My health recovery is incredibly fast.

These lurking creatures, perched in the treetops, use sharp claws to restrain their enemies, inject venom with anesthetic effects into their prey through the sharp needles in their mouthparts, and then bind their prey with tight, sticky spider silk, dragging them up into the treetops to share.

To quickly defeat the Poisonous Water Spider, Xia Zuo only needs to use Wind Walk to fly to the treetop, use Air Shield to protect himself, and at the same time cast Fireball to burn the nest.

But not this time.

Rexor is not allowed to use spells…

Then we'll have to think of another way.

Xia Zuo bent down and picked a thorny blade of grass from the bushes. Before the night battle began, he chewed the grass directly in his mouth to effectively prevent the effects of the anesthetic poison.

Next, Xia Zuo removed the vines from the tree trunk, twisted several vines together, and tied stones to the ends to use as temporary tripwires. These could be used to entangle the poisonous water spiders that wanted to retreat back into the tree canopy, preventing the spider eyes that were about to be captured from escaping.

He made quite a noise in the forest while doing all this, without making any attempt to conceal his actions.

Because the Poisonous Water Spider is a monster with limited intelligence, it simply cannot comprehend what the humans are doing under the tree canopy.

But this doesn't mean that Xia Zuo is always so carefree; he knows when to go into a state of silence.

Just before the forest light faded, he slipped into a dense thicket, crouched down, and waited motionless for his prey to appear.

Rexol does not allow the use of functional potions, including night vision potions with night vision effects.

Xia Zuo covered his eyes with both hands to ensure complete darkness, then opened his eyes wide in complete darkness, adjusted the size of his pupils, and removed his hands after a few minutes. This way, he could barely see the forest with his naked eyes.

Xia Zuo waited quietly, listening to the sounds around him. About half an hour later, the sounds of small animals parting the bushes gradually increased as they darted towards their nutritious dinners.

"Shh..." The leaves above my head rustled slightly.

The forest fell silent instantly, all sounds abruptly ceasing. Ten minutes passed in the stagnant air before the sounds resumed.

Xia Zuo slightly raised his head and looked up.

The previous "rustling" sound came from the movement of the poisonous water spider emerging from its nest; this sound was unavoidable.

The spiders remained still in the air, waiting for their prey to pounce on their food before slowly spinning silk from their spinnerets at the base of their tails and descending silently.

The spinneret of the poisonous water spider can not only produce silk, but also retract the produced silk into the spinneret, enabling it to take off and land vertically.

What Xia Zuo had to do was to use a tripwire to bind a sufficient number of poisonous spiders before they could rise vertically, while the spiders were focusing on their prey, and then use a chain hammer to smash their thoraxes one by one.

This step requires a great deal of patience.

Because the poisonous water spiders have a habit of acting in unison, they will use their claws to seize their enemies together after all their companions are ready. Before that, they will sway slowly with the airflow like vines hanging in the air, blending into their surroundings.

Taking this opportunity, Xia Zuo selected his target and planned his attack route in his mind.

His gaze fell on the largest poisonous tarantula, which was about the size of a thirteen or fourteen-year-old child. The silk woven from its spinnerets was as thick as an egg, making it undoubtedly the leader of these poisonous tarantulas.

If the leader is tied up, he will definitely ask his underlings for help, indirectly causing more poisonous spiders to stay near the ground.

Xia Zuo quietly adjusted the distribution of the tripwires, intending to use three tripwires to entertain the spider leader.

"Squeak, squeak, squeak..." The spider leader opened its ugly mouthparts and emitted a series of trembling screams.

The small animals in the bushes immediately grabbed the food and fled.

The poisonous spider, hanging upside down on the tree trunk, suddenly spit out a long section of spider silk before its body sank into the bushes.

Xia Zuo stepped out from the bushes, raised his left hand and swung the tripwire, throwing it at the back of the spider leader. Then he raised his right hand and swept the chain hammer at the nearest poisonous water spider.

"Pfft!" A large mass of black liquid, accompanied by a foul stench, splashed onto the woodland.

A dark, wet patch mixed with internal organs appeared on Xia Zuo's chainmail.

His lips twitched, he tilted his head back and inhaled the air that was about to be polluted by the stench, chewed the grass in his mouth, letting the bitter juice flow between his teeth, then held his breath, pushed aside the bushes in front of him, and once again threw the tripwire at the spider leader.

Two consecutive tripwires interrupted the spider leader's attempt to paralyze its prey. A third tripwire sliced ​​through the air, whistling as it wrapped around the prey several times, weaving a shackle that was difficult to break free of.

"Squeak squeak squeak!" The spider leader let out a sharp cry. The poisonous spiders around hesitated for a few moments, but finally put down the prey in their claws and went towards the leader.

They vied with each other to use their mouthparts to cut the vines binding the leader.

Just then, Xia Zuo took off the shield from his back and used both hands simultaneously to smash the heavy hammer and the hard edge of the shield onto the backs of the forest lurkers.

Juice flew everywhere, and the squelching sound continued.

In the pitch-black forest, it seemed as if a ferocious monster was wantonly crushing its prey.

Xia Zuo had read all the information about the Poisonous Water Spider.

He has unlocked the monster's health data.

At this moment, in his eyes, the Poisonous Water Spider was nothing more than a killable target that could be measured by the length of its health bar.

"Huff huff~" Xia Zuo panted heavily, shook the dripping chain, and released a detection spell on the muddy ground in front of him, trying to find any poisonous water spiders that might still be alive based on the feedback.

