Unbeknownst to Cheruth and the others, they had been targeted by the Nolan Clan gathered in the forest. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After being ambushed and split into three teams, Selman, Lucy, and Natsu encountered a long-planned and sinister ambush before the rest of the team gathered with them.

Three sixth-order peak incarnate demonic beasts and five sixth-order primary-level high-level demonic beasts, although the three of Gray Wind, Elusa and Wendy arrived soon after the ambush broke out, but in terms of strength on paper, the mercenary team's side was still overwhelmingly weak. However, in this desperate situation, Selman, who everyone in the team knew the least, suddenly burst out with very amazing strength.

Obviously, it was also the peak of the sixth order, but Selman didn't know why it was obviously much more powerful than the three sixth-order peak demonic beasts in the battle, not only did one person withstand the two demonic demonic beasts plus two sixth-order beginner demonic beasts, but he also had a slight upper hand as the battle progressed.

Because of Selman's activity, the overall situation of the team suddenly changed from ten deaths to nine deaths. Gray Wind launched a death match with another Transforming Demon Beast and firmly contained the opponent, while the rest of the Demon Tail Squad, Natsu and Elusa barely contained the two Sixth-Order Beginner Demonic Beasts one by one, while Lucy and Wendy teamed up to fight against the last Sixth-Order High-level Demonic Beast.

The most dangerous thing on the scene is naturally Lucy and Wendy, who are not strong enough, but fortunately, the two of them are facing an iron-armored bull demon whose strength is the best among the sixth-order magical beasts, but the flexibility is very worrying, as long as they can ensure that they can avoid its head-on collision, it is no problem to save their lives at least for a short time, and this is obviously much easier for Wendy as a wind mage and Lucy, who has a variety of useful magic guide props, than it is much easier to confront other sixth-order magical beasts head-on.

Soon, just when Wendy and Lucy were about to drag it out, the three of Cerusina, Noha and Gray, who had finally fallen behind, arrived in time. Gray's ice magic slows down and Nanoha's magic cannonball, this classic kite-flying combination quickly attracts the ironclad bulldemon from Wendy and Lucy's side and eats it to death, while Cheruth quickly rushes to Selman's side to help him divide a sixth-order beginner demonic beast.

There was less pressure on the enemy, and Selman immediately completely let go of his hands and feet to attack the opponent, originally when the four were fighting one, these Warcraft were still pressed and beaten by Selman alone, and now there is one less teammate on the Warcraft side, even the two Manified Warcraft feel the pressure at this moment.

The remaining sixth-order high-level demonic beast Flame Pangolin that had not yet transformed into a human was the first to suffer, and one was accidentally kicked directly in the head by Selman, and then he didn't know whether he was kicked unconscious or directly kicked to death, and he staggered to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, one of the two incarnated demonic beasts, the appearance of a rugged man with lightning wrapped in lightning, was seized by Selman because of the moment when his comrades' thoughts of attrition were shaken, and took advantage of the lightning ape king's failure to react, and immediately countered his two arms and dislocated them, and then a set of combos aimed specifically at the human form of the lightning ape king poured down on him like a rainstorm.

In just a few seconds of the incident, the Lightning Ape King was deformed from his human form because he was too badly injured, and was beaten back to his main body, turning into the original two-person tall giant ape, and then was mercilessly hugged by Selman, and the furry head turned violently, and his neck was broken, and he swallowed like this.

And at the same time that the Lightning Ape King was dealt with, Grey Wind also seemed to have received an incentive from Selman. Sister Wolf was so powerful that at the cost of an injury to her left arm, she used the claws of her right hand to grasp through the chest cavity of the demonic beast that was against her, so that the other party lost his life before he even had time to change his body.

The three strongest demonic beasts on the Warcraft side died two in an instant, and in the end, the humanized death viper was directly instigated, and he desperately broke one arm in human form by Selman and left a mouthful of poisonous spray and fled away.

