MTLNOVEL Chapter 12: Chapter 12 Harvest
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The Big Cat was now truly exhausted, its agility and strength attributes were overwhelming, but its condition was far too poor.
After breaking free from the vines with great effort, it swatted a beetle with a paw, but was too weak to continue resisting and got hit solidly by the remaining beetles.
This wave took 360 of the Big Cat's blood volume, and one beetle even hit its head, causing it to feel dizzy.
By the time it came to its senses, beetles were already all over it.
Had it been at its peak, these bites would have been scratching itches at best, its thick fur capable of blocking them off before it leisurely crushed them one by one.
But now, things were different!
Now its body was covered in wounds, each beetle could bite directly into its blood flesh!
Some beetles even burrowed through the chest and abdomen's injuries, stirring fiercely inside!
The all-encompassing pain made it howl, eyes blood-red, staring at the Two-legged Beast, smaller yet clearly the core of these insects!
It knew it had to kill this Two-legged Beast!
"If I can kill it, I can survive!"
Holding on to a sliver of hope, the Big Cat ignored the beetles clinging to it and the pain from its tearing muscles, leapt towards Bai Yi!
"No!"
Bai Yi exclaimed, but the two "bodyguards" weren't ordinary.
Two stone hoes fiercely smashed down, hitting the Big Cat's head precisely, knocking it to the ground.
Due to the ground impact and hitting the vital spot, the double hit dealt four times damage, knocking off another 104 blood points.
Adding the beetle bites' damage, the Big Cat's blood volume was now only 473!
The shaken-off beetles quickly followed, once again pouncing back onto the Big Cat, biting at its wounds.
Taking advantage of the Big Cat's dizziness from the strike, the two bodyguards took their chance, dropping the stone hoes like tilling soil in a field.
Bai Yi even imagined a rhythmic tune in her mind.
Moreover, due to hitting the head, besides the critical double damage, there was also a stunning effect, each hit starting from 20 damage made the Big Cat's blood volume plummet rapidly.
Though it seemed the Big Cat had no ability to resist, Bai Yi still didn't dare to approach, hiding behind a big tree ten meters away from the Big Cat.
Keeping an eye on the Big Cat's health bar on the panel.
She felt that the Big Cat wasn't that simple, even with low health, could a few green insects and two sturdy farmhands actually take it down?
Bai Yi didn't believe it.
Sure enough, as if realizing Bai Yi really didn't plan to get closer, when its blood volume was below two hundred, the Big Cat finally couldn't help but struggle hard again.
With a paw, it sent the stone hoes of the two farmhands flying, trying to pounce onto Bai Yi.
It seemed as if a voice in its mind told it.
"If I eliminate this defenseless Two-legged Beast, I'll be safe!"
"Meow!"
A whirlwind began to swirl around the Big Cat, dislodging all beetles from its body, lunging forward with a death-defying spirit.
"So it had a berserk state after all!"
But this time, Bai Yi was well prepared.
Between her and the Big Cat was a dense thicket entwined with vines!
This was the hideout she had pre-selected!
Superpower activated again, draining Bai Yi's last bit of Magic Power, causing the thicket and vines to suddenly swell.
Even if the Big Cat wanted to skirt around, its injuries no longer allowed it.
Once it crashed into the thicket, its fate was sealed.
The stone hoes gouged into the Big Cat, pulling it open, the scattered beetles regrouping and crashing in.
The Rune Sword in Bai Yi's hand ultimately did not get to taste blood.
[A flawless victory, you gained 290 experience points, you gained Iron Treasure Box *1]
[You leveled up lv.7→lv.8 (120/400), you gained 1 free attribute point, you gained 1 skill point]
[Your attribute agility 16→17]
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Though everything went according to Bai Yi's plan, saying she wasn't nervous would be a lie.
If Bai Yi hadn't consciously left herself a bit of Magic Power Value as a reserve.
If the thicket from the two superpower summonings hadn't controlled things at the critical time.
This time she would surely have gotten hurt!
Glancing at the Big Cat's body beside her, Bai Yi began recounting everything that had just happened.
This was undoubtedly the Big Cat she encountered today, the size and appearance were the same, before I left today it was fighting that crocodile, so it didn't win?
Then relying on its speed, it ran into the forest, finally being trapped here because I had bound the territory and all the Mutant Creatures around fixed their territory by force?
Bai Yi felt her deductions were close to the truth, suddenly feeling disdain for this Big Cat.
