Chapter 150 : Chapter 150

Chapter 150. Growth Trait

The black horse beneath Fulan had already been strengthened by the Earth Drake.

Its black fur had become extremely tough. Upon closer inspection, it even carried a texture like stone, while the heart within its body had been enhanced by the Earth Drake, becoming strong and powerful.

In addition, dragon blood now permeated its entire body, greatly enhancing its endurance.

The current black horse, if it were not carrying Fulan, could already pass as a magical beast in the wild.

As for the remaining materials from the Earth Drake, Fulan had summoned staff from the Adventurers’ Guild to transport them.

This time, Fulan returned to Ged Town not because she did not wish to reach the Northern Society sooner, but because she had to return to the Adventurers’ Guild in Ged Town.

The Adventurers’ Guilds within the Antir Region had long since been shut down due to the war.

And the nearest functioning guild to her was located in another country. Going there would have taken even more time.

So returning directly to the Adventurers’ Guild in Ged Town was actually faster.

Fulan left the black horse at the reception outside and walked inside alone, carrying her spoils.

As soon as she entered, the receptionist immediately recognized her and hurried forward to greet her.

She already knew that Fulan had single-handedly hunted that Earth Drake. The materials from the Earth Drake had already been transported back to the guild’s dedicated storage and were currently being processed.

For Fulan to have completed the hunt so quickly proved that she was an exceptionally powerful First-Tier mage.

That alone was enough for the receptionist to adopt a far more respectful attitude.

“Honored Mage, here is the valuation of the materials from that Earth Drake. Please take a look.”

The receptionist quickly handed over a freshly printed sheet of paper. The scent of ink still lingered on it.

Fulan merely glanced at it briefly before returning it to the receptionist and saying,

“Convert all of these materials into gold coins at market price.”

The receptionist looked at Fulan with some confusion, unable to understand why she would handle it this way.

Normally, after successfully participating in a hunt, mages would almost always request all of a magical beast’s materials for themselves. Yet Fulan had chosen to sell everything.

For Fulan, the most important parts—the heart and dragon blood—had already been used to enhance the black horse.

Moreover, through the talent 【Dragon’s Remnant Engraving】, she had gained a new trait.

【Earth Dragon’s Breath: You can greatly enhance the activation of earth elements, gaining either stronger defense or greater power.】

She had specifically obtained this ability to enhance earth-element activation.

It could be said that dragons possessed a natural, overwhelming advantage when it came to elemental affinity.

Her 【Hard Scale Rock】 was still at the proficiency level, but after this enhancement to earth-element activation, its defensive capability was already comparable to a First-Tier defensive spell.

As for the remaining Earth Drake materials, all of them combined were worth only a dozen or so gold coins, so she simply exchanged them for money.

“Help me register the hunting certificates for these two magical beasts.”

The receptionist took a bottle of green solution and a box containing fragments of a Gale Rabbit’s corpse, looking somewhat puzzled.

Suppressing her doubts, she processed the hunting certificates for the two magical beasts.

It had to be said—this was the first time since she had become a receptionist that she had ever processed hunting certificates for these two creatures.

Normally, hunting certificates were only issued for powerful magical beasts, not for small animals like these.

After all, such certificates were essentially useless.

Generally speaking, hunting certificates had two main purposes.

First, if an adventurer left their current team, the certificates could serve as a résumé when applying to join another team.

However, teams did not care about the hunting certificates of creatures that were difficult to find but easy to defeat. Those held little value.

Anyone could kill small animals. While locating them did require some skill, most adventurer teams did not value the meager profits from such creatures.

Woodland Spirits and Gale Rabbits fell into this category. Fulan had not even bothered to retrieve their intact corpses—their materials combined were worth less than two gold coins.

The second purpose was for accepting designated commissions from major clients.

Sometimes, a magical beast’s information would be listed, and a particular client might urgently require its materials. In such cases, an additional hunting commission would be issued.

If others saw that your hunting record included that particular magical beast, then congratulations—you could earn a large sum.

The rewards for such commissions far exceeded those of normal hunts. The guild would even negotiate with the client to raise the bounty.

So no matter how one looked at it, registering hunting certificates for small animals was entirely pointless.

If it had been a new adventurer making such a request, the receptionist might have directly refused—it would clearly just increase her workload.

After all, these hunting certificates had to be periodically sent to various branches, and each one had to be personally verified.

But this was a mage.

And not just any mage, but one capable of hunting an Earth Drake.

She could not refuse.

After taking the items to be registered, some time passed before she completed the two certificates.

As for the Earth Drake, its certificate had already been recorded when its corpse had been received.

Fulan suddenly felt a faint “hum,” and her physical condition improved once more.

She silently summoned her panel to examine the changes brought by her new profession.

【Name: Fulan

Class: Demon Hunter (One Star) … (omitted)

Attributes: Physique 8.0, Mental Power 15.1

Skills:

Equipment Augmentation (Mastered) (Proficiency: 112/1000): Manifest the weapons and equipment you have crafted using Mental Power to enhance yourself.

Equipment Overload (Mastered) (Proficiency: 35/1000): Allows the weapons and equipment in your hands to unleash greater power.

Traits:

Demon Hunt Medal (For each different type of magical beast you hunt, you gain a corresponding medal. Each medal provides a certain attribute bonus.)

… (omitted)】

Fulan raised an eyebrow.

The increase of her Physique to 8.0 was within her expectations, but she had not anticipated that her Mental Power would rise by 0.1.

If her Mental Power had been lower, the increase might have been greater. Unfortunately, her Mental Power had already reached as high as 15.

What surprised her even more was that the Demon Hunter class had granted her such a trait—and a growth-type one at that.

She closed her eyes and focused.

She could sense four medals.

They corresponded to the Wild Wolf, Woodland Spirit, Gale Rabbit, and Earth Drake.

The first three combined did not even increase her Physique by 0.1.

The Earth Drake, however, contributed approximately 0.15 Physique. Due to rounding down on her panel, the additional 0.05 produced no noticeable effect.

She was already very satisfied with the gains from this class.

She clapped her hands and called over a receptionist.

“Bring me your exchange catalog.”

The Adventurers’ Guild had specialized catalogs for adventurers, with some items even requiring proof of defeating First-Tier magical beasts to be exchanged.

And what she needed now was to replace the material of her longsword with something capable of withstanding the power released by her runes.