Chapter 18: The Wolf Knight in Sheep's Clothing
Over the course of the next half day, Stern made two or three trips back and forth, picked most of the fragrant fruit, and moved it to a shady place in the cave for storage.
After that, I spent an afternoon basking in the sun on the hillside outside the cave, and although the weather was getting colder, the afternoon sun was still warm.
This time, Ash captured a wild pigmon. The pigs raised by people on the earth are almost the same, and the wild pigs are similar to the wild boars and have long tusks, many farmers in the Kadia continent will raise the pigs, because they have a good appetite and will eat the roots and leaves of various plants, not only easy to raise but also can grow to more than 200 catties, Stern took some internal organs and made a dinner, cut off the legs of the pigs and hung them, and the rest were left to Xiao Ash, and the second day after coming to the cave.
In the next few days, Stern has been recuperating and recuperating from his injuries, and the injuries he suffered in the fight with Ash a few days ago are really not going to heal in a day or two, during which he not only cooked some food caught by Ash, but also found some mushrooms and vegetables similar to greens in the surrounding area, so that the daily meal is balanced and rich.
It was the fifth day of his time in the cave, and Stern had gone to a wooded area with a bucket of water, and he was going to fetch some gelled tree sap, and yesterday he had found a lot of stout cementitious trees in that wood, and he was going to make some gelatinous candles from the sap of these trees.
Stern came to a cementitious tree, cut a hole in the trunk with a dagger, brought the bucket close to the opening, and after a while, he took half a bucket, and after taking the sap, Stern plugged the mouth of the cemented tree with dirt, and returned to the cave with the bucket.
He went to the cave and lowered the bucket, removed some twine from the hemp rope and soaked it in the sap, and then Stern went to the vicinity and cut a few bamboos that were slightly thinner than his wrist, and cut the bamboos into single-section containers, a total of twenty or sozen.
After cutting the bamboo joints, Stern inserted a piece of twine soaked in sap into each bamboo until it reached the bottom of the bamboo joint, and then poured the gelatinized sap into an iron basin, heated and cooked, and poured it into the bamboo with the twine until it was full, and the cooked gelatinized sap would solidify after cooling.
After a long time, Stern saw that the gelled sap in the bamboo was solidified, so he carefully cut the bamboo with an axe and took out the solidified gelled sap inside, and more than 20 gelled candles were done, Stern lit a gelatinized candle with flint, and the fiery red candlelight slightly illuminated the dark corners of the cave, although the brightness was far from being comparable to the magic crystal candle with magic crystal powder, but it was better than nothing, and it was enough for Stern now.
A few more days passed, and during this time, Ash had caught four goats, and Stern had stripped them off to dry, and he cut them a little, and then twisted some small holes in the edge of the sheepskin, and through the small holes, he spliced together several pieces of sheepskin with twine, and it took two days for Stern to make a decent sheepskin coat, and every time he walked out of the cave, he would put on this sheepskin coat to protect him from the cold.
After more than a week of recuperation, Stern's wound has almost recovered, and he continued to train for the next two weeks, every day is still two hours of regular cross-country running, but the route is different from the past, as well as regular training sit-ups, push-ups, frog jumps, etc. are carried out in the cave every day, and stealth is becoming more and more proficient in his uninterrupted practice, and the use is becoming more and more smooth.
After two weeks of regular training, Stern was back in pre-injury form, and the following month he added a new training regimen to his schedule.
When fighting Ash, some of the shortcomings of lack of skill proficiency were fully exposed, so this time Stern improved his training plan, focusing on improving his skills, and he also added the assassination training from his time in the Flying Eagle Squad to his current training.
The so-called assassination training is a training program that specifically targets the human body when it is proficient in all the vital points of the human body.
In addition to his daily routine, Stern spends all of his time training and combat assassination training, and a month has passed in a flash.
Stern's body has all healed, the scars on his body have also fallen, and at this time, Ash has also healed, and he has gone out to hunt every day for the past two months, and Stern's food problem has been solved by it.
Stern had begun to ride Ash around the woods and valleys on a regular basis, during which time he had skillfully used his stealth and assassination skills to take out several goats and peggies, which was a great improvement from the fight with Ash two months ago.
During this period, he also found some unknown fruits hanging on many trees, and after trying them himself, he chose some foods that could be eaten, and now Stern has the necessary fruits for every meal, and the living conditions are much more abundant than before, and now there are basically no obstacles to food, clothing, shelter and transportation, and he can survive well on this island by himself.
On this day, Stern rode Ash through the jungle quickly, towards the center of the island, they came to the front of a canyon, and before they entered the canyon, they smelled a smell of blood in the distance, what was going on inside?
The cold wind continued to whistle through the canyon, muffling the slight sound made by Stern sneaking past, and he saw a ghostly black figure lying under a big tree in the distance, gnawing on a horned deer, Stern's eyes widened in surprise, the black animal that appeared not far from him was actually a low-level demonic beast Wind Leopard.
Whether to fight or retreat, is the first thing Stern considers now, the wind leopard is born with the magic crystal in the body of a low-level demonic beast and gradually grows larger with its growth, it is not like the little gray after the acquired mutation of the magic crystal, its body is less than two-thirds of the small gray, but its action is agile, fast as lightning, the little gray is completely incomparable to it.
Looking at the big tree next to it, there are many scratches on the tree, it should be the masterpiece of the Wind Leopard, this canyon should be its territory, and it should usually live on this big tree.
The Wind Leopard's magic crystal is a high-grade low-level magic crystal, and the estimated value should be more than 4,000 gold coins based on the market price of the Bauhinia Empire.
Stern will not be carried away by the gold coins, now the gold coins are useless to him at all, he weighed the gains and losses, even if he and Little Ash defeated the Wind Leopard, they may not be able to keep the lightning-fast Wind Leopard, just add some wounds to the body in vain, thinking of this, Stern quietly retreated, and quickly left the valley with Little Ash.
Originally, he relied on Ash's fast-moving ability to slowly complete the goal of exploring the entire territory of the island, but now it seems that there are some places on this island that he can't go to if he wants to.