Hunting Party

Hunting Parties are groups of warriors sent to hunt awakeneds in purge missions. Standard procedure for hunting parties are 4 warriors, one being a top 10 warrior who takes the lead. Typically, no warriors beyond the high 30s is put onto a hunting party due to their weakeness. Typically, this configuration of warriors is used to hunt anything more powerful than a single claymore, including corrupt beings in some cases. Hunting Parties are usually only sent to areas located around Toulouse in fear of warriors finding out about the Organization's facilities. According to Noble, the worst hunting party is composed of: 2 strong offensive types, 1 defensive type, and a hand
Historically, hunting parties have also been a way to eliminate troublesome warriors, either through death by awakened or by anti-eye while fighting the awakened. 
Blanc has been getting hunting parties for hundreds of years but he has repeatedly defeated them, lectured them, and sent them back to Staff in pieces. To counter him, the Organization assembled an elite team to hunt him down, the top 5 of the current generation. This team was very powerful, capable of slaughtering a huge group of awakened without even breaking a sweat but due to the deaths or awakenings of its members, been reduced to just Gabrielle.
The Zeros are known to be the strength of an entire hunting party, although in-field, they have notably performed poorly in missions.
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