Second location.

I was very careful in removing the core of the winged serpent and the venom deposit, I pour the venom into three special vials that were created to preserve the properties of natural resources. I had them to guard any liquid and seeds I found during our mission, but I didn't expect I would get a concentrated poison with corrosive properties from a level three magical beast.

This venom must be worth much more points than the serpent's core, and a pity that it is very difficult for us to use serpent venom, without a special weapon capable of resisting the corrosive properties of the venom I will only be able to use it in a direct attack , maybe I will use one of the vials to make a kind of explosive grenade, a corrosive grenade would be a great asset to have i just have to be careful in making the grenade as if it explodes while I carry it I could end up dead.

I feel that Vali is and regretting joining my team a little, I think the mission is too dangerous for him.

"What the fuck was that? Did the examiners really place a winged snake as a guardian? This magical and frighteningly lethal beast, if we hadn't ambushed her perfectly, one of us could have been hit by her poison."

"Calm down Vali, we already expected that there would be a magical beast protecting the places where we have to put the magic tools, but I admit that I didn't expect such a lethal magical beast. But you also have to consider that this might be the strongest beast we're going to face, the others might be less lethal or even not a magical beast."

"I also assembled our team thinking that we would face strong enemies, if our group had not been assembled with this thought, this battle would not have been so easy."

"Easy? You almost took a poison bath, Ulric!"

"You are very upset Vali, I was expecting that we would find enemies with problematic elements and because of that I recruited Amael, his lava element is great to strengthen our defense, if you were an earth element mage trying to stop the serpent it would have broken from the your prison easily and the barriers would have broken like they were nothing, you saw how the first barrier Amael erected broke easily against the serpent's blow, without the ability to burn that lava magic has serpent venom would be a real danger to we."

"Ulric is right, this is a four-star mission so it's okay to face level three enemies, but you two forgot one thing our enemies' power level is being controlled by the examiners if our chances of getting killed were too high they won't allowed us to take on the mission, so even though our enemies are strong he will have weaknesses that we can exploit in order to defeat him. This serpent may have great lethal power, but its body was quite fragile for a level three magical beast, any of us would be able to cut it to mine with our strongest blows."

Amael is right this snake had a very weak defense, it must have been chosen for that reason, but we don't have much time to waste talking here.

"Come on, we still have to plant this magic tool that turned into a damn lighthouse. I don't know how the snake didn't see that red light."

I headed to the spot where I had found the snake but to my surprise the red light didn't turn green as I stuck the tool into the ground, I got a weird look from Amael and Vali are they really blaming me for not getting it right on the first try?

I walked around this part of the forest putting the magic tool in the ground and on the sixth try the red light turned to a much weaker green light, it seems that the magic tool won't be a green light in my forest the force of light decreases a lot.

"Amael bury the magic tool, but don't touch it directly."

Amael took out his staff and nailed it to the ground near the magic tool and discharged its elemental energy and mana to the ground, a circle with a radius of a foot was created around the magic tool and it began to sink into the ground. While the magic tool was hidden in the ground, I kept an eye on the green light to see if it fades or decreases its strength, but ultimately it was stable throughout the entire process, with a final layer of earth to close the hole and a covering of branches and leaves placed on top of the brown circle that was standing out from the green forest floor, this magic tool is well hidden now.

"Well don't we take a day to complete an eighth of the mission, do we go back to camp or go straight to the next location? If we go straight, we'll have to sleep in the forest and that can be dangerous as we don't know the forest very well."

"If we had one more team member with the shadow element, we would have no problem spending the night in the forest, but considering the path we'll have to take to complete the mission, I think we should spend the next two nights in the forest to we can complete five of the eight places before heading back to camp to rest and replenish our supplies.'

It seems Amael is quite interested in moving on and thinks there won't be much danger spending the night in the forest and I have to admit that this forest has fewer animals and magical beasts than I thought it should have, but I still have a feeling I if we spend the night in the forest, we will face new problems.

"I don't really feel like doing this, but if you two think it's better not to go back to camp, I'll agree to spend the next few days in the forest."

Well, Vali may have been scared of the lethal snake, but he still has the guts to move on.

"Then let's get going, I'll speed up our speed so we can have a better chance of finding a safer spot to spend the night."

With our destination locked we ran at high speed towards the second location, along the way I avoided stopping at various points to harvest some resources because I had already collided with the same type of resource during the trip to the first location. After collecting over thirty different resources from tomorrow I managed to get a sense of what kind of resources was more valuable than the other so now I can avoid wasting my time by harvesting cheap resources.

I've already shared the spoils with Amael and Vali, because if I didn't do that my backpack would get too big and this can hinder my movement, the weight is basically irrelevant because I didn't even find an extremely dense ore, but I did get some pieces of elemental ores. which are very rare especially the fire element metal it is not used to make weapons for fighters because it is too fragile, but for mages this is a great material for making wands and staffs that are not used as weapons physical.

The rest of the stories I've sinned are slightly rare for level two and three stories, but they aren't worth a fortune and I only got a small amount of each one, the examiners only spread the variety of resources across the forest in small amounts. they're basically samples, so I think it's pretty impossible to find a miner's vein or a bed full of flowers and herbs of the same kind.

On the way to the second location on the map I noticed that the number of magical animals and magical beasts that has been the biggest source of points for us has been decreasing, but their quality remains the same. This is making me nervous, maybe the next guardian is not a magical beast like the serpent before, but a type of golem that is killing the animals and magical beasts in the region.

When dusk began and we finally got close to our destination, the magic tool that belongs to this place has already lit its red light, with the tool activated we slowed down and prepared to face the guardian who must be protecting this place. The red light became very intense showing that our enemy must be very close to us, but not an animal, beast or golem in the region.

Our enemy almost managed to hide from my perception, but after all the common suspects were eliminated, I turned my eyes to the big damn tree that is slightly apart from the others, its color is the same as its sisters, but the amount of mana and energy from the life element are quite different from other trees mainly in quantity.

Looks like we're going to have to fight a tree, I wonder if it's going to attack us with its branches like a Trent or it's going to release whips and try to tie us down and break our bones. But whichever way this tree fights I think we're going to have to set fire to the forest to kill it.