Objective 1: Health, 0/35

Objective 2: Health, 0/47

Objective 3: Health, 15/150

"Oh ho, there's still one alive." Xia Zuo groped in the dark and slammed his chain hammer down on target 3. The hammerhead smashed through a part of the target with a bang, exploding into a cloud of black water.

There probably aren't any survivors now...

Xia Zuo retrieved the information from his cheat system in his mind and counted the number of times he had received kill rewards, which matched the number of Poisonous Water Spiders he had observed earlier.

After resting for a while, he reached out and groped around on the bloodied ground, picking out any spherical objects he found and setting them aside.

It was 10 p.m. that night.

Xia Zuo held a packet of spider eyes wrapped in leaves in his left hand, and crushed the crystal with his right. After a brief flash of light, the misty forest returned to darkness, and the sounds of small animals scurrying about echoed through the bushes once more…

...

"Master, here are the eyes of the Poisonous Water Spider you requested." Xia Zuo placed his evening's haul on the dining table on the first floor of the manor's low building.

The spider's eye, resembling a large black glass ball, rolled twice on the table before stopping in front of Rexor. Fragments of internal organs clung to its surface, reflecting a filthy light.

“Hmm, well done.” Rexol squinted as he surveyed the spoils. “You took care of the spider leader too? So you recognized it at first glance.”

“Of course, Master.” Xia Zuo had already removed his chainmail. As he washed his hands and wiped the stains off his clothes by the pool, he said:

"I am, after all, a master alchemist, so I have some knowledge."

"Weren't you hit by the venom?" Rexol noticed that there were no needle marks on the other person's neck.

“No. I used a tripwire to subdue the spider leader…” Xia Zuo briefly recounted the events, concluding with:

"If time weren't so limited, I guarantee I could find you even more spider eyes."

Rexor scoffed at the arrogant Shazo, "Your trial is less than half the difficulty of an ordinary Witcher apprentice. There's nothing to be proud of."

He used the Hand of Wind to collect the spider's eyes into a metal box at his feet, and then released several cleaning spells to help Xia Zuo clean them up.

"Alright, your training is officially over."

Xia Zuo put down the rag in his hand and extended his right hand to the bald man. "I wish you all the best in your work in the Crystal Remnant Territory, Master."

Rexol silently extended his right hand, shook hands with the other person, then lazily lay down on the sofa and entered a deep meditation.

Chapter 50 Ocean Observation Room

Two days have passed since Rexol left Poseidon.

On Wednesday afternoon, Xia Zuo leisurely brewed himself a cup of fragrant tea, sat at his desk in the bio-alchemy lab, and checked the report on the time-limited research task.

Rexor's departure means that there will be no one to guide Shazor in further improving his physical abilities for free.

He would have to go to the established Warriors Guild to exchange for body-building textbooks, and then follow the instructions in the textbooks to work out, or he could hire a coach for sparring.

These all require citizen points, so what's more appealing than getting something for free...

Xia Zuo sighed helplessly, cleared his mind of thoughts, and after confirming that his research report was accurate, put it into the metal box on the table, picked up the box, walked out of the room, and took the elevator to Vickers' office.

"Supervisor, the samples and reports needed for the two time-limited research tasks are here." Xia Zuo patted the box and placed it on the other person's desk.

Vickers put down his pen, took another one from the drawer, and wrote a line of glowing text on a piece of paper that resembled a pass.

"Take this and go to the teleportation room on the top floor to wait for the teleportation," Vickers said, looking at the stunned Xia Zuo.

"You have to personally deliver the samples and reports, and then cooperate with them to complete the most basic tests. Only after all that is done can you come back. If the sample tests fail, or the report is wrong, you have to redo it."

Xia Zuo thought to himself that there would be no need to rework.

He snapped out of his brief daze, took the pass, and said, "Okay, supervisor, I'll go right away."

...

What would the Tambus State, located in the easternmost part of the Silvermoon Federation, be like?

Xia Zuo discovered this while traveling between Poseidon City and Silvermoon City in an airship: the closer to the western coastline, the denser the green vegetation, with large forests and crisscrossing rivers on the ground.

Once you enter Macina State, where Poseton is located, the forest landscape is replaced by desert. Looking down on the area around Poseton from above, you see only scattered shrubs on the desert and a few rivers that dry up with the seasons.

Xia Zuo had assumed that the Tambus State was located in the desert...

Looking out at the endless ocean beyond the Lumington Tower and the low-rise houses with white roofs by the sea, he knew he was wrong.

In the Silver Moon Federation, only inland states like Machina are deserts; the rest are close to the ocean and have abundant moisture.

The difference is...

The western cities, led by Silvermoon City, are adjacent to the ocean, while the state of Tambus is located on the western edge of a Mediterranean Sea.

If it weren't for the invasion by the Church of the Otherworldly Demons, the State of Tambus would be as prosperous as Silvermoon City.

The person who received Xia Zuo was Mars, who had come to work in Bloomington, Tamborough.

His pale blond hair shimmered in the sunlight as he smiled.

"Welcome to Bloomington, the capital of Tambus. It's a beautiful city, isn't it? There are sunshades on the beach and girls applying sunscreen, but I can't take you there today."

Mars paused for a moment. "Actually, I haven't seen it myself; I've only heard about it from my colleagues. I just arrived here and had my communication ring taken away. I've been working at the outpost at the dimensional juncture every day. If you hadn't come, I might still be dealing with those annoying coral monsters underwater..."

"Under the sea?" Xia Zuo looked at the shimmering sea.

Mars nodded and said:

"Yes, that's right. The point where nature connects to the Thunder Sea plane is located on the seabed of the Tambus Sea, about 2 kilometers from the coastline."

He then added, "This doesn't count as leaking secrets, because we're going there soon, and I'll explain it to you on the way."