Chapter 100: The Forest of Trials
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A little hurried to the south of the city hut, Lu Chenxun carried a specially found self-made marching backpack. In fact, it is a large animal skin bag to find someone to sew a few straps, and because there is no buckle problem, you can only let the strap be fixed in front of the body with a slipknot, after all, it is a person who goes out, and the space ring is still less used in front of people. But before I could open the door in the backyard, I was very broken and heard a heart-pounding and headache-inducing sound.
"Why are there only two riding beasts, is he planning to elope with you?"
Then there was the sound of the sword being drawn.
"Ah~ The weather is so good, very suitable for traveling, do you think the three of us will play for a few days?"
Pushing open the courtyard door, sure enough, it was the temporary guardian Lafita and the abandoned little follower of Parn, Lu Chen looked helpless, opened his mouth or didn't say anything, and climbed on the riding beast by himself. Although he didn't know how to ride well, he was at least taught how to ride by Verona during his previous trips.
Pahn smiled and immediately flipped over to the other horse, ignoring the "vicious" look that Raffita wanted to pull him down.
With more time together, everyone is no longer as strange as before, there are fewer restraints between each other, and there are more jokes, otherwise Parn would not have said what he said before, and Rafita would not have drawn his sword against each other.
So, after Lafita sat in front of Lu Chen unwillingly and shyly, the three of them drove the beast to chase after the red thorn flower, which had been away for an hour.
As for why these two people are together, you can guess without asking Lu Chen, most of them met when they were following him, fortunately, they bought an extra spare riding beast when they were ready, otherwise they really don't know what the three of them should do.
However, their arbitrary departure caused different reactions from those who focused on this small change.
On the tower of the city, a person with an ordinary figure but a strong temperament, when he received the report from his subordinates, he hurriedly ran out to see Lu Chen and the others, and after confirming the figure of the third brother, he was glad in his heart to tell his subordinates before leaving.
At about the same time, in the king's study of the palace, Drake and his elder brother and second senior brother were worried about discussing whether their interference was wrong, and the king even sent one of his personal seventh-order protectors out, asking him to protect the three people who ran away without permission, if there was really any case, he would consider Lu Chen's safety first, not his own children, and as a result, the great swordsman mistakenly thought that Lu Chen was the king's illegitimate son.
There are several other forces that are also observing Lu Chen and the three of them, but what is surprising is that one of them has Malcolm's figure, and the person sitting on the seat is a burly young man with the demeanor of a king; they are talking about how many people can be sent to quietly kill one of the parties in the mission, in order to provoke the hatred between Lu Chen and the second prince, and after receiving the information that Lu Chen and the three of them left the city alone, they added another one, taking the opportunity to get rid of the third prince Paan, who had no one to protect!
On the way, Lu Chen couldn't help but ask why Paan came with him, and the other party's answer was that they were already in the seventh grade, and of course the study should be based on actual combat, and according to the teaching arrangement of the college, it would be a month at most, and he would enter the destination of this time, "Forest of Trials", to start the assessment, and he himself was a good student, so it was necessary to preview first.
Although Pahn's answer was 100% an excuse, it was the first time Lu Chen had heard of such an internship. And Lafita knew that he didn't have much common sense, so she first affirmed what Pahn said, and then explained to him: this is the arrangement of the academy to let each student recognize his own strength, which has been in the fourth year, but in the seventh year, it has become the focus, and half of the time in each semester will be spent on this.
After that, everyone didn't say anything more, the oncoming wind made it impossible for the three of them to chat happily, and at the same time, it also brought the coolness of autumn, Lu Chen didn't think much about it, he directly took out the only robe from the space ring, covered the Lafitta in front of him, and handed it to Pahn, no matter what his mind was, at least now he was a companion who took risks for himself.
But when Pahn was looking at the two of them with ambiguous eyes, he was surprised to see that this was the robe of a six-star magician, and there were women's unique patterns on the neckline, and it seemed that he had seen it somewhere, but he couldn't remember anything; This explains why there was a sense of familiarity, probably a female mage he had seen as a child.
