More than sixty miles east of Greenwood City, a convoy consisting of a spar-driven truck and a horse-drawn carriage was marching through the mountains. Although there are more and more spar vehicles, the total production is still limited, but in most cases the spar vehicles are still used for freight and large-scale passenger transportation, and when there are few travelers, horse-drawn carriages are still the mainstay.

In the carriage sat two men, one was Ciro, who now served on the Resources Development Committee of the Ministry of Commerce, and the other was the alchemist Morey.

This time, they went to several small towns in the eastern part of Greenforest City to inspect the feasibility of building a new alchemy pharmaceutical factory. Because a series of new spar veins have been discovered near those towns, and some magical herbs are already produced in the surrounding mountains. It is very suitable for building a factory here to produce alchemical potions. Once completed, this project could give a significant boost to the economy of the newly occupied areas in the east, allowing them to speed up their catch-up with the core area of the China Tower.

"Master Morey, it's great to have you this time. If it weren't for your discerning eye and discovery of the kind of mushrooms that can be used as raw materials, the profit of this project would be at least 10% different. ”

Morey closed the notebook in his hand and said, "That's why I'm going to come and see it for myself." The eastern part of Suero is an underdeveloped area and was originally a backward area in the kingdom, but it is very rich in natural resources and has unlimited development potential. ”

"Yes, here's the last stop, the town we are going to now is called Carlotta, and the mountains here are very famous, especially the various mushrooms. Maybe you'll find something new. Even if they don't, the mushroom soup on their side is a must, at least you can have a good meal. ”

Morey smiled: "I'm looking forward to it. ”

He opened the curtain of the carriage and looked out, and in the village, a few hundred meters in front of them, the smoke of the midday cooking had already risen.

At that moment, a burst of green light suddenly swept over the mountains behind the town, across the town, and swept towards them.

The power contained in that green light gave Morey a thrilling feeling.

"What's that!" Ciro also saw the light, "it's coming." ”

The guard sitting outside the carriage bowed his head and shouted into the carriage: "Mr. Morey, Mr. Ciro, this light is very strange, what protective props do you have to use best!"

Although Morey is not a powerful mage, he is a highly skilled alchemist, and he is naturally not lacking in defensive items. He took a small disc from the storage ring and tapped it a few times, and a magic crystal on the disc lit up. A gentle force floated over the people inside, enveloping both the carriages and the hedron truck behind them.

As soon as the shield was generated, the green light swept over the small convoy. Morey's shield didn't last long before it shattered under the power of the green light, but when the remaining bit of green light swept through everyone, everyone didn't feel anything.

"It's weird, this green light can easily shatter my shield, but it doesn't seem to have any effect on my body. Morey said.

"Could it have something to do with the God of Nature, or the nearest Divine City?" Ciro was a little annoyed, "I shouldn't have gone out recently, and the situation outside is still too dangerous now." ”

"Look at the trees on the side of the road!" shouted the guard.

"Why! The tree is starting to move, what kind of magic is this?" exclaimed Morey.

"These trees have become treemen!" Morey hurriedly pulled back the curtain on the other side of the carriage, where a staggering number of treemen were also breaking through the ground. The treemen began to seem to have sight and hearing all at once, and a face made of holes grew out of the trunk. When they heard the movement of the convoy, they all turned their faces.

It was a terrifying experience when the plains on the side of the road and the trees on the hills came to life and turned their faces towards you at the same time, and several people in the car let out exclamations.

The guard had already removed a rifle from his back, and he said, "Mr. Morey, although I don't know how these tree people appeared, they don't seem to be very friendly to us. Ah, they're coming at us. ”

The woods around here are low and sparse, so the treemen that appear are not as tall as those around Arano, and there aren't as many of them as there are them. But the shortest treemen were also three or four meters tall, giving Morey the feeling that they could destroy their car with a single blow. Morey looked over and saw at least seventy or eighty treemen walking towards them.

"The gods of nature are above, and these big trees have become monsters everywhere. We're in a bad situation!" said Ciro, who had long forgotten that he had abandoned the god of nature at such a critical moment, "Lord Morey, what should we do?"

"You have to find a safe place first. Morey began rummaging through the scrolls and props from the ring, and he said to the others, "Give me enough time, I should be able to make a teleportation array!" ”

The guard said, "This is all unsheltered wilderness, and we are going to die here." You have to get to the town ahead, where there is a wall made of wood, and although it is not very strong, it is a little more likely to block the tree people!"

"Okay, then we'll rush into the village first. Maybe we'll be able to take those villagers with us. Morey said.

"Hurry up!" the guard yelled at the coachman.

The coachman struck the whip on the horse, but the horses suddenly let out a loud roar, and one of the horses suddenly began to grow in size, its muscles bulged and its limbs became extremely thick, and the other seemed to have lost all its spirit, and at once withered down. The carriage underwent such a change in the gallop that it immediately lost its balance. Morey hurriedly cast a levitation spell on the carriage, which prevented it from tumbling over. However, the muscular horse began to raise its forelimbs as it ran, and its hooves were gone, replaced by a pair of sharp claws. The monster suddenly stopped, turned around and pushed the carriage, and the carriage that had been speeding crashed into the monster and pushed it far away, and he was about to stop.

The guards hurriedly raised their guns and fired at the horse, but in the fierce shaking he did not hit the horse's vital point. Enraged by the attack, the mutant horse, whose body was grazed by the bullet, grabbed at the guard with one claw, and the guard dodged away, and the claw pierced the coachman's chest.

At this moment, a bolt of lightning came out from Morey's fingertips, hitting the monster's eye. The monster hissed and lost its sight, and the guard drew the short sword at his waist, and with a fighting spirit, he slashed off the monster's head with a single sword.