057 Forest Festival
Driven by hatred, Gene devoted himself to the hunting with great enthusiasm.
As he speculated himself - as an adventurer, the archer did not destroy monsters, but focused on hunting ordinary beasts, and his efficiency was definitely beyond the reach of ordinary hunters. Once his mental power was released, he was simply cheating!
Gene goes out almost every morning and returns with a full load at night!
He now deeply understood the saying that was circulating in the market-magics are all rich guys.
This money is so easy to make! As long as the prey you get is on the list, the man in the gray robe will pay the reward without hesitation. Gene's daily harvest ranges from 5 silver jiggs to 25 silver jiggs...
It should be noted that in an ordinary family in the small village of Door, the income of a whole month is usually only more than one hundred copper cloth, which is equivalent to between one and two silver quarrels; while the official members of the "Self-Defense Knights" in Door Village have to risk their life and death, and only 80 copper cloth is a month, not even one silver quarrel.
Of course, such opportunities are hard to come by. Not every magician is a famous strong man on the mainland, "rich and powerful", and Master Flinda will not need some material urgently for a long time... I can only say that Gene is lucky and has caught up with a good time.
As for enchanting equipment...
Blanche once promised to allow him to buy one in the mage tower at a cost price! Gene asked the man in the gray robe for the "cost price" - the worst enchantment bow cost fifty gold towers. This price is simply hopeless. Even if Gene's current hunting profit speed is nearly a year before he can afford it...
However, enchanting arrows are much cheaper. An arrow with "fireball" is enough for only 3 gold towers... It is equivalent to hunting for more than 20 days, and Gene can still accept it!
In order to make Oliver pay the price, Gene devoted himself to the pine forest every day. In addition to sleeping, he rarely even returned to the Mage Tower.
Days pass by day and winter is getting closer.
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For the Double Stone Pillar Clan, life has become increasingly difficult recently.
The approaching winter has caused many prey to hide.
In order to resist the severe cold and maintain constant temperature, the wild timberwolves have to pay more calories. Sometimes the prey they catch on a day is not as expensive as they consume. Such meaningless hunting behavior even makes most wild timberwolves more willing to lie behind the leeward stone or rest in the dug crypt.
Even the young and promising "White Claw" wolf king cannot reverse the laws of nature!
Perhaps when this winter passes, many weak wolves will die in the entire Double Stone Pillar Clan, leaving only the strongest ones behind... By the beginning of spring next year, they will become hungry again, hunt, reproduce, seize territory, and make the tribe grow again. Moreover, after a winter cycle, those who survive will be better wolf species!
In order to avoid meaningless disputes, the White-Clawed Wolf King has compromised and given up a large area of territory.
There are many predators with group habits in the Dark Valley, some of which are not afraid of the cold at all, such as the ferret clan; there are also powerful animals that can fight dozens of them, such as the blood-brown lion and the barbarian elephant... Winter is the disadvantaged period of the Wilderness Timberwolves clan, and it must lead the clan to accumulate strength to avoid unnecessary consumption!
But there are always idiots who don’t understand this truth and try to vent their dissatisfaction with not having enough food to the leader. Baizhao defeated a guy who tried to challenge his authority yesterday.
Today, the White-Clawed Wolf King is going to lead everyone to the pool in the middle of the valley to find water.
The streams in the Shuangshizhu territory have frozen, and when the first snow falls, most water sources in the dark valley will form thick ice, and drinking water will become a huge difficulty! The wilderness of woodwolves can no longer be thirsty for up to two months as long as they drink enough water in one breath and exercise less. Therefore, this is a very necessary action!
But it was also a dangerous journey.
Because many animals in the dark valley have evolved similar mechanisms, they will inject water or eat in large quantities for the last time before winter - those who need to intake will definitely gather in this largest source of water, and those who need to eat will also come because they need to prey on the former.
This is destined to be a large-scale survival battle.
White Claw hopes that his group can be hunters, not prey. In addition to drinking enough water, it would be better if he could catch a group of fat prey at the same time!
Unfortunately, God did not fulfill his wish.
When White Claw brought the members of the tribe to the nearest water pool, they did not see too many predators. Only a few panicked antelope ran away alertly. The remaining single beasts did not dare to provoke such a large group of wolves... But when the wolves drank full of water and were about to leave, a large number of white figures suddenly surged out of the surrounding woods!
It was a pointed-mouthed beast with all legs, snow-white fur, and fluffy tail - the ferret clan.
The ferrets are not as big as the wild timberwolves, but their number is at least 300. At some point, they have surrounded the wolves from all directions, with their red eyes staring at each wild timberwolves with bad intentions. On the other hand, the wild timberwolves are filled with water, and they are obviously less flexible in their movements.
"Aowu--"
White claws howled loudly and gathered the members of the clan, quickly assembled on a high ground beside the pool, and formed a circular array to look around nervously.
The war is about to break out!
But at this time, the ground suddenly vibrated.
"Dong...Dong..."
Several giant trees by the pool were suddenly uprooted, and then red-eyed giant elephants with white horns on their heads and thick skin as thick as stones broke in!
The ferrets were frightened and avoided - even if they were bitten by the thick skin of the mangrove elephant, their small teeth could not be worn! However, if the latter wanted to prey on them, it could be said that it was effortless. Just roll the flexible elephant trunk and easily threw it into their mouths, as crisp as a squirrel biting a pine nut!
These two are already the top predators in the Dark Valley!
The arrival of the Manjiaoxiang couple accidentally broke through the encirclement of the ferret clan. Baizhao seemed to see hope of breaking through. But the two giants blocked the only gap and refused to leave. They swayed and lowered their heads to drink water, making Baizhao dare not act rashly... The Wilderness Timberwolve is also one of the things written in Manjiaoxiang's recipes.
In the distance, some scattered beasts who were secretly drinking water stared at this place. Some gloating monkeys gathered on the branches, chirping and bent the branches.
Two huge groups of people living together, two top solo predators gathered together... Such a scene is definitely very rare. It is not an exaggeration to call it a forest event.
But the next moment, something strange happened.
A skinny, half-dead, limping, deserted wood wolf, walked out of the woods.
It passed directly between the two barbarian elephants, lowered its head and licked the water surface by the pool, and seemed to have no regard for the two big guys around it.
The barbarian horn elephant on the right is slightly larger in size and is a male elephant.
Its eyes turned slightly, and suddenly raised a thick hind leg and stepped on the thin timberwolf's back.
If this kick is firm, the poor timberwolf will not even have a complete bone left, and it will turn into a pancake!
A commotion suddenly occurred in the "Two Stone Pillar" wolf pack. Some old wolves obviously recognized the "Queer" group member who had been separated more than ten days ago. But the White-Clawed Wolf King suddenly roared from his throat, turned his head and scrutinized the wolves, suppressing the riot.
"Click!"
A crisp sound came, but the ending was not short of ears and turned into meat pie.
It was that male elephant! It suddenly made a tragic cry! Its right hind leg broke in a black light, and it fell into the pool without stubborn standing, causing a high wave of water...
Immediately afterwards, the old wolf Queered Elephant walked forward calmly and bit the tip of the long nose of the Manjiao Elephant.
Visible to the naked eye, the body of this male barbarian horned elephant collapsed rapidly, and all the flesh and blood turned into red light and flowed deep into the throat that was missing.
After a moment, the place where the behemoth fell, there was only a complete elephant skin connected to the snow-white one-horned one.
Chapter completed!