Motivation

The entire Gray Hills covered nearly tens of thousands of square kilometers. Finding one person in such a vast place would not be easy even if a Wilderness Guardian from the Church of the Guardian God came in person—let alone when the man he was looking for was very likely a powerful Beast Tamer.

When it came to survival and concealment in the wild, Beast Tamers were far more capable than Prospectors. Beast Tamers were professionals who dealt specifically with wild beasts, naturally skilled at hiding themselves in the wilderness. There was a saying: wherever wild beasts could survive, Beast Tamers could survive; but wherever Beast Tamers could survive, wild beasts might not.

For three days, Zhang Tie and Krel wandered through the Gray Hills. Krel still found nothing.

Naturally, that "nothing" referred to Krel. For Zhang Tie, though, those three days were enough to make him grin even in his dreams.

The advantages of being with a Wilderness Guardian became apparent on the second day. In the past, if Zhang Tie wanted to kill a few Iron-Fanged Hyenas, he either had to rely on luck to run into them or set up some crude traps. He could not hunt many each day—sometimes a dozen or so, and over twenty if he was lucky. But with Krel, Zhang Tie no longer had to search for the Iron-Fanged Hyenas himself, because Krel seemed to possess some miraculous ability. He could always lead Zhang Tie effortlessly to the largest packs of Iron-Fanged Hyenas—the most aggressive toward humans.

Krel said that those packs of Iron-Fanged Hyenas that were most aggressive toward humans were the ones most likely to have recently come into contact with the Beast Tamer hiding behind the scenes. That hidden Beast Tamer's intentions and methods showed most strongly in the