The rain didn't last long.

The bonfire flickered and burned all night, until only embers remained, and smoke rose to fill the air with the faint fragrance of a certain species of duck plant.

The early morning rainforest takes on a dim state, while Mount Piriyad still stands gloomy, its peaks hidden in the clouds.

The lizard did not consider the mountain sacred, and gave it the name of one of the kings of giants, Piried, because when it was angry, gathered dark clouds between heaven and earth, and rained down a terrible flood that fell on the flooded land.

Fang Yu had seen the pouring rain yesterday.

The rain it brought with it overflowed the valley in the night, but it came and went as fast as it came.

After the rain, water accumulates on each broad leaf, and when you touch it with your hand, it falls like mercury pouring down on the ground.

Sky Blue fiddles with the leaves with her hands, trying to play a prank on Kita.

But Miss Naturalist reacted quickly, and at the moment when the water droplets fell, she stretched out her hand and flicked it, and the magic guide book turned the pages with a bang, and a string of incantations flew out of the book, lingering around her white fingertips, turning the water into an ice edge, which smashed into Sky Blue's chest.

The smashed ice edge knocked the latter to the ground, and after a long pause, Bai raised his head and looked at her with a surprised face, and said in a tone full of incredulity:

"Kita, you're so good?"

Tianlan immediately realized that her prank had been revealed, and couldn't help but touch the back of her head, hehehehe, hehe,

But Kita helped her up, "I didn't notice it was you, Frey, didn't get hurt, did you?" ”

Azure patted her chest, swept away the ice slag, and shook her head nonchalantly.

"What kind of spell is that?" She asked a little curiously.

"That's a short phrase, turning water into ice and a counter-spell, the former is a very simple word magic, you can understand it as a proverb; How much mana is consumed depends on how many effects are created, and it only takes a few Me'elos to turn some water into ice edges. ”

“M、Me'elos？”

Kita carefully explained to Azure like a true good student, "Me'elos is the 'M' on your magic furnace, and its root comes from the tunes and charms of the Noumerin Elves, referring to the magic that every word in magic is called upon, and it is also the basic unit of aether. ”

"As for the counterspell ......"

"Okay, okay," Sky Blue, who was already two big ones, hurriedly interrupted her, "I've got it, it's a very powerful spell anyway, right?" ”

Kita blinked her black and white eyes slightly, wanting to say that in the third-level spell system of magic, it was only the simplest category.

But she was quiet, knowing that her little friend was just impatient to listen, and she didn't speak again.

She used to like to use long descriptions to enhance the power of the Magic Book, until the Archmage opened another door for her.

After learning how to use short words to achieve the desired effect, his spells are more meaningful than before.

But sometimes, she really misses her teacher very much, but it's a pity that the other person stays with them for too short.

The sound of birds in the rainforest was pouring in, and the sky was getting brighter, and the task of the day was heavy, and after crossing the valley, they had to climb up the foothills of the Piried Mountains to higher altitudes.

There it crosses a mountain pass and arrives at the plateau plain between the mountains, the Savannah Belt.

People are putting away their tents, shaking off the water droplets on them, checking for insects between the blankets and sheets, and for snakes curling in their boots.

The walnut people in the underground didn't sleep very well this night, in the past, their level would rarely be too far away from the town, at least not deep into such a high-level area.

Although the flood at night did not bring the herd, the small noise in the forest was enough to keep them awake all night.

And Parker, who has long been accustomed to life in the wild, is the old god, and only complains about the terrible temperature at night.

The big cat man sat on a dead log, put the holy sword aside, and did not look at the blooming wild rose, which looked like an ordinary long sword.

Long before everyone got up, he smoked a pipe.

The walnut group in the ground is full of admiration for the big cat people, and they are even more envious of the calm and chic.

"Obey the will of the wind, be free," the Lionman Paladin tapped the boys' chests with his paws, "Lady Marlan taught us not to be afraid or hesitate. ”

Fang Yu looked at this scene and shook his head, as if he had seen his past self.

At one time or another, Mr. Big Cat Man was also synonymous with mastery in his eyes, and even seemed to be more reliable than Miss Atira.

Several of the walnuts in the ground are named after dried vegetables and nuts, ranging from dates to pecans, and even one called titanium peas.

Jujube is a little fat man, and he is pointing in one direction at the moment and asking:

"W-What is that?"

A voice could be heard in the distance.