The Forest of Trials was originally a natural barrier in the southeast before Finaxiu became a kingdom, and in the early days, it was a fortress used by elves to defend against human attacks, and it was only included in the map of the human kingdom thousands of years ago, and it became the private forest of the Finaxiu Kingdom more than three hundred years ago, and after more than ten purges, the part closest to Finnes Academy was classified as a place of trial. It was about 200 kilometers away from the royal capital, and it would take three or four days to march in an ordinary way, and it would only take two days at most to reach it with a small cavalry.
The two riding beasts that Lu Chen bought were very well-made, plus the three of them were all lightly armed, and after lunch, his left eye had already seen Verona and them who had come out earlier, but because he had escaped secretly, and it was easier to help them by staring in secret, Lu Chen simply decided to bypass them and reach the Forest of Trials first. Anyway, it is impossible for the other party to start on such an open road, and there is no guarantee.
It's just that the team of military people who accompanied him was a bit surprising, and the number was completely equal to the thirty girls on the mission, which made Lu Chen unable to figure it out.
You must know that a small number of mercenaries can be strong all of them, but it is impossible to do the same in a large army, unless the backbone of an army is exhausted, it is too unrealistic to form a strong team of thirty people. In this way, the possibility of the other party destroying one-on-one is ruled out, so the worst case is only to attract powerful demonic beasts, but looking at the other party's outfit, it doesn't look like a death squad, but more like a group of hunting hunters.
After telling the two of them about wanting to arrive first, and after obtaining consent, Lu Chen took them to change direction slightly. Then, after camping in the wilderness once, the next morning, the three of them reached the edge of the Forest of Trials.
Although the surrounding area is very barren and there are demonic beasts from time to time, there are still small villages where the mercenaries temporarily rest, but in order to avoid their whereabouts being exposed, only Pahn led two riding beasts into the village among the three, and spent money to ask the villagers to take care of them, and then everyone directly entered the Forest of Trials.
It's a very boring thing to wait, so after estimating that they will arrive at night and the mission will start the next day, the three of them first surveyed the terrain in the forest and hunted some small animals, just as everyone needs to be familiar with each other's combat strength, so that they can cooperate well when needed.
Needless to say, Lu Chen used a bow and arrow, which made Lafita feel a little strange and very fortunate at the same time, at least he could stand in front of him, Paan was also a swordsman, but he also asked Lu Chen for a set of bows and arrows, saying that he wanted to teach him how to "hide behind" and shoot arrows.
Anyway, he was beating kittens and dogs, Lu Chen didn't care, so he gave him a handful, and then the three of them began to look for small animals such as rabbits and mice in the forest.
With the help of the left eye, it is easy to find these weak demonic beasts, and in a short period of time, the three of them are fully loaded, and the tacit understanding between them has not made any progress, but the requirements for prey are getting higher and higher, seeing that the sky is still shining, Pahn proposed to find a lone fourth-order demonic beast, in his opinion, the strength of the three is enough to ravage the fourth-order high-level demonic beast, because Lafita is a fifth-order.
At first, Lafita was strongly opposed, but she couldn't stop Lu Chen and Pahn, and under the coercion of them leaving her alone, she could only follow them towards a deeper part of the forest, so that at least she could protect the two fun-loving little boys.
The first fourth-order demonic beast he encountered was a yellow-maned fanged pig, but before the two of them could pull the bowstring, a nervous Lafitta rushed up and finished it with a sword.
After looking at each other, the two of them who were a little disappointed smiled happily, and then took the dead pig in their entirety, and walked forward boldly, and Lafitta's face also became red, looking a little excited, because when the sword attached to the fighting spirit pierced into the fanged pig's body, she felt the pleasure that she had never had when she waved the two-handed long sword before, it was not only a verification of the fifth-order strength, but the weapon Lu Chen got was also too handy, allowing her to fully experience the thrill of battle.
With Lu Chen leading the way, the three of them traveled very smoothly, and every time they would meet a lone fourth-order demonic beast very "coincidentally", as if they had made an appointment, when they killed the fifth, Pahn finally became suspicious and told the two of them, Rafita immediately asked to return to the periphery, calculating the time Lu Chen no longer reluctantly agreed.
However, in order not to be seen by himself, on the way back, Lu Chen deliberately chose a route with a herbivorous fourth-order demonic beast group, which made the two of them nervous and dispelled the idea that there was any problem, but when he passed by the fourth batch of herbivorous demonic beasts, the accident still happened.
