Nero, The Legendary Hunter

"Nero, I have a lot to thank you for." Honda looked seriously at Nero.

"No need, I'd rather do dungeons with you than alone," Nero smiled.

"Nero, you don't understand me," Honda said, "Do you know why there is so much difference from one person to another, even with them being at the same level?"

"Well, the difference in status and equipment, and also skills, etc," Nero said.

"Yes, there are those, but most crucial, usually, is the difference in status," Honda explained, "When I absorb a Monster Core that I picked myself, I gain very little status, and not only that, it's very random and tends to go where I'm strongest. Like a magnet, they are attracted to where there is more magnetism, although-"

"Yes, Nero, however, with the Monster Cores you give us, *degozaru*," Jingu interrupted, leaving Honda upset, but she let Jingu explain, "It assigns the stats harmoniously, so to speak. Instead of going where there is 'magnetism' like Honda said, it goes all across our stats, and that's a fantastic thing!"

"To explain it in a better way," Jana said, "When I get 150 stats in an attribute, be it Energy, Strength, it will go up to level 9. And at level 9 it releases the new stat, Agility, and as a new stat, it's very difficult to raise, since it has little 'magnetism,' as they put it, to pull energy towards it, so it's rare to have someone low level with a lot of speed. Either they are born with a natural talent for speed, so when they unlock the skill it is already high, or else, it ends up being difficult to increase. However, the Monster Cores provided by you are an exception; they attribute almost equally through all attributes. That's a fantastic thing, but also something that shouldn't be revealed."

Everyone nodded in agreement. They already respected Nero a lot and wanted to tell her the risk of letting more people know of the Monster Cores she received when using <Plunder>.

"That explains a lot about why you were so excited. Anyway, it's a good thing. Let's keep it up, and you can become a Super Hunter with me, haha!" Nero laughed out loud. Nobody else could understand. It was such a serious matter, but she was laughing… Was she not worried that they might leak this information?

"Well, don't think too much. It's almost impossible to capture me even if this secret gets out," Nero said confidently. After all, she had wings and could fly, and her speed was maxed out.

"Of course, no one here is going to leak this information, right?" Jana said. Everyone nodded.

Nero had something that made them like and trust her, so it didn't even occur to them to betray Nero's trust for a few simple coins. Friendship with her was better than gold.

'So that's why the stats of my summoned monsters are all advancing pretty much at the same level...' Nero muttered in her heart.

After that, they didn't talk about it anymore. They finished eating, and went back to meditating. The low-level Monster Cores they were using to fill the stats they needed. Plus, the process was very fast, as they didn't have to worry about impurity. Even if a Core had any, it was almost nothing.

Nero thought of many things, one of them was to create an unbeatable team. She alone could do a lot, but not as much as a group with similar powers to her own, at least to the point where she didn't have many weaknesses. Although everything they mentioned still didn't explain the abnormality she had at level 10, being equivalent in skill to a level 20, she deduced that it was because this body had undergone a lot of mutations and it was not common, so the threshold itself was higher for her - something like each level was a 100 ML cup but hers was 200 ML. And as the cup increased, hers also doubled. That would explain the abnormality of her body at least.

*

For hours they stayed on the fifth floor of the dungeon meditating. Worse was that if they didn't leave, monsters wouldn't appear on the floors. Well, not all dungeons were like that. Some had setups where multiple groups could enter and find themselves inside the same instance of a dungeon, as in the case of Choko's former city, however, in these better dungeons, there was some kind of mechanism caused a group or person who entered to challenge the dungeon insurance alone. They couldn't even wait for external help if they got in trouble.

Nero, out of boredom, kept shooting arrows at the wall to improve her aim with a bow. She was still waiting for Honda, who had 2 Monster Cores left.

"Ahhh, finally!" Honda yelled.

"I want to take a hot shower now," Jana said as she stretched and yawned at the same time, "and sleep."

"Me too."

5x: "Me too."

When they left the dungeon, people looked at them with all kinds of peculiar looks, be it admiration, envy, shock, adoration, and even disdain. Yeah, they thought they were doing the repeated dungeon runs to show off and make themselves known.

Honda, seeing this situation, had a smile curve her beautiful lips and she screamed as she raised her hand in a victory position. "Tomorrow we're going to do 20 dungeons!"

This scream startled the people who were paying attention to them. Some even bumped into each other from not looking at the direction they were going, so distracted they were.

"Hahahaha!" Honda almost fell to the ground laughing.

'Humph! Those damned motherfuckers!' Honda said in her heart. They didn't know how hard their party had tried and were there people who still had the courage to look at them with disdain? Ha, she would have liked to have seen these people try to do what they had just done...

*Fart!*

The sound of someone letting one rip echoed. Breno turned bell pepper red, and the group looked at him strangely.

"My God, Breno, did you eat carrion?" Honda didn't even take a moment to speak what came to her mind.

"..." Breno was even more embarrassed to hear this.

Nero just covered her nose; the smell was strong. Even though Jana loved him, there were limits to love. She also held her nose, but to show her love, she didn't pull away from him.

"Haha! Breno, you must have been wanting to shit for a while, right?" Jair shouted loudly for everyone to hear.

*Bang!* He received a hook to the stomach from Jana.

"Are you still my sister?" Jair screamed in pain.

"Humph!" Jana snorted and ignored him.

Jingu walked away pretending she was looking at something while saying, "Degozaru, degozaru..."

Choko was silent beside Nero, but like Nero, she had her nose covered.

This strange situation continued for a minute longer in Breno's life. And honestly? He'd really wanted to shit for a while, but he was holding back, and now that he was close, he relaxed a little and let a wet fart slip...

When they arrived at the inn, Jair, who shared a room with Breno, got sick afterward, as he had to shower in the same bathroom Breno had just infested.

*

Nero and Choko took showers together. They already knew they liked each other and had seen each other naked several times, which was now nothing new. And without the charm effect, Choko could control herself better.. And, kissing in the shower was one of the things they found 'interesting' to do.