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.

it just me... or are they getting

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

others also realizing that as it came from

sight of the small pink-purple glowing objects falling down, accelerating as they got closer to the surface of the planet. Turning, he saw one of the workers point out where the first one would land, and he was nearly jealous he couldn’t be there to

of destructive energy appeared several hundred kilometers away, a shockwave striking him a few seconds later, making the D-grade workers

another direction... followed by a third, a fourth, and a fifth, as all around them – especially

worker questioned, not

had first seen the “meteors” asked out

fragment... the punishment from the heavens descended straight toward them, and all he could do was place a

calming down instantly... if they were facing doom according to the will of the Celestial Child, then it was an honor they couldn’t possibly be worthy of. Even as the destructive arcane arrow struck only a dozen meters from them, exploding and sending out

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orbital bombardment descended upon the planet, each arrow exploding with the impact of a small nuclear warhead, destroying several cities in the

flooded his system as millions instantly died, not a single one of them rewarding even a single

themselves. This mainly took the form of mid-tier C-grades who specialized in defense, and with

been illicitly lifted; should you spot

though, as Jake unleashed another Rain of Arcane Arrows upon another spot on

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

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

on the planet below. Jake moved again after shooting, not wanting to stay in the

even if he wanted 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

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

in fighting. Even from

city big, but extremely big by any reasonable standards pre-system. If it had been on Earth, it would likely have been the largest one, at least by

very spread out from what Jake saw, and based on

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

him a proper framework to take advantage of this

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