My bloodline yearns for progress.

Chapter 70 New Animal Friends

The deep blue moonlight completely merged Otto and the iron sword into one.

At this moment, the iron sword is an extension of Oto's body!

This also increased the power of the Azure Moon Thrust.

But at that moment, a vine that was not bound by the cold air tried to struggle, but Otto neutralized the impact with his Black Horn Charge!

At this point, the Azure Moon Thrust pierced straight into the core of the Carnivorous Vine.

After the core was pierced, the vines that were struggling finally stopped moving.

"All done, that's it!"

Goren grinned and waved his fist, signaling Tessa to come and help the team collect the spoils, while he and Otto continued to keep watch on the surroundings.

With the carnivorous vines being dealt with, Otto also received some improvements, especially the Black Sheep.

The impromptu change of tactics just now gave the Black Sheep a deeper understanding of the power of Black Horn Charge.

[Blackhorn's Charge level has been upgraded to LV2.]

You have acquired the bloodline imprint of the Carnivorous Vine.

You have acquired the bloodline mark of the Grey Deer.

The gray deer expressed its gratitude to you; it is finally free.

Otto wasn't too surprised to see this.

Clearly, the gray deer is being parasitized by the carnivorous vine, experiencing both physical and mental torment.

Otto did help it out.

But just as Otto obtained these bloodline marks, the Grey Deer extended an invitation to him.

The gray deer hopes to become one of your animal friends.

In the past few days, Otto has been searching for a suitable target for the seventh bloodline mark, and has filled in many candidate options.

Unfortunately, after each feeding, these bloodline imprints are eaten by the other six animal friends.

As a result, Otto doesn't even have a single bloodline mark left.

Seeing that the newly acquired bloodline mark seemed to share this desire, Otto decided to give it another try.

The changes were immediately apparent after Otto incorporated the bloodline imprint of the Grey Deer.

The gray deer brings you good luck.

[Airfare: 3+2]

Otto wasn't too surprised to see this.

After all, deer seem to be auspicious creatures almost everywhere.

This can be considered a good omen.

Otto believed that luck not only represented chance, but also affected effects such as critical hits.

My extraordinary Moon Essence Circulation and Azure Moon Thrust just now must have been influenced by this attribute.

With the Luck attribute continuing to increase, Otto may be able to land critical hits even more easily!

This kind of near-epiphany and burst of inspiration really does require a lot of luck.

However, just as Otto was pondering his future plans, his animal friends had already made a new move.

The black cat curiously climbed onto the gray deer's antlers and made it its new home.

The eagle perched atop the gray deer's back, proudly declaring this its territory.

The brown bear wants to fight the gray deer.

The black sheep wants to bet with its animal friends on who will win.

The Magic-like Ape adjusted its monocle, indicating that both possibilities were possible; that was the answer.

Otto breathed a sigh of relief as he watched his animal friends having a blast.

At least, the gray deer shouldn't have been killed by them.

But just as Otto was watching with some curiosity, an unexpected event occurred.

The black sheep, watching the gray deer being beaten, recalled its own past experience of being beaten by a brown bear.

The black sheep and the gray deer stood together and used their antlers to push the brown bear back!

[Black Sheep excitedly exclaimed, "This is our bond!"]

[Black Horn Charge's level has been upgraded to LV3!]

Watching the combat skills level improve due to this brawl for justice, Otto's lips twitched involuntarily.

He didn't expect that the black sheep had reached a consensus with the gray deer when challenging the brown bear.

The black sheep remained as shameless and scoundrel-like as ever.

It clearly found an opportunity to beat up the brown bear and wanted to have some fun, yet it insisted on talking about some kind of bond.

It's as if the brown bear beat it up before!

Do you have a past where you were beaten up? Do you recall it?

For a moment, even Otto felt a little sorry for the brown bear.

The former leader seems to be in a sorry state now.

Seeing this, Otto decided to comfort his animal friend.

Not long after, Tessa had finished cleaning up the battlefield and immediately called him over to take a look.

"The harvest doesn't seem to be very much."

Tessa displayed her spoils: a tree heart gleaming with a crystalline luster and a cluster of carnivorous vine tendrils.

Otto looked at the clump of vines in front of him with some confusion.

"The materials dropped by this carnivorous vine seem to be much smaller than those we got before."

The carnivorous vine clusters that Otto obtained before were something he had to hold in his hands.

But the lump in front of us is no bigger than the palm of my hand.

"Could it be a matter of individual differences?"

Tessa thought they had probably encountered a young carnivorous vine, so its core wasn't fully developed.

As Tessa spoke, she put her haul into the cloth bag she carried with her.

Although both he and Goren had spatial pockets, they were filled with essential items for their adventures.

Food, fresh water, camping tents, etc., and as for the harvested materials, they had no choice but to carry them on their backs.

Goren didn't seem to care much about this.

"There are differences even among monsters of the same species, just like the kobolds and their variants that we encountered before."

Perhaps, the carnivorous vine is the same.

As Goren spoke, he urged the two to continue on their way.

Now they must continue their exploration before nightfall.

After saying that, Goren only told the two to try to maintain their original formation and not to lose their composure.

"We'll try to get out of this foggy area before dark, then it will be safer to rest and regroup."

Just as Goren was about to give some more instructions, a piercing scream suddenly came from afar.

Goren immediately went into battle mode.

"Be careful, something's not right."

Otto's light and spiritual vision had not yet faded.

He was somewhat surprised to find that, along with becoming a Fire Seed Guardian, the duration of the Lamplight Eyes seemed to have increased.

He saw the source of the scream; there seemed to be some crimson movement, indicating that danger was present.

"Is it the carnivorous vine mimicking the adventurer's voice again?"

Tessa gripped the hammer tightly in her hand nervously.

The heaviness emanating from her palm gave Tessa a sense of security.

The moment she heard the screams, Tessa immediately went into battle alert.

She had already read through the reports about carnivorous vines before she came.

The report mentions that the carnivorous vine controls and modifies its puppets to a certain extent, making them constantly cry for help and wail, in order to attract adventurers to approach!

Tessa was a little worried; had they encountered such a cunning carnivorous vine?

But Goren didn't seem to care much about it.

"It doesn't sound that far. Let's observe it from a distance first."

As expected of a seasoned adventurer.

When faced with the same situation, Goren handled it with far more caution and maturity than Joel and others.

Instead of rushing to the rescue, he carefully approached against the wind to gather information and avoid being detected by the monsters.

But the moment Goren saw it approaching, he showed a look of surprise.

"We're lucky, we've found some good stuff!"