Night falls.

The moonlight smeared every corner of the Silent Forest, and the whole world shimmered with a dull silver sheen, like a rotten pearl. Under the magic of restlessness and the moonlight, this forest is the most dangerous area on Phuket Island.

No wizard wants to be in the Forest of Silence at night.

But that doesn't mean there's dead silence in the forest.

Summer insects chirp in the grass, vines spread among tree trunks, and hungry eyes weave through the forest under the cover of night, looking for something to fill their stomachs.

Like a bunch of scourges.

Normally, this magical creature lives in the crater at the end of the forest, living by devouring the heat released by the volcano. Scourge rarely appears on the banks of the river. The damp water vapor will make them sleepy and tired, like fish-people on the shore. If you encounter an enemy in such a state, you are simply asking for your own death.

No one wants to walk on a dead end, but many times, this road with an end in sight is the only direction they can go forward.

Buck looked gloomily at the silver moon in the sky, sniffing the damp breath in the air, and always had the urge to sneeze. But every time the itch welled up on the tip of its nose, the feeling of danger from the depths of the woods made it hold back its sneeze.

This kept it teary-eyed and its vision a little blurry.

Buck is a three-year-old man with beautiful long dark hair and a long, forked tail. In this small scourge group, it can be regarded as half of its combat strength at this age.

Therefore, the clan arranged for it to be on duty tonight.

Buck had no idea why the tribe had moved out of the comfortable crater. Because the old leader who led the tribe out of the crater, the old scourge who was two meters tall at the shoulders and gray with gray hair, was caught by the mountain giant who woke up when he passed through a hill two days ago, wrapped in a handful of branches and stuffed it into his mouth.

Buck's last impression of the old leader was a flash of fire from the hill giant's mouth.

The leader seemed to scream, but Buck wasn't sure. Because at that time, the whole tribe was frightened by the sudden attack of the hill giant, and fled in all directions, and lost several small scourge along the way.

Those little ones must be more than lucky.

Thinking of this, Buck glanced at the silver moon in mid-air again and sighed deeply.

In the past, when they lived in the crater, the moon in the night was the favorite sight of the scourges, and when they lay in the warm lava and enjoy the touch of the moonlight, every pore would emit an aura called 'comfort'.

But since leaving the crater, the silver moon has become much colder.

The thought of this confuses Buck a little. Because it has the impression that after leaving the crater, the group has been chasing the direction of the sun, but it does not know why the weather is getting colder and the air is getting wetter and wetter. The light of the fire in the feces expelled by many adult scourge has dimmed, and the color of the dung fire has changed from blue-white to orange for young ones, such as Buck.

It was suspicious that if it stayed in the woods any longer, its poop would turn dark red. That's the color that only the dying old scourge pulls.

I'm afraid that only by returning to the crater can I return the color of my poop to normal.

As for when he will be back in the crater, Buck doesn't know. It vaguely remembered that the old leader had said that there was a gap in the depths of the crater, leading to a certain place, and it had never seen magma flowing in, but it had never seen anything come out of it.

Although the house was monitored and the scourge was a little uncomfortable, with abundant lava, abundant food, and the school sent wizards to maintain them from time to time, most of the resistance in the clan was gone.

Until a few months ago, the Kuroshio swept through the town of Beta.

It was a real accident.

When the Black Tide surged through the Silent Forest, few magical races were able to stay out of it.

When the exhausted scourge returns from the town to the crater, they are surprised to find that their nest has been confiscated by the school! A group of black-robed wizards wave magic books to drive them out of the crater.

Just throw them a few baskets of charcoals.

"It's too much of a bullying!"

Buck snorted indignantly, spewing out a few bits of dark red sparks, fleeting in the damp woods. The colors of these Mars made its mood melancholy again.

It looked up again, glanced at the golden moon in mid-air, and imagined that the golden yellow was sowing the seeds of warmth to the cold world below.

Then its ears moved.

There seems to be a little movement in the woods?

Buck took a heavy breath and blinked hard, shoving the hot tears that had been obscuring his vision back under his nose.

It slumped down, a menacing snort coming from its throat, and a glow of fire under its eyes.

The firelight fell on a bush not far away.

The sound came from the bushes.

Buck stared at the bush and whined twice in his throat, meaning that it had discovered the existence of the intruder, and came out honestly, otherwise don't blame it for being polite.

The bushes were silent for a few seconds.

Then, with the swaying of the foliage, a dusty figure sprang out of the bushes and appeared in front of Buck, wagging its tail excitedly at it. It was as if I had seen a relative I hadn't seen for a long time.

The young scourge snorted, curbing the fire in his eyes.

A dog?

Or rather, a lost scourge?

It's not so sure. Because from the outside, Scourge looks similar to ordinary domestic dogs, except that ordinary dogs eat meat and, while Scourge eats charcoal and pulls dung fire. Gray fur is the color of the underage scourge.

As for the other party's tail not split, it is not a big problem. Most of the scourge groups don't have forked tails. However, like Buck, there are very few people with forked tails.

The confusion disappeared without a trace in the next second.

Because the strange dog on the other side wagged his tail and barked softly at it:

"Meow~!"

Buck's tail flicked, and a cluster of sparks popped out from behind his butt.

No scourge would bark like that, and no real dog would bark like that!

......

......

The dog that appeared in front of Buck was none other than Edamame.

Of course, it doesn't know it has a new name.

Since accepting Zheng Qing's order to find the owner of those snake fragments, it only took Edamame half a night to extend the clues from inside the school to outside the school, all the way to the depths of the Silent Forest.

That aura was hidden not far from this group of scourges.