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Rocky Canyon, the Howling Canyon where the Thorsilver Fortress is located, extends to the tail of the Forsaken Desert. Over the years, as the desertification and erosion of the Forsaken desert has turned the once lush and fertile forest into a craggy and scarce vegetation, countless towering brown boulders have been erected on both sides of the canyon. As the terrain descended, the boulders that covered the sky gradually disappeared, and a large stone forest comparable to a labyrinth appeared in the eyes of Cohen and Rachel.

The day before the departure of the Thorsilver Fortress, Cohen unexpectedly received the prize money for the battle between Rachel and Stress Sandra that day, although the last Lyment Clement stopped the duel, but the Soul Slayer Arena decided that the final winner was Rachel according to the situation at that time, so Cohen received a full 5,000 gold coins. With such a generous bonus, Cohen naturally made plenty of preparations before leaving, and only the fresh water and spirits in the Elegy of Life ring were stored in eight standard units. This made Rachel addicted, and being able to drink the liquor all the time, from the fortress of Thorium to the Holy See of Mirumis, made the dwarf feel that the decision made by Clement for him was extremely wise.

As for the rest of the supplies, Cohen went on a shopping spree at any cost, until the plant seeds and auxiliary materials were almost filled with rings, and finally bought Rachel a set of light chain mail inlaid with a giant magic circle, a sharp Mithril alloy scimitar, and a Mannic alloy horn helmet. By the time all of this was settled, with the Waterstop Shield and the No-Return Tomahawk, Rachel was almost the ultimate weapon armed to the teeth.

Cohen originally suggested buying two wildebeest to use as leg strength, but Rachel rejected the suggestion, saying that the endless stone forest road outside the Troubled Canyon was rugged and difficult, and there were many wolves infested. Wildebeest is too docile by nature and can easily be frightened and have accidents when attacked by wolves. In the end, the last two chose to hike through the Rocky Canyon and the Forsaken Desert.

After three days, the two of them ate and drank dew, and finally came to the junction of the Troubled Times Canyon and the Howling Wind Canyon - the Thousand Needles Stone Forest.

At this time, Rachel held a large wine bag in his right hand, stood on a boulder on a cliff, looked around into the Thousand Needles Stone Forest, and drank a sip of strong wine from time to time. After a few moments, Rachel tightened her wine bag and jumped off the boulder, walking towards the shadow behind a boulder.

Behind the boulder, Cohen leaned his back against the boulder, slicing the jerky with a dagger and eating slowly, a parchment map spread out in front of him. Seeing Rachel come back, he swallowed the jerky in his mouth, put away the dagger, patted his clothes, and asked, "How is it, have you decided which way to go?"

Rachel shook his head, tossed the wine bag to Cohen, crouched on the side of the parchment map, and wondered, "This main road marked on the map was opened for weapons sales in the era of the 'Epic of Glory', and after so many years, it has long been abandoned with the erosion of the flying sand of the Forsaken Desert." Now the clan transports weapons to the Holy See, and in order to avoid being hijacked, the transportation routes are extremely secret, and they are not marked on ordinary maps at all. ”

Cohen raised his wine bag, took a sip of the spirits, thought for a moment, and said, "Since the map shows the direction of the Forsaken Desert, let's go straight through the Thousand Needles Stone Forest, okay?"

"No, let's not talk about whether you will encounter wolves, it's just that this huge stone forest labyrinth, if you are caught in it without the guidance of a map, it will definitely be more than lucky. Do you know how the weapon transportation route was found? It was filled out with the corpses of mercenaries!" Looking at the Thousand Needles Stone Forest in front of him, which occupied a quarter of the territory of the dwarves, Rachel was deeply aware of the horror of it.

Hearing this, Cohen's brows furrowed, he turned to look at the endless stone forest in front of him, and said helplessly: "Then I can only camp here tonight, and I can't think of a way tomorrow morning, so I will move along the deserted main road." ”

Rachel glanced at the sheepskin map, picked it up and rolled it up and put it in his waist bag, and said, "That's all it takes, and now it's not dark yet, I'll go explore the way first, you build a campfire here, and the camping will trouble you." After saying that, he tightened the battle axe and shield on his back, drew the alloy scimitar at his waist, trotted all the way, and disappeared into the stone forest in a short time.

Looking at Rachel's vanishing back, Cohen smiled, took out a handful of Thorn Grass Seeds and Whisker Vine Seeds from the ring, and slapped the seeds on the ground with a slight spell of vegetation manipulation. After a few moments, a large thick vine mixed with dwarf thorn grass slowly grew along the boulder, and many of the vine tentacles climbed onto the other rocks, gradually forming the shape of a dome. When drooping vines wrapped tightly around the thorn grass, a simple tent was set up. Cohen looked at the tent in front of him with satisfaction, it was a method that Clement had taught him that night to increase his mental strength, by constantly manipulating the growth trend of vegetation.

Cohen sat down again, his mind lost in his memories.

Having experienced the Battle of the Excavator's Passage and then witnessing Rachel and Arisandra battle with all their might, Cohen clearly felt his thirst for strength. Compared with other races, the long lifespan of the elf race does have the advantage of going against the sky, but the elves who have not been baptized by the elf rite of passage can only carry out the most basic cultivation in terms of combat power or auxiliary spells, and cannot cross this bottleneck and cultivate strong combat skills.

Cohen envied Rachel's character of daring to love and hate, not only has strong combat power, but also has Clement's affirmation of him with his own hard work. All this touched Cohen deeply.

Slowly pulling out the blade of light redemption from the scabbard, looking at the slight flickering elemental light on the blade, Cohen muttered, "Twelfth Order, how strong is it?" After speaking, he slowly urged the fire element, and the faint red light replaced the original colorless light, and the subtle fire elemental light balls visible to the naked eye were slowly absorbed into the grooves in the blade, beating happily. Looking at the bright light, Cohen briefly lost his mind.