"At full strength failed to beat a crocodile, with low health even got taken down by me, so weak!"
But Bai Yi didn't know, that today's Fierce Toothed Cat didn't win also had her factors in it.
If not for her obstruction, resulting in missing the first move, with its strength, at least escaping intact was no problem.
At least it wouldn't have been as battered as when Bai Yi encountered it, with a broken leg and a nearly fatal wound on the most vulnerable chest and abdomen.
"This time's harvest is not bad, it seems only the wild monster corpses spawned by the game would automatically disappear, not the pre-existing Mutant Creatures."
Bai Yi touched the still warm and slightly hot Big Cat's body and thought of another problem.
"How do I take this thing back?"
Staring at the Big Cat's body being crawled in and out by beetles, Bai Yi fell into contemplation.
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By evening, the sun had set in the west, painting the sky red, and the forest began to darken, Bai Yi finally emerged from the thicket and returned to the territory.
There was a reason Bai Yi came back so late, after staring down the Big Cat's body for a while, Bai Yi finally remembered she could store it temporarily in the trading interface panel and take it away whole.
Searching for wild monsters without any findings when departing, only now did Bai Yi feel.
This forest was really labyrinthine!
If not for being able to communicate with plants, feeling the territory's presence, Bai Yi might have gotten lost here!
Back in the territory, Bai Yi waved the beetles over to patrol and let the two bodyguards who'd worked hard along the way rest.
The two farmhands left in the camp were efficient, clearing the weeds into a pile.
A fire was lit beside the wooden hut with two sturdy branches fixed nearby as seats.
Bai Yi didn't care about the muddy seats and plopped right down; back in the territory, Bai Yi finally relaxed, no longer worrying about encountering danger.
She opened the panel, taking out all the gains from this encounter.
16 Wooden Treasure Boxes, 5 white bread, 4 bottles of water, and the Fake Dragon Box spawned Four-legged Dragon Beast Lair Blueprint, First-tier Rune Sword, and a Thin Dragon Blood Crystal.
"Let's open a few boxes first!"
Bai Yi lined up the boxes neatly, touching each one.
A flash of white light appeared, prompting a panel message.
[You opened Wooden Treasure Box *16, you gained water *80, white bread *60, canned luncheon meat *5, canned vegetables *15]
[You opened Iron Treasure Box *1, you got Cat Nest Blueprint (1st-tier/Purple) *1, Tangled Fur Ball (1st-tier/Grey) *1, Superpower Crystal (1st-tier/Blue) *1]
[Cat Nest (1~? tier/Purple): Special building, a chance to attract a wild feline, can be domesticated by increasing favorability, construction cost: 1~? tier Crystal Core, cat mint *1, wood *20~???, fur/cloth *20~???]
[Tangled Fur Ball (1st-tier/Grey): furball from a cat's belly, how could a cat not have a furball?]
[Superpower Crystal (1st-tier/Blue): crystal of condensed abnormal energy/magic power, can enhance superpower intensity, talent skill points +1, upper limit of magic power/superpower value +10]
"Come on, the Wooden Treasure Box was all food, but what's up with this Iron Treasure Box?
Why's it filled with junk?
The Cat Nest is fine, at least it's a Purple building, with potential, but what's this furball nonsense!"
Bai Yi felt a few "#" marks popping on her forehead, suddenly thinking of a possibility.
"Hiss...could it be because this Big Cat was low on health?
Does this game have a setting where a low health boss treasure box gets diluted?"
Suppressing a bit of disappointment, Bai Yi swallowed the Superpower Crystal in one go, leaving the bread needed for dinner, then stored all these items in the Free Market temporarily.
[You consumed Superpower Crystal (1st-tier/Blue), you gained talent skill point *1, Magic Power Value upper limit 210→220]
[You gained a talent skill point, can enhance current talent skill level]
Bai Yi looked at her four skills, thought for a moment, and allocated the skill point to Accelerated Growth.
This could kickstart her planned farming endeavor, and it was her only bit of combat ability.
[Accelerated Growth lv.1→lv.2: Consumes 10→9 Magic Power Value to confer plants (First-tier) with one day of growth progress, range slightly increased.]
Just then, the panel displayed a notice:
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Four-legged Dragon Beast: A product of forbidden experiments, a new species bred by merging genuine dragon blood into a Wild Wolf, gained greater strength yet retained the Wild Wolf's reproductive speed, tamed by Aslan to be the army's standard mount...
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