Rewind a little bit back in time, back to when Ania and Joseph came to the top of the Devil's Wrath Canyon.

Having lost their horses, it was late afternoon when they walked here, and the two of them sat on the edge of the canyon staring at the bottomless canyon, and Ania murmured, "When you stare into the abyss, the abyss is staring at you."

Joseph laughed and said, "This sentence was said by the Dark Mage, right?" I've heard him say this when I've been with him before, and I've been wondering what it means ever since. ”

Ania replied, "It's very simple, if you replace 'Abyss' with 'Monster', it can be used as well."

Joseph thought for a moment, "When you are staring at the monster, the monster is staring at you...... That's really the case! Sure enough, he is a disciple taught by the Black Mage, but he is different from us. I haven't figured out what this phrase means for more than a decade, but now I understand it as soon as you say it. ”

"No...... I'm talking nonsense. Ania then got up and said, "Anyway, it's late now, and it's still very dangerous to go down at this time." Let's just rest on this for the night...... Oh, if you don't go down, can you help me keep vigil? ”

Joseph patted his chest and said, "No problem, I'll do the logistics for you now."

The two of them came to the edge of the woods a little further from the canyon and sat down, and the two of them who had raised the fire sat on the edge of the fire and ate dry food, but Ania couldn't help but poke the fire with her magic wand.

"Sure enough, it's a master and apprentice," Joseph said suddenly......, "When I was with the Dark Magician, the Dark Magician also liked to poke the fire with his magic wand."

"Huh? Didn't you spend less than a day with my teacher? Ania wondered, "You met when the sun first rose, how do you know that my teacher likes to poke fires?" And they didn't spend the night together. ”

"We caught a rabbit in the middle of the day, so we roasted it and ate it."

"That's really a bit of a surprise, my teacher didn't just use magic to roast the rabbit." Ania did learn this habit of poking at the fire from her teacher. But her teacher didn't poke this kind of campfire in the wild, but poked the fire in the house.

In the past, the black magician used to sit on the edge of the fire and poke around with his magic wand every winter, and at that time, Ania was ignorant and liked to follow the teacher to grab the magic wand to poke the fire. Later, after understanding a little bit about how powerful her teacher was, Ania also understood how much her teacher's magic wand was a treasure that magicians dreamed of, and then she felt that her teacher was a complete loser......

And now Aniah's perception has changed again - because she finds it particularly fun to poke a fire with a stick that can't be poked.

Now as soon as Joseph spoke of it, the movement of Aniah's hands could not be stopped. It's like thinking that melon seeds are nothing delicious but I can't help but eat them, and when I come back to my senses, I find that all the melon seeds have been eaten.

When Ania came back to her senses, the campfire had already been scattered by her, and Joseph looked at himself with the look of a thousand blades and said, "What are you doing?" The bonfire I built with great difficulty......"

"Excuse me...... I couldn't hold back for a while. Ania picked up the other firewood and threw it at the tinder and said, "It feels like it's still early, can you tell me more about the Ottokaron?" Knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent will not be defeated in a hundred battles......"

"I know this too, and the Black Mage also told me." Joseph said excitedly: "Since the Dark Mage told me this, I have to investigate the other party's information carefully before fighting any monster, so as to ensure that there will be no danger in the battle."

Ania felt that how could Joseph seem to be a fan of the Dark Magician, who was even more fanatical than Andrei? My teacher is really a sinful man......

Joseph clapped his hands and said to Aniah, "I'll tell you, what about that Ottokaron, I actually had a fight with that guy - maybe five years ago, right?" At that time, I was commissioned by the guild to go down to the canyon to investigate if there were any other creatures in the canyon besides Otokaron. Because every once in a while, the guild would send adventurers to investigate below, and after a survey team returned, it was reported to the guild that it seemed that a creature other than Otto Karon had been found in that canyon......"

"And there are other creatures down there besides Ottokaron?!" To be honest, Ania was frightened, after all, the environment in the Devil's Wrath Canyon is harsh, but there is no place for animals to survive except for various bacteria. The birth of such a monster as Otto Karon is magical enough, and there are other creatures besides Otto Karon?

