After a few hours, the team finally walked out of the forest and reached the edge of the swamp.

"Twenty kilometers west of where we are, there will be a path that leads deep into the swamp," Rhaegar said, looking at the magic map, "This is also the closest safe path to us," he turned his head and looked at Heim, "You can now tell where that temple is." ”

The treasure map obtained by the elves only showed that the temple was located in the central swamp, and depicted the structure of the temple's interior, but only a very rough description of the surrounding environment and geographical location, and Haim knew that he would never have been able to find the temple in the vast central swamp without the help of Rhaegar who had a magical map of the entire swamp landscape.

"The place we're going to be here," Rhaegar said, pointing to a point on the map after comparing it with Heim's treasure map, "After following the path to the west into the swamp, we have three ways to get to the location stated on the treasure map," his finger moved across the map, pointing the way for the others, "but either one, you're going to get into a lot of trouble - you know, there are at least a hundred times as many monsters here as there are in the forest behind us..."

Rhaegar abruptly threw away the magic map in his hand, gesturing quickly with both hands, and in an instant, a magic shield with a flickering white light appeared around everyone.

Almost at the same moment, a huge flame meteor fell from the sky and slammed into the shield, the strong energy impact turned the shield into countless flying bright spots in an instant, and the wind caused by the energy collision made everyone stand unsteadily—if it weren't for the magic shield that neutralized most of the power, this flame meteor would have been enough to reduce the entire expedition team to ashes.

"Back to the forest!" Rhaega shouted as he sent out a fireball that struck an arrow of energy flying from the side, turning the attack on himself into elementary particles.

The explorers quickly realized what was happening, and in this magical contest, they could only become a liability, and the members of the team who knew this did not hesitate and quickly ran towards the forest.

A strong sense of crisis gripped Rhaegar that he only felt when facing Tula and the seventh-order mage who had attacked him, and for Rhaegar it meant only one thing: his opponent had enough power to threaten him.

Taking a deep breath, Rhaegar entered a meditative-like state, his spirit perfectly integrated with the primordial energy around him, and with the help of these close companions, nothing within a diameter of two hundred meters could escape his surveillance.

A violent wave of energy appeared less than a hundred meters away from him, and at the same time, Rhaegar suddenly disappeared from the spot without warning, and then, a bolt of lightning the thickness of an adult's arm struck down where he had stood, turning it into a deep pit.

"He's casting fast," thought Rhaegar lurking in the shadows of the trees, "fast enough that most detection magicians can't get the information back in time." "Normally, the time it takes for mages to prepare magic will be shortened as their magic power increases, but unless they reach the level of an archmage above the eighth order, no one can prepare a spell like a flame meteor before detecting the magic feedback, but that opponent of Rhaegar definitely didn't reach such a level, otherwise the first magic just now would be enough to wipe out everyone in the squad.

A predator's glow at the sight of its prey appeared in Rhaeggar's eyes, and it was clear that his opponent had mastered some kind of method that could increase the speed of casting spells, which was undoubtedly a huge attraction for Rhaegar who was eager to improve his strength at all times.

The sound of weapons clashing against each other and the screams of dying people reached his ears in the breeze, and it was clear that the team had encountered enemies in the forest, but Rhaegar had no time to care about his companions, and his whole mind was on how to defeat the mage hiding in the shadows and capture the opponent's quick spell casting.

Once again sure that there were no enemies nearby, Rhaegar quietly arranged a simple defensive spell around himself - the main purpose of this magic was to make those who arrived here feel that they would ignore his presence - and then broke away from his body and flew towards the location of the opponent detected by the Divine Spirit.

After passing through a dozen tall trees and a few shrubs and weeds, Rhaegar finally saw the true face of his opponent, a mage in his forties, with a sixth-order mage badge pinned to his blue mage robe. Although they were of the same rank, Rhaegar did not take their opponents lightly because of this - in fact, despite being collectively referred to as official mages, the disparity in strength between the six or seven ranks, and even within each rank, was extremely large, and those mages who were in the stage of breaking through from the sixth order to the seventh order could even defeat six or seven opponents in the same rank by themselves.

The geist floated quietly, the trees of the forest providing him with the best cover, and until he was approached, the mage still did not notice his existence - the geist was not able to detect Rhaegar in a geist state.

Rhaegar slowly stretched out his hand, and at the same time as he touched his opponent, a needle-like energy passed from his palm into the mage's body, and the latter suddenly lost his ability to move, and then, Regar, who had returned to his physical body, quickly came to the mage's side, grabbed the opponent who was still incredulous to everything, and walked towards the depths of the forest away from the crowd.

In one of the hypnotic spells that Rhaegar had regained contained spells dedicated to the soul, the mage he had captured told the secret he wanted to know, after which Rhaegar threw a fireball that turned the still hypnotized mage to ashes, and then left the glade where he was pressing.

He didn't go back to support his fellow explorers, and this attack made Rhaegar fully aware of what kind of enemy these explorers were facing—not just anyone could dominate a mage who was almost on the verge of becoming a seventh-order, just to find a few warriors who would protect him after entering the swamp was not enough to make him risk opposing such a powerful enemy, and he had already made plans to leave the expedition at the same time as he was attacked by magic, and he was even ready to leave the swamp temporarily to avoid those who were chasing the expedition.

In Rhaeggar's opinion, the expedition team is the target of those people, and in order to catch up with the team, they even do not hesitate to enter the dangerous swamp, as long as they leave the team, the trouble will follow.

But those who were chasing the expedition clearly didn't think so.

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