The Magical Herb

Immeditely after saying that he opened the door and rushed towards the nearest forest which had many herbs in it from where his mother used to collect herbs daily in order to sell and earn an extra income.

“That herb will definitely be there..”

Ryuu rushes as if his life depended on it. It seemed as if it was truly a magical herb which was quite rarely found.

“That herb is only useful at the beginning stages... there is no use of one has started cultivation.”

Ryuu was uttering to himself. He kept on running with all his might and finally reached the forest that was a bit ahead.

This forest had many beasts and that was why it was considered to be dangerous but many cultivators had already hunted down many of them due to which only a few were left.

That was why one could safely collect herbs or anything else he wanted. He would be safe unless he wandered the deeper parts of the forest.

“Huff huff, it should be somewhere around here...”, he looked here and there after entering the forest.

“No matter what, I need to find it at all costs!”

The herb was a bit special only for the beginners. It would increase their soul power’s base which would enable one to cultivate and increase soul powe easily.

“Uhh... Am I already exhausted by running only this much!?”

His current body was completely untrained and different from the previous one which is why he was feeling uncomfortable.

He started running inside the forest in order to search for the herb.

“If I’m not wrong, that herb grows near rivers, lakes or ponds...”, so he immeditely started searching for water bodies and while doing that without his realisation he had already entered the deep parts of the forest.

“Where...? There is supposed to be a river in the forest but where...?”, he was already panicked because he had left the house without informing his mother.

On top of that he was worried about the herb since he didn’t want it to be taken by someone else.

He continued his search when suddenly he heard the sound of the flowing river.

“This...”, he immeditely rushes towards the direction from where he was hearing the sound and stumbled upon the so called river which he has been searching.

“Yes! Finally.... now all I need to look for is that herb...”, he turned his head towards his left only to be stunned.

“T-the herbs...”, as mentioned earlier the herb was useful only during the beginning stages. It would be complete waste at the later phase.

That was why the beasts who were already advanced or lived for too long would feed on the herbs as if it was their food.

And that was the case that was happening right now. There was a beast that was feeding on some blue coloured herbs which were shinning continuously.

“Damn, I’m just a normal human right now without any forged body, if that beast even tries to attack me then I will be as good as dead!”

There was a small Ox like or Bull like beast which was completely brown. It had long horns and seemed as if it was at least a Lower Martial Level.

In this world the beasts didn’t cultivate in fact there was no necessity for them to cultivate. Their powers would automatically increase with their life span.

Therefore they were categorised depending on the human classification system too.

However there was a bit different additions to those systems for the beasts.

They were classified as - Lower Martial, Mid Martial, High Martial, Supreme Martial, War Lord, Divine, ASURA and DEVA.

But the sub realms under which they fell were only 5 - 1 star, 2 star, 3 star, 4 star and finally 5 star.

So the beast right now in front of him was a 2 star Lower Martial beast in order to defeat which a Silver Tier Lower Martial Cultivator was required.

But Ryuu hasn’t even entered the basic realm so he was completely defenceless in front of it.

He turned his gazes here and there in order to find a method that could help him escape from the beast and get the herb too at the same time when he suddenly found a yellow coloured herb growing nearby.

“Yes! I guess my luck is damn good today...”, he immeditely rushes towards the yellow herb while trying to make as many limited movement as possible.

He immeditely plucked the herb while covering his moth and nose so that he doesn’t smell it.

He then immeditely crushed the herb from which a yellow sticky substance started to flow. He applied that on a piece of rock which was quite pointy. He did the same with another 2-3 stones which seemed rather pointy and sharp.

“With this... I guess I can stop it...”, he immeditely aimed and threw the stones towards the beast.

‘SPLASH’

‘DRIP DRIP’

‘ROARRRRR’

The beast roared at the top of his voice and then looked towards Ryuu who was within his sight.

It’s right eye was already destroyed because of Ryuu hitting it with a stone so it could see Ryuu using only one of its eye which was quite advantageous for Ryuu.

‘ROARRRRR’

It immediately rushed with its horns at the front towards Ryuu in order to hit him and kill him when suddenly its speed started to drop.

By the time it reached Ryuu who was siting in a rock, it could barely walk and suddenly fell down.

“Good, the poison worked perfectly.”

What Ryuu has used was a paralytic poison from the help which was enough to stop many nervous. If the fish of blood was too much during that time it would affect the heart and stop the heart within 10 seconds, that was the case with humans but for beasts it would take 30-40 seconds in order to kill them.

“Looks like there Lady Luck is on my side.”

He immeditely rushes and gathered many herbs and hid it under his shirt after washing them thoroughly in the river water.

Then he brought another pointy stone and started to cut the bull like beast.

“There it is...”, there was a crystal core inside the beast which was shining with yellow light.

“Oh my God!!! My luck.... I can’t believe it. I got a yellow grade core from this beast!!?”

Immeditely after saying that he put the core in a pouch that he had carried. Then he cut some parts of the bull and took them in order to prepare food tonight.

“That was a fruitful harvest.”, saying that he left the forest soon.

Immeditely after he left, two people came rushing towards river only to find the bull dead.

“Ha? Who the heck killed it!?”, one of them who had white hairs and fake complexarioj asked this out of anger.

“Hmm... it was poisoned and killed...”, said the other one who had black hairs and fair complexion as well.

“Weird, Who is that knowledgable about poisons in this small tiny town?”, asked the white haired guy.

“Interesting... we should report this to Master.”, said the black haired guy after nodding his head.

Immeditely after they said this, they immeditely vanished from the sight.

“Mom... Look what Ive got here!”, said Ryuu.

TO BE CONTINUED...

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