Fang Yu stopped, looked at the slowly moving gray-white wall of trees in the forest, and replied:

"Grey Tree people, very common in peat bogs, they are very high-level, but they are neutral creatures, as long as you don't mess with them, they rarely attack people."

The big cat man spat out a smoke ring and looked in that direction, "Compared to their kind, the withered treemen are much more ferocious, although they are only less than twenty levels, but the withered woods are not easy for adventurers around thirty to set foot in." ”

"Where do they go?" The little fat man asked again.

"I don't know, maybe it's the flooding that inundated their habitat and forced them to move to higher ground."

Everyone watched the Greytree people leave, which was also a rare sight.

Alone she crouched by the embers of the campfire, and put the breakfast cake on the still hot stone, softened it with her hands, and wrapped it up.

She distributed the bread to the crowd, and Fang Yu was a little surprised as to how the dry food came from, and when she asked about it, she learned that the girl had prepared it herself when she was in Pachwa.

If Fang Yu wasn't going to take her to Goland, she was going to rely on these preparations to climb the ladder of the old world.

Although this sounds a bit fantastical, Fang Yu also has to admire this girl's persistence.

By the way, the walnuts in the ground blushed like apples when they got the cakes.

He was stammering to Becky, "Miss Becky, if you're going to Golland, I'll go with you......"

"Because, because I promised your father that I would take good care of you."

Betty listened silently, looked at him, and nodded.

Tianlan talked about it a little funny, saying that she saw the shadow of a certain head of the regiment from this stupid young man.

Fang Yuan's face darkened when he heard this, he and Sylvid were not so anxious.

But the ship's attendant just pursed her lips and smiled.

She used the star tracker to reconfirm the direction, yesterday's rainstorm didn't deviate them too much, and they could still continue to follow the route they had set a day earlier.

At ten o'clock in the morning, they walked out of the valley.

As the altitude changes, the surrounding vegetation stratification changes significantly.

The characteristics of the rainforest are gradually disappearing, and the dicots of cinnaria, oak, and a large number of lianas and sheep's teeth occupy the field of view.

Here they met another kind of creature, the migrating feathered dragons.

This is a clade of the Azuka pterosaurs, and it seems that the flood is driving them away as well.

Half an hour later, they were also hit by the flood ahead.

The water level of the mountain stream was high, and the muddy water overflowed the two banks, converging into several streams and flowing downstream, and the sound of the water was deafening. As the road was cut off by a flash flood, the crowd had to find another way, turning several times through the valley until the afternoon before returning to the main road.

The flood trapped some of the feathered dragons, making them a target for Parker.

In fact, the Paparals have been obsessed with the feathers of these big feathered creatures since they met them before.

Those colorful feathers were just the right decoration for his newfound scabbard.

His last dagger had been forgotten in the inn during Orenze's great escape, and the scimitar that had been used from Istania until the time was declared dead.

The new one was purchased in Pačva.

Said to be a wizard from the Sinsas era, it was almost certainly a legendary item, according to the lizardman.

The Paparals have two points of doubt and eight points of belief.

However, when the feathered dragon group appeared before, he didn't dare to go up and die. As for going it alone, he might as well think about it.

Of course, what he calls fighting alone refers specifically to the situation where there is only one opposite.

Parker pulled out his crossbow and looked eager to try.

Fang Yu glanced at this guy and didn't bother to care about him, anyway, if this guy succeeded, everyone would have dinner in the evening.

But not long after Parker called the walnuts in the ground, the two of them screamed exaggeratedly.

Causing everyone to look in that direction.

I saw two people who seemed to be rolling in the mud, leading a wingless dragon to appear in front of everyone.

The walnuts in the ground are like absenteeism in a black coal kiln, and almost only a pair of eyes are still exposed, dripping and turning.

Parker was a little better, and wiped his short hand on Dahua's face, revealing his snow-white teeth and smirking smugly.

The big cat man whistled and laughed dumbly, "I've never heard of catching a feather dragon to make yourself look like this?" ”

The Paparral boasted, "That's because none of the feathered dragons you've seen in the past are as big as this one." I've heard that the bigger and stronger the feathers on the top of the feather dragon, the healthier and brighter they are, and it's not that I'm boasting, but I must be the leader of the group. ”

Red smiled and said, "I think you're not just a leader, you're a herald." ”

"What?"

But before he could react, the big cat man walked over, grabbed a leather strap tied to the tail of the feathered dragon, and ripped a bag from underneath.

