Chapter 106: [Level Five Shelter Facilities]

"Phew... This drawing is still too detailed. The current me fundamentally cannot accomplish this point. Just exactly what kind of tool was utilized as the medium?"

After researching for roughly over two hours, Lan Qingyou finally stuck her head out from the 'deep sea' and took a deep breath.

"Hm! Has the sky already turned dark?! How strange, I shouldn't have been researching for that long."

Looking at the sky outside completely devoid of even a sliver of light, Lan Qingyou just now snapped back to her senses.

Scratching her head, Lan Qingyou thought for a moment. Although she still wanted to continue her research, if some monster were to block her door under these circumstances, she would only have that narrow 'skylight' on the side to exit from.

Forget it, she'd end today's research here.

Anyhow, her shelter was incredibly close by, so she could come back to research it anytime.

Snap!

After a moment of thought, Lan Qingyou directly snapped off a few wooden blocks bearing magic circuits from the collapsed section and left this wooden house.

Pfft-shk!

In the end, not long after taking off, it felt like something had nicked her face.

Pain. Blood.

Even in the pitch-black night, Lan Qingyou could distinctly perceive these two things.

Tsk!

Clicking her tongue slightly, Lan Qingyou immediately increased the force of her hands.

She propelled herself to fly faster through the forest.

Judging by how those E-rank monsters had evolved into D-rank monsters, there shouldn't be any E-rank monsters left, at least within this stretch of the Abandoned Land.

In other words, whatever attacked her just now was at least a D-rank.

What it was wasn't important; what was important was hurrying back.

An insignificant fry like her, who had just farmed Crushed Stone Slimes and gathered the materials to upgrade to Level Five, was highly likely to die encountering a D-rank monster in the pitch-black night.

Most importantly, not only was the other party fast, but they managed to strike her while she was in the sky.

This indicated the other party possessed anti-air capabilities...

Pfft-shk!

Just as this thought crossed her mind, her right hand—the one Lan Qingyou was exerting force with as her source of propulsion—suffered another blow.

Pain!

This pain was a bone-deep agony, far more painful than getting her face nicked earlier.

Her palm had been pierced through!

This was the very first thought that struck Lan Qingyou when the sensation of pain transmitted over.

Whoosh! Cold sweat immediately broke out across Lan Qingyou's face.

Although part of it was due to the pain, a larger reason lay in the trajectory!

Her palm had been struck from the top down!

In other words, the monster that attacked her was highly likely capable of flying in the sky, exactly like her!

Damn it! She got careless!

She hadn't expected she would actually encounter a flying monster.

No... it should be said she ought to have snapped to attention long ago, the moment she saw Steel Wool.

It was only because there were no ensuing records regarding any flying monsters that she gradually forgot about this matter.

And the price she had to pay was this miserable state right now.

With this thought in mind, Lan Qingyou immediately drew out a fire stone from her herb pouch.

Because her injured right hand couldn't exert any force, and her left hand was needed as propulsion, Lan Qingyou could only fasten it onto the belt around her waist.

Swoosh!

Bang!

Right when the other party launched their next attack, the fire stone at her waist directly shot out a fireball, flying toward the lower-left of Lan Qingyou before exploding.

Borrowing the light of the flames, Lan Qingyou saw it clearly.

It was a black bird closely resembling a flying swallow.

It was just that because it was struck by the fireball, the smaller half of this bird's body had been scorched black, and its wing had been broken.

She didn't know if it was dead or not, but Lan Qingyou still borrowed the momentum to fly toward the other party.

While flying, she even pulled out a healing potion from her card and sprinkled it over the wound on her right hand.

When Lan Qingyou flew down from the sky to the ground and scooped up the flying monster, she discovered the other party was only roughly the size of a quarter of a palm.

Without pausing, Lan Qingyou—who had suffered severe injuries tonight—pinched the monster with her barely recovered right hand, propelling herself off the ground with her left to fly straight back home.

With roughly three minutes of 'all-out effort', she, possessing over fifty points of strength, returned to her brightly lit shelter.

"I'm truly in a sorry state tonight..."

Because of the fireball fired earlier, Lan Qingyou's belt had been completely burnt away by the flames. Right now, not only was there a large gaping hole burnt into the waistline of her clothes, but even her waist had suffered quite a few burns.

Hence, after tossing the dead monster onto the magic desk, Lan Qingyou immediately stripped off the larger half of the down jacket still remaining on her body, treated the superficial wounds, and went to take a shower.

After changing into a set of thick pajamas, she dragged her exhausted body before the magic desk, glaring at the fellow who forced her into such a miserable state tonight.

In terms of appearance, this fellow wasn't vastly different from a flying swallow, pitch-black all over like a crow.

The most eye-catching part was the other party's beak.

While equally pitch-black, it emanated a trace of freezing air under the illumination of the magic carriage lantern.

Seeing this situation, Lan Qingyou specifically held the Moonbright Stone Dagger in one hand, while pinching it with the fingers of her other hand.

It was exceptionally hard.

To the point where even her fifty-plus points of strength couldn't pinch it out of shape.

No wonder the other party had the guts to dive straight down back when she had propped her hand against a tree branch. So this was where their confidence stemmed from.

[Night Swallow (D+)]

[Health Points: 50]

[Mana Points: 500]

[Skills: (Swift) (Dash Attack)]

[Introduction: A type of bird boasting an extremely fast flight speed. Omnivorous, holds grudges, and possesses a very strong sense of territory. Likes to haunt the night to ambush its prey.]

Prey?

Fine, fine, fine, so you're saying because I stepped into your territory, you treated me as prey?

That wasn't wrong either.

Infuriated beyond measure, Lan Qingyou drew out her card, snapped a photo of its corpse, and uploaded it into the [Monster Encyclopedia].

This was her first time encountering a thing flying in the sky; she believed it was probably the same for everyone else too.

Especially for something like this that exclusively haunted the night.

After uploading it, Lan Qingyou took out her harvest for the day.

Lan Qingyou didn't touch those dried chunks of sludge. Instead, she prepared the ones dropped from the Crushed Stone Slimes today.

Only then did she initiate the Level Five Shelter upgrade.

[Level Five Shelter Facilities]

[Bedroom... Living Room... Stove... Fireplace...]

[Platform, Balcony, Terrace...]

[Water-Circulating Magic Storage Room (Expansion): Wood5000, Flowing Water Source1]

[Bathroom (Expansion): Wood1000, Stone200. Note: Selecting expansion will bundle the purchase of a 100L capacity water tank: Wood200 (water tank not calculated as a facility), and an automatic heating system: E-rank monster crystal core40 (automatic heating system not calculated as a facility).]

[Four-Color Elemental Herb Field (Expansion): Soil5000, Wood1000, Stone1000, Wind Elemental Essence10, Fire Elemental Essence10, Water Elemental Essence10, Earth Elemental Essence10, Obsidian300, Magic Crystals100. Note: Selecting construction will bundle the purchase of irrigation canals: Stone4000 (canals not calculated as a facility).]

[Crystal Nest: Wind Elemental Crystal10, Fire Elemental Crystal10, Water Elemental Crystal10, Earth Elemental Crystal10, Lightning Elemental Crystal10, Non-Attribute Crystal100, Magic Crystals * 100.]

[Up to three facilities can be selected for modification during each shelter upgrade. Please choose carefully according to your needs.]