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Chapter 117 Hunting the Earth Bear, Returning to Twilight City, Enveloped by the Fragrance of Tea
South wind in the dense forest.

A huge beehive hangs between the branches of a towering ancient tree tens of meters high.

The surface of the honeycomb is covered with hexagonal cells with perfect geometric shapes. Under the sunlight, the translucent beeswax reflects an amber-like luster, which is quite attractive.

buzzing.

Hundreds of dark red bees fluttered their wings outside the hive, seemingly on guard. Their stingers had barbs on them, like miniature thorn branches.

"Sage, this is definitely a bloodthorn bee's hive. Their honey is the favorite of all bear-like magical beasts. If we can get their hive to make bear-attracting incense, it will definitely attract ground bears!"

In the lush grass not far away, Xia Mingyu and his group were squatting and hiding inside. Youde pointed at the beehive and said excitedly.

"However, this type of bee is very poisonous. The wound will ulcerate severely after being stung. If attacked by a group of bees, even a bear with thick skin and flesh cannot withstand it," Youde added.

"I see. This is the first time I've seen a bee's stinger look so scary."

Xia Mingyu said helplessly, and he began to think about how to obtain a part of the beehive.

"Master, I can shoot down the beehive with one arrow, and then you can use fire magic to kill these bloodthorn bees."

Berg said eagerly, his hand already on the arrow in the quiver behind him.

"Forget it, we just want to take some beehives. There's no need to destroy their beehives." Xia Mingyu held Berg's hand.

"Come out, my pigeons!"

Xia Mingyu took off his top hat, patted the brim, and then threw the black top hat with the brim facing up onto the open space not far away.

The next moment, the brim of the hat trembled, and countless snow-white pigeons poured out from the hat like a fountain. Their white wings shone silver in the sunlight, and the flock of pigeons instantly covered a small area of ​​the sky.

Buzz!
Suddenly encountering so many foreign enemies, the bee colony was immediately enraged. The guard bees issued a buzzing alarm sound, and hundreds of blood-thorned bees outside the nest took the lead and pounced on the flock of white pigeons like a blood-red whirlwind.

And there are also a steady stream of bloodthorn bees emerging from the hive to join the battle.

For a moment, the sky above the forest was flooded with the scene of countless blood-thorn bees and flocks of white pigeons chasing each other.

However, the white pigeons did not want to fight, but just kept circling in the air to lure away the blood-thorn bees.

at the same time.

Another white dove quietly poked its head out from the brim of the top hat.

Swish!
While the bees were busy driving away the enemies, it pounced on the hive at lightning speed, pecked off a piece of golden beeswax, and rushed into the dense forest with it in its mouth, disappearing.

The angry swarm of bees wanted to chase, but they could no longer find their target.

The remaining white pigeons also turned into white smoke and disappeared, leaving only a few white pigeons that picked up the black hat on the ground and flew into the dense forest.

"It's done."

Xia Mingyu, who was hiding in the bushes, nodded with satisfaction.

"I won't take your beeswax for nothing. I'll leave some flowers for you." He snapped his fingers.

In the open space covered with fallen leaves under the beehive, the soil was churning, and branches of bright roses grew out. In a very short time, they gathered into a flower field, exuding a sweet floral fragrance.

The angry blood-thorn bees in the air hovered in the air for a long time after seeing this flower field, and finally dived into the stamens.

"Thanks a lot."

Xia Mingyu took the beeswax from the pigeon's beak and touched the pigeon's head. Then the pigeon happily crawled into the hat.

"Here you go, Yoder." He handed the beeswax to the pharmacist.

"Don't worry, sage. With such high-quality materials, I can definitely replicate the top-quality bear-attracting incense."

Youde rolled up his sleeves excitedly, ready to do something big.

He took the piece of golden beeswax with his skinny fingers, gently twisted a little honey residue with his fingertips, put it in his mouth and tasted it with his eyes closed.

After a moment, he opened his eyes and took out many tools and materials from the huge bag behind him.

