There was no sun, but the sky was still shining with blazing light, and it was probably noon, and the vast and endless forest seemed to be quiet, but in fact, many places were bursting out of large and small magic fluctuations, but compared to the vast forest, it was too inconspicuous, and those magic fluctuations could not spread far here.

Next to a tall tree, members of Maureen's group are resting.

"I, where are we going?" said Marcas, panting, leaning against the thick trunk of a tree, and tossed the storage box on his back to the ground, which contained his metal gloves and most of the squad's supplies, hungry food and clean fresh water, and some other medicine and supplies that might be needed.

Given that in a normal adventure party, the metal storage boxes are kept by mechanics, Marcus was very jealous not to let his friends carry this heavy storage box for him.

"Be careful!" exclaimed Equino, who was sitting at the root of a tree, wearing a lilac mage robe and carrying her usual dagger with a ruby in addition to her magic cards. Opening the team's storage box, she took out a small bottle of milky white elixir and opened it, pinched out a small piece of crystal pink petals and threw it into the potion bottle, plugged the bottle and shook it a few times before throwing it to the exhausted Marcas: "Sustained-release physical strength potion, first-order middle grade, you can still take three today." ”

Then she pulled out a compartment in the storage box, threw a few black crystal nuclei in her hand, glanced at the filled compartment, and the little vampire clapped his hands with great satisfaction and said, "Forty pieces! Six of them are second-order!"

"Forty bucks......" Marcas drank it all in one gulp, burped comfortably, and lamented again: "It's only been a long time, we've already killed forty nightmare beasts, and before I came in, I heard Professor Honorom describe that the intensity of the battle here shouldn't be so high, right, I'm about to die of exhaustion......"

"You're too much! These crystal nuclei can be taken away! It's almost worth three hundred gold coins!" "Equino would like to have a few more Nightmare Beasts to get more crystal nuclei, and none of the materials she obtained in the Trial Tower need to be exchanged, she said with anticipation, "If only I could collect more rare beast relics!"

When killed, Nightmare Beasts will leave behind a crystallized order, and their bodies will dissipate into mist, but it is said that they will occasionally leave a very small number of body structures, such as the hardest scale and bone spurs, and these materials are collectively called beast relics, which are extremely valuable, and have a wide range of uses in the fields of advanced alchemy, magic machinery, and potion preparation.

"The adults in my tribe say that often only high-level or special-form nightmare beasts are likely to leave behind beast relics, and these beginner-level nightmare beasts rarely leave that kind of thing. Barron replied.

He was on guard with his large black hammer, his round eyes staring wide at the surrounding bushes and distant tree gaps, as if he wanted to set them on fire with his mental power. In this trial tower, the Kadir boy also wore a rare pair of battle armor, of course, it was only the simplest kind, and it could only basically protect the vital points of the body.

After all, Barron is still flying in terms of strength and size, and it is too wasteful to spend so many gold coins to create a pair of armor that can only be used for a few months, and he is tattooed with the special totem runes of the Kadir people all over his body, which is like a layer of armor when activated, enough to resist any attack that is not a big threat.

Tilna summoned the title page of her rune and was replacing the magic cards within.

Skilled mages can summon their cards directly from the rune title page [Career Badge] to their hands to activate, but the capacity in the rune title page is limited, and it cannot contain all the cards that are useful or may be useful, so during the adventure, most of the mage's cards are kept in the card box they carry with them, and they are swapped with the cards on the title page according to the situation and environment.

After only fighting in the Trial Tower for a short time, even the face of the Vess Demon Spirit was full of exhaustion.

I have to say that they have faced a lot of offensive pressure during this time, and the Nightmare Beasts have appeared almost one after another, including many second-order and even third-order guys, and it took several of them to finally kill that guy.

Each level of Nightmare Beast's rank increases dramatically, and its form strength and resistance to magic increase.

As for Morin, he was sitting on a tall branch of the tree and watching the wind, and said to Marcas below: "Let me observe again before deciding to go that way, you should first seize the time to meditate and recover your magic power, and in addition, don't use combat skills that consume too much mental perception when fighting, I have a hunch that we may not be able to sleep all day." ”

"All day? What do you mean you can't sleep all day? You make it clear!" Marcus was about to collapse, "Then what are we going to do at night, do we have to face so many nightmare beast attacks?"

