The Wizard: Grinding Experience Starting with Knight Breathing Techniques 53

Chapter 0053 [Human-Faced Spider Breathing Method], A Bountiful Return! (Requesting Follows)

A sliver of luck and a touch of greed are inherent in many people.

Li Wei’s contribution in this operation was absolutely worth two bottles of Dragon Saliva Fragrance.

Even if Graf gave Li Wei two bottles of Dragon Saliva Fragrance, he could still make a huge profit on many more bottles, but his arrogance led him to choose a greedier approach—a fitting punishment, one might say.

“One must always be wary of others. Fortunately, I was prepared for your little group, and fortunately, I am strong enough.”

Since becoming an official Knight, after these few battles with other official Knights, Li Wei discovered his strength far exceeded his expectations. Except for the injury he suffered from a sneak attack by that intermediate-level Knight Assassin, he could even fight other Knights without taking any damage.

The disparity between official Knights is too vast.

This also prevented Li Wei from becoming arrogant and complacent; there are always greater mountains and more capable people out there.

Having escaped danger, Li Wei began to loot the battlefield.

First, there were thirteen bottles of Dragon Saliva Fragrance. Li Wei calculated that, at his current official Knight consumption rate, one bottle was enough for a month’s worth of elixirs. This meant he wouldn’t lack Dragon Saliva Fragrance for over a year.

By the end of this year, he should be able to reach the intermediate Knight level and cultivate the Black Snake Breathing Method to the fifth stage.

At that time, the effects should be upgraded again, and his strength would reach a new level!

After putting away the Dragon Saliva Fragrance, Li Wei began searching Graf’s body. This man seemed to have access to Dragon Saliva Fragrance, and Li Wei suspected Graf might be a smuggler of Dragon Saliva Fragrance between the Tuwadi Empire and the Emerald Kingdom.

In the end, besides finding over a hundred gold coins, he found nothing else.

“Damn pauper.”

However, normally, no one would carry large sums of money on their person; it’s too inconvenient.

Li Wei then went to the dismembered body of the Red Spider Knight. He was curious about the Red Spider Knight’s poison-making techniques and wanted to see if there were any manuals that could help him gain experience.

Unexpectedly, he actually found something.

“This Red Spider Knight dame was quite something, keeping all the good stuff tucked away under her chest.” Li Wei looked at a pile of small bottles and jars stained with blood; these were the materials the Red Spider Knight used to make poisons.

Besides that, there were several dozen gold coins and a piece of parchment.

The parchment contained a diagram of a breathing method.

This breathing method was called the “Human-Faced Spider Breathing Method.”

It depicted figures in various poses, surrounding a giant, house-sized red spider with eight human faces. This should be the Human-Faced Spider, a terrifying and strange creature from legends.

Li Wei took a look. This breathing method was unique. It didn’t focus on the usual attributes of strength, physique, defense, and speed that he was familiar with; it focused on a rather magical aspect: perception.

This perception was exceptionally subtle; it allowed one to detect the minute vibrations of gases, liquids, and solids from all directions through the body’s hairs and skin.

Any movement within the range of perception could be felt through this sense without relying on sight or hearing.

In short, this is a blind monk’s essential skill.

However, correspondingly, this breathing method’s other combat capabilities were very poor; it could be said to be the weakest among all basic-level breathing methods.

That’s why the Red Spider Knight was so weak. In Li Wei’s opinion, this was a purely supportive breathing method, extremely specialized and needing to be paired with a combat-type breathing method to be effective; otherwise, even with strong perception, it would be useless.

“Interesting, worth practicing,” Li Wei said, putting away the diagram.

The Human-Faced Spider Breathing Method also had an elixir, but it was unique—not for cultivation assistance, but for poisoning. That’s why the Red Spider Knight possessed so many dangerous and unusual poison recipes.

Next, Li Wei went to the bodies of the Blue Falcon Knight and the Black Rhinoceros Knight, patting them down. Unfortunately, besides a small amount of gold coins, there were no breathing method diagrams. Li Wei had wanted the Blue Falcon Knight’s breathing method, but now it seemed he would have to give up.

Normally, people wouldn’t carry breathing method diagrams on them. The Red Spider Knight carried hers because her various poison recipes were all on the diagram.

However, the Black Rhinoceros Knight’s armor, shield, and greatsword were quite good, so Li Wei took them without hesitation.

After searching the bodies, Li Wei humanely cremated them to prevent them from becoming food for wild animals.

Li Wei finally turned his attention to the mountain-like corpse of the Earth Dragon Beast.

His biggest worry was how to take this corpse, worth at least a thousand gold coins, back…

The Earth Dragon Beast was larger than any extant land mammal Li Wei had ever seen in his past life. Getting such a large creature back to his territory would be extremely difficult.

But he absolutely wouldn’t leave the Earth Dragon Beast’s corpse there.

That would be a terrible waste. The Earth Dragon Beast was a treasure trove, and Li Wei already had plans for it.

Since Li Wei wasn’t in a hurry to return to his territory, after dealing with the four corpses, he began to process the Earth Dragon Beast.

The Earth Dragon Beast’s scales were very hard, and Li Wei struggled to pry them open. After opening it up, he removed the scales one by one and piled them up. These were probably the most valuable part of the Earth Dragon Beast besides the Dragon Saliva Fragrance. After polishing, they could be used to make armor. The hardness might be slightly weaker than iron armor of the same thickness, but it would be lighter and could be made into superior scale armor.

Li Wei would use the hardest scales from the Earth Dragon Beast’s back to make himself a suit of scale armor, and the rest would be used to make sets of armor for Sir Fred and the three brothers.

However, the three brothers were still growing, and their size changed every year, so Li Wei could only wait until they were fully grown and their sizes stabilized before making armor for them. In that case, he would have three war bears with high-level Knight strength and full armor, which would be invincible for defense and combat!

In the wilderness, Li Wei patiently processed the Earth Dragon Beast’s corpse. The smell of blood attracted some wild animals, but Li Wei hunted and ate them.

Time passed, and three days flew by.

It took Li Wei three days just to pry off all the scales, and the Black Rhinoceros Knight’s greatsword, used for prying, was already deformed.

But looking at the mountain of scales, Li Wei was satisfied. As for the Earth Dragon Beast’s flesh, although it hadn’t spoiled after all this time, it had been contaminated by the Red Spider Knight’s poison, so Li Wei had to reluctantly abandon it. Otherwise, he would have liked to try the taste of Earth Dragon Beast meat. It’s worth mentioning that Li Wei also found dozens of gold coins in the Earth Dragon Beast’s stomach.

This reminded him of the legend that Earth Dragon Beasts like to collect shiny things, so he immediately went to check out the Earth Dragon Beast’s lair in the distant forest, but he was disappointed. There was nothing but some remains. He could only leave dejectedly.

After returning, Li Wei cleaned and dried the Earth Dragon Beast’s hide, making it into bags to store the scales. He then found the cart they had abandoned earlier, loaded it with the Earth Dragon Beast’s scales and the disassembled broken armor crossbow, and headed back.

The broken armor crossbow was extremely powerful, and Li Wei wanted to try to replicate it when he returned.

This time, he didn’t return to Icewind City. He only retrieved the gold coins he had buried, then took a detour, and arrived at Black Water Valley after half a month.

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