By a crystal clear stream, a herd of multi-horned deer is drinking with their heads down. As the boss of this group of deer, the male deer with the most horns on his head and the sharpest is observing the surroundings very vigilantly.

After waiting for a while, seeing that the female deer and the fawns had drunk enough water, and still no creatures came out to attack, the male stag finally felt relieved.

In fact, it was already very thirsty, so it immediately walked quickly to the stream and began to bow its head and drink water.

At that moment, a stream of light shot out from the grove by the stream, brushed the body of the stag, and then pierced the body of a fawn.

"Yo ......"

The hapless fawn only had time to let out a cry of sorrow before falling limply.

Suddenly attacked, the buck immediately gave up the idea of drinking water, and instead ran wild with the herd.

It was only two breaths, and except for the fallen fawn, the rest of the horned deer had already run away.

It was only then that a noise could be heard in the grove.

A lizardman brushed aside the branches in front of him and slowly walked out of the grove.

He was also very vigilant, and while observing his surroundings, he slowly walked to the side of the fawn. It wasn't until he got to the fawn, and there were still no enemies, that the lizard turned his attention to the fawn.

The lizardman, still vigilant, sighed silently after glancing at the arrow that had pierced the fawn.

He had wanted to shoot the stag, but because the wooden arrow was of such terrible quality and lacked even a tail feather, it missed.

Fortunately, the arrow still hit a fawn in the end, so that he would not return empty-handed.

Just as the lizardman was about to pull out the arrow and see if it could be recycled, he suddenly heard a few strange noises.

That sounds like it should be...... Footsteps?

Looking in the direction from which the voice came, the lizardman soon saw a man in a black trench coat appear in his eyes.

It was Dio.

Seeing that the lizardman had quickly pulled out the short bow in his hand, Dio raised his hands to show that he had no malice, and said loudly in the lingua franca, "I have no malice, I just want to ask for directions." ”

The lizardman tilted his head, as if he couldn't understand what Dio was saying.

Dio, who frowned, was a little helpless, but just as he was about to try it in a different language, the lizardman suddenly let go of the bowstring!

The arrows on his short bow flew towards Dio.

After swatting the incoming arrows into the air, Dio was ready to try to ask in dragon language.

But at this moment, the lizardman who saw Dio directly shoot the arrow away decisively took another arrow and shot it into the sky!

"Whew!"

There is no doubt that it is a ringing arrow!

This made Dio frown again, but before he could speculate on the purpose of the arrow, the lizardman dropped his short bow and grabbed a hunting knife from his waist and rushed forward.

While rushing, the lizardman also said the lingua franca in a somewhat strange tone: "...... Intruder ...... Die! ”

Well, don't ask anything now.

Dio, who had already completely lost his patience, threw out a dark throwing knife in his hand, and after accurately stabbing the lizardman in the throat, he easily took the lizardman's life.

Of course, if it takes a lot of effort to deal with a lizardman hunter with only fourth-order strength, then Dio must be releasing water!

The problem is that the lizardman doesn't have a reason for Dio to release the water.

After coldly glancing at the lizardmen on the street, Dio beckoned behind him, and Aisha, who had been hiding beforehand, walked out of the grove with Bart.

"I said Aisha, are you really sure that the so-called 'Dragon Island' is in this direction?"

Looking at Aisha slowly approaching, Dio looked a little distressed.

"Of course, if you don't believe me, you see!"

Aisha said as she lifted the staff of the World Tree in her hand to the ground.

What looked like a normal wooden staff, the Staff of the World Tree stood upright for a moment before falling in one direction.

"Whoa! You see, the direction indicated by the World Tree is this way! ”

Pointing to the Staff of the World Tree on the ground, Aisha said with a smile on her face.

Dio, who was also looking at the staff of the World Tree, felt a little "faint sadness".

Do you really think such a way of guiding the way is reliable?

But what's even more nonsense is that this method really works!

Because at Dio's suggestion, Aisha has repeatedly lost this World Tree Staff more than ten times! And every time this World Tree Staff falls, it points in this direction......

In addition, as the owner of this staff of the World Tree, Aisha, as a "prophet", has always sworn that this direction must be correct. No matter how reluctant Dio is, he can only be suspicious.

"The problem is, it only tells us where we should go now, but it doesn't tell us how far we have to go......"

Dior, who retracted his gaze, said very tiredly.

Because of the experience of the last time, he and Aisha came to the Phantom Beast Realm very smoothly. However, after asking about the familiar forces, Dio and Aisha were helpless to find that no one knew that the so-called "Dragon Island" was in that direction.

In desperation, Dio and Aisha can only rely on the "guidance of the World Tree", struggling to find the spatial crack that must exist to the "Dragon Island".

As the master of the Phantom Beast Realm, the World Tree certainly knew where that spatial rift was. However, the Phantom Beast Realm was so big that even the World Tree, whose root system spread throughout the Phantom Beast Realm, could only determine which direction this spatial rift was in, but there was no way to determine where it was.

