The team walked in the dark forest without slowness, the warriors' expressions were quite vigilant, although the patriarch Roy and Witt looked very relaxed on their faces, but the protective force field on their bodies and the reconnaissance technique that was always turned on all showed their attitude.

The Dark Forest is dangerous, as adventurers in the Duchy of Kas know.

There are dragons, high-level monsters, monster clans of great scale, and elves who don't want to see humans....

There are at least a few hundred adventurers who die in the dark forest every year.

"We have to walk more than 200 kilometers from the border here, right? It wasn't easy for you to lead the team before. ”

The reconnaissance technique made Roy notice in advance the nearly 100 breaths that existed hundreds of meters away from the jungle in front of him.

Judging from the fact that the other party did not deliberately hide it, the owner of those breaths should be the monster team that traded with their Hygrindand family.

After hearing Patriarch Roy's emotion, Witt continued, "If you count from Golden Flower City, the total distance must be more than six hundred kilometers, and once you go back and forth, it is a distance of more than a thousand kilometers, which is indeed not easy. ”

It's not easy, this journey from Jinhua City to the border of the Principality of Cass will encounter robbers from time to time, although they are all a group of minions who are not in the climate (the robbers in the climate are somewhat eyesighted, there are masters, and they can see that their team is not easy to mess with), but hundreds of kilometers to walk, the most time is also tired, sometimes unlucky one is not careful, and there will be soldiers injured, which will affect the trip.

And from the border of the Principality of Cass to the trading place after crossing more than two hundred kilometers, you also have to clash with some goblins, kobolds, trolls, gnolls, ogres, etc., but this is okay, after all, monsters have a much stronger perception of danger than those human bandits who do not become a climate, and generally do not encounter any danger.

The biggest danger is actually the poisonous insects, snakes and ants, poisonous weeds and poisonous vines in the dark forest, accidentally bitten or cut poisoned, the general toxicity can also be detoxified with antidotes, but the antidote is not omnipotent, there are always rare poisons that cannot be solved by antidotes.

In the past seven years of trade, the number of poisoned warriors has exceeded 350, and the number of unlucky deaths from rare poisons has added up to more than 20 people. However, most of them have happened in the past four years, and after setting up a dark line with the monster clan under the command of the Queen of Darkness, the frequency of transactions has increased several times, and more people have been brought, and the probability of poisoning is naturally higher.

Don't look at the poisoning death toll in the past seven years, there are only about 20 people, but the warriors who can be sent by the Silgrind family to participate in this trade activity are either trained from a young age, or have family children in the territory. They were all loyal family warriors, and every death was a great loss.

"The greater the risk, the greater the benefit, and no matter how many people want such an opportunity, they can't meet it." Roy said lightly.

"The patriarch is right, if it weren't for that, I wouldn't have been able to break through to the seventh level so quickly." Witt echoed with a smile.

He is Chinese New Year's Eve eight years old now, and the mage professional level has reached the seventh level, and there may be some permissions to be promoted to a senior mage in the future.

In the midst of the laughter, the team approached the trading place.

They walked out of the forest, Witt and the thirty warriors who accompanied him were fine, after all, they had been there many times, but it was the first time Roy had seen a monster clan trading with their family.

"It's such a strong breath, these monster warriors have a minimum of level four, and I'm afraid there are not a few who have reached the intermediate level." Roy's gaze fell on the nearly 100 monster warriors standing dozens of meters away.

A two-meter-tall goblin warrior, a one-meter-eighty-nine kobold warrior, and a four- or five-meter-tall troll warrior. They are all dressed in dark rattan armor, and their weapons include wooden spears, iron knives, and maces.

Although the quality of the equipment is far inferior to the low-level enchanted equipment equipped by the warriors in their team, the level of strength of each of them is somewhat exceeded.

Although Roy got a lot of information from Witt's report, he didn't see it with his own eyes after all, so he didn't really care much about it before.

It's just a bunch of monster warriors, how elite and powerful can it be?

What about even the Queen of Darkness? Could it be that they could be stronger than their clan warriors?

