86 Episode 26: A Nice Day for Fishing

The battle in the canyon seems to have not reached its climax yet. With all the people and monsters fighting, I doubt it will end soon.

"Should we participate too?" Maple asked.

"No. That is not part of our business and besides, we have a kid with us. Fighting on a chaotic situation is not a good thing with Anya here with us," I said as I glance at Anya currently playing with Kon who I summoned to be her mount at the moment.

"You have a point there. Putting her at risk is just not a good situation for us so it would be better if we hunt monsters slowly from here."

"Yeah. We can't forget that we are here to train either. Participating in a battle is a bit of worthless and time-consuming. Besides, we can't really trust those monsters. They might be scheming something after that.

Since we decided to skip on the raid, we have arrived at our location earlier than expected. We camp out near the lake and made a shelter and with the help of Maple's magic to camouflage our surroundings, we managed to get everything done around lunchtime. Now our problem is now food. All of the food we hunt the other day was all gone now. It is understandable since the mouth to feed with food increased. Therefore, we have to hunt once again.

"What should we do for our lunch?" Yuri asked.

"Do you really need to eat? I bet you are fine with just my mana as your consumption anyway," I glared at Yuri.

"Master~ we are still going to eat. We might not need to but I want to. Food is one of the things I wanted to get too ya know?" Yuri blinked at me with her cutesy antics.

"You should have gotten used to it, Master. My sister is a glutton you won't really manage to force her not to eat food too," Yuto said as he unpacks a few of the belongings we have from his storage space.

"Oh well, no choice. Maple, come with me to the hunt. This is a good time to raise your points too since you have been helping me for quite a while and stuck up on our group. Are you okay with that?"

"Sure, my blade skills are getting rusty so I want to practice a little bit more."

"Okay then, Yuri, Yuto, also Kon, please guard the place while we are gone alright? Just send me the signal if something happened."

"Yes master!" the three resonated.

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The lake is one of the places in this alternate Earth with most resources according to Maple who has been here before since this is her second time participating in the annual training. The fishes and some plants and organisms living in this habitat are all counted as monsters so if you are fishing here and managed to grab one fish, then you will be able to get points that correspond to the monster you managed to catch. Not only the fishes, some monsters that live on land and air come here to drink water. Therefore, this place is a very ideal spot for monster hunting.

Maple hunted a few monsters already since she gone up ahead of me while I decided to fish. I am a bit knowledgeable about fishing since I sometimes come with my uncle to fish as a past time. I have gained lots of points already so I decided to let Maple do all the killing of monsters this time around so that she can get the points she needed to whatever she wanted to purchase after this.

The fishing rod that I am using right now is something that was mixed in on the treasure trove that mimic stores on his body. It is a metal rod and the line is quite sturdy so I am quite sure that even if I managed to haul something big, the line won't get cut off.

At the moment, I caught one small fish already and I can say that this is already something good since fishing is something that needs a great sense of patience. As I was trying to keep my mind preoccupied, I felt the fishing rod tug on me, causing me to return to my senses and started reeling the line. I was still reeling the line when my eyes' ability, Weakness Perception activated, I did not expect that I almost let the rod go.

[Serpent of the Lake]

Weakness: Electricity Magic, Nature Magic

Resistance: Water, Ice, Fire Magic.

I am reeling a serpent?! This f*cker is too huge since I did not expect for this sh*t to be so strong. After knowing that this is a serpent, I poured all of my strength to the rod and started to reel it in. But this sh*t is just too heavy all by myself. Luckily, Maple arrived carrying a small grass deer carcass.

"Managed to take a reel?" she asked as she put the thing down.

"C-can you give me some help? This will take quite a while for me to reel. This is a big catch for me I guess," I said as I try to pull hard.

Maple quickly put down the carcass of the monster she hunted and goes to my aid. As we continue to pull, Blue started giving a warning.

"Kazuma! What the hell did you catch this time?! Why is it emitting a very dangerous bestial aura?!"

"I don't know! It is not my fault of pulling something like this!"

"You already know what you are pulling?"

"Yeah! I have seen it using my Weakness Perception earlier! It is the serpent of the lake!"

"SERPENT OF THE LAKE?! ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND? THAT IS NOT SOMETHING YOU CAN JUST FISH! THAT IS BASICALLY ONE OF THE LEGENDARY BEASTS IN THIS ALTERNATE EARTH! GET OUT OF THERE RIGHT NOW! YOU ARE JUST SEEKING DEATH IF YOU KEEP ON PULLING THAT POLE!"

"No way man! I can't just let this fishing rod go! This is pretty expensive in the real world!"

"Are you crazy or what? That is just a fishing pole! You can buy it with money! Just release the pole already!"

"No! If you are a poor ass bloke like me, you will understand my pain!"

"What is more important? Your pole or your life?"

"Both!"

"Argh, I don't know anymore, just remember I warned you before!"

I know what Blue said is true and this monster is just plain dangerous. But I am not someone who will just ditch something like this pole easily. I may be an idiot but who knows when I will be able to get one again. And besides, we might get a chance to see what this serpent is really capable of. Maybe I should try using the dragon power this time?