Ruth and Green stayed in the Barutas Tribe for one day before returning.
Esdeath vaguely heard her father discussing winter preparations and matters regarding the Chinubi Tribe with them.
Some time passed, and the Holy Sacrifice Festival was approaching.
It was an annual grand celebration, equivalent to the liveliest festival before the New Year in the Northern Territory.
On this day, warriors would go out to capture the most perfect prey to offer to the gods, the heavens, and their ancestors, followed by barbecuing, singing, and dancing at a bonfire party.
At the same time, an entertaining sparring tournament was routinely held in the evening, where anyone wanting to show off could go on stage for a friendly fight.
Besides that, it was also the annual festival for leaving single life and finding love.
If a warrior had a lover or someone they liked, they would give their hunted prey to that person on this day.
There were also many couples at the bonfire party.
With only a week left until the Holy Sacrifice Festival, perhaps to match the festive atmosphere, the usually tense, explosive atmosphere between the tribes in the Northern Territory calmed down for a while as everyone busied themselves with hunting.
Even when they occasionally encountered people from the Chinubi Tribe, the other party seemed to be wary of something; they did not attack directly, but instead just spat out a few harsh words and dispersed.
Esdeath was also passively affected by the Holy Sacrifice Festival.
Because the young men and women in the tribe were all preparing to hunt, intending to confess to their loved ones on the day of the Holy Sacrifice Festival.
“How boring.
Why do they always think about romance?
What is so fun about that kind of thing?
I really do not get it.”
Safi looked at Esdeath, hesitating slightly, and asked, “Does Lady Esdeath not have anyone she likes?”
Esdeath waved her hand.
“No.
I am completely uninterested in that sort of thing.”
Safi seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, her eyes filled with gentleness and admiration as she looked at Esdeath.
Esdeath thought to herself that she felt Safi’s gaze was slightly different from before.
How strange.
“Everyone is working hard to hunt the strongest prey; that, at least, I am quite interested in.” Esdeath rubbed her chin.
“How could I lose to them?”
She had to find a formidable Danger Beast, preferably a Level 1 Danger Beast, to shock them all.
That was a type of Danger Beast only her father could hunt.
If she managed to hunt one herself, it would certainly shock the tribespeople.
With the intention of shining brightly at the Holy Sacrifice Festival, Esdeath ventured deep into the plateau to search for rare Danger Beasts.
She walked on the plateau for a day and a night, traversing steep cliffs that horses could not climb.
Using the Eye of True Sight, Esdeath followed the tracks left by the Danger Beasts, searching for them step by step.
“That is a pack of Silver-Spotted Velociraptors, all Level 2 Danger Beasts.
As expected, the plateau is very dangerous.”
Esdeath had no intention of provoking this pack of Silver-Spotted Velociraptors; with so many of them, dealing with them would be very troublesome.
Esdeath bypassed the pack of small dragons and headed deeper inside.
“I smell danger nearby.” Esdeath muttered, an excited expression appearing on her face.
“It is definitely a Level 1 Danger Beast.”
Only a Level 1 Danger Beast could make the current Esdeath feel danger.
Esdeath activated the Eye of True Sight and searched all around, hoping to discover the aura left by the Danger Beast.
“Over here.
It walked this way along the path.”
Possessing the Eye of True Sight, Esdeath did not need to spend any effort searching; as long as the target had passed by, she could see the traces.
The striking red aura extended to an empty grassland mixed with ice and snow.
After walking about five hundred meters and climbing a small hill, Esdeath finally saw the towering body of her target.
Its massive body, standing seven or eight meters tall, was awe-inspiring.
With deep blue fur covering its entire body and a pair of curved, sharp horns, this mountain-like body would likely crush a person to pieces if it charged.
Esdeath hesitated slightly.
“I have not seen this Danger Beast before, but it looks very powerful.
It should be a Level 1 Danger Beast, right?”
“If I can hunt it and bring it back, everyone will be shocked.”
Esdeath thought, taking out the blood-drinking mad blade, and pondered how to hunt it.
“The fur looks very thick, and its body is too big, so it is not convenient to jump up and attack its eyes.”
“Anyway, let me try using a bow and arrow first.”
Esdeath took out a special bow and arrow crafted from the materials of a Level 2 Danger Beast; ordinary bows and arrows were made of materials too poor to deal with Danger Beasts.
Esdeath exhaled a puff of white air, pulled the bow to a full moon, and shot, aiming at the left eye of the giant blue-skinned ox.
In the cold wind, the sharp arrow crossed dozens of meters in an instant, striking straight at the target’s left eye.
However, just a moment before impact, the giant blue-skinned ox closed its eyelid.
The arrow struck the eyelid with a ‘ding’ sound, like hitting extremely hard steel, and fell off.
Esdeath was shocked.
No way, the eyelids of this blue-skinned ox are this hard?
You have to know that this arrow could even pierce a dent into ordinary steel.
Like a mosquito bite, it startled the resting giant blue-skinned ox awake.
It turned its body, and the earth began to shake.
Esdeath’s body was far too small, so much so that the giant blue-skinned ox swayed for quite a while before finding her.
Esdeath was thoughtful.
Although its body was indestructible and massive, the corresponding parts to control were larger, and it had sacrificed agility.
At this speed, it meant that as long as she could injure it, she could wear it down to death.
