Noah's basic attributes were way higher than a normal person in his level, but did it matter here?
This anaconda was sending a constant chill down his spine.
It should be 120 meters in length and 5 meters in width.
This thing had become a mythical serpent. He didn't know if he could cut through its skin or not.
But he was sure that it was slower than him. Moving its huge body should be a hassle.
But the problem was its talent, poison breath.
It would surely use its talent if its prey was faster than it and, moreover, there should be other anacondas too.
Should he run away? Become powerful again and come back? But he had only 9 days left.
The next territory should be even more dangerous. Maybe a demon lord class territory.
"Let's finish this thing," he thought.
He then created an antivenom which should work against any type of venom he knew.
But if this anaconda's venom was more powerful than any venom from Earth, that might be a problem.
But it shouldn't matter, as he would be able to take action after getting affected by the venom, and the venom of a level 29 shouldn't be that dangerous.
Noah gripped his dagger tightly.
His mask had a purification effect; he created it like that.
"Come on you giant worm. Let's have a snake dance."
Boom!
With a sonic boom he shot forward. The snake didn't even have the chance to react before Noah landed on it and plunged his two daggers into its head.
But the skin was way too tough for him to get a clean hit. It cut a little and green blood started coming out.
The serpent shook its head violently to shake off the attacker.
Noah had already activated the electric effect, as the snake might be immune to poison.
Then suddenly a purple breath started gushing out from the mouth of the anaconda like a tsunami and engulfed the entire area, including Noah.
The moment it touched him, his clothes started burning away.
Shit! This poison is corrosive. It would melt him down even before entering his body.
So he took out the daggers from its body and jumped off from the head.
The anaconda had already come down from that huge tree.
It coiled around, looked at Noah, and started moving toward him.
With a gigantic body like that, it could still move pretty fast.
Noah didn't wait for it to reach him. Now he was sure he could take it down, he would just have to give more effort.
He started attacking the serpent with sonic speed and faster. Though the cuts weren't deep, the serpent was getting injured bit by bit.
His goggles had one more function: infrared vision.
He activated the infrared to find the heart location of this giant anaconda.
Then he created a long spear made of stainless steel and jumped. The poison was covering the area, but Noah could still survive for a few seconds.
He landed on its body again, at the exact location of the heart, and pierced through it.
Then he jumped off its body.
The snake was sweeping its tail to take down Noah with it, but the trees were giving it a hard time to do that.
After some time Noah heard his expected notification.
[Ding! You have killed a giant anaconda. 1500 exp is added to your panel.]
Sigh! It was just his fear which was sending the chill down his spine. Killing the anaconda was really easy. At least easier than the black panthers.
Then he cut open its skull to see if there were any core or not.
And bingo! He got a mana core.
This snake was really a lucky charm to him. He instantly absorbed the core and gained 50 mana points.
A bronze-level mana core would cost him 1 million coins, but he got it for free.
His mana was now 1300 points. He would need 2000 mana points to get his gene evolution serum and with that his mana points would become 20,000 at once. He would be able to create a 20x multiplier skill with that much mana.
Then with this infinite loop, he would become powerful with just time.
But for that, he would have to survive in this forest and leave the area.
"Let's hunt some more."
He felt at ease hunting this one and also sold it for 1000 coins. Because he took the core, the price was lowered.
He needed 200 mana points to create the sensing skill.
That would make his hunting easier.
Noah killed 31 anacondas in one day. Because these snakes were too big to hide and too easy to find.
He got 4 more mana cores from them. The ratio of getting cores was increasing; maybe the stronger monsters would have a 100% rate?
That would be like a dream come true.
He absorbed the 4 mana cores and got 200 mana points.
The 1500 mana points requirement was met.
He didn't waste much time and created the sensing skill and learned it too.
He closed his eyes and tried to use the skill.
The skill's function was: in a 10 km radius, any living organism would be detected by it.
He would sense the life force it was radiating. The more powerful the creature, the stronger the life force.
This would give him an idea where to go and where not to go for hunting.
Soon he found 9 more anacondas in this range.
They were showing similar life force. So he hunted them down too.
But this time he didn't get any mana cores. Sigh!
Then suddenly an enormous life force entered his sensing range.
It was at least 10 times bigger than the previous life forces and it was moving at an extremely fast speed.
"Not good."
Before Noah could finish his word, a snake came in front of him. It was much smaller than the anacondas. Only 5 meters in length but it had a crown-like structure on its head. The snake was crimson red in color with some black spots on it.
It was looking at Noah with its calm eyes.
Noah activated his scanner.
[Subject: Anaconda King
Level: 31 (Demon Lord)
Talent: Poison breath, fast speed, higher intelligence than normal.]
Damn shit! This snake was a sliver-level creature and had intelligence with speed.
Noah didn't know how much intelligence it possessed, but it was bad news for him.
This thing covered 10 km in a moment. It was faster than him.
Even faster than the black panthers.
The snake vanished in front of his eyes and Noah felt a whip of steel hit him from behind.
Instantly a mouthful of blood came out from his mouth and he flew away like a ragdoll and slammed into a tree.
His strength was more than 25 tonnes, so the body was very sturdy.
But what could a sturdy body do in this situation? He didn't even get the time to activate his flash skill.
Slamming into the tree didn't cause him much harm, but the tail attack fractured many bones in his body, that was for sure.
Noah stood up with great difficulty and another mouthful of blood came out.
He looked at the snake and it vanished again.
This time he activated the flash.
Now with 10 times more speed, he could finally see the snake; it was moving at his similar speed with flash or a little bit slower.
Noah also moved with his dagger and attacked it. He had 10 seconds to kill this, because in the next 30 seconds after that, he would be gone for sure.
He used his dagger skill to its fullest potential and had already mastered it.
But the moment he arrived near the monster, it released poison.
It was a dark mist of poison gas. Noah knew this poison gas was even more dangerous than others.
But he would have to land a clean hit, otherwise time would be over.
He entered the poison mist and plunged his lightning dagger into its head, but the poison gas instantly corroded his clothes along with his skin.
"Ah!"
Noah roared with pain and agony.
[Ding! You have killed the anaconda king. 10000 exp is added to your panel.]
The snake was dead; he had just killed a demon lord class snake while still in the black iron level. It was two realms higher than him.
He needed that healing potion again.
But his mana was 900 at this time. He would need 100 more, meaning 50 minutes more to wait.
He would die by then.
He bought a slightly advanced healing potion from the shop and gulped it down. All his coins were gone.
The corrosiveness was neutralized. Only pain remained. He would have to suffer for 50 minutes nonstop.