"It's still a little time before dawn, why don't we go to the 'Ripping Hill' on the opposite side for a walk, maybe there will be an unexpected gain." Nikita looked at Roland, her eyes sparkling and eager to try.

Roland nodded and smiled, and looked up to call for Emperor Peng to land.

Nikita followed Roland to climb onto Emperor Peng's back, turned back to the four-armed ape king and said, "You are too heavy to sit on the 'big', just follow us on the ground." After hesitating for a moment, he turned his head and asked Roland: "Do you want to give this guy a nickname too?" ”

"Okay, I'm the best at it." Roland snapped his fingers, "Just call it 'King Kong'." ”

Nikita didn't understand what "King Kong" meant, just as she didn't understand what "Big Deadbolt" was, but that didn't stop her from accepting the slightly odd nickname mentioned above, pointing her staff in the direction of the "Ripping Hill" and commanding the two behemoths in high spirits:

"King Kong, big, let's go!"

……

From the "Roaring Mountains" to the east, after climbing over two mountain beams, you will enter a new trial area.

The landscape of this area resembles that of the "Roaring Mountains", with rolling hills and lush vegetation that resembles a green labyrinth. But when it comes to the type of vegetation, it's quite different from the "Roaring Mountains": the ground is covered with thorny shrubs with sharp serrated leaves and barbed stems, and people walking in the mountains can hardly find a place to stay. These widespread thorn bushes are also poisonous, and punctured wounds quickly become red and swollen and festering. If left untreated, the wound can even lead to necrosis of the flesh and blood, and the limb had to be amputated to save life. Because of the daunting poisonous thorns that grow in the town, the hunting party in the town did not dare to set foot in this place, and named the place "Tearing Hill".

There are also few beasts and birds that dare to operate in the "Tearing Hill" where poisonous thorns are infested, and most of the animals that are good at digging burrows to avoid poisonous thorns on the surface of the earth are inhabited, such as the giant mutant shark lizard known as the "land shark king" on the hill.

In addition to cave-dwelling creatures, there are also "shifting beasts" who dare to shuttle through the thorn bushes. These slender magical beasts looked like large wildcats in dark blue fur, ten feet long from head to toe, and their eyes glistened with a sinister glow. There are two main characteristics that distinguish the migrants from the common feline beasts.

One is that the shoulder blades on both sides of the displaced beast extend backward with elongated caudate organs, and the ends also have raised leaf-shaped meat pads, and the inner side of the meat pads is covered with sharp chitin barbs. The Shifter Beast is able to flick these two tentacles with agility and ease, and is used to aid in hunting.

Compared with its special physiological structure, the second characteristic of the Shifting Beast is more reflective of its "magical beast" nature. Born with supernatural powers, the beast's body is constantly surrounded by an unpredictable aura of light, making it difficult to determine exactly where it is, and any attack on the shifter, whether long-range or melee, will be deceived by the illusion half the time.

This supernatural ability resembles the 3-ring arcane "shift" of the school of illusion, which some believe is the name of the "shifting beast".

"But within our mage community, there is no unified understanding of this issue, and there have been two opposing views for a long time."

Daystar blinked in the fading night, Emperor Peng flew low above the "Ripping Hill", and Nikita leaned lazily into Roland's arms, chatting to dispel the fatigue of a sleepless night.

"The School of Illusion insists that it was created by a legendary master illusionist from ancient times with a spell." The ShiftBeasts were the first male and female shifters to perform the Constant Displacement Technique, and to have their offspring inherit this magical talent, thus giving birth to the Shifting Beasts, while the mages of other schools held the opposite view, believing that the Shifters had lived in the wilderness of the main material realm since ancient times, and that their history was even earlier than that of humans, and that the illusionists did not create the Shifters as they claimed, but invented the Shifting Technique based on their natural evasion abilities based on the observation and study of the Shifters' innate evasion ability, a kind of magic field' Biomimicry has become very popular in recent years and has become one of the mainstream topics in academia, so most young people are more willing to accept the second, more pragmatic argument than the boastful arguments that illusionists insist. ”

"Without further archaeological discoveries to corroborate it, the second argument is unfair to the school of illusion." Roland was fair.

"Not only that, but there is also a new point of view recently put forward by biomimicry researchers, who believe that the three-ring spell 'Flash' of the Illusion School is not completely original, but was inspired by the supernatural talent of a magical beast called 'Flashing Dog'," Nikita smiled, "Fortunately, I am not a master of the Illusion School, otherwise I am afraid that I would feel very aggrieved, as if the entire academic community has malicious intentions towards our poor school and is vying to take away our few historical honors." ”

At this time, there were howls one after another from below, which sounded like a large group of wild cats, and was immediately suppressed by the domineering roar of the four-armed ape king "King Kong".

"The 'Shifting Beasts' have gathered around, and they are on a mission to guard the Land Shark King, prohibiting any outsiders from approaching the cave where the master is entrenched." Roland patted Emperor Peng on the back of the neck, ordered him to lower his flight altitude, turned to Nikita and said, "Let's go down and have a look." ”

"I'm bored, so it's good to go down and do some exercise." Nikita took out a vial of diamond powder from the spellcasting kit, carefully poured out a little and patted it on her body, applying the "Stone Skin Technique" to prevent her delicate skin from being punctured by poisonous thorns.

Roland had armor protection and thick skin, so he didn't waste this expensive spell casting material, and directly turned on the "divine flight" and jumped off the back of Emperor Peng, and saw a blue figure lurking in the bushes, and flew up and stepped on it.

Click! The shifter's head exploded with a kick from him, and it twitched and died, and the pungent bloody breath spread through the forest, attracting more shifters to roar and climb the branches to come closer, trying to avenge their companions.

Roland narrowed his eyes slightly, the "Pupil of Destiny" had a function similar to the "True Perception Technique", which could make him see through all illusions, and the hazy halo on the shifting beast's body was useless in front of him, and he raised his hand and waved out a "Breaking Evil Slash Wave", splitting the leader of the most powerful shifting beast who rushed to the front in half.

Most magical beasts, such as the four-armed orangutan, only have some abnormal physiology or supernatural abilities compared to ordinary beasts, and the faction is absolutely neutral like wild animals, regardless of good or evil. But the Shifters are one of the few special cases, evil by nature, and happy to serve the more powerful forces of evil. Roland's Evil Destroying Slash, strengthened by the "Divine Blade", is the nemesis of these evil beasts, and one hammer is like chopping melons and vegetables.