MTLNOVEL Chapter 244: Planning!
At that moment, the illusion in front of Lucian's eyes ended. He saw a real Golden Mist Bird standing in the grass. It seemed to be resting, standing still.
Its entire body was covered in golden feathers. It looked like a large crow, with its size about the same as a three-year-old child.
Lucian carefully observed it for a while and got ready to attack!
He only needed its salivary glands, so it did not matter to him even if he killed the Golden Mist Bird.
Just as Lucian was about to attack, the Golden Mist Bird suddenly turned its head and looked at Lucian!
Seeing that he was discovered, Lucian quickly swung his right claw and slashed at the Golden Mist Bird!
The Golden Mist Bird released a shrill cry and flapped its wings crazily as it retreated.
At the same time, it opened its beak, and in an instant, a beautiful golden mist gushed out and flooded Lucian's face!
Lucian subconsciously wanted to cover his face with both hands, but he suddenly realized that one of his pieces of equipment, the Golden Phoenix Wing Crown, could be immune to crowd control skills!
So he ignored the Golden Mist Bird's breath and continued to attack!
The golden mist sprayed out and enveloped Lucian's entire body, and Lucian's sharp claws were about to slash at the Golden Mist Bird!
A golden mist rushed toward Lucian's face, and the Golden Mist Bird's breath instantly turned the surrounding weeds and insects into gold.
However, the mist did not affect Lucian at all.
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Lucian's body was covered in a layer of gold powder, but it did not affect Lucian at all!
The equipment on Lucian's head was helping him to be immune to three instants of crowd control.
The moment the first chance of immunity effect was used, Lucian successfully slashed his claw and left three bloody wounds on the Golden Mist Bird's chest.
The Golden Mist Bird let out a miserable shrill and flapped its wings, trying to escape from Lucian.
If a bird wanted to fly, it could not rely on its wings alone. It also needed to exert force from its chest muscles to drive its wings and take off.
Now that the chest of the Golden Mist Bird was heavily injured, it lost the ability to flap its wings!
It drooped its wings and lay on the ground. It opened its mouth wide and aimed at Lucian, trying to use its last bit of strength to resist being killed.
However, Lucian lifted it up like a chicken.
The heavily injured and bleeding Golden Mist Bird had lost the strength to struggle and was at Lucian's mercy.
Lucian looked at the feathers carefully. These Golden Mist Birds' feathers were high-quality materials and could be used to forge equipment, which could be exchanged for a lot of money.
The salivary glands that Lucian needed the most were also very important.
Other than that, the other parts of the Golden Mist Bird's body were not valuable.
Lucian plucked the Golden Mist Bird's feathers and put them into his storage ring.
Then, he took out an empty bottle from his storage ring.
He used a small knife to accurately remove the Golden Mist Bird's salivary glands and put them into the bottle.
Even if this was the first salivary gland he had collected, and he was still far from a hundred, it was still the first step to his success!
Lucian took out his phone and opened the club group chat. He read through it and realized the other members had yet to meet a Golden Mist Bird.
It appears that he was the first to encounter it.
Lucian continued to activate his Eye of the Dragon God and began to scan his surroundings, looking for more clues about the Golden Mist Birds.
He began to shuffle through the grass and continued to move forward.
As he moved forward, Lucian recalled the short battle just now.
The Golden Mist Bird's combat strength was by no means weak, but apart from its breath, it seemed to have no other offensive means.
Lucian recalled the moment he had alarmed the Golden Mist Bird, and it had used its breath to counterattack.
It seemed that its only offensive means were its breath.
This breath skill could not only produce a crowd control effect, but it could also kill a person if they were under its breath for an extended period of time by getting transmuted into pure gold.
In other words, as long as the person avoided the Golden Mist Bird's breath, they would be able to find an opportunity to kill it!
Lucian recalled and gauged the distance and range of the Golden Mist Bird's breath.
Although this breath skill of the Golden Mist Bird was very deadly, its speed wasn't fast. As long as Lucian used the Dragon Shadow skill in time, he could easily avoid it.
After moving forward for some distance, Lucian was surprised to see that the ground was stained with gold dust.
He squatted down and looked carefully, and the Eye of the Dragon God immediately completed its analysis.
A Golden Mist Bird silhouette appeared before Lucian's eyes. At the same time, another Golden Mist Bird appeared beside it!
These two Golden Mist Birds were fighting each other. They spat out golden mist one after another in an attempt to kill the other.
However, their breath was ineffective against their own kind. The golden mist finally landed on the ground and turned into golden powder.
After a short while, the Golden Mist Bird that won the fight slowly trod away.
Lucian looked around and found the Golden Mist Bird that had died in the battle.
He walked to the Golden Mist Bird's corpse and took off its feathers and salivary glands.
Then, he continued to follow the clues shown in his eyes.
The fight between the two Golden Mist Birds was most likely a fight for their turf.
Although the other bird won, it suffered a lot of injuries. It escaped and was definitely headed to its nest so that it could recover from its injuries.
Before Lucian came to this forest, he had read up on the habits of these Golden Mist Birds.
The Golden Mist Bird's whereabouts were hidden and hard to find in the jungle.
The Golden Mist Bird's nest was even harder to find. However, once a person found their nest, they would be able to obtain a lot of gold!
The reason was that after the Golden Mist Bird killed its prey, it would bring back the remaining gold pieces of its prey to prevent its trails from being discovered by other predators.
The Golden Mist Bird would die after breathing its special breath three times in a row. Therefore, the gold pieces created by its breath were important to them.
Lucian continued to follow the clues and found that the Golden Mist Bird silhouette had arrived in front of a towering tree. It flapped its wings and flew up.
Looking up, Lucian found that the tree was about twenty meters tall and had a thick trunk. It was difficult for Lucian to climb it by himself.
It seemed that the nest of the Golden Mist Bird was up there.
Lucian grabbed the gap between the trees with both hands and began to climb up.
After climbing for more than ten meters, Lucian unexpectedly found a hole in the middle of the tree trunk.
He crept up slowly and looked into the hole.
In an instant, a golden light flashed, and Lucian was greeted by the sight of a huge pile of gold!
As expected, this was the nest of the Golden Mist Bird!
Lucian looked around and found the Golden Mist Bird lying in the nest, resting due to its serious injuries.
The nest wasn't big, just the size of a basketball.
If an enemy wanted to invade from this hole, the Golden Mist Bird's breath would cover the entire hole.
Attacking the Golden Mist Bird from the nest's entrance would be difficult.
Fortunately, the Golden Mist Bird was seriously injured and did not notice Lucian's arrival.
The next moment, Lucian suddenly slashed out, and the tip of his claw pierced through the neck of the Golden Mist Bird!
The Golden Mist Bird did not even have time to struggle before it died.
This painless killing
was the best he could do for this bird.
Lucian took out the corpse of the Golden Mist Bird, removed its salivary glands, and put it into a bottle.
He plucked its feathers and placed them in his storage ring.
Then, he looked at the gold fragments in the tree hole.
It appears they weighed about half a kilogram, as he held the gold fragments in his hand and roughly estimated their weight.
Gold was not particularly valuable in this world, but a gram of gold was still worth about a hundred dollars.
What was truly valuable were the materials from the corpses of these high-grade ferocious beasts.
The half a kilogram of gold that Lucian had found was worth about fifty thousand dollars, and it wasn't a bad source of income. If he was lucky enough to find a few more nests in a day, wouldn't he be able to earn a few hundred thousand dollars this way?