Chapter 153: Report
From his estimate, the Dwarf Swine's meat weight should be around sixty kilograms.
As an Iron Grade-Iron Star 5 beast, the price per kilo of its meat can be sold for 7 Gold Coins in the market, while as a 'hunter', Amara's shop would buy for 6 Gold Coins.
This meant that after he delivered this meat to Amara in good condition, he would acquire a total of 360 Gold Coins.
Indeed, being a strong summoner could be a quite lucrative job.
In Twilight City, such beast meat could even be sold for more.
Not to mention the fact there were also other parts that could be used to refine or make other items. Their prices were also a little higher compared to the meat.
Unfortunately, the Dwarf Swine beast does not have any of such parts that he could sell. Only their meat was considered valuable in Serene City.
After draining it out of blood, Lucas stored it inside Shadow and proceeded to search for the next Dwarf Swine he could hunt.
Although Amara only required him to obtain one Dwarf Swine to complete the 'initiation process', since he was already here, he would naturally have to try and hunt for more to earn some extra Gold Coins.
The prices of weapons and armors in Serene City were quite high. It was due to this reason that he only received a little over three thousand Gold Coins after he sold most of the items he gathered on his journey.
Speaking of those weapons and armor he commissioned, after some delays, Shelsea finally promised that it would be delivered by tomorrow.
Lucas looked forward to seeing them tomorrow.
After a while, Lucas finally found another Dwarf Swine's trails.
He followed behind it intently, this time, it led him to an open area where he saw the Dwarf Swine eating something among the grasses.
Without having any intention to get close and look at what it was eating, Lucas immediately ordered Spot and Shadow to attack.
The quicker this beast was killed, the quicker he would be able to hunt for another one.
With the overpowered combo attack of the two, the Dwarf Swine fell to its death a few seconds later.
[You have killed an Iron Grade-Iron Star 5, Dwarf Swine (100%): You gained 10.44 XP]
After repeating the process, Lucas obtained another clean Dwarf Swine beast meat and stored it inside Shadow's Extra Pocket.
After he was done, Lucas proceeded to hunt for the next Dwarf Swine.
Along with Spot and Shadow, Lucas quickly obtained a total of five Dwarf Swine meat an hour after noon.
Looking up and feeling hot from the sun's searing heat, Lucas decided to call it a day and return to Serene City to sell what he had gathered to Amara's store.
With all the beast carcasses being stored inside Shadow, Lucas had an easy time while going home.
Along the way, he even encountered another Dwarf Swine, successfully adding it to his collection a few seconds later.
After a while, Lucas also encountered a group or summoners closely following a Dwarf Swine's trail.
From the looks of it, they were the one pursuing the Dwarf Swine he luckily met earlier.
The summoners nodded their heads and looked at him warily.
However, after seeing that he does not have traces of battle around his body, and the fact that he was not carrying any sort of items, they finally heaved a sigh of relief.
The two parties merely nodded at each other to return a greeting.
Lucas left the vicinity as soon as the other party left his view as well.
Although they did not know that he had stolen their prey, he could guess what their reaction would be if they found out that it was stolen by him.
A few minutes later, Lucas returned to where the social trail had ended.
After walking for some more, Lucas also arrived at where he was dropped off by the beast taxi.
Fortunately, a new beast taxi arrived and dropped off its passenger.
After telling the driver his destination, they immediately left that area and he returned to the open market a few minutes later.
Lucas went inside Amara's store and saw her sitting over the counter.
Amara looked up at him with confusion.
It has not been a day since Lucas has returned, could it be that he had already forgotten what he had read about the Dwarf Swine in the book earlier and has returned to read again?
Closing the book she was reading, she was about to take out the beast book and hand it to him when he spoke.
"I've already finished the task, where should I put the bodies of the Dwarf Swines?"
Her hands holding the beast book paused in midair, before she eventually calmed down to return the book to its storage.
Although she was surprised, she did not think that this was highly unusual.
Iron Star 5 beast was only the basic requirement to hunt to become an official hunter in most shops in this area selling beast meat.
Although rare, It was not strange that someone would be able to do it before the week deadline.
What she was more surprised about was the fact that Lucas was able to do it in less than a single day.
It was clear that day that Lucas was still quite young. Someone his age should not be able to hunt such beasts easily.
With this information, Amara confirmed and concluded a lot of things.
First, this new hunter was very reliable and efficient. Something that the shop currently needed.
Second, maybe Lucas was not alone and had a strong group around him to be able to hunt a Dwarf Swine beast easily.
At the very least, Lucas was not someone she must give up to other store owners.
He was worth enough to invest in.
Just as she was about to offer her congratulations for passing the task, Amara suddenly paused her movements once more.
"W-what did you just say?"
Seeing her strong reaction over the matter, Lucas could only nod and reply, "Where should I put the Dwart Swine bodies?"
"B-bodies? You did not just hunt for a single one?"
Lucas shook his head.
At this point, Amara had already stood up from her seat.
If it was considered normal for a new hunter to hunt an Iron Star 5 in a single day, then hunting two or more at the same day was already considered quite lucky or skillful.
She knew that either of the two was important.
Seeing that he had not brought any beast body with him, Amara immediately assumed that this was because he had a storage item or beast with an Extra Pocket skill like a Gobbling Toad.
At this moment, she realized that she had underestimated him and the group behind him greatly.
A curious glint appeared in her eyes.
'I must secure my partnership with this guy! Reaching a new height for my store would not be too far off if he's indeed what I expected."
While Amara thought of that and herself swimming with Gold Coins, she led Lucas to a room situated at the back of her store.
The moment they entered, Lucas could instantly feel the temperature drastically dropped.
Looking around, Lucas could see rows of plastics and hanging frozen meat all around him.
The smell of frozen meat wafted onto his nose.
As the freezing cold bit him along with Spot and Shadow, Amara finally stopped at an open area inside the huge storage.
Not far away from it was also a digital scale to check the weight.
"D-drop it!" Her voice cracked a little while speaking.
It was not due to the freezing cold, but because she was pretty excited just thinking about the amount of money she would be receiving if this continues.
Lucas hesitated for a bit before nodding his head.
He has actually planned to 'retrieve' the bodies of the beasts after Amara tells him the location of where to put them.
However, he did not expect that Amara would actually bring him inside the storage room immediately.
And from the looks of it, she was already aware of the fact that he has a Gobbling Toad or something with the same function.
Seeing that she has no particular reaction toward him owning this kind of function, Lucas finally decided to show his Gobbling Toad, Shadow.
He pretended to reach out to his nape before he secretly took Shadow away from his neck.
On his open palm, Lucas ordered Shadow to unsummon and retrieve the beast corpses outside.
Although Shadow felt afraid being in the open like this, he still pulled out the beast's carcasses one by one out of his Extra Pocket skill and presented it to Amara who's eyes became wider the more Dwarf Swine was released by Shadow.
After Shadow released the last Dwarf Swine including their heads that were decapitated with each strike by Spot, Amara already seemed like she was the happiest woman in all of Serene City.
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