A long convoy swayed through the dimly lit forest.

The trees on both sides of the road are straight and towering, all of them are more than thirty or forty meters, and they can be hugged by four people. Coupled with the deep foliage of the forest, the huge umbrella cover extends over the road, leaving only a thin white line overhead.

It was daylight, but the forest road was already dark, and you needed to light a torch to see everything around you.

The convoy seemed to be through a dark, closed corridor of silence, and no other sound could be heard around it except for the sound of wheels and the vibration of the beasts of burden.

Quiescence!

It's very quiet!

You can't hear the chirping of birds in ordinary forests, nor can you see the hares, coyotes, and other jungle creatures running around.

As soon as he stepped into the Black Forest, Grim could clearly perceive the faint flow of magical energy slowly through the forest. Elemental particles are also a frequency or two higher than outside the forest!

"Chip, collect environmental data in the Black Forest!" Grim thought for a moment, and couldn't help but give the chip an order.

"Drop, the task has been established...... Environmental data collection is ongoing......"

Seriously speaking, the area occupied by the Black Forest of the Wizard Continent is as high as 6 percent, while the living space occupied by the scattered Tallinn and the three major wizarding organizations together is only 4 percent of the total area of the Wizard Continent.

This also means that there is still a lot of unexplored land in the Wizard Continent, and what is blocking the progress of humanity is these endless black forests and vast savage grasslands.

With the huge size of the wizarding world and the almost perfect high-magic environment, in the Black Forest and Savage Grassland, which occupies 6 percent of the area, even if only one thousandth of the creatures are infected into magical creatures, the number of horrors formed is enough to discourage ordinary wizards.

Therefore, if wizards want to expand the boundaries of their territory, they need to continue to penetrate deep into the Black Forest.

Cut down trees, level roads, build settlements, and erect wizard towers to protect them......

This colonization process is never easy!

Every step that extends into the Black Forest will attract powerful jungle creatures, terrifying monsters, mutated monsters, and polluted creatures.

If it's just a sporadic monster invasion, then it's okay to say that it will only cause a small area of resource losses such as personnel and buildings at most. However, if it is a large-scale counterattack of the monster race, or if a powerful monster drives the beast tide, then the newly established settlement may fall.

In the history of the Wizard Continent's colonization, there have been countless large-scale attacks by monsters in the Black Forest. Every time it happens, it means that thousands of ordinary people who have just moved into the settlements fall victim to the rivalry. Perhaps only the Wizard's Tower will survive in the entire newly colonized area, and everything else will be razed to the ground.

Therefore, every time the human living space takes a step forward, it needs to pull like this many times, so that it is possible to exhaust the patience and number of forest monsters, forcing them to move their territory to deeper forests.

Therefore, a huge territory covering an area of 100 miles, from the beginning of colonization to the stable production of ordinary people in it, usually needs to go through many iterations and take decades to be possible. And in the process, it is not uncommon to consume thousands of people and double-digit wizard lives.

Therefore, every wizard who overcame obstacles and led his followers and slaves to snatch living space from the Black Forest is a truly strong man who can be remembered forever by future generations!

For ordinary people, the Black Forest represents mystery, evil, power, and even death!

But for wizards, this is the biggest treasure trove of resources!

Magical plants grow everywhere, jungle creatures are abundant, metal deposits are abundant, and mysterious and powerful monsters are abundant......

Many rare resources that have been extinct in the wizarding world can be found in the depths of the Black Forest.

Therefore, in addition to dimensional conquest, groups of wizard squads went deep into the Black Forest to explore ancient ruins and hunt monsters, which also became the fastest and most convenient way for them to gather resources.

The prerequisites required for dimensional conquest are too harsh for all wizards to meet, so exploring the Black Forest is the best choice for them to go out and gather resources.

Grim lifted the curtain and looked at the dimly lit forest in the distance.

Even with his eyesight, it is difficult to reach far without witchcraft. After all, the magical energy here is too active, and it is also a huge interference for the wizard's spiritual perception!

Grim raised the curtain a little higher, and on a tall tree not far from the convoy, he saw an owl covered in black feathers. The other party was staring at the huge eyes and monitoring the movement around the forest, and from time to time he made strange cooing noises at the convoy.

