Naio Valley.

Mary walked cautiously through a jungle of shadows.

Everything around was dark, and shades of black could be seen everywhere. And in many shadows, you can vaguely perceive the faint and imperceptible breath of life.

Mary had to be careful to avoid the location of these shadows, as each shadow was a twisted and evil shadow creature. They were densely packed throughout the valley, tightly guarding all the roads leading to the Black Wizard's Tower.

These shadow creatures may not be very powerful, but in Mary's eyes, they are weak beings that can be destroyed with one blow. However, in order to avoid startling the snake, she could only hide all the breath of life, and cautiously walked through the dense shadows of sentinels.

As an alien vampire, Mary is able to control the temperature of her blood with ease, thus avoiding the search of infrared perception and life perception. Combined with her agility bonus on stealth, it is impossible for these shadow creatures, who are no more than the average strength of an intermediate apprentice, to be aware of her presence.

Mary was so careful, not for them, but to avoid the shadow mastiffs that roamed the valley from time to time. Like the hounds of the material realm, they possess a highly developed sense of smell and are able to sniff out any elemental flow of non-shadow matter.

But fortunately, Mary wears the 'Orb of Deception' given to her by Alice, and under the cover of the strange aura, as long as she is not directly seen by these shadow creatures, her non-shadow creature nature is not to be recognized.

Also known as the Black Realm, this is also the area where the Dark Witch Origin Tower is located.

If she hadn't agreed to Alice's woman, Mary would have lost her mind and gone mad and wouldn't have come here to die. You know, there have been second- and third-order dark witches stationed here for many years, and even the fourth-order dark witch leader Sersi spends most of the year here.

Even with Mary's unafraid character, she couldn't help but tremble slightly when she thought of so many high-level wizards.

Premeditated infiltration of the Dark Witch's origins, no one can afford such a crime. So if Mary doesn't want to be hunted down by the Dark Witches all over the world, then hiding her identity is the only royal way.

As Mary walked through a gray tree-like shadow, an alarm struck her. Her body flew up lightly, silently clinging to a big gray tree, and then squeezed lightly, and merged with the gray shadow of the big tree.

Although her movements were swift and silent, and no breath was leaking out, it still inevitably led to the flow of a trace of wind element.

In the next second, five shadow mastiffs came out of the shadows of the ground, sniffing around, and in addition to the heavy smell of shadows, there was also a trace of the air element.

Although this is the depths of the Valley of Shadows, and the overly dense shadow matter repels most of the magical elements of the material realm, it is not too strange that a small amount of wind elemental penetrates through the shadow gap.

Therefore, the shadow mastiffs scattered out to make rounds, and when they didn't find anything, they let their guard down.

So, with a slight shadow fluctuation, the five-headed shadow mastiff instantly appeared in another shadow a hundred meters away through the shadow jump, continuing its patrol.

After a long time, when it was certain that there was not the slightest 'wind and grass' in the surrounding area, Mary squirmed slightly and squeezed out of the shadow of the tree.

Seriously, this isn't a wizarding world anymore.

Those dark witches, with the power of the Witch Tower, actually made the wizarding world and the legendary shadow plane overlap in a small area. The overlapping area is the area covered by the shadowy jungle of the Naio Valley.

In this way, the Dark Witches will be able to continuously organize their forces to explore the vastness of the shadow plane where the dimensional space and the wizarding world are combined, and the benefits from this are obvious.

However, the Dark Witch's Origin Witch Tower, as the core hub anchoring the two planes, is also in the process of competing between the two planes. Therefore, periodic shadow eruptions, and even raids by the natives of the shadow plane, will have a negative impact on the stability of the Shadow Valley.

With the strength of Mary's Tier 1 vampire wizard, it would be impossible to break into a well-guarded Dark Witch Origin Witch Tower. But with Alice, she'll be able to find a gap for you to walk through in the tightest walls.

So Mary moved one step at a time, and it took her almost three days to travel four miles, and she was still two or three miles away from the tall dark tower.

But when she got there, she didn't move forward, but found a quieter glade, and squeezed her body into the dirt between the virtual and the real at a very slow pace.

From now until the Tide of Shadows erupts a month later, she will have to be nailed here like a nail. Without the spatial turmoil caused by the Tide of Shadows, she would not have had any chance of breaking into the Tower of the Dark Witch's Origin. It was only when the tide of shadows washed over the overlapping area that she had the opportunity to take the plunge.