At this time, Tianlan couldn't help but exclaim: "Parker, it seems that you are holding a female feathered dragon, it has no crown!" ”

It is well known that only male feathered dragons have brightly colored feathered crests for courtship, and Parker's eyes widened as he looked at the feathered dragons he had captured with great difficulty.

Because of a roll in the mud, he really didn't pay attention to this problem before, but now he found that his prey really didn't seem to have a crown of feathers on the top of his head.

He looked extremely shocked, and the whole person seemed to be stunned: "This is impossible! ”

But Fang Yu, who was at the back of the line, looked at the two of them, and didn't know who was more stupid, he sighed and said:

"It's a male."

"But it's not a feathered dragon, it's an Azuka pterosaurus?"

He looked at the bag in the big cat's hand, "This is a messenger bag, which is usually used to deliver emergency information, and it is tied to the root of the tail of the dragon beast, because they usually can't reach this place by themselves, which is more safe." ”

"Wait, so?"

"So this pterosaur has an owner, a domesticated pack beast, and there is no record of the feather dragon domesticated, but there are many subclades of the Azuka pterosaurus that have a long history of getting along with humans," Fang Yu looked at the two people with a little pity, "I really don't know whether to say that you two are lucky or too lucky." ”

Parker sat down on the ground.

The walnuts in the ground didn't mind too much, wiped their faces and asked a little curiously, "What kind of letterhead is in that bag, and who sent it?" ”

"Someone is probably ahead of us," replied the big cat man, "but just look at it." ”

He opened his mud-wrapped bag and took out something from it, a brilliant crystal. The walnut in the ground was the first to recognize this thing, and couldn't help but be surprised: "Earth Source Crystal!?" ”

The big cat man took out a few pieces of earth source crystals one after another, and finally took out a letter.

He unfolded the waterproof piece of parchment, squinted his eyes, and read it out:

"Today is September 11 and the supply depot has been attacked.

The enemies are a bunch of constructed creatures, they don't look like they're being manipulated, they range from level 20 to 30, and these ghosts attack everything they see.

We need support. Anyone who sees the letter is asked to forward it to the Bavad camp for a flash of light. Those in dire need will thank you.

From, Bourkeso. ”

"I'm guessing the person who wrote this letter is a local." The big cat man came to a conclusion.

"Aborigines don't use the term September 11th, now is ......?"

"Jackdaw Moon." Sylvide added.

"That's right," Fang Yu nodded, "The Kaulin people have three ways to remember the month in three different years, and there is a rotation of thirty-six months, and the Electors don't know it at all. ”

"Not many locals know about it," Sylved said with a laugh, "what was once a means for the Warlocks of the Tower of Stars and Moon to monopolize knowledge, but it has become a tradition. But this is indeed the tone of your people, and the details of the natives' writing are still slightly different from yours, provided that the person is literate, of course. ”

Fang Yu knew that outside the hinterland of the kingdom, the literacy rate of ordinary people was not high.

And even in areas where alchemy is thriving, the literacy rate is only about sixty percent.

"But I guess the Chosen One should have a communication crystal." The big cat man said.

"The communication crystal is not omnipotent, and it is possible that the person who wrote the letter did not recognize the flash of light." Fang Yu replied.

"Don't recognize?"

"For example, the flash of light is the person in charge of the Bavard camp mentioned above, and there may be such a situation."

The big cat man stroked the beard from his chin and nodded.

They looked for walnuts in the ground and found out that the Bavard camp was the name of the adventurer's camp in the southern foothills of Piried.

Then the matter is clear.

It seems that the fact that earth-derived crystals can be mined from the Piriyère Mountains is indeed no secret in the local area.

In order to go to the Piriyads Mountains to 'pan for gold', the adventurers even set up a supply station on the mountain, but for some reason, the supply station seems to have been attacked by a group of constructed creatures.

In the context of Aitalia, constructed creatures are not the same as constructed bodies.

The latter refers specifically to artificial creations, but it is possible that constructive organisms are naturally occurring. For example, creatures such as wandering clockwork, activating armor, and walking mud figures.

Of course, it is also possible that there is a miscalculation, and it is not uncommon for craftsmen to disguise themselves as natural creatures to attack others.

But the question now is not who attacked the depot, but why it was attacked.

Judging from the time on the letter, the letter was sent three days ago, which means that the time when the supply depot was attacked should be about the same time.

As for the walnuts underground, they had never heard of the construction of creatures from the guild, so at the point in time when the Art Dispute Guild and the lizardmen arrived here, it should have been at least nothing.

