18 First Hunt(1)

After collecting the ears together, as promised, Alana kept all the left ears while I kept all the right ears, the ears were stored inside the storage bracelet provided by the academy.

Due to the high number of people in the test, finding a location inside the forest was an extremely difficult task, even with the help of the scouting ability of the bird summoned by Alana, it took about 30 minutes of constant moving to find the next group of killer rabbits.

This time it was a group of 6 killer rabbits, eating the grass on the ground with their heads lowered,

Same as the previous time, we hid inside the bushes and got ourselves ready for the attack,

Alana got in position and readied her bow, then nodded me, following which, I rushed out of the bush and ran towards the rabbit, though this time they noticed me as soon as I ran out prompting them to go on high alert,

*tsk*

I clicked my tongue and used temporal freeze,

0.

I supplied a small amount of mana to make the sword vibrate and increased the mana in my legs, speeding myself up,

1.

I arrived in front of the rabbits and got in stance, supplying mana in my arms

2.

*whooosh*

As soon as the time started moving again, I performed a horizontal slash, killing two rabbits in the process,

Then without stopping, I turned towards the 4 rabbits far away, aimed my sword in their direction, and supplied a large amount of mana to the sword, the blade of the long sword shot towards the rabbits at a high speed, killing two more rabbits,

This attack essentially made me defenseless as I had no means of attacking anymore, but I still smiled as I heard the sound of arrows piercing through the air,

*skweee* 

Two arrows at the same time stabbed the remaining rabbit's heads, killing them instantly, 

This hunt was successful, After taking the rabbit years, we moved on to finding our next target,

The hunt continued like this for 5 hours and we had gathered a total of 16 ears each, It was clear that as we continued to hunt, we were getting more efficient and faster, we did not even need to use most of our abilities if continued like this, we would surely be placed in the top 500 for sure,

but that was not enough, even if we got in the top 500s, because of my theory marks I would fail to get in the Sigma class, a class for the top 50 students, 

In this academy, the students of the Sigma class are given a huge amount of support and resources, the resources provided were incomparable to that of the normal class,

Although it was possible to get into Sigma class later, the gap between the students widened so much that no one managed to get into the Sigma class after the entrance exam,

In this academy, the sigma class were like the elite hunters, who would surely stand on top of the hunter world after graduating,

the only possibility for me to get into the Sigma class with my written test grade was to reach the top ten in this test, the way the academy analyzed the ranking was the number of rabbits hunted by students with 25 as the bare minimum,

the top ten had their kills numbering in the 50s, especially the protagonist had his kills numbering in the 70s. you guessed it, our protagonist lands first place in the exam overall, with an overwhelming difference of 23 kills compared to the second place.

hence, I knew that I had to at least get 55 or above kills to get in the top ten, which was only possible if I found a killer rabbit habitat, fortunately, I knew the location of various habitats of the killer rabbit, of which the most optimal one was 'that' one, as it also consisted of an item that could be of great help to me in the future,

Now, the problem arose, 

'How do I lead our group towards the habitat as naturally as possible so that Alana doesn't notice'

I had to be very subtle in guiding our group towards the habitat or else Alana would notice something, bringing unnecessary my way,

*arghh*

I was never much of an actor anyway, and I had a feeling that this was going to be very difficult,

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'Wow...he's a really bad actor'

Thought Alana as she stared at Lucien leading the way, For the past 1 or two hours, this guy had started acting weird and subtly pointing toward a certain direction,

before, they were just moving naturally as they found random rabbits in the forest via scouting done by her Bird,

but, after their killed count reached 20 each, he suddenly changed and started pointing in directions as if he was leading them somewhere,

'Well, if he tries to ambush me, then, he would also lose his share of kills, so it is probably not that' 

currently, she held 40 left ears of killer rabbits in her inventory while Lucien held 40 right ears, the way the academy bracelets work, no one other than the registered owner can access the inventory of the bracelets, hence it would be a loss for Lucien to attack her right now,

Hence, Alana removed the thought of him ambushing her from her mind,

also, although Lucien was strong, his strength only amounted to around the middle ranks of the students enrolled, his strength amounted to his speed, which probably also came from a skill of his, hence, Alana was confident that she could beat the daylights out of Lucien if anything suspicious happens,

Thus, Alana was not scared of Lucien leading the way, she was even curious about where he would lead her and what was his goal in doing so,

and,

'Seeing him trying to clumsily act natural while leading is funny in its own way'