Mysteries are a resource, and a special resource that lies somewhere between renewable and non-renewable.

Ores, medicinal herbs, and magic crystals are all treasures that adventurers and empires have been tirelessly pursuing, and these treasures have been continuously plundered from the secret realm for nearly 3,000 years since they appeared in the Delan continent, but there has never been a phenomenon of resource depletion.

For the various civilized races on the Deland continent now, they have shifted the goal of resource competition from other empires in the Deland continent to the secret realm in their respective territories, although the secret realm does not belong to any force on the Deland continent in name, but for some big forces, as long as they control the possession of some secret realms, then it means that they have inexhaustible wealth.

The Baro Forest, as an intermediate secret realm attached to the [Oneiroi's Labyrinth], its entrance and exit are located within the territory of the Shengyuan Empire, and it is natural that it is also regarded as part of the empire's wealth.

Everyone who enters the Barrow Forest needs to pay a certain "entrance fee" before entering, and no one will be stingy with this fee compared to the wealth obtained in the Barrow Forest.

"Tut-tut...... The entrance fee is a small head, and the adventurers are complacent and can enter the secret realm to make a lot of money, but they don't know that when they go out of the secret realm to sell the loot, it is equivalent to helping the empire work for free, and the majority of the profits of the loot are taken up by the empire that sits firmly on the Diaoyu Tai......"

Lei Zhe, who had just entered the secret realm, recalled the hot state of the office of the secret empire outside the secret realm that was specially used to recover the spoils of adventurers, and he couldn't help but feel sorry for the empire.

The Shengyuan Empire is in control of the secret realm, but the adventurers who come to "make money" are regarded as cheap "miners" who are responsible for obtaining the products in the secret realm, and the adventurers naturally chose the Shengyuan Empire, which controls the secret realm, as the buyer of the materials in order to be able to make a move as soon as possible, and this cooperation between the two sides can be regarded as mutually beneficial.

Adventurers get the bonuses they want, and the Empire can quickly convert the materials obtained from the secret realm into higher-value products, so as to obtain greater benefits.

After all, the means of the empire are not comparable to ordinary adventurers, and the huge gap in manpower and material resources makes them unable to hit and enter the secret realm to sweep due to the dispersion of their troops, but it also gives them a huge advantage in material processing that is difficult for ordinary people to achieve.

The purpose of Lei Zhe's entry into the Barrow Forest is naturally to join up with Tina and his teacher Kelly, and of course, the other purpose of entering the secret realm is to make a good fortune before returning to school.

Laura, Denisha and Mana's food expenses are not ordinarily large, and the magic crystals that are close to the exchange of credits in the school will directly eat Lei Zhe into bankruptcy.

Rather than spending a large amount of credits on exchanging them for magic crystals, it is better to take advantage of this time to obtain enough magic crystals for Laura's daily consumption at one time.

"Sure enough, the forest or something is fresh air...... But it's Laura's time for you to do your job! We'll push it all the way! ”

Although they entered the Barrow Forest, it was not possible to enter Tina's location from the outer floor of the Barrow Forest in a day or two.

Instead of looking for Tina, let Tina and them look for him in turn!

Junior assimilation leader LV.7

An army of 70 assimilated slimes with LV.5 level monster combat power is also equivalent to a full 70 Laura's clones, and their combat ability is not just several times that of Laura.

The Anabolic Slime's combat power is enhanced by Laura's strength, but there is also a limit. The current assimilation slime is mostly a "clone" separated from Laura's body, and these clones can have Lara's combat power of nearly 3% according to the amount of magic power, and the army formed by Rao is equivalent to magnifying Laura's strength tenfold.

Slime tide?

Maybe just 70 slimes isn't enough to deserve this title, but under Laura's command, these assimilated slimes are not brainless fools, but an army that knows how to cooperate with human intelligence and is not afraid of death.

The monster of the Barrow Forest, the Anluo Tree Spirit, is defenseless in front of the Assimilation Slime, and the existence of the Assimilation Slime is simply a natural enemy for the Anluo Tree Element, who is only good at earth-based magic.

The Anluo Tree Spirit, whose shape is similar to that of a banyan tree, has slender and resilient branches, and is good at entwining and strangling prey, and at the same time, the sap secreted from the branches also has a paralyzing and sleeping effect, which can be said to be the most annoying type of all melee combatants.

If you add in the power of the earth-based magic that Anluo Dryad is best at, then even if someone attacks with fire-based magic, it is generally difficult to inflict direct damage on it.

It can be said that the Anluo Tree Spirit is the most difficult group of monsters to deal with on the first floor of the entire Barrow Forest, unless it is a team of adventurers who specialize in the Anluo Tree Spirit, otherwise no one will come to this kind of place to trouble them.

It's a pity that this group of comfortable Anluo tree spirits really met their opponents this time, the biggest weakness of Anluo tree spirits is that they can't move autonomously, as tree spirits, they are generally stationed in the earth, even if the root system can move off the ground, the speed is outrageously slow.

And these dryads are suddenly blind when faced with an enemy like the Assimilated Slime, which has negative effect resistance and is difficult to catch in its liquid form.

Branch grabbing?

Can't catch it! Dryads don't have hands, and while their branches are better at grabbing prey than their hands and claws, they can only eat in slippery slimes. The most advantageous attack against a slime is undoubtedly fire magic, followed by a concussive attack that shatters the slime's form.

Leaning close to a branch like a whip to catch a slime that looks like liquid jelly is a fantasy.

On the other hand, the effect of earth magic on the assimilation slime is not necessarily much better, and the vigorous vitality is one of the characteristics of the slime, even if it is buried in the earth, the assimilation slime will not die, and there is no pressure at all with the crude earth magic of the Anluo tree spirit.

On the contrary, the erosion attack of the assimilation slime can be said to be invincible, and even the Anluo Tree Spirit, which is ten times their size, can only hold on for less than a minute, and then it will be digested and only the magic crystal remains.

"Oh, it's fast! Look at this, in less than an hour, we can advance 500 meters, so that you have three days' rations! ”

Laura, Denisha and Mana, who were the main forces, did not move, and sat firmly in the rear like Lei Zhe, the strength of the three of them is not to mention these Anluo tree spirits, even if it is the king of Anluo tree spirits, they may not be the opponents of their joint efforts, and there is no need to waste magic power at all.