"Perhaps......" Merlin replied in a low voice, looking up at the vast forest around him.

From the beginning of the morning when they gathered together through the pentagram runes, they encountered ferocious nightmare beasts one after another, and from then until now, it was about just after noon, they had killed more than forty nightmare beasts in total, not to mention, the frequency of encounters with the enemy gradually increased, and they had just had a vicious battle with six nightmare beasts one after another, and finally took a break to recuperate.

Morin was not in the realm, although standing on the high treetops, his vision could stretch far beyond the forest sea, but most of the nightmare beasts were difficult to observe on the ground, and the boy wanted to see if there were any natural defensive terrain nearby, such as steep hillsides or rivers, that could make the nightmare beast stop.

I had heard Mr. Ed's advice before, and the experience of this little half a day made him faintly judge.

He does have a strong attraction to Nightmare Beasts, even stronger than the average mid-to-high-level professionals who don't go all out. Merlin looked around and pondered, according to Professor Ranger's lesson, Nightmare Beasts are the embodiment of chaos, and they should attack powerful professionals first.

But the most obvious thing is that when he and Barron stand together, every time the Nightmare Beast will pounce on him instead of choosing Barron, you must know that Barron is a real third-order combat position, and Merlin himself is still on the edge of the second order and has not yet broken through to become a third-order mage.

Of course, this also allowed them to discover a good tactic - using Morin as a decoy while the others attacked with all their might.

When facing more than one Nightmare Beast at the same time, unless everyone's position is relatively scattered, their target is still Morin, if they are not afraid of accidents, they can even let Merlin take the Nightmare Beast in a circle, and let the three priests of Marcas, Tierna, and Eminor keep them at a safe distance and kill them with magic.

But in this way, it seems that the frequency of their group's encounters with the enemy is increasing, and it should also be related to Morin.

"I don't know how big my attraction is......" Merlin thought with a frown, the blazing light illuminating her vision with some pain, and some tears flowed out: "If it really attracts all the nightmare beasts in a large forest, it will be really dangerous, and whether it can survive until it is teleported out is a question." ”

Their group hadn't been able to travel much in the past half a day, if he really attracted a large range of nightmare beasts to approach this side, even if it was not obvious now, it only reflected that the frequency of encounters with enemies would be higher, because the nightmare beasts that came to the vicinity were only a small part, but when the large range of nightmare beasts in the distance slowly gathered in this vicinity, I am afraid that there were terrifying creatures that were pale and white in all directions, and that scene had only been seen when commanding the army in the trial ladder.

Thinking of this, a fine bead of sweat oozed from Morin's brain.

He could even imagine countless nightmare beasts coming towards them beneath the vast canopy of trees beyond his sight, forming a huge encirclement that was getting closer and closer.

"Damn!" he jumped down from the canopy and said to his companions, "Let's go!"

"Huh?" Marcus just closed his eyes and began to meditate, "Why don't you rest for a while?"

"Talk as you go!" Morin's very serious tone made the companions realize the seriousness of the matter, and they quickly sorted out their belongings and adjusted them into a formation that could coordinate with each other.

"Where are we going, going back?" asked Tierna.

If you want to avoid encountering more Nightmarmons, it is a good idea to return in the direction you are traveling, after all, that route has already been cleared by them once, and the chance of encountering a wandering Nightmare Beast again will be much lower.

"No!" Morin shook his head, "We have to keep moving forward, in the same direction!"

"Advance as fast as we can! Barron and I are in charge of clearing the enemy, and we must proceed as fast as we can, at the speed of a rapid march! Otherwise...... Maybe it's going to be a problem......"

……

A small forest battlefield, the card in Strayer's hand flickered, a narrow stone wall blocked in front of a magoon-tailed beast to block it, the heavily armored berserker Osmond leaned forward to cut off the huge tailbone, and with the help of the other three companions, it was not easy to put the manticore-tailed beast down, and finally a sword pierced the skull and turned it into mist.

In addition to the last fallen scorpion tail, this forest battlefield was also littered with four other black crystal nuclei.

