Ch 15. Venom King

The lodging, food everything was decent enough. Moreover, it was one of the costliest room of "Pyaasa". 10 gold coins a day was charged as rent.

It was my first day here; had my breakfast & chatted with Rehmat for sometime to get accustomed around him & to this whole new place.

As Rehmat mentioned, there was a notice board in the bar; tasks were given & in completion the initiator of the task would pay the employee as mentioned.

(Notice/Task Board)

[Task : Bandit Raghu wanted dead/alive on charges of muder,rape,loot,arson.

Reward : 500 gold coins if caught alive & 300 if brought dead

Location : Last known hideout zone near Pushpak valley.]

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[Task : Pack of dire wolves to be killed from archer tower. Guard duty for 7 nights in livestock farm.

Payment : 25 silver coins per wolf kill. Plus, the carcass of the wolves. (Price is negotiable according to archers efficiency)

Location : Livestock farm....]

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[Task : A cat named Malati lost & have to be rescued.

Description : White body with a black spot on bum

Reward : 1000 gold coins.

Location : Last missing zone, Ghutghutiya jungle.]

This last job is surely from some rich pampered girl who's obsessed with her cat. Or who else would pay thousand gold coins to simply trace out a cat.

There were some other jobs & tasks too.

After surfing through a lot of tasks, there was one task that intrigued my mind. A mammoth one was found indeed...

[Task : Two saltwater crocodiles are to be eliminated.

Reward : 10k gold coins. Plus, 10k gold coins more for each carcasses of the croc's, if brought 100% intact. With 25% decrease in carcass quality, 2500 gold coins would be deducted each time.

Location : Piranha infested Koushali river.]

Killing them is not too difficult, but to make it scratchless was tad problematic. Bullet wounds will wreck the carcass at some point.

To kill something or someone without making a mark on the body, two ways were possible in my world. One was to choke & secondly to poison the target.

Choking is an invalid option, only poisoning was possible.

Rehmat suggested me an ayurveda shop for these kind of stuffs.

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Later that day, I bought two barrels of herbal mixture. It was neurotoxin, which would first attack the nervous system of a living organisms body & killing it in a gruesome way.

The attributes of this toxic was rather impressive, it was tasteless & odorless as informed by the shopkeeper.

Dripped huge chunks of tasty, juicy meat inside the barrel. Within some time, most of the poison got soaked in.

For the next step, I had to ride a horse till I reached Koushali river bank.

On the ground infront of the river, two biggest meat chunks were placed. In a distance apart from one another so that they doesn't interfere with both the croc's bait.

The smell of flesh, meat would stimulate those croc's & they would come out of water to take a bite out of these meat chunks.

That was the plan.

Suddenly, I could hear low growls and huge numbers of movement towards me.

My minimap showed me a large number of red dots moving towards my location.

➖Ping➖

[Intruder alert host!] [Imminent Danger] [Enemy at 155 meter approx]

[Intruder alert host!]

A warning came from my system.

Within few minutes I could see several animals, dire wolves, couple or more wild bears, pack of wild dogs, hyenas, wolfs even a leapord was climbing up in a tree to find the perfect moment to pounce on me.

Before the animal's encircle me completely, I was about to take out my gun. An idea flashed through me; the smell of meat has brought them here.

So, why not let them have a taste of it...

It was damn risky! Still, I started to take out small meat chunks from my system storage & threw them towards the incoming predators.

They leapt, summersaulted in the air to catch the meat chunks. A big chunk was flunged towards the leapord, it started to munch down on it.

I was afraid that they might target me first but due to animal instinct they would try to catch it with their mouth if something of round shaped object is hurled towards them; like a dog or cat.

The wolves, leapord were obviously from cat & dog family line. The trick was remarkable...

The experiment worked, moreover it saved me!

After a minute or two notifications ran wild like an endless symphony. It was flooding my system.

➖Ping➖

[Smooth killer + Innovation 15k exp + 9k soul points]

[Earned 250 exp + 99 soul points for killing a wild dog]

[Earned 499 exp + 129 soul points for killing a hyena]

[Earned 487 exp + 117 soul points for killing a hyena]

[Earnee 2527 exp + 773 soul points for killing a bear]

[Earned 1980 exp...]

There was flood of notifications; I was more worried to check out the number of wild animals left alive...

This mayhem wen't on for another half hour. When everything was over, I wen't back to check near river Koushali. 7 feet tall, two saltwater crocodiles layed lifeless on the ground.

After a long time, I had a huge harvest.

➖Ping➖

[Venom King]

(Neurotoxic damage dealt to it's target. Duration - 1 min. Cool down - 24 hrs.)

[Host leveled up]

A level up plus a new skill, nice! An added bonus overall.

Tapped on the id to complete the adjustment in profile,

[Host] - Rahul Shikder

[Lvl] - 5

[Health] 3005/3005

[End] - 22+3

[Stam] - 20+2

[Int] - 23+2

[Dex] - 22+3

[Charm] - 12

[Mana] -

[Add. attribute points] - (+10)

[Skills]

[Active] - (Venom King - T1)

[Passive] - (Basic Firearm Mastery)

(Advanced Assessment) (Complete smooth talker)

[Title] - John Ramgo (active)

[Shop] [Exchange] [Store] [Notification]

I could have used my advanced assessment skill for skinning the carcasses, but my gut instinct spoke not to; the kills were not normal. Venom was used so have to ask the buyer if they are ok with it before skinning them. If not, then the whole harvest is a lost cause! Hence, I stored all the dead animals in my storage.

For the first time, my storage slots were almost full. Due to such a humongous amount of kill.

I counted the harvest to keep a tab from my side...

A total of,

6x dire wolves

3x wild bears

10x wild dogs

7x hyenas

8x wolves

1x leapord

2x saltwater crocodiles.

Now, it was time to leave this place. It was almost late evening, soon it will be night fall.

I rode on with my horse, towards the bazaar...

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