Before the footsteps of the three of them changed direction, there was a violent vibration on the ground, and the fourth-order demonic beast group didn't have time to escape, and the ground under their feet was centered on them, and a large area collapsed, and even Lu Chen and the three of them were not spared.
Fortunately, the pit was only a little deep, and there were no casualties, including the herbivorous beasts, but then several creepy beasts came out of the soft soil.
"Oops, it's a spider scorpion. Quick, get out of here while they're rounding up those herbivores. With that, Pahn pulled Lu Chen and wanted to jump out of the pit.
For those of them who possessed vindictive energy, this pit was not very high, but when they looked up, the three of them saw that the edge of the pit was covered with spider scorpions.
"Damn, there are so many, no wonder they can carry out such a huge hunting operation, it seems that they can only run away when they all come down. Lafitta, Lucien is up to you, I really can't protect him. "It's not that he shirks his responsibility, Parn, who is only a fourth-order intermediate, is still very self-aware, and in the face of so many spider scorpions of the same level, it is already good that he can protect himself.
Seeing that Paan put aside his bow and arrows and took out the long sword that was used as collateral last time from the spatial ring, Lu Chen knew that the matter was indeed strict to the extreme, but he didn't worry much, but looked at these demonic beasts that were spiders in the front and scorpions in the back and asked curiously: "Spider scorpions? What are the attributes of the fourth-order ones?
Rafita was also quite nervous, but it was much better than Parn, after all, she had seen Lu Chen face the worse situation alone, and when she heard his inquiry, she immediately replied: "Well, earthy, good at digging, can secrete spider silk to wrap the subdued prey, but will not spit, what needs to be noted is that their tail needles have a paralyzing effect." ”
"Alas, that's useless, it's a little less, but it's also 'meat'. With a sigh in his heart, Lu Chen put away his bow and arrows and said easily: "Lafita, Parn, lean against the wall of the pit, and then lead them all down and solve them all at once." "At the same time, he took out the five-star water dragon and the ice spear scroll.
Although the value of the five-star scroll was far greater than that of the fourth-order demon core, the spider scorpion and those herbivorous demonic beasts together were still worth two scrolls.
"Are you crazy......" Paan was anxious when he heard this, but when he saw the two scrolls in Lu Chen's hand, he was speechless and depressed, and remembered that he also had two five-star scrolls in his space ring, and he also remembered that the last time he made a bet with Simon, the guy in front of him also took out six six-star scrolls.
Unlike Parn, Lafita was extremely convinced of Lu Chen's experience in battle, and when she heard his arrangement, she immediately took action, protecting the two of them and slowly retreating to the edge of the pit, Lafitta, who felt that she was not safe enough, also blasted a depression for the two of them to hide with her fighting spirit.
Lu Chen, who is used to being protected by girls, is nothing, but Pahn, who has hardly encountered any danger, is even more depressed, he has grown so big, and he is protected by a woman for the first time, which makes his self-esteem suffer a little blow, but the situation in front of him can't help but be reckless, so he can only obediently accept the reality.
There was no need for extra lure, Rafita's blow caught the attention of all the scorpions, except for a few that had already succeeded and were packing their prey, most of the remaining scorpions rushed over.
The low-level demonic beasts have no intelligence, and the spider scorpions that rushed are basically crowded together, and there are even crawling on the backs of their companions.
In just two or three minutes, there were either corpses smashed by the water dragon technique or demonic beasts frozen by the cold air of the ice spear technique, and Pahn couldn't even close his mouth when he saw it. It wasn't until he was woken up by Lu Chen and asked him to clean up the remaining remnants of the spider scorpion with Rafita that he came back to his senses with difficulty, but looking at Lu Chen, who was happily recovering the corpse of the demonic beast, there was a sudden feeling in his head that there were nearly fifty demonic beasts......
After recovering all the corpses, Lu Chen had a crooked idea again, since these spider scorpions larger than humans came out of the ground, would the hole below lead to their old nest, usually there should be something in the nest, and after killing so much, there should not be much left in their nest.
So, Lu Chen asked the two of them to help find the hole in the ground together.