Fortunately, they didn't encounter any threatening beasts during their journey. They encountered some beasts, but they were not threatening to them.
They encountered a troop of monkeys. The number of monkeys in the troop was about two dozen.
The monkeys were small and weak, so they were not threatening individually. They were also not threatening as a group because they wouldn't be able to bypass his armor to harm him.
A fight with them would have been troublesome at best, not dangerous. But things didn't reach that extent because they were content with throwing stones at him and Ruff.
It wasn't exactly a fight. The monkeys just wanted to harass them.
The troop followed them all the way to the edge of the green forest while throwing stones, banana peels, tree branches, and fruit cores at them.
Aside from that harassment, the journey back was uneventful. He and Ruff managed to reach Death's Door safely, where they took a wagon back to Agate.
He hired a wagon to help them carry the boar to the city because it was too stressful for him to do so on his own.
The boar is around 1 ton. It is something he can carry for short periods of time but can't bear to carry for a long time. Even if he could, he doesn't want to carry it since there is an easier way to move the boar.
He sat on the wagon beside the driver while Ruff followed them by the side. The boar alone took up the space on the wagon.
The wagon took them back home, where they skinned and butchered the boar. They ate a lot of boar that day. It filled them with extra energy, which helped them to hunt the following day.
The second day of hunting was also successful. They managed to kill a boar without much trouble and brought it with a wagon to Agate City.
But this time, the wagon took them to the center of Agate City and dropped them right in front of the beast hunting center. From there, he carried the boar and placed it on a wheelbarrow.
He used the wheelbarrow to bring the boar into the beast hunting center and stood in line with the other hunters in front of one of the large counters.
It didn't take long for him to reach the front of the counter and have their boar inspected.
The boar was weighed, and every inch of it was examined to determine that the valuable parts, such as the tusks and hide, were still intact. The examination was short, so it didn't take up to 2 minutes to complete.
After that 2 minutes, he was given an evaluation of 7 gold coins for the boar. Apparently, the boar was at the seventh transformation, so he could only get 7 gold coins for it.
Normally, the carcass of a seventh transformation beast should cost at least 10 gold coins. Their value is dependent on how valuable their body parts are, not how strong they are.
But even boar carcasses, which are very common and have saturated the market, are valued at 10 gold coins for one that is at the seventh transformation.
But he wasn't exactly being cheated despite the lower amount that the beast hunting center gave him for the boar. It is because the difference of 3 golds will be given to him as hunting points.
He was given a payment slip, which was a wooden board with an inscription on it. He took that payment slip to the small counters and used it to get his reward.
The payment slip can be used to get a reward of seven gold coins and 30,000 hunting points. It could also be used to acquire 110,000 hunting points alone.
He chose the latter since he wasn't lacking money. The 110,000 hunting points were applied directly to his white nameplate by the attendant at the counter.
This caused the color of the nameplate to begin to change. It was darkening and changing from white to green. When it is completely green, he will have become a second-grade hunter.
Since he needed 30,000 hunting points to reach the next grade, the white nameplate completed its color change immediately. It became green immediately and was even beginning to change to yellow.
He needed 700,000 hunting points to reach the third hunter's grade. He had 80,000 hunting points left from earlier, so the green nameplate began to change like a green leaf aging into a yellow leaf.
He looked at the changes and said to himself, "In a few days I should be able to reach the next grade. Then I can begin working on gaining access to the fourth grade. Once I do, I will be able to buy the force diagram."
He is doing everything he is doing for the force diagram. Once he gains access to it, he will still need hunting points to buy it. So he didn't bother to spend his hunting points to exchange for anything.
He didn't even go to the second floor to see what things are available for exchange for him. He just left the beast hunting center and went home to rest for tomorrow's hunt.
If it were someone else at the seventh transformation, they might need to hunt for ten years before they could have enough hunting points to purchase the force diagram.
It is because they don't dare risk their lives against a seventh transformation beast and can only kill sixth transformation beasts reliably.
Sixth transformation beasts are generally worth 1 gold coin. If they only exchange part of it for hunting points, they will only earn 30% of that 1 gold coin as hunting points.
So they will only earn 3,000 hunting points daily. If they don't take any breaks, they will need to work nonstop every day for 3,333 days before they can earn the 10,000,000 hunting points needed to reach the fourth transformation.