Because he had left the sphere of influence of the Fruit Wine City Parish, Mark finally stopped rushing on the fifth day after leaving Stewart Church.

He followed the source of water without having to worry about collecting the materials needed to make holy water.

Focus on looking for traces of wild beasts or monsters near the water source, and then track them all the way to the monster's lair.

Perhaps this forest is an area where the influence of both Fruit Wine City and Giant Stone City has not reached.

With grandma not caring about them and uncle not loving them, the monsters in the forest are much higher level than those in the Wine City Parish.

In just one morning, Mark encountered two level 10 thorn deer.

Although the thorn magic released by the two deer could not break Mark's defense, he almost exhausted his physical strength just by using the cross sword to chop the thorns along the way.

After all, a longsword is a strenuous lever. Although his physical and strength attributes have been improved after upgrading to lv.4, he has been swinging the sword with all his strength and struggling in the thorns for the whole morning. Even a berserker would be exhausted!

So in the end, Mark finally took a shortcut. After recovering his strength after lunch, he decisively transformed the cross necklace into a stable spear with only a small cross at the tip.

When he found the two deer again by following their tracks, Mark threw a spear without saying a word and nailed a thorn deer to the ground.

Then he transformed the cross necklace into a cross-shaped double-sided axe, and swept the thorns released by the second deer to create a passage for two people to pass through. He rushed to the thorn deer that was still releasing magic at the fastest speed, and jumped and chopped off the deer's head with a chop.

If someone could see Mark fighting, they would definitely think that he was a high-level berserker or a barbarian, and would never associate him with a clergyman wearing a white priest robe and with a kind face.

After killing two lv.10 thorn deer, Mark's level jumped directly to lv.5.

Originally, he wanted to find some high-level magical beasts like these two deer in this forest, but his luck seemed to have run out after encountering these two deer.

He spent the entire afternoon climbing over five hills and searching every inch of land, but he couldn't find even a low-level monster.

Finally he realized that it was the blood and breath of the two level 10 deer corpses he was dragging that scared away the nearby monsters.

Even though this is a no-man's land, it is still the heartland of the Lily Kingdom. It is estimated that higher-level monsters have long been hunted down by some powerful professionals. Level 10 monsters are already considered strong in this forest.

Since he could even kill these two deer, the other monsters would naturally hide as far away from him as possible after knowing this!

It’s a pity that Mark’s plan to reach level 10 in this forest was also dashed. It seems that when he arrives at the town of Osborne, he will probably have to play a supporting role for a while.

That night, when he chose a camping site on a hill again, the little slime had already impatiently crawled out of the cloth bag on its own initiative.

It circled around Mark and bumped his calf with its bouncy little head, obviously asking for more holy water.

"No, little guy, are you still addicted? Everything has a limit!"

"Mmm~Mmm~"

The pink little slime continued to hit Mark relentlessly.

"Okay, okay! Here's your drink, here's your drink!"

Seeing the little slime that had been following him for five or six days go from being afraid of him to now begging for food from him, Mark felt like he had a little pet by his side.

Since it's fine after drinking the holy water I mixed myself, just give it to it.

Although it slept for a whole day as if it was drunk after drinking the holy water, Mark could indeed feel that the magic power in its body was much stronger than before it drank it.

Take another closer look at the slime's panel.

[Fire Slime (Mutating) lv.5]

Huh! Level 5!

The little guy actually leveled up twice thanks to two bottles of holy water! Even his status changed!

This "mutating" entry did not appear when the little slime could spit fireballs like a machine gun, but appeared after using holy water. It is obviously related to the holy water he mixed.

Mark held the little slime in front of him and carefully examined its pink body under the gaze of its pair of puzzled big eyes.

Two symmetrical red tufts had grown on both sides of the originally smooth pink sphere of the little slime.

When you pinch it, the little tuft is still a little hard, like keratin, or like there are bones growing inside.

"Is this going to grow arms?"

Mark looked at the little slime in surprise. He had never seen such a situation in any book introducing monsters.

"I think you're probably the same as me. I'm a strange-looking person among the priests, and you're a strange-looking person among the slimes. Just follow me from now on, and I'll give you plenty of holy water to drink!"

"Mmm~Mmm~"

The little slime seemed to understand what Mark said, nudged him lightly, and then moved towards the empty crystal bottle placed aside.

Mark laughed, took it aside and said, "If you follow me, you must be obedient. Don't interrupt me when I'm working in the future."

"Also, since you're already following me, you need a name to call you. How about Xiao Shi? No, that sounds weird."

"Xiao Lai?"

"Xim?"

"Mmm~Mmm~"

"Okay, Xiaomu. Stay by the fire first, I'll make the holy water!"

When two new bottles of holy water came out again, Xiao Mu had finished replenishing his magic with the fire element.

After drinking the holy water, it took the initiative to get into the small black cloth bag prepared by Mark for it. Mark himself took another bottle of holy water and drank it carefully after eating a plate of fried venison steak with berries.

Just like the knowledge about holy water that the original owner remembered.

The raw materials used in his bottle of holy water were mild and non-toxic. After drinking it, he naturally did not faint like Xiao Mu.

But at the same time, he did not feel the presence of any holy light element at all, as if he had simply drunk a bottle of refreshing drink.

Hmm, that's not right. It seems that it also replenishes some of the magic power consumed when making holy water.

Then there is no other effect.

This bottle of holy water is of no use to him.

It is completely different from the feeling of holy light filling the body that normal holy water brings.

"Tsk, it seems the holy water's true effect comes from the holy light magic infused into it. Then why did the holy water produced by Little Mark before his job change sell for such a high price of 50 silver?"

Full of doubts, Mark climbed up the tree trunk and fell asleep early.

Since there shouldn't be any higher-level monsters around for him to level up, he can take some time to recuperate.

We will enter the sphere of influence of Boulder City tomorrow. We should go to bed early and get up early, and try to reach the first town of Boulder City before noon.