Chapter 5: First Kill Reward: Snake-People Priest Recruitment Scroll

Chapter 5: First Kill Reward: Snake-People Priest Recruitment Scroll

Puff!

With a single axe strike, a bloody gash was instantly hacked directly onto the smooth body of the Snowy Viper, tearing open its flesh.

[-8]

A damage number floated up.

Feeling the pain, the Snowy Viper bit down with even greater force.

However, under the infinite health regeneration state, Da Zhuang acted as if he had been pumped full of adrenaline.

Grabbing the Snowy Viper, he went into a wild frenzy of hacking and slashing.

Puff! Puff, puff!

[-10]

[-9]

[-9]

…

The sounds of flesh being hit rang out one after another.

After biting a few times, this Snowy Viper also seemed to realize that something was wrong.

Its health points were continuously decreasing, and it quickly dropped below 80.

Yet, this opponent was clearly weaker than itself, and yet even after fighting until now, it was still full of vigor!

The viper was dumbfounded.

It also realized that the status of the enemy in front of it was somewhat abnormal.

Twisting its body, it turned around and wanted to slip away.

Cao Xing had been staring at the Snowy Viper's movements from behind. Seeing this situation, he quickly said from behind, "Don't let it escape, Er Zhuang, you join in too!"

"At your service, my Lord!"

Obeying the order, Er Zhuang charged forward together and became entangled with the Snowy Viper.

With Er Zhuang's joining, the health points of this Snowy Viper drained even faster.

Puff! Puff, puff!

Two stone axes continuously hacked and chopped at the viper's body.

Before long, its health points dropped below 30.

Meanwhile, after a brief rest, Cao Xing had also recovered a bit of mental power.

Therefore, he raised his staff, and the surrounding frost power condensed.

Before long, a fist-sized ice ball formed at the top of Cao Xing's staff.

"Go!"

Cao Xing waved his staff.

This ice ball was instantly hurled out.

Then it landed on the Snowy Viper's body and exploded with a 'pop' sound!

[-21!]

An exaggerated damage number popped up from the Snowy Viper's body.

The enemy's health points dropped to zero, and it completely collapsed.

A system prompt appeared.

[Successfully killed Snowy Viper Lv2, you gained 30 experience points.]

[Combatants: Da Zhuang gained 15 experience points, Er Zhuang gained 15 experience points.]

[Congratulations! You are the first creature in this region to kill a wild monster, obtaining the First Kill Reward: Snake-People Priest Recruitment Scroll * 1.]

…

Seeing the power of [Ice Ball], both Da Zhuang and Er Zhuang showed looks of shock in their eyes.

"Lord, your power is full of deterrence!"

"Lord is so powerful!"

Cao Xing gave them a faint glance.

These Arctic People were making a fuss over nothing.

The Frost Mage class was just like this; high damage also brought high consumption.

This single Ice Ball spell directly drained the mental power he had managed to recover.

Meanwhile.

Cao Xing came before the corpse of this Snowy Viper, and a system prompt appeared in front of him.

[Snowy Viper Corpse (Dissectable)]

Cao Xing directly clicked on dissection.

In an instant, the Snowy Viper's body disappeared.

Then, a damaged snake skin, a dozen sections of bright red snake meat, and a purple poison sac appeared on the cold snow.

[Damaged Snake Skin (White) * 1]

(Although damaged, it can still be used to make simple leather clothing.)

[Fresh Snake Meat (Green) * 17]

(Fresh snake meat, 1 piece of snake meat = 5 food)

[Poison Sac (Green) * 1]

(A snake's poison sac, smeared on a weapon, seems to have unexpected effects?)

…

Seeing the things on the ground, a look of pleasant surprise appeared in Cao Xing's eyes.

"Holy cow! So much snake meat, and a snake skin, this wave is a huge drop!"

17 pieces of snake meat meant a full 85 food!

And the most crucial thing was that they now had new food besides dry bread.

And it was even delicious snake meat!

At this moment, Da Zhuang and Er Zhuang stared straight at the bright red snake meat on the ground, and the sound of swallowing saliva kept emerging.

"Meat… it's meat!"

"Oh god! How many years has it been since we last saw meat!"

"Er Zhuang, pinch me, I'm not dreaming, am I?"

Arctic People were a creature that lived in the underground world all year round, and basically rarely got to eat fresh meat.

Cao Xing did not know their lifestyle, but from the conversations of some Arctic People earlier, he could tell that the environment they were in should be very arduous.

