighttime operations are not greatly affected.

"clever!"

Lu Bin praised them, and the three of them headed towards the accommodation area of ​​the supply base.

After having lunch early, the three of them rested in a small building in the accommodation area to recharge.

As evening fell, the three men, fully equipped with weapons and supplies, left the supply base with their backpacks filled with rations and water.

"Lu Jin, if we keep going along this national highway, at our current speed, we should arrive at County 0214 around 1 or 2 a.m.

According to the intelligence gathered by the HR Alliance, there are very few Beast General-level monsters in County 0214; they are mostly Beast Soldier-level monsters.

Of course, you might encounter some high-level beastmen along the way.

Walking along a dilapidated national highway, Li Tao said to Lu Jin.

"Ah."

After leaving the supply base, Lu Jin, who had been on high alert, nodded.

Although many monsters gathered in the cities, counties, and towns before the Great Nirvana, a large number of monsters also appeared in the wilderness.

It can be said that as long as the warriors leave the supply base, they must be prepared to face monsters at any time.

"Hah!"

Not long after, a strange sound rang out not far ahead on the national highway.

Just a few dozen meters away by the national highway, a clump of weeds taller than a person swayed.

Immediately afterwards, a one-horned wild boar with black fur covered in steel spikes and a shoulder height no shorter than Lu Jin's appeared in the three's line of sight.

Bathed in the glow of the setting sun, the single horn atop the one-horned boar's head, resembling a sharp knife, reflected a chilling light.

"A Class F one-horned wild boar."

Lu Bin said to Lu Jin.

Monsters below the King level are divided into nine levels, from high-ranking lords to low-ranking beast soldiers, using the system of numbers S, A, B, C, D, E, F, H, and G. Level F monsters correspond to high-ranking beast soldiers.

"I come."

As Lu Jin spoke, he picked up the Six-Element Breaking Army Battle Sword and strode forward.

"Hah!"

Seeing that humans were not only unafraid of it, but were also walking towards it, the one-horned boar was furious. It grunted a few times, stomped its front hooves on the ground twice, and then charged forward with all its might.

"Boom boom boom——"

With its hooves thundering, the one-horned wild boar charged forward like a high-speed land tank towards Lu Jin.

The charging unicorn looks somewhat clumsy, but it is actually extremely fast.

In the blink of an eye, it covered a distance of dozens of meters and rushed to a spot not far in front of Lu Jin. The next moment, Lu Jin's figure flashed, avoiding the one-horned wild boar's charging path.

"Oh!"

Just as the one-horned boar was about to charge at his side, Lu Jin slammed the hexagonal shield in his left hand into the boar's head, causing it to lose its balance. Then, he thrust the Broken Army Sword in his right hand straight into the boar's neck.

"puff!"

With the force of tens of thousands of kilograms, the sharp Po Jun sword pierced through the tough hide of the unicorn boar's neck with unparalleled smoothness, penetrating half of the blade.

Immediately afterwards, Lu Jin slashed sharply with his right hand, and the Po Jun sword, which was halfway into the blade, drew a huge wound several tens of centimeters long into the neck of the unicorn boar, reaching straight into its trachea.

After completing this short combo in the blink of an eye, Lu Jin immediately withdrew his sword and retreated to avoid getting splattered with pig's blood.

When hunting monsters, especially large ones, deep wounds or large wounds are not necessarily effective.

But if the wound is deep and large, and it's in a vulnerable area like the neck, then it's very effective.

"Boom boom boom——"

A large amount of bright red blood gushed from the wound, finally stopping the one-horned boar's charge. It felt its strength rapidly fading away.

"Hah!"

"boom!"

Soon, the one-horned boar, its carotid artery severed and massive blood loss occurring, collapsed helplessly into a pool of blood and immediately lost all signs of life.

At the same time, from Lu Jin's perspective, a pale golden light flashed, and a pale golden ball of light fell from the corpse of the one-horned boar and then disappeared.

A great start!

Lu Jin thought to himself.

His consciousness sank into the external space to quickly investigate, and as expected, the F-level unicorn boar dropped a bottle of apprentice-level life essence.

“Indeed, in this battle alone, your performance was in no way inferior to that of a martial artist who has spent years in the wilderness.”

At this moment, Li Tao stepped forward and gave Lu Jin a fair evaluation.

Wiping the traces of blood off his sword, Lu Jin said, "Although I have little experience, I've learned a lot from listening and observing."

Before awakening his memories, Lu Jin, who had aspired to be a savior since childhood, had watched many videos of martial artists hunting monsters.

Having learned more, one naturally possesses more theoretical and practical experience in hunting monsters efficiently and effectively than most novice martial artists.

"Want some monster materials?"

Lu Bin asked with a smile.

"Forget it, the materials from beast-class monsters aren't worth much."

Lu Jin glanced at the sharp horn on the head of the one-horned boar and shook his head.

Because there are so many Beast Soldier-class monsters, and ordinary soldiers wielding large-caliber firearms can kill them, the materials from F-class monsters are not valuable.

Taking the horn of an F-grade unicorn boar as an example, the HR Alliance's purchase price is only around 5,000 Chinese Yuan.

The purpose of this trip to the wilderness is to gain experience and hunt monsters for loot. If nothing unexpected happens, he won't be returning anytime soon, and Lu Jin is too lazy to collect worthless monster materials.

After all, the three of them didn't have unlimited backpacks.

If you have to collect materials for every F-rank monster you kill, your backpack simply won't be able to hold them all.

The two nodded. Not only did Lu Jin look down on F-rank monster materials, but Li Tao and Lu Bin also looked down on them.

With their combined strength at the level of advanced warriors, hunting down ordinary beast general-level monsters is a piece of cake.

A single piece of Beast General-level monster material, even a low-level Beast General-level monster material, can be worth 500 million to 1500 million Chinese Yuan, which is thousands of times more than F-level monster material.

With such a huge difference in value, the two naturally looked down on the beast-soldier-level monster materials.

The three then continued along the national highway towards County Town No. 0214.

(End of this chapter)