[Kingdom of Vale ]
"Professor Glynda Goodwhitch, why do we rely on hunters if we have farms? I mean aren't the kingdoms dependent on the farms that grow food for us?" Janue Arc asks his teacher, who nods in agreement.
"As Huntsmen and Huntresses in training, all of you are aware that Grimm frequently attacks the settlements that are outside of the protective areas of the kingdoms."
"As such those areas are constantly settled, lost, and resettled, this takes both patience and time."
"The people of those villages need time to plant and harvest crops, not to mention that the animals that they take care of need to breed and grow in number for us to consume"
"Anyone can imagine how losing a single village can impact a kingdom's food supply."
"Consider this, if a farm is lost then the price of meat goes up, not to mention the price of wheat, corn, and medicines, all of which are grown in those farms."
"The Hunters hunt wild animals, creatures that have grown to adapt to Grimm-infested areas."
The image of a giant centipede appears on the screen behind Professor Goodwhitch, but it's not alone as the picture next to it shows a giant frog whose body is covered with eyes.
Beneath it is what looks like a giant chicken but its beak and claws look so strong and sharp that Jaune could swear that it could tear him to pieces if it wanted to.
"As you can see, these creatures are considerably more dangerous than the ones that you have been aware of until now." professor Goddwhitch continues with her class.
The images behind her change and now several mechs, airships, and trucks that are carrying small cities on their backs appear behind her.
"The Hunters are scavengers and raiders, but unlike the ones that all of you are aware of they don't attack the villages and towns that live outside of the main kingdoms."
"If they find a village that has lost all of its people they will take anything useful and destroy everything else."
"If there is anything that close to useful be it scrap metal or broken machine they will repair it and add it to their defenses," she says to her class.
"Okay but why do we have to learn about them? I mean don't they move from one kingdom to another without coming close to the main parts of them?" Yang asks her teacher.
professor Goodwhit pushes her glasses up and stares coldly into the crowd of students.
"My reason for telling you all of this is what they have discovered."
"Several farms and villages were attacked and as a result, Vale's food supply has been affected, or that is what I would be saying if the Council hadn't agreed to buy a considerable amount of food from the Hunters."
She takes a deep breath and allows her words to set in as the more important part of her lesson is about to begin.
"As of this moment, none of the female students will be allowed to travel outside of the main kingdom, not even for Grimm's extermination."
"Even as we speak, Vales military, as well as its militias and mercenary groups, are being sent to harvest everything that they can from these villages as well as to secure the ones that are left." She says to her students who begin to murmur amongst themselves.
Glynda Goodwhich would have quickly silenced her students in the past but she allowed them to do this, because of how important this information was.
"Why? We're supposed to be Huntresses, how can we be that if we aren't allowed to train!?" Yang loudly protests.
"Because nothing is protecting you from them." Glynda coldly answers Yang.
"The Hunters are known as a traveling kingdom for a reason."
"They have their laws, which means that they follow their own rules and one of these rules says that they can take any man and woman that they want." she says to Yang.
'Then shouldn't the boys stay behind the barrier too?' Ruby Yang's sister asks her.
"Yes, but the hunters are usually men and they aren't interested in satisfying their needs with other men. If they were then this rule wouldn't exist.'
"As I said earlier, the Hunters have their way of doing things and as such they make sure to keep Faunus outside of their cities." the image behind her changes, and now shows several faunus women dressed in revealing clothes.
"That doesn't mean that Faunus are immediately killed, because if they think that you are useful then they will allow you to live amongst them."
"I don't have to tell you what useful means in this situation." Glynda says to the faunus that are in her class.
"Of course, some among the Faunus choose to prove themselves useful and earn their place amongst the Hunters." She says as several Fanus holding antike weapons appear onscreen.
"Why would they do that?" Weiss Schnee asks.
"Because one of the Hunter's rules is that no Hunter may take anything from another Hunter unless they die on the field and have no heirs."
"Meaning that a Faunus Hunter dies, his children are automatically protected by Hunter laws and are no different from their fathers." she answers Weiss.
"Then why don't they just?" Janune begins to ask but Glynda silances him with a look.
the young man nods and sits down quietly, he knows why, and judging by how his team is comforting him so do the rest of his teammates.
The bell rings but Glynda tells everyone to sit down, everything that she has to say is too important to be ignored.
"Vales Council has made contact with the other kingdoms and luckily none of them have experienced any large-scale attacks."
'Unfortunately, that does not mean anything if the other kingdoms discover that their food supplies were attacked, as the only times that the farms contact the main kingdoms is when it's time for them to sell their harvest."
"But why would someone do that?" Pyrrha Jaune's partner asks her.
"Because people need food, and without food the kingdoms become desperate and so they begin to enter each other borders in search of it."Glynda answers Pyrra who looks at her with frightened eyes.
No one in her class was an idiot despite what some may believe, so all of them understood that someone was trying to start a war between the kingdoms.