The Primal Hunter

Chapter 1020

Chapter 1020: Gifts From the Heavens “Acceptable quality, but the production time was above the estimated average,” the overseer said in a slightly scolding tone, making the woman bow in apology.

“I’m sorry... the new apprentices assigned to me have taken more time than initially expected, meaning I didn’t have enough time to cultivate as I normally did,” she said.

“I don’t ask for any excuses; just make sure it’s better next time. Even if the speed is lower, you should make up for it with quality. Your level is pretty high, so the herbs you can produce shouldn’t only be of this quality,” the overseer continued in his usual harsh tone.

As the sole C-grade in charge of this greenhouse, he was known as someone who ran a tight ship, and the results of the workers reflected on him, so he couldn’t accept those who were mediocre. Especially not with how things had been recently.

“I understand,” the woman bowed once more as she put her hand on her heart. “May the Celestial Child smile down upon us.”

“May he do so eternally,” the overseer responded with a satisfied nod.

He still couldn’t believe that he would maybe soon have a chance to meet the Celestial Child in person... if his greenhouse performed among the top five, the minister had talked about a ceremony to award those who’d contributed the most during this time of strife, so if he could have the top-performing D-grade greenhouse...

Resolving himself, he began his inspections of the day as he went outside his office to get a proper look at things. He was in charge of a total of thirteen greenhouses, all producing herbs for D-grades that helped train their alchemists primarily, with all these greenhouses placed in their own small complex, not that far outside a large city nearby.

As he walked between two of these greenhouses, he suddenly spotted three workers who were just standing around with a cart they were supposed to transport from one greenhouse to another, making him furious immediately. Storming over, he didn’t hesitate to yell:

“Who authorized you three to take a break, huh!?”

The workers were frightened, and one of them even jumped back before the calmest of them pointed toward the sky. “It’s just... that.”

Annoyed, the overseer followed the man’s finger and looked to the sky, where he saw something odd. It looked as if several small dots of light had appeared, almost reminiscent of distant stars... but with it still being day and Sun-Father still blessing them with sunlight, they usually weren’t that visible.

“Is it a meteor shower?” one of the other workers asked.

Another worker suddenly got all giddy as her eyes began to shine. “A celestial event... to be blessed with such a sight...”

The overseer slowly nodded, as seeing such a thing was indeed fortunate. The Celestial Child was the rightful ruler of the skies, and all that lay beyond it, with any celestial event happening only doing so according to his will... who knows, perhaps they were truly being blessed?

At least, he thought so for a moment before one of the other workers began to look worried.

me... or are they

closely, the overseer squinted and saw that... yeah, it did look

heavens...” the overseer muttered, the others also realizing that as it came from the

accelerating as they got closer to the surface of the planet. Turning, he saw one of

overseer still stood there smiling, a massive sphere of destructive energy appeared several hundred kilometers away, a shockwave striking him a few seconds later,

workers began as a second flash appeared in another direction... followed by a third, a fourth, and a fifth, as all around them – especially in the direction

wrong?” another worker questioned, not understanding what was

of the Celestial child?” the man who had first

lifted his head and saw a fragment... the punishment from the heavens descended straight toward them, and all he could do was place a hand on his heart. “If this is the will of

was an honor they couldn’t possibly be worthy of. Even as the destructive arcane arrow struck only a dozen

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exploding with the impact of a small nuclear warhead, destroying several

as if he was fighting a civilization of mushroom people. Notifications flooded his system as millions instantly died, not a single one of them

This mainly took the form of mid-tier C-grades who specialized in defense, and with Jake focusing on making his arrows large in scope and not intensity, they’d managed to survive, some of them even looking

tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report

Rain of Arcane Arrows upon another spot on the planet, taking full advantage of the fact

wonders, resulting in the arrows traveling through unobstructed. Of course, if he had been dealing with an actual planetary defensive barrier, things would have been different... but there wasn’t one, something that genuinely surprised Jake. Even Miranda had tapped into Jake’s World Leader abilities to make sure there was a basic barrier that should help with attacks coming from outside, but Ell’Hakan didn’t even have that, relying purely on the passive defenses supplied by the atmosphere. This was good enough to stop any

home more safely? Some other reason? Either way, Jake was betting on him still caring about his homeworld

took aim once more. He sent death raining down again, and not that long after, explosions of light appeared on the planet below. Jake moved again after shooting, not wanting to stay in the same place for too

to bait out Ell’Hakan, he also still wanted the advantage of seeing the former Chosen before he saw Jake. If he kept moving and shot arrows would weird angles, pin-pointing his location would be near-impossible, so Jake kept doing it as he functioned like an orbiting satellite that constantly shot down nukes on the

begin appearing. From so far up, Jake saw a dozen cities enact powerful

easy, as it was the only place on the planet with entities Jake could see any value in fighting. Even

Planet city big, but extremely big by any reasonable standards pre-system. If it had been on Earth,

very spread out from what Jake saw, and based on what he’d heard, the entire city had pretty much survived the

to all the beasts and other monsters who had free roam with all the enlightened in the Tutorial... but the same had happened on Ell’Hakan’s planet. Yet no beasts had ruined the city. Instead, they’d protected it. Something the natives viewed as just another display of power by the almighty Celestial Child, while to Jake, it was just further proof of how utterly fucked up his Bloodline was. His influence had spread so far that it even included the animals within and around the city before the system, making

a proper framework to take advantage of this fact. With the system, the

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