Unknown Hunters

Chapter – 41 Unknown Hunters

As Max kept going forward, he was seeing more and more dead bodies and surprisingly there were also dead bodies of the same beast that he had fought earlier. It felt like there had been a fight here, between the hunters and the beasts and every hunter's dead body had similar clothes. The beast was also in different sizes but the color of their fur was the same.

"Were these hunters from a group or guild, I think the dead person from before was also a part of this group. Fighting these beasts would have been really hard for them, they won't be too far away from here maybe I would be able to join their group." Max came to a conclusion after observing everything, if he joined the group, he can increase his pace to get Exp. as he will be able to steal the kill from the other members of the group to gain more Exp.

"I should catch up to them but wait what if they were not friendly and try to rob me or kill me? I need to think it through before meeting them." He suddenly remembered that not every person can be trusted, beasts might be scary to humans because of how they look and their powers but humans are much scarier they betray their own to live in luxury and a comfortable lifestyle.

"I'll follow them but I'll keep my distance from them and see what type of people they are if they turned out to be bad guys, I won't join them and if I get the chance, I might even steal from them." Max was hoping that it would be best if they turned out to be bad guys thus, he won't be feeling any guilt after stealing from them or leaving them behind in a dire situation.

There was only one path so it was easy to follow them, leaving behind the dead bodies Max left the place to find the group that was traveling ahead of him. From time-to-time Max was seeing the bodies of those Monkey beasts and sometimes even the hunters but compared to last time there were fewer hunters dead. "They might have gotten ambushed there otherwise they wouldn't have lost that many hunters at that place." Max thought, the group ahead of him was making Max's journey easier as he didn't have to fight any beasts until now, that group was taking care of every danger that Max might have faced if he would have been ahead of them.

Around ten minutes later Max heard some noise ahead of him and he saw the group of hunters fighting the beast they were around twenty of them and only four beasts fighting them, it was an open path so other than those unusual rocks there was no other place to hide but Max was lucky as there was a rock near him and he hides behind it and watched the group fight the beasts. "They look strong they are fighting the beasts very efficiently, now I'm sure they got ambushed earlier and lost some of their members." Max thought and continued to watch the fight.

Out of all the members of that group, there was one person who was more fierce and stronger than others as there was not a single scratch on his body and he was not even tired of fighting those beasts also it felt like he was enjoying the fight killing those beasts and making them suffer. Every person in that group had some bruises and scratches some were even seriously injured but they were staying in the middle of the group and were using long ranges attacks from there.

"That guy is strong, also the others members are doing good against the beasts. Why do these beasts are not using their abilities even though there outmatched right now, do they really don't have any ability?" Max was still questioning about these beasts' abilities cause they were strong with using any ability, he wanted to see how strong they will get if they used their ability but unfortunately, Max was not able to see them using their ability even now.

The group was able to easily kill all four beasts in some minutes and they took out the crystal from the beasts' bodies. The guy who was fighting fiercely earlier might be the leader of the group as he was checking on everyone to see how much they have gotten hurt or if they needed any medical treatment to keep them alive but no one in the group was hurt too much, except the guys who were already hurt from before but they were showing there worth by supporting the others from inside the circle.

"They look okay, their leader also seems nice except that he is totally a different person from when he was fighting the beasts. Should I join them or observe them more?" Max was still hesitating to join them and after seeing how strong these guys were especially their leader, Max was not feeling confident that he might be able to escape or get away from that guy if something bad happened between them. He discarded the idea of joining them for now and keep following them from behind without making them know about his presence.

The group continued after they were done checking on everyone in their group, Max let them get ahead cause there was no other rock visible to him that he could use to hide himself. After two minutes Max started making his move as he slowly started walking ahead, he was keeping a distance of roughly 200 or 300 meters from them and sometimes he was also hiding in his inventory when someone would be checking behind.

Their group fought a lot of beasts on their way and Max was sometimes even regretting that if he would have joined them, he could have gotten a lot of Exp. all of those beasts were of Rare-tier and they would have given him a lot of Exp. even if it would have been less because of the group fight, but Max bearded with it. Luckily, he was able to follow them for a long time until all of them stopped in front of a huge tree, it was like a building, the branches were thick enough to build houses there and the leaves were like small boats and Max was surprised that why none of this is visible from the outside, it's like an illusion for the people outside.

The leader of that group started discussing something with his group, Max was not able to hear what the guy was saying but he had a guess the leader might be telling them their roles in this hunt or what they should be expecting from here on. When they were done discussing their strategy around ten of them started climbing the tree except the others stayed behind with the injured ones to stop any other beast from coming there.

"What's on top of that tree? Are they planning to hunt some specific which resides on top of that tree? I should follow them but then I would have to use Dimensional Travel to pass these guys on the ground." Max was planning how he can get past these guys and get on top of the tree. Realizing that there's no other way than using Dimensional Travel to get there, he decided to use it and disappeared from his place to appear at one of the branches of the tree.

"It nearly drained half of my energy, it's good I was not too far away from them and they weren't checking their surrounding after reaching here." Max thought and started climbing, this tree was wrapped around with thick vines which Max was using as a grip. If not for these vines climbing this tree would have been really hard for him and the others who were climbing ahead of him.

For some reason none of those hunters were looking down, they had trust in their comrades that they won't be letting anything else come after them. It made it easier for Max to climb cause unlike before he didn't have to hide here and also there was nothing here other than those leaves that he could use as a thing to hide himself, if a situation came, he was planning to hide in the other space.

"Why is there a lot of climbing today? Can't these beasts live on the ground to make it easier for me to hunt them?" Max complained as he had done a lot of climbing today and he still hadn't gotten anything out of it. Max continued while complaining all the time about it, he was getting frustrated now.

After some time, he saw that he was close to the end of it and there was like a small ground made up of branches and up there, Max was able to see something else too, as he got more closer, he saw the same type of white monkey that he and these guys had fought earlier but the only difference was that it was massive, it was tall around a one-story house with its massive hands. All of those hunters were ready to fight that beast they were already running towards it after reaching the top and the most excited out of all of them was their leader who was ahead of all of them running with a weird smile on his face.

"I don't think that this beast is a Rare-tier one, is it above it a King-tier beast?" Max was frightened but also at the same time, he was also feeling a rush in his body just like the leader of that group.