The long motorcade rumbled through the dark forest.
The trees on both sides of the road are straight and tall, each one is more than thirty or forty meters tall, and can be as thick as four people hugging each other. In addition, the forest is deep and leafy, and the huge umbrella cover extends to the sky above the road, leaving only a thin strip above the head.
of white lines.
It was obviously daytime, but the road in the forest was so dark that one needed to light a torch to see everything around him clearly.
The convoy seemed to have entered a dark, closed and silent corridor. Apart from the sound of wheels and the vibration of the beasts of burden marching forward, no other sounds could be heard in the surrounding area.
silence!
Very quiet!
You can't hear the chirping birds at all like you would in an ordinary forest, and you can't see any jungle creatures like rabbits and coyotes running around.
As soon as he stepped into the black forest, Greem could clearly sense that weak magical energy was slowly flowing in the forest. The activity of elemental particles was also one or two frequencies higher than outside the forest!
"Chip, collect the environmental data in the Black Forest!" Greem thought for a moment and couldn't help but give the order to Chip.
"Hey, the mission has been established...Environmental data continues to be collected..."
Seriously speaking, the Black Forest of the Wizarding Continent occupies up to 60% of the area, while the Sand Tower Forest and the three major wizarding organizations together occupy only 40% of the total area of the Wizarding Continent.
This also means that there is still a lot of unexplored land in the Wizarding Continent, and what hinders mankind from moving forward are these endless black forests and vast wilderness grasslands.
With the huge size of the wizarding world and the almost perfect high-magic environment, occupying 60% of the area of the black forest and wild grassland, even if only one thousandth of the creatures are infected into magical creatures, the terrifying number will be already
It's enough to scare away ordinary wizards.
Therefore, if wizards want to expand the boundaries of their territory, they need to continue to extend their tentacles deep into the black forest.
Cut down trees, level roads, build settlements, and erect wizard towers to protect them...
This kind of colonization process is never smooth sailing!
Every step the human living area extends into the black forest will attract powerful counterattacks from powerful jungle creatures, terrifying monsters, mutated monsters, and polluted creatures.
If there are only sporadic invasions of monsters and strange monsters, then it can be said that it will only cause a small-scale loss of personnel, buildings and other resources at most. But if it is a large-scale monster group counterattack, or a powerful monster drives away the beast tide, then the newly established
The settlement may fall.
In the history of colonization of the Wizarding Continent, there have been numerous large-scale attacks by Black Forest monsters. Each occurrence meant that thousands of ordinary people who had just moved into settlements became victims of the struggle between the two parties. The entire New World
In the colonized area, only the Wizard's Tower may barely survive, and everything else will be razed to the ground.
Therefore, every step forward in human's living space requires such complicated pulls many times before it is possible to exhaust the patience and number of forest monsters and force them to move their territory deeper into the forest.
Therefore, a huge territory covering an area of 100 miles usually needs to go through many iterations and take decades from the beginning of colonization to the stable development of ordinary people in it. And in this process, the losses become
Populations in the tens of thousands and wizard lives in double digits are common.
Therefore, every wizard who overcomes obstacles and leads his followers and slaves to snatch the living space from the black forest is a truly strong man who can be remembered by future generations forever!
For ordinary people, the black forest represents mystery, evil and power, and it also represents death!
But for wizards, this is the largest treasure house of resources!
Magical plants growing everywhere, a wide variety of jungle creatures, abundant metal deposits, and mysterious and powerful monsters...
Many rare resources that have become extinct in the wizarding world can be found deep in the Black Forest.
Therefore, in addition to plane conquests, groups of wizards go deep into the black forest to explore ancient ruins and hunt monsters, which has become the fastest and most convenient way for them to gather resources.
The prerequisites required for plane conquest are too demanding, and not all wizards can meet them. Therefore, exploring the black forest has become their best choice for going out to experience and collect resources.
Greem lifted the car curtain and looked at the dim forest in the distance.
Even with his eyesight, it is difficult to reach far without using witchcraft. After all, the magical energy here is too active, which is also a huge interference to the wizard's spiritual perception!
Greem raised the curtain a little higher, and on a tall tree not far from the convoy, he saw an owl with black feathers. The owl was staring at the huge eyes, monitoring the movements around the forest, and making frequent noises.
They made strange cooing noises at the convoy.
