On the third day after the duel, Lear received a mission from the Mage Guild to eliminate a group of griffons entrenched under a cliff in the northwest corner of the Turalone forest, and the magician in charge of the mission looked at him with a look of disbelief in awe - he couldn't understand how a fifth-level mage could look at such a task of two hundred gold coins and ten contribution points.

Of course, Lear would not tell the other party that he was to avoid the chatter of old Zaken, this old mage who was full of only the bright future of the Sarabuto Mage Association had a different obsession with making him the fourth vice president of the association, and had talked to Lear seven times in three days, if it weren't for the other party's identity as an eighth-level magician, Lear really wanted to pour a cup of coffee on his face.

Of course, the biggest advantage of this mission is that once you reach the Griffon's Bluff, it will take another week to cross the northwest corner of Tiga and enter the territory of Eri.

And Eri is Lear's chosen final destination.

The vast forests of Tula Leone are like a huge open pocket, enclosing the undead nation of Tiga in the middle, where the peace-loving and life-loving elves have been at war with the death-loving and murder-loving necromancers for centuries, but the roles of offense and defense have been reversed.

While the strategic environment of the multi-faceted enemy puts a lot of pressure on the necromancers, at the same time they can attack the forests of Turalone from any path.

This situation lasted until two hundred years ago, when the elven king Bramont and the dwarves gave the leader of the necromancers, Wilma, a miserable defeat on the banks of the Severistin River - the army of the undead (including the ghost dragons and the army of terror knights) that they had spent decades cultivating and summoned was almost completely wiped out, and the necromancers completely retreated into the depths of Tiga to begin to recuperate.

However, due to the fact that Tiga was a heavily polluted and cursed land, the elven army that had penetrated into the enemy territory was soon overshadowed by plague and weakness and could no longer fight, and finally the elven king had to give up the idea of annihilating the necromancer in one fell swoop and lead the army back to the Turalian forest.

And due to the rapid rise of the human race in the past hundred years and the recent war between elves and humans, I heard that some evil figures in the depths of that cursed land are beginning to move.

The reason why Lear chose to choose his destination in Eri, in addition to its excellent strategic terrain surrounded by the sea on three sides, is that the land bordering Eri is Tiga.

Even if you don't plan to make head-on contact for a while, keep an eye on that person.

In fact, before Sandru appeared, Lear's initial destination was at Crude, where he intended to establish his own power, and then with an alliance with Tanan or single-handedly, Gewen-Magnus was the first enemy he had to eliminate.

But Sandru appeared, coupled with the turmoil of the Erathians, he had to adjust his strategic deployment, because in his opinion, Sandru was undoubtedly a more dangerous existence, as for the Immortal Wizard King, let him jump for a few years first.

Half a month later, Lear and his team appeared in the northwest corner of the Turalone Forest, and as for the group of griffons entrenched in this area, the birds had already gone to empty their nests when they saw the murderous orcs behind him.

"At this rate, tomorrow we will be in the realm of Tiga, and it may take us five days to cross that piece of rot, and this is still under the premise that there will be no large-scale battles, so let's camp here tonight and get a good rest, I don't expect those skeleton zombies to welcome us. ”

Lear flipped off his horse and half-jokingly said to the crowd behind him.

So the people cut down the trees, and the campers, and the hunters, and they went about their work.

That night, a large bonfire was lit, and Lear presided over a small meeting.

"I am very grateful for your continued support to me, and I have never complained about wandering around with me, and when we arrive in Eri, we will start a new life. ”

Lear gently stirred the campfire in front of him with a withered twig and announced the general direction of the next step.

"What are your specific plans?"

Adela asked.

"I plan to end this wandering life and seek a territory in Eli, if I want to become a nobleman as a fifth-level magician, a viscount should not be a big problem, and then we will have our own home. ”

Lear smiled, and when everyone heard that they finally didn't have to wander anymore, even Cuarón's eyes lit up.

"But Boss, as far as I know, Erry is ruled by the Elves and the Dwarven Council, and the Elves love peace and democracy, how can we seek a territory from them?

Valenque raised his doubts, although his strength was not good, but because of the education he received since childhood, he still had a deep understanding of the customs and customs of this continent, unlike the monarchy of the Erathia Dynasty and Bracada, the Eri under the democratic parliamentary system was ruled without a lord.

"I know. Lear looked around at the crowd. "And I don't want to seek a territory from the Elven Council. ”

"Eri is a country governed by elves, dwarves and humans, although elves and dwarves occupy most of the country, but in order to avoid disputes with the human race, their parliament also recognizes the land of the human race in the land of Eri, so strictly speaking, Eri is actually one country, two systems, democratic parliamentary system and aristocracy coexist. ”

Hearing this, everyone understood Lear's plan, and the morale that had been depressed by Valenk's words was raised again.

So in the atmosphere of everyone enthusiastically discussing where to get what kind of territory, the night passed.

The second day was cloudy, with light rain, suitable for funeral, and suitable for deceiving corpses.

Lear was the first to set foot in Tiga, and the thick smell of death and decay spread across the land, and even the horses under him began to snort incessantly after stepping on the land, as if there was something particularly dirty in the air inhaled into their lungs.

In fact, it is.

Not only Lear, but everyone behind him felt very suffocated and nauseous in his chest after entering Tiga, and a very indescribable smell lingered in his nose, and he didn't even dare to let go of his breath.

And most importantly, after entering Tiga, it is difficult for Lear to feel the active elemental particles from the surrounding air, except for the earth element, the other three elements have become extremely depressed, and even the earth element has a serious sense of stagnation when it flows, as if it has been eroded and polluted by something, and the air is more of a corrupt, viscous chaos particle, similar to darkness but not like darkness.

The breath of undead magic.

This means that if Lear fights in the land, he will need to pay more mana to use the same spell, and the spell effect may be discounted, while his enemies, the necromancers, will be able to do more with less.

The only thing to be thankful for is that they are not traversing the land of Tiga, even if there are necromancers in this marginal area, it should not be too strong, and more are some ghouls or skeletons that have been transformed due to environmental influences, and ghosts should be top-level existences.

At this point, Lear had to admit that he had been right to follow Adela's advice.

Half a day was fine, but danger came as Lear and the others made their way through a hilly area.

Dozens of ugly zombies struggled to crawl out of their sides, behind them, and from the bumps on the hillside, which had been quietly buried beneath the surface and rotted, but the special soil that had been contaminated by undead magic for thousands of years had greatly slowed down the rate of this decay, and as soon as a living creature passed by, these things would crawl out of the soil with the breath of the living, and tear apart and bite all the living creatures they saw with their resentful instinct for all living beings.

Lear didn't want to waste his mana on these things, so he motioned for the warriors and orcs to quickly dispose of them and leave—his purpose was to walk through the area, not to cleanse the land of the dead.

But when the orcs didn't hesitate to chop these ugly ghouls into hundreds of pieces of minced flesh - except for the terrifying ones, these ghouls were the weakest of the undead in terms of movement speed and attack power, and more rumors appeared in front of and behind Lear.

The white and black bones were entangled in a thick layer of black gas, and this time there were skeleton warriors, and there were more than a hundred of them, and behind them were complete zombies that had been transformed by witchcraft, and the number seemed to be quite large.

Obviously, an enemy of this magnitude could never be an undead ghoul scattered in the wild.

The necromancer that Lear least wants to see shows up.

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