Travel always seems to start between anticipation and unease, only to be in the middle of it when you are unprepared.

There is a proverb among the Ta people that the hardships of hiking can wipe out a strong ambition: "This group of wanderers, merchants, and adventurers has a deep insight into travel."

In the blink of an eye, Brando and his party had been in the Black Forest for a week, although Brando had camped on the outskirts of the forest that day, and set out one night later; But Brando didn't think they had time to delay, and besides, he was more experienced in the Black Forest than Couran, so there was no need to waste time.

The depths of the Black Forest are like emerald clouds, supported by black tree trunks near and far, and densely covered overhead.

The light peeks through the gaps between the clouds "dyeing the surroundings a new green, and the backlit areas are almost jet black." In the darkness, a pillar of light, dust rises and falls under the light, "the light spots fall on the knotted tree roots, the emerald green waterhole in the forest has no waves, and the occasional water spider streaks through it".

Light and darkness intertwine, creating a quiet and eerie scene, but the time is actually approaching evening. Brando held a notebook on which he recorded a few things in fluorescent ink: Black Mage, Tsukimi, Four-Leaf Moss "The Witch's SufferingBlack Mage symbolizes the meaning of mystery in the secret language of witches, and is used to extract the meditative state of mind, and the breath of calm can be obtained with level 3 alchemy, which is the main material of meditation incense.

Meditation incense is a sought-after item in the Amber Sword, which makes it easier for the practice of mystical professions to achieve twice the result with half the effort, "under the clouds and mist of the quiet room", it is easier to realize those mysterious beings in the underworld.

This is better seen in psychic spells.

In the game, it is to increase the speed at which the nephew's experience is gained.

And level 7 alchemy can extract the lowest level of the Amber Sword, a level 2 material, a product called Mystic Essence. This thing can be taken directly to "increase a little bloodline", but it can only be taken once.

Tsukimi is the huā of the mage, which gives birth to magic power, and can produce an effect of restoring about 1 point of mana by chewing it directly. However, after the level 3 alchemy extraction, you can get pure magic water, and once you add the bottle, it is a primary mana potion.

The four-leaf shouli represents luck and is rare in the wild, but it is not rare in the Black Forest. This plant can be used in almost a qiē potion to increase the success rate.

However, Brando knows a unique method: "You can use level 8 alchemy to extract the essence of luck from it." That thing can be used in a qiē alchemy, even including forging and magic formations.

And the witch suffering is about the material of some kind of poison, the poison of suffering, and this poison with a distinct smell is inferior and worthless in the eyes of the nobles who are good at intrigues.

But that's not how it works, cultists use it as a "twin element of suffering and poison" to summon creatures from the lower worlds.

The Affliction Lord of the Scorched Helldemons, or the Queen of Malevolence.

Witch Affliction is strictly contraband in the rules of the Temple of Fire" but these terms and conditions cannot stop those who really know the value of this plant~ The Black Fire Cultists, the Sheep Head Cultists, they are happy to take this thing from others at a high price, or murder.

Of course, Brando wasn't necessarily scared," so he put it away.

These things are the result of a week of more than forty young men under his command, and in fact these young men have found nothing in the first three days of entering the Black Forest" and complained, but Brando was naturally not a place for them to come on an outing, and whenever anyone was slacking off, or passive and slacking off, there were mercenaries who drove them forward with a leather whip harshly and mercilessly. Every day, the young men are woken up by mercenaries, some of whom toss and turn in the cold, damp environment of the forest, unable to sleep, and may have just fallen asleep. But the training schedule is not so much, "even if you drag your tired body", you must complete your daily homework.

The content of the training is actually not complicated, "in addition to the necessary rush", there are also group confrontations, plus some swordsmanship and fighting skills.

Then, every evening before camping, "collecting materials for the Tamar, of course, is called collaboration, survival training is also a very important part."

Over the course of a week, the amount of material recorded in the notebook had become more and more numerous, and the number of cherished Cheng dù had clearly begun to rise, "This shows that they are leaving the border of the Black Forest and entering the wild outlying areas."

Brando, after recording the gains of the second team, uses a quill pen to mark a dot on the parchment to indicate the end of the record. The young man of the sixty was divided into six groups, "each group was appointed with a leader", and the leader of the second group was a young man named Mars, this guy came from Fern's mercenary group, "The strength of the black iron is downstream, and the team is very serious, and the organizational skills are also very strong.

