Chapter 0390: Enchanted Forest
Black Forest.
This is a terrible name that is full of many taboos in the wizarding continent.
For most ordinary people, it's a name that represents death and chaos. If you look at the history of the development of the Wizard Continent, you will find countless tragic and tragic examples in it.
In the year 13179 of the wizarding calendar, in a small human mountain village on the western border of the Tallinn region, more than 120 people in the village disappeared overnight. According to the wizard's investigation, traces of the Mind Flayer's activities were found in the village......
In the year 17281 of the wizarding calendar, a newly formed human settlement in the Nalan region of the Northland Witches was attacked by a beast tide. In three days, more than 20,000 people were killed, and countless people were injured and missing......
In the year 22765 of the wizarding calendar, the Silver Alliance expanded into the depths of the Black Forest after forming the 17th Constructed Legion, and suffered terrible monster counterattacks and suffered heavy casualties......
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Turning over these histories, all human beings have a natural sense of reverence for the Black Forest.
This is not only their inexhaustible treasure trove of resources, but also a source of turmoil where terrifying monsters gather.
This kind of life of living next to the monsters, day and night, is worried about the sudden outbreak of large-scale beast tides, and also worried about those terrifying monsters escaping out of the forest...... This kind of life is unimaginable for people who have not experienced it.
Therefore, the people of Songta Town are almost trapped here, and they dare not easily step out of the thick wall. Even if you go to the nearby mountains and forests to collect some firewood during the day, you need to act in groups. The residents of the town have lived for only five years at the longest.
As for the old residents who came to Songta Town in the early days, they have been swallowed up by the surrounding forests one after another.
Among the outsiders gathered in Songta Town, the largest number were mercenaries and adventurers who came to beg for a living, and some wizard apprentices who came to find materials.
They were hired to haunt the nearby mountains and forests for some gold coins and magic crystals. Maybe it's to find a special demonic plant, or to capture a certain kind of fleshy monster, or to explore a certain area...... In short, the spoils of war they have exchanged for their blood and lives will end up on a wizard's laboratory or dinner table.
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Early in the morning, the team set off.
Parting from the pre-dawn mist, through the narrow gate of Songta Town, everyone wrapped in thick cloaks and cloaks, silently burrowed into the mountain forest.
When you first enter the forest, it is obviously still a normal forest.
Between a vast sea of lush trees stands a huge yellow-brown cliff. Like a proud king inspecting his subjects, the cliff sits lonely in the depths of a sea of green trees, surrounded by wisps of white clouds.
The top of the cliff is flat and covered with black-brown moss.
The breeze blew, the forest sea was turbulent, and there was a loud noise, and a flock of blue birds chased and flew up from the trees and soared into the distance.
Walking through such a forest and sea, the eyes are full of verdant greenery, green flowers, green grass, green vines and gray tree trunks......
Vitality, a thin vitality is invigorating!
The quiet and dark jungle is not brightly lit, and there are branches and vines and shrubs growing indiscriminately everywhere, and it is almost impossible to walk through such a jungle without a 'guide' who is familiar with the terrain.
Employed as a sword and shield warrior, Lowe has also temporarily become a scavenger, with a round shield behind his back, wielding a sharp wood knife to cut through the rattan thorns that get in the way, barely clearing a 'passage' in the mountain forest for people to walk sideways, and moving forward step by step.
Walking in the primeval forest, the soft and elaborate cloth robes that wizards usually like to wear become unsuitable. Stretching branches and thorny thorns easily tore their clothes. Therefore, even wizards and apprentices who did not need to use their hands had to put a thick and dense cloak or cloak on top of the robe, so as to avoid the robe from being hung and falling all over their faces.
Moreover, these wizards, who usually hide in high witch towers and heavily guarded laboratories, do not have their usual arrogance and mysterious wisdom, and they are just an ordinary gentle slope, which may also become a huge problem blocking their progress.
Someone on top threw the rattan and dragged it upward, and someone below pushed the waist and buttocks upward, and the Gargamer wizard, who usually lacked physical exercise, could climb these rocks or low cliffs less than two or three meters with difficulty.
On the contrary, Grim, who is also a wizard, shows a strong physique that is not weaker than Lowe. Not only is trekking through mountains and rivers like walking on flat ground, but even ordinary low cliffs can learn from the level 3 thief Rod, dragging the rattan and stepping on it three or two times.
