The Primal Hunter

Scarlett had a hard time imagining it. The first time she met the Chosen had been so brief, and she had barely had any time to talk to him as he was busy just making his way through the Mangrove. She also didn’t fully realize who he was back then. With time she did come to understand and began to think about how she could make herself useful to the Forefather and his Chosen.

She was naturally elated when the Chosen trusted her enough to defend his comrades from danger and even more happy when those comrades chose to stay. Ms. Wells even taught Scarlett so many things. The more senior servant of the Forefather’s Chosen told her about how some enemy Chosen of an extremely powerful god had backstabbed the Forefather’s Chosen and tried to kill him. Or, well, maybe the goal was not to kill him? Scarlett wasn’t sure. All she knew was that several comrades of the bad Chosen were killed, and the coward fled, resulting in the Malefic’s Chosen taking over the world just as one would expect. As things should be.

Now, after his victory, he had finally returned to the Mangrove, where they were doing everything to help him, Old Grumpy snake even making a formation for the Chosen to teleport to the Order as he pleased.

But what she had truly had a hard time imagining was not any of his feats but his demeanor and sheer presence. Scarlett had met many humans and beasts, but one thing was for sure:

The Chosen was the coolest of them all.

Like, he was so cool in everything. He was only D-grade, sure, but Scarlett felt like she walked beside a far more powerful beast than herself. Logically she knew she didn’t, but his presence was still awe-inspiring. To add on, he had not a shred of fear. Scarlett had honed her skills in evaluating humans. She could quite literally smell fear and weakness, and any kind of nervousness would be clear before her eyes. Yet she felt none of those things from the Chosen. In fact, she was the one who felt scared and nervous when she walked with him… how couldn’t she? He was the Chosen of the Forefather.

“Scarlett,” the Chosen asked, making her feel all bubbly inside from him using her name. “Have you considered what your future plans are?”

Scarlett was perplexed for a moment about what he meant. Thinking a bit about it, she didn’t really have any plans besides helping the Chosen. The formation was not anything she could help with, and the Mangrove was firmly under their control. Even if she was not there alone, the other C-grades could easily handle anything that cropped up. Besides that, her only plan had been to maybe explore the ocean and hunt there – something she had already been doing for a while. It wasn’t the best hunting ground, and it often took a long time to find worthy prey, but she had to take what she could get. Worst of all, she had to do the hunting in her true form.

Not that anything she currently did mattered if the Chosen had other thoughts in mind.

“Does the Chosen have anything he wants me to do?” she asked, feeling a bit of hope. Maybe he had more he wanted her to help with?

“No, not anything like that,” he answered, making Scarlett a bit disappointed.

“I was just considering if you have considered going to the Order of the Malefic Viper? I have explored a bit of Earth, and while it is possible, I doubt the planet is that good of a place for someone like you to grow. I am positive there are no B-grades, and even peak C-grades would be astronomically rare, assuming they even exist. Meanwhile, going to the Order would open up a multiverse of possibilities,” the Chosen said, Scarlett, listening intensely while barely holding herself back from screaming “YES!” after the very first sentence as she tried to remain respectful.

“Going to the Order of the Forefather would be both an honor and a privilege,” Scarlett answered with a big smile on her face as courteously as she could, even bowing a bit, the same way she had seen some young human women do it.

“Great,” the Chosen said with a smile. “Now, if possible, can you show me a safe place for a measuring device within the settlement?”

“Naturally,” Scarlett complied without asking further questions.

“And can you then do me one other small favor after?” the Chosen asked as he turned and looked at her.

“The Chosen does not even need to ask,” Scarlett answered with conviction.

just wanted you to bite

had asked before her face turned red, and she completely zoned out… only to still hear the

to make it fair, I could bite

words could be misinterpreted, but he really couldn’t hold himself back forever when standing next to a snake girl like her.

him aware that the small snake girl harbored venom capable of killing hundreds of D-grades with a single drop. It was so strong

a minute to calm the poor snake girl down after she looked to have short-circuited. Once he got her to relax and listen to his explanation, it

only honed it further since I received the Blessing from the Malefic One, my Toxicity stat growing significantly,” she asked. Jake biting into

stat?” Jake asked with a

Yeah, humans have different stats. I got a stat called Toxicity that is related to

of the nine we humans have?” Jake continued asking

one allows my toxins to be far stronger, but

venom for my own Palate skill. It has been a while since I encountered

but why worry her? Jake

Scarlett kind

the Order if you want where we got assistance nearby if we do mess it up,” Jake smiled to comfort her. It maybe was also smart to have

us wait…” Scarlett

let’s go get this weird machine

snake to keep an eye on it. Jake activated it right away and saw it spin to life as what looked like a satellite dish emerged from its top, and he faintly detected the

really have any more plans before it was time to go to the World Congress. A Congress that should, for

intent on shadowing him, and he saw no reason not to allow it. It was a bit awkward, though, like going to a birthday party as the oldest cousin and having teenagers ten years younger than yourself follow

what he planned next did not include a lot of moving around. With some time to spare, Jake found a nice place to relax and

Become World Leader at

of the

Sagacity of the Malefic

Order and

Mythical skill creation with the help of

6. Actually evolve.

nodded at the mental checklist and didn’t immediately notice anything missing. The first item was easy and would come in a couple of days if all went to plan. As for two and three, then upgrading the two skills was something Jake had subtly been working on for a while and had thought a lot about, even

easy as both of them had hoped and that they would likely need more preparation than first expected. However, in any case, then they both knew that live

one for his profession. But, rather than theorize, it was better to

two birds with one stone and also get in a skill upgrade? As for the skill he would upgrade first, it really was a no-brainer. It was the skill Jake should have arguably upgraded as