The season is early spring, and the grass and trees in the wild have already turned green. Although the weather is still a little cold, it can no longer affect the able-bodied adventurers.

Well, except perhaps for the caster - magicians are notoriously weak, and even if they don't have any illnesses, most of them appear to be weak.

But among them, Lydia is certainly not included.

Actually, Lydia wasn't much stronger either - her size hadn't changed much, she was still that small. But with Ji Ran's refining equipment, especially the boots that increased her endurance and movement speed, she could easily keep up with everyone's footsteps.

Not to mention the elemental resonance on her body - while not turning on elemental resonance doesn't give her those huge increases in magic, it's still a breeze to make her more resistant to the cold.

Alice was still like that, dressed in a gorgeous dress, and her feet didn't even touch the ground, just floating slightly in the air. Since that frenzy, Alice's strength seems to be slowly improving—although it is not obvious, but in many details, it has made her stand out from the rest.

In Rice's words, Alice is supposed to be a puppeteer, but her mental power is obviously stronger - unlike the mental power of a magician, Alice's mental power is more focused on mental power.

This psychic power, known as psionic energy, has long been one of the subjects of research in the wizarding world, but unfortunately, it is difficult to cultivate, and almost all of it comes from talent. Truly powerful psionic powers can even allow them to control those who are not so strong-willed - or demonic beasts.

Also, psionic attacks are very difficult to defend against—just like the rays emitted by the apple.

In the days when I first got out of town. On the road, you can often see many adventurers in a hurry—and they are not the only ones who choose to venture outside the spring. The same goes for most other adventurers.

Merely. After a while, adventurers rushed in different directions - the world is so vast that there are so many places for adventurers to explore. Just as the Dragonspine Mountains are not necessarily the only ones in the north, the deserts in the northwest and the plateaus further west are also popular locations for adventurers.

It's just that those places are not just human chassis...... But fortunately, the orcs are not in direct conflict with the humans, and they are quite tolerant of the adventurers - because the orcs themselves lack all kinds of technology to obtain supplies. Adventurers are often able to provide them with enough of what they lack.

Ji Ran and the others didn't have that plateau in their plan - that place could be called a wild area, maybe they would go to see it in the future, but it was definitely not now.

In fact, before they reached the Dragon's Back Mountains, their most important target was the Black Soil Basin.

The Black Soil Basin occupies a sizable area in the northern part of the continent, but it is not a place that adventurers are keen on. No way, there are really few things that can be found in that place.

It is said that the Black Soil Basin was originally a fertile land. But in that great tribulation of antiquity. There was a huge battle in that place. As a result of the battle, a large piece of the land was dug down. It became a sunken scorched earth.

The so-called black soil does not mean that it is fertile black soil, but that the ground there has been scorched black by the fighting waves, and it has not been restored until now.

The flora and fauna that can live in the black soil basin are all quite tenacious and tenacious—not only fierce, very difficult to hunt, but also very rare.

Although there are also adventurers who try their luck there, it is far from the various mountains and forests.

Moreover, it is said that there is still the magical contamination left over from the great war - the plants and magical beasts in it have mutated in large or small ways. The division of the monster is extremely irregular, maybe you met a cutie of two or three levels before, and the next moment you will have to meet a powerful demonic beast at the peak of the sixth level.

The only thing that makes some adventurers excited is that it is said that there are some seventh-level gold-level demonic beasts that have no spiritual intelligence - compared to those golden-level magical beasts that have spiritual intelligence and have established their own power, those without spiritual intelligence are naturally much easier to deal with.

But probably in the harsh environment of the perennial competition, those gold-level demonic beasts have also become very cunning, and it is difficult to spot them. You are fully prepared to bring a large number of people over, and the gold-level demonic beasts will definitely hide so that you can't find them. But once you let your guard down and disperse the crowd, then the gold-tier demonic beast will show its fangs......

In short, it's a place where people invest too much, but the rewards are uncertain...... If you want to harvest, there are many other options on this continent.

However, this scorched earth is not for nothing. Because of the magical contamination, some strange plants grow in the Black Earth Basin - plants that are very different from their original appearance, but have all kinds of unique effects - and some teams of adventurers take on various tasks to go there and collect those plants back for money.

In addition, in the black soil basin, there are many large holes that go straight to the ground.

