In a world where humanity lives in suspended space, children undergo a fishing test when they come of age. Those with immaculate talents have the possibility of becoming great fishing masters.
In the endless sea, every life is imbued with a sacred mission. There are fish that can fly, turtles that have absorbed the worldly essence, and whales that can devour the heaven and earth… There are also countless fishers. 
Fishing is an art.
There is an ancient saying: If you can't fish, you might as well be bait.

Yi Xiang is a son of blacksmith from small fishing village

He aims to become a powerful monster hunter and wish to forge the weapon that his father has failed to forge in his lifetime

Born with ordinary luck and without any special talent
He is sure that through hard work, he can still become a top monster hunter in the continent
Although his cultivation is also ordinary, his will is extraordinary

Oh yeah, he is also a hidden pervert that has been caged all his lifetime at his hometown
Do you want to know what will happen when he sees all pretty girls as he travel the world?
Come and see how Yi Xiang conquer the world and to win women!

On the second day, Nocturne slept longer than usual, he only opened his eyes around 10:00 a.m. in the morning. If it was not for Chubby Blue stepping on his face, he would have continued sleeping.
After breakfast, he entered the game and teleported to Lake Town.
Last night before he slept, he did some research about the game's fishing system and found out that someone said there was a quest about fishing available in Lake Town.
The reward was a fishing rod that adds 5 points into fishing mastery but it could only be equipped at Fishing 150.
Nocturne's current mastery level was more than enough. He was already at 160 before Angler's Paradise and together with the extra stats from his gear, he made it to 200. 
After Angler's Paradise, his fishing mastery reached a new high and in addition to his gear, he was already at 250 mastery points.
After getting the quest from Lake Town, he decided to head to a higher level lake to fish. He checked the map for the location and as he made his way there, he killed countless monsters that got in his way.
Finally, after an hour, he made it.
The lake was quite big and it had quite a number of fishing spots. Nocturne nodded, he got to a comfortable spot and started fishing.
The lake's recommended level was 18 and it should give him a number of higher tier fish.
After putting down his fishing chair, he sat on it and skillfully set up his rod. The bait was loaded on the hook and the line was swiftly cast into the water.
"Phew, fishing is the best." 
Nocturne laid back and enjoyed the peace and quiet from fishing.
When he felt a tug from his fishing rod, he pulled himself together and started to reel it in. Maybe because of his higher fishing mastery, or maybe because he used a Night Bug as bait, he did not have to wait long for the fish to take the bait.
He fought the fish for a while before he smoothly reeled it in.
[Acquired: Sunscale Salmon]
"Yeah, this should be it. This is the special fish that the quest needed."
According to the original poster that posted the thread on the forum, it was rather difficult to fish this rare fish. The guy only got five after fishing for an entire day.
Nocturne was certain that the guy did not have his ability to look for fishing spots, or the guy's fishing mastery was not that high, otherwise he would not have only gotten five fish after a whole day.
He got three Sunscale Salmon before the fishing spot went dark. He kept the fish in the bucket before heading to the next spot.
It was then that he noticed something interesting about his skill, Locate Fishing Spot. He spotted some floating fragments.
Locate Fishing Spot's skill highlighted some fragments around some floating logs on the surface of the water.
At first glance, Nocturne knew it was a special fishing spot, he ran over with his fishing rod and started fishing.
[Acquired: Tightly Sealed Box]
The special fishing spot gave him just a box before it disappeared. Nocturne had a feeling that he might get something good from the box, so he sat down and opened it.
[Opened Tightly Sealed Box. Acquired: The One Ring]
[The One Ring (Great)]
[Character Binds]
[Ring]
[1 Magic Resistance]
[+1 to all stats]
[Requirement: Level 10]
[Note: This is slightly weaker than The Two Ring]
At first glance, Nocturne despised the ring. 
"What in the… +1 to all stats?"
If he did not look at the note, he would have thrown it away.
Judging from the note, this ring should be a part of a set, though he had no idea how to acquire them.
"Hmmm, I can't find a use for it now but I might get a special quest or learn some special method to activate it in the future. Let's just save it for now."
Nocturne continued to the next fishing spot, hoping that he could get more special fish. However, even after he cleared out all the fishing spots, he did not get anything except for a tone of Waterproof Boxes.
He decided to wash his hands by the lake before the opening.
Unfortunately, he got nothing good either. All he got was a bunch of garbage and two green gear, he did not even get a recipe. Though he got himself a fishing skill book but he had no idea how good it was.
[Intermediate Fishing Guide: The Art of Baiting]
[Character Binds]
[Book]
[Usage: Permanently increase 10 Fishing mastery points and teach you how to make your own bait.]
[Requirement: Fishing (200)]
He used it and the familiar video tutorial appeared. After he finished the tutorial, the game informed him of the 10 Fishing mastery point increase and the knowledge to make his own bait.
He opened up his skill tab and saw a new bait-making skill there, it also came with three formulas.
The first two formulas were for normal fish bait and Night Bug fish bait, the last one was worm bait.
Nocturne knew about using worms as bait. He could get it by killing a specific worm monster and the auction certainly had some of it. 
As for Night Bug, Nocturne had never seen it elsewhere.
After clearing all the fishing points, Nocturne got to a comfortable spot and continued fishing normally.
[Acquired: Silverhead Salmon]
[Acquired: Redgills]
…
[Acquired: Sunscale Salmon]
…
It seemed like he could fish Sunscale Salmon out of the fishing spot. He believed it must be either the bait or the fishing gears he put on.
It made sense though. If one could not get rare fish without Locate Fishing Spot, then the skill would be unbalanced, the guy from the forum would probably start a riot if he found out.
Nocturne thought he could fish comfortably and in peace until night but he was startled when he felt a strong tug from his rod. The tug almost pulled the rod away from him.
Startled, Nocturne grabbed his rod tightly. He thought it was some kind of new and rarer fish that took the bait.
He had to fight for a while before he managed to pull the fish that took the bait. 
When it got out of the water, Nocturne realized it was not a fish but an eel, a Stonescale Eel, Level 20 normal monster.
He was Level 17 and he was three levels behind the monster. However, it was not much of a problem because the Stonescale Eel could barely move after coming out of the water, he could simply throw some ranged skills at it and kill it slowly.
Nocturne swapped into his combat gear and threw a little hammer glowing in holy energy at the monster. 
Judgement!
The "fight" was much easier than expected. Maybe because the monster was a fish and it was weakened on the ground, he was able to block all the simple jumps and bite.
He was able to take it out after a while.
[Acquired: Stonescale Eel]
"Right… I forgot this is a game. Way a go…"
From there, he would fish a Stonescale Eel from time to time and it felt like when he was fighting murlocs at the river. 
Fighting a monster three levels higher than him gave him quite the amount of EXP and the fight was easy.
Plus the EXP he got from fishing, even though he might not catch up with normal EXP farming but he was not far behind.
The fishing continued until the sky turned dark.
New fishing spots spawned as it got darker. Nocturne quickly set up camp in front of some concentrated fishing spots. 
The campfire he built shed light on the dark lake.
"Hehehe, I'm well-prepared. I will not miss the rare fish at night now!"


