Chapter 94: Second-Tier Rotting Corpse Wolf

Yeda pulled the stopper from the potion and sniffed it, but there was no scent at all.

It was almost as if...

It were truly an empty bottle.

If he had not already possessed an empty bottle of his own—the one left over from the novice mana potion he had finished—he might have believed there was nothing in it at all.

Gurgle!

Gurgle, gurgle!

After a few seconds, Yeda suddenly heard the sound of bubbles rising from the invisibility potion bottle.

He looked again and saw that a little clear liquid had appeared inside, crowded with countless tiny bubbles.

It looked a bit like soda.

Just moments ago...

There had been nothing there at all. How had it appeared again?

Yeda shook the bottle once more. Sure enough, countless small bubbles gurgled upward, and the clear liquid inside shifted with them.

It was as though the liquid had materialized out of nowhere.

And yet...

The bottle had not changed weight in the slightest from beginning to end.

Could it be?!

Yeda's eyes suddenly lit up.

He recalled what the invisibility potion's description had said...

Novice Invisibility Potion: Drinking this potion grants ten seconds of invisibility, but it cannot conceal scent or sound.

Could it be that for the first ten seconds after it was made, the potion itself also carried an effect of concealment, which was why Yeda could not see it?

Then, once ten seconds had passed and the potion revealed itself, Yeda could see it again?

What a miraculous potion.

Although...

For the moment, Yeda still could not think of any use for it. Failing to hide scent was a serious flaw, after all. Still, he kept to the belief that a lifesaving treasure could never be too many, and tucked it into his pocket for later.

Click.

Yeda turned the pointer behind the door to the downward position, pointing toward the gray ground.

When he opened the stone house door again, he was indeed back at the bottom of the valley.

Little Gray, Little White, come out!

To put the stone house away, there could be no living creature inside.

So Yeda had no choice but to call the two little ones out before retracting the house and moving it to a different height.

Woof!

Woof, woof, woof!

The two little fellows rushed outside. Seeing the ground covered in white snow, they instantly barked in excitement and dashed madly across it.

The earth, white and soft as a fluffy cake, was in no time crisscrossed with tracks.

And Little White, the glutton, simply began biting mouthfuls of snow from the ground as though it were some delicious frozen treat, his whole face soon smeared with it, utterly delighted.

Plop.

Yeda once again hurled the retracted stone-house sphere against the cliff wall at the edge of the valley.

Expansion successful!

Please choose where the stone house will expand.

Yeda decisively chose the middle level.

That is, the area from fifty-one to one hundred meters.

Selection successful. It will expand at the middle level.

While waiting for the stone house to merge into place, Yeda also took the opportunity to pack some snow into his backpack, to see whether he could turn it into water.

If he could, he would save himself another expense on water.

Besides, snow was cleaner.

At the very least, it was not like the river water he bought, full of impurities.

Collection successful!

Snow +1

Snow +1

...

Soon, Yeda's backpack contained a full stack of snow.

Meanwhile, a blank area of twenty square meters had opened up on the ground, revealing the sandy and stony color beneath.

It seemed one unit of snow equaled one square meter.

Stone house expansion successful!

Yeda opened the door and went inside, emptied all the wooden crates used for storage, and even brought out the pot to fill it with snow.

Once the snow melted into water, he would have a source of clean water to use.

Twenty units of snow became four crates of snow and a large pot full of it.

The rest would have to melt slowly...

Woof, woof!

Woof, woof, woof!

Yeda had already packed away the snow, but the two little brats were still playing so happily that they had forgotten to come home.

He could only shout helplessly, "Come home!"

And yet...

These two little fellows had never seen snow in their lives, and they were practically crazed with delight.

Even though they clearly heard Yeda calling them, they pretended not to, and kept roughhousing in the snow.

"Time for dinner!"

Only then did Yeda have to use his trump card.

As expected...

The moment the two little fellows heard him say dinner, they ran as if they had taken flight.

In an instant they were back inside, staring at Yeda with eager eyes.

Wasn't it time to eat? Where was the food?

"I call you back and you don't listen, and now you still want to eat?"

Yeda said angrily.

The two little things pretended not to hear him and continued staring up at him.

Seeing their adorable expressions, Yeda could only sigh. "I really do owe you two."

Plop.

Plop!

Yeda tossed out a piece of pork liver and a portion of pig heart for the two little ones to eat.

Only then did he turn the pointer behind the door.

But this time...

The upper and lower sections of the dial were both gray, only the upper gray was lighter and the lower gray deeper.

It seemed the dial was displaying the main scenery outside the door.

At the cliff top, the sky occupied more of the view.

So the top of the dial was blue and the bottom gray. But now that he had placed the door halfway up the cliff, the color naturally became the cliff's ash-gray stone.

Click.

The door opened.

Cold wind rushed in from outside.

But Yeda looked out with a grave expression, because beyond the door lay the cliff itself.

There was not even a rock ledge to serve as a buffer.

He leaned his head out and looked down, and saw that forty or fifty meters below at the cliff's base, a pack of rotting corpse wolves all raised their heads to stare at him.

Uhh!

Uhhhhh...

The corpse wolves gave warning howls at this sudden intruder.

From this height, he should be able to hit them, right?

Yeda simply sat on the doorframe, dangling both legs carelessly over the cliff, and summoned a spirit bow in his hand.

A stone arrow appeared at the same instant the spirit bow formed.

Yeda narrowed one eye and took aim at a corpse wolf.

Whoosh!

The moment he released the bowstring, the gray-brown stone arrow drew a long gray streak through the air.

Yeda had thought that, with no wind to interfere, the stone arrow should easily strike the corpse wolf.

But...

The corpse wolf shifted slightly, and the arrow actually passed between its fleshless ribs, shooting into the snow!

Yeda was utterly dumbfounded.

"This works too?"

Whoosh!

Refusing to believe it, he loosed another arrow.

This time, luck was a little better. The arrow struck a patch of rotting flesh on the wolf's foreleg.

But the problem was that the corpse wolf seemed utterly unaffected. It even used its hind leg to scratch at the itch, trying to scrape the arrow away.

And as it scratched, Yeda saw that it actually clawed off a large patch of skin and flesh from its foreleg, then bounced away again!

"No way!"

Yeda could not help crying out in misery.

"This corpse wolf is way too hard to deal with. Could it be that I have to do it like killing zombies, shoot them in the head, and destroy their central nervous system?"

A faint suspicion rose in his heart, but unfortunately his current position was still a little too far from the corpse wolves.

For Yeda to send a stone arrow across such a distance and hit a corpse wolf in the head was no easy task.

If only...

He could descend a little lower!

Unfortunately, this cliff offered only three possible heights: the very bottom, the cliff top, or the midway point where Yeda was now.

This must be one of the restrictions of the Mist World, to prevent players from exploiting bugs to farm monsters.

What should he do?

Yeda rubbed his chin, then his eyes suddenly brightened as a brilliant idea came to him.