Patil and Parker

" Shit.."

I curse while narrowly dodging the charge of wolf beat by twisting my waist.

While breathing heavily , I am eyeing the ferocious two meter tall and almost four meter long wolf but strangely I can feel myself smiling instead of feeling fear.

This wolf beast is so called last boss of the forest on this island and I have to say that it's quite strong too.

For three months I've been battling all kinds of beasts in this forest while capturing some bandits and pirates every now and then. So my strength and battle experience have increased a lot.

Honestly I never expected this body of mine to hold so much potential. After each round of training and hard battles, I can clearly feel myself becoming stronger. So this feeling is very addicting.

I who was very lazy in my past life , thought that I will only rely on killing and leveling up to become stronger but now instead I'm finding myself becoming some sort of training maniac and a battle addict.

I like this change in my personality though.

Well it's been almost three hours since this wolf has been either chasing or clashing with me so I think it's time to end this battle.

I can kill it without much trouble with my current strength but I chose to drag the battle for increasing my endurance and surpassing my previous limits.

Now after intense three hours I have long since crossed by body limits so it's time to end this beast and drink pineapple juice at Rony's bar.

By the way, Rony's bar is located on ground floor of the only inn in the village and the owner's daughter is beautiful blonde lady. So I love to relax there during break time.

To end it in one swoop, I decide that it is best to use my sword. So I relax my stance and pull out my 140 cm katana from its scabbard hung on left side of my waist.

( 3rd Person POV )

Alan held his sword in front of his chest with eyes focused on the wolf which shrank its body a little as it felt threat from him.

Still the beast did not back down and instead put power on its front legs causing the ground to crack a little from the force. Clearly it was preparing to charge ahead.

Alan could read its intentions but he did not care much as he had confidence to end it in one blow of this sword.

Swish..

Suddenly the wolf dashed and its figure became a blur. Next moment it had already crossed more than ten meters of distance and was already in front of Alan.

Its fangs did not cut Alan's head but instead met with the blade of his katana.

A shockwave was produced from their clash causing to blow away the leaves and dust off the ground.

Alan gritted his teeth and put more force on his legs to stand strong as the wolf's momentum was surprisingly stronger than his estimations.

Grrr...

The world growled and kicked its legs repeatedly trying to push Alan back but to no avail.

Alan took a deep breath and strengthened the grip on his katana while transferring more power.

Bit by bit his sword started to cut into the wolf's fangs and three seconds later blood spurted out as the wolf's head was cleaved into two from its mouth.

Thud..

The big corpse fell on the ground producing large cloud of dust. Alan stood there triumphed heir breathing heavily and feeling pain from his arms as his body was clearly overloaded.

He was not worried though as he knew that after resting and healing, Alan will have once gain become stronger by a notch. Thinking this a smile crept on his face as he sheathed his katana fluidly like a veteran samurai.

" Tch..Looks like it was still not enough." said Alan while freeing a little as he could not level up after killing the boss wolf.

He felt a little annoyed as he could clearly feel that since last month the experience gained from battling beasts has been plummeting a lot.

( Name - Alan Blood

Occupation - Bounty Hunter

Level 30 ( 97%)

Stats -

Strength - 154

Speed - 180

Vitality - 155

Spirit - 169

Free Stat points - 150

Skills -

Sword Mastery level 8 ( 77%)

Gun mastery level 6 (95%)

Hand to hand combat level 14 (30%)

Stealth level 6 (23%)

Free Skill points - 6 )

Looking at the status panel in his mind Alan's mood became better as he confirmed that he was already not far from leveling up and the proficiency of his skills had increased through this battle with the boss wolf.

Still Alan could not help but feel little sad as he had no more opponents on this island. This means that he had to leave and he was a little resultant to part with the kind vilagers who took care of him for three months.

Alan had always been grateful to them and even shared his loot and money and he got from occasional bounty hunting with them.

The pirates and bandits were small fries and the highest bounty he had hunted was only about 8 million. Such pirates were not Alan's opponents as they could only pose any challenge to him through their sheer numbers which was annoying honestly.

Anyway, it was time for him to set sail and look for higher bounties to hunt.

.....

" Mark san!!! "

" What's the matter? Dont shout like an idiot."

" Sorry Mark san. It's just that some shady looking guys have come to our village and they say that they are looking for Alan!"

" What?!!! Say that sooner you idiot!" yelled the old short man and dashed away towards the vilage gate.

The old man is Mark and he is a kind old man who helped Alan land jobs when he had just arrived in this village and had no money.

Ever since then, Mark had gotten along well with Alan and thinks of him as his own grandchild. So Mark was worried when he received news that bad people were here for Alan.

Mark had tried to Stop Alan from the business of bouny hunter many times but Alan never listened. In Mark's eyes Alan was a thirteen year old kid even though he had strength. So he was always worried about Alan.

In these three months this village had been visited by bandits and pirates but most of the time they came to settle their debts with Alan who had captured or killed their comrades for bounties. Of course Alan slew all of them in return so the village was never actuslly harmed.

The villagers thus had different attitudes towards Alan. Some avoided him like plague as he bad guys came to village looking for Alan. Some admired Alan who trained a lot and was strong enough to kill bad guys and strong beasts in the forest. The rest of people were the old villagers who were worried about Alan like Mark.

" Like I said, Alan brother is our leader! Why dont you guys believe us!"

When Mark reached near the gate, he saw two young men being surrounded by villagers. One of the young men was almost two meters tall. His buffed figure looked intimidating but his expression was very kind instead.

The other one was 5ft 8 tall and had a well toned body plus a long horizontal scar on his nose. He was the one who was trying to convince the villagers that they knew Alan.

It took few seconds before Mark had basically confirmed that both young men weretelling the truth. He was old and enough experience to tell this much. So Mark immediately went to pursusde the young mangetsu villagers and managed to clear this mess.

" Thanks for your help old mister. My name is Patil and this tall guy here is Parker. We both are bounty hunters and now work with brother Alan." said the short young man who introduced himself as Patil.

Mark listened with small smile on his face but inwardly he was dumbfounded as the Alan whom he had thought was a kid,was already so strong that two veteran looking bounty hunters were following him now.

Meanwhile Alan himself had almost returned to village from the forest but he had no idea that his two underlings had come looking for him..