Chapter 14: The Hundred Grass Forest
About 10 kilometers from the northwestern outskirts of River City, there is a large jungle with the Hundred Grass Forest, an area of thousands of herbs. The small roads in the forest are criss-crossed, rugged, and sometimes there are fierce demonic beasts waiting for the opportunity to move, fortunately, the local medicine pickers often go in and out of the Baicao Forest, and over time they have also found a shortcut, Reggie is leading the students to march quickly at this time.
"Thanks to his guidance, this intricate road is completely indistinguishable!" Gary secretly rejoiced that he had met Reggie.
"Not only that, but I always felt like there was a hungry stare around me. Fred looked around vigilantly, fearing that if he turned around, a large mouth of blood would come at him.
"Don't worry too much, these are just the magical beasts at the entrance, if there are many people, they generally won't take the initiative to attack. However, this place doesn't seem to be the same as the Baicao Forest in my impression. "Even Amu seems to have the same strangeness as everyone else.
"The path to the forest changes a little bit every year, and every once in a while we find new shortcuts. Reggie, who had been speechless before, said at this time, "The entrance is almost here. ”
After a while, everyone passed through the woods, and an open field appeared in front of them, and although they passed through the trees, there was still no ray of sunlight.
"This is ......" Everyone looked up, and saw many thick branches and huge green leaves completely obscuring the sky, and these branches and leaves spread into the distance, until a towering tree with a diameter of hundreds of meters, and these branches and leaves even stationed bird nests, many unnamed giant birds hovered around, and below the tree trunk in the distance was a huge entrance, but from here it was pitch black, as if the tree had a huge beak and wanted to devour the people who came to plunder the resources.
"This ...... This is the entrance to the Hundred Grass Forest?" Bell opened his mouth wide, obviously seeing that the famous Hundred Grass Forest was actually in a huge tree.
"Such a huge tree, it's almost like a small town!" Everyone was also amazed, and sighed at the wonder of nature.
"I can only take you here. Reggie interrupted everyone's thoughts, "Just go to the hole." ”
"Thank you, Mr. Reggie!" Donna saluted.
"No matter what happened last night, it's helped us a lot now!" Gary also ignored his previous suspicions, and hugged his fists to express his gratitude.
After the greetings, everyone wanted to turn around and leave, Reggie suddenly remembered something, and said urgently: "Wait a minute, what if...... If you have a chance to meet the guy who uses that soul exchange technique in the future, can you tell me a thing or two?"
Bell grinned and replied, "Of course, if he is eliminated in this round, I can't spare him!"
"Thank you in advance. Reggie nodded, then leaped back and disappeared into the woods.
"Oops, someone has already arrived!" Thanks to Reggie's leadership, the ten people had already arrived at their destination before noon on the third day, but when they saw that there were already some figures at the entrance, the trainees immediately tensed up and immediately made a fighting posture, if they had already reached the five groups, they would definitely not be able to avoid a big battle.
However, when they saw the figure clearly, everyone was also relieved. It turned out that there were only three groups of students, namely Bono, Galle, Takuyu and their respective members. The leaders of the three groups seemed to have nothing to do: Bono was fighting a giant caterpillar that was already in disarray, Galle had picked up a piece of bark and carved something with a short knife, and Takuha was leaning to the side and reading a book quietly. The rest of the group seemed to be full of energy, and it was clear that it had been some time since they arrived at their destination.
"Big Brother Bono is really powerful, it should be the first place if nothing else, right?" Seeing that there was no need to fight to the death with Bell's group, Fred was happy and comfortable, so he joked with Bono.
"It's a bit tricky, but how can it be difficult for me to be so bad?!" Bono was getting up and thud, and the caterpillar finally struggled and fainted.
"Was it your twin brother who was chased by wolves in the cave before?" Galle snorted, mocking.
