After explaining what he had to say about Roland to Felgen, Cheese went up to the second floor of the building. Unlike the simple and straightforward layout of the first floor, the second floor of this house has too many rooms compared to the area. Although there were doors between these rooms, the mage knew from Fergen that only by opening the doors in the order preset by the witches could he go to the room in the center of the level, which was the witches' safe room.

Cheese intends to open the portal connected to the Grey Tower in the safe room, which is an airtight room protected by various defensive circles and is the ideal place to open the passage. Taking the red chalk out of his bosom again, Cheese began to write on the walls and door frames of the safe room the various symbols he had once written in the guest room at the top of the dragon's back. Soon, the preparations to unfold the portal were complete.

“...... Unfold the road!" Cheese chanted a spell in obscure language, revealing an ugly crack in the space in front of him like a torn canvas. And as the mage supplied his mana into this gap, this inconspicuous crack slowly expanded, and finally stabilized after becoming a passage wide for a person.

Without hesitation, Cheese stepped through the portal to the Grey Tower. What the mage didn't notice was that when he opened the portal, the red runes that had been drawn around them turned gray neatly one moment, and then returned to normal the next.

Damp...... This does not bode well. The air in the Ash Tower has never been so humid. Cheese opened his eyes, and sure enough, what appeared in front of him was not the familiar Gray Tower, but a forest with extremely dense vegetation. A dark, dark blue forest. Whether it's shrubs, trees, vines, or even nameless flowers blooming in the grass, it's a color, a dull blue that has lost its life. There was something else in the air besides water vapor, a fishy-sweet smell, but not the smell of blood. The smell was stronger than the smell of blood, and it was sweet.

The first few seconds the mage saw this strange scene, the thought of being so shocked that he even forgot to breathe. Cheese instinctively looked back at the portal he had passed through, his brain was spinning, the portal opened by his own magic would never go wrong for no reason, he would come to this wrong place, it was likely that some being was intentional. And after turning his head, the mage found that the place that was supposed to be a portal was empty!

What's going on!?

Cheese's body seemed to have been struck by lightning, and the disappearance of the portal meant that he couldn't get out of here quickly. The mage quickly recalled the operation he had just done before casting the spell, and with his extraordinary psychological quality and memory, Cheese could ensure that there was absolutely no mistake in his operation just now, so what was the situation in front of him?

The sound of "Sasha" being touched on the leaves caught Cheese's attention. The mage looked at the place where the sound had come from, but it was no different from its surroundings except for the swaying leaves. If you were a normal person, you might think of the anomaly as the sound of a breeze in the woods. But Cheese knew that there would never be such a thing as wind in this forest, so what was it that moved the leaves?

"Whew......" The forest returned to an eerie silence after the sound just now, and after confirming that the smell in the air was indeed not poisonous, Cheese exhaled carefully. He found that the plants within four or five steps of his place were showing signs of being cut by some invisible force, and it seemed that the portal had caused damage to the vegetation that had grown there as it unfolded. So, do you want to get out of this area?" the mage asked himself in his mind, these strange plants were most likely aggressive, and he may have relied on these five steps of safety to avoid being attacked, so now he was going to risk leaving this area?

"Damn it. Cursing under his breath, Cheese felt deeply that he might have been put on the table again, regardless of whether the person who disturbed and closed the portal was a witch or some other being, they obviously lacked a good opinion of him. The feeling of irritability once again surfaced in the mage's mind, which was not a good sign. Shaking his head and putting the thoughts in his head down for a moment, Cheese knew that his immediate priority was to figure out where he was and how to return to the Blue Lion King's Capital.

It's safer to try to spread your magic as a tentacle, as it used to allow the mage to notice the nearby magic at first. And even if he encounters something with dangerous abilities, Cheese can ensure that he can cut off the connection between himself and the magic tentacles in the first place in order to protect himself. However, this time the mage was destined to be disappointed, and Cheese found that his magic would disappear once he left the range of five steps, as if the dark blue plants around him had some kind of power that could cut off the perception between himself and his magic. This also means that once Cheese steps into the forest, he loses all ability to unleash magic.

The voice of "Sasha" before reappeared around the mage, and it sounded like something was closer under the vegetation than before. Moreover, there is more than one place to make a sound this time!

Interesting, is this forcing me out of the safe zone?, the mage thought. These voices are so coincidental that they seem to convey a signal that if you continue to stay put, you will be attacked. A truly experienced hunter would not be so aggressive in intimidating his prey, and it is never wise to break the net.

Then, the next question is whether to act according to the other person's wishes. There was no doubt that something was watching over Cheese in the dark blue forest, and the mage thought it would know why it was here. Thinking of this, Cheese stepped forward and walked in a different direction from the three voices just now.

When the mage stepped on the vegetated ground, he could clearly feel the power in his body quickly disappear. As suspected, this forest has the effect of incapacitating most casters. Merely...... On Cheese's lowered face, the mage gave a subtle sneer. You know, while most spellcasters need to get help from the outside world like other spellcasters, as apprentices in the Grey Tower, everyone has some means to press the bottom of the box. And the means of cheese can be used here.

Pushing back the thick foliage, the mage felt as if he was walking into the depths of this forest. The woods, which had been in his impression of being very dense, had become almost impassable, and the sound of "salsa" following behind him from time to time was urging Cheese to continue to move forward. However, this is not to blame for the mage's lack of experience in the forest, as the Grey Tower is located in the northernmost part of the world, which has led to Cheese barely seeing the dense forests of the south. In the mage's mind, the concept of woods refers more to the sparse woodlands of tall trees in the north.

After clearing a bush, Cheese saw two huge trees that were unbelievably thick, and they were so thick that the experienced lumberjack could lament that his axe was not durable. And unlike the free-form trees, these two trees are so straight that they stretch upwards like two huge pillars. The mage's gaze couldn't help but rise upward, he wanted to see how tall the two big trees really were.

Then he saw that at the height of the canopy of a normal tree, two large trees were gradually coming together, and there seemed to be something huge on top of it. Cheese soon realizes what it is, and what he sees is previously recorded in the library of the Grey Tower.

The name "Shadows in the Depths of the Forest" is so obscure that one can only refer to it by this title.

"Go kill it. A voice that was familiar to Cheese came coldly from the woods behind him. In the mage's memory, the owner of this voice was called by Cheese - Teacher.