Leaving the manor where they had been staying for nearly ten days, Locke's party was not fast. With the distance from Damo City, it will take most of the day to arrive, and Locke and his party are naturally not in a hurry.

In the midst of the beast, Locke and Rowling lay next to each other.

Locke had always avoided close contact with Rowling before, fearing that he would have an unexpected situation and couldn't control it. Although his soul is no longer the soul of Ilin in the past, his flesh and blood organs are all from Ilin, and he who has this body does have a close blood relationship with Rowling.

The space inside the beast ride is not large, and the space for two people to sit at the same time is already a little small, although it is not crowded, but it is inevitable that there will be friction between limbs due to the shaking of the beast driver.

And Rowling's brother and sister have depended on each other since childhood, and Rowling will not have any scruples in front of her brother at all.

From Illin's memory, Locke could naturally see that the relationship between Illin's brothers and sisters was still quite deep.

Because, Locke found that Rowling's body had a strong attraction to him, so he had always been cautious and kept a certain distance from Rowling. And now, Locke has to get up close and personal with Rowling.

Locke found that Rowling always had a strange scent on her body from time to time that attracted him. Although Rowling is not the kind of beauty that brings disaster to the country, she also has a beauty like clotted jade and frost, and her body exudes an ethereal temperament, which gives people a very clean feeling.

Looking at Rowling's very clean side face leaning against her, Locke's heart involuntarily beat.

Unlike the previous close encounters, this time Locke did not have the slightest evil thoughts about Rowling. Because Rowling's clean face and ethereal temperament melted Locke's physical desire. At this moment, Locke seemed to have incarnated into the real Yilin, and he only cared for his sister from the heart.

Of course, since Locke is not the real Ealing after all, he still can't help but feel excited about Rowling's beautiful temperament.

Rowling leaned on Locke's shoulder, her moon-pointed chin held high, and she took a relaxing nap. At this moment, the intrigues and intrigues with the brothers and sisters of the other families seemed to be far away from Yilin, and all that was left was the comfort and happiness of being with his brother.

In the family, Rowling saw only naked competition for interests, and all feelings could be sacrificed for the sake of interests. Growing up in this complex environment, many of the sisters Rowling has seen have lost news one by one, and they are either used by the family in exchange for benefits, or they have disappeared silently.

Rowling, attached to Locke's shoulder, could hear each other's heartbeats.

Even Locke was infected by this comfortable atmosphere, and unconsciously began to immerse himself in it.

Suddenly, Locke sensed a strange aura in the beast's drive.

"Brother, my spiritual power has unconsciously broken through the bottleneck of an intermediate mage. Locke had just noticed the change in the aura in the beast's driver, and he heard Rowling's happy exclamation. It turned out that Rowling's spiritual power had already reached the verge of being promoted to a fourth-level mage, and this time, it was reasonable for her spiritual power to break through unexpectedly in the beast drive.

However, it is always good for Rowling to be able to break through unexpectedly.

As long as the spiritual power breaks through, Rowling is spending a period of time to accumulate magic power, and it is naturally a matter of course for the mage to be promoted.

"Brother, I'll meditate first. Rowling said to Locke, and immediately straightened her posture and began to meditate. Spiritual power is not a meditation breakthrough, but an accidental breakthrough, and mages generally meditate immediately to consolidate the mental power that has just broken through and is not stable. Like when Locke was on the undead plane before, he also needed to meditate every time he advanced to consolidate the spiritual power that he had just broken through.

Seeing his sister begin to meditate, Locke also put away his thoughts, sank into the fire of his soul, and began to digest the memories of Illin that he had not yet fully received.

Before he knew it, the beast driver left the original plain avenue and entered a mountain forest road.

The scale of Locke's party is not large, there are only about two dozen people, except for a few ordinary servants who deal with daily chores, the other dozen or so are subordinates with a certain combat power. Several of these subordinates were already mid-level warriors, and the other dozen or so younger ones were also second- or third-level low-level warriors.

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In the mountains and forests, there are several groups of bandits who are wandering, these bandits are from several principalities near Damo City, most of them are ordinary civilians who have no combat power, and there are also some middle and low-level warriors or mages.

They gathered together for various reasons and purposes, raiding some pedestrians and caravans in the mountains and forests not far from Da Mo City, seizing supplies and collecting resources to survive or improve their strength.

Bandits like this, in the Loki plane, exist everywhere.

When Locke and his party entered the forest, they were targeted by a group of bandits.

Although these bandits were not born well, their knowledge was not bad, and when they saw that Locke and his party could ride beasts, they naturally knew that the target this time must be either rich or expensive. Plundering a team with the financial resources to ride on the beast will generally harvest at least hundreds or thousands of gold coins, and if you can get some magic materials or even alchemical items by chance, the value is even higher.

However, it is also necessary to take a lot of risks to attack such a target, and the fat sheep is likely to turn into a hideous hungry wolf in an instant.

Because some nobles often have a strong warrior or mage escort in their ranks, even a wealthy merchant may have hired a strong mercenary or mercenary team to protect him. In the face of such a team, the bandits will suffer a lot of losses, if not all of them will be destroyed.

The bandits who were watching immediately spread the news of Locke and his party to the ears of the bandit leader.

The bandits who targeted Locke's party finally decided to attack Locke's team. Although it may be unpredictable and dangerous to attack Locke and his party, greed still prevails over reason. Banditry is a high-risk profession, and if you are afraid of danger, you will not come out to do it.

Under the arrangement of the bandits, more than half of the combatants in the team were gathered. More than forty bandits were arranged in a suitable ambush location on the road of Locke's party, and only the bandit leader and a few soldiers did not go out.

For the bandit leader, in this chaotic area, the most important thing is the fighters at the bottom, even if this raid fails, he can still recruit enough fighters to join his team. Therefore, as long as it is not encountered by the kind of large team that is obviously unbearable, this bandit will take action, because the reward of success is too great.

Moreover, the bandit leader has no intention of going out in person, and every time he encounters a target that he is not sure of what he can eat, the bandit capital will send his right-hand men to preside.

It is with this caution that this bandit leader has survived in this mountainous area for decades, growing from an ordinary human to a powerful warrior. And the companions who were born with him basically died in the plundering again and again.

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Although Locke and his party knew that it was impossible for them to be smooth sailing, they did not expect that their team had been targeted by a group of bandits.

When the beast arrived at a vine forest area, in the middle of the team, two nimble young warriors, under the command of the experienced older middle-aged warriors, immediately broke away from the team and accelerated forward, but to inquire whether the front was safe. Although Ilyin and his party did not encounter a single attack by bandits along the way, the older middle-aged warriors still adhered to their usual caution and did not leave the slightest chance to the enemy.

The two young warriors had just advanced no more than a dozen meters. A heavy axe flew out of the vine shade and draped precisely over the shoulders of one of the young warriors. The young warrior was so badly wounded that he fell, and although he had not yet died directly, in this wilderness, a heavy blow would mean death.

"Enemy attack. An exclamation of alarm came from the mouth of another young warrior, and the beast rider driving under the control of the middle-aged warrior also stopped at this moment.