In terms of size, they were all second-order crystal nuclei, and in this battle, they were actually facing the attack of five nightmare beasts at the same time.

"Whew...... How...... "Osmond, who was almost exhausted, braced his body with his heavy sword, panting incessantly.

Strayer looked at Osmond's blade, then at the other three exhausted team members, unable to maintain a gentle smile on his face, so gloomy that he could freeze ice at any moment.

After he and the team members converged, there was nothing unusual at first, but as the time turned around a little bit by noon, somehow there were suddenly more nightmare beasts in this area, and they encountered a small group every three or five times, and now it is the fourth battle in a row, because they didn't pay much attention at first, they didn't fight frugally enough, and now the girl named Vina has run out of magic power, and if you can't find a period of time to meditate safely, it will be difficult to be effective in battle.

"Did you encounter anything unusual......" Strayer muttered to himself.

"Don't worry, I've got a piece of fire, and if it really doesn't work, I'll use it for help. He said that the Fireline Technique was a relatively difficult second-order magic to control, and they couldn't use it normally yet, but Strayer was confident that he could still leave a few traces of help in the sky at the cost of cards.

Hearing that Strayer was prepared in this way, the rest of the group also breathed a sigh of relief.

No one expected that the intensity of the battle here would be so high, they had already entered as a group, and the members of their own group were closer to each other, and they could converge together to form a squad without much effort, and their combat effectiveness would be doubled, if they came in as an individual to test, I am afraid that by now they would only have corpses left.

"Why don't you use it now?" said another boy named Clark, who couldn't help but lose a little bit of noise when he saw everyone looking at him, but still muttered, "It's not a good idea to go on like this, if we encounter two more waves of four or five nightmare beasts like this, I'm afraid we won't be able to deal with accidents." Didn't Professor Honorrom say that safety is the first principle? ”

The others were silent, seemingly a little moved, and looked at Strayer, waiting for him to make a decision.

“…… Wait a little longer, you should hurry up and recover, Osmond on alert. Strayer said: "If you use the firing technique, the impact will be too great, and people in a large area will find a way to rush to support us, and the trials that affect others will not be too good not to mention our own scores, after all, there will be afternoons and nights to come." ”

As he was talking, he seemed to suddenly remember something, his wrist trembled, he closed his eyes for a moment, and his face suddenly froze.

"What?" asked Clark nervously, lest he say anything bad.

"Ahem," Strayer lowered his arm quietly, letting the ornate magic robe hide the lilac magic rune on his wrist, and said after a pause, "I sensed some magic fluctuations, there may be someone in that direction." ”

He gestured, before he suddenly remembered the pentagram rune in his hand, and sensed it and found that Mo Lin and their group were not far away, and the five runes gathered together and they were only a short distance away: "Let's rush over first, if we really meet other people, we can at least get together, recover completely and then make plans." ”

The others agreed, and hurriedly packed up and cleaned up the battlefield.

"Well, do you think there's someone over there?" asked Osmond as he walked over with a heavy sword, whispering in a hoarse voice.

Strayer nodded.

"What if it's an adventurer, it's not necessarily easy to deal with, and we're not in a good state right now. Osmond was not reassured.

"No problem, trust me......"

……

"There's someone ahead!" Morin, who was hurrying along, suddenly gestured and dodged behind a tree to look.

The few people scattered not far behind him also vigilantly lowered their pace, gathered their magic, and silently found their own cover area, while Barron took Merlin's place and rushed to the front of the formation, taking the hammer.

The Kadir boy is too large to be hidden, but he does a good job of attracting attention when dealing with people.

"It's Strayer's group. He said calmly, the magic robe of His Highness Strayer of Lothar had already appeared behind the bushes, and with the sound of small footsteps he heard, he directly judged that it was Strayer and their group.

Morin breathed a sigh of relief and motioned for the other three to be lifted.

But when the two groups got together, and heard Strayer say that the magic of the previous successive battles had been exhausted, and he wanted to rest for a while and recover under the care of their group, Morin immediately denied: "No!"

He stared at him for a moment, and said solemnly, "We must rush out at once!" or we would be in danger!"

"Rush out?" Strayer was a little puzzled: "Rush out of what?"

"Break out of the Nightmare Beasts!"