With a clear master-slave relationship, Gargamel was no longer as lazy about the trip as he had been before.

With his special ability as an apothecary, the small monster smelled the scent of the herb pack hanging from his wand, and immediately hid as far as it could. This also allowed the expedition team to avoid a lot of unnecessary battles!

However, Gargamel's potions apparently only worked on monsters, and had no effect on ordinary jungle beasts. And this is the time to show the value of this group of mercenaries.

Ordinary beasts, the three of Lowe and Neil, a half-hung hunter, can handle it. If it encounters a large-scale attack by a herd, Sabrina, a mechanical girl, will be fully unleashed in her terrifying combat power. No matter how terrible the beast is in her hands, it is nothing more than some scattered rotten meat that can be slaughtered and * at will.

If it weren't for the fact that she didn't want to disturb the overly powerful monsters, Sabrina could even slaughter the entire pack of more than 200 wolves with a single force and be unscathed.

Sabrina, who is guarded by the power of witchcraft, is already an almost god-like terrifying existence in the eyes of adventurers, but in front of the two wizards, she often does not dare to breathe, and meekly obeys their orders. Even Gargamel, who was thin and withered, as if he could be blown down by a single wind, drove the mechanical girl to be so commanding and unscrupulous.

With the full cooperation of the Gargamer wizards, the speed of the squad was naturally countless times faster. It only took 3 days for them to be led by Lowe and others to the vicinity of the destination of this trip.

When they first arrived, the team set up camp near a hidden canyon.

Lowe, the sword and shield warrior, led two wizards, Grim and Gargamel, up a small dirt slope, and peered through the gaps between the dense trees to peek into this mysterious area half a mile away.

Sick Woods!

This is also the name given to the locals for this 50-mile Black Forest region.

The only reason for this title is that the trees here seem to have a strange disease, and all the leaves are withered and withered, and they look sick.

Seriously speaking, the Sick Wood Forest is actually a small dirt mountain, the highest point is only 200 meters. The summit is flat and soothing, with no overly steep peaks. The whole mountain is covered with skinny ancient trees, whose leaves are half yellow and half green, and they look quite strange.

The ancient trees on the hill are not very tall, and large pieces of metal rock are exposed from time to time under the thin layer of soil, reflecting the light of the stars in the sunlight. The roots of the ancient trees stretched with difficulty between the dirt and rocks, and in many places the fruit was exposed to the soil.

The dirt on the hill is grayish-brown with a hint of burnt yellow, and it seems that an infinite heat is slowly exuding from the ground, turning the place into a small oven. If it weren't for the intermittent heat that gave them a chance to survive, I'm afraid the entire earth mountain would have turned into a bare and barren land!

Grim and Gargamel looked at each other and nodded silently.

From the morphology revealed in this area of the diseased woods, it can be seen that there is indeed a heat source underground. If you want to find out the cause of the heat source, you can only risk going down to investigate.

"There, there, and there, and there, were small enough for an adult to stoop through. And in that direction...... There was a slightly larger opening, but it was full of terrifying bats, and it was difficult for outsiders to enter it without alarming them...... "Lowe is a perennial adventurer who lives here, even in dangerous areas like the Sick Woods.

However, it was clear that his understanding was only limited to the superficial layer of the Sick Wood Forest, and as for the world below the earth mountain, it was not at all a realm that he could touch!

Fortunately, Grim had already obtained some information from the forest demon, otherwise he would have to take a risk. Even with Grim's self-confidence, if he crashes into the scorpion lion with black eyes, his gray face will be light. Don't pay a price, even with his strength, if he doesn't die, he will have to shed his skin!

At this point, in fact, the adventurer team has already completed the entrusted mission issued by Grim. As for going deep into the underground world, this is not a task that ordinary adventurers can accomplish. No matter how many magic crystal bounties Grim offers, Lowe wouldn't be stupid enough to lead his teammates into the lair of a group of monsters.

Although the magic crystal is good, it is really good to have a life flower!

For this, Grim did not insist on this, but only asked them to maintain this temporary camp on the ground. The real members of the expedition were still Grimm, Gargamel, and Sabrina.

In the evening, when the sky darkened again, the people gathered in the camp suddenly heard strange noises.

Massive numbers of nocturnal bats swarmed out of a huge cavern at the foot of the Sick Wood Forest, and the huge numbers even obscured the nearby sky. They swirled left and right above the sky, and when they had gathered enough of them, they suddenly swooped down like a dark cloud towards the distant mountains and forests.

