Son of Chaos 43 Green vine snake

While walking through the forest he collected many common herbs along the way. He planned to use this opportunity to practice his pill refining. Since he didn't really have any money he couldn't practice in the city since he couldn't afford even the cheapest herbs. Luckily in the forest the simple herbs needed for starter pills where aplenty. When he had checked out the available info of this forest he had learned about it and spent some of his few coppers on some glass vials which could be used to store the pills.

After he got back he would try to sell the bes ones to make a bit more money. They should be worth a few silver if he managed to fill all of his vials.

While he walked through the forest he slowly relaxed since he hadn't met anything dangerous for quite a bit and the last few times he had he was easily able to evade it.

On one of the trees he would walk by there was a inconspicuous green vine which meandered around the trunk of it. When he got closer it suddenly hurled itself towards him, in a similar fashion to an arrow leaving its bow. In mid air its mouth opened to reveal the two fangs dripping with a light green poison.

Seeing a movement out of the corner of his eyes Ivan turned around while lifting his sword in an attempt to defend himself but he was half a second to late as the snake managed to insert its fangs into his arm and inject its poison.

* A Green Vine Snake? My luck really sucks. *, Ivan thought when he saw what had attacked him. Without a moment of hesitation he tried to grab the snake behind its head. It was important to catch the snake if it bit one since only then would he be able to craft a antidote to its poison.

Sadly he was just a second to late and the snake pulled out its fangs with lightning speed before letting itself drop down to the ground. It then proceeded to speed away towards one of the bushes at the side but before it could enter the nearest bush and disappear a sharp wind descended and it hurriedly tried to dodge.

This time it was its turn to be to slow as the sword Ivan had stabbed down towards it inserted itself into its body near the end of the tail and kept it from continuing on.

Not being able to move away it could only try to confront the one which had locked it in place but sadly even though it was normally much faster than its prey its strength was sorely lacking.

Ivan managed to easily subdue the snake now that it wasn't able to move freely. After that he pulled out a glass vial and put it near the fangs of the snake in the hope of catching a bit of its poison. His luck wasn't bad since the snake hadn't injected all its poison into his body and as such he was able to gain a few drops of it which was enough to make the antidote.

After acquiring the Green Vine Snake poison he hurriedly killed of the snake since he could feel that he had to hurry up. The poison had already started to significantly drain his HP and if he wasn't fast with concocting the antidote he would soon feel its effect.

He then pulled out two common herbs out which he had collected earlier and after pressing out their sap mixed it with the snake poison. First he used the grass like herb which had a light yellow sap that when mixed with the poison made the resulting fluid have a surprisingly blue color.

Ivan had seen this before in a tutorial but he was still surprised at how rich the blue was and how different from the color of the ingredients it was made of. Sadly he didn't have the time to admire its look, but had to insert the sap of the other herb instead. This herb which looked like a unremarkable dark green flower had a light green sap and after adding it to the potion it lost its blue color and instead gained a light green color which was completely unremarkable.

But this color was what Ivan wanted to see since it was a signal that the mixture was correct and he could now use it as an antidote to the snake poison. Since his HP had only fallen to just below fifty percent he took the time to inspect the vial, just to be safe.

<< Very weak antidote, Unranked

This antidote is something any real adventurer would scoff at but it can still be used to cure weak poisons.

Remark: It really is fitting for you.

>>

Even though the description was really unflattering it still confirmed its use as an antidote and Ivan hurriedly drank it. When the potion entered his mouth he had to suppress his urge to spit it out again since it's taste was absolutely disgusting.

With effort he managed to swallow it and without delay he could feel the poison in him being removed from his system.

"Couldn't there be a warning in it's description that it tastes extremely disgusting?", he couldn't help but spat out. It really had tasted way to disgusting and he wasn't sure that he would manage to drink it again next time. Luckily the taste didn't linger.

"I really need to make some antidote pills.", he decided. Even though according to what he had read the simple low grade pills didn't taste good they didn't taste too bad either. It was more like they didn't really have any taste.

He then looked down on the snake he had slain. Even though it wasn't even half a meter long it had created much discomfort for him and if he hadn't collected the herbs it might have even ended with his death.

Chapter end