"Ao~~~~", a huge roar resounded throughout the mountains, and the sound of tiger roars kept echoing among the mountains. The sudden wind came to the face with the tiger roar. When it passed through the treetops, messy fallen leaves rolled up.

"Prepare to join the battle." Pannis's face was as calm as the lake water without waves. Even if the roar of the tiger was filled with powerful pressure, even if the strong wind blew the corners of his clothes flying, it could not have any impact on his heart. Pannis just slowly pulled out the one-handed sword and looked faintly at the northeast direction, which was where the roar of the tiger came from.

It has been the fifth day since we left the camp on the cliff. Within five days, the team has traveled through more than ten monsters of territory. The battles above medium scale have been nearly sixty times. Every night, the girls will fall asleep in extreme fatigue between spirit and the highest. Although the demigods who are responsible for escorting say that they have no special care for them, they are actually very considerate to exempt them from the task of vigilance. However, even so, the girls still feel that both physical and will have reached their limits. Even on the last day, the girls often wonder whether they will lose consciousness and fall down the next moment. However, whenever the girls think they can no longer hold on, they will find that their potential seems to have been squeezed out and survived again.

It was not until these five days that the girls truly understood the meaning of the Death Forest. It was not without reason that it was recognized as one of the most dangerous places in the Yara world. During the previous journey, the girls thought they had seen the danger of the Death Forest. All kinds of weird creatures were unpredictable, and powerful monsters were almost difficult to fight against. The girls thought that this was the true face of the Death Forest. However, now the girls knew that it was just a beautiful and safe cloak of the Death Forest. The hidden under the cloak was the true hideousness of the forest.

Yes, the true hideousness, the hideousness of death. During these five days, the girls were still surrounded by various hidden dangers. Plants that were about to die, insects that were difficult to detect, natural traps everywhere, everything seemed to reflect the malice of the forest. It seemed that every invader must be put to death. Although Panis and Flar reminded at any time, the girls still had to spend a lot of energy to observe the environment. After all, they were not omnipotent. In the malice surrounding them, there were always situations that they could not take into account. For example, on the next day, Catherine encountered the biggest crisis since entering the forest and almost became the victim of another death forest.

At that time, the team was passing through a nest of crystal ants. These giant ants, as long as their thumbs, lived near unstable crystal veins in the open air. These veins had no mining value, but were the best food source for crystal ants. They seemed closer to elemental creatures and did not need to eat in the traditional sense. They only needed to absorb the faint energy contained in the gnawing crystals to survive. However, these crystal ants were indeed like nightmares for those passing by, and they would not actively attack the creatures. But once they were attacked, they would launch a fierce counterattack. A pair of teeth that could even smack crystals could tear the bodies of most monsters. Enough amounts could make a giant beast turn into bones within one minute. When they encountered a powerful opponent, the accumulated crystal energy in their bodies would explode violently, causing themselves and the enemy to die together.

Seeing them, the girls recalled the giant cockroaches that they had seen in the underground world of Dragon Seal, which also made a living by absorbing crystals. The dangers of the two seem very close, but they were completely different when they were carefully distinguished. Although the giant cockroaches exploded, they only exploded on their abdomen and mainly rely on toxins to attack, these crystal ants were different. They were real explosions. Although the crystal ants were not big, the compressed crystal energy in each body was almost equivalent to a thousand tel crystal. Hundreds of crystal ants produced chain reactions and exploded at the same time. Their power was almost equivalent to a small earthquake. Demigods could resist with shields or escape into the realm to avoid explosions. However, if the center of the explosion in the deep was a legendary professional, then there was no possibility of avoidance.

The team encountered a giant ant colony with a population of more than 100,000, covering a range of several kilometers around. When passing through, everyone's energy needs to be highly concentrated. If one is stepped on, the consequences will be devastating. Panis and Flar have focused their attention on everyone's feet. Their perception ability has been expanded to the maximum, and they are afraid that when they step on one foot, a certain crystal foster ant just drilled out of the soil. This kind of accident has not happened before. The two are not worried about external dangers, because there will be no animals in the crystal foster ant settlement, and creatures that dare to intrude into are often either torn apart or blown to death.

However, everyone has overlooked a problem, that is, the threat from the sky. The crystal ants control the ground, but the birds in the sky are like creatures from two worlds, with no intersection between them, and sometimes there are deadly predators hidden among the birds.

