The python arched its upper body high, and its dense scales looked beautiful under the spots of light refracted by the sun. The python stared at Taylor with its two thin snake pupils. Taylor was not to be outdone, and looked directly into the python's eyes, with four fireballs appearing in his palms.

Taylor knew that the giant python in front of him had a very high IQ, which was not comparable to the fox, the buffalo, or the two gorillas and tigers standing still not far away.

The python stared at Taylor for a while, then suddenly rushed out, opened its bloody mouth, and bit Taylor directly. Taylor jumped up, a breeze surged under his feet, and threw all four fireballs in his palm with his backhand, blasting four small holes in the python's scales, with blood and flesh flying.

The huge pain made the sturdy python roar angrily, and it swung its tail, which was like an indestructible iron whip, and lashed towards Taylor's waist.

Taylor had nowhere to hold on in mid-air, so he had to play the role of Spider-Man. The spider eye on his chest swung out a spider silk, which pulled him onto a tree trunk.

Before Taylor could stand firmly on the tree trunk, the giant python quickly climbed up the tree, and its strong muscles directly broke the tree. The tree broke into two pieces and fell down weakly. Taylor immediately separated some spider silk and fixed himself between several big trees.

“Hiss, hiss, hiss…”

The giant python raised its head high and hissed at Taylor who was above its head. Taylor sent out several crescent wind blades that hit the giant python's scales. After the wind blades hit the scales, they only knocked off a few small transparent scales and did not cause further damage to the giant python.

"After all, this isn't a wind blade technique that's specifically used to increase damage. It's already pretty good that the wind technique can reach this level."

Taylor swung on a spider silk and jumped onto the trunk of another tree. After the breeze in his hands dispersed, high-temperature flames began to evaporate from his hands and condensed into fireballs.

Next, he kept bombarding the slow python with fireballs like flying a kite. Every time the python tried to climb up the tree, he would smash the python's head with fireballs. The python roared in anger, but could do nothing about Taylor who was flying above.

Taylor not only used fireballs to fly its kite, but also occasionally laid down a few spider webs to slow down its speed. Throughout the time it had been roaming around in the southern part of the monster forest, he had never seen such a shameless wizard apprentice.

Finally, the giant python fell to the ground unwillingly after its two eyes were blinded by Taylor's fireball and its mouth was hit by several fireballs when it opened it. Half of its head was blown to pieces by Taylor's improved fireball.

In the mud not far away, Taifas also staggered out of the mud. In one hand, he was holding the corpse of a crocodile. He had already cleaned out the crocodile's belly and internal organs. His other hand turned into several tentacles and wrapped around the crocodile's head. Only a head was left of the crocodile.

"Not bad, Brother Taylor. It seems that your combat ability has surpassed mine."

Seeing that Taylor had killed, destroyed, restrained, and immobilized the seven monsters, Taifas let go of the crocodile corpse in his hand and gave Taylor a thumbs up, revealing a mouthful of white teeth under his muddy face.

"You're not bad. After all, you were in the home turf of saltwater crocodiles and you defeated two of them."

Taylor nodded and praised the business, then ignored Tyfas who was laughing alone. He walked to the gorilla and the three-eyed tiger, cut off three fingers of the gorilla, and destroyed the eye between the eyebrows of the three-eyed tiger. Then he took back the round badges stuck on their bodies.

According to the description in the basic rules of wizard apprentices, magical beasts that do not actively attack in front of the round badges must not harm their lives.

After the two met up, they continued along the route of the patrol mission to complete the last leg of the journey. On the way, Taifas saw that Taylor was still silent, and couldn't help but speak.

"In fact, encountering danger this time is also good for us. It increases our combat experience, and after we encounter a monster, we can report it to the Miscellaneous Affairs Office and get points as compensation."

"oh."

Taylor nodded, not knowing what a person could think about.

Tyfas was already used to this scene. He suddenly saw something that looked like a bird's nest not far away. The material of the bird's nest was a reddish wood with a few sparks. His eyes lit up, he patted Taylor's shoulder, asked him to wait, and then ran to the bottom of the bird's nest.

His hands immediately turned into something like tentacles. He quickly climbed to the top of the tree, took down the bird's nest directly, took out an oval bird egg from it, and threw the bird's nest aside.

Tyfas took two steps forward holding the bird's egg in his hand, then remembered something, went back to pick up the bird's nest, put the eggs back, and ran to Taylor holding the bird's nest.

Taylor didn't care why Taifas was holding the bird's nest and eggs. The two continued to carry out the task. When the task was completed and they were about to go their separate ways back to their own residences, Taifas stepped forward and handed the bird's nest and eggs in his hand to Taylor.

Holding the bird's nest and the still warm bird eggs in his hands, Taylor looked up and looked at Taifas with some confusion. He wondered what this guy was thinking and why he suddenly stuffed a bird's egg into his mouth.

Facing Taylor's puzzled look, Taifas scratched his head and said with a smile.

"I noticed that you, Brother Taylor, are currently lacking a large-scale perception magic. However, this kind of magic is easy to learn but difficult to master, so I gave you this bird egg. It can serve as your eyes flying in the sky, turning it into a tricky large-scale perception magic. The corresponding training method is also available in the Apprentice Library, which is an easy problem to solve."

It turned out that Taifas was also silently observing Taylor while performing the mission. He found that he had the ability to identify the enemy by relying on the pheromones in the air, but Taylor did not seem to have this ability. He could use this bird egg to make up for his friend's shortcomings.

Moreover, he seemed to feel that his close friend, whom he had just met, was a little lonely. A person who was not lonely would not listen carefully to his chattering.

Taylor looked at Taifas' sincere face, then at the bird eggs in his arms, and suddenly felt that this chatterbox didn't seem so annoying after all.

"Thank you."

After waving to Taifas who was walking away, Taylor turned and walked towards the apprentice library.

(End of this chapter)