Yoder threw beeswax into the mortar, added mint leaves, pine resin and other materials, and crushed and ground them with a stone pestle.
After working for about half an hour and going through all kinds of operations that Xia Mingyu and the others couldn't understand, they finally got an orange-yellow square solid.

"Sage, light it up! I guarantee that no bear can resist its charm!"

Youde confidently presented the freshly made bear incense to Xia Mingyu.

Crackling.

After lighting the bear-attracting incense, Xia Mingyu and Berg took Youde and jumped onto the branches of a towering tree nearby.

An extremely sweet fragrance bloomed from the bear incense and drifted away in the breeze through the forest.

"smell good!"

Xia Mingyu on the tree couldn't help but sniff it. It smelled so good that even he wanted to go down and take a bite, not to mention the bear!
dong dong dong.

Not long after, a dull vibration sound came from the ground.

An old brown bear with a shoulder height of two meters emerged from the bushes. Looking at the orange-yellow solid object emitting golden smoke on the open space, its saliva could not stop dripping from between its fangs.

The experience of digging out honeycombs for more than ten years told it that that thing was definitely the best it had ever tasted!

dong dong dong.

But before it could be happy for long, several huge brown bears broke through the bushes and emerged.

They all coveted the bear scent, and began to roar at each other in hostility, and it seemed that a brown bear war was about to break out.

Roar!
At this moment, a deafening roar suddenly came from the distance.

When the brown bears who had been showing off their might heard this roar, a trace of fear flashed across their faces in a human-like manner.

dong dong dong.

The ground shook violently and the trees swayed.

A huge monster broke through the trees and bushes and rushed out of the dense forest.

It was a giant bear that was over three meters tall at the shoulders and as tall as a two-story building when standing up.

Its body was covered with thick fur as rough as rock, its eyes were blood red, and it exuded a suffocating aura of ferocity.

"The Earth Bear is coming, Sage!"

Youde, who was hiding in the tree, shook Xia Mingyu's arm excitedly, and almost stepped on air and fell down.

"I saw it. This guy looks really fierce. I remember the book mentioned that the Earth Bear has the combat power of Morning Star. I need to think about how to deal with him."

Xia Mingyu held his chin and thought, since he hadn't awakened his innate magic yet, it would be difficult for him to deal with this tough tank character with his current abilities.

Or maybe bully it because it can't fly and summon countless white pigeons to peck at its eyes and back door to slowly drain its blood?

"Master, can you let me hunt the Earth Bear myself?"

Just as Xia Mingyu was seriously considering the feasibility of this kite flow plan, Berg on the side suddenly spoke.

"As a hunter, I cannot always rely on your grace to advance. Since I want to seize the power of the Earth Bear, I should hunt it alone and with dignity."

"And I have a feeling that if I want to successfully be promoted to Hunting Master, then I must not avoid this battle." Berg said solemnly.

On his angular and stern face, his brown eyes flashed with the determination to face death.

"Then come back alive, this is an order." Xia Mingyu said calmly.

In the open space under the tree.

dong dong dong.

After seeing the huge body of the ground bear rushing towards them, the brown bears all fled with their tails between their legs.

Only the old brown bear that arrived first did not retreat, and even let out a threatening growl at the ground bear.

It doesn't have much time to live. If it can taste such a delicious food before dying, even if it's just a lick, its life will be worth it!

then
Roar!
Feeling provoked, the Earth Bear roared angrily, and swung its huge bear paw with a sound of breaking through the air.

boom!
With a dull thud, the bear's paw hit the brown bear's head hard.

The old brown bear didn't even have time to howl before its skull exploded like a ripe watermelon, and blood and brain matter splattered all over its ferocious face, which was extremely terrifying.

The disgusted bear wiped his face with his paw in disdain, pushed the brown bear corpse on the ground aside, and then walked towards the bear-attracting incense in the center of the open space with shining eyes.

What a delicious food!

After just picking it up and taking a lick, the Earth Bear felt that all the food he had eaten before was not even one ten-thousandth as delicious as this one.

A hint of happiness appeared on its ferocious bear face, which was almost human-like.

