Choosing to return, Louis didn't expect any rewards, but he didn't expect to get a lot of pure energy after returning.

This should be the most affordable reward, pure energy for Louis, is a real strength improvement, not only can increase his own Force reserves, but also with the increase of the Force, it will gradually improve his physique, that is to say, pure energy will allow him to improve in all aspects, but it is not as direct as rewarding the improvement of physical attributes.

Nodding with satisfaction, Louis stretched his waist, and his physical fitness continued to improve, not only making him more and more comfortable in combat, but even fighting with the charming Virginia and the youthful and invincible Kenm for half a year, it did not make him feel unable to cope.

Looking around, Louie found that he was not back inside Redwood Village, but was standing in a thick fog that was dissipating at a speed visible to the naked eye.

However, the speed of dissipation of the surrounding fog is not consistent, some places quickly dissipate, others slowly dissipate, and even gather in one place, slowly condensing into large marshmallows.

Louis didn't know if the change was good or bad, he could only carefully avoid those areas, and then turn left and right from the clearing where the fog had cleared.

Fortunately, he chose the right direction this time, and soon he saw Redwood Village, and he also saw Jill in a combat uniform with a serious face and a defensive posture, and Artoria in white armor and carrying a long sword.

"I'm back!"

Louis beckoned to greet the two, and Jill and Artoria were stunned when they saw Louie suddenly appear, and opened their arms with joy on their faces to give Louie a big hug to the returning.

Artoria was covered in armor, Louis just hugged it and let go, and Gil, who was wearing a straitjacket, wanted to hold it for a while, but was unfortunately pushed away by Gil, who saw through his thoughts.

"How long have I been away this time?" Louie judged from the reaction of the two of them to see him, this time it was definitely not just a day.

"You've been away for a whole week!" got an accurate answer from Jill, and also learned that the dense fog in Redwood Village had taken on all sorts of strange changes since yesterday.

"Oh, what kind of changes?"

"At first seeing the fog begin to dissipate, we all thought you had succeeded...... But soon some of the fog coalesced, or the fog disappeared but dropped something before it dissipated, which gave us a lot of headaches. Jill pointed not far away, and Louis turned his head to see a corpse lying there, apparently not human.

"Will there be such trouble?" Louis frowned at the dense fog that had not yet cleared, could it be the wrong choice to deal with the core before the fog was cleared?

Could it be that the correct thing to do is to sweep away the surrounding fog first, and then attack the core last?

"Compared to going to the unknown and completing all sorts of weird quests, these are not much of a hassle now. Artoria held the hilt of her sword in her left hand and smiled with a relaxed smile on her face, for the knight king, the mess left by the fog was easy to solve: it was nothing more than a battle.

In some ways, Artoria is right. Jill rubbed her wrist, and judging by her expression, she must have been injured in the battle.

"Are you hurt?"

"It's not a serious injury. ”

Louis didn't follow Jill about his injuries, but instead asked about Bruce and Steve, and learned that the two were doing similar work to them, and that even Myron the Sage was keeping an eye on the village in all directions, dealing with strange situations that could arise at any time, or enemies that popped up out of nowhere.

Just as Louie was about to go and see the others, he noticed a dog hanging out in front of him.

It doesn't seem strange to see a dog wandering around in a village, but the situation in Redwood Village is more special, and Louis hasn't seen a dog here since he came to Redwood Village.

It is said that there were originally a few dogs in Redwood Village, which were raised by the hunters in the village, but soon after the fog appeared, the dogs were 'swallowed' by the fog and never returned.

Where did this dog come from? Could it be that after he eliminated the core, the fog spit out the devoured dog again? But what hunter would keep a husky?

Looking at the eyes and expressions of this thing, you can judge that the bloodline of this husky is quite pure.

"Where did this husky come from?"

Jill and Artoria also looked back at the same time, neither of them had noticed when the husky appeared, and they hadn't seen the dog yesterday anyway.

"Did you run out of the fog?"

"This ...... It's not impossible. ”

Jill and Artoria glanced at each other, and then stared at the husky with Louie, who was not afraid of them, so he stood there and looked at Louie and the others.

