With only 5 minutes left before the end of work, the wind chimes finally rang. However, it was not Layla who came in, but her sister Seria.

Selia was scarred, her over-the-knee socks were torn, revealing a semblance of fair calf skin, and she looked like she had been through a hard fight, but her eyes were still shining.

"Selia, you're fighting again?" Ringer said with a smile. Seria nodded, her face excited: "Remember the forest I told you about last time?" Ringer poured a glass of wine and put it on the bar.

"Forest of Blood?" He had planned to explore the place with Seria, but for the sake of the bloody, sweet sap, he had just put it on hold for the time being.

Anyway, that forest won't run away, and it's the same when you go.

"Well, I've made my way through the outer forest to a valley inside, where I've found a worthy opponent, and I'm playing so well today." Seria sat down at the bar, picked up her glass, and took a big sip, only to feel warm and her strength quickly recovering.

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"Huh, this wine?" She looked at the wine in her glass with some surprise, orange-yellow, with a familiar aroma of herbs.

"This is my special herbal wine for you, which will restore your strength quickly. I see you come back every day with a broken body, so I've got this for you. Ringer smiled.

"Thank you so much," Seria said in surprise,

"I feel like I can play ten more now." She raised her arm, which was slightly curved, revealing smooth and graceful lines, full of strength and beauty.

Then she enthusiastically shared her adventure with Ringer: "It was some humanoid creature with a head like a bug, who seemed to be defending something in the valley, and they were so skilled in fighting that even I would struggle to face more than ten at the same time. It's a little funny to say, those insect heads are quite martial, at the beginning they were just one by one, never bullying more or less, and seeing that I don't use weapons, they don't use weapons. Haha, what funny guys. It wasn't until I kept provoking that they started to add people one by one, and I only held out until the thirteenth, when I reached the limit, and then I had to retreat. It's a great place, but I'm not really interested in the valley, but the bug heads are more interested in me. Tomorrow I'm going to challenge fifteen. Seria rubbed her hands, her pretty face flushed with alcohol and excitement.

A crow spat out from the wall clock and croaked. It's time to get off work.

"I should go back, see you tomorrow." Seria was about to turn away when she was stopped by Ringer.

"Layla and the witch Main went to the Black Forest, it's been a few hours, and they haven't come back yet."

"What?" Seria's eyes widened,

"What does she go to that kind of place?"

"It seems that I want to write something, and I want to go on a field trip."

"That's the witch's territory, maybe you'll run into something strange, and that stinky girl is too messy." Seria was very worried, in the eyes of people, witches are synonymous with disaster and danger, a teenage girl went to a place where witches gathered, can there be good fruit to eat?

"No, I've got to go get her back."

"I'll go with you." Ringer said, and then asked Lanya to go home with the bones and wait for him first, and he went to them when he was done.

Although Lan Ya really wanted to go with the two, Ringer had already made arrangements, and she, the vice captain of the team, could only obediently listen to the captain's words.

"Then you'll have to come back early." She said to Ringer with a blank eye. Bai Gu also looked like a little daughter-in-law, and said to Ringer: "Come back early, I'll wait for you." Ringer knew what he was waiting for, and said to one person and one skeleton with a smile: "Don't worry, just find someone and come back soon." Lan Ya and Bai Gu left.

The Black Forest is guarded by a magical barrier, and if outsiders rush in, the defense mechanism will be triggered. - This is what Ringer learned about in casual conversation when the witches came to the store to drink.

Therefore, Ringer only asked Milia to send him and Seria to the entrance to the Black Forest, instead of going directly inside, so as not to cause unnecessary misunderstandings, such as being mistaken for intruders.

The two walked out of the door side by side, a smooth dirt road beneath their feet, winding into the dark forest in front of them, and mysterious points of light flickered in the forest.

A tall, pointed black castle sits deep in the forest, and from where the two of them stand, you can see the sharp shadows piercing the night sky.

A crimson full moon in the sky, like a huge eye, stared at the forest on the ground. Ringer glanced at the moon in the sky, it was really a strange sight, praised twice, and said to Seria: "Just go in directly, if you encounter obstacles, just explain your intentions." With that, he walked towards the entrance of the dense forest.

Selia looked at the dark forest in front of her, and she felt uncomfortable, she didn't like too dark places, and this place seemed to have never been illuminated by the sun, and the weeds nearby were all eerie and lifeless.

Layla actually ran to such a place, and she will be punished when she returns. Thinking like this, seeing that Ringer had already walked away, he hurriedly followed.

As soon as he stepped into the forest passage, Ringer immediately felt like his body was passing through a membrane, but as soon as he stepped forward, the temperature around him dropped by several degrees and the light became darker.

The forest is extremely quiet, the leaves do not seem to shake, and the slightest cold wind blows from the front, sending a strange cold fragrance.

Ringer sniffed a few times, as if savoring the scent, and Seria held her breath for the first time, she had been very careful when she had encountered the scent of flowers in the wild that could make people unconscious.

"Beware of poison." She reminded Ringer. Ringer nodded in understanding, but didn't really care.

The two continued to walk along the road, and after a while, they suddenly heard the sound of flapping wings from the woods on both sides.

The two looked at the left and right sides respectively, only to see a large shadow flying out of the forest, and when they looked closely, they were a group of palm-sized bats, with an unusually fat body.

A swarm of bats swept over their heads, and Ringer reached out to catch one, with a pig's nose, fangs, big ears, and a round body, like a small black pig with wings and fluff.

The fat bat struggled in his hands, desperately trying to escape, but a pair of fleshy wings were pinched by Ringer, and no matter how much it pulled its short legs, it couldn't escape Ringer's palm.

"What fat bats, what do they eat to grow up? And they have all grown into balls, like a little pig, and they can still fly. Seria looked at the little thing in Ringer's hand and said in surprise.

It seemed to understand Seria's words, and bared its fangs at her, suddenly letting out a piercing screech. Ringer thought it was calling for help from his companions, but the bats soon disappeared, so he smiled and said, "Little thing, don't scream, no one will come to your rescue if you cut your throat." ”