The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Chapter 263 Killing the Snake to Ask for Directions

Before long, Moran saw a towering ancient tree in the woods ahead, with a large, brownish-green snake with white spots coiled on it.

It's definitely a holly snake.

The snake's body was about the thickness of a bowl. It was coiled on an ancient tree. If it weren't for the fierce killing intent in its slightly open eyes, it would be easy to mistake it for a thick vine with small white flowers.

Moran slowly approached, his magic gradually flowing into the wand.

The holly snake raised its neck slightly, flicked its tongue, and emitted a piercing hiss.

But Moran was completely unaffected.

Knowing it was a holly snake, how could she be completely unprepared?

The holly snake is non-venomous and not a magical beast; its only noteworthy feature is its hissing sound.

The sound is extremely piercing and can easily disrupt the spellcasting rhythm.

This type of snake also typically uses hissing sounds to disturb its enemies before darting over and strangling them.

On his way here, Moran used a silencing spell to block his ears.

She remained completely unmoved, quietly preparing her magic.

Seeing that she didn't react, the holly snake immediately darted over.

Moran made no attempt to dodge, his eyes fixed intently on the snake.

Ten meters, eight meters, it's time!

The wand trembled slightly, and several streams of magical energy flew out, all striking the snake's vital spot. Space suddenly tore apart, and the snake's head and body were instantly severed in two.

The snake's body landed heavily on the ground, with only its head flying forward a few meters, but its life force was already rapidly fading away.

It fell to the ground, struggled and writhed a few times, and then fell silent.

Only the snake blood splattered in front of Moran, which she blocked with a water shield spell.

With the silencing spell canceled, the sound returned to Moran's ears, and she breathed a slight sigh of relief.

It was her first serious hunt, and she wasn't targeting livestock kept in a training area, so she was a little nervous.

However, the books I had carefully read and the magic I had learned before all came in handy at this moment.

The chosen magic was also appropriate, ending the battle quickly and decisively.

Next, it's time to pack up the spoils.

This snake is nearly six meters long.

The head portion of the snake was less than a meter long, far shorter than the body.

With such a long snake body, it was more than enough to eat, so Moran simply abandoned the snake's head and burned it with a corpse-burning technique.

As for the plump snake body, Moran washed it with the Clear Spring spell, then froze the cut with the Freeze spell to prevent blood from flowing out and giving off a bloody smell, and finally shrunk it with the Shrink spell.

Moran's spatial magic is still only at the apprentice level.

When killing the snake, it took three or four air-blade techniques to cut off its body, which was as thick as a bowl.

The same goes for shrinking magic. A beginner-level shrinking magic can shrink ordinary objects by a maximum of ten times.

But it's enough for now.

The snake's body was reduced to only half a meter in length, and its weight dropped from nearly 100 kilograms to less than 10 kilograms. When tied around the waist, it looked like a green belt.

After dealing with the spoils, Moran went to the ancient tree and used the Tree Friend spell to inquire about the water source.

One hand is placed on the tree trunk, while the other hand casts a spell.

Through magic, she connected with an extremely slow-moving consciousness. "You... hello..."

"Hello, where is the nearest water source?"

"Water... southeast... valley... waterfall... stream..."

This aligns with the direction where the water elemental force was more concentrated, as sensed in the previous Wind Sensing Technique.

Moran thanked the tree and headed directly southeast.

Although the direction of the water source had been determined, Moran would still deviate slightly from the intended path if he saw other things he needed along the way using his Wind Sensing Technique.

Blue-core grass, hollow vine, clear dew flower, three-tailed chicken eggs, shiitake mushrooms... she picked all the potion ingredients and cooking ingredients that the Wind Sensing spell discovered, shrunk them, and put them in her handbag.

They were also forced to hunt down several three-tailed chickens and a golden leopard.

The reason she was forced to do so was that she no longer lacked meat and therefore did not intend to hunt animals actively.

But since they crashed into it on their own, Moran still intervened.

The three-tailed chicken doesn't taste as good as the dodo bird, but it's still a decent ingredient. Moran was gentler, using the Golden Arrow Technique to shoot it in the head with a single arrow.

The meat of the golden leopard is not tasty; at least Moran has never seen a recipe for golden leopard meat in Valen. But considering that its fur is a good material for making clothing, Moran trapped it with an earth wall spell and then crushed it to death with a falling rock spell.

The meat was smashed, but the leopard skin was intact. She peeled it off, cleaned it, and used it as a makeshift bundle to wrap the four shrunken three-tailed chickens, which she then carried on her back.

When the sound of rushing water could be heard, Moran already had a snake around his waist, his satchel stuffed with magical plants, and a leopard-skin bundle on his back containing four three-tailed chickens.

Living in this forest, you really don't have to worry about not having meat to eat.

In just a short time, she had hunted enough meat to eat for a month.

She also caught some small animals that weren't particularly aggressive and used them to practice her killing techniques.

Lethal spells are a type of healing magic.

Healing magic is divided into two categories: healing the living and healing the dead.

There are two kinds of healing magic: healing spells and healing spells.

Both of these are spells that infuse life force, but one works on the surface and the other works internally.

There is only one kind of magic that can cure death: lethal magic.

It can drain life force and kill living beings.

A creature killed by a lethal spell that completely drains its life force is like a page of a book that has been sitting for a thousand years; it appears perfectly intact at first glance, but a light touch will turn it to ashes.

Healing magic is essentially the process of infusing a living being with life force and then extracting it from it.

Healing life and healing death are mutually reinforcing. In magical learning, this means that the more deadly spells are used, the better the healing and healing spells become, and vice versa.

Healing magic is also the only magic school that doesn't improve magic level by practicing on training dolls.

They can only be used on living beings, and they grow through practice. Moreover, healing life and healing death promote each other. If you are going to practice, you must practice both. If you only practice one type, you will not make much progress.

However, Moran's lethal spell is currently unable to kill even a small rabbit in one go, so it cannot be used directly in battle. He can only practice this spell after defeating and trapping his prey.

After hearing the sound of water, Moran soon emerged from the woods.

There was indeed a valley in front of us.

However, Moran was on the mountainside, about 10 or 20 meters from the valley floor, which gave him a perfect view of the entire valley.

The valley slopes from north to south. A waterfall cascades down the north side, forming a pool at the bottom of the valley. South of the pool, a stream flows gently out of the valley.

Sunlight bathes the valley, flowers bloom everywhere, the scenery is uniquely beautiful, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it looks very livable.

However, this wonderful place already had its owners—a group of black-haired wild boars.