So it's interesting to see where these constructed creatures come from.

Of course, Fang Yu couldn't go back to deliver the letter, he planned to go and see what was going on for himself, he only hoped that there would still be people in that place when he arrived.

After this little episode, the team moved on.

But until that night, they didn't have any trouble.

As expected, they crossed a mountain pass on the western edge of Mount Piried, and entered the plain of the hilltop.

But Mount Pirieds didn't seem to have moved at all, and still stood quietly in the sky.

In the next two days, everyone finally found the thin mountain road and entered the canyon lined with cliffs.

The area that could be seen at a glance on the Seven Seas Traveler, and it took them a full three days on foot to arrive.

As the altitude climbs further, the temperature begins to drop dramatically, and traces of glacial erosion appear on the slopes. At this height, except for the rocky beach and the occasional shrub, it is difficult to see any vegetation.

Parker takes the dates to explore the front of him, because the latter is a ranger.

For the walnuts in the ground, Fang Yu actually has some ideas. The few of them have nowhere to go after leaving the Art Fight Guild, and now they are escorting Beji, but they always have a time to think about their own way out.

There should still be manpower on the forest side, and with his current situation, it is difficult to recruit people outside, even if someone doesn't mind the gray list, he doesn't dare to accept it easily.

The Walnut Couple underground and the Seven Seas Brigade can be said to be almost in the same condition at present, and they are the most suitable candidates to absorb.

Of course, it still depends on their own opinions, and Fang Yu also has to observe these people.

He hadn't gone far before Parker's shouts were heard in front of him.

Fang Yu let out a goblin and flew in that direction, and it didn't take long to see what they had discovered.

The two found the corpse of a wingless dragon on the side of the road, which also contained a bag, and they took it back - opened the letter inside, and it was the same as the one they had seen earlier.

The time on the letter is also the same, and it seems to have been sent on the same day, except that this pterosaur was not as lucky as its companion.

Tang Xin examined the corpse and found that the huge corpse of the pterosaurus had a deep wound under the ribs on one side, about half a foot long.

These were fatal wounds, in addition to a few less fatal wounds, all over the thick skin of the pterosaur.

In fact, when he saw this corpse, Fang Yu felt that there was probably no hope in that supply station.

It's the fifth day of the letter, and they haven't sent the second letter yet, or they're stuck in it.

Either that, or they've been wiped out.

However, most of the constructed creatures have no brains, and it is hard for Fang Plover to believe that they have the intelligence of this siege. Therefore, he prefers to believe that it is the latter possibility.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, they arrived at the supply depot.

In fact, since there is only one entrance and exit into the canyon, it is difficult not to see the camp. It turned out to be what they had thought - there was a dead silence in the camp when they arrived.

From the outside, the fence opened several large openings, and when you walked into it along the breach, you saw that the camp was in shambles, and the tents were staggered to the ground.

The innermost part looks like a heavy snowfall, and the inside is white.

Fang Yu opened every tent under the wind and snow to check, all the tents were empty, the wind and snow were involved, and by the light of the torches, you could vaguely see dark red blood stains on the ground.

It looks like at least no one is actually dying here, and that's normal, and people without Starlight won't come out and take risks.

However, the strange atmosphere in the camp still frightened the two little girls a little, and Sky Blue and Kita stood in the middle of the camp a little uneasily.

Not to mention a few young people from the Art Dispute Guild, where have they seen this battle? The atmosphere didn't dare to take an extra breath.

The walnuts in the ground protected Betty behind her, but the girl was not afraid at all, much calmer than him.

Eventually, the big cat man found the remains of the creature as stated in the distress letter.

It was buried under the snow, and it took a lot of effort for them to dig it out from underneath.

The thing looked like a crab in general, with two chelicerae as sharp as a sword, six legs, and a body like a flat rock.

In fact, if it weren't for the letter saying that it was a constructing creature, most of Fang Yu would have thought it was an elemental creature, an earth element.

Anyway, at least from the outside, he couldn't tell where this thing was built.

He wasn't sure if the constructed creatures were the only ones in this form, though there was only one found in the camp.

Fang Yu only thought of another possibility, this thing looked like a rock, it was a complete whole to see the original appearance.

But it's hard to say whether the smaller pieces of rock scattered around the camp were originally rocks in the mountains or the remains of the thing.

Thinking of this, he ordered the others to be careful, and asked them to search the camp to see if there was anything of value left.

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