The Top Omega Hunter Wants a Quiet Life [BL]-Chapter 49: Ch : Preparation - Part 4

When I first heard of the hunter’s championship, a lot of things came to my mind.

Granted, most of them had to do with fighting or similar competition, but there were truly a lot of ways for the hunters to compete.

The more I read regarding the hunter’s competition, the more bothersome it seemed to me. Especially the first few rounds which were designed to weed out the teams that were just there to have fun.

For example, the first round was not even a real fight, but a written quiz where we had to answer as many questions related to dungeons as possible.

I looked at the questions from previous years and they were not tough. But any team that had no interest in dungeons wouldn’t be able to qualify for this round.

The next few rounds were similar as well, testing for agility and one’s senses against the dungeon monsters.

To me, they all looked like normal everyday things I lived through and needed to know. But to see most people in the competition fail to do so made me feel something inside me.

I could not tell if it was disappointment or another emotion I could not distinguish. But I just knew that I felt annoyed as hell because of this.

Joshua saw me frowning at the screen and looking at the competition’s starting rounds from the previous years, and he misunderstood why I was frowning.

"Don’t worry too much about the first few rounds. Even if you don’t perform well, there is no need to panic. The rest of our team has enough experience to get through most of the selection process. We will make it to the dungeon easily."

Joshua assured me, but I had a bad feeling about this whole championship.

It almost felt like a mockery of all the misery I went through in the past. I suffered through hell to learn and survive, and now, being a hunter had been turned into an almost joke.

’It has been 10 years of peace, so I guess I need to adapt to the new changes. But I just cannot forget what all this peace cost me and my friends.’

Sam stopped the car in front of the hotel our team was to stay at, and Joshua got out first before he opened my door for me.

I got out as well, and Sam drove off to park the car in place.

"Come, I will introduce you to the rest of the team. Don’t judge them based on how they look. We are all professionals who have made it past the qualifiers every time. We might as well be professionals at this point."

Joshua told me before he opened the door to our team’s room.

Inside were two more people. The pair were two females, one omega and the other a beta. They both turned to look at me when I entered, and I could sense hostility.

"The green-haired beta is Amy and she’s a barrier mage. The red-haired omega is Sasha and she’s a healer. If you get hurt, go to her immediately."

Joshua told me, and I felt a little surprised to see Sasha here.

Usually, healers were snatched up by hospitals and other big guilds, no matter their rank. They were also offered a lot of money for their service. I had never really seen a healer join in a dangerous competition.

"Hey, where are you looking? Do you have a problem with Sasha? Do you want me to punch your face to make you look away?"

Amy asked, noticing my questioning look when I looked at the red-haired girl. The beta had also stood up and tried to hide the female omega behind her body.

I could only blink as I took in this hostility. I had not expected this kind of behavior to be shown toward me.

"I...excuse me...huh...? I was just a little surprised to see a healer here."

I quickly assured the duo in front of me, but Sasha did not look too convinced.

Finally, I looked at Joshua for help, and he looked amused. He chuckled before he stepped forward and coughed into his fist to grab Amy’s attention.

"Amy, it’s fine. Manet is our last teammate I recruited. He’s cute-looking, right? But no matter how cute you think he is, I need you to be on your best behaviour around him. Do you understand?"

Joshua reminded Amy and the beta went red-faced.

"What do you mean? I was not flirting. I was genuinely unhappy with...ugh..."

Amy looked to be lost for words, and even I felt awkward to see her act this way.

But clearly, both Sasha and Joshua were used to her behaviour and did not pay her much attention.

"Don’t worry about Amy. She will be fine once her brain restarts. The fact that she was on guard against you means she thinks you are cute. Anyway, you can leave your stuff in the room and come join us for lunch. We can discuss things at that time."

Joshua pointed me toward the room he intended to give me, and I entered the room quietly before I put my stuff down.

Once I was safe in the room, I put my bag inside my inventory because I did not trust it enough to leave it in the room while I was not there.

But I took out the black mass in the bottle before I did that.

"Hey human, where are we? This doesn’t look like my home dungeon...this place is too new and shiny. Weren’t you going to take me back home?"

The black mass asked me, and I felt my head throbbing as I tried to keep up with its questions. But it was genuinely starting to piss me off how much this thing could talk.

’Have some patience. I cannot allow this thing to get to me.’

"It will take some time before we can head to dungeon #36. I will transfer you to another container for easy travel for now. Don’t you dare cause me any trouble with this."

I threatened the black mass and it shrunk back.

"Oh my! How could you say that? Have I not been helpful to you? I have made sure not to cause any problems either. You can trust me with your life."

The black mass assured me, and that sounded like a threat to me. I would rather not even try to do that, even if my life was in danger.

"Yeah, I would pass on that. For now, get in here."

I opened a smaller container and the black mass moved without much prompt.

’Is it only me, or is this thing following orders really well? What the heck is it planning?’

The fact that I could not sense any ability or any will to escape from this black mass was worrisome. And the agreeable nature it was showing me made it even more suspicious.

"I will need to keep a harsher eye on this thing. There is no telling what could happen now."

Once the seal was tightened and the creature was contained, I headed toward the lunch room. It was time to plan what to do next.