Destiny Online, a brand new VRMMORPG that just released with a unique mechanic. Every new player gets a special random talent when they create their character. 

Deciding to play as a Paladin and having been granted the talent, Halo Master, Nocturne was able to provide an astonishing number of buffs to anyone he teams up with. With his buffs, anyone was able to defeat even the hardest bosses in the game. 

This is the story of how he rises to become known as the Halo Paladin. Comes with fishing and cat raising facts. (=ↀωↀ=)



Mecha base.
A huge base out 30 meters deep underground.
Sparks are splashing, the light of electric welding is shining.
At this moment, 80 meters high dangerous wanderer mecha, is step by step to complete the manufacturing.
After Lin Jun went on a trip to the future after a thousand years, Lin Jun has re-improved the mech's neuron interaction link technology, which can reduce the pressure of human-machine interaction to 30%.
In other words, it is already possible to achieve single-pilot.
And no need for two-person piloting.
Weapons.
Lin Jun still chose the plasma pulse cannon as propulsion and combat, and that plasma cannon was replaced by Lin Jun electromagnetic cannon, and still the electromagnetic cannon technology after the millennium, more powerful, smaller size.
And for armor materials.
Using technology from a thousand years later, with the new elements of the monster body to create a new alloy.
There are 30 times harder bone steel ...
There is the magnetic steel that can create field electromagnetic isolation ...
Of course, there is no shortage of vibranium, an unbelievable material ...
[ [
Name: Dangerous Wanderer
Height: 80m
Weight: 2100 tons
Operating system: HSA-S (Millennium Post Optimization System)
Power core: new elemental reaction furnace (10)
Armor: vibranium + bone steel + magnetic steel
Weapons: 30m chain longsword a, plasma pulse cannon 6, electromagnetic cannon 1
]
The redesigned Dangerous Wanderer has more height, more weight, thicker armor material, and changed weapons.
It can be said that the combat power of today's Dangerous Wanderer is more than ten times stronger than the Dangerous Wanderer inside the Pacific Rim.
"Professor Lin!" Lin Jun's assistant Zhang Yun reported the latest progress to Lin Jun.
Lin Jun: "How long is it expected to take before the Dangerous Wanderer can be completed?"
Zhang Yun: "At present, the state support is relatively strong, many supplies are supplied quickly, so the progress is speeded up, Dangerous Wanderer, perhaps half a month earlier, that is, the first of October or so, officially completed ..."
Lin Jun nodded his head.
This speed, good!
...
...
Cape of Good Hope.
A large fishing boat was catching fish.
Hundreds of meters long large fishing nets, thrown down the sea, and then under the drag of the fishing boat, constantly pockets many, many fish into it.
Suddenly, the fishing net tightened violently.
The boat shook violently!
As if pulling in some big load!
"Woah woah woah~~~"
"%@#@￥ (good stuff, good stuff) ..."
"*%...% (out of the big goods out of the big goods) ..."
The local indigenous fishermen, letting out shouts of surprise, ran out from inside the cabin one by one in excitement and excitement, running to the side of the boat and looking at the end of the fishing net.
Just at that moment, the fishing net violently tightened again.
Dang~~~
With a dull sound, the right half of the fishing boat sank violently, and the left half was directly pried into mid-air.
A few indigenous fishermen did not have a firm grip, screamed miserably and fell directly into the sea.
And just at that moment ...
Boom ~~~~
At this time, a huge monster figure, violently exploded out of the sea, countless seawater directly flooded the whole fishing boat.
All the fishermen stare dumbfounded!
"Monster ... monster!!!"
"Ahhhhhhh ~~~~~"
The huge monster directly smashed down on the fishing boat, boom ~ ~ a sound, less than a second fishing boat was crushed into countless pieces, submerged drifted in the seawater.
Soon, the sea once again restored calm.
As if nothing had happened in general, only the fragments of fishing boats floating on the surface of the sea, to prove that a maritime disaster just happened here.
After crushing the fishing boats, the monster continued all the way around the Cape of Good Hope, then turned a direction and headed north.
The target - the country of Victoria!
Time - 4 days later!
...
...
Victoria country.
The Grand Elder secret trip to the inside of a military base.
This base is obviously the former dilapidated air-raid shelter, because of the urgent need, the Institute has only recently opened, the Grand Elder also saw the ceiling position of the air-raid shelter there are still a lot of moss grass roots have not been dealt with.
"Our country ... hey ..."
The Grand Elder clenched his fist with a heavy heart.
Thinking back then, the country of Victoria could be said to be number one in the world, and today, not to mention the lighthouse country, even the dragon country can't catch up.
And this time, the matter of the monsters gave the Grand Elder a wake-up call.
The Victorian country can no longer lag behind, it must catch up.
And the first project, that is - mechs!
So, the Grand Elder proposed to build mechs.
This proposal, was quickly passed by the House, then implemented, and then there was this new military base.
Soon, he arrived at the innermost one, a huge air-raid shelter forty or fifty meters high.
Inside.
People were coming and going.
Some huge machinery was operating.
In the very center of the shelter was a huge [steel spider].
That's right, the mech that the country of Victoria wanted to build, or the ---- steel spider!
In fact, at first, they wanted to make a scorpion, with multiple feet to balance the body and a tail to attack, but ... when it came to the real design, all the experts were confused: how to operate that long scorpion tail?
Can't control and operate the tail to attack the monster like an excavator, right?
That would be too bullshit!
So, the final choice of steel spider.
[
Model: steel spider
Driver: 20 people
Height: 30 meters
Weight: 3000 tons
Power: nuclear power
Operation mode: hydraulic drive
Main body: Tungsten steel
Armor: Tungsten steel
Weapons: Spider claws, missiles ...
]
General saluted: "Good day, Grand Elder!"
Grand Elder nodded: "How is the progress now?"
General: "It's almost done."
Grand Elder: "..."
He understood that the reason why it was completed so quickly was because the mech was built in the same way as a tank, with no major technical content.
Otherwise there is no need for those 20 pilots.
And one more thing, this 3000 tons of weight is considered the maximum weight that the eight feet of this spider mech can bear, otherwise they want to make the spider mech even more massive.
In short, this spider mech, full of bitter tears, is a clear evidence of the backwardness of science and technology in Victoria.
Grand Elder: "The day after tomorrow can be completed?"
General: "Back to the Grand Elder, no problem, tomorrow night, this spider mech can be completely finished."
The Grand Elder nodded and nodded, and said in a heavy voice: "Good, in three days, I am going to face the whole world and show its existence. I want to tell the world that my country, Victoria, is still strong!"
When the general and the people around him heard this, they immediately held their heads high and filled with hot tears.
The Victorian nation, not fallen!
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In the summer of 2020, Lin Jun became the first candidate who took a step out of the examination hall.