These little ones who are out of the night are finally out!

And not long after the nocturnal bats were dispatched, the cave that had just fallen silent suddenly sounded a huge sound of breaking wind.

With a strange roar, a terrifying manticore, as large as a rhinoceros and with a terrifying body, flew out of the cave. They half-glided around the sky and landed on a towering stone pillar near the entrance to the cave.

The body and head of a lion are majestic, with tan hair, and a pair of leathery dark red batwing wings on their backs, and a terrible scorpion tail in the shape of arthropods behind their tails. The scorpion-tailed venom needle was raised high, and the ends of the limbs flashed with a strange blue luster, which was not an ordinary toxin at first glance.

Compared to the manticore's huge size, the bat's wings on its back are too slender and thin. It was obviously too big to lift them up in the air or fly fast, but the manticore didn't care.

After all, the manticore is a rare monster that lives in the underground world all year round, where the territory is narrow and rugged, and it is difficult to spread its wings if it is too large. So it only needs to glide at a semi-low altitude with the help of bat wings, allowing itself to dive condescendingly towards its prey.

One, two, three, four...... Nine......

The three of Grim hid in a crack in the rocks, used medicinal powder to eliminate the smell of their bodies, and observed the movement of the manticore lions up close.

There are nine manticores, some large and some small, but all of them are adult and young manticores who are good enough to work as hunters. This also indicates that there are still two underage manticore lions left behind in the manticore's lair below the cave.

After a moment of 'quarrel' and 'distraction', the nine manticores split into three groups and roared and rushed in different directions. Although they are underground creatures, the food in the underground world is too scarce, so they also need to come to the surface every certain period to carry out a large-scale hunt to satisfy the desire of the newborn manticore lion in the tribe to eat a lot of blood!

"Let's meet the two little manticores!" When the figures of the manticore lions completely disappeared into the darkness of the night, Grim waved his hand and led the two of them towards the entrance of the huge cavern.

And only then can it be seen that Sabrina, who is a coolie, carries a huge cloth bag behind her back, which wriggles and moves, as if it is some kind of living thing.

As soon as you enter the cave, you will be greeted by a suffocatingly strong pungent stench.

Thousands of bats thrive here, making the air in the cave dirty, and the floor and stone pillars are covered with a thick layer of bat droppings, so there is no place to put your feet at all.

Grim stood at the entrance of the cave, his eyes slowly scanning the dark space inside, and soon locked on to an area.

The damp and cold air scraped from there, and there must have been a hidden passage leading to the lower level behind the stalagmites with interlaced teeth.

In Grim's elemental vision, infrared detection, low-light vision, and ultra-tactile sensation alternate, supplemented by the wizard's spiritual perception, and the darkness in the cave is rapidly retreating and peeling away. Stalagmites as sharp as wolf teeth, stone pillars that lead to the top of the cave, and hidden cracks hidden among the rocks...... All of this, centered on Grim, slowly came to his mind.

Multi-dimensional scene construction!

This is also as Grim's strength gradually grows stronger, and the visual perception ability has been strengthened step by step.

In the past, Grim could only see objects within a straight line of vision, not behind walls or stone pillars. But now, with the improvement of his ability and the increasing strength of his spiritual perception, his vision can even bypass obstacles and see what he wants to see.

Provided, of course, that there is no energy interference, or that the walls are not too thick!

And the birth of this ability also means that he will not have any dead ends in future battles. No matter what direction or angle the enemy attacks him, he can react at the first time, or attack, defend, or dodge, and each time he can make a response that is more in line with his own interests from a more global perspective.

"Come over here, I'll take you inside!"

Grim whispered a command, waited until Gargamel and Sabrina came closer, reached out and grabbed their arms, and then his body froze, disappearing in place in a burst of fire.

In the next second, in a dark corner of the cave where bats did not dare to approach, a fire rose into the sky, and the three of Grim appeared.

Gargamel didn't care, with his strong mental power, he was able to withstand the dizziness of the sudden transformation of space. And Sabrina, as a would-be witch apprentice, is obviously the first time to experience the strange sorcery of 'flame teleportation'. In an instant, she only felt that her throat was dry, and the scene in front of her was confused, she staggered two steps, and held on to the stone pillar with her hand to breathe for a moment before relieving herself.

"Let's go, there are two babies waiting for us inside!"

Grim chuckled and plunged into the dark tunnels.