Chapter 22: 22 This is Called Decomposition, Not Eating

Lin Jun said he wanted to look carefully on this floor to see if there were any suitable acceleration skills.

But what he was looking for were monsters that could stably provide fixed skills; this time he sent reconnaissance Puji out also intending to see the situation of the Gnoll Forest.

He didn't expect that he hadn't encountered gnolls yet, but instead saw this first—

A dead human.

More accurately, a human mage who had just died, whose blood hadn't even coagulated yet.

Although Lin Jun couldn't see the panel of a dead person, that standard mage attire was quite easy to recognize.

He was clearly seriously injured and escaped from the forest all the way, and there was still a long trail of blood behind him.

Unfortunately, he fell on the spot due to excessive blood loss just as he ran out; when Lin Jun found him, he was already not breathing.

Human adventurers generally acted in teams, but looking at him like this, he was either separated or wiped out inside.

The life of these bottom-tier adventurers was also difficult; they all had their heads on their belts just to make a living.

According to Inanna, there was such a thing as resurrection in this world.

But this so-called resurrection was almost the same as summoning souls in Lin Jun's view.

First, use various methods to perfectly repair the body, then pay a large amount of rare resources that could make a country's heart ache, and finally, after a ritual, the soul of the hero could be summoned back to the body to complete the resurrection.

Under normal circumstances, no one would organize a resurrection ritual, and resurrection had indeed not appeared for hundreds of years.

Ordinary people might even think it was just a legend; only Inanna, backed by her Duke father, could know more.

Just from this simple explanation, one could see that this thing had nothing to do with ordinary adventurers, and even had nothing to do with those nobles; only true legendary existences had the opportunity to experience it.

In short, unlike some games and anime in his previous life that treated death as a joke, in this world, death was real death.

Simply rummaging through the unlucky mage's messenger bag.

A small metal plate with the mage's head and other information, an ID card?

A booklet full of notes but unreadable, a bottle of yellow potion with half left, and the rest were just a little money and some collected plants.

Plus the staff embedded with a C-level magic crystal by his side, that was all the mage's inheritance.

The mage robe on his body should also be a good thing, but it had been burned by more than half, and the remaining part was tattered and no different from cloth strips, clearly having no value.

There was a rustling sound from the forest, and a few hunched gnolls holding wooden bows or swords and shields walked out from it.

Especially that set of sword and shield, which was stained with blood but clearly well-maintained, didn't match the trash-like attire of the gnolls.

It probably wasn't equipment just stripped from the mage companion's corpse, right?

So it wasn't that he successfully escaped, but that the gnolls deliberately let the seriously injured prey exhaust the last bit of resistance while escaping?

The IQ was really not low.

The gnolls also noticed the reconnaissance Puji beside the corpse, looked at each other, and actually mocked very humanely.

That gnoll holding the sword and shield even put away the sword and shield and walked over.

It seemed it didn't want to solve the Puji cleanly, but intended to play for a while.

The gnoll grinned and reached its claw, which was still stained with blood, toward the Puji, but didn't get its wish—its entire claw was gone.

"Ga-ao-ao-ao—"

The painful howl didn't last long, and another mushroom cannon blast blew the head of this gnoll with the best equipment into a mess.

Shocking the three gnolls behind to hurriedly grip the weapons in their hands, looking in the direction from which the attack came.

It was seven strange Puji he hadn't seen before!

Seeing that the Puji launched an attack again, the gnolls fled behind big trees one after another, using wooden bows to fight back.

As early as when he first discovered the mage's corpse, Lin Jun had adjusted Puji to come and transport it, but he didn't expect to have to fight these gnolls.

That was fine, just right to test the power of the new Puji.

Two Puji shrank into a ball and rolled quickly toward the forest, soon finding the gnolls hiding inside.

[Self-Destruct LV3]

Accompanied by a rumbling sound, two gnolls with missing arms and legs were blown out.

The last gnoll hiding the furthest saw this scene and was scared out of its wits, dropped its weapon and kept fleeing into the forest, and Lin Jun was too lazy to chase.

Lin Jun was quite satisfied with the results of the new self-destruct Puji.

As a self-sacrificing skill that kills the enemy first and then kills oneself, even if it was only LV3, the power was quite good.

More importantly, it could be combined with rolling charge; the previous self-destruct required using magic to overload the magic crystal, and couldn't be completed in that kind of charge situation.

Now changing to skill self-destruct, the operation was much simpler.

The two gnolls that were blown up were seriously injured but didn't die on the spot; at this moment, they were lying on the ground, making "woo-woo" wails toward the direction of the Puji.

What did that mean? Begging for mercy?

Even if they survived with this residual body, what could they do?

Gnolls didn't look like a race that would support the old, weak, sick, and disabled, so they wouldn't have a good end going back like this.

Lin Jun was kind-hearted and couldn't bear to see that miserable sight, so he immediately gave them a quick end.

Subsequently, the Puji packed up the items and corpses and moved them to the swamp area.

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[Seven Sins of Greed triggered]

[Plundered skill: Precision LV4 -> LV5]

[Plundered skill: Archery Mastery LV1]

[Plundered skill: Wind Magic LV1]

[Plundered skill: Human Common Language LV1]

The first two came from the gnolls, and the last two came from the mage.

Although he didn't find the acceleration skill, there was still some harvest.

Not to mention archery, it was useless to Lin Jun, but precision had much higher practical value and could be combined with mushroom cannons.

Wind magic looked good, but he was still missing a skill called magic control; without it, he couldn't finely control magic to form spells, so this skill could only be shelved temporarily.

What surprised Lin Jun the most was that language could also be obtained in this way!?

This could be considered an unexpected joy.

However, he clearly hadn't seen this Human Common Language skill when looking at other adventurers' panels, but he had seen an Ancient Elven Language LV2 on Inanna.

Was the mother tongue not displayed?

Speaking of which, gnolls should also have communication skills; why didn't language come out of them?

Was it not drawn, or was it because the language system wasn't complete enough to count as a skill?

He couldn't figure it out; in short, he should be able to understand human writing now.

Excitedly taking out the booklet, Lin Jun immediately experienced the feeling of being illiterate.

In a long string of words, he could only recognize two or three...

This damn thing, he still couldn't understand it!

Wouldn't he need to reach LV10 to fully read all the words?

You know, his highest skill so far was only LV7.

Forget it, anyway, they were all unexpected gains; maybe he would reach full level after picking up corpses in the dungeon for a while; it couldn't be rushed.

His goal of finding the acceleration skill hadn't been completed yet; he would go to the other end to see tomorrow.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 23 =====