Far above the wasteland path, there are slimes in the depths of the maple forest.

The place where the maple grove is located is a mountainous area with mountains, streams and cliffs. The road through here twists and turns, making it impossible for the caravan to keep up its speed.

Near noon, the group came to an open field about the size of three basketball courts.

Aubrey, who was riding in front, whistled to the convoy behind to rest here for two hours, to have a bite to eat and check on the horses. The next part of the road is easier to walk, and the convoy is about to pick up speed.

This vacant lot has been set up by the Mecaden family for the rest of the travelers over the years, and there is a map for sale in the village at intervals along the way, so that the travelers can arrange a rest point on the journey. In order to compete for business with the other road to the east, the Maccaden family has worked hard for many years.

Since no caravans have passed by recently, the clearing is now overgrown with tall weeds.

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After a few days of ice and fire between the two guardian mages, all the insects that lived in the meadow, whether they had wings or crawled on the ground, were killed.

Now that everyone is resting in the grass without fear of being sucked by insects or burrowing into the flesh, the coachmen can cut some grass that has been roasted by the fire mage who has mastered the fire and does not have to worry about parasites and add some roughage to the horses.

When they leave, the dead bugs and weeds will be turned into a meal for the scavenger slimes. And nature will soon bring the clearings back to normal.

Charles had only seen his former maid use the special magic of killing insects and plants in the garden before his death, and this was the first time he had seen such a heroic method.

Soon, Charles, who had nibbled on a piece of dry food, was given a new task.

"Charles, you go and catch a slime in the woods next door. The order for Charles was given to his current boss, Chef Donio, "Don't go too far, shout when you're in danger." ”

"Okay. Charles slapped off the scrap of dry food in his hand, drew the dagger from his waist, and turned to walk into the woods.

"I'll go with you. Halkala on the side jumped up from the ground, shaking the "Annapurna Peak" on his chest.

"Then Charles, you can shout now. Donio said to Charles.

"Huh?!" Charles was confused, shouting what?

"Halkala, don't mess with Charles. Aubrey ordered, in his capacity as boss, "Charles, you go and come back quickly." ”

"Oh. Charles cautiously left.

As soon as Charles turned the tree and disappeared, Aubrey immediately glanced at one of the mages beside him, who understood and immediately raised a magical barrier to isolate the sound.

Then Aubrey stood up and announced in a loud voice: "From now on, in two-minute increments, everyone buys and leaves!"

"I'll bet on a dinar, and he'll be back in two minutes!"

"Four minutes, no return, two dinars!"

"Six minutes, four of them were on the wrong track, two dinars!"

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Unwittingly, Charles turned into a tool for a group of unscrupulous people to bet.

٩(๑'^ ́๑)۶: "How can you do this!"

Halkala was furious, and the scene of the crowd suddenly fell silent, and everyone looked at the angry Halkara.

(๑ˊωˋ) つ Kim: "I trust Charles, I will send an Ole, he will complete the task in half an hour!"

At this time, Charles was not far from the resting place, and was caught in a bitter battle.

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Now Charles has hit the slime nest.

Slimes in the wild are nature's scavengers, with insects and small reptiles, animal eggs and cubs, animal and plant carcasses, and animal feces all serving their food.

Moreover, they will also pick up soft persimmons to pinch.

When a large animal is dying due to aging, injury, etc., the slime will plug the nostrils of the other animal and suffocate its prey. The slimes then secrete acid to melt the fur, muscles, and bones of the prey carcass, and then swallow it into their stomachs to digest it.

After eating and drinking, slimes naturally have to reproduce the next generation, so the carcasses of large animals often become their breeding grounds.

After stabbing a few slimes to death, the slimes kept their distance from him. Don't look at the slime's usual squirming slow, but when it jumps up with its own elasticity, it is faster than a rabbit.

Charles hadn't seen many large animals, and he couldn't tell from the carrion on the ground that it was originally an animal.

But there's a hole next to it, and if the stories are right, it's its nest.

Charles was thinking about how to separate a slime from the group and take it away, but accidentally fell into their encirclement.

If it weren't for the sharpness of the dagger in his hand, those slimes would have rushed up and pushed him down, and then suffocated and eaten.

Unlike domestic slimes, which have thin and juicy skin, wild slimes are so solid that they feel like they've been stabbed into rubber with a knife.

Charles wasn't out of the question, if he took out a bottle of potion called "Foul Smelly Beast" from his bag and spilled it, the slimes would be smoked away by the stench in minutes. But if you do that, you're losing money.

"Woo~Woo~"

There was a roar of young beasts from the den.

Charles's eyes lit up, and he immediately took out a bottle of potion from the leather bag on his waist without hesitation, twisted the lid and smashed it near the beast's den.

A foul smell spread through the forest, and the slime's sense of smell depended on the skin, so the slimes who were close were directly stunned.

Two white rays of light burst out of the beast's den, and two young white wolves the size of dogs rushed out of the hole, only to fall before they had run two steps.

Charles didn't care about the slimes who fled in all directions, he naturally wouldn't let go of the experience points on the ground, so he stabbed those slimes who fainted to death one by one, and then dug out the magic cores if they had them. Although the slime's magic core is not valuable, dozens of slime magic cores the size of a little finger can be mixed with a full day's food, but this is also money.