Reporter interview: "Student, you are the first candidate to step out of the examination hall, may I ask what you have to say?"

Lin Jun disdain: "This kind of question, pure waste of my time, no more, I have to go back to build mecha?"

The reporter was confused: "Hmm? Build mechs?"

The same day, Lin Jun posted a video on the b site - [final test of Mecha Rangers primary machine - mp4]

A huge 30-meter-tall mech, emerging from the sky!

At this moment, the whole world was boiling!

"It's entangled in it! It's really entangled in it!" Old Man Xu exclaimed with a look of surprise and hatred on his face, which was a mix of complicated emotions. "I knew it wasn't gone, I knew it."
The old man made a lot of wooden stakes in the reservoir, and a tough specially-made fishing net was hung between the two stakes. There were bells on the fishing net. As long as the monster swam past, it would be caught by the fishing net and when it struggled, the bells on the fishing net would make a sound.
The old man picked up a steel fork at the door and strode out.
Li Xianyu, afraid that he would be in danger, immediately followed him. Great-Grandma gulped down her chicken soup, put the bowl down and ran out.
The ringing of the bells rang from afar, hundreds of meters from the shore. Old Man Xu couldn't see clearly, but Li Xianyu con clearly see violent ripples surfacing in the water over there. The net on the surface of the water kept shaking, as there was something entangled in the net underwater. The creature was struggling.
"Sir, wait for us here." Li Xianyu reached out to pick up his steel fork, but the old man stepped back and said, "I'm going too. I'm going to avenge my grandson myself."
The old man was very stubborn, Li Xianyu did not have time to argue with him. As time passed, that thing may break free from the fishing net. With the power of a demon descendant, it wouldn't be trapped by the fishing net for long.
As they untied the rope tied to the stake, Li Xianyu and the old man boarded the boat. Great-Grandma kicked the head of the boat, and the boat immediately floated out, like a yacht. Great-Grandma leapt and jumped onto the boat.
Old Man Xu was stunned by her skillful kung fu. He thought to himself that policemen were capable indeed, even a young girl had great martial arts skills.
Li Xianyu was secretly surprised. He could also kick out such a force but he would have kicked the boat apart. He didn't have such control as Great-Grandma had.
After the boat floated out more than ten meters, it slowly stopped. Li Xianyu and Old Man Xu had one oar each and continued to row hard.
They were getting closer and closer to the shaking net. Old Man Xu looked at the tightening fish net that was constantly being pulled into the water. He was a little nervous and clenched the steel fork in his hand.
Unfortunately, this steel fork has no effect on foreign species, but it will probably kill a few monkeys.
The monster was so powerful that the stake on the shore was tugged at due to the force and wobbled slightly.
They were still ten meters away from the fishing net, when the water suddenly quieted. The stake no longer wobbled, and the part of the fishing net that should be on the surface of the water also floated up.
It escaped?!
Old Man Xu opened his eyes wide, his expression forlorn and unwilling to give up.
Li Xianyu and Great-Grandma looked at each other. He said, "Sir, wait on the boat. We'll go inside the water to take a look."
Old Man Xu stopped him and grabbed Li Xianyu's arm. "You can't go down, you'll be eaten if you go into the water."
In the eyes of the old man, even if the two policemen were good, they had no chance of fighting back when they go down to the water. In fact, human demon descendants ruled the whole demon descendants community, and they were not even afraid of those flying in the sky. However, they were afraid of those who swam in the water. The force of water was too strong. One could fight with people with different stances on land, but in the water, one's stances would be manipulated.
"It's okay. We have guns." Li Xianyu patted the back of his waist. He turned and turned his back to the old man. He then pulled out two cold light illumination sticks from his wallet, one for Great-Grandma and one for himself in the water. Before he went into the water, he told him, "Sir, don't float around and wait for us right here."
They jumped into the water. Splash.
During the day, the water surface of the reservoir was heated into warm water by the sunlight. At this time, the heat dissipated and the water was ice cold.
When they dived into the water, all sounds disappeared, and the lighting stick could only illuminate the sight of a few meters around. There was no other sound in their ears except the muffled sound of their own paddling. During the night, it was completely dark underwater, except the surrounding area illuminated by the stick. They were surrounded by darkness and silence.
Li Xianyu felt terrible because he had deep-sea phobia. He looked around with vigilance, took a shield spiritual device from his wallet and held it in his hand. He then took out a short knife that was half a meter long, with a single edge. It had a sharp edge, a slightly curved body, and was engraved with complicated runes. It resembled a smaller version of a Japanese samurai blade.
They had to admit, although there were not many kinds of weapons in Japan, their advantages were very comprehensive. They were sharp at the tip of the knife and their function was on par with a sword. They were also suitable for slaying and fighting.
The more powerful laser sword couldn't be used in the water. Fortunately, this blade was also a spiritual device. After injecting qi in it, it was sharp and it could still unleash sword qi.
Li Xianyu converted all the points into spiritual devices, as he advanced step by step into the ranks of Krypton gold players. Even ordinary senior employees didn't have as many weapons as him.
The light approached, as Great-Grandma swam towards him elegantly. Her waist swayed, as her slender legs were closed together. She looked like an elegant mermaid, her pert buttocks bobbing up and down. Her long hair was like seaweed, and the light of the lighting stick reflected her delicate face. For a moment, Li Xianyu felt that he was a drowning protagonist and had met a beautiful mermaid.
After communicating with each other with gestures, the two swam towards the fishing net together.
The fishing net was about three meters wide. That was to say, it could only catch the creatures within three meters from the surface of the water. The monster probably wanted to surface, so it was caught by the fishing net? Li Xianyu thought.
Li Xianyu held up a lighting stick and lit up the suspended creatures in the water. He carefully examined the fishing net, and there was a tear in the middle. According to the torn seam, it was broken by brute force. But it could also be teeth or claws.
Not far on the left, something lit up. Li Xianyu swam over and looked at it. It was a dark scale, that was the size of half a palm. It reflected the light of the lighting stick.
Fish scales? Li Xianyu swam to Great-Grandma, raised the scales in his hand, and showed her what he had found. 
Something's wrong. He thought the monster was a reptile, like a crocodile, but it was obviously impossible for a crocodile to have scales. That was not the case with crocodile armour. 
Is it some kind of fish? But it was very difficult for fish to awaken their bloodline. Mammals were the most likely to awaken their bloodline. Some low-level animals couldn't do so. It was absolutely impossible, which is the consensus of the demon descendants community.
But it was impossible to fish to come from the outside. Fish did not have legs, unless it was a fish that could transform. Li Xianyu had never heard of fish demon descendants that could transform. This was more incredible than the discovery of the Loch Ness monster.
Furthermore, according to Old Man Xu at the time, before the monster hunted, he didn't even see any movement on the surface of the water, which ruled out fish. This was because fish, and large fish, were bound to swim near the surface of the water. If it had leapt out from underwater to hunt, it was impossible for it to flash away, and Old Man Xu would certainly see what it looks like.
Li Xianyu accumulated rich knowledge of the program "Animal World" when he was a child, and analyzed madly in his mind.
Just then, Great-Grandma's aura changed violently, as if she was facing a great enemy.
There was a surging sound of undercurrent in their ears, and something was approaching, behind him.
Li Xianyu tensed up and did not dare to move. He imagined a huge monster floating quietly at the bottom of the dark water behind him. Its ferocious face loomed indistinctly in the light of the lighting stick.


