In the middle of the edge of the Talisman Forest, Lin Lei and Johnnedy were all disgraced, but they finally came to the predetermined meeting point.

As Black Gran expected, they came here over Xilian Mountain, and in order to save time, everyone used the amplification of the Demon Source Equipment, and they didn't encounter other obstacles along the way, but it still took half a day.

"Alright, everyone is here, all change into spare magic crystals, and the teams will set off immediately, and they must return here before dark. Johnnedy's face was as usual, and he didn't seem to take the deflated meal to heart.

"Boss, the people of the Robles family dare to play yin with us, do you want to end one of their mines by the way in a while?"

It was the god of water who spoke.

As the only peak fifth-level mage in the team who is about to break through the threshold of the archmage, he was chased up and down by the "barbarians" who have always been too lazy to look at it, and the water god was very aggrieved in his heart.

"It's not time to ...... now" Johnnedy shook his head and said indifferently: "I asked you to go up and fight just now, because they came at us, with Black Grand's character, if she doesn't take advantage of a little advantage, she will arrange another more ruthless deal with us, I don't want to encounter any more trouble in the forest, so I deliberately fell for her."

Do you know why there are only three major families in the Southern Regions? In the Southern Regions, there are still many families with similar strength to us, but the empire only acquiesces to our three major families to control the resources of the Talisman Forest, because we have one more thing than them, that is, the tenth-level great magician.

For so many years, the three major families have fought openly and secretly, but they have never really started a war, there is a reason behind it, we can fight, but we must not really fight, the tenth-level great magicians are the strategic force of the empire, and Emperor William will never let this power be consumed in the internal fighting.

So, if we deliberately go and smash their mines, we will end up in the Imperial Palace, and the Bruce family will pay double the price to settle the matter.

However, if there is a chance, it is okay to lure the demon dwarves to their mining area to make trouble, as if they deliberately concealed the movements of the demon dwarves this time, and we can only suffer a dumb loss. ”

Lin Lei didn't take this matter to heart, but he just suffered a small loss in the fight, and he didn't really suffer any loss, compared to the curiosity he came to the Talisman Forest for the first time, it seemed insignificant.

From what I saw on the top of Xilian Mountain just now, the landform of the Rune Forest is extremely complex, with high mountains, hills, lakes, rivers and waterfalls, and there seem to be caves.

The ancient trees in the forest are towering, covering the sky the next day, dark and far away, most of the trunks have to be hugged by two people, up to more than ten meters, but these can only be regarded as small trees, the really tall ancient trees, are tens of meters high, several people holding hands to surround it.

Except for the small stone path that was jointly bulldozed by the nobles not far away to transport the magic crystal ore, there was nothing else that could be called a road in the Rune Forest.

The confluence point where Lin Lei is located is an ancient tree on the edge of the main mine road, standing here, Lin Lei's only feeling is that he is small, and some large leaves are about to catch up with Lin Lei's body.

It was noon, but there was very little sunlight shining through the foliage, and the whole forest was dark and profound, and no matter which direction you looked at, you couldn't see too far away, and it was dangerous to move around at night.

Between the ancient trees, there are all kinds of vines, as thin as fingers, as thick as an arm, and the color of the leaves, without exception, is also a deep blue.

Everyone scattered along the path connecting the mining area, and Lin Lei's group, except for Johnnedy, the other two were all fourth-level wind magicians.

"Now it's time to enter the mining trail, wait a little more careful......" Johnnedy reminded Lin Lei: "This is still a marginal area, there will be no large magical beasts, but there are a lot of small things, and it is more difficult to guard, use more ears, better than eyes."

One thing must be remembered, in this forest, things that can move on their own, no matter how big or small, are highly aggressive, and if you are not careful, you can grab a large piece of meat, anyway, it is right to kill one when you see one, this is the lesson of countless lives in exchange. ”

Along the way, Lin Lei found that the deeper he went, the more strange the shape of the ancient trees became, many trunks grew in twists and turns, swaying around like octopuses, except for the real small trees that were only two or three people tall, there was hardly a normal straight trunk in sight, and the branches were jet black, and the leaves slowly turned a deep dark cyan.

But after walking for almost an hour, none of the dangerous little things that Johndy spoke of appeared, except for the rustle of the people walking, not even the sound of insects being heard, and the whole forest was only as silent as death.

"Everyone, be careful, it seems that something is wrong. Johnnedy frowned and said—based on Johnnedy's experience of going in and out of the Rune Forest many times, this situation was quite unusual.

Hearing Johnnedy's words, everyone became more cautious, but nothing happened until they were close to the mine.

Following the path connecting the mining area, the four of them soon came to the edge of a mountain cliff, and at the bottom was a small valley, with lakes and waterfalls, but the trees in the valley were not tall, but more dark green vines.