At this moment, Rachel's cry suddenly came from his ears: "Come and help, dinner is over." ”

Cohen briefly refreshed himself, dissipated the fire elemental on the blade of light redemption, and looked in the direction of the sound, only to see Rachel struggling to drag a small Tam porcupine towards the boulder, his arms covered in crimson blood.

"You're not hurt, are you?" said Cohen, who hurried down to help.

Rachel glanced at his arm and said with a smile: "It's okay, it's all pig blood!" After speaking, he put the porcupine on the ground heavily, took a breath, and continued: "This pig fell into the hunter's trap, and his hind legs were caught in the iron clamp, and the guy who installed the trap probably forgot the trigger position of the trap and didn't come to check the trap for a while." When I find this porcupine. The hind legs were all rotten, I just chopped off the hind legs, and dragged it back with blood all over my body!" After speaking, he pointed to the hind legs of the porcupine, and sure enough, both legs were missing, only a large bloody wound.

Cohen didn't say much, he took out the wine bag from the ring, threw it to Rachel, then drew the dagger from his waist, and quickly began to skin, bone, and take meat from the porcupine. Rachel poured a few sips of the spirits, and immediately refreshed, also removed his armor and weapons, drew his metal scimitar, and began to dismember the trophy.

By the time the two of them had stripped the porcupine of a skeleton to its bones, it was already completely dark. He buried all his internal organs and fur in a nearby dirt pit, cut down another tree, and lit a bonfire, and the two of them ate barbecue meat, drank wine, and talked about their past without saying a word.

"Whew......" A wolf howl echoed in the rocky canyon, like a jumping note, constantly rippling in the canyon, and gradually disappeared into the dark night.

"It's wolves!" Rachel glanced lightly at a dark thousand-needle stone forest, cut a piece of barbecue meat on the fire and threw it into his mouth, and said vaguely: "Don't worry, there is a bonfire here, no matter how fierce the wolves are, they will not come, just drink wine and eat meat with peace of mind!" After speaking, he raised the wine bag, poured a big sip of spirits, and swallowed the meaty barbecue, burping very satisfied.

Cohen shook his head, slowly stood up, looked intently at the dark stone forest, and said, "No, something is moving in the stone forest, and the speed is not slow!"

"What?" Rachel asked, looking at Cohen.

"Bang !!"

Before Rachel could finish speaking, there was a loud bang, and a dazzling white light bomb instantly exploded in the night sky, and suddenly the entire sky was as bright as day. The two looked at each other and saw four figures running desperately in the stone forest to escape, followed by a dense pack of wolves that could not be counted.

"It's a distress signal unique to mercenary groups!" Rachel glanced at the light bombs falling from the sky, "Can you help them?"

Cohen pulled out the blade of light redemption and said, "They must have seen the bonfire here to send out a distress signal, as long as they can cover their evacuation to the vicinity of the campfire, the wolves will naturally disperse, let's go!" After saying that, he blessed himself and Rachel with a wind acceleration technique, and rushed directly in the direction of the four people.

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Vandal was in a state of extreme remorse at the moment, and the dense wolves behind him were desperately chasing after his group, but the culprit of this consequence was himself. Blame yourself for taking on a four-star hunting mission from the Mercenary Guild: to seize the crystal nucleus of the Dark Moon Wolf King in the Rocky Canyon, and the reward is a full 60,000 gold coins.

At that time, Vandal confidently gathered twenty people and slaughtered to the rocky canyon. The hunt was also a smooth road in the first few days, and the wolves killed were falling flowers and flowing water, and just when the group was complacent, the wolves suddenly poured out from all directions. It was only at this moment that Vandal knew that he had made dumplings for the wolves, and the so-called crazy killing before was just killing some old, weak, sick and disabled wolves, and the group in front of him was the backbone of the wolves.

And then, no more.

The wolves culled once, and Vandal's mercenary group killed thirteen people, and the others were even more frightened and fled on their own paths. There are only a group of four people left, relying on Howl's archery skills and Mia's healing skills, barely holding on until now. Seeing that he was about to escape from the rocky canyon, but Hal's arrows were exhausted, and without the containment of long-range attacks, the beastly nature that the wolves had suppressed for a long time finally broke out completely, and as the distance between the wolves and the four of them became closer and closer, the despair in Vandal's heart began to gradually spread to his whole body.

But just when the four of them were ready to do a trapped beast fight, and when they were desperate, the blazing bonfire on the mountain in the distance made the tired body suddenly gush out of a survival instinct, and Vandal even crushed the last distress scroll, and the four of them tried their best to rush towards the direction of the bonfire.

When two blurred figures appeared in the distance of the stone forest, the wolves and the four of them were already close at hand.

"It's too late!" Vandal anxiously looked at the figure rushing in front of him, gritted his steel teeth, pressed his tongue against the roof of his mouth, took a few heavy breaths, and pulled out a two-handed sword from his back, a simple defensive posture. Looking at the three companions beside him, he shouted hoarsely:

"Run, you must live!" Then he took a sharp breath, and with a wave of his big sword, the whole person rushed into the wolves, trying to use the most powerful force to block the pace of the wolves' attack, and buy precious escape time for his companions.

"Don't!!" As Vandal's body was overwhelmed by waves of leaping wolves, Mia let out a piercing exclamation that resounded through the rocky canyon.

It was too late, but it was too late, and a deep roar came from the stone forest: "Elemental shaping, rock cage!"

Immediately afterward, a dwarf leaped high with a half-human height tomahawk, bent his body in mid-air, and roared: "Rock Crushing roar!!" The tomahawk slashed at the wolves with endless fury.