Chapter 308 – Pentaband Krait King (1/2)

During his mission in the Holy Spirit Island, Fatty killed several thousand Dark Unicorns, but only gained several dozen pet and mount eggs out of them. This showed how low the drop rates of these eggs were.

Over forty pet eggs and ten-something mount eggs were sold in a whole package to Liu Lan at 60,000 gold coins per egg.

In fact, what was more important to a guild were not pet eggs, but mount eggs. A powerful cavalry unit would hold an absolute advantage in large-scale battles such as guild wars.

Fatty had plans to assemble a cavalry regiment of his own. Reck also once mentioned this to him, saying they could use the Holy Unicorns in the city to be the mounts. However, the current number of Holy Unicorns was insufficient with only less than a hundred of them, not to mention Fatty had no source to pick suitable candidates from. Therefore, even though this plan was on the agenda, it was on hold.

Over six thousand miles to the south of the Imperial Capital, there was a forest called the Demon Forest, covering an area of about 10,000 miles in radius. The rulers of this forest were the demonized monsters that roamed about everywhere, hence the name.

Fatty pocketed the Violent Ox King and summoned his two pets before slowly entering the Demon Forest.

The Violent Ox King’s level was far higher than Fatty’s. If he relied on it to farm monsters, the experience points earned would be too meager to outweigh the safety and quick speed it provided.

Moreover, Fatty currently had no mission, so he could take his time here to grind. The trip to the East Ocean and beyond had greatly stimulated him. Before, he might have had ideas about doing this and that, but now he all he could think about was leveling.

Hiss…

A colorful venomous snake as thick as an arm and over a meter long swayed its tail as it stared fixedly at the approaching Fatty. This snake was a native of the Demon Forest – the Pentaflower Snake, a demonized monster over level 50 and very poisonous. If a knight of the 4th class enhancement was poisoned by it and slow to replenish their health, they’d die from the venom alone in seconds.

“Yes, it’s you!”

Seeing this snake, Fatty wasn’t scared. Instead, he was delighted. He was more than pleased to collect some medical materials while leveling, and the gallbladder of this Pentaflower Snake was one of the materials needed for the Hundred Poison Pill, a recipe given by Reck.

“Wheat, pounce!”

Of course, one's pet should be at the forefront of any battle. Upon Fatty’s order, Wheat rolled its eyes in contempt before sinking underground and shot a Howling Bullet at the Pentaflower Snake.

Whoosh! The snake immediately straightened up its body and rapidly flicked its tongue. However, as a ground traveler, there was nothing it could do to Wheat while it was burrowed.

Bang bang bang!

A series of stone spikes shot out from underground and struck the snake’s belly. The force sent the monster flying.

Crackle!

A flash of lighting landed on the flying snake, which convulsed briefly, paralyzed as expected. It was Inky’s Electric Bolt.

“What do they say again? Skinning, tendonectomy-ing and deboning must begin from the heart…” Fatty muttered nonsense as the Elemental Sword flew out and hurled itself right into the wide-open mouth of the Pentaflower Snake.

Schhhzzz…

Piercing through the neck of the snake, the Elemental Sword nailed it to a tree behind. The creature’s health sharply dropped but was unable to even utter a scream with the sword in its mouth. After some desperate twisting, its tail limply drooped, marking the snake’s easy death.

Thud!

A pile of items dropped on the ground. At the top of the pile was a dagger with the hilt shaped like a snake tooth and the blade glowing green. This dagger was obviously poisonous.

Fatty picked up the dagger and cast several Appraisals until the details were displayed.

Poisonous Fang Dagger

Gold weapon

Level Requirement: 45

Attack: 85 – 100

DEX +18

Active – Poisonous Fang: After a successful hit, the opponent loses 150 health per second for 5 seconds. The effect cannot be superimposed.

A good weapon, I can probably sell for 20,000 gold coins. Too bad it’s only Gold-grade, if it was Violet and had a bit better stats, it could at least sell for 50,000 gold coins.

Aside from this Poisonous Fang Dagger, the rest were trash. Fatty threw them all to the Elemental Skill Book. Currently, the Elemental Skill Book no longer gained anything from absorbing equipment, but this act could still feed energy to the Elemental Mystery Realm.

Tossing several Harvests on the snake’s corpse, Fatty gained a snake pelt, two poisonous fangs, and a gallbladder.

Pentaflower Snake Gallbladder

Intermediate ingredient

Highly poisonous. Can be used in refining poison.

As its name suggested, the Hundred Poison Pill, which Reck researched for years to create the recipe, required a hundred types of snake gallbladders to concoct. While it was only an Advanced recipe, if the pill was concocted from purely high-rank Yao snake gallbladders, the poison in the pill could easily kill even a dragon, according to what Reck had noted.