There is never a shortage of birds in the dense forest. When the team passed through the crystal-eating ant nest, there were still a large number of birds on the canopy above. Even with Panis's perception ability, it was impossible to identify each bird from the thousands of birds. It could only be roughly judged that there were no large predators among them. The attack on Catherine was a small bird called the Skull-Peng Bird.

Some scholars have studied that the skull-piercing bird has a high similarity with the common woodpeckers outside and should be close relatives of the same origin. However, the woodpecker pecks through the trunk and eats insects. The skull-piercing bird is different from them. The skull-piercing bird pecks through the skull and sucks on the brain.

By looking at the Warcraft Picture Book, you can find that the skull-piercing birds are undisputedly classified as the level of the semi-god monsters, and the level of danger is also listed as a-. In fact, their ** is as fragile as most of the monsters of this level. What is terrible is their speed and strength. When hunting, they will dive down from high trees, at a faster speed than sound. With the help of inertia and its own power, they can easily pierce the hardest skull of the prey with their sharp and penetrating beaks and suck the fresh brain matter in the skull.

This time, Catherine was its prey. When Catherine took her last step and just left the crystal-eating ant's nest, her tense spirit was slightly relaxed, the skull-piercing bird launched a surprise attack at the best time. The short dive faster than the sound made no one react. Most people didn't even know what happened. Even Pennis had only time to raise his hand. The figure of the skull-piercing bird that had plunged Catherine's head was reflected in her shrinking pupils.

At the most dangerous time, Catherine's long-term high-intensity basic training finally played a role. Many movements have been engraved into the soul. When the skull-piercing bird was about to stab herself, the knight girl instinctively contracted her body and deflected her head at the same time. This is one of the ways to dodge and attack in the basic movement. I am afraid that only by being as skilled as her can she grab a little time in the skull-piercing bird's attack.

It was this little time that made her survive. The sharp beak of the skull-piercing bird first cut off her right ear. While half of the ear flew up, the bird beak left a curled scar on the girl's cheek. Through the scar, the gums and white teeth could be seen. The bird beak continued to go down and cut her right neck. Although the carotid artery was cut, it was too fast that even blood was not available for spraying out. Finally, the bird beak passed through the girl's collarbone and pierced into her right lung. Until this time, several wounds sprayed blood almost at the same time, especially the wound on the right neck. The blood splashed two or three meters away, like a fountain. During the whole process, the legendary Catherine, an ordinary person who could not cause damage even if he cut it with a sharp blade, was torn apart like a piece of paper, and could not have any effect on the attack of the skull-piercing bird.

When the skull-piercing bird found that the attack failed and pulled out its beak as quickly as possible to escape back to the sky, Panis's assistance also arrived. The sharp blade formed by the fighting spirit shot out from his fingertips, penetrating the attacker's body like an arrow, causing the skull-piercing bird, who had just spread its wings to shake Catherine's shoulder a few times before falling to the ground.

The sudden fatal crisis caused the girls behind Catherine who were still within the range of crystal ants to pieces, but the girls' experience played the greatest role at this time. If they were panicked because of Catherine's attack and wanted to run to her to deal with the injury as soon as possible, they would inevitably step on the crystal ants and cause a chain explosion. The final result was that no one could survive, but the girls did not do so. Even though their eyes were already congested by fear and anxiety, the girls still forced their eyes to droop to the ground. After careful observation, they took steps that had not yet landed.

It was not until they stood firm on the ground and confirmed that they would not threaten the nearby crystal ants that the girls took other moves. Freya and Vivian did not move. Eva held back hard, and the strong three-eyed tribe made Eva's petite body burst out with powerful strength, allowing Lina to fly directly into the air, crossed the very coordinating Freya and Vivian, crossed the last section of the crystal ants nest, and landed next to Catherine.

While still in mid-air, Lina began to stretch out her hand, and after landing, she grabbed the backhand, and just caught the red medicine bottle that Vivian had sent with magic silk thread. The priest girl rushed to Catherine in one step, without saying a word, and the red potion fell directly on the worst wound on Catherine's neck. The stimulation of the potion caused the torn muscles on the Knight girl's face to twitch. As the twitching, the silver earth praise also slapped outside the wound.
Chapter completed!