The Lake of Tranquility, located in the south of the city of Zeber, takes two days to get on the horse. But the flying Xia Zuo departs in the morning and arrives before noon.

If it weren't for the dragon song behind him, the speed would have been even faster—the shadows of the fog on the minimap had never been cleared so quickly.

Xia Zuo did not hesitate to speed up his detour, opening the minimap display area as much as possible, and Long Ge saw him shuttling back and forth in front of him, as if there was mockery. I couldn't help gritting my teeth, and I changed my wings into faster dragon wings, but I still couldn't catch up.

The Lake of Tranquility is a lake surrounded by misty woods, and he first heard about it from Grayvelde, and after arriving in the royal capital, he asked around about the location of the Lake of Tranquility, but Xia Zuo asked directly from the bishop for its specific direction. At high altitudes, it's easy to spot its unusual terrain.

The dark green forest forest, the mirror-like flat lake water embedded in it, makes people feel the slightest breath of life, if there is no sparse footsteps.

The difference was from the small footsteps, louder and more flustered steps ran ahead, as if avoiding the pursuit from behind.

It was an old woman with a pestle and a wooden staff, with gray hair, a slightly fat body and a coarse cloth robe, although she was on the run, but there was no fear on her face, only a little unwillingness.

"I'm not going to die here! Damn pine needle imps! The old woman's breathing was unsteady, and she was so exhausted that she had to rest against the rock in front of her.

The pine needle imp she refers to, actually known as the Pine Needle Monster, is shorter than a goblin, covered in pine leaf-like spikes, like a head-to-toe robe, with facial features only a pair of glowing round eyes peeking out of the front of the head, and holding clubs, bound stone tools, or short weapons obtained from other places.

Although not as strong as the goblins, teamwork can take down many Terran warriors, and four or five pine needle monsters babble from their mouths, which is a signal that only they can understand.

Seeing that it was approaching, the old woman who couldn't run had to take a detour to the front of the rock, where was the inward gap in the rock's oblique position, and if she was lucky, she might be able to make the flaming pine needle monster rush over carelessly, anyway, she had no other choice but to resign herself to fate.

... The old woman held her breath, first so silent that she could only hear her own heartbeat, then the footsteps of the monsters from far to near.

Boom, boom, boom...

They passed the rocks as quickly as they could, without looking back.

... Did it work? The old woman did not let her guard down and continued not to breathe.

"Five?" The old woman stared in surprise in hindsight, and her hands holding the wooden staff could not help but tremble.

Because there were eight of them who were chasing and killing them at the beginning, so where did the other three go!?

I remember my son telling him not to approach the lake in the forest to the east, where there are many small monsters, and he also listed several tricky species, among which the pine needle monster is good at cooperating... Before the memories were over, the old woman saw three pine needle monsters coming from the side—not at all the direction in which they had fled, and they had gone all the way around in order to find themselves in the misty forest.

"It seems that the imps have succeeded..."The old woman clenched the wooden staff even tighter, and the three pine needle monsters appeared at an angle that was just right to see themselves, and they did see it, pouting their mouths covered by "pine needles", exhaling a long and piercing sound, and summoning their distant companions.

At the same time, the other two pine needle monsters were approaching the old woman, and they were going to make the first move, and the old human race in front of them looked like they had no combat power at all.

But what is the use of his son's advice, "I haven't come back for almost two months, and your favorite dragon fruit is ripe!" The old woman cried out with tears in her eyes, more like her battle cry, as she stepped forward with her staff aloft and took the initiative.

It is also necessary to judge the situation, and when a few of them are together, they have no chance of winning.

The old woman pointed at the nearest one, which was also armed with a barbed wooden club, and seemed to be better armed than the other two.

The pine needle monster was furious, met the provocation, roared and swung it, hitting the old woman's flank, and immediately soaked her clothes with blood, but the old woman did not flinch, relying on the advantage of her height to hit the wooden staff on the top of the pine needle monster's head, the other party loosened her weapon, and sat on the ground with her head covered with her hands, and suddenly the green blood flowed, making it begin to struggle.

Seeing this, the other two pine needles were stunned, and then angrily rushed over to support their companions.

The old woman did not spare the seriously wounded one, and took advantage of the victory to bend down and pick up its thorny weapon, and slammed it into the head in succession.

Three or two strokes, it completely lost its life.

When the two pine needle monsters were seven or eight paces away from the old woman, a glimpse of the sky flashed, casting shadows on the ground covered with fallen leaves between them.

But neither of the two sides paid attention to it, only to see the sudden fireball fall vertically, and as it approached, it also illuminated the surroundings, illuminating the feet of the two pine needle monsters.

Boom ——!

The fireball exploded strongly the moment it touched the ground, but unusually, the explosion produced a bright sphere five steps wide in diameter, and the center of the sphere burned everything like molten slurry, and outside the sphere's range, there was not even the slightest wind pressure of the explosion, and the fallen leaves were not lifted.

Instinctively, the old man raised his hand to cover it, and then found that the strange explosion did not take it with him, turning the area into a sea of fire.

After five seconds, the fireball shrank until the blinding light disappeared as if it had never existed.

The place where the fireball existed, with the ground as the center of the sphere, has burned into a deep pit in the shape of a smooth arc, revealing the luster of semi-cooled glass.

The stunned old woman came back to her senses and noticed that the dark shadow in the sky was slowly descending, and her feet were falling to the ground.

"The first time you use this magic, it's the same as the introduction, it won't produce a strong wind that will explode," Xia Zuo said to her, "otherwise you will also be killed." ”

The high-level fire magic, LvMAX of the Infernal Heart, only works on the scorching attacks within the sphere, destroying everything that can be burned. In Xia Zuo's opinion, it was more like a sphere that could devour matter, but unfortunately it was not space magic.

In Xia's left eye, the old woman's name is displayed on the top of her head, with a HP of 91%.

"Are you?" asked the old woman, Sarina, incredulously.

The "Bat Domain" and the "Sheep's Eye" made Xia know that five pine needle monster supporters had arrived behind him without looking back.

Although the fog was still there, and the enemy didn't notice Xia Zuo, he still raised his hands back, and easily launched two ice picks, which exploded, and the sound of small and continuous footsteps stopped.

By the way, Xia Zuo threw a long-range green magic ball to the old woman - "Remote Healing", LvMAX, which recovered 50% HP from hitting the target.

Sarina reflexively avoided it, but was still hit, and then found that the wound in her abdomen was healed.