It's just a bit rigid.

But rigidity isn't necessarily a bad thing, and when she thought of this, Brando looked up at Caglis, who wasn't far away. The young man was leaning against a tree and wiping his long sword, which was somewhat like the 377 command sword before the November War, with a wavy cage handle under the gauntlet, and the style of the whole sword was light, and Brando liked this style very much, so the swords issued to these young men also adopted this design.

The sword is the work of Master Bailu, but there is no concern about quality.

Brando's design was clearly a success, and young people loved the sword whether they had used it before or not.

This was a great surprise to the young man's expectations," but he reacted quickly, and immediately took the opportunity to elevate the sword to a kind of honor, telling these young men that this sword was the symbol of the White Lion Guard, and that as long as he was in the White Lion Guard for a long time, he would be the companion of this symbol of honor and the faith that the sword represented.

When young people privately asked Brando's sword what kind of faith it symbolized, Brando thought for a moment and replied, "Bravery, pioneering and unyielding, a sword that symbolizes integrity." ”

This statement has gained wide acceptance among young people who admire knighthood and romance.

Brando thought for a moment and came back to his senses from the memory. He turned a page "The quill in his hand moved lightly, and in the upper right corner of the next page, he wrote: , The sixteenth day of the sleeping month, sunny~

The Black Forest began to become denser: "Sometimes we didn't see a ray of light even during the day. The canopy is filled with huge cobwebs and fist-sized cocoons, and moths and myriapeds "cling densely to the trunks of trees in the dark."

Some caustic thorns began to appear in the forest, such as the witch's affliction.

This indicates that the team is gradually leaving the forest border area, "We observed the first sight of a monster during the entire day, and it should be a black wolf based on its size and traces of Ruhei. , writing this, the young man's pen stopped, and the quill tip gently left the paper; Monsters are a reflection of the distortion of mana in the main material world" and are actually divided into several categories, including ferocious animals, corrosive states, faring creatures, shadow beasts, abominations, gods and demons, or nightmares.

And the black wolf is a type of shadow beast, and the shadow beast is quite low-level among the monsters, but even this low-level monster has a creature level of up to twenty-five.

The black wolf has a pitch-black body, blood-red pupils, and dagger-like fangs in the white forest, and it is difficult to effectively kill it with physical damage in battle, because the wounds of shadow creatures heal quickly, but its fangs can easily pierce any kind of armor with armor level less than 2.

In other words, there is no kind of armor below the plate armor that can withstand the blow of this monster, and even the plate armor can only barely resist by relying on the chest and back plate with the highest defense.

However, Brando did not release the news, and the guardians were unanimously silent.

They wanted to see how young people reacted to a surprise attack after a week of training, especially in combat.

As for the danger, it is negligible" In the face of any gold realm, these black wolves are not much different from the most docile puppy.

, this is the seventh day of entering the forest" Brando~, he continued to finish writing this paragraph, and then looked around the forest is not a peaceful scene, in the distance the young people are divided into six groups to fight against the twelve stone leopards produced by the sword of the earth, the six obsidian leopards are either crouching or lying not far away lazily watching this qiē, they cover their noses with their claws, or half-squint their eyes and do not seem interested in the battle of their own kind.

They don't even understand why these humans are fighting so happily, and their own kind are obviously not doing their best: they are aiming left and right, hoping that if they are on the field, they will bite off someone's neck.

Of course, the young people apparently don't realize that these big, docile-looking cats are interested in their necks, "otherwise they might really have to fight a cold war." But at this moment, they felt even more like they were standing on the sidelines of Akane, Kuran, and Ulliel.

The captain of the security cavalry is the commander of the mercenaries who accompany the team this time, and it can be said that these mercenaries have the most onerous tasks, in addition to supervision, sometimes they also have to work as protectors.

At least when they entered the forest, the mercenaries saw more than once that the young men wanted to sleep on the wet ground. They were responsible for patrolling the night, kicking up those who were sleeping on the ground with their leather boots" and then lifting their blankets and showing them the centipedes and snakes curled up below as thick as their arms.

I have to say that this hand is very effective, and many people are frightened, and since then they have obeyed these mercenaries.

But now Ulliel has another job, which is to score the young men's table in battle: "The group with the lowest score will be driven to do a three-mile switchback."

Three miles is nothing on the plains, but in the Black Forest it can kill you, and you can sometimes come back at midnight when you set out in the evening."

Of course, it's usually hopeless.