Volu 3 Chapter 126: Trouble (2/2)
Although it was ti for my duty, the teachers and the students who knew my situation accommodated to help take care of my slis. Because of that I was able to hunt monsters near the camp under the pretense of ‘doing my rounds’ and was able to secure the needed blood for my bloody slis. Thanks to that the bloody slis were able to safely get through the most difficult part. Although they still seem weak, unlike earlier, they are no longer in pain. Actually, they’re recovering a lot faster than I expected.
“That’s good to hear.” [Teacher 1]
“It’s thanks to everyone.” [Ryouma]
“Still, Ryouma-kun. You really do bring your slis with you, huh.” [Teacher 1]
What does he an by that? From the tone of his voice, it doesn’t seem like he’s looking down my slis and thinking, ‘Why are you carrying such weak monsters with you?’
“Oh? You don’t know what the people call you?” [Teacher 1]
“They call you the adventurer with a sli. Nowadays, anyone from Gimuru would be able to recognize that title.” [Teacher 2]
“…Really?” [Ryouma]
“Whether it’s beating up a lot of monsters and thugs at the mines or opening a strange store, you’re plenty famous, you know?” [Teacher 1]
“Although there probably aren’t as many who know you by face and na. Even I didn’t know who you were at first. But when I saw your slis, I imdiately knew you were the rumored adventurer.” [Teacher 2]
Huh… Before I knew it, it seems I’ve gotten famous.
It was starting to get embarrassing, so I kept our conversation short and excused myself to get so rest.
“There’s still tomorrow. So, I’ll be going now.” [Ryouma]
“Rest well.” [Teacher 1]
“Good night.” [Teacher 2]
I went back to my base, but because of the bloody sli’s condition, I didn’t feel like sleeping at all. Their condition is stable, so there shouldn’t be any reason to worry. …Shouldn’t be, anyway… Still, it sure has been awhile since a sli other than the poison slis ingested poison.
In the past, I fed the slis poisonous herbs to try and get them to evolve, but I was able to keep things safe since I only gave the herbs to those who wanted to eat them on their own volition. I haven’t fed my slis poison since then. This would be the first in a long while. Unless my mory is failing .
“… Monster Identify.” [Ryouma]
When I tried using Monster Identify on one of the bloody slis that ingested poison.
Bloody Sli
Skills:
Suck Blood Lv5
Deodorize Lv3
Disease Resist Lv3
Poison Resist Lv2
Play Dead Lv10
Digest Lv2
Absorb Lv4
Split Lv1
…I found out that Absorb and Poison Resist had grown by a level.
The increase in the level of Absorb should be because of all the blood I’ve fed it until now. But as for Poison Resist… I don’t recall feeding it anything poisonous. Disease Resist hasn’t leveled up. Well, the level of its Disease Resist has always been higher, so maybe that’s why it hasn’t changed. I wonder if there’s sothing mixed in with the blood of its food.
…No. That shouldn’t be the case. The blood I feed the bloody slis are either extracted by myself personally from animals I’ve hunted or blood from Zeke-san’s butcher. If the blood isn’t the culprit, then the reason behind the level up of the Poison Resist skill should be this recent incident.
As its situation stabilized, the level of its Poison Resist increased by a level.
“…It overca it in this short of a ti?” [Ryouma]
The Poison Resist skill, just as the na implies, is a resistance toward poison. The power to resist poison. It’s not about technique like spear mastery or sword mastery. Instead, it’s about one’s constitution and experiences just like Disease Resist.
It’s also related to one’s immune function. In that case, is Poison Resist ‘antibody’?
But if so, then there’s no way it would be able to overco the poison in just a night… Or maybe it’s because it’s a sli?
Slis are monsters gifted with the ability to adapt to their environnt and reproduce. The one who said this was none other than the God of Creation who birthed the slis and this world. There’s no way this information is wrong.
Perhaps it’s because the bloody sli also possesses that adaptive power that it was able to overco the poison within just one night… I don’t have proof, but…
“Bloody Sli, blood, diluted poison, antibody… With all these, I wonder if it would be possible to create an ‘antiserum’.
That thought suddenly flashed through my mind.
I might be able to find out if the antibodies exist with a little investigation.
“Lend your body for a little.”
I took a sample from the bloody sli that ingested poison.
…I retrieved a sample from the bloody sli in the sa way I retrieved samples of acid, poison, and deodorizing liquid.
A normal sli would die without leaving a trace, but I wonder if evolution would bring their characteristics closer to that of the food they eat.
…Well, that’s not a topic I should be pursuing right now. Right now I need to think about the blood serum.
Blood Serum is mixed in with the blood, so I need to use Alchemy to separate it.
I could also get it by leaving the blood on its own for a while, but I want to get results now.
“Identify” [Ryouma]
I used Identify on the orange liquid left inside the vessel…
’Blood Serum’
It’s the blood serum I was able to extract from the bodily liquids of the bloody sli.
There’s an antibody for the bush snake poison mixed in.
“!” [Ryouma]
It was at this mont that the presence of antibodies within the blood serum of the bloody sli was proven.
I still don’t have a hypothesis for their adaptability.
But I was at least able to confirm the presence of antibodies in their blood serum.
I have an antidote for bush snake poison that’s fit for human use. But it’s not like I have an antidote for every poison. They might all be called snake venom, but that doesn’t an they’re all the sa. Depending on the type of snake and its growing condition, the composition of the venom will change. As such, although there are many known poisons, there are not that many antidotes.
…I don’t know just yet if this blood serum can be given as an anti-poison serum to humans and whether if it will be safe or not. But it’s also true that in my past life, a horse was once given an antigen, and then doctors used its blood serum to heal people. The possibility isn’t zero.
More than anything else, it doesn’t cost anything to produce this serum.
I do need to think of a way to store it in case of ergency, however, but depending on the type of poison, I might be able to prepare the antibody on the spot and still make it in ti.
The more bloody slis I have, the more I’ll be able to produce as well.
I’d like to prepare so just in case of an ergency.
I’ve been using Earth knowledge until now, but the discovery of blood serum had a huge effect to the field of dicine on Earth… Given how big of a deal this is this ti, I better proceed cautiously.
For now, I’ll secretly research blood serums.
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