Chapter 678 Spirit Wind Hunter
In the second half of the night, just as Tadella said, the red eagle returned to its nest because it could not stand the cold desert night.
Tadella, who had been lying in ambush for a long time, attacked decisively. After fighting with the furious red eagle for a long time, he killed the red eagle with the superb martial arts he had honed since childhood.
The Traveler Squad came out from behind the bunker, clapping and congratulating Tadella on completing the first stage of the test.
Su: "Great! Tadella fought brilliantly! I didn't expect Tadella also uses a bow and arrow. Your archery skills are superb!"
Paimon: "This red eagle is really big! It's bigger than all the holy red eagles we saw in the desert! Tadella is really powerful!"
Sora: "I'm glad you're not hurt. Congratulations, Tadella. You're really great."
Tadella, who was affirmed, smiled innocently like a child.
Killing the red eagle is not the end, Tadella still has to do some additional processing.
She drew the scimitar from her waist and disassembled the giant red eagle. She searched for something in the blurred flesh and blood, and finally performed a ceremony that the traveler team could not understand.
Tadla lit a bonfire of poplar branches and dry feces, chanted something in the ancient desert language, and sprinkled a handful of unknown spices into it.
With a "whoosh", the flame changed color and burned more violently. Tadella cut open her palm, held the bloody heart of the red eagle, and stretched it over the campfire.
Amid Su and Kong's surprise and Paimon's nervousness, the heart in Tadella's palm turned into a ball of unstable energy.
Tadella's bloody palm pressed it onto her longbow, and the longbow swallowed it with Tadella's blood.
Tadla breathed a sigh of relief and explained to the traveler team: "The ritual was successfully completed. From now on, my bow can summon the evil kite spirit."
The spirit in the bottle chuckled, "I didn't expect... that we would develop such a wonderful symbiotic relationship with humans."
Tadla's longbow is also an ancient weapon sealed with the Eredi, a low-level spirit that generally does not have much intelligence.
But their thirst for blood can make weapons more powerful and even help the weapon holders to draw on elemental forces.
Lilupal told the group of travelers that the spells that Tadla chanted during the ceremony were actually vague and confusing spirit language.
Offer the heart of a powerful creature and the blood of the weapon's owner, use a ritual to more closely connect the weapon and the owner, and the evil spirit will use the power of the owner to transform into a powerful creature to help in the battle.
Sue and Paimon clapped together, "Ooooh that sounds cool!"
Paimon was very curious about what the red eagle that Erling transformed into looked like, "Tadella, can we take a look?"
Just as Tadla was about to release her weapon, Lilupal's leisurely voice sounded again.
"Once an evil spirit weapon is awakened, it must see blood. If there is no enemy blood to drink, it will taste the blood of its master."
Once the evil spirit is awakened, only the wailing and blood of the defeated can calm its anger. It doesn't matter whether the defeated is the enemy or the master of the weapon.
Paimon and Su quickly held down Tadella's hands and said, "No, no, we don't want to watch it anymore!"
"Tadla, you should speak up if this happens." Su thought Tadla was stupid.
Sora: "There's no need for Tadella to hurt herself just to satisfy our curiosity."
Su: "Yes! Anyway, we still have to accompany Tadella to hunt, so we'll see when the time comes."
Tadella pursed her lips and said, "Thank you..." She was too happy today and she got carried away.
In the following time, Tadla became even more silent. When the traveler team invited her to have dinner together, she chose to refuse and silently cut the meat of the red vulture.
Su remembered the knowledge point that El Haisen had mentioned, and reminded him: "The bones of the Holy Red Eagle cannot be eaten."
"I know," Tadella nodded, "I just want to get some meat for the next hunt."
Lilupal is very familiar with the habits of scorpions. "Scorpions are carnivorous. The smell of fresh flesh and blood will make them active."
Paimon didn't like the smell of blood, so only Su went over to watch Tadella's preparations.
Tadella took out her preparations and introduced them to Su one by one without reservation.
"Mix the secretions of the sand pupa with a little poisonous mushroom powder to make a very attractive poisonous bait. It won't kill you, but it will cause a paralyzing effect."
"Mash the red fruit and snake venom into a paste, then add fresh meat to make the poison bait. Even a scorpion would have difficulty resisting this poison. Be careful not to touch it!"
"The last option is to hunt directly. The advantage of this is that it can avoid contamination as much as possible and obtain purer scorpion venom."
Tadella asked Su for his opinion, "The three plans have different difficulties and different rewards. Su, which one do you think is better?"
Su: "Tadla is an experienced hunter. I support you no matter which one you choose. The most important thing is not to get hurt."
Paimon nodded repeatedly, "Tadla, please take care to protect yourself. If... we will help you."
Tadella has done so much preparation work carefully, which shows that the scorpion is more difficult than the red eagle.
But with them around, Tadella's life will not be in danger even if she fails. It seems that Marcella still cares about Tadella.
After completing these preparations, Tadella used the sand on the ground to clean off the blood and fishy smell on her body, and then sat down in the leeward direction.
Tadella shuddered as she felt the warmth on her arm. "I'm... dirty."
Sue said nonchalantly, "It's okay. My clothes don't get dusty."
"..." Tadella was silent for a second and continued to fiddle with the things in her hand.
It was the most beautiful feather selected from the red eagle. It had been cleaned very well. Tadella was patiently threading lapis lazuli beads onto the feather handle.
Sue: "Does Tadella like playing with beads?"
These beads don't look very round, they must have been hand-polished.
Tadella: "Well, I don't have many hobbies."
In the little free time she has when she doesn’t have to train, she’ll hone her little gadgets.
Su held his chin and watched Tadella concentrating on stringing beads to make jewelry. He felt that at this moment she had some of the real feelings of an underage girl.
"Tadla is mature and steady, and she's very tall," Su couldn't help but sigh, "At first I thought Tadla was the older sister."
Tadella paused for a moment before continuing, "Now that you realize that she is not your elder sister, is Su disappointed in me?"
Su held her face in her hands and shook her head. "Tadella is a friend, so it doesn't matter whether she's a big sister or a little sister."
friend……
Tadella silently chewed on this tempting word and stayed awake all night.
The next day, Tadla led a team of travelers to the hunting site of the scorpion. There were many electric crystals in the dark and damp cave.
Tadla asked the Traveler Team to stay in a safe high place, and challenged the Scorpion King alone.
The operation went smoothly at the beginning. The poison bait paralyzed the greedy Scorpion King. Tadla's weapon expanded into a huge bow and arrow. The wind-attributed arrows accurately pierced the gaps in the shell, ending its life.
However, what no one expected was that there was actually another poisonous scorpion king in the cave.
The poisonous scorpion suddenly jumped out, stirring up the yellow sand, and took advantage of the chaos to scratch Tadella's arm with its tail hook.
Tadella felt her blood, or something else, flowing out along the arm holding the bow.
With a cry, the Wind Demon Kite Spirit was summoned out.