- The sun here is not very strong, but it is dry, which makes the sun very scorching, especially in the middle of the day.

-It's a dead place, and I didn't think there would be anything too strange until I saw those footprints.

- Much like the footprints of a humanoid. Depending on the size, the person who left such footprints may be more than two meters tall.

- Actually, I don't really want to know what this thing is, but this place is huge. As I said, after nearly a week of walking, there is still boundless barrenness in front of me. We both slept by the campfire that night, and in the middle of the night I was awakened by the sound of branches breaking.

- That's right, it's the branches, the twigs.

- We didn't have any other precautions, so we picked up the burning firewood and scattered some twigs around the campfire, especially in the direction of our backs and heads.

-It's not loud, but the sound of a broken branch being stepped on is enough to wake me up.

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- Extremely ugly stuff.

- And not one, it's several!

-When I opened my eyes, it wasn't dawn, but the moon was okay last night, not round, but its light was enough to see what was in front of me.

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- Indescribable.

- Very ugly. If you want to talk about horror, you turned your head at that time! When I opened my eyes, such a group of things stared at you with walnut-sized eyes, and you said, can it not be terrifying.

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- At that time, I didn't have the time to look at that, I felt that I didn't get up, but bounced.

-I yelled, stretched out my leg and kicked John next to me.

-Then the monsters pounced on us.

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-The thing was up to my chest, not very tall, and I slashed it horizontally, and the axe slashed at the head of the thing.

……

-Of course. But the bones of that thing seemed to be much harder than the other creatures, or maybe it was an illusion, but my axe just slashed into its face. In the past, I was able to cut off the opposite chin in one stroke, but this time I didn't.

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-Didn't die, and in an instant all the monsters behind pounced. I don't know how John got up, he wasn't knocked down anyway.

- What surprised me the most was that these things actually had weapons in their hands, and they didn't seem to have any clothes on them except for white hair and gray hair, but they actually had weapons in their hands! They use weapons.

……

- No, not that kind, it's made of stone.

- But that's not the deadliest thing, I feel like their claws are more powerful than the weapons in their hands, and they throw their weapons out of their hands when they can't hurt us with them.

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- I noticed that they must have run when they started throwing away their weapons.

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- Of course it didn't hit, uh...... Smashed into my cloak.

- They chase behind, we run in front, but the running speed of these things is clearly not our opponent. Finally we got rid of them.

……

- It would be fine if it was left at that, but for the next few days we were completely exhausted running for our lives. These things are slow, but they keep chasing us. The feeling of being chased all the time was very irritating to me.

- I also want to kill them completely, but their number is increasing.

……

-I don't know, I still don't know what kind of monsters they are, their arms aren't long, they're long, their stiff backs look short, and their long arms are going to drag them to the ground.

-Their faces resemble those of orangutans, but their hooked noses and thick eyebrows give them a somewhat human-like appearance. The mouth is really big, but it has a mouthful of broken teeth.

……

- No, it's a broken tooth, but it's really strong, I've examined the monsters we killed, and I'm sure they can't shake off their jagged teeth. His black teeth were covered in dirt, and it was disgusting to think about it.

- They have long white hair, but there are very few monsters with white hair, most of them have brown or black hair, and they are completely ...... A beast that has not fully evolved.

-The ears are pointed like mice, and their lower limbs are curved like those of cats and dogs, and they run slowly, perhaps because their lower limbs are really thin.

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- Didn't shake off until we met the dwarves.

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- It's a Black Iron Dwarf. It's the same species as the one on Blackstone Mountain, and I really didn't expect to meet them here, but strangely enough, I haven't been bothered by those monsters since I found these Black Iron Dwarves.

- Since it disappeared like this, then I guess it's definitely not that I'm not chasing anymore, they will chase us for a few days and won't stop chasing for no reason. So there is only one explanation, these black iron dwarves are a threat to these monsters, and they are very afraid of those dwarves.

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-The dwarves have a digging site, I don't know what exactly they are digging and what they want to dig, but we saw real magical creatures in the nearby mountains.

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- Stone Man.

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- It should be called stone or earth. It's a stone man who can run and jump.

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- Isn't it unbelievable.

-I was also surprised when I first saw it. When they're quiet, they're just a pile of rocks, and I don't know if any of the hapless people have been hammered to death by them when they touch them.

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-They are hidden in the mountains, and the bare mountains are originally bare and even strange rocks, so I thought it was just a pile of stones, until I saw a stone elemental stand up and walk towards the mountain, and I realized what those piles of stones in the mountains were.

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-I don't know, anyway, I've never seen them eat and drink Lazar, and I guess this elemental creature doesn't need ordinary food.

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-Magic......

- These things may have been created by ancient gods, or they could be some kind of mess. However, where this kind of thing can appear, there must be a source of magic around it.

