"The Ego sistem worked well, Life and Death were informed of what was happening and they could salvage the situation. The problem was... There were too many Worlds and Planes, and they added even more of them from time to time. They became so busy saving the already existing ones that they couldn't create new Worlds and Planes. In the end the solution appeared by itself, in a Wolrd the Elves made an united front to save their forest and the Humans united to fight them off, they needed the land. That gave Life and Death the idea, they needed an unifying cause, they needed Gods."

-Bee May, the faery of knowledge

"When Ego isn't enought you ask the Gods."

In the village the kids that wanted to be hunters would start with the scouts training then do the hunters one when they survived thirteen snows.

As they were in the middle of the Hardwood Forest and the Arthus kingdom couldn't afford to equip an entire militia force, the village used the surroundings wood to make spears, bows and arrows.

The hardwood is called so because its really hard, so hard that even iron instruments can't damage it. So the Arthus kingdom would bring some steel instruments with the caravans to help the village make its own weapons. The fully hardwood made weapons are really good and even utilized by some elite members of the army, their durability is excellent but the second biggest strenght is their weakness too, weight.

The boar spear, the First Hunter's weapon, is the only spear in the village that isn't just made entirely of hardwood. The shaft is made of hard wood and is joined to a steel pike, to give it even more weight and penetrating power.

The hunters training is harsh because they need to be strong and skilled enought to use the hardwood weapons. With Little Wolf's physical abilities, reflexes and memory he smashed trought scouts training and during the heat of his tenth snow he started the hunters training so he could be the First Hunter after his father.

It was almost time for the snow, the caravan would come to the village in a couple of days. Fianna was watching her husband and son with a smile, they were having the same discussion every day since Little Wolf started training.

"I don't understand training father Sidon! We do the same thing over and over, I'm only getting tired! I'm strong enought to wield a spear, strong enought to shoot with a bow! Why do I need to train?"

Little Wolf said with a sad expression.

"Why do I need to repeat my self? I showed you... You train to get stronger, move better and make your actions effortless."

Sidon said.

"B-but the more I move the tired I get! I'm different, you said it yourself! It's better if I hit hard and fast, so I get tired less and can still finish my opponent!"

Little Wolf said flustered.

"I already told you, if you don't wanna do the hunter training just beat the instructor... when you can beat him you will be ready to be a hunter."

Sidon huffed.

"I challenge him every day! But he just tires me out! He doesen't fight fair!" Little Wolf pouted.

"We humans are weak but we can change." A smile escaped Sidon's lips. "We train and when its not enought we use our minds to beat enemies. Remember this, if your life is on the line all is fair!" The smile erupted and Sidon's eyes had a strange wild glint. "When we get hit we hurt, we bleed, we break and it takes time to heal, some times we can't heal and we die. You, you just get tired, this is unfair! If you can't beat a single hunter how could you hope to become me?"

Sidon growled.

"Now now boys, calm down." Said the still smiling Fianna. "And my Little boy, while it's true that you are better than most hunters you are just copying what they are doing, they trained their entire lives, you cannot beat them with those obvious movements! You need to be smoother in your movements and attacks, follow your adversary, don't let him dictate how the fight will go feel his movements, feel his flow then use it againist him or just break his flow to make him flustered. That's how you destroy an enemy!"

Fianna's smile was large and the maniac glint on her eyes scared both Sidon and Little Wolf.