Chapter 82: Long-tailed Crocodile

Since everything was made by hand, there was always a chance of failure.

Su You kept one stalk of wind millet grass as seed material, and used the remaining three to try making agility potions... The result was clear: she only succeeded once, and failed twice.

The stalk she kept has now been turned into a seed and stored in a wooden box.

The reason she didn’t plant it right away was because wind millet grass needs to be grown on intermediate farmland, but all four plots in the territory were still basic farmland, which isn’t suitable for wind millet grass.

“Is this agility potion really that amazing?” Dory asked. Although she’d traveled to many places with the caravan, there was no one in their group who specialized in potions (ordinary doctors didn’t necessarily know potions, since potions were a branch of magic). To avoid being cheated, their caravan never traded in potions, so Dory never had the chance to learn about them.

Faced with Dory’s question, Doya felt a bit helpless—she didn’t know much about potions either. Everything she knew was what Su You had told her. Just as she was about to say something, she saw a look of happiness suddenly appear on Su You’s face.

Doya seemed to guess why. She turned her head and, sure enough, saw Su You walking in from outside the territory.

“What are you talking about?” Su You came over and sat down beside them, then started taking out the “spoils” from her map exploration, one by one, from her backpack.

Seeing all the items scattered about, Dory instinctively reached out to help organize them, while Doya quietly watched from the side.

“We weren’t talking about anything special. It’s just that you hadn’t come back for so long, we were getting worried,” Dory said as she helped sort the items.

With her help, Su You quickly sorted everything into the appropriate wooden boxes and storerooms.

Su You hadn’t brought back much this time—after all, her main goal was to explore the map. Gathering too many resources would have wasted time on the road... Even so, she didn’t spend much time collecting, but still only made it back at sunset, just as the evening flowers were blooming.

“Sorry to make you worry,” Su You smiled, then began telling them about her discoveries that day—well, to be precise, she was mainly talking to Doya.

She took out the map and pointed to a spot on it.

“I could have come back earlier, but I found a group of aquatic beasts here.” Aquatic beasts, as the name suggests, are creatures that live in water, like fish, shrimp, and crabs.

But this was Sunset Continent, not her old world, and since Su You was bringing it up, it meant the aquatic beasts she saw were definitely more than just ordinary fish and shrimp.

“I was going to bring back some aquatic beasts to improve everyone’s meals, but then I saw a long-tailed crocodile.” The long-tailed crocodile was essentially a crocodile, named for its extremely long tail.

When Su You mentioned the long-tailed crocodile, Doya blinked, then seemed to understand.

The long-tailed crocodile’s main attack was to whip its tail like a giant whip. In this case, if you wanted to kill one and your strength was about the same, it was much easier to do so from a distance than up close.

And right now, she was the only ranged fighter in the territory.

“My hand will need about two more days to fully recover. When it’s ready, I’ll go deal with that long-tailed crocodile.” Doya didn’t even ask why Su You wanted her to do it—she didn’t care. She just needed to do as Su You said.

As for her hand... In the real world, a bone fracture would take months to heal, let alone being able to draw a bow. Without enough strength, some people couldn’t even pull the string.

Not to mention, she’d be using her hand for strenuous tasks as soon as it healed. If her bone didn’t break again, that would be a miracle.

But this wasn’t reality. Doya’s recovery depended on the “fracture debuff” she had.

As long as the debuff disappeared and she didn’t get any new ones, she’d be fully healed—no aftereffects, no need for further rest.

At first, the fracture debuff was supposed to last about ten days, but after drinking deer antler juice, her recovery sped up and three days were shaved off.

Plus, she’d been eating and drinking well these past few days, so the countdown kept shrinking... Just as Doya said, she figured she’d be fine in two more days.

“Just focus on recovering. There’s no rush to deal with the long-tailed crocodile... If I remember right, you don’t have a weapon now, do you?”

“Mm.” Doya nodded slightly, not seeming to care. This also showed that her previous bow wasn’t anything special—she didn’t mind losing it.

“I’m gathering materials now. I’ll use the beast tendons from the black-striped tiger to make you a new bow.”

The black-striped tiger’s drops were valuable, and the beast tendons were no exception. Though they were only green quality—not as good as the wild boar tusks—if she used green-quality wood for the bow as well, there was a chance of making a blue-quality weapon.

Hearing them talk about weapons, Dory seemed to realize something... Thinking about the materials needed for a bow, she finally understood why Su You had asked her to help find tough, flexible wood.

Noticing Dory’s gaze, Su You looked at her. “I don’t know much about repairers, but I’ve heard that skilled repairers always like to have a pair of gloves?”

Dory froze for a moment, not sure why the conversation had suddenly shifted to her.

But once she realized, she nodded immediately. “Yes, because the power of repair is usually focused at the fingertips. Our hands are very important to us.” That’s why they needed gloves for protection.

A repairer’s gloves weren’t ordinary—they were custom-made by mages.

These gloves not only protected the hands, but if made from good enough materials, could even increase the chance of successfully repairing high-level items... Su You had learned this from a repairer she’d known before.

It might seem a bit pampered, but with great skill, a repairer could fix anything—so a little pampering was understandable.

“As it happens, I actually know how to make these gloves...”

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