Chapter 33: Equipment and Item Ranks: Spider Nest!

As expected!

Seeing the prey trying to escape, the black-green giant snake's limited, feeble intelligence clearly couldn't distinguish that this was a deliberate act.

The black-green giant snake leaned its upper body backward, its entire body standing upright like a coiled spring, before launching itself toward Tang Zheng like a projectile.

Opportunity!

Tang Zheng's eyes lit up; this was the move he had been waiting for.

He swung the iron sword in his hand, gripped it backhanded, and threw it with the force of a javelin, aiming straight for the black-green giant snake's open maw.

Boom!

The astonishing force, carrying the impact of the iron sword, exploded in mid-air.

The iron sword pierced precisely through the black-green giant snake's mouth, bringing out a large amount of white mucus and red blood, even mixed with bits of flesh, which splattered all over the ground.

"Hiss! Hiss-roar!"

The black-green giant snake fell from mid-air, its body twisting incessantly as it let out pained hisses.

Bang! Bang!!

Its thick tail, lashing out due to the intense pain, struck the surrounding trees at random, creating a thunderous roar.

Tang Zheng watched the black-green giant snake, its head pierced through, twitching in agony. He curled his lip and took a few steps back.

He waited quietly for the black-green giant snake to die.

Since its scales were hard and slippery, he would attack from the soft interior.

It struggled for about two or three minutes.

The black-green giant snake, which had been twitching on the ground, gradually stopped moving and lay motionless.

【Obtained 150 EXP】

Current EXP: 421/1000.

"Not a bad amount of EXP."

A smile appeared on Tang Zheng's face. Only then did he stand up and walk toward the black-green giant snake; with the EXP notification, there was no need to worry about it playing dead.

Finding the iron sword that had fallen to the ground, covered in mucus and blood, Tang Zheng's eyes showed a hint of disgust.

From his item box, he found the yellowed, hardened paper he had previously created using a magic scroll, wiped the mucus and blood off the iron sword, and only then picked it back up.

"The scales of this black-green giant snake should be quite good for making armor."

Tang Zheng scanned the six-meter-long black-green giant snake; aside from the severe damage to the head, the rest of the body was relatively well-preserved.

However, Tang Zheng didn't have much interest in making armor.

With the craftsmanship mastered by humans in this Other World, the armor-type equipment they could produce would reach, at best, the 【High Rank】 level.

With that time,

Tang Zheng would rather put in the effort to see if he could get his hands on the legacy of the "Eight Greed Kings" or the "Six Great Gods."

In the "Yggdrasil" game, equipment and item ranks are divided into a total of 10 levels.

【Lowest Rank】 Levels 1–10

【Low Rank】 Levels 11–20

【Mid Rank】 Levels 21–30

【High Rank】 Levels 31–40

【Highest Rank】 Levels 41–50

【Legacy Rank】 Levels 51–60

【Relic Rank】 Levels 61–70

【Legendary Rank】 Levels 71–80

【Divine Rank】 Levels 81–90

【Guild Weapon】 Levels 91–100

Of course, above these 10 levels, there are items that exceed the specifications known as "World-Class Items," which are categorized separately.

If Tang Zheng wants to oppose the "Great Tomb of Nazarick," he needs at least one piece of Divine Rank equipment. "Selling it should be worth a good amount of money."

Tang Zheng reached out and tapped the black-green giant snake's corpse, a thought in his mind, and stored it into his item box.

The commotion just now wasn't small.

However, this area should be the territory of this black-green giant snake, so it shouldn't attract other magical beasts to rush over immediately.

Tang Zheng continued to head east.

The Tob Forest surrounds the Azerlisia Mountains, a massive primeval jungle in a "U" shape, reaching 120km in length and about 40km in width.

And Carne Village happens to be located in a position slightly off-center, given the obstacles that fill the forest everywhere, as well as the situation of encountering attacks from time to time.

Tang Zheng felt that he would need some time to enter the territory where the ogres were located.

Unknowingly, it had reached noon.

Tang Zheng took a pocket watch and a map out of his item box, checked his time and general location, and then put them back.

"Traveled about a third of the distance; slower than expected. Need to speed up progress."

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Tang Zheng let out a breath, having no intention of stopping, and continued forward while taking out black bread to stuff into his mouth.

A whole morning!

Aside from slaying the previous magical beast, the black-green giant snake, his item box also contained the corpses of three wild boars and five giant pythons about five meters in size.

Of course, there were also some small snakes and small wild beasts, poisonous insects, etc. Since they were just wild beasts, the EXP gained was not high, and they were not stored in Tang Zheng's item box.

After all, they had neither the value of being food nor much value for sale.

And those two corpses of the "Eight Fingers" members were thrown by Tang Zheng somewhere in the jungle shortly after entering the forest.

By now, the corpses should have almost been eaten by wild beasts.

He looked at the dense jungle ahead.

Tang Zheng took the initiative to increase his speed; therefore, the commotion caused while moving through the forest was also greater.

Whether it was because of this bold behavior, it actually made some wild beasts more vigilant; some wild beasts hidden in the forest did not show any signs of actively attacking him again.

This surprised Tang Zheng a little.

If he had known, he wouldn't have been so careful from the start; after all, wild beasts were no match for him, and the EXP they could give was very low, so they had no value to him at all.

Swish!

Tang Zheng swung the iron sword in his hand, hacking away some branches, leaves, and shrubs in front, creating a path for him to pass through.

Overhead, the dense and lush branches and leaves of the trees were constantly intertwined, and coupled with the gloomy environment of the forest, it gave people a subtle sense of oppression.

Suddenly!

A faint sound came from the left direction.

Tang Zheng's ears twitched, his forward steps paused, and he retreated to avoid it.

Whoosh!

A white spider thread as thick as a little finger shot past in front of him and stuck to a tree nearby.

"Spider?" Tang Zheng quickly looked at the position on the left where the spider thread was shot.

On the branches where the leaves were intertwined!

A spider, the size of a washbasin, with an earthy-gray body, purple markings on its abdomen, and eight very sharp and flexible long legs, was hanging upside down on the tree.

The white spider thread just now was spat out by it.

"Hanging Spider?" Tang Zheng's expression changed slightly when he saw the appearance of this earthy-gray spider.

He had purchased information about the Tob Forest from the Adventurer's Guild, and it specifically mentioned this type of spider.

This is a presence that would be very troublesome even for a Gold-ranked adventurer team to encounter!

It's not because this type of magical beast spider is very strong, but because once one appears, it means there are a large number of Hanging Spiders nearby.

Rustle! Rustle!

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Almost at the same time this thought appeared, rustling sounds constantly came from the dense leaves around, and then white spider threads constantly shot toward Tang Zheng from all directions!

Tang Zheng ran to avoid the constantly shooting spider silk and rushed out.

These spiders clearly had no intention of letting Tang Zheng go!

Following the constantly spat white spider threads, these spiders' sharp feet could actually slide quickly on these threads, and one earthy-gray spider after another pursued him.

In the blink of an eye, a large area gathered behind him, densely packed and filled with a creepy and terrifying aura.

Tang Zheng looked back, his eyes twitching!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 34 =====