Esdeath drew the blood-drinking mad blade, jumped behind the giant blue-skinned ox’s leg, and slashed at it.
Slish.
It was the sound of fur being sliced.
A mark was left on the patch of fur, but it did not seem to break the skin.
That is too hard.
Esdeath unleashed another strike with Double Burst force.
With this slash, she finally felt that she had cut into the flesh.
After finishing this slash, Esdeath quickly retreated, dodging the hoof that the giant blue-skinned ox stomped down.
Taking advantage of the fact that it had just attacked, she seized the opening and slashed wildly at the leg, which was as thick as a pillar.
She did not know how many times she had slashed, but a fierce power suddenly surged into her body.
As the giant hoof fell, Esdeath darted out a hundred meters in an instant.
Did this injure it?
The effect of the Blood Shadow Movement Technique was like explosive gunpowder; it was fierce and rapid when triggered, and impossible to stop.
However, instantly increasing speed tenfold would also increase the body’s consumption tenfold.
If one were to keep fighting and could not stop, one would be exhausted to death; it had both advantages and disadvantages.
However, compared to the effects, this minor side effect was reasonable.
Realizing that she had finally broken the skin, Esdeath became even more excited.
She relentlessly slashed at that leg; no matter where the giant blue-skinned ox ran or how it attacked, she circled around that leg like an agile butterfly.
In the end, the giant blue-skinned ox could not take it anymore and began to run wildly, its speed increasing, trying to use this method to shake off the insect whose attacks were slowly causing it pain.
Esdeath jumped up, grabbed the ox’s tail, climbed onto its back, and laid flat, letting it run.
Run.
Once it is tired from running, it will be even more at her mercy.
The giant blue-skinned ox was tireless, running for half an hour, until…
“Hey, there is a cliff in front!”
However, the giant blue-skinned ox, caught up in its run, could not stop at all.
At the critical moment, Esdeath leaped off the ox’s back and rolled to the side.
With a ‘bang’, a deafening, earth-shaking sound rang out.
Rocks tumbled down, burying most of the giant ox’s body.
Esdeath had a strange expression as she carried her blade toward the giant ox.
This ox had actually knocked itself unconscious.
She really did not know what to say.
It was even easier to deal with now that it was unconscious.
Esdeath found the giant ox’s neck, unleashed her power, and slashed more than a dozen times in succession.
The neck was cut halfway through, blood poured out, and she finally hacked the giant ox to death.
“Whew.”
At this moment, Esdeath also felt a bit tired.
However, looking at all the materials on the giant ox, she became excited again.
“Oh, this pair of horns.
After such a violent collision just now, they are actually undamaged.
They must be very valuable.”
Esdeath patiently and slowly detached the horns with her blade.
Because the giant ox’s skin and flesh were too hard, and she could not slash wildly for fear of damaging the horns, this process lasted for a full half hour.
After finishing cutting off the pair of horns, Esdeath sat on the ground to rest.
Just as she was resting, the sound of hoofbeats rang out behind her.
A group of people dressed like hunters in fur coats arrived one after another.
“My god, it really is a Level 1 Danger Beast, the Blood-Mad Giant Ox.
Hahaha, we are rich now.”
This group seemed to be from some nearby tribe.
The seven or eight people had already regarded this giant ox as their prey and began discussing how to divide it.
“Hey, where are the most valuable horns?” A sharp-eyed hunter had already noticed that the horns had been cut off.
Esdeath stood up and looked at them.
“Hey, this is my prey!”
“Hahahaha, this ox clearly knocked itself to death; how can you say you hunted it?
Little girl, we are in a good mood today.
Hand over the horns, and we will spare you.”
Another hunter with messy long hair laughed sneakily.
“Do not do that.
It is a pity to let her go.
Such a cute girl would definitely be worth a lot if sold to the black market.”
“That is right, hahahaha.”
The long-haired hunter took out a rope and walked forward with a sneaky laugh to grab Esdeath.
Esdeath did not say another word to them.
The blood-colored long blade slashed through the air, and one arm of the long-haired hunter who had stepped forward was cut off as if it were tofu.
“Ahhh, my hand!” The long-haired hunter rolled on the ground in pain.
Esdeath’s figure carried a red glow, ghost-like, as she sped through the group of hunters.
Blade light flashed, and the smell of blood soared to the sky.
The blood-drinking mad blade was stained with blood and hummed excitedly.
Under the boost of tenfold speed, Esdeath’s figure was hard to catch with the naked eye.
The hunters only saw a ghost-like red light moving back and forth, and the people around them fell one after another, their hearts filled with immense fear.
“Ah!”
Screams rose one after another.
Arms and hands were cut off and scattered on the ground, and rolling blood stained the snow red.
Esdeath’s blood-stained face revealed a smile.
“I am very merciful.
Even though you wanted to steal my prey, I could not bear to kill you directly.
I will let you live for a few more hours like this.”
After cutting off the arms and legs of all eight hunters, Esdeath did not look at the meat lumps rolling on the ground, wailing and wishing for death, anymore.
She used a rope to harness the mountain-high giant blue-skinned ox and dragged it down the mountain step by step.
The villain system appeared at the right moment.
“Coolly counterattacking offending enemies and leaving a deep impression on the enemy, rewards 20 villain points.”
Esdeath exchanged these for attribute points and added them to her physique, suddenly feeling her body become a bit lighter.