Chapter 41 - Toxin (New Book Requests Everything)

　　A lion and scorpion beast with the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion.

　　On the Blue Planet, it's also known as Manticore, which means "cannibal."

　　The hunters panicked a bit when this highly poisonous magical beast appeared under the wall of the ruins.

　　Although they occasionally hunted small magical beasts, they were, after all, vampire hunters rather than magical beast hunters and lacked the experience of fighting such large magical beasts.

　　The lion and scorpion beast watched the hunters warily, letting out a low growl as it slowly prowled under the walls. It was limping a bit on its right hind leg, looking like it had been wounded by a cannon.

　　"Shoot it with your bow, it's wounded!" A hunter shouted.

　　Hearing this, the hunters immediately took out their bows and arrows and shot at the Lion Scorpion Beast, but that Lion Scorpion Beast was very agile despite its injuries, and dodged the arrows that were shot at it with a few small jumps on its three legs.

　　"Be careful, don't be careless!" Baldwin knew the Lion Scorpion Beast's power, and he shouted.

　　The hunters didn't pay too much attention to this Lion Scorpion Beast's reminder even though they heard the Guildmaster's reminder, and they thought that this Lion Scorpion Beast wouldn't be able to climb up the high walls of the city.

　　Edward also made a good gesture to cast the spell, but he was a bit puzzled, because as far as he remembered, the Lion and Scorpion Beasts seemed to have one other feature besides a scorpion tail...

　　At this point, Lenka was still holding her bow up and aiming, she never released her first arrow.

　　She was biding her time.

　　The hunters repeatedly missed and their rate of fire slowed down; after all, arrows were limited and couldn't be wasted like that.

　　Taking advantage of this gap, the Lion Scorpion Beast's back gave birth to two huge fleshy wings that snapped and flew up.

　　The hunters never thought that this magical beast could actually fly, the accuracy of their arrows was even worse, the Lion Scorpion Beast flew up to the city wall with no effort and pounced on the nearest few hunters.

　　President Baldwin rushed up and slashed at the Lion Scorpion Beast, however, the Lion Scorpion Beast's fur was so thick that the sword only cut through a little bit of skin.

　　The Lion Scorpion Beast immediately stung Baldwin with its highly poisonous scorpion tail, and the latter, knowing the power of this scorpion tail, rolled to avoid the fatal blow.

　　While the Lion Scorpion Beast's attention was drawn to the Chairman, Renka shot an arrow.

　　The arrow flew diagonally towards the Lion Scorpion Beast's eyes, and since Renka was in the dead center of the Lion Scorpion Beast's field of vision, the Lion Scorpion Beast was already too late to dodge the arrow when it flew out.

　　Even though the Wraith had thick fur on its body, its eyes were unprotected, and the feathered arrow directly blinded one of the Lion Scorpion Beast's eyes. The beast immediately screamed in pain.

　　It slapped a paw on the pounced hunter, then pranced up and turned to pounce on Renka.

　　Seeing that the Lion Scorpion Beast was about to pounce on the petite Elven Huntress, a huge fireball exploded in front of it, and it was Edward who struck.

　　This blow caused great damage to the Lion Scorpion Beast, which fell from mid-air and rolled miserably on the ground several times, with large swaths of its fur burned.

　　The hunters immediately gathered around and prepared to kill the beast, but they didn't expect the Lion Scorpion Beast to suddenly raise its head and let out a deafening roar.

　　The roar carried a powerful shock that made the livers of a few of the less brave hunters crack. And the hunters who were brave enough to charge up were shaken to their core.

　　However, when the hunters thought that the Lion and Scorpion Beast was going to do a trapped fight, the beast flew up extremely decisively and burrowed into the ruined city walls that had been blasted by the cannons.

　　This Lion and Scorpion Beast was very smart, it judged that it was not Edward's opponent and immediately made a decision to escape cleanly.

　　The hunters knew they couldn't catch up and didn't dare set foot inside the ruins of old Valenvinia, for there were other magical beasts and worse monsters there.

　　Edward, on the other hand, ignored the lion and scorpion beast as he jumped off the turret and went to the few hunters who were injured, checking their injuries and trying to heal them with [Healing Hands].

　　Most of the few injured were not seriously injured, but the one who was directly slapped by the Lion Scorpion Beast was not too optimistic.

　　He had a few broken ribs, which was actually fine, the [Healing Hands] could slowly heal those injuries.

　　However, the lion and scorpion beast's venomous claws tore through his skin and the venom invaded his body, turning the vicinity of the wound black and purple, and the hunter fell into a severe coma.

　　The [Healing Hands] can't undo this poison, the venom is slowly spreading, and it looks like the hunter is about to die from the poison.

　　"Life Pod!"

　　Lenka cast a nature magic, only to see a huge flower emerge from the ground, wrapping the hunter in it, before the flower closed and transformed into a slowly swaying bud.

　　"The Pods will temporarily stop the spread of the venom, but it will only last for a day at most, we need to obtain the antidote to the poison as soon as possible." Renka said.

　　"To formulate a potion to detoxify the Lion Scorpion Beast, you need the rhizome of the Lion Heart Flower." Baldwin gasped, "This flower is very rare and not always available in Constantine's alchemy material store."

　　"Lionheart is actually the flower of the white flexuosa." Lenka said.

　　"White currant? Isn't that a lot?"

　　Edward recognized the white flexuosa, which he had read about in the Eastern Continental Windjammer, and which was very common in Constantine.

　　Standing on the city wall and casually looking down, there was a patch of plants with small pale yellow four-petaled flowers in the surrounding wilderness: the white celandine.

　　But Lianca shook her head and said, "Only the white quince that grows out of the Lion Scorpion Beast's feces is a Lion Heart Flower. Because it absorbs the toxins in the Lion Scorpion Beast's feces, the yellow petals turn purple."

　　As an Elf, Lianca was familiar with the various plants on the continent.

　　Baldwin was very impressed with the girl's knowledge; while he knew that the Lion's Heart flower detoxified the lion and scorpion beasts, he didn't know the origin of this rare plant.

　　"That means we have a good chance of finding the Lionheart Flower if we find the Lion Scorpion's droppings?" Edward asked.

　　"Yes. If that lion and scorpion beast's lair is nearby, it's more than likely that we'll be able to find the Lionheart Flower." Renka said.

　　Edward took a deep breath and said, "I'll look over at the ruins then, I'm responsible for drawing this lion and scorpion beast from my test cannon."

　　"I'll come with you, that lion and scorpion beast is bleeding, it's bound to flee back to its lair, I can track it with my natural spells." Renka said.

　　"Wouldn't it be too dangerous for just the two of you, should we call all of Constantine's hunters?" Chief Hector asked.

　　"No, it's too dangerous in the ruins, if a large group goes over there, it's bound to alert a large number of magical beasts, I'll go with the two of them, just the three of us will go in." Baldwin said.

　　Kayne and Lianca were currently supposed to be the two best fighters in the guild, and Baldwin himself could only say that he was barely going to be a drag, so bringing someone else would only be a liability.