"It's an owl raised by the apprentice witches. Alice leaned over to Grim and looked boredly at the window: "It's just some harmless little animal that can serve as their eyes." ”

"Why don't you choose a smaller monster that's a little more powerful?" asked Grim, confused.

"Cut ......" Alice couldn't help but roll her eyes: "Do you think that everyone is like you, never worried about magic crystals? They are very poor, they can't afford to buy them, and they can't afford to raise those monsters!"

"What's the benefit of raising them?"

"Usually acts as eyes and ears, and is a good flying sentinel. Moreover, the owl that has cast the spell can also have a weak talent for seeing through invisibility, which is the most suitable to act as a guard. Of course, more importantly, raising them doesn't put too much pressure on the mental power of the apprentice witch. ”

"So what types of pets do witches have?"

"The most used ones are nothing more than black cats, flower snakes, red bats and crows. The Black Cat gives the host stealth and agility bonuses, the Flower Snake has infrared sensing, the Red Bat has light body and sound wave positioning, and the Raven has dark vision...... Anyway, witches like to turn themselves into this mess!"

"What about you? How come I've never seen your pet?"

"Hmph......" Alice snorted, "I've always wanted to catch a hellhound, but unfortunately I haven't succeeded!"

"Hellhound?" Hearing the name, a strange abyssal creature that looked like a porcupine and was covered with black, red, hard, thick skin, automatically came to Grim's mind.

This abyssal creature, which is extremely ugly in every way, turned out to be the first choice of Alice's coveted pet, which made Grim speechless.

"Why?" asked Grim.

"That's why a witch once captured a hellhound as a pet, and since then she has been able to 'spell blockade'. Moreover, the Hellhound can also provide a mental power bonus to the host, which is simply the best magical pet. Alice's eyes lit up at once, and she began to talk eloquently.

"But don't you think the Hellhounds are ugly and ugly, and as far as I know, they stink, and they are full of the stench peculiar to the creatures of the Abyss of the Netherworld!"

"Does it really stink?" Alice's face changed, and she asked Grim cautiously. When she got a positive answer, she couldn't help but hold her little face and frown: "Then I peeled it and coated it with spices, which should be able to cover its stench, right?"

Grim gasped and couldn't help but start worrying about Alice's future pet.

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The convoy slowly moves through the Black Forest.

When they left the city of Ibeth more than 30 miles, small animals could already be seen in the dim forests along the way.

However, there were alien mercenaries on the periphery, and the jungle beasts did not dare to approach the convoy, only dared to roar a few times from a distance, and then quietly sneaked back into the depths of the forest.

Although this road is not full of people, more than a dozen caravans are constantly shuttling back and forth, and they have almost driven away the dangerous monsters nearby. If the remaining ordinary beasts dare to approach the convoy, they will instead become a delicacy for the mercenaries to fight tooth sacrifices.

On the way, the 'sentinels' released by the apprentice witches are simply the busiest group.

They spread their wings and fly through dense forests that are difficult for humans to navigate, avoiding dangerous beasts and birds, and searching for rare plants.

Once discovered, three or two apprentice witches would rush into the depths of the forest with a dozen mercenaries to pick the rare plants they found in the shortest possible time. And this will undoubtedly bring them a lot of income.

Of course, sometimes there are ferocious monsters near the rare plants found, and this is the time for a few witches in the convoy to go out.

Half-way gains like this do not count in the caravan's accounts, but belong to the witches' personal loot. After such a trip, the private gains of each witch in the team were far more than the rewards given by the caravan, which is why these women were so interested in this treasure hunt.

It's just that the caravan can't stop waiting for them to hunt for treasure, so the area they can search with the magic pet is a small area within a dozen miles on both sides of the forest road. No matter how far away they were, even if they did, they wouldn't have enough time to harvest.

And in such an area, after years of repeated searches, the resources of some value have been harvested. So a few witches in the convoy simply gave up this kind of spirit-draining 'game' and handed them over to the apprentice witches who came out to practice.

For these 'poor' apprentices who are not qualified to enjoy the family offerings, even if it is just the 'mosquito meat' that some witches look down on, it is enough to make them eat a round belly, so they are even more and more happy!

So, in this seemingly slow, but in fact extremely fast, march, the convoy arrived at the first campsite of the long journey.

And at this time, the time is only as good as noon!