When Li Xianyu was 20 years old, he received his father's inheritance, an 18-year-old great-grandmother who was incredibly beautiful. 

Li Xianyu: "Great-Grandma, why are you so young?"

Great-Grandma: "That's because I died when I was 18 years old."

Li Xianyu: Σ( っ° д°;)っ

I thought I was hearing something last night about going fishing...

Sighing...and now here we are sitting at picnic table waiting for our lucky by fishing the big fish in the pond.

K paid the fees just to let us trying our luck today. 

Seriously, I thought he will brought us fishing in the stream or natural open water instead of rented pond. He rented a small pond just for us today.

I just look around and not many people tend to spend their time here or for me wasting their time waiting for something magical to appear to the surfaces.

Don't you see they were already feed the fishes here before we came? Feed enough just us here to test if some of the fish still hungry and need more food and here we are trying to feeding the hungry monsters down there.

Lucky enough if the monster exist in this very pond! 

Or worse if only a few fishes were resides here!

I snorted shaking my head disbelieve with the situation here. Mommy, I look she enjoying the breeze more to the open air. She just close her eyes inhaled smiling before leave out the air to breathe again. She repeated the same thing over and over again.

Then I went my eyes to the one man here, K, sitting and lazying himself on the lazy chair he brought exclusively from home. While me sit opposite of Mommy had to endured the unexpected events surrounded me.

Not that I hate all this but...it's not the same like I was dreamed about. I thought we were going to have a happy moments together at the river bank waiting for the fish to catch our bait with more carefree there.

I could imagine how I love soaking my feets in the cold clear running water, enjoying beautiful scenery, freely picnicking ourselves there.

Now...the reality is...I was crying inside!

I know I hate fishing but I don't mind to accompany whoever want me to be there... but~

Haiya...

I think I don't know how to fooling around myself here with this confinement places, like I was being trapped here, surrounded by steel fences, the bald field with dead grasses just a few splotches of lives grasses I could see scattered everywhere. Got so many plastics and tin cans rubbish scattering and loitering around. 

I don't know how did they handle this place. I bet there were mosquitoes making their home somewhere among those rubbish...I don't know...

Think again, not that I don't like his idea but I hate to pretend how I was so happy to imagine the beauty about to be revealed soon...and now...here we are...

I could heard the eagle cawing echoes up in the air signaling 'I know how you feel' to me back.

A dessert with a pond in the middle of it!

I propped up my knees to my chin, sitting on the wooden bench attached to the wooden table didn't say a word since we were arrived here. Mommy wouldn't say anything cause she doesn't know where were we headed so she just thought we far away from home...

"You look sad, babe. Why? You don't like it here?"

I hung up my head on him before I strayed my eyes away from him. Once I saw he gestured his hands indicates the meaning of the surrounding he preferred, I gave up and making a disappointed look.

"Tell me about it. What do you want?" he sit in front of me putting his hand on my knees.

"I thought we were going to the river or more open spaces than this..." I know I sounds like a kid didn't get  a big candy instead of a small sweet but I don't afraid to tell him that I don't like a bit about all this.

Sounds how was I such a demands person and I don't care. I want what I want.

"Sorry dear...you didn't tell me about it...so...we can go there..." he suggested following of what I want.

Sitting straight with the same expression, I shook my head disagreed.

"It's okay... besides you've already rented the pond so let me adjusting myself to it." I gave him assured smile and I know he trying to please me.

"Are you sure about it?" he giving me that look.

"Yes, K. Don't worry just enjoy your moment...look! You're fishing rod!" I suddenly pointed to his fishing rod that moving like being pulled by the force.

He run for it and grab the rod, twisting the paddle as he can than paused for moment pulling the bending rod to the shore as closed as he can. I could see how the monster retaliate to it and making difficulty to K to get the monster closer enough.

I was excited by that kind of action how you trying to land those monster up. K did struggling for quite a moment. I told Mommy of what really happening now and she also excited like me.

We both can't wait to see what kind of monster there almost pulling K into the water and I was almost laugh at that.

"Come on K. You can make it. Don't let the monster win over you!" I shouted encourage him more.

I could see he was drenched sweating, his vein popping out prominently on his forearms holding the rod tightly. He was grimacing controlling his postured.

After about half an hour fighting with the monster, playing some tug-of-war together, the monster finally defeated and K landing 4.8 kilogram of monster. I don't know what type of the fish but nevertheless I satisfied with the catch.

Doesn't matter the fish is big or small, I was appeased just looking at how worth it his expression displayed on his face. He look happy and excitedly waving his catch to us.

I snapped a few pictures between us and the catch but totally forgot to film him during the battle. Such a waste!

He decided to returning the fish back into the pond but for the exchanged he got cash in his hands. I laughed at that, what a lucky day for him. Got some thick cash just by managed to 'tame' the monster himself.

I didn't know that the pond his rented was most favourite port for the hardcore fans of pond fishing people. I just knew it after read those notice on the board while they were weighting the monster.

Plus, that pond contain only a few species and hard to get hooked. No wonder K got plenty of some Green and he chose this day to go fishing.

Did he just read something....no...did he just turned to be a fortune teller recently? 

Yeah...he just knew that I would agreed to be his girlfriend, first. Then, he booked the tickets already for two after he knew I didn't sleep instead of driving his own car and now...he just won a big catch and also a big cash by himself...hmm...

"Why you gave me that look?" he paused for a moment after could sense how my eyes penetrating his skull grilling into his brain to get the answers out.

I shook my head didn't answered him and just sit down looking at him tidy up his stuff back into his fishing big box of compartment. He reassembled his fishing rod and tied it up, putting away the other essential into the tiny box and paused once again.

"Seriously, babe...I could feel your intensed stares at me. Spit it out!" he gave me a question look and walk to me.

"Now tell me what is it?" he standing right in front of me.

"I guess I should wait you guys at the car instead..." Mommy put out her stick and walk away to the car straight. I was trying to help her but he stopped me holding my hand in his.

"She knew it because this is her favourite place, her favourite chair and she knew where I used to parked the car...now...spill it, L"

Now he sounded serious calling my name instead of babe-ing me.

I didn't know this place was her favourite one! I should ask him more about this! Yeah...next time...

"Nothing...just a tiny bit of this of that..." I running my eyes everywhere didn't bother the looks he gave me.

"I know...what's on your mind..." he sit down at me.

"Maybe...if you guess it right..." still not looking at his soft demeanor self, wriggling my toes playfully.

