"Precise... Precise..."
Ethan's eyes suddenly lit up as he said, "Right! I can totally use a bow and arrows to send the ghost claw over there. I already have a precise throw ability anyway. Why the hell am I playing a claw machine? That thing is just a scam."
First, make ten ordinary arrows.
After all, the arrows Ethan had on hand were either fire arrows or wind arrows, which was way too wasteful.
After finishing the ten ordinary arrows, Ethan still had to borrow Hunter Five and the others' short bow to shoot, because his dragon bow was simply too overpowered.
Even when he put a normal arrow on it, it couldn't even be fired and just exploded on the spot.
Tying the ghost claw to the arrowhead, Ethan first tested the feel of it, then aimed at the box handle and finally shot it out.
Click!
Perfectly accurate, perfectly steady. The ghost claw directly snapped into the box handle.
'Sure enough, having a cheating skill is just different.'
"Did you see that?", Ethan said happily, "Did you see your grandpa catch the doll! Hahahaha!"
"Congratulations, Lord."
"Truly joyous! Truly joyous!"
Everyone felt a bit speechless.
What they really wanted to say was, 'Lord, if you had this ability, why did you mess around with the claw machine for so long?'
While killing time, they also dug up quite a lot of Sweet Flowers.
[Sweet Flower: A type of flower that stores a large amount of sugar. Whether it's the roots, stems, or petals, all of them contain a huge amount of sugar. Its sweetness is one thousand times that of white sugar.]
During the time Ethan was grabbing the chest.
They harvested at least over a thousand portions of Sweet Flowers. If not for Ivankov stopping them, telling them not to wipe everything out completely and to leave some small flowers to continue growing, they could have picked a few hundred more at least.
Splash!
The golden treasure chest was pulled up to the water's surface by Ethan.
Very soon, it was dragged onto the shore, and then he opened it directly.
[Water Resource Detector Blueprint +1]
[Dragon Armor Blueprint +1]
[Blinding Curse Spellbook +1]
[Self-Heating Fur Coat Blueprint +1]
[Enchanted Poison Arrow Blueprint +1]
[Spirit Stones +100]
[Gold +10]
'Holy crap!'
'This whole batch is blueprints!'
'Jackpot!'
If you asked what Ethan liked most to open from treasure chests, then what he liked the most was opening a pile of blueprints.
Because blueprints meant all kinds of reproducible resources.
And looking at this batch of blueprints, there was actually a [Water Resource Detector] blueprint included.
This was simply the thing he needed most right now. As for the other items, while they were also nice, they were absolutely nowhere near as important as the water resource detector.
Back when Ethan was alone, water could be bought and filtered, so it didn't really matter.
But now that he had to support a whole group of people, water had become an extremely important resource.
Money being wasted was one thing.
What he was really worried about was that one day the big boss who supplied the water source might accidentally die, and then his water supply would be cut off.
When that happened, it wouldn't be so easy to buy cheap water anymore.
"Let's go, we'll head back first and talk about it later."
———
With a big wave of his hand, Ethan immediately led everyone back.
However, halfway through the journey, Daji suddenly blocked Ethan's path, her whole body arched high, even baring her teeth and snarling toward the front.
This made Ethan sense that something was wrong.
'Ahead of us, is the other side of the snow mountain. Is there danger ahead?''
Ethan raised one hand, signaling all the residents to stop. Relying on his high agility, he went ahead to scout things out first.
"Yes, Lord."
The residents responded softly.
After instructing Daji to take care of the residents, Ethan carefully climbed over the snow mountain, then lay flat along the ridge and took a look toward the other side.
But that single glance gave Ethan a huge scare.
Because not far ahead, there was actually a massive gathering of giant snow monsters.
The same kind of giant snow monster that Ethan had previously killed with a single sliding kick, and even hid inside its belly to avoid a sonic attack.
At this moment, countless giant snow monsters were gathered together, at least over two hundred of them.
That was truly a vast expanse.
A huge white mass, hundreds of giant snow monsters packed together.
Just looking at it made one's whole body go cold.
Not to mention that it was already almost sunset. Even if time weren't tight, Ethan wouldn't be arrogant enough to think he could face such a large group of snow monsters alone.
"We have to detour!"
Ethan glanced at the snow mountain, then looked toward the other directions.
Crossing the snow mountain was too difficult and would take too long.
If it were just him alone, it wouldn't matter. With his agility, he could barely make it back before sunset, but bringing five residents along made it a bit too hard.
Ethan hadn't originally planned to bring the residents with him.
At first, he intended to let the residents form teams and help explore the map, but later, the other two directions already had residents exploring them, so this remaining team was brought over to the snow mountain side to explore.
As a result, a series of incidents occurred. Not only did the residents fail to explore the map, they even became a burden.
But in the end this was still because the residents' combat strength was insufficient.
Ethan decided that once he got back, he would directly copy a hundred skill books, fifty Sliding Kicks and fifty Grand Fireball spells, and make these residents learn them, learn them like crazy.
He refused to believe these residents would still be this weak afterward.
But right now, there were only about twenty-five minutes left. What he had to consider was how to get around this pile of snow monsters.
Ethan took out the map and carefully studied the routes on it, and then, he tragically discovered that there was basically no way around this area.
It wasn't that there was absolutely none. But considering the time cost, if they couldn't make it back before sunset.
To be honest, Ethan didn't know what would happen in the fog.
Based on the series of strange things that happened after he threw Kathy's corpse outside the house back then, all of it told him that the monsters in the fog were not simple at all.
If he were to recklessly charge into the fog of the night like this, Ethan wasn't even confident he could make it back to the villa alive, let alone the residents and Daji.
'Damn it!'
Ethan felt irritated.
However, just as he was observing the map, the giant snow monsters ahead began to show some changes.
He saw the snow monsters parting to leave an open space, and in the center of that space stood three giant snow monsters. Two extremely muscular ones, and one smaller one with snow-white fur that gleamed brightly.
One of the muscular snow monsters stood up first and beat its chest to show off.
The other one refused to be outdone, also stood up and pounded its chest fiercely.
As for the slightly smaller snow monster with the shining fur, it just stood there, as if watching the fight.
'Could it be… a mating ritual?'
═❀═❀═❀═❀═❀═❀═
[email protected]/AmbitiousTranslator
🥳Joining P@treon keeps me motivated and eager to work diligently, so please consider joining.🥰 You can access upto 20 advance chapter through P@treon.