In the forest after noon, sunlight seeps through the leaves, leaving dappled spots of light. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 However, the deeper you go into the forest, the more lush the trees become, and the bright yellow spots from the sun become scarcer.

The forest is full of unpleasant smells: the sour smell of animal droppings, the rotting smell of dead birds and beasts, the smell of earth from dead branches and leaves, the smell of sweat on people, the smell of strange flowers, and so on. Thorne sniffed hard, and after a long time in the forest, his sense of smell went from numbness to stronger smells.

Otto took the lead, saying that he wanted to compete faster in this forest. Thorne disagreed. Because this is the famous misty forest of Gasganik.

Gasganik is located in the western part of the Eastern Continent, and its northern mountains lead to Tasker, where the western part of Tasker is full of mountains, swamps, and forests, and through the forests is Rhodes. Surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the sea on the other, Gasganik has a vast territory and a warm and humid climate.

In 6799 A.D., Rhodes Rudolph defeated Lübeck Lorenz and established the Rhodes Empire named after him, changing the year 6800 to the first year of the imperial calendar. In the 5th year of the imperial calendar, Emperor Rhodes waved his army westward and made a detour to the south to attack the Kingdom of Meno, legend has it that he was once lost in the forest, and Rhodes ordered the forest to be burned in a fit of rage, wanting to burn a road. Unexpectedly, there was a heavy rain in the sky, a burst of thunder, a lightning flew through the sky, splitting a tree, and the fog surrounding the forest suddenly dispersed, and a red-eyed, snow-white stag appeared, Rodston was surprised, and drove the horse to chase after him, the buck was faster than the horse, and when Rhodes's eyes lit up, he found himself out of the forest. Then he looked back at the stag and walked away on the clouds.

Historians and folks of the Rhodes Empire had different interpretations of this legend. The official version is that Gasganik, the god of thunder, took the form of a stag and took Rhodes through the Misty Forest, and in gratitude to Thor, Rhodes named the new area discovered through the Misty Forest Gasganik. Folklore believes that the god of the forest did not let Rhodes destroy the forest, so he turned into a stag to lead him out of the forest, in short, Rhodes crossed the misty forest to get a new territory, and captured the kingdom of Meno, and has been waving his army to the no-man's land, which shows God's love for him.

In the 11th year of the imperial calendar, the Rhodes Empire captured the Rising Sun Empire in the eastern part of the Eastern Continent, and half of the Eastern Continent was captured by it. After that, Rhodes set up the four realms of the southeast, the northwest, and the guardian of the whole territory, and Gasganik was governed by the Bayer family, the guardian of the western realm. Perhaps to prevent the Northern Tasker from mutiny (after all, Lübeck established the Kingdom of Tasker in history), Gasganik has always stationed Rangers in the northern mountains, and Otto and Thorne are the Rangers.

The Misty Forest was fog-free for only 2 hours in the afternoon, and no one could tell where the fog came from, so even the Rangers only patrolled the edge of the forest.

"Legend has it that the old emperor not only encountered a stag inside, but also a lot of treasures. Otto, dressed in a cuirass made of cooked leather, with a quiver on his back, patted the dagger hanging from his waist, and said, "Coward Thorne, I'm going to be king." ”

"Don't go deep into the forest. Thorne wears a patched top hat, which makes him look like a magician from Granny's story rather than a brave Ranger. Thorne was thin, and he wore a linen garment dyed brown. Only wealthy lords or high-ranking officials of the Ranger were worthy of wearing leather armor, chain mail, and woolen clothing. The poor can only wear what is warm. Thankfully, the climate in Gasganik is warm, but the sun hours are short in the Misty Forest, so the temperature is much cooler than outside.

Otto laughed, the sound as if it was about to penetrate the forest, and he rode his horse straight into the depths of the forest. Thorne didn't want to pay attention to him, thinking that it wouldn't be long before he would return with his thoughts, but after more than half an hour, Otto was still nowhere to be seen.

"I shouldn't have come to him. Thorne muttered. Originally, Otto called him a "coward", but now that he saw a spider as big as a fist being devoured by a bright red flower bigger than a wooden basin, Thorne felt more and more that he should run away, anyway, the coward ran away, at most in exchange for Otto's ridicule. However, the Rangers' strong sense of honor made him give up the idea of escaping. "We are Thor's spear, lightning in the dark," this is the oath of the rangers to join the team, "we are all brothers, we will never leave us, we will not abandon the empire, and we will not rest until death." Thorne muttered an oath to embolden himself.

"We are all brothers, and we will never leave us...... "Thorne took a deep breath, and his horse suddenly stood up, unwilling to move forward. "What are you doing?" Thorne grabbed the reins and kicked the horse in the belly when the horse's hooves hit the ground, "Are you trying to kill me, you brute?"

Thorne took his dagger and pushed aside the bushes, stunned by what he saw: 30 meters away there was a man tied to a tree, dressed in leather armor, with his head drooping, and his body tied firmly by the thick straw rope of his arm.

"Otto!" Thorne clenched his dagger and looked around, his heart rising to his throat to see the huge footprints on the ground. God, the footprint was three times the size of an ordinary adult, and it sank deep into the dirt.

After a while, a giant came out of the woods, and it was more than 3 meters tall, wearing a short shirt made of huge yellow cowhide, and its skin was like rhinoceros skin, gray and wrinkled. His eyes were as big as brass bells, his thick hair was draped over his shoulders, and his broad mouth was full of beard.

A giant also appeared in another place, and the second giant was about 2 meters tall, and it also had rhinoceros skin-like skin, and only a cheetah skin was wrapped around its waist, looking like the child of the first giant. The first giant made a whining sound, perhaps a language, and Thorne felt the branches around him shake as the giant spoke.

The second giant took out a stone axe and approached Otto.

"Don't come here, God, help me!" Otto cried out in a hissing voice.

"Never leave. Thorne thought about the vow, but his sanity told him that rushing over now would end him the same as Otto.

With a swing of the giant's stone axe, a bloody hole opened in the top of Otto's head, "Ahhhhhh The little giant threw away the stone axe, and the big giant whined again, and the little giant took out a spoon made of wood, and inserted it into the bloody hole on the top of Otto's head, and stirred it, and the little giant took out the spoon, and in it was a white and red brain, and he opened his mouth and ate deliciously.

Otto screamed as the spoon stuck in his skull, before passing out. His brain was devoured like a dessert. Thorne felt his stomach churn and threw up.

The little giant seemed to hear something, and came over, and the big giant followed, and Thorne ran out of the bushes, and the pony fell to his knees in fright.

"Brute!" Thorne slapped the horse hard, but the horse trembled. Thorne could only dismount his horse and run away. After a while, he heard the neighing of a horse, and Thorne looked back to see that the horse had been picked up by the great giant's hands, put on his shoulder, and went back in the direction where Otto had been killed. Thorne cried and screamed, and ran to the edge of the woods.