An ambush battle that should have been without suspense in the eyes of these high-level demonic beasts was brutally reversed in this way, and the three leading demonic demonic beasts died and fled, and the other minions naturally had no intention of fighting again. Soon, the remaining high-level demonic beasts and some other low-level demonic beasts that followed them scattered in a hurry, so that Cheruth and the others finally got a rare respite after nearly an hour of continuous life-and-death battle.

However, despite their eventual victory, things were not going well within the team.

Both Cheruth and Nanoha suffered some minor injuries that were not serious, but the battle consumed a bit more stamina. And the last moment of Gray Wind's left hand being hit by the other party was even more serious than expected, and the battle with the sixth-order peak transformation demonic beast consumed a lot of her physical strength, and Sister Wolf was in a state of almost unable to fight for the time being.

In the Demon Tail Squad, Natsu and Elusa, who were fighting against the sixth-order demonic beasts alone, were not lightly injured, in fact, strictly speaking, it is difficult for a sixth-order human powerhouse to beat a demonic beast of the same strength in a one-on-one battle, after all, the physique of the demonic beast is much better than that of humans, and Natsu and Elusa also tried their best to stop the demonic beast they were responsible for.

Wendy's magic power is exhausted, Lucy is slightly injured, and Gray is in the best condition among the five Demon Tails, and he can be regarded as retaining a relatively complete combat power.

And the great hero of the team's escape from death in this ambush, Selman was unexpectedly the one who seemed to be in the best condition of the team after the battle, although he fought four sixth-order demonic beasts alone and finally killed two, but the feeling of difficulty on Selman's face was not as obvious as that of Cheruth...... It's just a feeling that I still haven't done my best.

However, although there was no problem with Selman's physical strength, from time to time he looked at the red-haired uncle who was a little weak in his left arm, and he didn't seem to be in a very good mood, and he could vaguely see that he seemed to be a little ...... Kick oneself?

However, no one in the team paid much attention to this uncle, who was neither injured nor very weak and tired, but Cheruth saw that he had been following her and Grey Wind and thought he was in the way, so she directly instructed him to the end of the team to break off - "Anyway, in the end, you can watch whoever you want, just don't let us know that you are watching." ”

...... So little girl, why do you always talk about my uncle so obscenely?

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Considering that after the fierce battle just now, it was obvious that the current state of the team was no longer suitable for continuing to go deeper into the forest, so Cheruth immediately made a decision, and led the team to change the route and began to rush towards a temporary hiding place in the forest where she and Grey Wind had been nearby.

When Grey Wind and Celeth were adventuring together in the Warcraft Forest when they were children, because the Warcraft Forest was large and the two of them would often play crazy (under the leadership of a mischievous wolf girl), they would often drag out until the evening and would not return to their home in the core area of the forest.

Since most of the monsters have a similar nature to beasts to enter hunting mode at night, the monster forest at night is several times more dangerous than during the day, and when Cheruth and Grey Wind are out for the night, they never dare to easily find a bonfire under a tree and rest.

In order to be able to spend the night out more peacefully, Cheruth and Grey Wind went to Helan and the old tree for help, and asked for two useful things - Helan's magic crystal, and some branches on the old tree's canopy.

Find a hidden place, such as a cave, and then place Herlan's crystal inside, and stick the branch of the old tree there at the entrance of the cave. The powerful magic power contained in Helan's magic crystal and the coercion of top-level demonic beasts will discourage all demonic beasts below the seventh order, and the huge spiritual energy contained in the branches of the old tree and the purifying aura unique to the plant can release a spiritual aura commensurate with the magic power of the magic crystal, and at the same time, it can also hide the aura of the Helan Dark Moon Demon Wolf a lot.

In this way, as long as it is not a demonic beast with particularly keen senses, it can only be judged from the magic fluctuations and spiritual aura that come out of the cave that there is a top-level demonic beast with very strong magic power and vitality, but it is impossible to judge what the body of this top-level demonic beast is from the coercive aura that has been filtered by the branches of the old tree.

