novelbin Chapter 75 : Upgrade! Level 3 【Hunting】!
Chapter 75 : Upgrade! Level 3 【Hunting】!
Chapter 75: Upgrade! Level 3 【Hunting】!
Tita was momentarily stunned, then revealed a smile.
Although Shia’s progress in the Breathing Technique was average, she had once worked under her doing odd jobs for a period of time.
Thus, she still had a fairly good impression of this polite girl.
She casually stacked Leo’s task description together with Shia’s list and handed them over.
After receiving the documents, Leo expressed his thanks respectfully.
He did not intend to stay any longer in this Knight Hall. He gave a signal to Shia, who was shrinking by the wall, indicating for her to come out, and then directly left the Knight Hall.
Faced with Leo’s choice, Carlos clicked his tongue and sneered, baring his teeth. “Zoro, this is the noble faction brat you told the brothers to keep an eye on? I don’t think it’s necessary at all, hahaha…”
But when he turned his head and saw Zoro’s expression, he could no longer laugh. “Zo… Zoro.”
“Shut up.” Zoro’s tone was cold. As he watched Leo’s departing figure, his expression turned somewhat gloomy.
If Leo left the city to hunt, then he would be able to find an opportunity.
But if this Leo kept hiding inside the city…
The key point was that he was now someone under Laforin’s special attention.
That would make things much more troublesome.
He shoved aside Carlos, who was standing in front of him rambling nonsense. “Tita, register this task for me. I’ll go alone.”
“Zoro, are you sure you want to take this? Hunting Centaurs?” Tita looked serious. “I heard that the villages near the Centaur Plateau were just raided by the Wilderness Knight Order a couple of days ago.”
“Register it.” Zoro’s gaze was firm, without the slightest hesitation.
This was the place of agreement between him and the Black God.
Seeing this, Tita said no more. The number of participants for tasks was meant to protect Quasi-Knights, but Zoro often took on team missions alone.
He had the strength, and he had the authority.
The Quasi-Knights present all cast admiring gazes at Zoro.
Venturing alone into the Centaur Plateau was proof of both courage and strength.
……
“Thank you so much, Leo.” Shia received the delivery list, her face filled with gratitude as she sincerely expressed her thanks to Leo.
Leo glanced at Shia’s densely packed list. “So many tasks, and you only earn 1 Merit Point. That’s not very worthwhile.”
“Well, with my strength, it’s safer to do this.” Shia scratched her head.
She had never thought about how far she would cultivate. As long as she could live peacefully in Blackstone City, that was enough.
Leo knew that Shia was a count’s daughter from Tulip Territory.
Logically speaking, her conditions should not be bad. Leo felt curious and asked, “You said you’ve stayed in Blackstone City for many years. Why don’t you plan to return to your hometown?”
Leo felt that Shia was just getting by in Blackstone City and not relying on the Merit Point resources here, which made him curious.
Shia shook her head. “Originally, I planned to return many years ago. But later, a church called the Black God Church appeared in my hometown…”
“Black God Church?” Leo was stunned for a moment. He had once read about the Black God in Hogg’s 《Kingdom Travel Notes》.
“Yes.” Shia did not have much guard against the kind-hearted Leo before her. “Ever since the Black God Church appeared two years ago, among the seven cities under Tulip Territory, Quasi-Knights and even Knights have gone mad one after another. They became crazed knight lunatics. Some even killed their own wives, parents, and children, then fled into the wilderness.”
Leo listened, not expecting such things to happen in such a large territory like Tulip Territory.
Heretics?
In the Danlun Kingdom, there was only one church—the Church of Light, which believed in the Father of Light.
All other beliefs were labeled as heresy.
He had not expected heretics to appear even in a major territory like Tulip Territory.
As this was said, the atmosphere became somewhat heavy. Leo suddenly changed the topic. “You run to so many places every day. Your horse must be very tired. I can help groom and feed your horse for free.”
“Really?!” Shia looked at Leo.
Faced with the continuous kindness he showed her, her heart trembled slightly, feeling that he was truly a rare good person.
She recalled the fairy tale picture books she read as a child, about princes and princesses.
After staying in Blackstone City for so long, this was the first time someone had treated her so well.
“Could it be… he?”
After bidding farewell to Shia, whose cheeks had flushed red, Leo directly returned to the dungeon.
“Oh? I didn’t expect it to be you who took my task. Originally, I asked Ross to help with this, but since you’ve taken it, this job will be handed over to you from now on.” Lady Manta looked at Leo with slight surprise and delight.
“Perfect. Start with that Blood Goblin over there. This kind of Beastkin has no special requirements. After killing it, just leave the Blood Core.”
Leo did not expect to receive his first slaughter task so quickly.
Blood Goblin.
Leo walked toward that familiar cell.
He had not expected that his first order would be to swing the butcher’s blade at this “old friend” of his.
However, he did not feel the slightest reluctance.
Seeing Leo walk in with a longsword, the Blood Goblin showed neither fear nor anger.
It drooped its head and merely glanced casually at this somewhat perverse Swordsman before it.
It felt that this lunatic in front of it had already toyed with it for over a month. This time, no matter what, it did not want to play with this Human brat anymore.
Even using Active Dragon Seeds now would have little effect on it.
It quietly looked at Leo, revealing an expression of complete indifference, as if it feared nothing.
“To be honest, I’m actually a bit reluctant to part with you.”
Hearing this, the Blood Goblin raised its head slightly, eyelids drooping, as if saying—if you’ve got the ability, then kill me.
But in the next moment, a sharp sword light flashed across.
This sword light seemed somewhat different…
Pfft!
With one stroke, the head fell.
Blood sprayed as a large triangular head rolled to the ground.
Leo swiftly removed the Blood Core and left the cell, returning to Lady Manta to report.
“So efficient.” Lady Manta was very satisfied with Leo’s first task.
She had been quite busy recently. After taking the Blood Core, she immediately returned to the Potion Laboratory.
Leo was also very satisfied with this first slaughter task given by Lady Manta.
Because just now, his Hunting skill had gained another wave of experience.
【Hunting (White) Level 3 3/100】
That Blood Goblin had directly upgraded his skill to Level 3.
Leo continued to look.
【Hunting (White) Level 3 3/100 (Insight into the prey’s weaknesses and body structure, obtaining information about hunted species) (Special Effect: Hunting Moment Level 2)】
The skill description now included insight into the prey’s body structure.
With a thought, the image of that Blood Goblin from earlier immediately appeared in Leo’s mind.
It was as if a three-dimensional model had been constructed in his brain.
At the same time, Leo’s perspective began to move. Its bright red skin was covered with faint yellow spots, along with sparse hair.
Leo’s expression shifted as his perspective directly entered the Goblin’s body.
He felt it was very strange—the inside of this Goblin’s body was almost entirely composed of a peculiar red fluid.
From this perspective, Leo discovered that even its muscles and bones were fluid.
It was just that the concentration of the fluid differed, forming different organs.
Leo felt as though he was touring inside the Goblin’s body through a lens, like observing a massive model.
Then, Leo saw at the location of the heart—a massive spherical object.
Blood Core.