Chapter 47: The Forest of Illusions

"You can't really be joking, are you? With his appearance, this level of mana, how can mental power be stronger than mine?" Victor's smile disappeared, and he inadvertently glanced at Horst's neck, where there was a necklace, and immediately changed his words, "It seems that the mental power is indeed good." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"You are the captain of the advance team, you have to do a good job, the head of your Assassin Academy, but I am full of great hope for you. Dean Dimmit's old voice reappeared and said to Victor.

"He—can he be a good captain?" Septon was a little skeptical, it was obvious that Victor was deliberately late, causing the crowd to be overwhelmed.

"Why don't you try it?" Victor suddenly put his arms around Septton's neck, and Shipton felt a chill all over his body the next moment.

As the saying goes, assassins kill invisibly, and Septon now understands what it's like.

Completely defenseless, in the blink of an eye, the assassin was able to take the other person's life. This situation is extremely terrible.

Septon was stunned by Victor and immediately shut his mouth.

Horst looked at these and didn't raise any objections, you must know that the fifth-order assassin in the Gna mage team was able to kill the seventh-order mage very easily.

"Horst, summoning mage. His name was called, but Horst didn't tell Victor exactly his true mana level, at least Horst knew that Victor must be able to perceive it.

The Assassin is the most sensitive class of all professions to microscopic perception. This kind of microscopic perception is even more powerful than a summoning mage who uses spiritual power to make spatial configurations in the spiritual world. Even psychic mages are not as good as assassins of the same rank. They are born killers, cold-blooded, serious, but never noticed. They are a level higher than the killers, born in darkness and ending other lives invisibly.

This is the real reason why Victor is the captain of this advance team, and they are better than anyone else to foresee a crisis.

It's like the emergency teleportation that Horst experienced with Gna in the outer reaches of the Monster Mountains.

The rest of the people also shared their names with Victor, and the advance team of ten people knew each other.

"There is a place to rest here in the military headquarters, and the ten of you will live here today, and by the way, get acquainted with each other. After all, your mission may seem simple, but it is fraught with danger. Whether the 50,000-strong army can pass through the Phantom Forest depends on whether you can complete the mission. Dimmit continued, taking a parchment scroll from a platform and opening it, pointing to some of the diagrams on it, "This is the route map, and the middle area is the Phantom Forest that you will pass through. ”

"The map is handed over to you, remember to complete the mission, the future of the empire depends on your actions this time. Dimmit patted Victor on the shoulder and handed the sheepskin scroll to Victor.

"Understood!" several people saluted Dimmit with unskilled movements, and at the same time their faces were extremely serious.

The day passed quickly, and there was an exchange between Horst and Victor. Although he hadn't even reached the second order, it seemed that Victor was no longer as repulsive as he had been at the beginning, especially since he seemed to be extremely interested in his contemplation necklace.

Since the other nine were all two or three years older than Horst, Horst was at the bottom of the entire advance team.

Early the next morning, the advance party set out from the Rhine fortress, followed by a mighty army of 50,000. The advance party was separated by an army of 50,000 men by a distance of ten kilometers, and the route had already been set, and the journey from the Rhine Fortress to the Phantom Forest was not very long.

Along the way, I passed through many towns and received a lot of news from the imperial capital.

The royal family of the Shenyang Empire decided to sanction the Ao family, prohibiting any property of the Ao family and its children from developing in the territory of the Shenyang Empire, and at the same time freezing all the assets of the Ao family in the Shenyang Empire.

This measure was supported by many people, and the discontent among the common people gradually resolved in the past few days.

At the same time, Princess Alice's funeral has also been completed, and a generation of girls who may become empresses have died since then.

Due to the attack on the Imperial Capital Arena, this year's National Summoning Mage Contest was forced to be cancelled, so the Shenyang Empire would not be able to participate in the Demon Heaven Continent's Summoning Mage Competition.

The most important news is that some people in the royal family sent envoys to neighboring countries, hoping to get the support of other countries for the Shenyang Empire's war against the Clark Empire.

The army followed the advance party for a few days, gradually moving away from the city area, and Victor warned everyone that they were about to enter the Phantom Forest area.

At dusk, Victor ordered everyone to stop, saying, "Night is the most unsafe time in the Phantom Forest, and now is not a good time to enter. ”

According to the map marking, this area is on the border of the Shenyang Empire, the northwest border, and if you go north, you can enter the borderless land, the Phantom Forest.

