The cold winter had already begun for half a month, and the giant beasts in the forest had become more active. For these enormous creatures, the cold chill outside didn't have much effect on them; at most, it just made food harder to find.

Whenever this time comes, the range of movement of the giant beasts starts to expand. And when two famished giant beasts meet, inevitably, one will become the other's meal, or they will fight to their mutual demise.

The giant beasts that roamed and reigned between the mountains and forests had no natural enemies, except for their kind. And once a tribe is discovered by a giant beast, what awaits is an unparalleled disaster.

This region, lacking strong figures, is a domain where the giant beasts dominate.

However, in this year's cold winter, the era of rampant giant beasts has come to an end, because new hunters have set their sights on them.

Thanks to Austin's efforts, the Dragon Nest Tribe had cultivated enough combat power. With well-trained troops, combined with dozens of extraordinary beastmen, and with the help of nets and various tools, the Dragon Nest Legion already had the capability to slay the giant beasts.

Two years of effort, and the seeds that Austin planted back then had finally grown to a certain level.

The Dragon Nest Tribe, which used to be under Austin's wings, has now grown to the point where it can stand on its own even without Austin.

Who would have thought that the initially small group of seven Kobolds could grow to a regional dominator status in just two short years?

The matured Dragon Nest Tribe bared its fangs once again, but this time their target was the giant beasts rampaging across the snowy fields.

Not only to secure enough food and resources but also to ensure the safety of the Dragon Nest Tribe, after some preparation, Vini led most of the military strength of the Dragon Nest Tribe out to begin hunting giant beasts.

Initially, the old and weak beastmen who stayed in the Dragon Nest Tribe had some doubts about this giant beast hunting plan. After all, living in the Kawa Great Forest, the shadow cast by the rampaging giant beasts was enormous. The body as huge as a mountain, crashing through the mountains and forests, with an impact even the Magic Beast in the forest could not match.

But this doubt only lasted a few days until it dissipated completely under the impact of Dragon Nest Legion's beastman soldiers repeatedly transporting back the corpses of giant beasts. Each victory not only brought a large amount of food and materials, showcasing the invincible power of the Dragon Nest Legion but also ignited the momentum and atmosphere of the entire Dragon Nest Tribe, filling nearly the whole tribe with a thriving vitality.

Although at the beginning, the departing Dragon Nest Legion suffered losses due to unfamiliarity, subsequent battles allowed the Dragon Nest Legion, now more experienced, to hunt giant beasts without causing casualties among the legion soldiers.

Moreover, due to the previously painstakingly established medical system, after gaining some experience, nowadays, the treatment rate of the injured had reached more than seventy percent. Aside from those who died on the spot, most of the injured beastman soldiers were saved by the doctors referred to as "witch doctors" by the tribe's beastmen. This further reduced the casualties of the Dragon Nest Legion by a certain margin.

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The giant beast hunting plan not only brought a large food source to the Dragon Nest Tribe but also frequently encountered wandering beastmen or other beastman tribes while the Dragon Nest Legion was out searching for giant beasts.

At this time, the Dragon Nest Tribe no longer lacked food, so they naturally wouldn't let go of these "wild" beastmen, capturing them in large numbers and bringing them back to the Dragon Nest Base, training and incorporating them into the Dragon Nest Tribe's system.

And after half a month of continuous sweeping, the population of the Dragon Nest Tribe not only did not decrease due to hunting giant beasts but rather exceeded three thousand.

And while the Dragon Nest Legion achieved victory after victory, and the whole tribe developed positively, Austin also began his experimental research.

Initially, Austin occasionally chatted with the Dragon Nest Legion's beastman members and started having them demonstrate their combat techniques in front of everyone, encouraging discussions with the hope to simplify these combat experiences into the most straightforward and useful techniques.

But after all, the Dragon Nest Tribe was newly founded, and the Dragon Nest Legion had only been established for a year. The combat experience wasn't rich, and it was not as Austin had imagined, able to condense and combine all experience techniques into the finest body techniques.

"As expected, their combat experience is still not rich enough. It seems that to accomplish this, we have to take it slowly."

Regarding this, Austin, though somewhat disappointed, didn't mind much. Since it couldn't be done overnight, it would have to be gradual.

At least they could first study how to punch more powerfully, how to dodge faster, how to pierce with more damage, and then, later on, use these fundamentals to develop the Dragon Nest Legion's unique battle body techniques incorporating the beastmen's combat experiences.

In the future, there is indeed very great potential.

And this doesn't mean that Austin's attempt had no effect. Every time after returning from hunting giant beasts, the Dragon Nest beastmen would exchange methodologies on how to handle the beasts on the battlefield. This continuously enhanced the combat awareness of the Dragon Nest beastman soldiers, which was one of the reasons why, later on, the beastman legion continued hunting giant beasts with a decreasing casualty rate, eventually achieving almost no damage at all.

The time to create unique combat body techniques for the Dragon Nest Legion had not yet matured, so for now, they could only draw upon those imaginative techniques from the anime of past life.

And Austin's choice was the Navy Six Techniques from One Piece: Shave, Iron Block, Moon Step, Gale Foot, Finger Gun, and Paper Drawing.

After all, it was one of the few systematic training methods in Austin's memory and the principles of the techniques he could barely remember.

Of course, given the Navy Six Techniques were just techniques from a fictional work in Austin's previous life, whether they could be recreated in the Otherworld was still unknown. Due to differing world frameworks, modifications were necessary, and they couldn't be a direct copy.

But how to apply magic modification, and alter the Six Techniques to fit into the Fighting Qi System, all required Austin to conduct various levels of trials.

Taking advantage of the vast amount of time available during the cold winter, Austin began research on modifying the Six Techniques.

At the start, Austin gathered ten of the strongest extraordinary beastmen from the Dragon Nest Tribe and taught them according to the principles of the Navy Six Techniques in his mind, then had them perform the Six Techniques according to these principles.

And after three days of cultivation, without exception, all failed.

However, this did not discourage Austin's confidence because he had anticipated such results. Without improvements or a systematic training method, it was impossible to succeed all at once.

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