In this world, those domesticated "fat house" slimes do not have magic cores, and they have no experience points when killed. Only those "Showa" slimes in the wild will grow magic cores after they become stronger in your life-and-death life, and such slimes will have experience points when they are killed.

In addition to slimes, the same goes for other Warcraft.

Although I don't know what the principle is, this does not prevent Charles from scavenging around in line with the principle that the meat on the mosquito's leg is also meat.

According to Charles's analysis, the dead animal should be the mother of the two little white wolves. Judging by the decomposition of the corpse, it did not die for a long time.

So according to the record in the book, he took a dagger to break the only bit of flesh left in the wolf's head, and then found the bone on the wolf's skull that had been turned into a demon core, and the skull near the demon core had traces of healing after being fractured.

Judging from the size of the magic core, this she-wolf was very powerful when she was alive, and it is estimated that she was planted in the hands of slimes after being seriously injured in the head.

After digging out the core, Charles slipped it into his pocket, then picked up a basketball-sized slime and left.

He couldn't carry the two fainting little wolves, so he planned to go back and ask others if they wanted them, and if they wanted them, they would take them away, and if they didn't want them, they would fend for themselves in the maple forest.

Every year before the maple syrup is harvested in the spring, a group of adventurers will come here to destroy the monsters that threaten the sugar pickers, so don't steal other people's business.

As a result, Charles didn't take two steps before he found that the two little wolves had already stood up and followed him in a leisurely manner. When he stopped, the two little wolves were rubbing against his legs.

"We can't keep these two timberwolves in our caravan. Aubrey said to Charles, playing with the core dug out of the she-wolf's skull, "Because wolves will frighten horses when they grow up." If horses adapt to the presence of wolves, when they encounter other wolves who are about to eat them, they will become a wolf's meal because of their carelessness. ”

Perhaps these two young wolves, who had just been weaned, recognized their mother's magic core, so now they were rubbing by Aubrey's side.

Charles, who was counting the money, let out an "oh" and continued to count the money in his hand.

It took Charles a total of twenty-nine minutes to complete the task just now, so Halkara, who had killed the whole game, gave him half of the money he had won.

According to the rules of the caravan, such a windfall is the personal property of the members and can be disposed of without affecting the caravan.

He didn't refuse Aubrey's decision, and he didn't want to refuse, so if he couldn't raise it, he would sell it. That's what he planned from the beginning, the money of the "stinky beast" has been repaid and made a lot of money by selling the she-wolf's magic core, and it is not more to sell more to earn more.

As for the plots in which the protagonists in those novels picked up two young monsters when they were fledgling and raised them, he didn't have much interest in trying them.

The two well-informed people, Halkala, who is over 300 years old, and Aubrey, who has been roaming the rivers and lakes for decades, think that the two wolf cubs are just ordinary level, and in this case, they should sell them.

Aubrey threw the core back to Charles, and then said to him, "You go to Wayne and ask him to help you wrap the core in some jewelry shell, which can be sold for a good price." Of course, you'll have to pay for it yourself. ”

Wayne was the leader of the craftsmen in the caravan, and whether it was a carriage, leather armor, or weapons, there was nothing he couldn't fix. Under Aubrey's guidance, Charles learns that Wayne had been apprenticed to a dwarven craftsman, and that if the caravan didn't repair the caravan without him, the profit would be greatly reduced because the car broke down on the road.

Wayne, who had lost two dinars in the bet just now, did not have any bad impression of Charles, but instead looked up to him because of this.

"The quality of this wind attribute magic core is very high. Wayne carefully looked at the magic core in his hand, "I just have an empty necklace here, you can polish the magic core, engrave it with the magic array and inlay it, whether it is for your own use or for sale." ”

With more than an hour left before the end of the break, Wayne took professional tools and began to polish the three-piece mahjong-sized magic core.

Because Charles wasted a lot of effort to chisel through the bones where the she-wolf's skull was fractured before taking out the magic core, after grinding off the magic core and the bones, the essence of the entire magic core was only the size of an adult's thumb.

While Wayne was polishing the core, Charles was called out to help by Donio.

Tonyo asked Charles to catch a slime and come back not for gambling money, but because he found out that the floor of the grain truck had been bitten by a rat last night, and the slime was needed to fill the hole.

By the time Charles brought the slime back, Tonyo had already asked Wayne to help fix the hole into a trapezoidal opening, and at the same time made a piece of wood that would fit perfectly over the hole.

Tonyo lit a fire in the clearing, and hung a copper cauldron on it. He first cut the slime into small pieces and threw them into the pot, then used a wooden stick to squeeze out the water from the slime block, and finally put it on the fire while heating it and stirring it.

It didn't take long for the slime chunks to start melting, and the contents of the pot were starting to get sticky. When all the water in the slime's body has evaporated in the heating and stirring, a pot of slime glue is ready.

Tony applied slime glue to the edges of the openings in the floor and the edges of the wooden blocks, and glued them on.

Once the slime glue has cooled, the wood blocks are firmly glued to the bottom of the car and are waterproof.