"What I get if I guess correctly, honey?" now...he gave me smug face, honey-ing me.

"I don't know...what do you want?"

"Hmm...never thought about it but...can I claim it when I want it?"

I tracing my bottom lips looking up to the sky and making a serious face thinking hard but actually, I just thinking of nothing.

"Sure!" I shrugged don't mind at all.

"Good! I claim anything I want and no backing away! Promise?"

"Yeah, I promise!" grinning showing off my uneven teeth to him.

He pinched my cheek playfully and I just chuckled do the same thing on both his cheeks. He grimacing cause I pinched his cheeks harder.

"Come help me. I buy you some lollipop... strawberry!"

I shook my head. 

"Nope!"

"Sundae cone?"

"Nuh-uh." still shaking my head from side to side slowly.

"What do you want?" he standing asking me while sling his hands to the chest, tapping his right feet repeatedly to the ground and lifting up his left brows like The Rock, all on me.

Bitting my bottom lip, then grinning like crazy and tilted my head to the side...

He sighed finally knowing what I want.

"I'll give it later if you help me...how about that?" he smile let out his hand for me.

I nodded get up and grab his hand walking together to the unfinished business near the pond. We packing up all the stuff and pick up our bag before heading back to the car.

Mommy grinning sitting at the back with opened back  door when heard our approaching footsteps.

K told her about our relationship yesterday after lunch. She was so much happy about it but I could traced that she a bit worried about our future.

I know...she worried about my parents. Will they be okay if I had a boyfriend who's son of their former caretakers.

"I don't know how to fight! How am I supposed to protect you?" K exclaimed whispering at me with worried expression on his handsome face.

He hugging his briefcase tightly to his chest gulping down his nervous saliva back into his stomach. On other hand, he hold her hand tightly.

The group of tugs coming in closer and we were both steps back as many as we can until our back touches the solid surfaces.

Shit! 

What to do? What to do? Racking some idea from my brain.

Ohhh~~my brainy brain! Please give some idea~~

"Stop!!" I held out my hand closing my eyes tightly and exclaimed them to follow my instruction.

Heh, they just stopped! I'm dancing invisibly~~

The biggest question marks displayed above their heads white as a cloud, floating and dancing indicating they were confusing by me.

Slowly...I step a side by side holding K hand to follow my lead. While they were confusing and looking at each other like a stupid companion, we took a long step and running away from them.

Hahaha!

"It's okay...I will protect you! Come on move your muscles...we got to run from them first!"

Breathlessly, I said it out loud dragging his hand and we running together to the paradise...

Splash!

"Wargghhh..."

Anita holding an empty bucket while tapping her feets on to the tiles floor. She was fuming to red. Wow, I could see her face already changed to an angry bull ready to knock me down!

Sweeping the damped face, I was totally confused and searching for someone...K...

Where is he? Don't we were running to the paradise just now?

"Will you stopped laughing like a choking vampire in the middle of the night, L!? I've got test TOMORROW!!" Anita throw away the bucket and get back to her bed under the duvet.

Gosh!

That's all only a dream?

I thought it was real?

Waaa...

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L: She's crazy when she wanted to be crazy.

K: I'm not weak like you dreaming about, L.

Anita: *Smirking like a sly fox*

Alessia: "Oopss" Marilyn Monroe version with the fan fanning from behind looking as 'innocent' as she wants.

Noah: "Hey sexy lady. Wanna dance with me?"

Anita: Smacking Noah head.

Noah: "Ouch! That hurt fox!"

Anita: *Tilting her brows making a weird face*

Noah: *Laughing nervously fanning her with his handkerchief*

Zafira: Busying herself with full height of documents stacking ready to be her toilet paper!

Messi: "Don't mess with me cause I'm Messi White! Always clean like my surname. Got it?"

Mommy: "Excuse us, coming through guys!" she smiling happily on her wheelchair just done with her eye operation three hours ago.

Big Boss: *Happily strolling the wheelchair to the front didn't care the bickering back there."

L: "Come along people! ready to take some selfie here..."

K: Standing on her side holding his phone up in the air while hugging L like she was his alone!

Noah: "Say teeth everyBODY!"

Well...what a dramatic selfie session!

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In the picture:

Zafira: Standing straight holding her few stack of papers on her hand with poker face while she was smoking at the back. Wait! When did she smoking?

Messi: Standing like ready to punch K holding his daughter like she was belong to him alone. Oit! You guys not even married yet. So put your hand to the side! Do not touching her! —That's what he thought!

Alessia: Haiya future husband, stop doing that! We are beyond touching already yet we still not married! Come, hug me! —She just grinning grabbing Messi hand while holding her floating skirt in front from the spinning fan. Welp, the fan looks like ready to be broken.

Noah: Showing off all his teeth standing beside Anita.

Anita: Sly smirk show her middle finger to Noah on his head!

Mommy and Big Boss: Holding hands to each other lovingly beside Anita and Noah.

K: Smiling lovingly only for L, totally adore her!

L: Happy and thought all good until she is left half in the photo! the rest? gone!

Poor you L!

It's not fairr!!

L bawling dissatisfied with all the photos because most of them, she was off the grid!!

like her head only ~~~

The dragon king is very angry with those people in the fishing village. He wants to revenge.  He is completely losing his mind.
   The dragon princess is worry about the people in the fishing village, especially Roki.  Because she has a very special feeling to Roki.  It was this boy who saved her life.
  Loly asks the big dark shark to take her to chasing for her father dragon king. And she wants to tell the dragon king what happened.  The big dark shark swims very fast as a fastest horse on the people's  land.  But the dragon king has went far.
   When the dragon king gets to the seaside,  those people who are fishing in the sea are scared by him. "Monster, monster!" those scared person is yelling.  Some of those people fainted, while other people are trying their best to swim away.
   The dragon king used his magic to wake those people who fainted and limite those people who are trying to get away from him.  Some of these people are very scared to be lucidum, they just get fainted again. 
   Those fish men who are awake asks the dragon king:" Who are you? Monster. And what are you want want from us?".  " I am the dragon king of this sea,  I control the four seas.   All the sea creatures are my people,  you guys has killed so many of my people.  Even I was very angry with you, but I didn't even bother with you.  But days ago, you are almost killed my daughter." Those fishing men get very confused, because they never fished a dragon. " We didn't kill your daughter or even hurt her.  We never met a dragon." said a fish man.  The dragon king gets more angry with those people. " Liar!" said the dragon king.  
  At this moment the atmosphere of the area gets very serious. And because the dragon king control the sea, the sea reacts to the dragon king.   
  The waves in the sea get bigger and bigger, stronger and stronger.  Those dashing man controlled by the dragon king are about to die.   
  At the very last minute, the dragon princess gets there and use her magic to save those fishing men.   The dragon king is very confused by what her daughter just did. " Why do you want to save those people who was about to kill you?" asked the dragon king. " They donn't know that I am the dragon king's daughter, and the fishing just for making a living. Father please let them go" said Loly. " And there was a little boy who saved my life,  he is also one of them.  Are you going to kill him too, daddy?" Loly asked. " Ok, then I think I will let them go." the dargon king said.
  The dragon king takes back his magic and let them go. "Oh wait!" said the dragon king. Those fishing men is getting worried agian. They think:"The dragon king changes his mind? We don't want to die!"
  "I want to thanks for a little boy who saved my daughter's live, where is him?" the dragon king asked. "The boy must be Roki! He is in the village now!" "Can you lead the way?" asked the dragon king. "Ok!" said a fishing man.

