First-Kill Reward: Snakefolk Priest Recruitment Scroll

This axe strike carved a bloody gash across the Snow Viper's smooth body, splitting flesh and skin.

A damage number floated up.

The Snow Viper hissed in pain and bit down even harder.

Yet with his health constantly regenerating, Dazhuang fought like he had been pumped full of adrenaline.

He grabbed the Snow Viper and unleashed a frenzied barrage of chops and slashes.

Pfft! Pfft, pfft!

-10

The sound of flesh being struck rang out repeatedly.

After biting him a few times, the Snow Viper seemed to realize something was wrong.

Its health kept falling, quickly dropping below 80.

Yet this opponent was clearly weaker than it, but he was still full of vigor after all this fighting!

The snake was dumbfounded.

It also realized that the enemy before it was in an unusual state.

With a twist of its body, it turned and tried to flee.

Cao Xing had been watching the Snow Viper's movements from behind. Seeing this, he hurriedly called out, "Don't let it escape! Erzhuang, get in there too!"

"At your service, my lord!"

Following the command, Erzhuang charged forward and tangled with the Snow Viper.

With Erzhuang joining the fight, the Snow Viper's health drained even faster.

Pfft! Pfft, pfft!

Two stone axes kept hacking into the snake's body.

Before long, its health had fallen below 30.

Meanwhile, after a brief rest, Cao Xing had recovered a little mental energy.

He raised his staff, gathering the frost energy around him.

Before long, a fist-sized ball of ice formed at the tip of Cao Xing's staff.

"Go!"

Cao Xing swung his staff.

The ice ball shot out instantly.

It struck the Snow Viper's body and exploded with a pop!

-21!

An outrageous damage number rose from the Snow Viper's body.

The enemy's health reached zero, and it collapsed completely.

System notifications appeared.

You successfully killed a Lv. 2 Snow Viper and gained 30 experience points.

Combatants: Dazhuang gained 15 experience points. Erzhuang gained 15 experience points.

Congratulations! You are the first being in this region to kill a wild monster. You received the first-kill reward: Snakefolk Priest Recruitment Scroll x1.

Seeing the power of Ice Ball, shock filled Dazhuang and Erzhuang's eyes.

"My lord, your power is truly terrifying!"

"My lord is so powerful!"

Cao Xing glanced at them calmly.

These Polar People had seen too little.

That was simply how the Frost Mage class worked: high damage came with high consumption.

That one Ice Ball had completely drained the mental energy he had only just recovered.

At the same time,

Cao Xing walked up to the Snow Viper's corpse, and a system prompt appeared before him.

Snow Viper Corpse (Dismantlable)

Cao Xing directly selected dismantle.

In an instant, the Snow Viper's body vanished.

Then, a damaged snakeskin, more than a dozen chunks of bright red snake meat, and a purple venom sac appeared on the icy snow.

Damaged Snakeskin (White) x1

(Though damaged, it can still be used to make simple leather clothing.)

Fresh Snake Meat (Green) x17

(Fresh snake meat. 1 piece of snake meat = 5 food.)

Venom Sac (Green) x1

(A snake's venom sac. Applying it to a weapon may produce unexpected effects?)

Surprise appeared in Cao Xing's eyes as he looked at the items on the ground.

"Damn! So much snake meat, and there's even a snakeskin! What a haul!"

Seventeen pieces of snake meat meant a full 85 food!

More importantly, they now had new food besides dry bread.

And it was delicious snake meat!

At that moment, Dazhuang and Erzhuang stared fixedly at the bright red snake meat on the ground, swallowing mouthful after mouthful of saliva.

"Meat... it's meat!"

"My god! How many years has it been since we last saw meat?"

"Erzhuang, pinch me. I'm not dreaming, am I?"

The Polar People were a race that lived in the underground world year-round, and they rarely got to eat fresh meat.

Cao Xing did not know much about their way of life, but from the conversations between some Polar People earlier, he could tell that their circumstances were probably quite harsh.

Erzhuang tugged hard on Dazhuang's goatee and exclaimed, "Dazhuang, you're not dreaming. This is real meat!"