Boom!
At this moment, accompanied by a sound of landing, the ground bear quickly put down the bear-attracting incense and turned around vigilantly to look.

After seeing that it was a human, its inner vigilance immediately disappeared.

This weak creature poses no threat to it except that its meat is a little more delicious.

Roar!
The ground bear, wanting to taste the bear-attracting incense, did not want to pounce on humans and eat them bite by bite as it did in the past. It let out a roar to scare Berg away.

"Kill me or be killed by me."

Berg stared directly at the terrifying, roaring giant bear in front of him. There was no fear in his brown eyes, only cold murderous intent.

He pulled an iron arrow from the quiver behind him, drew his bow, and, his arm muscles tensed, aimed the sharp arrow straight at the giant bear's head. As if sensing a threat, the Earth Bear reluctantly placed the bear-attracting incense on the open space behind him, then glanced at Berg with a hint of murderous intent in his eyes.

Swish!
An arrow flew through the air and accurately shot into the ground bear's left eye.

However, before it hit the target, it was broken by a palm from the Earth Bear. The Earth Bear, who almost lost his left eye, rushed towards Berg in anger.

"Perception enhancement, Hawkeye."

With these two abilities, Berg suddenly felt that everything around him slowed down.

Swish swish!
He jumped and moved nimbly on the surrounding trees, dodging the bear's attacks while shooting arrows at the opponent.

The ground bear chased Berg like a heavy truck, relying on its thick fur to crash directly into the trees. The towering ancient trees that had grown for decades were shaken violently.

Even Xia Mingyu, who was hiding in a tree, had to jump to another tree in the distance with Youde.

"This guy's fur is really tough!"

Berg frowned as he looked at the angry ground bear under the tree.

He shot several arrows at the ground bear, but its thick and rough fur was harder than armor, and the arrowheads could not penetrate the flesh.

"In this case, we can only take a gamble."

Berg drew his bow and arrow again, then jumped down from the tree on his own initiative.

"The death of all things." He muttered to himself.

The next moment, Berg's eyes turned into a gorgeous blue, and everything in the world turned black and white.

The huge body of the ground bear was also surrounded by countless dead lines, which eventually converged into a small dot and moved rapidly on its body.

Roar!
Seeing that the prey actually came down from the tree on its own initiative, the ground bear immediately pounced on it excitedly.

But when Berg aimed at it, the ground bear felt an unprecedented sense of death threat.

Strange, those fragile arrows shouldn't be able to hurt it at all, right?
The monster's brain was still unable to make a judgment, but its body had already rushed straight towards the human.

Swish!
The arrow flew through the air, aiming at the ground bear's left shoulder.

Hoping that its defense wouldn't be breached, the Earth Bear ignored the arrows and opened its bloody mouth to bite the human's head.

boom.

Unlike before, the arrow went straight through the thick fur and pierced through the bear's left shoulder.

The giant bear that was about to bite Berg's head also froze in an instant, its eyes gradually became dull, and finally its huge body fell to the ground with a bang, and it lost its voice.

"Hoo, hoo!"

Berg also fell on the bear's body as if exhausted, gasping for breath.

The stronger the creature that the Death of All Things sees as its death point, the greater the burden on its body.

As a person of extraordinary rank, looking directly at the death point of the Warcraft Earth Bear, which is as powerful as the Morning Star, is undoubtedly a huge burden beyond his limit for him.

This is also the reason why he did not use the gift of death of all things at the beginning, because once it is activated, either the Earth Bear will die or he will die.

"Thank you for your hard work. You managed to come back alive."

Xia Mingyu rushed over and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Berg was safe and sound.

"After all, this is your order, and I will definitely complete it no matter what."

The young man raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and a happy smile appeared on his resolute face.

After resting for a while, Berg took out a sharp knife from his bag, and after a lot of effort, he finally removed the skin from the heart of the ground bear and carefully placed it in a box that had been prepared.

The purpose of this trip was finally achieved.

"Sage, I'm afraid I must take my leave of you."

At this time, Youde also offered to leave with an apologetic look on his face.

