A Giant Snake

A victorious smirk was plastered on Elliot's face. He watched the three help the villagers clean the pheasants for them to cook as their supper. It had been a few hours after Viper finished his task and Elliot was still ecstatic about how Viper put it into words.

Because honestly, he could have answered just "by leveling up". Their system allows them to level up, but the system does not provide the means to level up. It just counts your efforts.

And Viper's words of "growth" was not something that Elliot expected.

"So, there's this thing we're we do in the village to extend the preservation of food," Emelda said to the three. "You're going to need a lot of salt for this. You want to wrap your meat with cloth, like so."