The Little Witch’s Daily Struggle – Chapter 415

Is this even human language? The few of us were being extremely cautious, afraid of sustaining even the slightest injury, while Jayad could rely on his Holy Light healing to exchange blows with monsters. It was utterly unfair.

“This is the one. It was quite difficult to deal with, but since I critically wounded it from the start, it couldn’t move much later due to blood loss.” Jayad patted the centipede-like monster worm. I think I heard Sebastian mention earlier that its name was Sand Hunter.

Its body was covered in sword wounds everywhere, especially at the joints of its carapace. Green fresh blood flowed everywhere, and Jayad had even cut its body into three sections. This one was the largest, coiling up to occupy half of this small mountain of flesh and blood.

Its head had a seemingly transparent part on its forehead, which stored a large amount of green liquid. However, since Jayad had broken the crystalline body, the liquid had all flowed out. It was unclear if it was blood or venom.

“Um, Sir Knight, can this worm really be eaten? Won’t it be poisoned?” a Villager asked tremblingly. Not to mention this Sand Hunter, the other monsters looked unappetizing as well.

“No problem, Sand Hunters can be eaten. Egyptians consider them an important source of meat. Although they do have poison, it’s concentrated in the head. The limbs can be roasted and eaten. I’ve had the pleasure of eating it a few times, and the taste is great.” Unexpectedly, it was Claire who said this.

Upon hearing this, the Villagers’ gazes surprisingly converged on this little girl. One of the Villagers asked, “Can any monster meat be eaten?”

“Not all, but most monster meat is edible. If you’re worried, you can just eat the flesh parts and stew them. Stewing them for over two hours should eliminate most of the harmful magic and toxins,” Claire replied.

Actually, I was also quite surprised that Claire had eaten it and seemed to know quite a bit about it. This knowledge probably came from her experiences adventuring and doing archaeology with her parents. Whether the Villagers believed her or not was up to them.

As the Villagers focused their attention on the monsters, Claire quietly said to me, “The Sand Hunter’s poison sac is very precious, it’s the most valuable part of the entire monster’s body. Have Jayad take it out.”

Ah, that’s right. The parts of a monster’s body are all valuable materials that can be sold for money. We can’t let these Villagers waste it. I quietly told Jayad.

So, Jayad went into the Sand Hunter’s huge mouth, lined with poisonous fangs, and retrieved the poison sac. This scene was naturally seen by the Villagers, and someone curiously asked him, “Sir, what are you doing?”

“I’m not a Sir. This is the worm’s poison sac, it’s highly poisonous, one that seals your throat upon contact with blood. I’m removing it to prevent you from accidentally eating it.” Jayad explained very cleverly, and the surrounding Villagers immediately felt very grateful.

“That Demon Eater Dragon should have a magic core inside, it’s very valuable. I’m not familiar with the other types of monsters, but monsters at this level almost certainly have magic cores, and they are all valuable,” Claire whispered again.

“I already cut it off during the hunt. The evil power is concentrated there.” Jayad opened his waist pack to show us. Inside were several colorful crystals, which were magic cores and also high-level spellcasting materials for witches.

However, Jayad was helping the Villagers collect food, so why did it feel like he was acting like a thief? It was really incomprehensible.

At this moment, some Villagers, under Sherris’s direction, were already coming over to divide the meat. They were directly using woodcutting axes and cleavers to process such large pieces of meat.

“By the way, Young Man Jayad, you found these monsters using Evil Perception, right?” Sebastian suddenly asked.

“Yes, that’s right. Is there something wrong?” Jayad asked.

“Not all monsters are evil creatures. The word ‘monster’ actually means a creature with magic power, it’s a neutral term. Most monsters don’t have high intelligence, so they don’t have alignment distinctions. But you just said you sensed many evil creatures around?”

After hearing Sebastian’s questioning, Jayad nodded directly, “Yes, that’s right, many, like stars.”

“That’s strange. Logically, it’s impossible for so many evil monsters to appear in one area. Take the few you caught, for example. Only that Bakot Demon is clearly an evil creature. As for that Giant Mountain Rhino, it’s an entirely herbivorous monster with a docile nature, definitely not an evil monster.”

Sebastian was just raising a question. The Giant Mountain Rhino was the one Jayad dragged back at the end.

“Herbivorous? No, that’s absolutely impossible. That’s clearly a carnivorous monster.” Unexpectedly, before Jayad could speak, Sherris retorted first.

“Docile? Not at all. When I saw it, it was incredibly violent, charging through deer herds, and it even charged at me.” Jayad also said.

“That can’t be right? Could something have provoked it, causing it to rampage?” Sebastian asked, confused, and then looked at Claire, “Why did you say it’s carnivorous? The data I’ve seen on Giant Mountain Rhinos clearly states they are herbivores.”

“I haven’t seen any data, but its teeth, that row of sharp teeth, are clearly for eating meat. Herbivorous animals have flat teeth used for grinding rough grass leaves,” Claire said.

As soon as I heard this, I looked at the Giant Mountain Rhino’s mouth. Indeed, it had two rows of sharp teeth, and even two long tusks. It was clearly a meat-eater.

Because both herbivores and omnivores primarily have flat teeth, relying on chewing to grind food. Only carnivores have teeth like these, used to kill prey by causing blood loss, and to cut meat, without fear of getting food stuck in their teeth.

Such an animal that looks like a herbivore having a mouth full of sharp teeth is very incongruous, but it should also prove Claire’s judgment correct: the Giant Mountain Rhino is a carnivorous animal.

This should also be knowledge passed down from her parents, who were paleontologists. In this regard, she was more professional than Sebastian.

However, Sebastian still hadn’t given up. After thinking for a moment, he suddenly said, “Young Man Jayad, dissect its body and check its stomach.”

“No problem.” Jayad didn’t seem bothered by the trouble. He picked up his silver sword and walked over. The Villagers who were dismembering monsters immediately made way when they saw him approaching.

Jayad raised his silver sword and began to cut open the abdomen. His speed of cutting meat was much faster than the Villagers’ axes. However, if anyone from the Church saw him using a silver cross sword for such butchering work, they would surely frown.

Soon, the Giant Mountain Rhino’s stomach was dissected. It was quite large. Claire’s eyes widened in surprise as she looked at it, “What is this? A rumination structure? No, that’s not right!”