After all, compared to the Phantom Beast Realm, that spatial rift was like a hair on the giant's body. Even if you go to look for it, how many people can determine where one of their hairs is?

So Dio and Aisha could only follow the direction given by the World Tree and searched hard.

"This way, the efficiency is too low!"

Dio, who scratched his head, suggested with an unhappy face: "Or, I'll fly with you directly, right?" ”

It's not a description, it's really about flying.

Anyway, with Aisha's small body, Dio can easily spread his wings and fly into the sky even if he holds her.

Although she was a little moved, Aisha finally shook her head: "No. ”

"The vegetation here is so dense that once we get into the air, we can't see the ground at all."

Looking at the lush grove, Aisha looked helpless.

In this phantom beast world, there are giant trees that require several people to hug them, and compared to those trees that are hundreds, thousands of years, or even ten thousand years old, these forests composed of trees that are only a few decades old at most are indeed undoubtedly "small forests".

But it is such a "small forest", and its branches and foliage are so dense that the sun does not fall on the ground at all. And the various thorns and vines that are densely scattered in the forest are even more prohibitive.

If you're not a druid or a ranger, it's very difficult to walk through this kind of grove.

I prefer Sha to be the law profession with the worst mobility......

If Dio and Aisha hadn't been following the stream, they might still be wandering around the grove. But even after walking along the stream for such a long time, Aisha was already very tired.

But when Dio proposed to take a break here, Aisha gritted her teeth and resolutely rejected the proposal.

Pointing to the corpse of the lizardman, Aisha said very seriously, "Lizardmen generally live in groups, so there is probably a lizardman village nearby. If we can find there, we might be able to find a clue. ”

"This ...... Is it reliable? ”

Looking at the lizardman he killed casually, Dio couldn't help frowning: "I've already killed such a one." ”

"Lizardmen, like kobolds, are said to have very thin dragon blood. Therefore, many dragons will have some lizardmen or kobolds in their nests to deal with some trivial things that dragons don't want to do themselves. ”

"If the spatial rift leading to Dragon Island is around here, then these lizardmen will definitely know some relevant information. Because for the lizardmen, if they want to improve their strength, the fastest way is to absorb the corresponding dragon bloodline, so that they can further grow in the direction of dragonborn or wurm! ”

"Of course, there are lizardmen who are unwilling to merge with the blood of the dragons, but that is only a minority of the few. I don't think the lizardmen here are all the kind of unmotivated people. ”

"As for their hostility ......"

After glancing at the lizardman's corpse, Aisha shook her head very calmly, "As long as Dio unleashes a strong enough momentum, then they will be obedient." ”

"The race that can live in the Phantom Beast Realm until now will definitely not be all stupid!"

The Phantom Beast World is not a "zoo" where all animals can coexist in harmony, and what is pursued here is actually a rather cruel "natural selection" survival rule!

Either "survival of the fittest" or "respect for the strong"!

Races that can adapt to this environment will definitely not lack intelligence.

For a strong man like Dio with legendary strength, the race living here may not obediently choose to surrender, but at least they dare to understand that Dio and others are not the objects they can provoke.

In the same way, when Dio restrained his breath and pretended to be harmless to ask for directions, an ordinary lizardman could have attacked him.

Because here, "weakness" is sin.

But when Dio showed the posture of a strong man, those lizardmen would never be stupid enough to attack Dio as long as they didn't want the whole clan to be wiped out.

She has experienced so much Aisha with Dio, but she is not the kind of silly white sweet, so she definitely will not feel sympathy and pity for these lizardmen.

Of course, this also has to do with the appearance of the lizardmen. If the lizardmen weren't so hideous, Aisha probably wouldn't have done it so directly.

Even for the sub-human race, the so-called appearance is very important......

Since Aisha has made such a decision, of course Dio, who has nothing to do with it, will not say anything, he directly let go of his momentum.

As soon as the momentum belonging to the legendary powerhouse was released, there was immediate movement in the surrounding groves.

From the time when the lizardman hunter ambushed the multi-horned deer, the grove, which had always behaved very calmly, suddenly became a commotion.

All kinds of insects, reptiles and small animals, and even some plants with the ability to move, all chose to flee quickly. Even the stream, which has always seemed to be very calm, has a lot of fish and shrimp hidden in the cracks of the rocks and under the silt rushing out, and they choose to leave here in a panic.

Looking at the surrounding environment that became very lively in an instant, Dio was silent for a while, and then slowly reined in his momentum and kept it at a low limit.

Although it still makes people instinctively feel that there is a threat to their lives at a glance, as long as they are not directly shrouded in the oppression of momentum, ordinary small animals will definitely not flee for their lives like before.

After all, for these creatures at the bottom, creatures of medium and large size are stronger than them, so they have long been accustomed to this gap in life levels. If it weren't for Dio's momentum, these little animals wouldn't care what Dio was here for.