Er Zhuang plucked a handful of Da Zhuang's goatee and exclaimed, "Da Zhuang, you aren't dreaming, this is real meat!"

"Oh god, if anyone can let me have a bite of delicious meat, I am willing to give my life for him!"

Cao Xing also knew that these Arctic People were saying this for him to hear.

"Alright, both of you speed up your work progress, tonight everyone will drink snake soup together."

Hearing this, Da Zhuang and Er Zhuang instantly scrambled up from the ground and shouted.

"Long live the Lord!"

"We're going to work right now!"

Then the two Arctic People raised their stone axes and went to chop trees with high enthusiasm.

Looking at their enthusiastic appearance, Cao Xing put away all the materials on the ground.

He looked at Liu Muxue on the side and said:

"Sister-in-law, did you remember?"

"If you encounter enemies in the wild, you must fight like this to kill them."

Liu Muxue hugged the shield in her arms and nodded firmly, "Mm-hmm, I remember, A-Xing."

Cao Xing nodded, then brought her back near the campfire.

The moment they entered the coverage range of the campfire, the chill was instantly dispelled by a large margin.

"Hiss!"

The two of them instantly shivered.

This time, they had been active outside for about seven minutes.

According to Cao Xing's estimation, their current maximum active time was fifteen minutes.

If they could make cold-resistant clothing, their active time could be extended by much more.

Cao Xing glanced at his territory resources.

[Food * 105, Wood * 36, Stone * 54]

"The materials to build the Tailor Shop are still not enough; it seems we won't be able to build it today."

"Then, are there any other methods to resist the severe cold?"

Cao Xing cast his gaze aside to the Arctic People wearing thick snow suits.

Clearly, the set of clothes that these Arctic People came with was very thick and had very good cold-resistant effects…

At this time, most Survivors probably thought of using some forced means to snatch these Arctic People's clothes away.

But I advise you best not to do that.

Because once you kill the first Arctic People, the favorability of this race will directly drop by 50%.

When you kill the second Arctic People, you will completely become hostile with this race.

Not only will you be unable to recruit Arctic People to work for you in the future, but the Arctic People encountered on the road will also launch attacks on your camp.

Cao Xing thought to himself: "Forget it, let's just tough it out like this for today."

"By tomorrow, we should be able to gather enough wood and stone to build the Tailor Shop."

At this time, Cao Xing remembered the first kill reward just given by the system; it seemed to be a recruitment scroll.

After taking it out from his backpack, the attributes of the scroll appeared in front of him.

[Snake-People Priest Recruitment Scroll: Can summon a Level 5 Snake-People Priest to assist the Lord in battle.]

[Occupies 2 population.]

Seeing this system introduction, Cao Xing's expression immediately turned joyful.

Good grief, it turned out to be a scroll capable of summoning a Level 5 creature!

This reward is really not bad!

However, Cao Xing had never encountered the Snake-People race when playing games before, and did not know what they were like.

Of course, it was also possible that because Cao Xing had not developed to the late stage, he hadn't explored the full picture of that game at all.

The vastness of this world exceeded Cao Xing's imagination.

[Whether to consume the scroll and summon the Snake-People Priest?]

"Yes."

As the words fell, a hexagram magic array appeared out of thin air in front of Cao Xing.

The next moment, the hexagram magic array emitted a dazzling light.

Liu Muxue was also curiously watching the actions on Cao Xing's side from the side.

Meanwhile, they suddenly felt that a powerful and chilling aura seemed to descend.

Then, the cold wind blew past.

A creature with a winding, twisting body and snow-white all over appeared.

The five-meter-long snake body was covered in scales, and the slender tail swayed casually in the snow.

Yet above this snake body was the head of a human female.

Slender eye corners, three-dimensional facial features, at first glance, it was filled with an alluring aura.

Cao Xing and Liu Muxue on the side both looked in shock at this huge and beautiful snake-woman.

"Such… such a big snake…" Liu Muxue's small mouth parted slightly.

It was also Cao Xing's first time seeing this kind of creature, which somewhat exceeded his imagination.

"So this is the Snake-People race? It really lives up to its name."

At this moment, this creature with a snake's body and a human's head was staring at Cao Xing with deep green pupils, then opened its dark purple lips and said softly,

"Respected Lord, Snake-People Priest, Ilena, at your service."

The attributes of this snake person appeared in front of Cao Xing.