A Wage Slave Hunter's Monster-Slaying Journal

(One female lead, no System, not a power fantasy, plot-driven. If it’s no good, the author will turn into a grilled starfish and beg forgiveness.) In District Three, people say that being a “Hunter” is the most dangerous job there is. Unfortunately, Xia Shian, a constable, is about to enter his fifth year as a Hunter. Year 23 of the New Calendar, the twenty-third year after the Great Calamity. Strange meteorites fell from the sky and shattered the world’s old order. The united forces that rose to meet the chaos had already fallen apart ten years ago. The Calamity’s monstrous creatures are vicious and bloodthirsty, while human greed has given rise to the first seeds of darkness. The disordered, chaotic Gray Streets; cities with an extreme divide between rich and poor; and power structures independent of the government... The emergence of “supernatural abilities” gave humanity hope of carving out a corner of safety. A poker-faced but considerate senior; a needling yet dependable dad; a junior so obsessed with gossip they could write a book; and a cool, aloof smoker of a woman. Many years later, Xia Shian looked back. His former colleagues had become faint shadows in his memories, and the past seemed so unreal he could barely make it out. Ahead of him still lay a one-way road to hell, paved with the flesh and blood of Calamity’s creatures.