This made Gargamel stare at his burly and muscular figure more than once!
Truth be told, any wizard who has just risen through the ranks has the strength of a warrior, the agility of a thief, and the swiftness of an archer. However, years of lack of exercise, coupled with the erosion of a large number of toxic and harmful witchcraft materials, there are only a handful of wizards who can maintain this physical advantage.
So looking at Grim's amazing physical fitness, Gargamel not only didn't think it was surprised, but from time to time showed a look of contemplation and remembrance.
Once upon a time, he had such a great body!
At that time, he could sing songs night and night, and he could also fight all the time...... Unfortunately, with the passage of time and the erosion of witchcraft energy, all this is a thing of the past. And he's just a bad old man who doesn't look much better than a ghost!
However, the power of witchcraft makes him still a fearsome wizard to be feared by the world. Once you let go of your hands and feet to show your strengths, slaughtering a Songta town is just a matter of a snap of a finger.
It's a pity that this kind of power is a little unplayable in the Black Forest!
Summoning a few flying thralls as a wizard can avoid this nasty jungle journey and soar over the Black Forest.
But it's good to think about such an idea, but it can't be put into practice, otherwise you will die a miserable death!
The idea of flying over the Black Forest by means is really good, but how to locate it has become the biggest problem.
Those fools who have never taken to the skies will never experience the pain of getting lost.
Soaring above the blue sky with rolling forests and mountains at your feet, it may be possible to find your way, but finding your destination is an impossible task. The Black Forest stretches for tens of thousands of miles, hundreds of thousands of miles, and it is a joke to find a marker to confirm the location in a sea of wind-swept forests.
The unique high-magic environment of the Black Forest also makes a lot of detection or prophecy sorcery plausible, and the prophecy wand is not easy to use here, and even takes you directly to the lair of a terrifying monster in many cases.
And flying in the sky is so windy, it is easy to become the target of powerful monsters.
The monsters in the Black Forest have a strong sense of territory, and if you sneak past the edge of their territory, they won't be able to perceive it. But if you die yourself, you will have to fly over their heads......
Decorate their caves with your dry bones, and this may be your only end!
The ten-mile mountain forest ahead is just a small test for the difficult journey ahead.
As they went deeper, the green of the forest grew darker and darker. As soon as the ten-mile border passed, as far as the eye could see, it was full of another strange world that was different from before.
Looking up, the sky above the Black Forest is covered with a dark canopy of trees, like a night sky full of stars.
Layers of black foliage obscure the clear sky outside, creating the deepest and darkest nightfall. What flickered was the pale blue fluorescence that could be seen everywhere in the forest like fireflies. It is they that add a strange beauty to the 'night sky' here.
In addition to the beautiful 'night sky' views, the Black Forest environment is also particularly elegant.
The forest was filled with the scent of fragrant flowers, and the ground of the forest was covered with ankle-length green grass, which was like stepping on a fine velvet carpet, so soft that you wanted to lie on it.
Truth be told, each piece of the Black Forest has a completely different style and tone.
If the Black Forest on the way to the Northland was eerie, dark and chaotic, then the Black Forest in front of you is full of magic, weirdness and magnificence.
Grim and his party are like suddenly breaking into a magical forest, which is full of magic and full of beauty and magnificence.
Among the people present, many of them saw such a fantastic and beautiful scenery for the first time, and they were a little stunned for a while. And the Luo Wei people, who haunt here all the year round, also straightened their waists, wiped the sweat beads from their foreheads, and enjoyed the bizarre beauty here with their hearts.
Grim, on the other hand, silently scanned everything in front of him, and the elemental vision presented a completely different world.
In the dim jungle, wisps of magical energy flowed.
They serve as an inexhaustible source of magic, nourishing and growing the world in front of them little by little.
In Grim's vision, every grass, tree, flower, and bird here is impregnated with elemental particles that represent magical energy.
Red is fire, blue is wind, brown is earth, green is wood, blue is water, and purple is the soul...... Layer by layer, piece by piece, pile, the rich magical energy soaked the entire forest in a sea of magic.
In such an environment, as long as it is not an ignorant stone, it is possible to give birth to enough intelligence to give birth to intelligent life comparable to that of a wizard......
The Black Forest, in fact, should be called the Enchanted Forest, in fact, seriously!