Of course, what is the so-called tide of shadows...... When did it break out...... Mary didn't know anything about these things.

But she didn't know, but that didn't mean that Alice, who had mastered the Tower of Destiny, didn't know.

Alice, who was always keeping an eye on the Dark Tower, had already planned all the rescues, and the only thing she lacked was a powerful wizard like Mary with the talent of an assassin.

With a calculating unintentionality and being unprepared, Alice has already made up her mind to rescue her only relative, the poisonous concubine Endo.

As for the consequences, she is already desperate!

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Camp Stonehammer.

It is a large ogre camp located deep in the Black Forest.

The Giant Hammer Mountain, where the ogre is entrenched, was burned to the ground by Grim last time, and it has become a bare stone mountain. So the ogre simply set up a huge camp on the mountain, and surrounded the whole mountain with sharp stakes that were sharpened one by one, and enough for a man to hug him.

Powerful ogre elite warriors, small bosses, and the terrifying two-headed ogre wizard naturally resided in the mountainside, while most of the ordinary ogres built simple shacks on the mountainside and lived inside.

Due to the lack of planning and arrangement, each ogre wanders around as he pleases, and the shacks he erects are also one in the east and one in the west, colorful, and look smoky and chaotic.

When the sun was high, the little ogre leaders came out of the belly of the mountain, and while walking towards the tall gate at the foot of the mountain, they kicked the ogres who were sleeping in the open air with their thick black feet.

"Get up...... Get up...... Get up for me...... Slackers...... I didn't do much work, but I ate a lot. Stinky head and black face, get me up...... It's time to go out hunting......"

Under its beating and scolding, the ogre got up from the shacks and clearings, swayed its tall body like a hill, and followed the little leader towards the bottom of the mountain.

For a time, the entire stone mallet camp was full of tall and strong figures, shouting and scolding everywhere, and it was lively and noisy like a huge bazaar.

This ogre camp has a total of 87 ogres, large and small. Among them, there are 43 adult male ogres, 22 female adult ogres, 14 underage candidate ogre warriors, and 8 ogre cubs.

Don't look at the adult male ogres only half of the total number, but for a savage and ferocious race like ogres, there are no incompetent people in the group who eat and wait for death. Almost all of them are powerful warriors, and even those female ogres or underage ogres can easily smash the heads of elite human warriors with sticks as thick as human legs.

In the ogre camp, any ogre who reaches old age and does not die will be banished from the group and become a wandering ogre. So the ogre camp does not raise 'useless people' who have lost their ability to fight at all!

On a high cliff five miles away from the Giant Hammer Mountain, Billis stood on the top of the cliff, silently watching the black-pressed ogre figure rush out of the gate and disperse into the surrounding Black Forest.

Unlike the bee-man team, the ogres are a team of three, and most of the weapons they use are rough wooden sticks and stone sticks made by themselves, and their hunting range is even more extensive than hundreds of miles. Like those adult ogres, if you let go of your feet and run wildly, you won't have any problem running for seventy or eighty miles in the morning.

This also fully reflects their strength and physique far beyond ordinary people!

Seriously, ogres are also humanoids.

They resemble a human magnified several times over, with exceptionally large and powerful bodies, belonging to a huge, ugly, and greedy demonic creature. They are strong, but simple-minded, and even adult ogres possess the intelligence of a five-year-old human child.

Only those mutated ogre wizards have the potential to break through the limitations of their intelligence and become a terrifying monster who believes in violence and has a cruel and bloody personality.

An ordinary ogre warrior, according to the division of wizards' powers, has 7 points of strength and 9 points of constitution. Zack, the two-headed ogre, has 11 strength and 13 constitution, as well as a whopping 4 spirit.

The spirit of 4 points may only be regarded as an ordinary wizard among human wizards, but in the ogre group, it can already be regarded as an enviable high-IQ person!

Biliss looked down in thought.

Compared to the ogre, the young scorpion he bred has 4 strength and 5 constitution, as well as 2 spirit.

If you use such data to go head-to-head with the sub-bee people, the young spiny scorpion can still occupy a big advantage. But if you want to clash head-on with the ogres, I'm afraid they can't resist the violent blows of the adult ogres.

It seems that it can only be outwitted!

Billis made up his mind, and with a soft whistle, he turned into a black swarm and rushed down the cliff.