Chapter 1565: 1563 Harvest

Chapter 1565: Chapter 1563 Harvest

The two choices given by the side quest didn’t seem favorable to Han Dong.

If he directly kills the Beast species,

he can only obtain the “Damaged Heart of the Giant Beast”. Without special preservation methods, it is impossible to bring it back to the City Wall, and it would perish even before leaving the cave.

The team can only soak their badges in the heart’s blood and claim the high reward for killing the Beast species after returning to the city.

As for some materials from the Giant Beast’s body, they might be useful, but not significant.

If he chooses the healing approach,

he might receive a good reward (perhaps the Giant Beast would gift a piece of the horn), and the exploration later could get the Giant Beast’s help.

This reward seems not bad either.

But upon closer consideration, the team’s ultimate goal isn’t the exploration of the Infinite City but to find and acquire the treasure hidden in the deepest part… The Giant Beast dwelling at the city boundary should only play a transitional role.

Thinking long term.

None of the above can compare to Han Dong’s “third option”.

That is, to provide heart healing for the Giant Beast, ensuring its integrity, and when the heart is completely healed, to perfectly extract the entire heart.

Green’s special traits are suitable for this excavation work.

Furthermore,

if they can allow the Giant Beast to recover, the materials it drops would be much more intact.

…

After four hours.

With the final tremor spreading across the cave.

[The Giant Beast – Ling Horn] collapsed heavily.

A very peculiar round hole-like wound was imprinted between its abdomen and spine, reaching inward.

The wound walls displayed a dark rock-like structure, entirely devoid of flesh and blood.

Rather than a wound, it seemed more like an abyss embedded within the body.

Something was slowly climbing out from the abyss, and upon closer inspection, it was a youth with a body corroded, and black acid dripping from his wounds.

During the crawling, his left arm was completely detached due to deep corrosion.

Beneath him was bound a complete heart with a diameter of five meters, needing tons as the unit of measure.

Even so, the youth still crawled out.

“Whew! That was dangerous… This Giant Beast’s body now has a complete defense system, almost couldn’t hold on.

How are you guys, still alive?”

Hundreds of meters away, within the wall marked by giant goat hoof imprints, Han Dong, who had shatter-like fractures all over, also slowly crawled out.

“Quite okay… barely holding up! A few more hits, and the body really couldn’t take it.

We need to return to the City Wall and regroup, enhance our team’s power… Sally~ how are you?”

“Okay, but my stamina is nearly exhausted, need some time to recover~ Ugh!”

Sally, currently in front of the Giant Beast’s corpse, was slowly returning from her Black Goat True State to her human form in the game… Due to weakness and body disorder, she immediately started vomiting upon reverting to human form.

Sitting on the Giant Beast and recovering, Green patted the fur while saying:

“How are we going to carry these things back? The heart alone weighs tons, let alone other materials from its body.”

Just as Green raised this question.

A standardized game notification sound was heard:

‘Perfect kill of hidden BOSS – [The Giant Beast Ling Horn (Normal State)], the mysterious cave is now fully open to your squad’

The dropped items are as follows:

①. “Perfected Heart of the Beast Species (Hundred Meter Level)”

②. “Black Erosion Horn”, “Cursed Sheep’s Head”, “Needlized Fur (A lot)”, “Hardened Hoof Blocks (A lot)”

③. Coordinate Stone – “Mysterious Cave”

*The coordinate stone is limited to Outer City use and can teleport the squad to the Mysterious Cave, cooldown time 24h.

*For players’ convenience, the materials from the Giant Beast will be scaled proportionally, with quality and integrity unaffected.

Hisssss!

Black smoke rose.

As the Giant Beast’s corpse evaporated and disappeared, several materials with different beams of light remained on the ground.

Similar to how world BOSS drops equipment in role-playing games.

“Needlized Fur” and “Hardened Hoof Blocks” were packed into two big sacks, corresponding to the blue light beams.

“Black Erosion Horn” was two ram’s horns emitting corrosive black mist, engraved with runes on the surface, glowing with purple light beams.

“Cursed Sheep’s Head” was also compressed to a normal antelope size, with black mist flowing from its eye sockets, it could potentially be crafted into a fine Mask if polished.

As for the “Perfected Heart of the Beast Species (Hundred Meter Level)” glowing with a pink light beam, symbolizing an epic level item in the Ladybug Game.

“Now this is more like it! Hahaha!”

Leaning against the wall, Han Dong couldn’t suppress the emotions stirred inside him from seeing the treasures on the ground, breaking into a mad laugh.

Even with his body shattered completely, such mad laughter stirred pain in every part, but Han Dong couldn’t stop laughing…

At the same time, Green seemed to be assimilated, joining in with uncontrollable mad laughter.

For the next half hour, the cave continuously echoed with the alternating laughter of two madmen.

And strangely enough, the injuries that should have intensified were gradually recovering with the laughter.

Once the three had recovered to a certain extent, they promptly packed the rare materials… Such a Giant Beast heart can’t simply hang at the waist, once exposed, who knows how much trouble it would invite.

The good items were all immediately stowed into Green’s “Abyss Inside the Body”.

The three returned to the starting point where they initially jumped into the cave from the entrance, eyeing the unexplored left passage.

“Anyway, carrying the ‘Coordinate Stone’ means we can return here anytime.

Let’s first go back to the City Wall to submit the mission and properly digest the harvest from our first exploration… Next time, we’ll start exploring directly from here.”

…

[Wall City Kalmus]

Carrying the “Precious Item” made the return journey somewhat tense, but all worries dissipated once aboard the City Wall elevator.

Hall Area

The same semi-mechanical young lady greeted the three at the newcomer counter.

“Please submit your ‘Assassin’s Badge’, we will determine if you’ve completed the ‘First Exploration’ based on the exploration time and route recorded on the badge.

Hmm? I recognize you three; it seems you left here just 8 hours ago… If the first exploration doesn’t meet a 12-hour duration, the submission will surely fail.

You will also lose the opportunity to live in Kalmus.”

“No worries, just submit it.”

As Han Dong handed over the badge, he simultaneously gestured with a finger placed before his lips.

When the young lady inserted the badge into the device, the projected screen almost made her scream, and she quickly covered her mouth with both hands.

“You… follow me!

The City Lord specifically instructed that teams achieving a giant kill on their first exploration will be personally welcomed by him.

Hundred Meter Level! How is that even possible…”

“Shh! Keep it down, and please lead the way,” Han Dong said with a smile.