I am the Enchantress!

Chapter 169 Hunting Memoirs

"An adventurer?!"

Wilder was taken aback. "Six of them!"

"Yes, adventurer."

Talia nodded, her clear eyes remaining calm, indicating that she had not made a mistake.

Wilder still couldn't believe it and asked again, "The adventurers you're talking about—are you referring to the adventurers in the guild who accept and complete quests?"

"That's right."

She held up her palm to indicate the names, "Four humans, one half-elf, and one that looks like an orc."

With even the race explained so clearly, Wilder had no choice but to believe it.

Talia did indeed kill six adventurers.

incredible!

"Why did you kill them?" Wilder asked softly.

"Because they wanted to kill me, I had no choice but to kill them."

Talia answered matter-of-factly; the innocence in her beautiful face was not weakness, but rather the hunting instinct unique to red dragons.

Upon hearing this, for some reason, Wilder felt a sense of relief.

She is just a less violent red dragon, but that doesn't mean she lacks the pride and decisiveness of a red dragon.

That's good, at least we won't be bullied.

"When was that?" he continued, "I mean when you killed—killed those adventurers."

"The first time was the day we first met. I accepted a bounty for collecting the blood of Soul-Burning Hounds," Talia said.

"Yes, I remember."

Wilder nodded. "I remember you saying that the Soul-Burning Hound is just a dog that breathes fire."

Looking back now, as a red dragon that breathes dragon's breath, she certainly had the right to make such a assessment.

"I specifically chose that mission because I'm immune to fire, and I thought I could easily collect the blood of the Soul-Burning Hounds. And that's exactly what happened; I almost succeeded," she continued.

"And then something unexpected happened?"

As Wilde spoke, she recalled what Wilde had said about the mission's failure; it seemed like she had said "it's over."

At the time, he thought she hadn't found any trace of the Soul-Burning Hound, but now it seems very likely that—

"Yes, something unexpected happened."

Talia nodded. "I overlooked the fact that it was a bounty quest and didn't consider that I wasn't the only one who accepted it. After I subdued the two Soul-Burning Hounds I found, four adventurers suddenly emerged from behind the bushes."

I didn't catch what they were saying about mantises and sparrows, but they charged at me triumphantly and immediately attacked.

"I am only immune to fire damage, but their attacks are not limited to that. I had no choice but to fight back, so I activated Dragon Breath."

"In the end, not only the four adventurers, but even the two Soul-Burning Hounds were blasted into dust; they were all gone—"

After hearing Talia's description, Wilder's lips twitched.

Goodness, so that's what "gone" means.

It really is gone.

"They're talking about the mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind," their actions constitute robbery, and they absolutely deserve to die!

After making his comment, Wilder asked, "What about the other two adventurers? How did they die?"

"Those two were killed while hunting fire toads, but the circumstances were a little different that time."

Talia recalled, a hint of displeasure on her face, "That was also a bounty mission, but I arrived late this time. By the time I got to the designated location, two adventurers had already caught the designated fire toad."

"Uh—" Wilder was taken aback. "So you killed them?"

As expected of the Red Dragon.

"No, I didn't mean to kill them. I was just a little disappointed and turned to leave."

Talia shook her head and continued, "I didn't expect them to stop me, uttering all sorts of vulgarities and asking me to be their wife."

"Well----"

"Of course I didn't want to, so I had to kill them all with a breath of dragon's breath. But I couldn't control the force and burned the fire toads they had locked in the cages to death as well."

At this point, Talia sighed softly.

"Those two deserve to die even more!"

Wilder couldn't help but feel displeased, and said indignantly, "Burning them alive is too lenient!"

"But the fire toad died too—"

Talia pouted. "Both missions failed because the dragon's breath had too large a range and burned the targets to ashes."

Wilder gave a wry smile.

That's why Talia asked him for advice on how to make fire spells as weak as [Burning Hand].

That's a breath of fire, even the five Fireball spells that are said to solve everything can't compare.

"I gave up later and tried the beginner gathering quests on your advice."

She gave Wilder a bright smile, "Although it's slower to make money, it definitely suits me better!"

"Um--

"However, there have been unexpected incidents. During one gathering mission, I encountered more than twenty gnolls and had to use dragon breath to deal with them, which caused a forest fire."

Speaking of this, she rarely stuck out her tongue at Wilder, looking somewhat embarrassed: "I didn't expect you to be on another mission nearby at the time, and happened to discover that fire. To hide the fact that I am a red dragon, I lied to you back then."

Upon hearing this, Wilder smiled.

You've lied to me quite a bit before, haven't you?

"It's alright. Our team even received a reward of ten gold coins from the association for reporting the fire, which is actually thanks to you," he said.

"is that so----"

Talia tilted her head. "Did you report the fire from yesterday afternoon to the association?"

"I probably won't get the reward."

Wilder laughed and said, "The investigation team was also on site at that time, and they must have informed the association long ago."

"Oh, that's a shame." Talia pouted.

"By the way, wasn't that fire also caused by your dragon breath?"

"Mm." She nodded.

"If I'm not mistaken, you went on that mission to collect raw materials for the potion of life, right? How come you're using dragon's breath?" Wilder continued to ask.

"Because we encountered two giants, one with only one eye, and the other with two heads."

"A high-level monster, it's not surprising that it appeared deep in the forest," Wilder said.

He guessed that it must be the "Cyclops" and the "Two-Headed Giant" that their team had hunted.

As expected of the Red Dragon.

The team had finally managed to defeat the Titans, but the enemy casually took down two of them.

While sighing, he silently calculated something else in his mind:

Three Soul-Burning Hounds, worth 500 experience points;

Ten fire toads, approximately one thousand points;

More than twenty gnolls, two hundred points;

Two giants, three hundred points;

There are also six adventurers, each contributing 100 points, for a total of 600 points.

The total is 2,600 experience points.

If his deduction is correct, Talia needs 3,000 experience points to unlock her next feat.

so----

Only 400 points away!