Standing in front of a cavern surrounded by a pale blue halo and completely covered by dark green vines and foliage, Donald's palm stroked the rings of the giant wooden stake beside him, but his gaze stayed on the "statues" that had fallen near the stumps.

Finger stepped on the cheek of a tree man who was more than five meters tall an hour ago, but now it was the size of a normal human.

Following all the way, Donald can be said to have relied on the treants he summoned to watch the whole process.

From the rise of a group of tree people at two o'clock in the morning, to the moment when the morning sun came out, the roots of the trees returned to the land and the shrinking of the tree people, Donald saw it completely.

It's just that he can't figure out what is going on.

Why are these treemen running around carrying this stake?

Why do they completely lose their vitality as soon as the sun comes out?

And how did this secret cave that suddenly appeared appear in this environment that was originally just an ordinary woodland?

There are so many questions in his mind that even Donald, who has an agile mind, can't tell what kind of secret is hidden at this time.

"In this way, Claremont may have really taken shit luck at that time, as a wanderer who had been exposed, he just encountered this kind of scene in this huge forest. ”

Anthony touched the back of his head, and for a moment he didn't know what to do, so he could only smack his lips and say something in a muffled voice.

"Maybe, let's be a little lucky? After only looking for a day, we came across this scene. ”

Donald stepped away from the stump, turned his gaze to the inside of the cavern, and replied in a strange tone.

Is it really luck......

"Shall we go in and have a look?"

Stephanie took a branch from a tree man and held it in her hand, even though Donald had said that the tree people were completely inactive, she still felt a little stubborn that since it was something that grew naturally from a tree man, it was always worth some money.

"It's all this far, there's no reason why you shouldn't go in and take a look...... I'll go in alone, you guys are outside, and if there's any danger, I'll inform Lilo, and run back, and you'll meet me outside, and watch here, in case anyone comes and ambushes us. ”

Donald wanted to say that everyone should go in together, but when he thought about it, he felt that it was a bit desperate, in case there were any traps in the cave specifically for strangers or if someone else happened to be approaching, and no one was outside to pick up the accident.

"I'll go in with you, it's enough to have Anthony and Lilo outside, I'm eager to see what Mr. Claremont said the giant tree man looks like. ”

Stephanie leaned over to Donald's side and took the initiative.

"Hmm...... Okay, then you can go in with me. ”

If it was just one more person, Donald would still be able to take care of it.

"This should be the entrance to a secret realm, otherwise there is no way to explain its sudden appearance, it should be related to the tree stump next to it, could it be that the tree stump is actually the entrance to the secret realm?"

Until he stepped into the secret realm, Donald was still thinking about the origin of this secret realm.

When he stepped in, his body rubbed against those branches and vines, and his vision immediately darkened, as if he had stepped into another world.

Donald had been to the Secret Realms twice, once on the Shapeless Island and once in the mountains beyond Belluye, and both of these experiences had given Donald a preconceived impression of the Secret Realms, which were often a natural wild environment inside.

However, this time he entered the secret realm of the Howling Forest, and what Donald saw was a long corridor paved with cyan stone slabs, flanked by pillars of vines more than a person tall like lamps, and the tops were lit with pale green fluorescent vine columns.

Beyond these things is a stone wall made of overlapping gray stones and vines clinging to them.

It's not like something that grows naturally.

"Is the scene inside the cavern that Claremont said at the time the way it is now?"

Stooping down to check the light in the lamppost, Stephanie stomped on the floor with her foot raised to confirm that it was indeed a solid brick.

"No, I distinctly remember that the cave he was talking about was an ordinary cave with a huge tree man lying in it...... He lied to us?"

Donald recalled what Claremont had told him about the inside of the cave, and it was clear that there was a considerable difference from the scene in front of him.

But if Claremont deceived him, Donald couldn't understand why, since he had already told them about the exterior of the cave, why lie in such a place that could be seen at a glance?

Walking along this promenade, after 100 meters, you can faintly see a large green light in front of you.

"Be careful, don't get too far away from me, there's an energy reaction ahead. ”

Donald kept his vision on and continued on, stepping on the last block of masonry at the end of the hallway, all he could see was a staircase that stretched down in front of him and a long jagged wood...... It wasn't simply a woods, but a place where hundreds of wood spirits gathered.

