WTYTIAAN Chapter 134

Chapter 134

Walkerly left them in the Norman Forest and washed his hands of it, only telling them: if you really encounter danger, don’t resist stubbornly, use the pager in time.

Team A moved forward into the forest.

Before entering the forest, Yan Yunqing also met with Quinn’s team. Without saying much, they chose different directions to enter. Outside the forest, they were still classmates, but once inside the forest, they were competitors.

The strength of Quinn’s team should not be underestimated. The three swordsmen in his team are all strong first-year students from the Swordsman Academy, unlike Yan Yunqing’s side, which was full of the old, weak, sick, and young.

Robin raised his hand to ask, “I can understand the other four, but who is ‘old’?”

Yan Yunqing pointed to himself, “Me.”

Robin: ???

Robin looked at Yan Yunqing’s extremely young face and hesitated: “Team leader… no, could it be that team leader is a long-lived species?”

The academy’s enrollment is not limited to humans, and alien races with long lifespans can often be seen in the academy. The instructor of the Alchemy Society is a very old-looking goblin, said to be over a hundred years old, but this age is only middle-aged among goblins.

Yan Yunqing smiled without saying a word.

Although he had only just come of age, he was actually a Demon King from over two thousand years ago. In a sense, he was indeed ‘old’.

The first part of the road into the forest was still easy to walk, but the further they went, the more rugged the road became. Tree roots surged out of the soil everywhere, occupying the area menacingly. It was impossible to tell whether the ground under a layer of dead leaves was flat dirt, a tripping root, or an unfathomable pit.

Rowena, as a swordsman with combat experience, took the initiative to stand at the front, protecting Yan Yunqing and Demetrius, the two mages, behind her.

Yan Yunqing actually wanted to say it wasn’t necessary. His swordsmanship experience was no less than Rowena’s. After all, he had killed many monsters on his way back from Freedom City, and even leveled up in the Bounty Hunter Association. And Demetrius exercised his body whenever he had time, and wasn’t as weak as ordinary mages.

Before he could speak, Robin spoke first. He whispered, “Careful! Bird target approaching.”

The next second, a Poison Hook Eagle with a hook at the end of its tail feathers jumped out of a treetop, swooping straight towards Yan Yunqing and his group.

Rowena reacted quickly and swung her greatsword, but the characteristic of a greatsword is high damage but slow attack speed, while the uniform characteristic of birds is speed. Before Rowena could swing her sword, the Poison Hook Eagle had already rushed in front of William.

William also held a long sword in his hand. He was following the proper knight’s path, using a light sword. This was a very popular profession among nobles. The knight’s skills were polite and in line with the nobles’ need to be elegant even in battle.

Rowena’s greatsword didn’t hit the Poison Hook Eagle, but William’s sword struck its body. The Poison Hook Eagle screamed and quickly pulled up, flying into the air. However, William’s attack didn’t do much damage. The Poison Hook Eagle selected a target again and swooped down towards—

Demetrius.

His reaction was even faster than the Poison Hook Eagle’s. As the Poison Hook Eagle swooped down, a water-based entanglement spell was instantly cast, and water-Condensed arrows floated around him.

The water ropes instantly bound the Poison Hook Eagle’s wings, and the water arrows shot out towards the Poison Hook Eagle. What was clearly the gentlest of all elements, water, now turned into hard arrows piercing the Poison Hook Eagle’s body.

The Poison Hook Eagle screamed again, letting out a shrill wail. The sound was extremely harsh, but it couldn’t stop its chest from being pierced. Life slowly ebbed away. The Poison Hook Eagle’s venomous eyes lost their light and fell into dead silence.

Everyone’s eyes vigilantly stared at the Poison Hook Eagle, waiting for its last-ditch counterattack. However, Demetrius’s water arrows were very accurate, almost instantly erasing all of the Poison Hook Eagle’s vitality, making it impossible for the Poison Hook Eagle to counterattack.

Robin went up to check, “It’s just an ordinary Poison Hook Eagle, not a monster.”

Although the first monsters were born from the remains of gods, after so long, 70% of the current monsters are transformed from demonized beasts.

It was hard to say whether they would encounter a demonized beast or a monster in the forest.

Rowena was strange, “Poison Hook Eagles are not a type of demonized beast that actively attacks. Why did we get attacked by a Poison Hook Eagle as soon as we came in?”

William: “Maybe we accidentally entered this demonized beast’s territory?”

Robin shook his head. His strength was average, but his brain was indeed useful. He had all of the demonized beasts’ living habits taught in the academy in his head.

“No, Poison Hook Eagles are relatively weak in the forest. They usually rely on their agility and speed, as well as the poison hooks on their tails, to hunt. They rarely have fixed territories. Even if they do, they generally can’t hold onto them.”

In short, the Poison Hook Eagle’s strength was not good. Even if it circled a territory, other demonized beasts would enter and exit at will. It had no deterrent effect. In the eyes of other demonized beasts, it was a younger brother.

Robin looked around and took out a dagger to protect himself. He climbed up a tree, the same tree that the Poison Hook Eagle had jumped out of at the beginning.

He searched the tree and finally found a bird’s nest built of thin branches in a tree hole. Robin probed the nest. There were no other Poison Hook Eagles in the nest, but there was an egg. It was obviously a Poison Hook Eagle’s nest.

Robin unceremoniously took the Poison Hook Eagle’s nest, along with the egg. The Poison Hook Eagle’s egg was very large, almost three fists in size. He jumped down from the tree with the egg in his arms and showed his companions the egg in his arms.

“This Poison Hook Eagle should have just laid an egg. We came over just as it was being vigilant. It suspected that we were here to steal the egg, so it directly attacked us.”