In the process of training, the warriors of the Silgrinder family will conduct various tactical training, and they will also fight to the death with monsters and robbers in actual combat, and the elite are equipped with a full set of low-level enchanted equipment, even among the warriors of the same level of human beings, they are also first-class elites.

However, this was Roy's idea before, and now after seeing the appearance of these monster warriors with his own eyes, he felt that he still couldn't be too arrogant as a human being.

The trade process went smoothly, after all, the two sides in charge of the trade were old acquaintances, the monster side was presided over by Shiki and Caladan, and the human side was presided over by Witt.

"The profit from the monster materials in this transaction should be doubled." Roy, who was watching the whole transaction on the side, estimated in his heart.

This double profit is the net profit calculated after putting aside all the costs such as team expenses, material acquisition, and time consumption.

"But this is only the basic profit, if you make all these materials into potions and equipment, and spend some time selling them, the profit can be multiplied several times."

At this point, Roy's face couldn't help but smile slightly.

But....

"Although this kind of trade is profitable, it is not enough to take the family one step further. If there is any other cooperation in the excavation of the veins..."Roy thought with some greed.

The Monster Forest is an unexplored virgin treasure land, and there must be a lot of unmined ore veins.

If it were just the Heatgrinder family, even if a rare vein was discovered, it would not be possible to mine and transport it in such a dangerous place.

But what if you add the indigenous people?

Roy looked at Skee, looked at their strong physiques, and suddenly made a decision.

This time, he came to participate in the trade process together, in fact, he was already thinking about developing new money-making projects. Just the trade of monster materials can no longer satisfy him as a high-level mage.

Ore veins, slaves, and robbery, which will make less money than trading monster materials?

"The transaction is complete, welcome to come back next time, by the way, remember to bring the trading items we requested."

Over there, Calladan and Witt had a final conversation after settling the items they traded.

"Of course, you are the biggest customer of our Silgrinder family, and our family will do our best to purchase what you need." Witt said with a smile, and was about to end the transaction, when his expression suddenly changed slightly, and the tone of the topic that had ended changed and pulled up again,

"By the way, Caladan Sacrifice, don't you know that the Queen of Darkness intends to earn more treasures?"

"What do you mean?" Caladan raised an eyebrow, motioning for Witt to speak clearly.

"Veins, slaves, robbery." Witt's voice was low and he uttered six words.

When Caladan heard this, he glanced at Witt, and his expression seemed to be smiling, and when he was about to say something, his expression moved slightly, and he received instructions from his master in his mind.

"Naturally, who would refuse something that can make money?" Caladan nodded, and after seeing the joy on Witt's face, his tone changed suddenly, and he questioned,

"But can you eat it with your strength?"

"This.."

"Of course you can eat it!"

Witt was about to say something when the confident voice of the patriarch Roy came from behind him.

Caladan turned his gaze to Roy as he walked by, and intuitively, Calladan felt that the human spellcaster was dangerous.

"I'm Roy Silgrinder, the patriarch of Hygrindinde, and I'm a high-level spellcaster now." Roy briefly introduced himself, and at the same time deliberately released the pure and powerful magical aura in his body to prove that what he said was true.

After Roy's identity was revealed, Caladan was a little surprised and stunned, and a strange look flashed in the depths of his eyes.

Coincidentally, too coincidentally. The task that the master has just given will be completed immediately.

Then, after some conversation, Calladan invited Roy to meet his master, the Queen of Darkness.

Roy was a little hesitant about this, after all, this is an adult black dragon, and he talks to an adult black dragon face to face.... It's too dangerous.

Caladan saw Roy's hesitation, sneered, and said, "It seems that you are not sincere at all, or do you think that my master will care about a high-level spellcaster?" ”

After that, he was about to lead the team to turn around and leave, and after Karadan, Shiki and the others walked dozens of meters, they were about to disappear into the jungle, when a voice suddenly came from behind them.

"Wait, I'll go."

After a long psychological struggle, Roy decided to take the risk.

Their Higrindand family can earn a lot of money for the Dark Queen, and no dragon should kill such a partner who is beneficial to them.

