This hunter is named Warren, a hunter in Eill Village. And the place they are in is Misty Forestry, which is located in the Norton Duchy, the northwest of the mainland. Further north of this place is the Grey Sword Mountains, Sarin River lies in the south of it. This is the north west corner of the human world. Toward north, having climbed the Grey Sword Mt., you will arrive at Black Rock Desert, which is the world of orcs. Going further toward northwest, it will lead you into the kingdom of Mountain Dwarves.
"Reverend Roy, we need to walk along this stream for another half day, then we will get our village."
Roy is Fang Tang's pseudonym. Having understood some of the customs and culture here, Fang Tang did as Roman do and made up a western-style pseudonym Roy Mustang for himself, and Kratos for Jiang Jinjiu.
"Little Fang, when did you learn to speak the local language?" Jiang Jinjiu, walking behind the hunter, asked softly.
"I don't know. I didn't even know what he was saying when I first heard him, but all of a sudden I understood him and also knew how to speak his language. I guess it's because this is a magical world, so it's not very hard to learn a foreign language. When Shariel first came to my home, she could also speak Chinese right away."
"Holy shit, that's fucking convenient, I also want to learn this local language."
"Comprehend Languages is a 4th-level divine spell, when I get two levels higher on my priest level, I will apply this spell on you."
As they whispered, a dark shadow burst out of the bushes next to them, whirled away Warren.
"Ah... it's Saman, help, help..."
Seeing that Warren was about to be dragged into the bushes, Jiang Jinjiu took out a folding crossbow, drew and released a full bow toward the bushes. Then he threw the crossbow to Fang Tang, took out a metal folding gun, screwed it with force, tightened its body and run after that dark shadow.
The dark shadow in the bushes was hit by the arrow, while unharmed. But it was irritated, so it turned back and rushed to Jiang Jinjiu. At the same time, Fang Tang saw the real appearance of that dark shadow, which was a bucket thick red python.
Jiang Jinjiu stabbed the python with his gun, instead of hurting it, he was thrown in the high by its tail whip. Thanks to his Kink-weight, he could barely stabilize his body.
Fang Tang, hiding behind the tree, turned on data perception. Because data perception consumes the "faith of food", so he didn't often use it. And so far, the function of data perception is still relatively limited, such as after observing this red giant Python, it can only analyze its length, weight and other data, and nothing shows up about its specific species, attributes and skills.
While preparing for this adventure, Fang Tang unexpectedly found that with the assistance of data perception on aiming, he could accurately predict the trajectory of the shot. With this plug-in, you can hit whichever thing you want to shoot. That's really amazing. Even a rookie can be a sharpshooter in a few minutes.
Although Jiang Jinjiu was thrown out by the python just now, the attacking force also stopped the python to continue its next step. Taking this opportunity, Fang Tang released an arrow and hit the python's left eye accurately.
The painful python lashed its tail and threw Warren out. While its vision was affected, Jiang Jinjiu took the chance, went around to the left, gathered force on his legs, then jumped into the air. Toward the jaw of the python that was still shaking its head, he threw out a hard punch.
This punch directly blew its eyeball that was shot by the arrow. The giant python fell to the ground in pain and jilted its tail fiercely, which happened to whip Jiang Jinjiu that had just landed.
The python has three key moves, to bite, to wrap and to lash its tail. Fortunately, Fang Tang has applied a layer of shield of faith to Jiang Jinjiu. Although this layer of shields still can not completely resist this python's lashing tail, it offset a majority of force from this python. Therefore, in this attack, Jiang Jinjiu was not thrown out in the high, instead he flexibly held his python's tail and skillfully threw it away, which was terribly slammed on a rock.
After that successful move, like a flash, Jiang Jinjiu took a swift move, aimed at the 7-inch part, he threw another hard punch. But he was not assured after that, so he made a few more punches till the python's eyes and mouth were both bleeding.
As Fang Tang approached, his data perception confirmed that the python was dead. Jiang Jinjiu breathed a sigh of relief, and his whole body was out of strength. Although the fight between this python didn't take too long, the offense and defense used a lot of energy. Jiang Jinjiu's sweat ran down like raindrops, and his blood was dripping from his hands.
Seeing that, Fang Tang applied a primary heal on his hands immediately.
"Divine spells are really useful and convenient. On our earth, it will take at least a week for this injury to heal." Jiang Jinjiu praised with amazement while looking at the wound on his hand, under the radiance of primary heal, quickly contract and grow scabs, and the pain ceased.
Warren walking out of the bushes with limped feet, looked at the giant python in the blood pool, with an incredible expression.
"You killed Red Sarman!"