In the state of vision, the scene in front of him was very similar to the scene he saw in the Wailing Forest last night, and Donald was still thinking about where those wood elves had gone before he came in, but he didn't expect them to be hidden here.

"I understand, these wood elves were originally the existence of this secret realm, they will leave the secret realm at night and come to the Weeping Forest, and when the sun rises the next day, they will return to the secret realm, and the one who makes this huge number of wood elves cry is probably the existence in front of them......"

Donald's gaze was farther away than the Wood Elves, where stood a giant seat about 20 meters high and nearly 10 meters wide, made of thick roots and dark green vines, and in the middle of that seat sat a giant tree man nearly 15 meters tall!

Unlike the trees around the stump outside, which were covered with branches and broken leaves, the one in front of him only had some branches on his head, not the kind of random growth, but more like a natural existence, and those branches showed a general state of first growing horizontally and then vertically upward, which made them look like the crown of a human king on the top of the treeman's head.

Its skin wasn't even dark green, but a very striking silver-gray, and the ravines on its body were glowing with a dull golden glow that flowed from the golden hedron in the shape of a cross in its skull, flowing all over its body.

It just sat in the seat, leaning to the right, with its right arm against its cheek, as if it had fallen into a long sleep, and it didn't know how many years it would wake up, and it seemed like it was just a short sleep, and it would open its eyes and make a low sound anytime and anywhere.

Hiss ~ Hoo ~ Hiss ~ Hoo ~

Heavy gasps came from the side, and Donald turned his head to see that Stephanie was sweating profusely.

"Donald, I'm a little out of breath......"

Stephanie stared at the giant tree man for a moment, and shakily as if she had run for kilometers.

"Who told you to look at it like that, it's a demigod existence that is only one step away from the real gods!"

Even the most dull person could see that the giant tree man in front of him was unusual, and combined with Claremont's words and the ancient book in his hand, Donald quickly guessed its identity.

The demigod who wrote this ancient book in his own hand!

"Close your eyes, pull at the corner of my coat, and we'll go. ”

Donald just wanted to hurry to the demigod's presence, not so much to see its face, but to find its relics!

That's right, the giant treant is dead, Donald is sure of it.

One is because of the records in the ancient books of the demigods, and the other is because of what these wood elves have done before.

He vaguely understood why those wood elves were crying in the middle of the night.

The passing of the demigod in front of him made these wood elves who were created by it or who came to this world by it feel extremely sad, and this secret realm is actually equivalent to a moving coffin.

The Wood Elves carried the coffin through the forest in the dead of night, so that the dead demigod could continue to feel the territory under his control.

"Is the dead king still the king......"

Retracted his gaze with some emotion and buried his head forward, the above is just Donald's personal speculation, the truth is unknown, and he doesn't care about exploring these reasons now, he only knows that this is the corpse of a demigod in front of him, and some of the things it collected during his lifetime may be extremely valuable treasures for Donald.

Shuttling through the wood elves, Donald completely restrained his mental power and turned himself into an ordinary person, which was imitating Claremont's previous behavior, he was able to enter here as an ordinary person and get out alive, which means that these wood elves are likely not to attack ordinary people.

Donald proved to be right, and there were no incidents along the way, and the wood elves didn't move as if they had fallen asleep with the giant treemen.

"Donald, do you think that's where Claremont used to take the demigod ancient book?"

Walking on the central stone path and over the trees, Stephanie quickly noticed that there was actually a clearing between the giant tree people and the trees, and in the center of this clearing was a stone table of normal size.

In fact, in such an environment, this kind of thing is not normal no matter how you look at it......

Subconsciously approaching the table, not surprisingly, there was nothing on it, Donald crouched down to look at the stone table, and took out the demigod ancient book from the spatial ring.

It's just a whimsical action.

However, at the moment when the demigod ancient book appeared, the book that had not changed until now suddenly exploded into a point of light, and Donald did not react for a moment and froze in place.

"You're finally here......"

A voice suddenly sounded in the air, mixed with joy, relief, and some inexplicable special emotion.