A romantic story of Dragon Princess Loly and the boy in the fishing village.

Chapter 1. At a Large Supermarket, Part II

Translator: Khan
Editor: RED

 
"Kaaahh!" It was a real monster.
 
The 190-centimeter height, a muscular body with a narrow waist, and a neck that was thicker than the waist of an adult woman were entirely compatible with the word 'monster'.
 
The most monstrous part of all was its face. Its blackened fangs, longer than the fingers of an adult man, and protruding through the thick lips of a very ugly face, were shining with human blood and gore.
 
"Urgh!" Of course, the monster was not something that a normal adult male, now in his forties, who had only exercised playing golf online, would normally face and be willing to fight back. It was worth running from!
 
Nevertheless, the reason why the middle-aged man, Park Jae-woon, blocked the monster with the hideous grayish-brown skin, was simple.
 
"Honey, honey!" 
"Aahhh, Dad! Dad!"
 
He was standing in front of two women. His wife and daughter were now shedding tears full of despair and fear behind him. So, he wouldn't run in front of them.
 
'Damn it, damn it, damn it...!' The moment he ran away, he would lose something more precious than his life.
 
"Well, don't worry! I'll stop it! I'll stop it!"
 
That was why he made a resolution to stand against this monster by using the tennis racket purchased today, as always, for the diet that he had decided to start on the first of the year.
 
Everyone could understand why he could not back down.
 
"Kaaahh!" Of course, the resolution had no meaning to the monster in front of him and his family. His resolution did not give any inspiration to the monster.
 
At this moment, in the monster's eyes, they were just a bit of food to satisfy its hunger.
 
"Krrr!" As soon as the imagination of the monster reached the point where it would fill its mouth with fresh meat, the monster no longer cared. Then, the monster took a step towards him.
 
Poof! Poof! He wielded a tennis racket that he had never swung in his life at the monster.
 
"Aahhhh!" His cry as he swung the tennis racket, was more like a scream than a cry.
 
His frantic attempts did not do the slightest damage to the body of the monster. But it didn't mean anything. Thanks to his attempts to attract the attention of the monster, Bang Hyun-wook was able to approach the monster without being seen.
 
Bam! He hit the monster's head with a bat. His attack was powerful.
 
"Argh!" He shouted out at the vibration that fed back into his hands.
 
His hit was strong enough that ordinary people would have fallen over, their skulls broken.
 
"Kaaah!" However, the monster was not an ordinary person. Its thick neck did not shake, and its hard skull was not cracked.
 
The strike just got it angry. So it turned around, opened its mouth wide to the attack, and screamed.
 
"Kaaah!" Not just screaming, but the strongest threat it could pose!
 
'Huh!' 

Fear, it was fear! The fear pinched his whole body at once.
 
'What, what...?' The feeling of an invisible chain tied all over him. He felt like an invisible hand had grabbed his heart. The eerie feeling stopped him from moving, and the monster did not hurry as it saw him freeze.
 
It studied at him with its red eyes, and it saw the characteristics of the animal that had attacked it. It was the look of a predator looking at its prey.
 
'The heck!' He was scared and angry at the same time. 'You fucking monster!'
 
It was scary. But on the contrary, the fact that he would be eaten alive while being treated like a prey made him angry beyond his fear. The anger stimulated the power in his body.
 
The wriggling that started in his body rose like a fountain at once. It passed through his chest, starting from his stomach, and shook off what was holding his heart and immediately rose up his throat and burst out of his mouth.

"Ahhhhhhh!" Just like that, a scream came out of his mouth, a cry that sounded similar to what the monster had just done a moment ago.
 
He could feel a weird power in his body, and a strange warmth, similar to that of coming out of the sauna. His eyes also changed. They were now tingling, with an odd haze around them.
 
"Kaaah?" It was at that moment that the monster stopped moving. 

The expression of its eyes changed. They were not the eyes of a predator looking at its prey, but the eyes of a beast looking at a beast. As a beast was in front of the beast, the monster was wary now in front of Bang, and it focused all its attention on him.
 
It was at that moment that Kim Tae-hoon moved. He came in behind the monster who was wary at the threat in front of it. His presence was so faint.
 
'Huh?' Even Park, who was able to watch Kim approaching the monster, did not notice his appearance and existence until Kim wrapped its neck three times with the fishing line, using both hands behind the monster's back. In addition, Kim's skill at wrapping the monster's neck using fishing line was also very smooth.
 
It was by no means a lucky trick. It was a level of skill that could only be demonstrated by those who had practiced hundreds or thousands of times, and who had experienced at least a hundred real fights.
 
The fishing line went taut when Kim, who was wearing baseball gloves, heaved back.
 
"Ugh ugh ugh!" The monster began to scratch its neck reflexively, trying to cut away the binding on its neck. But the fishing line that was digging in was not easily scratched or cut off with its short nails.
 
Above all, Kim did not even give a little chance to the monster. He pulled the line, and with his right foot hit the back of its right knee, and the back of the hamstring.
 
The tree-like monster was forced to kneel down after the attack on the hamstring, and as soon as the monster put its knee on the floor, He pulled it back.
 
"Kuck!" The ceiling came into the eyes of the monster, which made a gagging sound.
 
"Do it!" Kim shouted, and the tingling with the haze around the eyes of Bang disappeared like snow.
 
"Yes!" Bang carried out Kim's order. He took something out of the bag on his back. It was engine oil! He opened the lid quickly and immediately put the snout of the engine oil into the monster's mouth.
 
At that moment, Kim loosened the fishing line that he was yanking back.
 
The monster, which was struggling to suck in more air to live, inhaled at that moment. "Kuck!" A mouthful of engine oil! 

"Kuck! Kuck! Kuck!" The engine oil was immediately sucked into its stomach and lungs.
 
"Kuck!" At that moment it felt a burst of disgust, burning heart, and instinctive sense of crisis. Of course, its instincts screamed at it to pull it out!
 
Kim's instincts also said, 'I'll never let you go.'
 
He pulled the line tight again so that the monster could not spit anything out. He was naturally faithful to his instincts, and the line was tight again, and it began to tremble as if its power to rebel had disappeared.
 
That's how time passed. One second piled up and became ten seconds, and when the time reached a minute, the light vanished from the monster's eyes, and there was no sign of any further movement.
 
"I think it's dead now." Bang's hand, which was guarding the monster with a baseball bat, began to relax.
 
But even in his words, the tightness of the fishing line that was holding its neck was not eased.
 
