The fruits in the sky hit like a storm, and they couldn't resist it, and everyone could only run desperately.

Simpson ran at the end of the line, his thick leather armor didn't matter, but his head was blue and purple, but his giant bear-like body was tightly guarding Ise. The others weren't much better, with Felder nearly disfigured at the front, and the monkeys unleashing a brutal carpet attack on him from the front.

"Where are the monkeys, they are the devils!" Felder ran forward with his head in his hands and howled loudly, and fell to the ground carelessly, not bothering to wipe the mud off his face, and got up and continued to run forward.

Vane also used the magic shield at first, but his poor mental power combined with the half-hung dark magic level didn't take long for the fruit to smash through the shield. Now he is also running forward with his head in his hands, one foot deep and one foot shallow. Vane intentionally or unintentionally blocked a lot of fruit attacks for Elena, who was in a slightly better situation.

After being attacked by the fruit for nearly half an hour, Felder felt that he had lost hope in life, and even got used to the rain of fruits, and he had begun to stop dodging everywhere and resigned himself to fate. Suddenly, the "rain" stopped, and he opened his eyes wide to find that the monkeys in the trees around him had stopped moving, and seemed to be looking ahead with some fear.

Felder looked up at the sky, it was already dark, and not far in front of him was a small lake, or rather a large pond. On a stone on the edge of the pond, a man sat with his back to them. He looked a little bloated, but he was wearing a black tuxedo, hunched forward, and a black top hat, which looked a little funny and weird.

Felder gently rubbed his bruised face, stepped forward and asked, "Hey, who are you? Why are you sitting here?"

"Traveler, it's been a long time since anyone has been here, would you like to hear me tell a story?" the man spoke in a strange voice, as if he had something in his mouth.

"It's funny to tell a story, but we're here to find people, not to listen to stories. Have you ever seen a little girl about eight years old?" said Felder impatiently, reaching out to tat the man on the shoulder.

At that moment, the man stood up and turned around, revealing a frog's face under his black top hat! slimy green skin with black spots, and a pair of bulging eyes above the ugly triangular head.

Felder was so frightened that his legs went limp, and he sat on the ground, moving backwards with his hands. The others were frightened enough, and after relieving themselves, Elena drew her bow and arrows and pointed them at the frogman, and Vane began to chant a spell.

"If you want to leave, listen to my story, or else—" Suddenly the frog-man opened its mouth, which was almost as big as its head, and then with lightning it stretched out a pink tongue that seemed endless, and swooped down on a long-tailed monkey in the tree. Almost instantly, the monkey was already in its mouth, leaving only its long, thick tail still wagging outside, and then with a "suck", the tail was also sucked into its mouth.

The crowd froze and did not dare to move, the monkeys scattered, and the monkey who had stolen Elena's arrow threw down the arrow monster and ran away.

"Now you can listen to my story. If you are satisfied with your answers, you can leave, or ......," the frogman said as he sat back on the rock, chewing on what was in his mouth.

How dare the crowd disagree, one by one they sat around the frogman with pale faces—as it demanded, and sat and listened to the story.

The story begins, the frogman tells it very seriously, and everyone slowly immerses themselves in the story......

"Once upon a time, there was a king whose little daughter was as beautiful as a fairy. The little princess's favorite thing to play with is a golden ball, and one day she was playing with it in the forest and accidentally dropped the ball into the pond. Then a frog came up to her and said, "If you want to get your golden ball back, you must take me home and eat and sleep with you." The princess pretended to agree, but after getting the golden ball, she didn't take the frog with her. One day there was a knock at the door at dinner, and the princess went to open the door and found the frog at the door, and she was frightened, and the king knew about it and told the princess that she should keep her promise. The frog ate with the king and princess, but when it was time for the princess to go to bed, she did not want to sleep with the frog, so she grabbed the frog and threw it against the wall. ”

"Do you know what the end of the story is?" asked the frogman.

"The frog became a prince and lived happily with the princess?" said Elena tentatively, a story she had heard countless times as a child.

The frogman shook his head and said slowly, "The truth is that the magic on the prince's body went wrong and was turned into a monster in the form of a frog. The king's guards caught the monster, and the king ordered the guards to return it to its original pond and have the shrine maiden cast a curse so that it could never leave the pond. ”

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know what the frogman means.

"You were once a prince who fell in love with a princess of the kingdom of Beesca, didn't you?" Vane began, as if he understood something.

"Yes, that was a long, long time ago...... I was a young child, the youngest prince of the Atagar kingdom, smart and handsome, and everyone liked me, except for my brothers. They secretly asked the shrine maiden to make a magic potion that could turn people into frogs and tricked me into taking them, so I became a frog. I traveled north from Lanzas, the capital of Ataga, through almost the entire forest. Saying this, the frogman's eyes showed a hint of tenderness.

"You already know what happened next, now you can go. With that, he closed his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.

Several people stood up as if in a dream and prepared to leave.

"Wait, you said you were looking for someone?" asked the frogman, turning.

"Ah, that's right. Vane replied.

"After going around this pond and heading south, through the misty forest, you will find an old friend of mine, the Lake Fairy, who lives on a large lake and should help you. With that, he closed his eyes again.

After leaving the pond, the group continued to walk forward.

"I don't think it's necessary to listen to this ugly bastard, the story he tells about the Frog Prince is completely different from what we have heard, and especially if the story he tells sounds like hundreds of years ago, how could he have lived so long?" said Felder as he drew a circle on the ground with his sword.

"I think what he said was telling the truth, and he didn't have to lie to us. Eth would look much better, she said, pressing her right hand against the wound.

"Vane, what do you think?" asked Elena, looking at Vane.

"Instead of searching aimlessly in this Endless Forest, let's go see the old friend that the frogman said he was talking about. Vane said after a moment's thought.