Chapter 19: The Hunter
Hunter is a very old profession, and this declining profession has been revitalized by changes in the real-world environment. They have a variety of prefixes, detailed classifications, and the popularity of these professions is not much lower than that of the entertainment industry.
With the financial resources of the Portes family, of course, they can contact and drive these hunters, especially the large types of resource hunters among them!
As the name suggests, a resource hunter is a hunter who mainly collects resources, and this kind of resource generally refers to extraordinary resources. Several of the major sagile islands have even joined forces to form a hunters' association, which serves as a super-large trading platform across the world that attracts hunters and provides access to acquisitions and buying.
Most hunters are not extraordinary, but they are not ordinary either. Most of them have some knowledge and strength in the main god world, and they belong to the kind of people who have never entered the main god world, but they have the strength to be not inferior to the newcomers in the main god world. In the beginning, it was just a small group recruited by various countries to scavenge for external resources. With the great changes in the real-world environment, some plants and species have mutated in large numbers, and the size of this group has also expanded. The result was the current massive volume.
Hunters have now become a professional group that cannot be ignored with great influence all over the world.
It is also another powerful force that the transcendent institutions of various countries can grasp in addition to their own transcendent powers. Compared with the former, the latter may be inferior in quality, but the quantity is sufficient. It is said that it is the perfect Lord-God World Transcendent Alternate Team, which is not bad at all. The former mercenary organization of the European continent is part of the predecessor of the Hunters Association.
The changes in the world environment have greatly changed people's physical fitness, and the biggest benefit is that people's lifespan, or cell failure time, has been greatly reduced. In the past, there were many people who had wrinkles at the age of 30, but now there are very few people who have wrinkles at the age of 30. Generally speaking, if you don't care about health and maintenance, wrinkles appear around the age of 40, and your physical fitness is in a certain state of decline compared to your peak, which is the mainstream nowadays.
The forty or fifty years old in the past is equivalent to the thirty or forty years old now, which is the normal state. If you pay attention to health and exercise, it is not difficult to maintain the physical fitness of forty or fifty years old at the age of twenty or thirty. There are many factors in this, not only because of changes in the environment, but also because of the various aspects of the impact caused by changes.
For example, the new food of the ancient world? For example, more plants with extraordinary effects after mutation, and some melons and fruits with special effects? Another example is some of the basic health exercises and knowledge that the government has publicly promoted? Many factors can account for one of the many factors that can constitute the current thirty years old, which is infinitely equal to the past forty or fifty years old. If the factors are mixed with each other and make up for each other, it is not without examples for the age of fifty or sixty to maintain the physical fitness of twenty or thirty years old.
The hunter profession is dangerous, and while other factors, such as car accidents, the annual death toll is decreasing, and the number of deaths in the hunter profession is quietly increasing. In particular, hunters who need to hunt and search for new resources have a high casualty rate among the number of accidental deaths each year.
Among them, the death of the hunter has an unexpected factor, but there is also a human factor. The conflict of interests is the most important factor of man-made. The rules of the Hunters' Association, like the laws of reality for ordinary people, will always be risky for some reason.
In order to avoid the extinction of these new species due to human factors in a few years, and for the sake of sustainable development in the future, the official will naturally introduce some regulations to protect them, and restrict the qualifications for mining and hunting!
But just like the actual illegal hunting and other crimes, even if the official extraordinary agency behind the Hunters Association is very strong and strictly investigated, it is difficult to prohibit it. Unable to trade on the oversized platform of the Hunters' Guild, these people will naturally find a new way to sell.
This is known as the black market for resources - the shadow that exists beneath the sheer size of the Hunters' Guild.
Some illegal contraband, dangerous mutant species that are not allowed to be traded, special [resources] that are restricted from being bought and sold, and special [resources] that require corresponding qualifications to be activated, and dangerous knowledge and strange things that are not allowed to circulate privately, can be said to be everything in the black market of resources that have grown up in a savage and strange way. It came about just a year after the Hunters Guild went from chaos to the right track. But its growth rate is surprisingly high!
When most of the transcendent groups focus on the main god world, the vacant position of reality will naturally be replaced by hunters. They are powerful, but their methods are not as treacherous as those of the real transcendentals. The two may have the same strength, but in terms of the inheritance of the power system, the difference is huge.
The real-world transcendent power system mainly comes from the major official transcendent institutions. The behemoth of the Hunters' Guild is no exception. All hunters know that there are only three ways to gain a high level of knowledge of power.
First, join the Hunter Association or the official transcendent organization behind it, work hard to improve your level in it, and then buy some advanced knowledge of the power system that the association does not sell to the outside world and is difficult to buy with real money according to the points obtained by doing tasks and upgrading levels; second, to be valued by a transcendent person, to report to the official, and to take it with him to teach; Third, if you are lucky enough to get a strange special kind of strange thing, if you have a good talent, you may also understand a way of your own.
The most likely and easiest path to achieve is naturally the first, as long as the physical fitness and ability knowledge meet the standard, you can obtain the qualification of a hunter, and even a reserve hunter can take time to become a regular hunter. As long as you become a hunter, you will be able to pick up better knowledge of the power system and be taught the corresponding experience.
The rarest is the last road, and it's all a matter of luck. After the wave of strange things rain in the past, as well as the systematic growth of the transcendent power system of reality, the strange things of reality are not overflowing, but they cannot be said to be rare. Some low-level strange things and strange things that are not spliced can be made by people, and the circulation in the hunter world is still very wide, but it is rare for ordinary people to see, just like before the real world has not changed, many ordinary people in the world have not been able to touch it in their lives except for movies and TV series, and they can't even see real missiles and other thermal weapons.
Qualified universities are not only created to train transcendents and teachers, but also hunters. In a few years, the growth and growth rate of its hunter scale is enough for officials to ignore it as it did in esports and games back then.
The Hunter Association's point system is a virtual currency that is given official characteristics between the main god currency and the real currency, and the main god currency naturally has all the qualifications to purchase, and it can ignore the hunter level and points for the items that the Hunter Association has. If you don't have the main god currency, you can only buy items of the corresponding level by the level hunter of the corresponding level. In the early days, real money could do everything, but after the hunter level was raised, if you wanted to buy some high-level items, you needed real money, combined with a certain level and points. Points can only be earned by doing quests for the Hunters' Guild and trading some of the more valuable resources. Therefore, even if these more precious resources are purchased at a low price from the Hunter Association, there are many hunters who choose to grit their teeth and shoot for the sake of points. Only some hunters who need real coins and don't need points for the time being will be listed on the platform at a high price. But in the case that knowledge and resources are controlled by the upper echelons of the association, and if you want to advance and abandon your luck, you have to compromise, how many people don't care about the future?
An organization always has to suck blood downward in order to develop, this is the mainstream.
The biggest difference between the hunter system and the transcendent system of the Hunter Guild is that there are no obvious world boundaries between hunters, and their different power systems can be better integrated.