"Could this thing be some powerful magical beast? disguised like this?" Artoria suddenly burst out with an astonishing momentum, as if in the next second, she would draw her long sword and cut the husky in front of her into eighteen pieces, and then sprinkle out hidden weapons such as peppercorns and peppers.

However, this husky did not mean to be afraid at all, and still looked at Louis and the others with contemptuous eyes.

"What powerful monster would disguise itself as a husky?" Just before Louie was about to get closer, he even used the Force to determine if this was a monster in disguise or a real husky?

Anyway, the fog can throw anything, and it doesn't seem to be a strange thing to throw out a second ha.

Before Louis could lift his legs, the Erha suddenly turned his head, grinned and flicked his tongue and ran away.

“......”

Louis looked at the direction where the husky disappeared, the dog rushed into the place where the dense fog had not completely dissipated, and he didn't know whether it would be 'swallowed' by the dense fog, or would it run directly through the dense fog area to the wild?

Now that he had run away, Louis didn't bother anymore, but looked in the direction of the fog again, and the large areas of the fog had disappeared, leaving only a small part of it to condense into a mass and stay there scattered.

"The fog dissipates faster, and at this rate, it won't be long before there is not much fog left in this direction. ”

Artoria glanced at the farmland that had been revealed, and the smile on her face became stronger: "Louie, you go back and say hello to Bruce and Steve first! ”

Jill nodded, after fighting together, she had a more intuitive understanding of how strong Artoria's combat power really was, no matter what kind of monster came out of the thick fog, Artoria would kill it with one sword, and she had never seen her swing a second sword at the same enemy.

She and Artoria are in the same direction, and it is better to hone their fighting skills than to fight side by side under Artoria's watch.

It turns out that she made the right choice, and if she ran in a certain direction and wanted to deal with all kinds of enemies alone, she would be embarrassed, if not in danger of her life.

Walking side by side into the village, Louis noticed Myron, who was standing on the bell tower and looking around.

Myron also saw Louis returning, he seemed very happy, and quickly ran from the bell tower to Louie: "I knew that you would succeed." ”

"I didn't expect you to trust me so much. ”

Myron just smiled, not explaining why he trusted Louie so much, maybe his intuition told him that Louie was a brave man like no other, or maybe because Louie was the first brave man to be summoned, and he was willing to give more trust.

"Need a break?"

"I've been resting there for half a year, and I don't need to rest at all, if something goes wrong, call me directly, and I'll help Jill deal with the injuries on his body first. ”

Myron nodded, he could see that Louie was in a good state now, and he felt that the energy fluctuations emanating from Louie's body were even stronger, it seemed that Louie had not only solved the crisis in Redwood Village, but also greatly improved his own strength.

"In this case, not only can you save Redwood Village, but you can also go to the rescue of Riverbend Fort......" Myron muttered softly and returned to the clock tower, observing the situation around Redwood Village from above.

Louis glanced at Myron's back, then reached out to Jill, "Do you need me to hold you?"

"Do you see that?" said Jill, who was a little surprised, thinking she had done a good job of concealing it, but she still couldn't hide it from Louie.

"There's something unusual about your walking posture, and you can notice it if you look closely. Louis looked at Jill's ankle: "How did it hurt?"

Jill's expression was a little subtle, and after the two of them returned to sit down at the wooden table that everyone used to hold meetings, Jill said the answer: "Because of the heel, it twisted to ......"

"......" Louis thought about a lot of possibilities, but he didn't think about this situation, and was silent for a moment and finally said: "You need to strengthen your exercise." ”

"No kidding, fight in high heels...... Can this kind of thing be exercised?" As Jill frantically complained about the shoes of the combat suit, Bruce, Steve, Peggy, and Artoria returned.

Louis looked at the people who came back one after another, they all had some traces of battle on their bodies, but except for Jill who sprained his ankle by his shoe, they were basically flesh wounds.

"All the fog has dissipated?"

"It's almost gone, and we've cleaned up the things that remain, and there's only one thing we can't deal with. Bruston paused: "It's inaccurate, it looks like a mass of energy?"

Bruce then described the shape and color of the thing in detail to Louie: "Do you know what this is?"

Louis was about to help Jill treat his ankle, listening to the appearance of the object described by Bruce, the more he listened, the more familiar it felt, and finally realized what Bruce said: "Isn't this a portal to the dark world?"