"Those are the owls raised by the trainee witches." Alice moved closer to Grim, holding on to the window sill and looking at them in boredom: "They are just harmless little animals that can serve as their eyes."
"Why not choose a more powerful small monster?" Greem asked doubtfully.
"Tch..." Alice couldn't help rolling her eyes: "Do you think everyone is like you and never worries about magic crystals? They are very poor and cannot afford to buy or raise those monsters!
"
"What's the benefit of raising them?"
"Usually serving as eyes and ears, they can be regarded as good flying sentries. Moreover, owls that have cast spells can also have a weak talent for seeing through invisibility, so they are most suitable as guards. Of course, the more important thing is that raising them will not do much for the trainee witch's mental strength.
A lot of pressure.”
"So what types of pets do witches generally have?"
"The most commonly used ones are black cats, flower snakes, red bats and crows. Black cats can bring stealth and agility bonuses to their hosts, flower snakes have infrared sensors, red bats can add lightness and sonic positioning, and crows have
Dark vision... In short, witches like to turn themselves into these messy things!"
"What about you? How come I've never seen your pet?"
"Hmph..." Alice snorted: "I have always wanted to catch a hell hound, but unfortunately I have never succeeded!"
"Hell Hound?" Upon hearing this name, Greem automatically imagined a strange abyss creature that looked like a porcupine and was covered in black and red hard and thick skin.
This kind of extremely ugly creature from the abyss was actually Alice's first choice as a dream pet, which left Grim speechless.
"Why?" Greem couldn't help but ask.
"So there was once a witch who caught a hell hound as a familiar, and then gained the ability of 'spell blockade'. Moreover, the hell hound can also provide the host with a mental bonus, making it the best magical pet."
Si immediately started talking with gleaming eyes.
"But don't you think hellhounds are ugly and ugly? And as far as I know, they are very smelly, and their bodies are full of the unique stench of abyssal creatures in the lower world!"
"Is it really smelly?" Alice's face changed, and she asked Grim carefully. When she got the affirmative answer, she couldn't help but frown with her little face in her hands: "Then I'll peel off its skin and put it on my body.
Applying spices should be able to cover up its smell, right?"
Grim took a breath of air and couldn't help but start to worry about Alice's future familiar.
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The convoy moved forward slowly in the black forest.
When they left Ibes City for more than 30 miles, they could already see small animals in the dark forests along the way.
However, there were alien mercenaries on the outside, and the jungle beasts did not dare to approach the convoy. They only dared to roar a few times from a distance, and then quietly sneaked back into the depths of the forest.
Although this road cannot be said to be crowded with people, more than a dozen caravans are constantly going back and forth, and they have almost driven away the dangerous monsters nearby. If the remaining ordinary beasts dare to approach the caravan, they will become the mercenaries to beat them up.
gourmet food.
On the road, the 'spotters' sent out by the trainee witches were simply the busiest group.
They spread their wings and fly in dense forests that are difficult for humans to pass through, avoiding dangerous beasts and birds, and looking for rare plants everywhere.
Once something is discovered, three or two trainee witches will rush into the depths of the forest with a dozen mercenaries and pick back the found rare plants in the shortest possible time. This will undoubtedly bring them a lot of income.
.
Of course, sometimes there are ferocious monsters near the rare plants found, and this is the time for the few witches in the convoy to take action.
Gains like this along the way are not included in the accounts of the caravan, but are private trophies belonging to the witches. After such a journey, the private gains of each witch accompanying the caravan far exceed the remuneration given by the caravan.
That's why these women are so interested in this treasure hunt game and are so interested in it.
It's just that the caravan can't stop waiting for them to hunt for treasure, so the area they can search with their magic pets is only a small area within ten or twenty miles on both sides of the forest road. In any further area, even if they really find something
, they don’t have enough time to harvest.
In such an area, after years of repeated searches, almost all valuable resources have been harvested. Therefore, several witches in the convoy simply gave up this spirit-draining 'game' and handed them over to those who came out to experience it.
The trainee witch.
For these 'poor' apprentices who are not qualified to enjoy family offerings, even some 'mosquito meat' that the witches despise is enough to fill their bellies, so they become more and more happy with it!
So, in this seemingly slow but actually extremely fast movement, the convoy arrived at the first campsite on the long journey.