"My god, if someone would let me have just one bite of delicious meat, I'd be willing to give my life for him!"

Cao Xing also knew they were saying that for him to hear.

"Enough. Pick up the pace with your work. Tonight, everyone will have snake soup together."

Upon hearing that, Dazhuang and Erzhuang sprang up from the ground and shouted.

"Long live our lord!"

"We'll get back to work right away!"

Then the two Polar People raised their stone axes and eagerly went back to chopping trees.

Seeing how enthusiastic they were, Cao Xing collected all the materials from the ground.

He looked toward Liu Muxue beside him and said,

"Sister-in-law, did you remember it?"

"If you encounter enemies in the wild, you need to fight like that too if you want to kill them."

Liu Muxue hugged her shield to her chest and nodded firmly. "Mm-hm, I remember, A-Xing."

Cao Xing nodded, then led her back near the campfire.

The moment they entered the campfire's range, much of the chill was instantly driven away.

Hiss!

The two of them shuddered at once.

This time, they had spent about seven minutes outside.

By Cao Xing's estimate, their maximum activity time was currently fifteen minutes.

If they could make cold-resistant clothing, they would be able to remain active much longer.

Cao Xing glanced at his territory's resources.

Food x135, Wood x36, Stone x54

"The materials for building a tailor shop are still insufficient. Looks like we won't be able to make one today."

"Then is there any other way to withstand the severe cold?"

Cao Xing turned his gaze toward the Polar People nearby, who wore thick snow clothes.

Clearly, the clothing the Polar People wore was very thick and offered excellent cold resistance...

At this point, most survivors would probably be thinking of using force to take the Polar People's clothes.

But it was best not to do that.

Because once you killed your first Polar Person, your favorability with that race would immediately drop by 50%.

When you killed a second Polar Person, you would become completely hostile to that race.

Not only would you be unable to recruit Polar People to work for you in the future, any Polar People you encountered on the road would also attack your camp.

Cao Xing thought to himself, Forget it. We'll just endure it for today.

By tomorrow, we should have enough wood and stone to build a tailor shop.

Cao Xing then remembered the first-kill reward the system had just given him. It seemed to be a recruitment scroll.

After taking it from his backpack, the scroll's attributes appeared before him.

Snakefolk Priest Recruitment Scroll: Can summon a Level 5 Snakefolk Priest to assist the lord in battle.

Occupies 2 population.

Seeing the system description, Cao Xing's expression immediately brightened.

Nice, it was actually a scroll that could summon a Level 5 creature!

This reward was pretty great!

However, Cao Xing had never encountered the Snakefolk race when he played the game before, so he did not know what they were like.

Of course, it was also possible that he had never progressed far enough in the game to uncover its full scope.

The vastness of this world exceeded Cao Xing's imagination.

Consume the scroll to summon a Snakefolk Priest?

"Yes."

As soon as he spoke, a six-pointed star array appeared out of thin air before Cao Xing.

The next moment, the six-pointed star array emitted a dazzling light.

Liu Muxue watched Cao Xing's actions curiously from the side.

At the same time, they suddenly felt as though a powerful, chilling presence had descended.

Then, a cold wind swept through.

A snow-white creature with a winding, serpentine body appeared.

Its five-meter-long snake body was covered in scales, its slender tail swaying casually across the snow.

Yet above that snake body was the head of a human woman.

Looking at the picture afterward, she was half-human and half-snake. With this description, though... a human head growing from a snake body... without a human upper body, that would be pretty horrifying.

Her narrow eyes and defined features gave off a seductive aura at first glance.

Cao Xing and Liu Muxue both stared in shock at the enormous beautiful snake.

"Such... such a huge snake..." Liu Muxue murmured, her small mouth slightly open.

It was also Cao Xing's first time seeing such a creature, and it exceeded his expectations somewhat.

"So this is the Snakefolk? They really live up to their name."

At that moment, the creature with a snake body and human head stared at Cao Xing with her deep green pupils. Then she parted her dark purplish lips and spoke softly.

"Honored lord, Ilena, priest of the Snakefolk, is at your service."

The Snakefolk's attributes appeared before Cao Xing.