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Chapter 3 – Day 2 of Living in the Demonic Land
I woke up early in the morning just as the sky began to turn white.
A slime was nibbling at me right next to me, and I cut the slime with my axe as I got up. I moved unexpectedly fast and hit the core cleanly. The slime burst and turned into water, shattering the magic stone.
As I picked up the magic stone, I wondered why my attack had hit the slime today.
I soon discovered the reason. I found a dead Lamia in the forest.
The upper half of the body was that of a woman, and the lower half of the body was that of a giant snake, a monster that must have been quite strong but with a Vespa Hornet poison needle in its mouth.
It was this Lamia that took the Wild Bear’s flesh last night.
Maybe it counted as me setting the trap and defeating it, and I got the experience from Lamia and increased my level. I’m lucky to be in a new land so soon.
I retrieved the petrifying magic stone and snakeskin from Lamia’s belly and buried the corpse. I kind of hate it when a corpse is left alone with a human body, even if it is only the upper half of the body.
After that, I got carried away and went into the river to defeat the slime. I want to make sure that I raise the bar here because of last night’s Green Tiger incident and the immense environment of the demonic land.
Today, I can defeat the slime in an interesting way. I also collected the water magic stone that the slime has. When I put magic power into it, water comes out. The effect of the slime’s magic stone was weak water magic.
Sometimes, there are magic stones that produce different forms of magic. This seems to be related to the magic power absorbed by the slime from various monsters and magic beasts. I heard this at the adventurer’s guild training course.
After a long day of killing slime and training, I felt hungry.
“Oh, that reminds me, I was cooking some meat and missed the meal.”
The food in my bag had been eaten by Lamia.
I was in a food crisis. After defeating Lamia and the slime, I was worried if I would be able to survive in the demonic land.
I remembered the Green Tiger who fell asleep yesterday, bleeding.
If it was still alive, it would be a good prey since it should be asleep. I went to the flower garden, relying on my memory of last night, and found that the Green Tiger had moved a little, but it was still sleeping.
I covered my mouth with a cloth and hardened the flowers under my feet with palm sap, covering the flowers with all the pollen. I cautiously made my way to the Green Tiger. Determined to retreat if I felt the slightest bit drowsy, I followed the path and used my axe to smash the Green Tiger’s head in.
The blood that splashed onto the flower turned the surrounding white flowers red. But the stain was only temporary, and the swimming flowers closed their petals and immediately absorbed the blood.
“This is horrible!”
I exclaimed, but it seemed that I could collect the flower while the petals were still closed.
I dragged the Green Tiger’s body onto the grass and began to dismember it. I let the blood soak into the swimming flowers and collect them at the right time when the petals are closed and put them into a bag filled with water.
Perhaps I can make a sleeping potion from the soaked swimming flowers.
After collecting the Green Tiger’s magic stone and meat, I returned to the riverbank. I could not find out what kind of magic stone it was.
I memorized the route back to the riverbank and made a map of the jungle in my mind. The next time I went to town, I would buy paper and charcoal.
I slowly roasted some Green Tiger meat to fill my stomach. It was quite smelly, but I could not give it up.
After lunch, I went a little deeper into the demon land, avoiding the bendgrass.
“It’s my land, I should at least know where everything is.”
At the base of a large tree, I found a mushroom that looked like a yellow bird’s egg. I sniffed it, and since it could have killed me instantly, I got far enough away and threw a stone at it.
The egg-like mushroom spewed spores from its cap. It looked inedible. I called it the egg mushroom and decided to avoid it.
I climbed up a tree and looked around.
In the distance, I saw a huge ape-like monster knocking down a tree.
“I can’t deal with that thing.”
I decided to stay away from that place as much as possible.
There was a small green rat monster running around on the tree. It was easy to catch if you waited in the direction it was running. I don’t know how it could survive in such a demonic land.
It seemed to be using a tree cave as its sleeping place, and I could easily catch it by sticking my hand into the cave.
I named it Forest Rat, caught it alive, and decided to use it for experiments. I gave it a sniff of a sleeping potion with a swimming flower on it, and it fell asleep immediately. When I threw it at the egg mushroom, the forest rat that had inhaled the spores gradually stopped moving, stiffened, and turned over.
The spores of the egg mushroom seemed to be a paralyzing agent.
The Forest Rat could be used for a variety of experiments. Thinking it might be a good source of food, I cut it up and grilled the meat, but the meat tasted like leaves and was not very tasty.
Today, I camped on the riverbank again. There is nothing I can do about the lack of a safe place to settle. I ate the meat of a green tiger that I had left over and some leaves that the Forest Rats had collected in the hollows of the trees where they lived.
The leaves tasted terrible, but they seemed to be good for the body, as they seemed to restore strength. They might be some kind of medicinal herb.
By the way, the magic stone of the Forest Rat was bright blue, and I did not know its effect at that time.
Since there was a possibility that I might be attacked if there was food nearby, I dug a hole in the ground on the riverbank, hardened it with palm sap, and stored it inside.
When digging the holes, I used a stick and a shovel made of the hardened sap, which was very easy to use.
The sun was still high in the sky, so I decided to dig a hole in the jungle.
After three hours of digging, I had made a hole big enough to hold an entire Green Tiger.
I placed the swimming flowers and egg mushrooms I had collected at the bottom of the pit and covered the pit with palm leaves.
When I collected the swimming flowers and egg mushrooms, I put the palm sap on the fingertips of my gloves so that the sap would never stick to my fingers.
Of course, I wore a mask.
When I collected the swimming flowers, I used Forest Rat’s blood, and when I collected the egg mushrooms, I covered them with a damp cloth to prevent the spores from coming out before I collected them. On the way back to the riverbank, near the bendgrass, I found a Forest Rat foot on the ground.
The bendgrass must have eaten it.
At the base of the bendgrass leaves was a blue magic stone of a Forest Rat. While other bendgrass would close its leaves violently when touched, the bendgrass with the blue magic stone closed slowly.
The Forest Rat’s magic stone must be a weakening or slowing magic stone that slows down time.
I grabbed the blue magic stone and removed it, only to find that the bendgrass had closed with such force that my whole arm was about to be eaten.
I also found that the bendgrass closes vigorously even when the base is cut off. It seems to be a natural bear trap. Good, so I spread the leaves all over the ground on the animal trail.
By the time I was done, it was completely dark.
Tonight, I will not make a fire, but I will sleep on the leaves, which are the food of the Forest Rat. I scattered small magic stones that I had collected from too many Forest Rats around the food storage area so that if a monster stepped on them, it would slow them down.
“I want more good meat!”
I laid the torn fur of a Wild Bear away from the food storage and went to sleep.
I was awakened several times by the growling of monsters, but I was not attacked and continued on to the next day.
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