Chapter 33: Twilight Forest

Eventually, everyone took out some dehydrated vegetables and bacon and boiled a thick soup in a small pot on the fireplace, soaked the dry bread in the soup and ate it with a snort. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info even Liana and Anne are no exception. Because there was really nothing to be particular about in the wild, Kennan and the others were now enjoying hot food in the cabin. When spending the night in the wilderness, there is often no way to make a fire due to the conditions, so you can only nibble on dry hard bread and not even drink hot water. If it rains a little more, it tastes like it's just like that. Compared to this scenario, Kennan and the others almost lived in heaven.

After everyone had eaten their fill, they chatted casually for a while, strengthened their relationship with each other, and then took turns sleeping in groups. Kenan and Campbell are both newcomers and are on the first shift, Liana and Anne are on the second shift, and Martin and Gold are on the most difficult third shift. After arranging their posts, the other four went upstairs to sleep, while Kennan and Campbell sat by the fireplace for a vigil.

Campbell seems to be a person who likes academic research, usually looks dull, doesn't seem to have any other hobbies, and will take out prescriptions to study when he has time, and at this time he is also holding a notebook to study, and he is studying with a book of notes during the vigil, with the demeanor of a study enthusiast.

Kennan looked at Campbell and saw that the other party was looking very seriously, so he dismissed the urge to chat, and took out a book he bought from the library from his storage bag and looked through it. Neither of them made a sound, and the room was very quiet, save for the occasional sound of pages turning and the crackling of burning wood in the fireplace. Without the occasional roar of an unknown beast outside, Kenan wouldn't even feel like he was outside the wilderness.

Since it was a group and took turns to keep vigil, everyone got a relatively adequate rest, and Kenan even took the time to meditate for two hours, after all, cultivation is inseparable from the accumulation of little by little every day, and there is no accumulation of steps to thousands of miles. It may seem simple to say, but it's hard to do. As many people know that doing 50 push-ups a day can lead to good muscle conditioning after a year, but how many can really do it?

The next morning, as usual, vegetable broth and dry bread, Kennan brought out some preserved fruit for dessert. When they had eaten their fill, they were brought out of the stables at the back of the hut, and if the hut was not to have an enclosed stable, and the horses were tied outside, it meant that you had to send someone to guard the horses, otherwise you would probably see a pile of bones the next day. After all, the night in the wilderness is much more dangerous than the day.

Kenan and the others got on their horses and continued to advance towards Coolum along the route marked on the map. After more than two days of travel, Kennan and his party finally walked out of the Sick Wood Plain. In the past two days, Kenan and his party have seen mushrooms as large as umbrella covers, blood-colored vines that catch animals, goblins who block their paths, and a large number of mutated beasts and creatures. It's also an eye-opener. I learned a lot of knowledge that I didn't have in books.

It has to be said that the sorcery contamination of a long time ago caused irreparable damage to the Sick Wood Plains. Many of the creatures that survive here become irritable and more prone to attack. In the past two days, Kenan and his party have cleaned up three waves of goblins blocking the way, a wave of kobold ambushes, as well as a large number of polluted mutated beasts, and even a few wandering gnolls. Martin's increasingly full storage bag is the best proof of this. Nothing of value though. As for the human robbers, they have not been discovered. This is not to say that the human beings here are of better character and have not chosen to be robbers. The main bandit groups live in areas close to the southern peninsula, where trade routes are dense and close to cities, which are more suitable for plundering and selling stolen goods, and the environment is more suitable for human life.

At noon on the fourth day of Kennan's departure from the academy, Kenan and his party finally saw the trees with green leaves, which marked that they had left the Diseased Wood Plains.

Martin reined in his horse and took out the map to check it, and compared the surrounding terrain before gathering everyone together, "Ahead is the Twilight Forest, which is the more dangerous part of this journey, and the creatures that live in the Twilight Forest are not as dangerous as those beasts and goblins on the Sickwood Plains. They are stronger, smarter, and more dangerous, there are many magical beasts here, they can absorb the free energy in the air to strengthen themselves, ordinary hunting weapons can no longer hurt them, only powerful ordnance and demonic weapons can cause damage to them. Some creatures also have more difficult bloodline spells, and the more intelligent ones will even make some simple traps and ambushes. Therefore, everyone must be careful on the road. I don't want anyone to be left behind. Everyone nodded seriously when they looked at Martin's serious gaze, and they all applied armor to their bodies, deflecting force fields, detecting malice, eagle eye and other witchcraft. Liana even casts a shapeshifting illusion on the crowd, which can disrupt her opponent's vision on a certain chance.

After everyone had done their sorcery, Martin led the group into the Twilight Forest with the gold.

In fact, the Twilight Forest is not the name of a specific area, its boundaries are very vague, it is just a general term for a large forest between the Sickwood Plains and the Taimo Heights, and even the original Sickwood Plains was also a part of the Twilight Forest, but later due to the great changes in the environment caused by witchcraft pollution, it was separated from the Twilight Forest and had its own name. The reason why Twilight Forest is named Twilight is mainly because the trees grow relatively densely, and the sunlight rarely reaches the ground through the layers of leaves, even during the day, the forest is like evening, hence the name Twilight Forest.

Kenan had heard Martin's description of the Twilight Forest as a tiger's den in Longtan, and he was full of curiosity about the Twilight Forest, and thought that the shape of the Twilight Forest was at least ten times more terrifying than that of the Sickwood Plains. In fact, when you walk in, it's almost like an ordinary forest. At least on the surface, if you ignore the little red glow that detects malicious sorcery on the eyes.

However, malicious intent does not mean that you will be attacked, and it is also possible that you have stepped into the other party's territory. Whether or not to launch an attack depends on how the two sides weigh the difference in strength. If the difference in strength is not significant, it is rare for an animal in the forest to choose to fight hard, after all, hard fight means injury, and injury is likely to attract the prying eyes of predators of the same type or even stronger, which in the Twilight Forest usually means death. As a result, the creatures that live here usually pick out creatures that are weaker than themselves to hunt. Of course, except for the wrong estimation of the strength of the double anti-dumping force.