Nero, The Legendary Hunter

In the middle of the night, it was very quiet, to the point that Nero and Choko were able to sleep soundly.

While the two girls slept, suddenly they heard a very loud sound. It was terrible; it was loud enough for the two to wake up startled.

"Ah? Enemy attack?" Nero got up drowsily but forced herself to wake up.

"Let's go out soon!" Choko didn't even care about her image, and she rushed out with her unkempt hair, and then that's when she saw it.

Nero also went out and saw the same thing as Choko and her expression became... peculiar.

Luna was on top of a tree, sitting on the branch of the tree and howling loudly towards the moon. It was as if she wanted to communicate with someone on the moon.

"..."

Nero and Choko were at a loss for words. They realized they were worried over nothing, especially Nero who opened the map and saw that she had no enemies nearby.

"Luna! Get down from there and stop howling!" Nero ordered.

Luna stopped howling and looked at Nero... She then looked at the full moon again and howled again.

"Don't make me dematerialize you..." Nero said in a dangerous tone. She started to wonder why Luna was not obedient like Slime? Looking over at Slime, Nero saw Slime had not even made a sound and was continuing to patrol all this time.

Hearing this, Luna blinked with intelligent eyes and knew it was not good to disobey if she wanted to remain there, without having to return to the summoning realm, which was a pleasant place, but it was very small, and since she was a free spirited wolf, Luna did not like small places. Luna jumped from the branch of the tree and cast a pitiful look.

"Okay, now stay here obediently, and stop howling. If not, I'll actually make you come back. Do we understand each other?" Nero looked at Luna when asking.

Luna nodded with her wolf's head and was sad. She had wanted to demonstrate her adoration for the moon goddess, but her new teacher did not want to listen...

Choko saw this scene, thought it was cute, and laughed in secret without Nero seeing it.

*

The next morning, Nero woke up with the sunlight on her face. She stretched and noticed something clinging to her waist. That's when she looked down and saw that it was Choko, clinging to her without jumping, looking like a koala.

"Choko... Wake up, Choko..." Nero tried to wake her up.

"Mm..." Choko grunted sleepily, and opened her eyes. She had been sleeping so pleasantly, hugging the best "pillow" she had ever hugged before, but she was now awake. She jumped when she noticed that it was Nero she was hugging.

"Nero?!" Choko blushed with embarrassment and said, "It wasn't my intention, I'm sorry."

"Don't worry about it; I'm not upset. I just woke you up because it's morning," Nero smiled softly.

"En." Choko nodded and took a set of clothes out of her Hunter Card.

Nero did the same and started dressing. She changed into leather clothing that improved her status.

Leaving the tent, Slime and Luna waited outside. Despite what happened last night, Nero was grateful that her wolf was on guard. She patted her head and said, "Now we are awake. You can howl however much you want."

Luna rolled her eyes at Nero. After all, what was the use of howling now that she couldn't even see the moon anymore. Wouldn't it be silly to do that now?

"What is it? You don't want to?... Well, then don't." Nero continued to tease Luna, while waving her hand in a relaxed manner, not even considering her wolf's feelings.

*Howl…*

Luna howled softly in protest but saw that this tyrant owner of hers was no longer paying attention to her.

Unlike Luna, Demonic Acid Slime wasn't very smart, so it didn't show much meaningful reaction. Slime just did what Nero commanded, which was also a good thing, however, Nero aimed to make this Slime smarter and more like a human being at the same time, while still being obedient to her, which Nero thought would be perfect.

As usual, Nero opened her map and saw if there were enemies nearby. Although it was in more distant places, the area close to her and Choko only had a few low level monsters.

Incidentally, there were some Slimes not far away that were killed by Luna and Demonic Acid Slime. Nero went to these Slimes and used <Plunder> on the four Slimes that were killed.

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• 1 [Level F Monster Core - Level 1] has been added to your inventory.

• 1 [Thin stem - low quality] has been added to your inventory.

• 17 [Essence Coin] have been added to your inventory.

• 1 [Level F Monster Core - Level 2] has been added to your inventory.

• 1 [Acid Goo - low quality] has been added to your inventory.

• 22 [Essence Coin] have been added to your inventory.

• 1 [Level F Monster Core - Level 1] has been added to your inventory.

• 1 [Sticky mucus - low quality] has been added to your inventory.

• 13 [Essence Coin] has been added to your inventory.

• 1 [Level F Monster Core - Level 1] has been added to your inventory.

• 1 [Thin stem - low quality] has been added to your inventory.

• 11 [Essence Coin] have been added to your inventory.

- -

Nero disguised what she did, pretending that she just took the 4 monster cores, and walked over to Choko. Arriving in front of her, Nero handed over the 4 monster cores. She said, "Try to absorb the energy from these monster cores and tell me how it went."

It was just a theory, but Nero came to believe that these monster cores being extracted by the system were more pure and with more dense energy than the cores extracted with a Hunter Card.

"Okay." Even without understanding, Choko nodded. After all, they were just a few low-level monster cores; there was no reason for her to be reserved about it.

Choko sat on the floor and first she took the level 1 monster core. Meditating and absorbing the energy from inside the core, Choko was shocked by the amount of energy that the level 1 monster core had. She took a deep breath, calming her racing heart, and continued to meditate. Only minutes later did she finish sucking the energy out of the monster core.

"Wow!" Choko looked at Nero, genuinely surprised. She knew Nero had a lot of secrets, and her gesture of showing it to her now had meant that Nero had started to trust her. It made Choko feel happy in her heart.

Seeing Choko's reaction, Nero didn't even have to ask, as she already knew the answer to her question.

"Nero, I'm not going to ask how you are able to do this, but can you always do something like that?" Choko's eyes shone even more than a starry sky.

"Yes, so whenever the time comes to use plunder on monsters, let me do it, and I will hand over the winnings to you." Nero was happy that Choko didn't ask, since she didn't want to make up an excuse and lie to her.

"It would be great! I am counting on you, okay?" Choko clapped in a youthful way, she was very happy that Nero trusted her and shared something so amazing with her.

"We are friends with common goals; you don't have to be reserved with me. In addition, I wish you to continue to stay strong, and then we can always hunt together," Nero smiled.

Choko's maiden heart threatened to leave her chest. She was so moved, that she wiped tears from her eyes secretly. And then she turned and gave Nero the best smile.

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- Drop some power stone, please ♥

{Edited by: Azurtha}