Chapter 14: The Dark Forest
"Dice, how long will it take to get to the Dark Forest at our pace?" Francis paused for a moment's rest.
The surrounding environment is a bit like a mangrove forest on earth, full of big trees, and the sun can only shine through the cracks! They chose to walk, after all, in this place, walking is the fastest, and their group is not weak, and the speed of walking is fast.
"It's about seven days, we're about where we are, and our destination is here!" Diess paused, took out his map, and pointed to a place on the map on the outskirts of the dark forest, where Diess had drawn a mark, "According to the map on that stone tablet, I found this place, and this is the only place that matches the map!"
Francis took the map and looked at it, "On the map, the treasure is in the depths of a canyon, and there is a swamp in front of the canyon, well! It seems that we won't be easy to get the treasure this time!" Francis raised his eyebrows and said with a little headache, "But yes! If it is easy to get the treasure, I'm afraid it won't be our turn! The back of the stele is engraved that if one day, the empire is destroyed, the descendants of the royal family can use the stele to find the wealth left by the ancestors for the purpose of restoring the country! Without the holy level of cultivation, it is strictly forbidden to enter the forbidden land to take treasure!" This place is listed as a forbidden place, and it is forbidden for future generations to enter! The treasure still exists, that is, since the fall of the Chabaiting Empire, his descendants have not appeared in the existence of the Holy Order! But how strong is the Holy Order! Dis, Leah, how do you two compare to the Holy Order!" Francis was curious about the strength of the two of them.
"I haven't seen the Holy Rank of this world, so I can't make a judgment!, but the mage last time was the one I sent to the Underworld, and his strength was the Eighth Order, so I think my strength should be similar to the Holy Order!"
"Yes, what is the strength of Aria?" Francis looked at Saber.
"I don't know, I haven't fought the Holy Order!" Saber shook his head.
"What about you and Dies?" Francis's eyes lit up, and he wanted to know how the two of them compared.
"Unless it's a battle of life and death, I don't know who is the best!" Saber closed his eyes and thought back to the last battle with Dies. Diese didn't object either.
"Really!" Francis thought back to the previous battle between the two, Dies's trick is indeed very troublesome, Ria can absorb magic from me to increase her strength, and her move is very destructive!
"In the last battle, your strength should be about the same! In this case, we are two holy ranks, then this operation should be very easy! Earn some money first, and then go to the country of Warcraft to cultivate, Dies's idea is good! Then let's go now!" ......
"Is this a branch of the Forgotten Mountains?" Francis pulled out his map and looked at it, and the towering mangroves around him had disappeared yesterday, replaced by a vast expanse of mountains. He is now doing it on a raised rock, "This kind of long-distance travel really consumes physical strength!" After speaking, he ate the barbecue in his hand, "Dis's skills are getting better and better these days!"
"Once here, you'll be in the Dark Forest! There's still about two days to go in the Dark Forest!" said Dess roasted the bear meat in his hand. With Francis's appetite, ordinary beasts could not satisfy him, so all the way down, these large animals became the first choice.
"Are we going to meet elves?" asked Francis.
"Probably not, the place we went to is not deep in the dark forest, but only on the periphery!, young master, would you like to see the elves!"
"No, it's best if you don't see it, although the elves love peace, but they don't like the Terrans even more, if they attack them, it will cause unnecessary trouble!" Francis said. Although the elves are good at fighting in the forest, Francis is still very confident in his group, he is afraid of the masters above the holy rank in the elven clan, in case the attacking elves are injured, it will be miserable to provoke an old monster level.
"This is the northernmost point of the Forgotten Mountains, and beyond that comes the Caesar Empire, where is the Duchy of Chaos. To the south, you can follow the mountains and go deep into the depths of the 100,000 mountains... It can be said that it separates the Dark Forest from the Caesar Empire. And the Dark Forest..."Dice said with the map!" "It is possible to meet human mercenaries, after all, it is not far from the Principality of Chaos, the Dark Forest has huge resources, and there are many magical beasts, there should be a lot of mercenary tasks there!"
Looking at the surrounding trees and all kinds of strange plants, "The Dark Forest, it really lives up to its name!" Francis touched the big tree beside him, the big trees have plate-like roots, yellow flowers bloom on their old stems, there are many small plants attached to their branches and stems, and some plants climb to high places by entangling other plants. Some trees hang down many columnar roots from the air, and finally become a single tree, some plants have huge leaves, and in the forest, the vines are very abundant, some hundreds of meters long, shuttling between the trees. Francis saw a fat rat crawling up a long vine, and suddenly it was bitten by a poisonous snake disguised as a vine, and the rat fell down the tree, and before he could run a few steps, he fell to the spot and convulsed, and was poisoned to death in a short time. The snake was just about to chase the mouse, and a fluffy tentacle stretched out from the hole in the tree next to it, it was a big spider, and I saw it bite the snake's head and drag the snake into the hole. ......
