Dan didn't know what to say, he could warn them, but how was he going to explain how he knew that they were going straight toward a monstrous insect from that far away, especially after they how they had just met and how it might even sound like a trap to lead them away from their route and to their death.

"What should we do, we can't possibly walk toward a monster on our own accords right?" Dan asked.

"It's still ten kms away lets all try to see if that thing is going to move away, if it hasn't moved when there's only three km between us we can try telling them about it." Nero said.

Looking at the others and seeing how they weren't able to come up with anything Dan nodded his head and said:

"Ok we will do that, so keep an eye on that thing, and make sure to tell me if anything changes, ok?"

Nero nodded his head answering Dan's question.

They then kept on walking while wishing that that thing would change its location and they wouldn't have to meet it, but unfortunately things didn't go as they wished for it to go and instead that insect just stayed in the same location as if waiting for them.

"We already reached the mark which we set for our selves and that insect didn't move yet, its still in the same location so you better tell them about it." Nero said to Dan who frowned after hearing his words.

He thought about how he was supposed to deliver that news to them and finally sighed as he knew that there was no way around it, so he said in Russian:

"Hey can I know your name please?" He tried to start the conversation normally before telling them about the insect which was ahead of them.

"My name is Alexander, what about you what's your name?" the leader of the hunters said.

"My name is Dan, this here is Nero while this is Robin and finally this is Katherine." Dan introduced himself before turning around to the other three and introducing them too.

"Ok then, so what do you want, I don't think that you just want to know my name?" The leader of the hunters said while looking at Dan.

He was on guard against those people who appeared suddenly and out of nowhere, and he also noticed that they had been talking with each other since a while ago and they seemed as if they were arguing about something while looking their way, so he understood that they probably had something that they wanted to say or that they were plotting something against them, that's why he secretly gave his friends a sign to be in guard against those people as he didn't trust them at all.

"You are a smart person, yes we really have something to say." Dan said with a smile.

"Ok go on, what do want to say?"

"Can we take another way to reach the village? There's an insect in our way right now, if we keep going this way we will meet it around three kms or so." Dan said while scratching his head, he knew that they probably wouldn't believe him and that they might even think that he had something in his mind and was going to harm them, but he had to say something.

As he expected all the group of hunters turned their heads and looked at him unkindly, one of them who seemed to be quite young but had a strong body said in hot bloodedness:

"Leader, I knew that they just want to come with us and deal with us when they have the chance, look now that they didn't find the chance to do anything they want to lead us to another place and finish us there, who knows, there might be more of them in the place which they are taking us to."

The others also said similar things while lifting their weapons and looking at Dan and his group with unkind expressions.

Dan and the other didn't show any expressions of fear or something like that, instead Nero lifted his brows and said:

"I see that they didn't accept it well huh?"

Dan didn't answer him he just shook his head and looked at the leader who didn't say anything or show any other expression, he just kept on looking at Dan seeing what he wanted to add:

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"Believe me I said the truth, I know that it sound somehow unbelievable but I just wanted to help a little." Dan shrugged his shoulders while saying that.

"How did you know that an insect is waiting for us?" The leader first signed for the other hunteres to stop, before asking Dan that question.

"I just know, so do whatever you want, either ways you should pay more attention in the next part of our journey." Dan didn't give a straight answer as he didn't want to show them their powers, at least not that early, he wanted to keep it a secret, to keep a lifeline.

"Even if I believed what you said and I knew that we are going to meet an insect if we kept going in this way, I would have taken it, after all one of us is heavily injured and if we take an other way he would die for sure, that's why we will take the risk." The leader finally said.

"Ok we will keep on going I will tell you when the insect is close so you all can get ready." Dan said, then he turned his head to Nero and the other as he said:

"We will keep going straight toward it, so tell me if there's anything unusual or any changes happen, also if a fight starts, don't use your abilities just depend on the physical power of you bodies, I think that we can deal with that insect without them, after all we all are blood power users." They all nodded their heads and kept on going.

The hunters didn't want Dan's group to keep on going with them but they couldn't do anything as their leaders decided that it was alright

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It wasn't long before they finally got close to the place where that insect was.