Everyone obeyed Victor's arrangement, after all, Dimmitt could make Victor the captain of the advance team, and he had his own considerations and uses. The captain of the advance team also has the power to command an army of 50,000, which is equivalent to Victor holding a heavy army.

At night, on the outskirts of the forest, bonfires were burning everywhere, lighting up the entire night sky. The atmosphere of silence is a little uncomfortable.

In a camp, nine people, including Horst and Shalene, were studying the map with Victor, who was the leader of the advance team.

"There is no distinction between up and down here, let's talk as much as possible, how do we pass through the Phantom Forest safely?" Victor usually looks like a child, everyone is used to it, but at this time it seems extremely formal, with a hint of solemnity in his words.

"As far as I know, the Phantom Forest is extremely mysterious, it is a borderland, and it is at the junction of the Shenyang Empire, the Nas Empire and the Clark Empire. "Shalene rubbed her temples and whispered, "It's far from town, and it's unlikely we'll find a beggar or a ronin to show us the way." ”

Although they were an advance team of ten, they were unfamiliar with the area. The advance team meant reconnaissance, but it was not a guide, especially since the area was not very familiar.

"Dean Dimmit should send a guide, so we won't be so entangled. Horst complained a little, but only complained, and still expressed support for the decision of the military department, after all, they would gain first-hand experience of passing through the Phantom Forest.

"Let's briefly talk about the current situation in the Phantom Forest, although this time of year in the Phantom Forest will be a relatively safe day, it does not mean that there is no danger in the Phantom Forest. Victor cleared his throat, hoping that what he was saying would get everyone's attention.

"It's like a labyrinth, and it's said that many expedition teams have gone in, but very few people have been able to get out. This safe time period was also summed up by many expedition teams at the beginning. "Myron may be big, but he doesn't lack a keen sense," I've heard descriptions of the Phantom Forest, and I've looked up the information. ”

The Phantom Forest, also known as the Psychedelic Forest, has winding, labyrinth-like roads, which are often the root cause of many expedition teams getting lost in it.

As for the Phantom Forest, we must start with its formation. Thousands of years ago, when civilizations on various continents were still uncivilized, a meteorite fell from the sky and fell from the location of the Phantom Forest.

Since then, the area has often seen mysterious and terrifying sounds, and no humans have inhabited it since.

Until the arrival of the mage civilization, various countries appeared, but this area, which seemed to have little value, was designated as a border area by Nas, Shenyang and Clark, and did not have the right to use it. In other words, there is no government jurisdiction over this area.

With the passage of time, a place where special magical beasts gather has gradually been derived here, and it is precisely because of those special magical beasts that few humans appear here.

The most dangerous thing is not these magical beasts, but those sounds, which will automatically come out from the interior of the Phantom Forest every certain time. Those sounds cause people to be confused and hallucinate, hence the name Forest of Illusions.

The mysterious sound, which has been produced since the day the meteorite landed, has survived for thousands of years. The path in the forest, also in the era of ignorance, was opened by mysterious things, and it seems that there are some relics. Within the Phantom Forest, these paths seem to be disorderly without any regular changes, making it easy for those who enter them to get lost in them.

The number of those expedition teams who had entered the Phantom Forest and made it out safely was very small, but the information they brought out was extremely valuable. The most important thing is that those mysterious voices, there are always those voices coming from nowhere in the forest, and if you eliminate those voices, you can unveil the phantom forest.

When the era of mage civilization arrived, there was a record that a certain leader with the mage profession entered the Phantom Forest and never came out. Later generations speculated that it was those mysterious voices that killed the leader.

"It seems that overcoming the attack of mysterious voices is the key. The army of 50,000 seems to be a bit cumbersome, and this errand is really not easy to do. Victor listened to Myron's description and frowned.

"Mysterious voice?" Horst seemed to think of something, and asked, "Myron, you said it was a meteorite that fell from the sky thousands of years ago, and has this meteorite been found later?"

"There is no record of this, and it is said that some strange ruins have been found in the Phantom Forest, and there is no description of what kind of ruins they are. Myron added, "Another particularly important place is that there is a special canyon in the Phantom Forest, and the sound comes from that canyon. ”

After all, the historical record is not very complete, and most of it is speculated by later generations.

It was true that someone had passed through the Phantom Forest and recorded the route, which happened to be the map in Victor's hand.

It's just that no message was left.

"If we really follow this route, we, as the advance team, must find a way to deal with those mysterious voices. "The question is, how to solve it." ”

"Huh, your contemplation necklace?"