When the World Became Witch: 1994
Chapter 431

Hunter Points

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Ghost Bay Club was a bit like Hunter Club. The roster of hunting personnel and the prey point table were all displayed in a place resembling a bulletin board.

Since the complimentary diving suit from Jiang Han's club membership was still being haggled over, she simply walked beneath the board to see whether there were any names she recognized.

Ranked first was Kraken. She had a full 891 Hunter Points, and beside her was an animated photograph:

[...In the photograph, Kraken stood atop an enormous ancient armored fish. The massive fish was labeled: '1991 Overall Fish King']

That was probably Kraken's proudest catch—but could something like that really be caught with a hunting rifle and fishing rod?

...Jiang Han had serious doubts.

She eyed the fish suspiciously, then looked further down.

Second place was named "Kraken Gaines"—another Kraken... Jiang Han's mouth twitched as she slowly looked over her points. This Kraken had roughly 882 points, along with an animated photograph of her own:

[...An obvious sea monster Witch, tall and slender, with a tide-like magical aura that could be felt just from the photograph. Beside her lay a huge armored fish, labeled: '1992 Spring Fish King']

This club was clearly a private club for sea monsters, Sea Sirens, and ghost Witches.

At the very least, the names on the Hunter rankings consisted of those three kinds of Witches in alternating succession!

Among them, sea monster Witches had an exceptionally high rate of repeated names.

There were basically only a handful of names, and they were all "the K family":

Kraken, Ketus, Krius, Kermiqiesi, Cthulhu, C'Thun...

...The last two names seemed rather strange—somewhat like family, yet somewhat like mortal enemies... Jiang Han looked away.

Perhaps the reason Kraken was ostracized by sea monster Witches was also because,

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