The local people here call this python Sarman, which means Deathbringer. It is no longer a beast, but a low-level magical beast, which is mainly in brown and able to use stoneskin, has stronger defensive power, and attacks preys with its poison fangs.
Except stoneskin, Red Sarman can also use Scorching Ray. Moreover, its venom is fatal. Once you are bitten by it, the general antidote can do nothing for it. So, adventure teams below level 5 are not the opponent of this python, let alone an ordinary hunter like Warren.
When Warren was healed with Primary heal, they three cut down a small tree and tied the python to it. Warren and Jiang Jinjiu put this on their shoulder. Fang Tang also wanted to help them, but was refused by Warren. In Warren's opinion, priest is not supposed to do such unskilled work.
When they came to Eill Village, all the villagers cheered with excitement: "Welcome our great warrior that killed Sarman.". And the village chief even shed tears after this exciting news.
The Sarman python that should have wandered deep in the forest, but no idea why it came to the edge of the forest in the past six months. Several adults and children in the village have been eaten by it. The villagers went to a town to invite a few adventurers to help exterminate the python, but they all failed. And this thing also made traders too sacred to even pass by Eill Village. Seeing that all the villagers lived in panic and were short in supplies, the village chief was quite anxious in his mind, but could do nothing.
To his surprise, there were two warriors that could even kill this python. Soon after his excitement, the village chief stated that because Fang Tang and Jiang Jinjiu didn't take the task in Adventurer Guild, so he won't pay them for this. Besides, they really didn't have any money now, all the villagers were living an extremely hard life.
This village chief, who was an old guy, showed a face that seemed like "Whatever you want to do, I really don't have money." Seeing that, Fang Tang felt quite awkward, and wondered: "did I ask you for money?"
Warren was the one that felt more embarrassed because Fang Tang and Jiang Jinjiu saved his life, and it was he told them on the way back that their village chief had offered a great reward to invite enable people to help them exterminate Sarman. Now, the village chief told them there was no money. Warren didn't even know how to face them.
However, Fang Tang generously said that it was okay. Because he would stay there for two days, so he asked the village chief whether he could arrange it. Hearing that they wouldn't ask for money, the village chief smiled again immediately and said it was not a problem. And he also told them that he would hold a banquet this evening to thank these two warriors.
In order to celebrate that the evil Sarman was finally killed, almost all the villagers took part in preparing the evening banquet at the village chief's house. Out of his professional habits, Fang Tang ran to the village chief's kitchen to take a look.
"Are we going to eat this at night?" What Fang Tang could see was pickled radishes, radish salad, fried radishes with wild vegetables, edible wild vegetables with potatoes and stewed radishes with potatoes. The only meat dish was made of the rabbit brought by Warren, it was actually a large pot of soup stewed with rabbit meat, potatoes and radishes.
"Yes, it's a day that worthy celebrating. We haven't had meat soup for a long time, and thanks to you, my Reverend Roy, we can have it today." The women that were cooking said this with a smile.
Fang Tang walked out of the kitchen in a despondent mood and said to Jiang Jinjiu: " It's better we cook for the dinner, because all they have is radishes."
"Then what shall we eat if we cook?"
Fang Tang pointed at the giant python that was put in front of the village chief's house: "Well, isn't it the ready-made ingredients?"
The reason why this python can withstand the attacks of crossbows and spears is because of its stoneskin. Even though its skin was also quite hard, it didn't bother Fang Tang. Holding a butcher's knife, Fang Tang stabbed at the seven-inch part of this python, as he thought its skin was softer here. Because its inner organs were smashed by Jiang Jinjiu's punches, it was easy for Fang Tang's knife to go down.
Then he used the data perception to observe the texture of this python's epidermis, and followed the lines, he easily cut the python as skillfully as a butcher. After that, he started to cut off the head, remove the tail, peel the skin, debone it, remove the internal organs, and rinse the blood.
When the old village chief saw Fang Tang find a tree stump and cut the python's meat on it, he asked in confusion: "Reverend Roy, what are you cutting this for?"
"Cooking," Fang Tang replied casually.
"Cooking with this meat? Master... sir, Sarman is very toxic."
"Its poisonous glands are on its head. I have pulled out its fangs and checked its flesh with "Detect Toxicity", so don't worry, it's poison free."
"That doesn't mean this is edible, it is a magical beast. Do you forget what the magical beast means... it is a monster. How can monsters be edible? And who dares to..."
"Easy, this is edible." Fang Tang thought to himself, Walking Mushroom is obviously also a kind of magical beast, but it also ends up being eaten by him. In the eyes of Chinese people, there is nothing they dare not to eat. It only matters whether it tastes good or not.