"You've got good timing. We're currently in the Unrestricted Hunting Permit period issued by the hunters' guild over in Blazefire Village. So in the Ancient Forest, as the Recommended Group, you only need the Compiler to make the call and approve the hunting permit, and then you can hunt any large monster. But remember—unless there are special circumstances and absolutely solid reasons, do not hunt the Radiant Fire Wyvern. After all, we're allies."
Noah said this earnestly as he looked at Darren. When it came to the Radiant Fire Wyvern, ordinary hunters didn't need to worry—after all, the Radiant Fire Wyvern usually moved in groups, and even a standard hunting squad of ordinary hunters might not be a match for them.
But Darren was an absolute powerhouse who had dealt with an Elder Dragon incident on his own, so a reminder was necessary on this point.
"Then what if the situation is special, and we have no choice but to hunt one?" Mia asked, a little curious.
Although the Old World had heavily promoted the Radiant Fire Wyvern as a Fire Wyvern species that was also on the side of order and friendly toward humans, even among humans there could be minor frictions—let alone between different species.
Hearing that, Noah's steps halted. He looked at the two of them very seriously; the smile on his face vanished as well. In a stern tone, he said, "Then you'd better be prepared to be investigated by the Ancient Tree Hunters' Guild. Until the matter is cleared up, the people under investigation during that period will not receive any carting services from cats, nor any kind of logistical support, and the Ancient Tree hunters over there will also issue a protest."
Hearing how severe the consequences were, Darren's brows furrowed slightly, while Mia caught a single term.
"Ancient Tree hunters??"
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Up on the Ancient Tree, Little Loren—flying at full speed—had already successfully returned to his nest. Over these past years, his Fire Wyvern Grimalkyne leader guard squad had also been successfully established. It was just a pity that Bunbun hadn't inherited Tonkotsu's talent when it came to combat, and was even so weak that he had no choice but to lose the right to inherit the position of the next Fire Wyvern Grimalkyne leader.
However, fortunately, that superb skill at mixing specialized Fire Wyvern potions allowed him to smoothly secure an indispensable position in the logistics office of Blazefire Village, and in everyday life he also served as Little Loren's interpreter and liaison.
At this moment, Bunbun was standing on the small chair in the Ancient Tree Hunters' Guild, asking the Ancient Wyverian receptionist about what Little Loren wanted to know.
"Sorry, little Bunbun. Our information here hasn't been synchronized with Astera yet, so we still don't know the information about those hunters you mentioned. Wait a bit longer—after Astera synchronizes the Fifth Fleet members' files over, come by again."
"Okay… thank you, big sister, meow!"
After the Ancient Wyverian receptionist gave Bunbun an affectionate pat on the head, Bunbun, a little dejected, hopped down from the chair and trotted out through the guild's main doors amid the greetings of the scattered hunters inside.
On the Old World, the hunters' guild was not a unified power. Even the branch guilds directly under the Dundorma hunters' guild, with the Great Elder presiding, numbered only a few; the vast majority of the rest were independent forces that had adopted the Dundorma hunters' guild's regulations and ideals.
And it was precisely because of this independence that some remote regions could "adapt to local conditions" and produce different rankings for the same monster.
However, although each hunters' guild operated independently, their internal information could still circulate to a certain extent, and the hunter credentials they issued could also be used across different guilds.
As for the Ancient Tree Hunters' Guild, far from the Old World, it was established in the same way: mainly by Ancient Wyverian hunters, second-generation hunters who had been born and lived on the Ancient Tree since childhood, and the hunt-cats of the Ancient Tree's Fire Wyvern clan. With authorization from Blazefire Village and the king of the Ancient Tree, and after friendly communication with Astera, it was founded.
It was a legal organization officially registered and supported by the New World's local authorities!
The original Ancient Tree quest-issuing office was also merged into the guild as a result. It could be said that the current Ancient Tree Hunters' Guild was, essentially, the New World hunters' second base.
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Logan, who served as the sun for three hours every day, returned to his nest; the moment he came back, he heard the news that the Fifth Fleet had successfully arrived.
Although he had already guessed it from that scorching yet massive life energy two days ago—that Zorah Magdaros had arrived in the New World—upon hearing the news now, ripples still rose in Logan's heart.
The Fifth Fleet had come—so would this world truly have the existence of the "Sapphire Star"? And would his expressiveness differ from that data-person who, for the sake of gameplay, felt disconnected even from the world's power system?
These questions slipped through Logan's mind, but they quickly vanished without a trace.
He was no longer the anxious little Fire Wyvern he once had been. As the "Order Dragon" spoken of by the Research Commission, a diligent and crucial ecological link under the boss of nature itself, even without considering matters of raw strength, there was absolutely no way anything would go wrong with him.
Even if the "Sapphire Star's" combat power was excessively over the top—so what?
After so many years of steadily increasing affinity with nature, Logan understood very clearly that before the great power of nature, all combat power was an illusion.
Even "forbidden beings" that had transcended ecological niches could only choose to cooperate with nature. After all, even if such "forbidden beings" were extremely hard to kill—some even possibly possessing resurrection abilities—before nature, if they could be made to die once, they could be made to die twice, three times.
[Nature Affinity: 68]
He was just two percent away from reaching seventy percent. When that time came, his power would undergo a cross-tier leap. On this point, Logan had never harbored any doubt.
Besides, the Sapphire Star was a member of the order-aligned side. The hunter regulations imposed extremely strong constraints on him as well—this was precisely why Logan had spent these years pushing with all his might for the establishment of the Ancient Tree Hunters' Guild.
After all, the defining feature of the Ancient Tree Hunters' Guild was "Fire Wyvern worship"!
There was no need to worry about the Sapphire Star now. What Logan was considering instead was that the Nakarkos to the west of the Ancient Tree region seemed to be approaching the time for him to complete the "mission" bestowed upon him by the consciousness of nature.
Such an Elder Dragon—a negative representative of the world, disliked by nature—truly laid bare the cruelty of nature's will in a blood-soaked way.
Although the other party had merely passively accepted the arrangements of nature's will, this use-and-discard behavior—going so far as to devour them completely—was genuinely cruel.
On many nights, Logan would feel fortunate that he had not been blinded by overwhelming power and lost his original heart. Otherwise, once he acted recklessly and was cast aside by nature, what awaited him would likely be this same kind of cold, ruthless calculated existence.
Over four years, nearly five—during these days, Logan would occasionally, when he did not need to act as the sun, take Aki with him to the Dragon Graveyard to assess the state of Nakarkos, taking turns with Kirin and the others to weaken it.
Now, after so many years of bloody chaos, the monster population of the Ancient Forest had already fallen to a certain threshold. Perhaps Nakarkos could be used to test whether the Fifth Fleet truly had the existence of a "Sapphire Star."
Logan lay sprawled in his soft nest, quietly making his plans in his heart.
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