"It is around a hundred meters away, so get ready." Nero said to Dan who translated it to the hunters.

Even though they didn't trust him at all those hunters still got ready and got on a formation to deal with what might be coming while they moved ahead slowly.

When there was only around thirty meters between them Nero shouted:

"It's heading toward us, hurry up and get ready."

His shout got those hunter surprised but even before they got the chance to turn around and see what was happening they heard footsteps and felt that the earth under their feet shaking as if something big was heading toward them.

"It's coming." Understanding what was happening, even without waiting for Dan to translate what Nero said the leader of the hunters shouted that as he got on a battle stance.

the hunters were experienced, in a forest like that where things can go south at any second, having a moment to prepare was already a plus.

Just a few seconds after that thing which was making those footsteps appeared in front of them.

It was a gigantic beetle, not like the one that the hunters had but another type, Dan wasn't able to connect it with any type he had ever seen in earth, but he didn't care about that as he had to deal with it as fast as possible.

"Robin you and Katherine shouldn't participate in this fight Nero lets go." He didn't let Robin and Katherine participate because they didn't have good weapons, they only had some of the spears that Thomas made, of course the main reason was because he didn't want to show their "full power" to the hunters, he wanted them to think that only him and Nero were able to fight.

Dan and Nero then headed toward it as fast as possible, they even made it next to it before the hunters who were walking ahead of them.

Dan jumbled and hit the head of the beetle with his axe, he didn't use his full power as he understood that if he did he would probably kill it on one hit, after all in those three months and half he had used the body strengthening technique many times and his power had grown a lot.

His attack left a big wound on the head of the beetle which released a weird roar and opened its mouth.

Dan got a bad feeling as he saw that so he jumped aside, and just as he did a green liquid left the beetle's mouth.

"Be careful it's a sticky beetle, don't let that liquid touch you it's sticky and your movement speed will be slowed down." as he was looking at that liquid which seemed a little bit sticky he head the hunters leader's voice from behind him.

As he was talking Nero had already made it to the side of the beetle and he used his sword to make a long cut on its side, making it turn its head viciously wanting to bit him, but his reflexes were fast and he was able to avoid being hit as he jumped back and retreated.

The hunters were quite surprised seeing how Nero and Dan were able to hurt that beetle and even avoid its attacks.

"What are you waiting for? Attack!" The leader of the hunters shouted in a strong commanding voice as he moved toward the beetle, brandishing his spear toward it, surprisingly his speed was almost as fast as Dan and Nero's.

The other hunters reacted after hearing their leader's words and attacked the beetle with all what they got.

Dan was surprised to see that they were able to overpower it easily, then he turned his head looking at the beetle which they were dragging behind them and he saw that it appeared even weaker than the Sticky Beetle they were fightin, it was then that he understood that they probably didn't got injured because of the beetle but another thing.

Choosing not to think about that for the time being, he threw those thoughts to the back of his mind and headed toward the beetle, Nero was already fighting with it alongside the hunters and his power astonished them as he was as strong as their leader even with his skinny body.

The beetle wasn't a strong enemy anyway so with the combined attack power of the whole group they were able to finish it easily and in a short time.

"At least right now we have two corpses, I think that this will be a little bit better."

The young man who answered Dan hot bloodedly said while talking to the leader who just nodded his head and said:

"It won't last long, we still have to go hunting again, and we need to leave as soon as we make it to the village, after all because of the change in the length of day we need to leave two times while the light is out and stay in the village for two days without the chance to leave when its night, and we even have to suffer because of that..." He first talked about normal things and then he was going to say something else, but he didn't finish his words as he saw Dan looking at him, so instead he said while looking at him:

"It seems that you were saying the truth, are you going to tell me how you know about it?"

"Sorry I can't, you can just think of it as me having good tracking skills." Dan said while shaking his head.

"But I think that it is your friend who have good 'tracking skills' as you call them." the leader of the hunters said while looking at Nero.

"Oh and why would you say that?" Dan asked in interest, he didn't expect the leader to notice who the person who was giving them directions about the beetle was.