"Damn, if you hadn't cheated, how could I have been entangled in that kind of place!" Apparently Bono was very angry about what had happened in the cave in Galle's mouth, and angrily attacked Galle.
"With a little bit of strength, why don't you challenge him!" Galle deftly dodged Bono's iron fist and pointed at Takuha.
"Brother Takuyu, are you number one?" Bell asked.
"He's been here yesterday!" said Tori and two academy assistants as they stepped out of the dark entrance.
"Yesterday?how could it be!" Anyway, everyone was also some top students, and the journey from the academy to the Hundred Grass Forest was naturally well known, and Tuoyu only took two days to reach the destination, could it be that he didn't encounter the so-called special situation?
"And how did you get here?" asked Garay.
"We came by boat, and we only used a little magic on the ship, so when we formed a team, I took these fellow magicians captive, considering what might happen. Takuha replied, "Of course, the large demonic beasts in the west are a trouble, so you can only run away while fighting!"
I see! Everyone suddenly realized that Takuyu had thought it through when he first formed the team. However, the other students choose members based on their relationship with each other, without taking into account that each person's strengths are useful to varying degrees. However, Takuha was able to come from the west, and given his knowledge of large demonic beasts, it was obviously not as easy as he said to be fighting and escaping. What's more, he led that group of students to spend a night in the Hundred Grass Forest full of demonic beasts, and thinking of this, everyone was even more impressed by his strength.
"Hehe, it's just luck, don't think I'm superior. Takuyu pushed his glasses and said, "Besides, I somewhat regret spending one night here......"
At the same time, a tiger roar came from far and near, and the Roy siblings of the beast taming department were about to arrive. I saw the two brothers and sisters riding on the backs of their white-veined tigers, followed by the three of them, and the six groups of students finally all arrived at the Baicao Forest.
"It's dangerous, it's dangerous, although the strength of those bandits is not good, but there are too many of them!" Roycott jumped off the tiger's back and complained.
"This time it's thanks to the Black Devil!" Roivella grabbed the white-veined tiger's neck with both hands and rubbed it vigorously, clearly pleased with its performance. The white-veined tiger also belongs to the class of Warcraft, with a black body, but the stripes are contrasting white, and it is extremely fierce in the carnivore order. The brother and sister grew up in the jungle since they were children, and they originally had the aura of beasts, which was very compatible with the white-veined tiger.
"Everyone here is doing very well, much earlier than I expected!, but ......," Tori turned to the Roy siblings, "You're lucky, just last night, a group of students arrived here after Takuha, but I stopped them, because they didn't know the rules of the Hundred Grass Forest at all!"
Bell and the others were shocked, and then looked at the other students, there was no expression of confusion on their faces, obviously they also learned from other sources that they were not allowed to enter and leave the Baicao Forest at night.
"Due to the Society's current strict control of the mortality rate of would-be knights, I had to stop them. Really, what kind of knight is it to care about life and death......" Tory said helplessly, "but they have been eliminated, as a knight, it is also necessary to understand the target information from all aspects before carrying out the mission!"
In a simple teamwork test, there is still such a trap, whether it is lucky or intentional, everyone present is glad that they know the rules of the Hundred Grass Forest.
"It seems that you are full of energy, in that case, I also want to reward you, the prize is to enter the second round of the test immediately!How about it? Save time for you to become a knight as soon as possible?" Before everyone came to their senses, the second round of testing was about to start again, and looking at Tori's smiling face, the students were also speechless.
"The second round of testing was also fairly easy, just enter through this entrance, walk through the first woods, and see a small castle as the end. This round is also a competition event, but you don't need to form a team, and the eighteen students who arrive first can enter the next test!" As the words fell, Torri seemed to be running away again, but she seemed to remember something, and turned to the two academy assistants and said, "If there are still students arriving here, please ask them to go back!"
"Yes!" the two replied respectfully, and then stood by the entrance like two stone statues. Just after Tori left again, the students also adjusted their state and began the second round of testing.