This kind of hiding place is in the middle of the forest, and it may not have a good effect on those high-level demonic beasts who already have wisdom, and they will feel strange once they think about it, because such a powerful top-level demonic beast will not appear in their area. But here in the low-level monster gathering area on the outskirts of the forest, the hideout created in this way allows Greywind and Cheruth to spend the night in peace.

Not to mention that those low-level demonic beasts did not have the wisdom to distinguish between the real and the fake, with their strength, as long as they approached and felt the coercion from the high-level demonic beasts, they would immediately instinctively classify this generation as an extremely dangerous area and would not approach again.

It was such a hideout that Cheruth was leading the group to now, and they were lucky enough to pass near the hideout when they decided on their route before they set out, so they soon reached their destination before a new batch of monsters chased after them.

This is a small lake, because it is located on the edge of the forest, so there are no strong aquatic monsters in the lake, only some aquatic animals that are slightly more spiritual than ordinary beasts and monsters.

There is a small island in the middle of the lake...... No, it's more appropriate to say that there is a small shoal in the middle of the lake that rises out of the water because of the protrusion, the shallows are not large, but there are one or two trees in all four directions that are quite lush to cover the middle of the shoal, which is quite good terrain as a hiding place.

When Grey Wind and Celeth came here, they took a fancy to this place at a glance, so they left Helan's magic crystal and the branches of the old tree in the central shoal, and now they arrived here after three years, and sure enough, because the magic power and psionic majesty of the top magical beasts still exist, there are no other magical beasts approaching here, and it is still peaceful.

Lucy and the others were very surprised that Cheruth would find such a peaceful pure land in the forest so easily, but they followed Cheruth along the way, and they had already felt a certain degree of numbness to Cheruth's familiarity with the Warcraft Forest, so they were only surprised for a while and didn't say anything more.

When they reached the shoal, they went into the middle of the shoal, which was surrounded by a few trees, and simply packed up a place to house the wounded, and the rest of the people gathered together and simply divided the work.

The wounded who can't move easily are Grey Wind, Natsu and Elusa, Lucy and Wendy take care of the three, Gray and Selman are in charge of guarding - after all, the forest is not peaceful now, and those high-level monsters have also appeared on the outskirts of the Monster Forest, so they can find this place and then puncture the illusion created by the Helan Magic Crystal and the branches of the old tree - and the task of going out to find food was handed over to Cheruth, who was the most familiar with the forest among the group, and Nanoha, who was the most familiar with her partner.

The goal of the two of them is much smaller than that of the nine-person team, and before leaving, Cerus also temporarily borrowed the scent eliminator and some other magic tools that are extremely useful for forest explorations from Lucy, so although the two of them went out several times and almost bumped into some low-level monster patrols, they were finally in danger, hunted a few hares and wild birds, and even caught a pink pig that Gray Wind loves to eat on the way back.

The harvest was good and they were not found, but the mood of the two was not too good. The masterminds behind these demonic beasts who were so obedient had obviously begun to pay attention to their powerful squad, and they could detect that a large number of demonic beasts had gathered around the route when they came, searching for them, even in this area where they had deviated a lot from the original route, the low-level demonic beast teams patrolling were several times more than when they came in before.

Fortunately, the other party obviously didn't expect them to be familiar with the forest to such an extent, so in this generation, there was no patrol led by high-level demonic beasts to conduct a carpet search. If there are only low-level demonic beasts, theoretically they will not dare to go near the hiding place.

However, although the low-level demonic beasts could not enter the hiding place, their patrol net outside of it was really a bit dense, and it was not easy for the nine-person team to sneak out. Therefore, for a while, Cheruth felt that it would be better for them to stay in the shallows and recuperate for a while.

Lucy and the others naturally have no opinion on Cheruth's decision, although before entering the forest, the leaders of the elder brother's mercenary group got together to discuss that all the teams should rush back before dark this evening, but after all, in this situation, if they are forced to hurry, they will be sent to death, and those people have no substantial upper and lower constraints, so the decision to spend the night here in the shallows was unanimously approved. (To be continued.) )