Joseph continued: "That incident has not yet been confirmed, and it is now theorized that the people who went down to investigate in the first place thought some of the corpses were new creatures or something. But that's not what we're talking about...... As for Naotokaron, I spent half a month in the canyon, all of which was spent tracking Ottokaron and observing its life. Finally, after being discovered by it, he managed to escape from the canyon with all his might......"

Ania shuddered when she heard this, not because of Otto Karon's fear, but because of this Joseph - who spent half a month tracking and observing a monster in a place like Devil's Fury Canyon, what kind of terrifying existence is such a person? You know, the canyon below can't be worn for more than two days, even with a gas mask. Among them, if you take off your mask and eat, it is still a serious problem.

But in this case, Joseph was able to hold out for half a month...... I'm afraid he doesn't belong to humanity anymore in a sense, right?

"First of all, Otto Karon has bad eyesight......"

“！” I don't know if I'm too neurotic, but when the other party said that Ottokaron's eyesight was not good, Ania actually thought of the eyeless Magala in his head.

Is it a coincidence? It should just be a coincidence, the two guys look completely different - although they have limbs and long tails, they both look like close relatives of lizards...... But Ottokaron's body had no skin, all bright red muscles. Margara's body is covered with tough black scale armor, and from this alone, you can tell that there is nothing to do with the two.

Joseph continued, "The reason why Ottokaron has poor eyesight is because below, the Devil's Wrath Canyon is too deep for the bottom to be barely exposed to sunlight. So in that world that has been in darkness for a long time, Ottokaron's eyes have deteriorated like this, so that Ottokaron can hardly see anything far away. But its sense of smell is very sensitive......"

"Vomit......" Ania almost threw up, "You mean that guy has a great sense of smell in such a foul-smelling canyon?" Doesn't it feel nauseous? ”

"The smell of a foul smell is not necessarily a smell for a monster," Joseph said......, "and besides, the monster doesn't know how long it has lived down there, so maybe it's used to the smell of it." Could it be possible that a system has evolved that can resist that kind of poison gas? ”

Ania felt that Joseph was right, and she nodded and was about to continue listening, but she instantly sensed that something was wrong. Suddenly stopping Joseph, Ania asked, "What did you just say?" Degradation, evolution, ...... Why do you know this theoretical knowledge? ”

Yes, everyone in this world believes that everything in this world was created by the goddess of creation, not by some kind of evolution or anything like that - after all, there was no biologist like Darwin in this world.

If this is the kind of world, why can someone say words like "evolution" and "degradation" from his mouth? This Joseph doesn't seem to be simple......

Joseph saw that Ania noticed what he said, so he laughed and said, "This is also what the Dark Mage taught me......"

"How much have you taught my teacher in less than a day!" Ania felt that there were too many grooves to vomit, she covered her forehead and said, "You go on, I won't interrupt you......"

"Okay, I'...... Speaking of which? Oh, and that Ottokaron has bad eyesight and a particularly keen sense of smell. I've almost been spotted several times because of its keen sense of smell. In addition to its sense of smell, its sense of hearing is not bad, and it relies on its excellent sense of smell and hearing to detect a creature falling into the canyon and find the corpse. ”

This may be a good clue to use against the other person, who has an excellent sense of hearing and smell. In this case, in terms of hearing, you can try what Zhen Xiang said before - seal the loud sound into the scroll, and then release the scroll while the other party is not paying attention, which can instantly deter the other party.

Then there were Ottokaron's claws—not the claws of ordinary creatures, but intricately blade-like claws. Half of those claws are usually folded, and they only stick out when fighting. The claws are shorter than the usual extended claws, so as long as you keep a good distance, there is not much of a threat, but the worst thing is that the guy's bounce and agility are very strong - the same level as the previous Kuca cat. ”

Kuga cats? It is true that the Kuga cat is very fast, and it jumps far and high...... Oops! There are no vines to use underneath, so what can be done to restrain the Ottokaron below?