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- Seen, of course seen. It's just out of pure curiosity.

- But there is one thing I have never figured out why there is a ...... in the mountains Troll building.

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-The style of the buildings in the mountains is not dwarf at all, I can tell the difference, even the black iron dwarves would never make a building like this.

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- It's snakes, those architectural totems have other animals besides snakes, and only trolls worship these gods, and only trolls can make statues of this style.

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- I'm pretty sure, but I really haven't seen any traces of trolls around me.

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- Yes, the stone elementals are just hovering between the buildings built by the trolls, but some of them have been submerged by the earth and rocks of the collapsed mountains.

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- Who knows.

-We can't go any further, we can't get in, there are so many large and small stones, some of them about the size of a ball, I'm not sure what will happen next if we find them.

- But John was very curious, and he came up with an extremely bold idea. Picking up a stone from the ground, he threw it at a stone elemental the size of a leather ball.

- The stone elemental is probably that big. Well......

-As a result, the stone he threw hit the stone elemental, but the small stone directly attached to it! Can you imagine that scene?

- According to our normal thinking, the stone would bounce off, but no! The stone snapped and stuck to it like a magnet.

- This frightened me, and when the stone element turned around, I realized that although it had no eyes, nose and face, it was also divided into positive and negative sides. Then the gadget rolled towards us.

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-I think it has legs, but I don't see where they are. A pile of stones, pebbles stuck together by a unique force, rolled towards us just like that.

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-There are arms, and this one can be seen. It does have two arms.

- Thankfully it doesn't bark! That's right, this thing is dumb. How can a stone chirp? But this thing is obviously rather stunned, and it doesn't have the idea of running away in fear just because it's small.

- Also, how can stones be afraid?

-When I saw that it was the only one rolling over on its own, I drew my axe.

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- I know what it's like to hit a stone with a hammer and axe.

- Shocking hand pain. It must be so.

- But this gadget is not, when my axe hits it, it does have the hard feeling of the blade hitting the stone, but I can feel a magnetic force more clearly.

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- Magnetism is ...... Belch......

- Magnetism is an attraction. Do you understand?

- It's that my axe head is pulled by a force, or sticky, and a little out of my control, can you understand?

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- No, no, no, that feels like ......

- I can't explain.

- But if it weren't for the speed of the axe that chopped through, I guess my axe would have been stuck too.

-It is trapped in its body and cannot be pulled out.

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- Its body is indeed a combination of large stones, small stones, and small stones, but it is not the big stones that make up the body and the small stones that make up the arms.

-Their bodies are like stones that have been randomly pinched together and formed like this.

-I thought I could kill it with an axe, but I felt the resistance after the axe slashed into its body. If it weren't for its small size, I probably wouldn't have been able to get it.

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- And no! It didn't shatter!

-My axe burst out of its body, and it only brought out some rubble, and some small stones flew off, but the thing didn't die.

-It was crooked by my axe, and before I could pull it back, it was already twisting itself and lunging at my lap. If I hadn't jumped up, my left calf would have been hit hard by it.

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- Nonsense, hit your calf bone with a rock the size of a leather ball to try what you feel.

- Hmph, you said it easily!

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-No! John's sword is barely able to damage it.

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- It's that scary. We could kill ten orcs, but we couldn't kill a magical creature the size of a leather ball.

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- If only I could do magic!

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- Boy, you've got a pretty good brain.

- But it didn't work, I tried later, but I'm sure not the owner of those books.

-Hum! Stephen, you're so smart. It's strange that I can think about it at the time.

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- Of course you have to run!

-I thought that constant slashing would always kill it, but isn't there a time when the magic energy runs out?

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-But I really underestimated this magical creature, if it were an ordinary creature, it would have been dismantled by the two of us, but when I saw that this thing was not hurting but was constantly absorbing the pebbles on the ground next to it during its movement, and slowly growing larger, I knew that I had to run.

- Hmph, it's growing!

-It keeps absorbing all the stones it can touch on the ground! Compare...... The vacuum cleaner is clean!

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-Vacuum cleaner...... Belch......

- It's a magic item, hmm......

- Both of us ran away in embarrassment, being chased by a ball.

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-After escaping the mountain, I suddenly realized that it was no longer chasing, but when we looked back, the stone elemental the size of a leather ball was the size of a bucket.

-It stopped there, and when it was quiet, it really didn't make any difference from a pile of rubble. I couldn't see its face, it didn't have an expression, it was just piled up there.

-I picked up some rocks and threw them at it, and all of them stuck to it without exception.

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-I said to John, "There's a magical elemental core in the middle of this thing. John was stunned.

-He probably doesn't understand what an elemental nucleus is.

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- You don't understand it either, do you!

- Actually, I made it up.

- I haven't seen it either.