The Poison Hook Eagle’s combat power was really not strong. The grasping power of its claws was far inferior to that of ordinary eagles. It only relied on the venom on its tail hook to attack. The average female Poison Hook Eagle laid one egg every three months.

Don’t look down on the Poison Hook Eagle’s low attack power, but their eggs are really fragrant. Many carnivorous demonized beasts like to dig up Poison Hook Eagle nests and eat their eggs. The nutritional value is extremely high! The demonized beasts all say it’s good!

Because of this, protecting the unhatched eggs is something engraved in the Poison Hook Eagle’s genes. After all, they only lay one egg every three months! If they didn’t protect them and other demonized beasts dug up eagle nests every day, the Poison Hook Eagles would go extinct before long!

Robin explained the Poison Hook Eagle’s living habits, and Yan Yunqing commented, “Sounds like a bit of a dark joke.”

William was curious, “So what are you going to do with the egg you brought down?”

Robin gently patted the shell of the eagle egg, looking like it was only natural, “Of course I’m going to eat it! Otherwise, why would I dig up the eagle nest?”

Saying that, Robin licked his lips, very excited, “I read in a book that Poison Hook Eagle eggs are very delicious, which is why those demonized beasts are always staring at the Poison Hook Eagle’s nest, forcing the Poison Hook Eagles to engrave the mission of protecting the eggs into their inherited memories. It’s not easy to encounter one, so I have to taste what it tastes like!”

The others were silent.

This wasn’t just like a dark joke, it was one.

Yan Yunqing shook his head: We are born of the same root, why are we in such a hurry to kill each other!

William was speechless, “No wonder the Poison Hook Eagles engrave the protection of their eggs into their inherited memories.”

Robin hummed, “Just tell me if you want to eat it or not?”

William didn’t hesitate, “Yes!”

He was also very curious what the eagle egg favored by most demonized beasts tasted like.

Robin glanced at him with disdain and waved his hand, “Granted.”

Yan Yunqing: …

He turned his head and found Demetrius staring intently at the Poison Hook Eagle that had been pierced through the chest and was lying on the ground, unable to close its eyes.

Yan Yunqing waved his hand in front of Demetrius’s eyes, “What’s wrong with you?”

This guy wasn’t feeling sorry for killing the Poison Hook Eagle after hearing what Robin just said, was he?

Demetrius slowly said, “Poison Hook Eagle eggs are delicious.”

Yan Yunqing: “Yeah.”

Demetrius asked expectantly, “Then what about Poison Hook Eagle meat?”

Yan Yunqing: “Um… um?”

Demetrius pursed his lips, and his eyes, looking at the Poison Hook Eagle’s corpse on the ground, revealed a hint of anticipation. It seemed that he was already simulating in his mind how to prepare, stew, boil, and roast the Poison Hook Eagle’s meat.

Yan Yunqing: …

Now the Poison Hook Eagle really couldn’t rest in peace.

Robin, in the midst of his busyness, heard Demetrius’s words and chimed in, “Don’t think about it. The book says that only the eggs of Poison Hook Eagles are delicious. Adult Poison Hook Eagles secrete venom in their tail hooks all year round, so their meat is extremely sour and unpalatable. The most important thing is that there is a certain chance of poisoning after eating it. Adult Poison Hook Eagles are not edible.”

Demetrius looked regretful, “Not delicious?”

Robin firmly said, “Not delicious! Poison Hook Eagles evolved poisonous hooks and made their meat unpalatable because their eggs tasted too good.”

Demetrius was disappointed, “Oh.”

Yan Yunqing was speechless.

It sounded even darker.

Robin put the egg into his space bracelet, and they continued to move forward. They were still located on the outer edge of the Norman Forest. If they wanted to achieve a good result, they had to enter the depths of the forest to hunt demonized beasts with higher levels.

According to their original plan, they had to enter at least the outer layer of the central part of the Norman Forest today, practice with the demonized beasts there first, and then move towards the depths of the forest after they got used to the perilous Norman Forest.

Along the way, Team A encountered many low-level demonized beasts, which they managed to solve in cooperation. Although they had been practicing together in school for a month, their combat coordination was still very rusty when they really entered the battle. Basically, they were each fighting their own battles.

With the low-level demonized beasts as practice, their coordination improved a little, at least it wasn’t as ugly as at the beginning.

The sun gradually rose, hanging in the center, and bright sunshine sprinkled down, dispelling some of the mist in the forest. The visibility in the forest increased a lot at once.

Yan Yunqing observed the state of his teammates. Everyone was in good shape. No one had shown any signs of fatigue for the time being. After all, even Demetrius, who was a mage, did physical training from time to time, so this distance was nothing.

The rest were swordsmen, so traveling was even less of a problem for them. If he had to say, only William’s face showed a slight abnormality.

After all, he had just experienced a long period of ‘roller coaster’ travel in the morning, and had vomited for a while. It was normal for his body to be unable to handle high-intensity combat now that he was a child.

Yan Yunqing considered it. As the captain, he needed to consider everyone’s condition, so he called a halt, “Let’s rest for a while and have lunch. We still have a lot of fighting to do in the afternoon, so let’s adjust our spirits first.”

Hearing this, the team members had no objection and stopped their pace towards the depths of the forest. Robin darted up a tree to check the safety of the surrounding area, Rowena and William were responsible for setting up camp and making a fire, and Yan Yunqing took Demetrius to see if they could hunt some prey nearby.

Their space bracelets and Yan Yunqing’s backpack contained a lot of food, but this food could not guarantee enough to eat for fifteen days. They were more inclined to hunt for food when they had enough time, rather than consume their food reserves too early.

“Otherwise, let Demetrius stay behind to set up camp, and I’ll go with you?” Rowena looked at Yan Yunqing, then at Demetrius, and was a little worried about letting the two mages go out hunting.