The Happiness Mushroom was a famous product of the Talma Mountains. Every time a thunderstorm passed, it would sprout like bamboo shoots and grow on many of the cliffs of the Talma Mountains.
It was worth mentioning that the Misfortune Toad, which was equally famous as the Happiness Mushroom in the Talma Mountains, was a creature that would only appear during thunderstorms.
The Misfortune Toad hid in the mountains all year round. Its claws were extremely sharp and could easily cut through hard rocks. It would only come out during thunderstorms to mate. It was a rare scene of heavenly lightning and earthly fire.
Mushrooms and toads were the symbols of the Talma Mountains. One was a plant, the other was a creature, and both were poisonous.
No one knew how the Happiness Mushroom grew endlessly, and no poison hunter could research the details of the Happiness Mushroom. Even the Misfortune Toad had a smattering of knowledge.
Every year, thousands of people committed suicide by eating the Happiness Mushroom. This was because eating the Happiness Mushroom would allow one to taste the taste of happiness at the moment of death.
Ironically, the person who committed suicide wanted to die a happy death, but because of the happiness brought by the mushroom, they had the hope to continue living. However, the poison of the happiness mushroom was incurable, and the hope to continue living would only turn into deeper despair.
Therefore, the Talma Mountains had another name, "The Place of the Dead."
There were many poisons in the world, and there were many that had been discovered but had no cure. Poison hunters were a profession that existed for this. Basically, every Poison Hunter was an excellent pharmacist.
The Happiness Mushroom and the Misfortune Toad were one of the problems that many Poison Hunters wanted to solve.
At the foot of the mountain, there were many simple stalls with baskets. The baskets were filled with fist-sized mushrooms, which were the Happiness Mushroom.
People who wanted to commit suicide could directly buy the Happiness Mushroom from the stall's seller. It was sold in groups of four, and each person could only buy four.
The Happiness Mushroom didn't have a fixed price, only a "favor price."
The seller wanted all the belongings of the person who committed suicide. Even if there was only a coin left, one could still buy the Happiness Mushroom. Furthermore, the seller would provide processing services and a friendly corpse collection service.
This was a chain of interests that was full of despair, but both the buyer and the seller would be very satisfied.
You could see many happy mushrooms at the foot of the mountain, which was as lively as a market. You could also see many hopeless people, but you could not see a single Doom Toad, alive or dead.
A slender woman with long hair, dark skin, thin lips, and sharp eyes arrived.
The stall owner glanced over and immediately filtered out this woman. They had seen too many people seeking death. With just a glance, even if the person was expressionless, they could tell if the other party was seeking death.
To put it in a mysterious way, they could see the aura of death emanating from the bodies of those who were seeking death.
This dark-skinned, sharp-eyed woman with a different kind of charm was obviously not someone who wanted to die.
They only needed a glance to come to this conclusion. Then, they turned their gazes to the others and shouted to attract new customers.
"Hmph, how pathetic."
The dark-skinned woman stood where the crowd was passing by, quietly sizing up the people around her. Feeling the desperate atmosphere close at hand, a hint of mockery flashed through her sharp eyes.
She stood among the passing crowd, like a crane standing out from a flock of chickens. She was rather conspicuous.
Ge Er was her name.
She was a professional hunter, but she had three professions: poisoner, coroner, and apothecary.
Poisoner was her main profession, so she was a Poison Hunter. Moreover, she was one of the twelve newly promoted members of the Hunters' Association.
Other than those who wanted to commit suicide, there were also a small number of Poison Hunters who came here. Regardless of whether they were amateurs or professionals, the main reason they came to this place that specialized in making money from the dead was to pick up scraps.
The Doom Toad was the only creature known to be immune to the Happiness Mushroom's poison. Due to its rarity and the fact that it only appeared during thunderstorms, even if one specifically went to catch it, they might not be able to catch it.
However, the natives who lived at the foot of Mount Talma for many years never let go of any opportunity to catch a Doom Toad. They had exclusive hunting skills, and occasionally, they would catch a Doom Toad and sell it off.
For the Poison Hunters, the Happiness Mushroom was easy to get, but the Doom Toad depended on luck. Every time after a thunderstorm, they would come to the foot of the mountain to try their luck.
There were also a few Poison Hunters around who noticed the dark skinned woman. Among them, there was a middle-aged man wearing animal skin clothes. If Law was here, he would definitely recognize this middle-aged man.
This middle-aged man was one of the people Law saved in the last Hunter's Test in the Amarillo Forest.
At that time, the middle-aged man also asked Law if the detoxification method of the Rotting Spider's poison could be made public. This middle-aged man was an amateur Poison Hunter. After failing the last Hunter's Test, he planned to participate in this year's Hunter's Test.
Ge Er ignored the stares of the people around her and walked around the market. When she didn't find the Doom Toad, she simply turned around and left.
This time, she had come to the Talma Mountains for the Mushroom of Happiness and the Toad of Misfortune. If she could solve these problems, she would be able to gain quite a bit of merit points. This was very important to her, who was newly promoted to one of the twelve earthly branches.
Somewhere in the valley, there were muffled sounds from time to time.
"Still too slow!"
Biscay shouted and sent Law flying with a roundhouse kick.
When Law hit the rock wall, he suddenly stopped in the air to avoid a second injury.
"This is slow? Aren't your requirements too strict? I clearly blocked it. "
Law landed and raised his right arm to look at it. It was unscathed.
In the close combat just now, Law raised his right arm in time to block Biscay's roundhouse kick.
If the attack and defense values were calculated as 100 points, then Biscay's kick was equivalent to 70 points of damage, and Law hurriedly defended. When he was kicked, he gathered nearly 70 points of defense in time to gather on his arm.
As a result, he successfully blocked Biscay's roundhouse kick.
"Do you think my best choice was a roundhouse kick?" Biscay stared at him.
Law frowned slightly, thinking about his fight with Biscay just now.
Indeed, at that time, Biscay had a very good opportunity to attack. Compared to the roundhouse kick that needs to turn around and accumulate power and waste time, the backhand elbow's damage is lower, but the speed is faster, so the hit rate is higher.
"Did you notice it?" Biscay said lightly.
Law nodded with a dignified look and said: "If you had used a backhand elbow, my flow would not have been able to defend in time."
"Then, were you prepared to deal with it at that time?" Biscay asked.
No …!
At that time, there were no defensive measures at all, or rather, there was only the desire to attack, but now looking back, at that time, he could only defend and then look for an opportunity to counterattack.
Law thought of this and suddenly shook his head and said: "No."
Bi Si Ji put his hands on his hips and said, "Also, you did block the damage, but you didn't completely block it. The fact that you flew out is proof of that. The moment you flew out, it was my chance to attack."
"However, your mind can offset my opportunity, which can be regarded as increasing the margin of error."
Law pursed his lips, made a starting gesture, and said in a deep voice: "Come again!"
There is no extra time to think in the battle. It is necessary to reach the most correct conclusion in the lightning time. Once a wrong step is taken, the price is to be hit.
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