"It's a very dangerous place! It's insect repellent powder, Dees, Leah, rub it on your body!" Francis took out the prepared insect repellent powder from the space ring and handed it to the two. "Be careful, I was bitten by bugs, and the venom of some poisonous insects, even the purification technique of me, a light mage, could not do anything. ”
Dees and Saber took the insect repellent powder and sprinkled it on their bodies.
"From now on, you have to pay attention to one point, there are also demonic beasts here, and the further you go, the stronger the demonic beasts become!"
"You can't walk on the ground, if you step on any poisonous snakes or poisonous insects, you will be in trouble, step on the tree pole and go forward! Saber, you use your sword to clear the way!" Dees said as he looked around and turned to Saber and Francis.
"No problem!" Saber nodded.
"Let's go, then, and try to get ahead before nightfall, and find an open spot by the way, or we'll have to sleep in a tree tonight!" Francis nodded at Dis. The three of them walked forward by stepping on the tree poles, which also lost the physical strength and physical coordination of the three people far beyond ordinary people, otherwise it would be difficult for others to do without training.
"Hmm!" Dees stopped suddenly, "What's the matter, Dees!" Francis and Saber stopped and looked at Dees.
"There's someone in front of you, one, two, three, four... If we keep going, we'll meet them, young master, are we still leaving?" asked Dis.
"Stop for a while, wait for them to pass, more is better than less!" Francis frowned, I'm afraid it's not a good kind to appear in this kind of place...
"Young master, the people have passed! let's go!" said Dies.
"Well, Leah is bothering you!Dies, it's up to you to investigate, sense someone approaching, tell me! We'll avoid!" Francis calmly made a judgment.
"Yes!"
In one afternoon, the three Francis rounded five waves of unidentified people.
"It's a dark forest, and even on the periphery, there's a lot of people!" said Francis, puzzled.
"Young master, we may be being followed!" said Diese with bad news.
"Hmm!?tracking?we're not slow, we can keep up, how many people are there on the other side, is it very powerful, Dies?" Francis was a little surprised!
"There are eight people in total, not very powerful people, only three have reached the eighth order, and they are only chasing because they are riding a demonic beast. Dees closed his eyes and felt it.
"Are you sure their target is us?"
"Yes, young master, do you want to clean up the traces left along the way?"
"No need, since the target has a magical beast, it can find us by smell! It's really troublesome, and it makes people bump into it!" Francis said helplessly. "But those people! What are you doing following us!"
"Really, you can't just let them follow, do you want to kill them here?" Dice suggested.
Francis frowned, "Let's see who is coming!" Although Francis had killed people, he had lost control at that time, and now that he was sober, he could not do it and kill people.
After waiting for a while, the people behind finally caught up, and Francis took a closer look. A group of eight people, with a dusty face and a little wound on their bodies, sat on seven tall wind wolves, and two people sat on one of the demon wolves. The three middle-aged people led by him had the aura of a master, a red-robed mage, a swordsman with a gloomy face, and one was wearing a magic robe, but he looked very rough and bearded, not like a weak mage, but at this time they were all a little embarrassed. Riding a wind wolf were two young girls, one of whom was dressed in leather armor, wearing a samurai costume, with beautiful features, short brown hair, and a handsome face, about seventeen or eighteen years old, but at this time she looked anxious. The other girl, dressed in a robe, fell into her arms, with long blue hair and a face that could not be seen clearly. The remaining three teenagers didn't look very old, two were wearing robes, one was wearing a black samurai suit, and the group looked at the three of Francis nervously.
While Francis was looking at each other, the other party was also observing the three Francis, but in order to hide their figures, the three Francis were all wearing black cloaks at this time, and their faces were also covered by hats, so they couldn't see their faces clearly. The three leaders looked at Dis and Saber vigilantly, exchanged glances, and found that the three of them couldn't see the details of the black-robed man opposite, and secretly screamed badly. The group on his side was attacked by demonic beasts, and some people were poisoned, and the only light mage in the team consumed too much magic power in the attack just now, and was attacked by an eighth-order shadow leopard, and even the corpse capital was dragged to where it went! The antidote he carried with him did not work, and there was no light mage to be found here. At this moment, the summoner in the team, that is, the bearded man, and his magical beast noticed that someone was passing by. The group had no choice but to chase after them, although such a chase would cause misunderstanding, but the status of the poisoned girl was special and could not be missed. So with the psychology of luck, the group followed the traces left by Francis. But at this point... Looking at the three people hidden in the cloak on the opposite side, the three eighth-order secretly complained, it seemed that the other party was not very easy to talk to, and his strength was unknown!