"Gollum~Gollum~"

Today's Viper Forest is relatively peaceful, and there have been no incidents of venomous snakes crawling into the forest paths on a large scale - occasionally a few venomous snakes enter, and they are all picked back into the forests on both sides of the road by the Shangdu guards.

Then, as the sun dimmed through the canopy, and night fell, the caravan came to the campsite for the night, a clearing with a sweet spring in the heart of the Serpent Forest, and beside the spring there was a statue of Eddath, the goddess of peace, and a few rough cabins, the residence of a senior priest of the goddess of spring and several priests' apprentices.

"Boom!"

After collecting enough firewood, a low-ranking mage in the caravan guard set the firewood on fire with a flaming hand, and immediately the blazing fire illuminated half of the clearing.

The makeshift caravan consisted of a large caravan and several small caravans and some individual travelers, and when the bonfire was lit, a caravan immediately sent someone to borrow the fire - although they could also light the bonfire, it was still much more troublesome than borrowing the fire.

Of course, they didn't take it for nothing, but brought small gifts, a small bottle of rum or half a pig's hind leg, etc., so that a bonfire rose in the camp, reflecting the warmth of the winter forest.

"Come on, come on, good viper wine!"

"And the special grilled cliff wild boar chops!"

Another bonfire feast, the good wine Miró took out the special spirits he had bought in Esputa from his backpack and handed them out, and then happily planted several pieces of marinated cliff wild boar chops with sharpened branches and placed diagonally around the campfire, instead of brushing them with oil and wine.

However, during the bonfire, the door of the log hut slowly opened, and the old priest with clear eyes and slender beard led several apprentices through the bonfire to the altar of the goddess of spring, ignoring the noise around them, they slowly knelt down in front of the statue of the goddess of spring, and prayed softly.

"Thou hast blessed us with peace and tranquility in our hearts, and thou hast taught us the way of harmony in all things. ”

"I share the flowing water and its products with all beings, and send praise to your name!"

The prayers were not loud, but the whole bonfire party immediately fell silent, except for the occasional crackle of the flame burning firewood.

Several of the caravan worshippers who believed in the goddess of spring water silently folded their hands on their chests, their lips squirming in response to the prayers of the old priest, while the others remained quiet—not believing in Edas, mortals must maintain enough reverence for the gods, even if it was only a faint divine power.

The prayers were short, and soon the prayers of the priests ended, and the camp began to be noisy again.

After declining the invitations of the caravan leaders, the old priest re-entered the hut with his apprentice and closed the door.

Apparently he was a pure Edas priest who guarded an altar of Edas with his apprentices and dedicated his life to tending to the unspoiled land from the barbaric ravages of humans or other forces.

............

"Miro, good baking!"

"Quite delicious!"

Taking a string of stuffy roasted boar chops from the crocky on the outside and tender on the inside, Ron used Milo's dagger to cut off a small piece and threw the rest to Broken Tooth - no small enough weapons were found, so Ron had to borrow someone else's.

Broken Tooth was also very satisfied with the fragrant barbecue, and he tried to tear the pork chop with one of his intact canine teeth, while making a pleasant snoring sound, and Ron was satisfied with stuffing the roast into his mouth and munching on it with pleasure.

But in the midst of such a pleasant atmosphere, an exclamation suddenly sounded from the edge of the camp.

"What's going on?"

Startled by this exclamation, most of the members of the caravan looked at the edge of the camp, where there was a bonfire lit by individual tourists, and at this moment several individual tourists were helping another individual to cut open his trouser legs, cutting open the wound and squeezing the poisonous blood, while a one-meter-long poisonous snake was cut off its head and was rolling slowly on the ground.

"It turned out to be a poisonous snake!"

"Scared me!"

Called the Viper Forest, there are naturally a large number of venomous snakes that live, and it is normal for one or two to slip into the camp once in a while, and everyone's attention is once again focused on the food and warm campfire in front of them, and they talk to their friends while eating.

However, the uneasiness in Ron's heart shook again.

Swallowing the roast in his mouth, Ron stood up and quietly turned on the hunter's detection ability by the campfire, his gaze scanning the crowd in the surrounding camp, and then choosing to turn on the beast tracking.

Immediately a sparse red dot appeared on Ron's eye sockets, the bantams unloaded from the camp and gathered in a small group, quietly munching on fodder and hay.

However, on the periphery of the camp within a radius of 100 meters, there was a trace of red intent converging at the limit of Ron's detection range.

"Broken teeth!"

The uneasiness grew, and Ron immediately summoned the broken tooth and asked it to carry itself to the outskirts of the camp for about ten meters, and then a dense red dot immediately appeared on the edge of Ron's eye socket, moving towards the camp!

"There are snakes!"

"Snakes are coming!"

Before he could return, Ron immediately shouted loudly, and only then did he understand why he was upset.

In the middle of this campsite, deep in the Serpent Forest, is the shrine of the spring and the goddess of peace, Edas, the earthly kingdom of Edas.

Although Edas does not have much control over the camp, she still has the basic function of repelling insects and poisonous snakes.

But now a large swarm of venomous snakes was trying to get into areas they didn't like—Ron could already see various triangular heads swaying in the grass at the edge of the camp, spitting snake letters.

"It's a poisonous snake!"

"Everyone, get away from the grass on the edge!"

"Gather in the middle!"

The caravan leader's reaction speed was also extremely fast, after Ron's warning, in a few breaths, he made a plan, gathered all the caravan members as much as possible around the shrine of the goddess of spring, the caravan leader instructed everyone to take out the snake repellent powder that was used to deal with snakes earlier, and sprinkled it between the camp grass and the caravan wagon.

Immediately, the poisonous snake that was originally meandering forward hesitated in front of the line drawn by the snake repellent powder, and then came from behind, and a large number of poisonous snakes slowly piled up a cold and slippery snake wall in front of the snake repellent powder!

"What a lot of snakes!"

"This has never happened before!"

"My god blesses, leave safely today, and I will definitely build a small temple for you in the coming day!"

The number of snakes made most of the caravan members turn pale—they were just ordinary people, making a profit by transporting goods from city to city, and they couldn't be as unchanging as professionals.

In fact, some of the low-level professionals who served as caravan guards had the same pale faces.

Then, the door of the wooden house near the spring made another grinding sound, and then slowly opened.

"Crunch!"