The mining area is under a mountain cliff opposite the small lake, and there is a huge flat land that has been manually cleared out of the cliff, and mining is to dig a whirlpool-shaped pit on the flat land, and then clean out the magic crystals containing various magical elements from the pit.

In order to reduce the burden of transportation, the excavated clods with magic crystals need to be vigorously cleaned with water magic to remove impurities such as dirt and rocks, so only places with nearby water sources and no ancient trees are suitable for mining. Otherwise, just cutting down those ancient trees and clearing the roots of the trees that are thicker than a human under the ground can exhaust people to death.

It's just that, looking down from a distance, the mining area at this time is already messy and dead, the wooden fence used as the camp wall has been almost completely leveled, and the whirlpool-shaped pit that is hundreds of meters wide and dozens of meters deep is full of large-scale mining magic weapons that stand like spiders on six legs, but at this time they have all been broken into several sections, and there are more than a dozen of them.

On one side of the camp, rows of collapsed wooden two-story buildings, broken and bloodstained, but there was not a single corpse in sight - demon dwarves were also carnivores, and their recipes included all meat, and humans were also a kind of meat in their eyes.

"Do you see that kind of thing?" Johnnedy pointed to those mining magic weapons that had become scrap iron, and said to Lin Lei with some pain: "They are all bought from the Western Regions, and each one costs tens of millions of gold coins, and the loss of this mining area alone is worth a whole year's income of the Bruce family." ”

"Boss, do you need to go in and have a look? Even if no one survives, you should be able to find a lot of information. "It was the wind mage behind Johnnedy who spoke.

"Make sure you're safe around before you go down and take a closer look. Now we're going to look around the valley in four directions, and if we find something, we'll put a magic signal, and if we don't find it, we'll go back here and gather before we go down together. ”

As a sign of Lin Lei's care, he was assigned the direction to the left near another mining area, while Johndy himself chose the direction to go deeper into the forest.

Acting alone in a strange forest, Lin Lei didn't dare to be careless, and after activating the magic source equipment, he climbed a giant tree twenty or thirty meters high, and slowly explored along the staggered thick branches.

This way of exploration, time-consuming and laborious, you have to be careful to fall, in case you are attacked by a demonic beast, there is also a lack of room to dodge, but firstly, there is no encounter with half a demonic beast along the way, and secondly, if you go down to the ground and walk, the line of sight will be very narrow, and there is no reconnaissance at all.

After walking for two hours, about half of the way was explored, not to mention the demon dwarves, Lin Lei hadn't even seen a small animal.

In the midst of confusion, in the distance on the side, a bright light suddenly rose, and then exploded violently, turning into red fireworks - this is the meaning of discovering the enemy's situation, but it can be handled.

Lin Lei changed the direction slightly under his feet, and walked towards the signal - that place also belonged to the direction he wanted to investigate, but the range was not that far, although his teammates did not ask for help, but Lin Lei instinctively still wanted to go over and have a look.

Before he could go far, a little closer to the original signal, another magic signal exploded, this time two red flames, representing the need for the assistance of teammates.

Lin Lei did not hesitate, his feet were strong, and he rushed away at the fastest speed.

Soon, there was a sound of magic whistling in front of him, and when Lin Lei looked down, it was dozens of demon dwarves with thief eyebrows and rat eyes, wearing a black armor, holding a sword, axe and shield, riding on a half-human-tall mouse, chasing and killing the water god.

The water god quickly retreated, and waved his wand in his hand, and a crystal fist big water balloon shot out, smashing far away on the demon dwarf's face, the demon dwarf's head instantly swelled, and then the eyeball burst, from the sockets, ears, nostrils, and mouth, spurting out a pale red liquid mixed with blood and water, and fell softly.

The water ball technique is a first-level water magic, unlike the fireball technique, which has a powerful burst ability, but if it is directly hit by the water balloon, the water element contained in it will instantly submerge into the opponent's body, and the flesh and blood tissue in this part will be exploded in a very short time, and the lethality is not trivial.

But the water polo technique also has a fatal drawback, that is, it needs to hit the body directly, if it is hit on the armor, it can only produce a certain impact force, and against people full of armor, it can only attack the bare parts such as the head and hands, and it is a single attack magic, unlike the fireball technique, which can barely be regarded as a range attack magic.

Those demon dwarves also seemed to know the shortcomings of this water polo technique, and from time to time raised their shields in their hands to resist, although they would fall off their mounts if they were smashed, but the damage they received was minimal.

With dozens of demon dwarves, and their equally aggressive troll rat mounts, even if the water god uses the most economical water ball technique to drain his mana, I'm afraid he won't be able to kill them all, so it's no wonder he has to ask for help immediately.

Without thinking, Lin Lei waved his hands together, and several fireball techniques roared and smashed towards the demon dwarf pile.