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The Hunters
Hunters
Elite dungeon predators; Lucia Mar's expanded kill record shows twenty of them slain.
Story so far
When Carl expands the skull marker beside Lucia Mar's name, the tally includes twenty hunters killed alongside her 200-plus Player Killer Skull count, countless bosses, and her own Game Guide.
The number is meant to land as a measure of exactly how dangerous the girl sitting on the vestibule floor is, and how much of her story Carl has never learned.
Role
A benchmark class of dungeon threat used to convey the scale of Lucia Mar's kill record.
Relationships
Lucia Mar — Killed twenty of them
Player Killer Skull — Listed in the same expanded kill record
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
- The Butcher's MasqueradeBook 5
Sources — 5 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 3
- Whatever stalks the hunting grounds - they killed every NPC in the city, and the outreach guild's only comment is that they killed only the ones they found.
Chapter 16
- Sixth-floor purple-dot enemies whose minimap color the new Princess Posse troopers share.
Chapter 34
- A hated enemy group Carl names among the warlords and the Maestro — all of them lesser evils than D'Nadia's pretense.
Chapter 49
- Sixth-floor enemies whose big guns the crawlers attacked with explosive automatons.
Chapter 84
- Elite dungeon predators; Lucia Mar's expanded kill record shows twenty of them slain.