Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Midnight Crisis

When Alan returned to the campfire with the rest of the rabbit meat in a daze, Elvis was licking his fingers and greedily looking at the delicious food in Alan's hand. Alan was furious by his eyes like this, and he understood that he knew that Elvis was worried about the rabbit meat in Allen's hand, and if he didn't understand, he thought that Elvis had fallen into some evil spell to plot against Allen. Alan shuddered at the thought of this, and hurriedly threw the remaining rabbit meat in his hand at Elvis, who hurriedly hid aside to enjoy his delicious food.

Although the stars in the sky were still shining, Allen's heart felt that none of them were as bright and moving as those eyes. Alan looked at Felicia, and the figure in the firelight became clearer and clearer in Alan's heart. Felicia tore off a small piece of rabbit meat with her hand and put it in her mouth to chew it carefully, with a satisfied smile with sweet dimples on her face, Alan couldn't help but look stunned again.

After a hearty meal, everyone slept in tents around the campfire, and everyone was on duty in shifts to prevent the wild animals in the forest from invading.

In the first half of the night, Alan was in charge, and during the vigil, Alan pasted the yellow mud on the outside of another hare he caught, and then buried it in the soil, and built a bonfire on it, and used the bonfire to bake the rabbit meat underground, and waited until tomorrow morning, it was a fragrant breakfast. From time to time, Eren added some branches to the campfire, and the flames rose from time to time, and Eren was using his qi magic to control the air flow that fed the campfire.

While watching the campfire, Eren thought about magic. Mr. Fama Lux's magic can make the earth crack and the earth tremble, Elvis's magic can catch some stupid and cute rabbits, and my magic, although it is not in the right way (in the eyes of the rigid teacher Fama Ux, of course) is used for cooking, but it can really bring happiness and joy to everyone. But should this be satisfied?Maybe I should spend more time on the study of magic, as the teacher instructed, but in this way, I can protect my beloved, and let her stay happy?, Thinking of this, Alan naturally looked at Felicia's tent not far away.

Alan didn't know at this time that the girl lying there was also looking at herself by the campfire through the tent, thinking that it would be a happy thing to eat such delicious food every day, this unique "genius" magic apprentice gave Felicia a sense of steadiness and peace of mind that she had never felt before.

Alan faced the jumping flames, and the fresh evening breeze blew around him, and suddenly thought of what Teacher Fama Uxes said, all phenomena are magic, and magicians can control magical elements to form wind through mental power and magic spells, and nature can also produce wind, so how does nature control the magic elements? Thinking about the teacher's words in his mind, slowly, looking at the beating flames in front of him, Alan felt that the beating flames were magic, just like his own heartbeat, and the wind blowing in the forest was also magic, taking away decay to bring freshness, sunshine and rain, wind, thunder and lightning, etc., these are all magic, but, I don't know who is controlling all the magic phenomena in this world, and what are the laws that drive the operation of all these forces, why is he good at fire and air magic, and Elvis is good at earth and water?

Alan thought about these things, and he didn't get tired for a while, and several other people had already fallen asleep one after another because of the hard work of the day, and Alan listened to the slight snoring sound coming from the tent, not only showing a slight smile.

However, at this moment, Alan suddenly felt a strange smell in the woods on the hillside.

The woods have been silent, the chirping of summer insects has stopped for some time, but there are birds flying in surprise not far away, Alan listened carefully to the sounds around him, and there was indeed a rustling sound in the distance, not very clear, but it definitely existed. The moonlight, which was still bright just now, was also blocked by a dark cloud, and Alan looked around uneasily, and at the same time put his hand into the satchel he carried with him, holding a magic crystal, if necessary, he could drive the magic elements in it at any time to release the magic power in it.

Just upwind, and with careful discernment, he could discern a thick smell that did not belong to the suburban forest, and Alan was even more convinced that danger was approaching, and kicked Elvis, who was sleeping and drooling in the tent next to him.

"El, wake up, there's something over there. Alan whispered.

"What are you doing? Don't you see that people are sleeping soundly, I dreamed that I was holding a big rabbit, and I was already seven minutes ripe..."Elvis was halfway through his words, and suddenly reacted, and a spirit got up and stepped out of the tent.

"Alan, what's going on? What did you find?"

"I don't know, there seems to be something over there, it might be dangerous?" Alan pointed to the edge of the forest on the hillside.

Elvis looked in the direction of Allen's finger, and it was dark that he couldn't see anything, but the rustling sound became clearer and clearer, and the fishy smell in the air became more solemn.

"El, wake everyone up and light the campfire. ”

Elvis woke everyone up one by one, and made a silent gesture to everyone. The classmates who woke up in their sleep didn't know what was happening, but they guessed most of them when they looked at Alan and Elvis with the expressions of being enemies, and at the same time smelled the thick fishy smell in the air.

The clouds obscured all the moonlight, and only the campfire illuminated the area around the clearing where they lived, but the forest beyond the clearing was not visible at all.

The rustling sound seemed to be very close, and everyone tensed their nerves, the six of them were coming to the suburbs for the first time to experience, and they had been holding a relaxed attitude, because no one had heard of any security problems near the imperial capital of the Yus Empire. So they were not mentally prepared for danger, and they guessed what was slowly approaching.

Everyone held their breath, no one dared to say a word, and then the silence became more and more set off by the strange rustling sound that was slowly approaching.

Alan glanced at Felicia not far away, she also looked in the direction where the voice came from, through the firelight, Alan felt a trace of fear in Felicia's eyes, and the original bright star was also slightly dimmed. Alan thought, why don't you feel afraid, but you can't be afraid at this time, even if you fight hard, you have to protect everyone.

"Don't panic, everybody, Felicia, you and Kelly are leaning against the big rock, Sean and Elton, you stay next to the two of them, protect them, and leave us alone. El, you have earth-based protective magic ready, and I'll take care of the attack later. Alan realized that danger was coming, and he divided the work among the people in a hurry.