"Big brother? Big brother? I think it's dead now…" Bang narrowed the distance with Kim as if he thought that Kim did not hear his words. Of course, the distance to the monster also narrowed. Bang sat with his butt on the floor, and the distance from the sagging monster was narrowed enough to touch one another when they reached out their arms.
 
"Kaaah!" It reached out with its hand and grabbed his neck as it screamed out its last word.
 
"Uhhhhh!" From his mouth, the sound similar to what the monster spit out a while ago came out.
 
Fortunately, that was it. The power of its grip on Bang's neck quickly drained away, and at some point, it was no longer able to threaten anything. Thirty seconds later, the tautness of the line that had been wrapped around its neck eased.
 
Kim, who was now free, said to Bang as he removed the monster, "I judge whether it's dead or alive, not you."
 
"Yes, yes!" Bang reflexively replied, rubbing his neck where it had grabbed him.
 
However, Kim's eyes were not directed toward Bang. He looked down at Park, who was shaking while sitting on the floor.
 
"You're the cleaner now. From now on, your role is a cleaner, dealing with what falls on the floor. If there's anything on the floor, it's your job to kill it until it dies." Kim finished speaking and rose from his crouching. 

Then he found an escalator heading to the second floor of the large supermarket...

The world has changed and so have the people.

December 31st, 2016 – the day before New Year's. Kim Taehoon was just casually shopping for groceries at the large store. Monsters suddenly appeared out of thin air. With the highly trained skills that he had gained from his previous occupation, he starts to hunt the monsters down and manages to win, saving countless people who were also at the mall.

But there are more and they don't stop coming.
Will he be able to survive until the end? 
Will he be able to beat the countless monsters that only seem to get stronger?
And will it just be monsters that he has to worry about? 

The journey of Kim Taehoon, The First Hunter, begins.
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Editor's views  - from Ekdud

The First Hunter is a short Korean, action-fantasy novel situated in a post-apocalyptic world. Monsters start appearing out of nowhere and people are unlocking strange powers. Those who unlock such powers are called ‘Hunters’, ones with the strength to kill the monsters. To fight and survive, that is their goal. Society crumbles and the world burns.

A very fun novel that dives into the plot almost instantly. The novel is interesting in a way that it depicts a lot of human nature and what people would do in a situation such as this is quite an accurate manner. The character development is also very good as you get to learn about the characters, their backgrounds, and their stories. All in all, this is another novel I’d recommend to a lot of readers who are interested in reading fantasy and gaming novels.

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**A licensed novel from Munpia**

"Let me tell you all a little something particular about this specific dungeon, the Sapphire Sea," said Will as he guided the three knights and Sarah towards the shoreline. "You see, the Sapphire Sea isn't like most dungeons where you get stronger monsters the lower you go. Instead, the Sapphire Sea is based on an open-world premise where the further one is out from the shoreline, the stronger the sea monster they meet."
"Oh?"
"Yeah," said Will as they arrived at the center of the dungeon right in between the pristine white beach and the black rocky shore. "For the first 100 meters or so, you will most likely only encounter animals that can be barely considered monsters. Small fish and a few crustaceans. Maybe a squid or two. The point is that the first 100 or 200 meters are something like a safe zone where humans can enjoy themselves as you can see with all of the people swimming over there."
"Mhm."
"The next three hundred meters or so is where the F rank and E rank monsters start to appear. These lower ranked sea monsters usually come in packs of about 50 monsters to a hundred and don't pose much of a threat individually. I still don't recommend falling into the sea at that distance away from the shore. They will either swarm you and then devour you until only flesh is left or slam into you like an underwater battering ram and play with you until you are either beaten to death or drown."
"Oh... Okay. That's quite unpleasant to hear."
"Yes it does sound like a quite gruesome way to go, doesn't it? Don't worry. Most of the time we can fish you out of the water fast enough. After you pass the five hundred meter mark, you come to a sudden drop off in the sea where you can no longer see the bottom of the seafloor. At this state, any monster from F rank to A rank can suddenly surface and attack your ship or vessel. It is required for you to have at least multiple water and lighting mages with the strength of an A rank or an S rank mage of any element. Although, a mage specialized in fire would be preferred to be avoided."
"And why is that sir phantom?" asked Sarah with a curious gaze.
"Well you see," replied Will with a wry expression. "There was a case a few months ago where a group of S ranked adventurers tried to take down a sea leviathan. Everything was going well until their fire mage accidentally set their ship on fire. The adventurer guild had to send multiple adventurer parties to go rescue them later on."
"Oh... I see."
"Yep. So, we can either hunt for sea monsters in two ways. By fishing or netting."
"Excuse me?"
"Fishing and netting," repeated Will as he slowly took a net out from his bag and a long line of a string like substance.
"I know what fishing and netting is," replied one of the knights with a frown. "How the hell are we going to catch sea monsters with a net and a fishing rod."
Will gave the knight a bright smile. "Remember how I asked you earlier about whether you want quality or quantity? Fishing allows us to target specific high ranked monsters while netting gives us many low ranked sea monsters at once. There is a relatively harmless B ranked monster that often comes into the five hundred meter F and E rank monster zone to feed on a plant there. They are guaranteed to have water attributed mana stone that will almost nearly be guaranteed to be of high quality."
Will turned around and gave each of the three knights a good analysis. "Just before we head out, can you three tell me what your average strengths are?"
"I am B rank while the other two are C ranks who are about to become B rank."
"Perfect," said Will as he clapped his hands together. "Then you three can fish for the harmless B ranked monsters. I on the other hand will go for the netting technique and try to get massive amounts in a short period of time. Miss Sarah can give me some aid while I am at it."
The strongest and slightly more arrogant-est of the knights let out a frown. "How will we fish for the B ranked monsters? Can't they shatter normal fishing rods with ease?"
Will gave a nod."Indeed, these B ranked monsters might not be dangerous but they are strong as hell. But do not worry, I have special rods designed to not break under tremendous stress."
Will grabbed a few fishing rods out of his bag and handed three of them to the knights. "Here you go, handcrafted by myself. Made with enchanted elven wood and the interwoven silk of a C class spider monster."
"H-how did you obtain such rare materials?" asked the knight in disbelief. "You are only an E ranked adventurer.
Will let out a who knows shrug. "It was nothing really. I helped our resident S rank spider witch take care of her spider hatchlings while she went on vacation. In exchange, she gave me the silk. As for the elven wood, I helped an elf avoid certain death from the Flaming Dragon Slayer and he gave me the wood in exchange. The net I'm using is also made from spider silk, I'll have you know."
"I- I see."
"It's nothing much really," as Will inspected his fishing net to see if everything was neat and untangled. "Live in Genesis City for a year or two living like an unpaid slave and people will start giving you things for free."
Will put the net away in his bag and gave his four tag-along tourists a warm smile. "Now that I have explained once again to you guys, shall we head to my boat and take off into the sea?"
"You have a boat?"
"I took care of a fisherman's granddaughter for a week and he gave me a boat in exchange."
"..."

