The Earth Is in Pain

A Hunter's growth is not a gentle uphill climb.

It is growth in progress: growing a little stronger every day and becoming just a little better today than yesterday.

Of course, that kind of growth does exist.

Strength increases with training, and skills become familiar through repetition.

Mana control, too, would gradually become more precise the more one etched it into the body.

But there was a separate moment when a Hunter truly rose to the next level.

It was a phenomenon in which accumulated experience exploded all at once upon reaching its limit, like a game character leveling up.

Hunters called it a ‘Quantum Jump.’

But Quantum Jumps were not something that happened easily.

There were two major conditions...