Nobody wants to go down and see ...... The cavern was filled with terrifying magical energy. If the average adventurer goes down, he will be torn to pieces by magical energy before he can reach the end. And what was inside the big cave, only a few bold gold-level powerhouses went down to see it - the result was very disappointing, there was nothing.

It can't be said that there is nothing, at least there are some earth element crystals - but that thing is not worth the danger of a gold-level powerhouse to go down to collect it, and ordinary adventurers can't go down.

Therefore, those few big holes have become accumulation.

But Ji Ran felt that it was a good place for Les to be promoted to the gold rank!

Because the black soil basin is an ancient battlefield, there are often various abnormalities. If Royce were to move up to the Golden Rank, it was almost inevitable that something would go wrong - every Golden Rank would be the case. In this way, in that place, it can be well disguised.

The surrounding earth elemental crystals can provide enough energy for Les when he is promoted - the fighting energy of the earth elemental combined with the earth elemental crystallization is really good.

The only question is how everyone will go down - of course, this is not a problem for Ji Ran.

In a short period of time, let everyone have a magic weapon that can resist those violent magical energies, and Ji Ran is confident that he can refine it.

Therefore, the biggest target of their adventure this time is the black soil basin. In a sense, going to the Dragon's Back Mountains is just a stop.

But Ji Ran also regarded this as an important thing to do—after all, he had promised Old Mike that if the chefs of Ironforge Castle would see his unique cooking skills and let them break through—if it didn't affect him, Ji Ran was still very helpful.

And Domorgan, I wonder what happened to his amber business? This kind of sake made by yourself must be liked by the dwarves, right? If his business goes well, he can consider trying to get a two-pot head burning knife or something......

Of course, Perth City is not close to the Dragon's Back Mountains. During the journey, everyone had enough time to enjoy the scenery around them...... as well as obtaining a variety of harvests.

The area of the Knight Merchant Federation is actually quite large, even a little larger than the Kingdom of Liber. Of course, no matter what, it can't be compared to the Ere Empire...... That's a behemoth.

Leaving the Knight Business Federation, I want a lot of time. However, everyone is not in a hurry, and they hurry slowly, without worrying about the lack of time.

This was the first time Lydia had taken an adventure with everyone since she went to the Blue Wind Academy - although she had an adventure with Ji Ran halfway, but that time there were no Les Erin and the others - so she was extremely excited.

In the past six months or so, Lydia's strength has also made sufficient progress. Not to mention breaking through the silver level, in terms of the understanding of spells, Lydia has already walked ahead of many classmates...... It even surpassed many senior students.

She specializes in ice-based spells, and water-based spells are also relatively good at them, and she is more proficient in the use of wind-based spells as auxiliary spells. Earth-based spells are average, but fire-based spells are so-so...... It's basically limited to common spells like fireballs.

On the way, Lydia performed her spells when she had nothing to do, and when she encountered those not high-level magical beasts, she even asked others not to make a move, leaving her to deal with them alone - it was a little difficult at first, but in the later stage, she was already able to deal with two or three third-level demonic beasts with skilled colleagues - maybe fourth-level demonic beasts were not a problem, but for the sake of safety, everyone still did not give her this opportunity.

Everyone knows her years, and she is trying her best to catch up with her strength...... Because in the past few months, the strength of other people has grown too fast.

Les has reached the peak of the silver high level, and is about to break through the gold level; Ban has broken through the silver level, and his strength has increased greatly; Erin is now at the Silver Intermediate level, possessing a peculiar trap skill and Hua Luo, who has turned into a Starlight Falcon......

Although she is not the lowest ranking among the people now, she still has an incomparable sense of crisis. She didn't want to be left behind by others, and she didn't want to get farther and farther away from Ji Ran - and Ji Ran was already a silver high-level now!

Maybe soon, he'll become a Golden Tier too, right? In that case, will you be able to keep up with him? Will it still be his...... Is it a little sister who is so loved?

Of course, others will not know about her psychology. But she herself knows that she is doing something, not only to prove herself, but to "control her own destiny" as Ji Ran said, and there is also a big reason, that is, to catch up with Ji Ran and be able to stand side by side with him!

In order to achieve this goal, I can endure any kind of hardship! (To be continued......)