Dragons are evil, untrustworthy, greedy, and cunning, but they are not stupid.

Without them, the Silgrinder family, a black dragon rooted in the dark forest, wants to find another capable and courageous partner, I don't know how long it will take.

"Hmph, since you're coming, follow along. By the way, don't follow the other fighters, if you see the master's majestic figure, you accidentally lose your temper and provoke the master to get angry..."

Caladan turned his head and said lightly.

But without Caladan's reminder, Roy wouldn't have taken those warriors with him. After all, in front of an adult black dragon, dozens of elite warriors would not be able to strengthen their courage, but would be prone to other incidents.

"Witt, wait here with the team for a while, I'll come as soon as I go." Roy commanded Witt.

Then, Roy rode the black-scaled beast and disappeared into the dense forest with Calladan and the others.

Behind him, a trace of worry flashed in Witt's eyes, and he felt that the patriarch had taken some risks this time.

But when I think about the benefits of a direct partnership with the Queen of Darkness this time.... Thinking of a bright future, Witt's heart beats a little faster.

.....

Deep in the Black Blood Valley, by the Dragon Pool.

A black-scaled muscular beast lay on the ground, lazily basking in the sun.

"Good luck." After hearing the news reported by Karadan in his mind, the black-scaled beast, that is, Udi, grinned.

When Witt proposed a new deal between the two parties, he had an idea, thinking of taking this opportunity to let Silgrindeld's real voice meet him, and then take this opportunity to completely control this human family.

The result?

As a result, the patriarch of the human family came directly, which caught Udi off guard.

"If I don't accept what is delivered to my door, I will be punished." Udi muttered, and before anyone arrived, he opened the panel and glanced at his information.

[Uddy: Creature Level 9; Mage Level 6] (Body length 18.24m)

[Vitality: 28.32]

[Current Feast Stacks: 67] (Cooldown: 28 days)

[Spell-like abilities: Darkness, Shimmer Vision, Identification]

[Spell Runes: Four Rings, Any Gate (1% Mastery), Three Rings: Shrinking (3% Entry), Two Rings: Water Elemental Enhancement (Back to Basics), Two Rings: Hydrotherapy (5% Mastery), One Ring: Weakness (8% Entry), One Ring: Water Blade (15% Entry), Zero Ring: Arcane Mark (32%)]

After three years of precipitation, Wudi's strength has made a qualitative leap.

Although he has not yet broken through to level 10 in terms of creature level and become a high-level creature, if he encounters the high-level bone blood warrior who forced him to flee in panic, he has the confidence to win and kill the other party!

This is still the state of the Bone Blood Warrior using that special secret method. If you don't use that special secret method that greatly increases your strength, then Udi can probably kill him with a single look.

People are different from each other, and in the same way, dragons are not the same from dragons.

The ninth-level ordinary black dragon is estimated to be able to fight back and forth with the tenth-level and eleventh-level bone and blood warriors, and the specific victory or defeat depends on the details.

But the ninth-level Udi can beat the ninth-level ordinary black dragon so that he can't find the north.

This is true even if it doesn't count into the strength of the mage level and spell bonus. After all, Udi's dragon body was really a bit exaggerated compared to a black dragon of his level.

A normal ninth-level black dragon has a body length of about twelve meters. And what about Uddy? More than eighteen meters!

Moreover, the proportion of Wudi's dragon body is shorter in terms of neck, and the muscle latitude is much larger, and the body length of more than eighteen meters will not be smaller than that of a black dragon with a body length of twenty meters.

The talent of feasting, over time, will further widen the gap between Udi and other ordinary dragons in terms of size.

"With my size, it may be useful to bluff the enemy at a critical moment." Udi grinned.

Well? Udi's powerful biofield sensed that a strange aura was approaching, and secretly said in his heart that someone was finally here.

....

Roy rode the black-scaled beast to the depths of the Black Blood Valley, and after passing through a small forest, he saw the black beast lying on the ground.

"Is this the Queen of Darkness?" Looking at the black dragon basking in the sun leisurely in the distance, Roy's mood began to tense.

But the appearance of this black dragon.... Why is the style a little wrong?