Ellie probably also understood the level settings of the game World Tree; the maximum level is one hundred.
It's divided into race levels and job levels, and besides the main job, one can also learn other job levels.
Basically, production-oriented jobs like Chef are usually only leveled up high on alt accounts. However, it's clear the Uncle's account isn't an alt, yet he still "wasted" five precious levels on Chef, which is why everyone was confused.
What puzzled Ellie, though, wasn't the Uncle's Chef job, but why everyone looked at the Nine-Headed Serpent when discussing cooking. Could it be that these people were planning to eat this thing?
Speaking of which, is this thing edible? But from their conversation, it was clear that it was definitely edible.
"Although this monster is like those in World Tree, didn't we already determine that this world isn't the game world? Please don't bring game common sense into this place," Sir Xia Na calmly reminded everyone.
"That's true... This isn't the game world of World Tree. The Nine-Headed Serpent here might not be edible," Arute thought for a moment and agreed.
After all, during their three days of cautious travel, everyone had discovered that the world they were in was indeed not the game world of World Tree, because many monsters and flora and fauna unseen in World Tree had appeared.
Although there were also common animals that everyone had seen in the real world, such as frogs, dragonflies, mosquitoes, and cockroaches, everyone basically accepted this view.
"I can appraise whether it's edible. A Ninja has the highest-level poison appraisal skill. Let's take one down first to see if it's edible. Besides, we need to grind some monsters to level up Bai Xia, don't we?" Lan said coolly, crossing his arms.
As a Ninja, Lan's appearance was indeed very cool, but unfortunately, he was a coward and couldn't fully embody the cold-blooded Ninja.
"But is it alright to fight in a place like this?" Livia-san asked, seeing that the Uncle and Arute both nodded in agreement with Lan's idea.
They were still on the run; the Dragon race wouldn't easily let go of those who had killed their noble kin.
"We haven't seen any Dragons for two consecutive days, so it should be fine, but to be safe, let's make it a quick fight!" Arute thought for a moment and said.
In the past three days, only on the first day did they see many Wyverns or groups of Dragonkin hovering in the sky, clearly searching for something.
So, for these days, the group moved with extreme caution. Under Lan's early warning, whenever those annoying guys appeared in the sky, this large group would immediately detect them, conceal their presence and figures, and evade them.
Therefore, they didn't travel far on the first day, and then for the next two days, there were no pursuers at all. From this, it could be seen that the current Dragon race was indeed arrogant enough; some Dragons had been inexplicably eliminated, yet it still hadn't received sufficient attention.
This spoke volumes. It seemed the Dragon King managing this area must be a careless and arrogant fellow. His subordinates were eliminated by humans, yet he still didn't take it seriously. This was good... it also avoided many unnecessary troubles.
So, after dividing tasks, this group began to act for dinner. Naturally... Ellie was brought along for this operation, and they planned for Ellie to land the finishing blow to gain experience. Although Ellie knew she couldn't gain experience to level up, she still went along to keep up appearances.
Regarding her inability to level up, Ellie had also told Sir Xia Na, and she was the only one who could see her status, so it was best to explain it clearly to her, so they could conspire to conceal it later.
In fact, their action plan was very simple: find a lone one, have the Uncle taunt it over, then everyone would gang up on it, and finally let Ellie land the finishing blow. It was said that a finishing blow had an experience gain bonus, which was why Ellie was brought to take the risk.
Thus, a lone Nine-Headed Serpent wandering by the shore was targeted by the Uncle. Under Sir Xia Na's area-of-effect presence concealment, everyone crept up to the lone Nine-Headed Serpent, and Lan maintained vigilance throughout, especially watching the sky.
The reason for deploying everyone and taking such strict precautions was, first, to prevent exposing their whereabouts to the Dragon race.
Second, as Arute said, since this world was not the game world, game common sense could not be applied. In the game world of World Tree, the Nine-Headed Serpent's level was not high, but who knew if the Nine-Headed Serpent in this world was a BOSS-level creature?
So, caution was necessary, although Ellie clearly knew that even if all the Nine-Headed Serpents in the entire Wetland were combined, they wouldn't be a match for these max-level deities.
"Hey! Grandson..." The Uncle, from a distance, flipped the bird at that unlucky Nine-Headed Serpent, casting a taunt skill.
Although Ellie really wanted to complain, wondering if this Nine-Headed Serpent, which couldn't understand human speech, would still be taunted, the Nine-Headed Serpent immediately fell for it, erupting in an angry roar, looking like it wanted to kill his whole family, and charged furiously towards the Uncle.
Seeing that he had succeeded, the Uncle immediately ran backward, intending to lure the individually taunted Nine-Headed Serpent to the ambush spot to secretly deal with it. So, that Nine-Headed Serpent was led into the ambush circle.
"Magic Triple Enhancement! Vortex Torrent!" After receiving Arute's signal, Livia-san unreservedly unleashed her ultimate skill. This was also Arute's instruction: use the ultimate skill right away. If it had no effect on that Nine-Headed Serpent, then everyone would immediately give up and flee, not even considering dinner.
However, as soon as Livia-san finished speaking, a large vortex immediately formed under the Nine-Headed Serpent's feet, instantly sucking it in.
Then, the vortex, after drawing the Nine-Headed Serpent in, began to constantly compress its volume, and after finally compressing into a point, it exploded with a 'boom'.
Naturally, that Nine-Headed Serpent had already been twisted into a pretzel while in the vortex, and after it exploded... what scattered was a ground full of meat slices, internal organs, and blood. The others, being far away, were fine, but the Uncle, who was closest, was unlucky, covered all over in the Nine-Headed Serpent's flesh and blood.
Ellie witnessed this firsthand; indeed, the magic cast by max-level deities was always so terrifying.
And from the result, could it be considered a successful hunt? Even though the prey was blown to bits.
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