"The Dun bow was strong, the four hou arrows were well balanced—let the evenly spaced arrows fly!"
Tongtong!
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Along with the clear incantation, four sharp arrows appeared out of thin air, turning into four streaks of light that vanished in a flash and buried themselves in a boar-like creature. The monster squealed miserably and toppled to the ground. After struggling a few times, it stopped breathing.
A few blurred figures soon appeared beside the boar's corpse on a faint breeze and came to a halt.
"Hurry up. Don't waste time."
Zhang Jixin lowered his voice as he spoke to the Fat Wizard crouching on the ground. At the same time, he vigilantly scanned their surroundings and gestured to Dylan. "Keep watch! ... Don't extend your detection range too far. We'll stay for five minutes at most."
The Vampire Werewolf tugged at his hood, and his figure silently faded, like a drop of ink dissolving into a bowl of water. In the blink of an eye, he had vanished.
"Relax, I know what I'm doing!"
A compact toolbox lay open before Fatty Xin. Knives, scissors, saws, tweezers, and other tools flashed through his hands in rapid succession. In moments, he had cut open the boar's belly and removed a fist-sized translucent bead. "It's rare to come across a wild Tongtong. It'd be such a waste not to collect some materials."
"What can that bead do?" Zheng Qing asked curiously, glancing at it while taking advantage of the break to add several spells to his spellbook.
"It has plenty of uses."
As he spoke, the Fat Wizard used a small silver knife and tweezers to peel away the membrane around the bead. "For example, it's rich in magic power and can hold Runes, so it can be directly used to refine