"I need to find moongrass for my employer immediately. I will never forget your life-saving grace. If you need anything in the future, you can find me at No. 13 Morning Breeze Street in Twilight City. I run a small pharmacy there." Youde said.

"How long will it take you to find moongrass?" Xia Mingyu thought for a while and said.

He was a little worried about leaving the other person alone in the dangerous jungle. Even if there were no bandits, there were still all kinds of ferocious beasts and monsters.

"One day, one week, one month, or maybe you'll never find it." Yoder said with a wry smile.

Moonlight grass is extremely rare, and he is still not sure whether it exists in this area.

"In that case, could you do me one more thing?"

"of course can."

"Can you make this potion?"

Xia Mingyu took out the piece of straw paper with the recipe for the bearskin potion and handed it to Youde.

He had previously sworn in front of Bishop Rune that he would not disclose the formula at will, but showing it to the pharmacist responsible for making the potion should not be considered a casual disclosure.

"Yes, but it requires a lot of tools and materials. I can only prepare it for you after I return to Twilight City."

Yoder replied after carefully reading the recipe.

"Thank you for your help. This is your reward."

Xia Mingyu took out the only bottle of healing potion left in his bag and handed it to Youde.

Yoder: “???”

"What are you doing?"

The pharmacist's body was shaking like a sieve, his pupils constricted, and he asked stutteringly.

"You've already repaid me for saving you by making bear-attracting incense for me. Now that I'm hiring you again, you should pay me back."

Xia Mingyu said calmly.

"But this little bit of work isn't worth a bottle of precious healing potion."

Youde wanted to argue excitedly, but saw Xia Mingyu gently make a hushing gesture.

"Maybe it's not worth it, but a mother's life is still more precious than a bottle of potion."

As Xia Mingyu spoke, he stuffed the healing potion in his hand into the pharmacist's large pocket.

".Thank you, respected sage, may the gods bless you!"

Youde no longer refused, but knelt on one knee and bowed deeply.

In his previous meager life, he had never seen such a kind saint, who was like a hero from the Age of Gods in epic legends.

If possible, he would like to serve her for the rest of his life and bask in her gentle glory!

"Come on, come back to Twilight City with us."

"Yes!"

——Hush!

After the group walked out of the dense forest of Nanfeng, Xia Mingyu took out a whistle from his bag and started playing it.

Tapping.

Soon, two black spots, one big and one small, appeared in the distant wilderness and rushed towards here.

Only when the distance got closer could you see clearly that they were a tall black horse and a much smaller brown horse.

hiss!
The black horse neighed pleasantly and rubbed its head against Xia Mingyu's palm affectionately.

"The horses from another world seem to understand human nature."

Xia Mingyu said with emotion while stroking the horse's head.

Because the dense forest was not suitable for horses to move around, he followed Berg's suggestion and let the two horses graze in the wilderness outside the dense forest.

He was originally worried that they might run away, but now it seems that he underestimated the temptation of three meals a day and accommodation to the horses in this world.

Afterwards, Xia Mingyu rode his black horse with the luggage on its back, while Berg and Youde rode on the brown horses, and the three of them set out on their return journey together.

Time flies and another three days have passed.

At noon, the sun was high in the sky and the dazzling sunlight poured down.

"Finally back!"

Looking at the magnificent city not far away, Xia Mingyu said with deep emotion.

It's not enough to sleep in the open and get sunburned along the way, but the main problem is that riding a horse is uncomfortable and really not as comfortable as riding in a carriage.

As expected, the so-called beautiful adventures in those Western fantasy novels on Blue Planet are all fake. In the final analysis, only the beautiful girls encountered during the adventure can be considered beautiful.
"My Lord, I need to rush to deliver medicine to my employer. Please come and get the potion in the evening."

As soon as he entered the city, Youde left in a hurry with his bags on his back after saying this.

Xia Mingyu didn't care, but when he was riding through the streets, he suddenly discovered something strange - the whole city seemed to be lingering in a faint scent of tea.

(End of this chapter)