Hunter

Hunter (にハンタ) is a term to refer a type of adventurers that are focused on information gathering.

Introduction
Typically lazy adventurers had a low survival rate. However if they had knowledge on monsters, they could prepare tactics against them. The prices of magic items. If they could find a definite periods to buy them, and strengthen their loadouts. And when they knew about other adventurers, they knew who to be cautious against, and who to look out for. To adventurers, information was the first step to countering monsters. Taking this made a huge difference in the chance of returning alive.

People would think that adventurers drink at bars, and receive requests from the owners of the bars. However this was a misconception as those individuals were actually adventurers that were considered dropouts. These were commonly known as hunters.

However, they were different from actual adventurers. Hunters were involved in the trade of vigourous information gathering. At bars, they traded information, such as the strength of nearby monsters, prices of magic items, and information and rumours on other adventurers.

Overlord First Half Arc
Several hunters observed Momon after he was summoned to the Adventurer's Guild. They began to assess him from afar wondering why a low level adventurer was gaining an audience with the most influential people in E-Rantel.

Trivia

 * The hunter term in the trade of adventurers only appears in the Web Novel.