After tending to the wounded, Cheng Ming led the remaining hunters slowly toward the aberration's main body—the area at the bottom of the pit where memetic activity was strongest.
Of the twenty-eight hunters who had formed the assault team, only six, including Cheng Ming, still had the ability to fight... Six people trying to take down an aberration of this level sounded like a fantasy no matter how one looked at it.
"Keep communications open. Continue advancing," Chen Jing ordered over the comms channel.
Cheng Ming glanced back at a hunter over two meters tall following behind him. This hunter was not a temporarily recruited freelance hunter, but a "private hunter" under the Batu Family, one of the Three Great Families.
The Batu Family had once been a nomadic people on the Ulan Grassland. Later, for various reasons, they migrated to Dragon City and settled there, gradually developing into one of Dragon City's three major powers.
Unlike the Chen Family and the Bai Family, which were "purebred" native Dragon City forces, the Batu Family also held considerable influence over the Ulan Grassland. After rising to prominence in Dragon City, they had sent a branch family back to the Ulan Grassland to establish a separate household, using Dragon City's resources to support the land they had once called home.
The Ulan Grassland branch family's primary duty was to leverage its influence on the grasslands to continuously provide fresh blood for the main family in Dragon City.
In terms of combat strength alone, these loyal and fierce Tatar men were in no way inferior to the retired veterans the Chen Family and Bai Family hired at great expense.
This hunter's name was Batu Han. That had not originally been his name, but all Tatar men sent to Dragon City were granted the