In a family filled with sea serpents, he is a lowly rain catcher. His only ability is to summon rain. Due to his weird and useless skill, he was tortured and abused by everyone who saw him. However, he will rise above others and show them what it really means to be useless.

A single arrow is all it takes. The long black staff of the bow contorting to its inflected flexing. The powdered string bouncing and riveting along with the sound of her fingertips.
Tap-tap-tap.
She felt the weight of the air and the arrow. The length of the feathers. The point of the tip, how much it weighed from the front to the back. She felt the sand, how much the ground shook, the waves of dust in the air. She looked across the horizon with a single line in mind. Five figures in the dark emptiness, riding aimlessly for a destination, for an evil dream.
She aimed sharp, her bowstring taut. She gabbed five singular arrows and placed their firm backends against the powdered horsehair string. With all the strength in her body, she lowered the staff of the bow to the sandy grown and pulled back on the string. It buckled and cracked against the strength of her pull, and then like thunder in the sky, she let go of the string. The five arrows shot across the sky, creating a whistle of entertainment as they flew past the evening sun
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There is a village on the furthest edge of the Kingdom of Rend. It's a small village of about two hundred residents. It has small wooden huts and homes, with a singular road that runs through its many sandy dried-up river beds.
It's an odd village, with many odd happenings, many odd experiences, and many monsters. Since it is located on the edge of the Outerlands it is frequently visited by monsters of all shapes and sizes. But, for some reason, the village is always perfectly safe. There are no monster deaths, no bandit deaths, no unnatural deaths of any kind. 
This village is unaptly named the fishing village of Morigan, even though there is no fishing going on in the village. It used to be a popular fishing village many hundred years ago, but once the Monster Gates started exploding out more and more across the Outerlands, and the world turned to sand, there has been absolutely no fishing down whatsoever. 
So the only real income that the village can make is through tourism. And surprisingly it is quite abundant since the only way for humans to get into the Kingdom of Rend from the Badlands is to pass through the fishing village of Morigan. 
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"Should we really be taken the place over? It's known for bein the worst village in the whole six Kingdoms?" asked a dark brown leather-strapped Bandit, as he rode atop his trusty steed.
"I'm tellen yal, the place was once called the fishing village of Morigan, but it's lost its reputation once those Monster Gates popped outa nowhere like crazy. They say it's protected by an ancient deity, a monster..."
"Really?"
The sun was slowly started setting toward noon as five horseback bandits rode across the sandy dunes. They were nearing close to the fishing village of Morigan as their leader, a man in full leather, with flappy straps wiggling out the back of his leather vest, turned around and stopped. He looked at his bandit crew.
"When have you boys ever known so much about fishing villages and such?" asked the boss.
"I don't know boss, I just learned it all from Mendy."
Mendy pointed to Bill, "I learned it from Bill."
Bill pointed to Funti, "Funti was just tellin us about the village. I'm not smart or notin."
Funti sighed, "I was born their boss man."
The boss turned his horse back around and started to ride out into the orange sun once again.
"Well my boys better be staying dumb, or else I'mma have to make yall dumber," he said sternly.
The other bandit men raised their curved scrap swords and screamed out-
"I stay dumb for you boss!"
"Anything for the boss!"
"For the boss!"
"We love da boss!"
The boss pointed to the fishing village of Morigan far off in the distance, "now let's take dat village!"
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An old man in a rocking chair sat staring off into the sunny sandy distance. Next to him was a visitor from outside the village. They looked out at the incoming bandits as they rode in screaming.
"Oh boy here they come..."
"What's happening?" asked a man in full red-clothed robes and a red fluffed up hat, with a long white feather sticking out the top of it.
He was also holding a lute instrument, with its round wooden bottom and thin stringed top. He was a Bard.
The old man sat on the porch of his small thatched house while staring off into the distance. The horse-riding bandits were creating a small sand storm in their fast-paced wake.
"You're a Bard not from here, so you don't know about our village, sunny boy," said the wrinkled old man.
"Don't know about what?" the Bard asked back, his legs up high on the old wooden railing of the porch.
The old man in his ripped-up cloth shirt and pants sat back in his rocking chair.
He said with a soft grin, "you'll see..."
The Bard looked out at the village people, as they walked about, their faces filled with happy smiles, and positive grins, like nothing, was happening.
"Mr. Old Sherrif, this village is an odd one isn't it?"
"It is indeed..."
"Hmmm... I've traveled across many a lands, many a lost towns I've visited, many more destroyed by monsters. But yours must be the furthest out I've seen and the safest of the bunch."
"We are the safest..."
The Bard leaned forward, his lute strung across his lap as he leaned over to ask another question, "so then mind me asking, why are you the safest? Is this some magic? Some witchery? Maybe even a sword of Feu-"
The old man interrupted, "no-no my sunny, keep watch on the bandits." He pointed his wrinkled hand out again, "across the skies a protector keeps watch of these lands. For only a basket of arrows and a barrel of food and water, we are then safe from Monsters and men."
"You are using a monster to protect against monsters?" asked the Bard back, his left hand writing down everything the old man said.
"No-no my sunny boy, this is no monster, but a deity, a being from the heavens. He makes his form in the shape of a hawk, reining its arrows like rain upon the enemies of this village."
The Bard continued writing before looking down at his lute.
"Interesting..."
The old man turned to the notepad the Bard used to write.
He asked in an interested tone, "you going to write a song about this tale?"
"Maybe... I've had many a tales to write, but this is the most interesting of late. I'd say the most interesting of the year... If I may ask again, but can I meet this hawk deity. I would like to talk to them."
The old man stared out at the bandits as they drew in close, their swords held up high as they screamed out at the sun.
"Oh no-no-no, my sunny boy, you can not see the hawk. if you were to seek him out then-"
Simultaneously five arrows shot across the evening sky, their piercing sounds scratching across the air as they tilted over the setting sun. All the bandits turned in confusion as the sound drew in close.
"What is dat soun-"
Slink-slink-slink-slink-slink!
All the bandits were simultaneously struck in the head. The five arrows piercing right through their dumb skulls and their mushy brains, killing them instantly.
"My God," stunned the Bard as he recoiled in the sight of all the bandits falling off their horses and being trampled on, blood splattering across the sand.
"The Hawk is kind and ruthless. He brings instant death to those of nefarious minds. Only those who the Hawk deems to be of good intent may pass."

After being freed from slavery, Hoefen, five years later, decides to head out on a journey to find the Shorebringers, a group of mercenaries that saved his life. But to his surprise, in the five years of wait, the group that saved him has become notorious outlawed criminals. So with the help of a vagrant named Tusk and an ex-royal girl named Ceauli, he journies on his destined path to the Shorebringers. 
But unknown to Hoefen, this sand-riddled world is not just as simple as butter and bread, it is filled with mysteries, monsters, ancient deities, gods, and swords of great power.

fishing monster novel

God of Fishing

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