Just when Xue Hua was rushing towards the edge of the Skinning Forest, far away at the junction of the east side of the Skinning Forest and the jungle on the edge of Cui Fanke, the members of the Parliament Guard Corps who had been marching in secret were all stunned.
He looked at the pillar of fire rising into the sky less than five kilometers northwest of them.
Legion commanders Ocaso and Marion looked at each other, and both saw the angry expression on the other's face that wanted to curse.
How pitiful! They were really just walking quietly!
Since the Skinned Forest is filled with a large number of traps and bottomless pits and caves left by the dwarves in the past, this terrain is not very friendly to large armies.
So Fred took them all the way through the jungle on the eastern edge of the Skinny Forest.
Although if you walk from here, Cui Fanke Fortress, which has probably become the base camp of the Hell Legion, is not far to the north of them.
But Fred, who was proficient in identifying roads in the rainforest, was still very confident that he could lead them safely through the outside of Cui Fank City.
The prerequisite is that it cannot alert the demon army in Cui Fanke Fortress.
They had all been going smoothly before. Under the leadership of Fred, the shadow protection of the assassin Evan, and the early detection guarantees of the assassins and Amazons in the legion, they had miraculously escaped from the demon legion's nose all the way.
Sneaking down to the end of the eastern edge of the Peeling Forest, we were already approaching the upper reaches of the Zulaka River.
As long as they cross the river, they will be not far from Jikul, and the rest of the journey only needs to go down the river.
However, at this critical moment, a sudden huge explosion destroyed everything.
You can tell with your toes that such a big event happened near Cui Fanke. There will definitely be a large number of demon patrols here for a long time. They are trying to execute the previous plan and sneak past here quietly.
That's simply unbelievable...
For them, this was a completely unforeseen disaster, and that inexplicable explosion had nothing to do with them at all!
"Send a few people to sneak over and see what's going on!
Boy Frey, where is that place over there?"
Ocaso shouted to the back of the team with a stern face, and immediately several assassins and Amazons ran out of the team and disappeared into the surrounding jungle in the blink of an eye.
"Don't call me 'Boy Frey'! You're a 'weird old man'!"
Fred rolled his eyes and retorted fiercely, and then looked seriously at the direction of the explosion.
"It's the old site of Kurast...the former location of Kurast City...it's strange. There should be nothing there except monsters. How could there be an explosion?"
The young guide frowned and scratched his head, feeling very puzzled by this question.
The rain forests of the Eastern Continent were exploited and utilized by intelligent creatures long before the lush grasslands on the western border of the Western Continent.
Long before humans set foot in this rainforest, the indigenous people - dwarfs - have been living here for hundreds of years.
Later, expedition ships from the Western Continent and expedition teams from the northern wastelands of the Eastern Continent found this place, and Kurast was established in this rainforest.
In the beginning, Kurast was just a small city built in the middle reaches of the Zulaka River, located in the middle of the rain forest. Although the climate of the rain forest is not actually suitable for human survival, the advantages of rich products and diverse types of resources still attracted people.
A large number of human traders came to Kurast to trade.
But later, the dwarfs, the indigenous people in the rainforest, began to feel dissatisfied with human development of the rainforest, and a massive war soon broke out between the two.
At that time, human power was in its golden age, hell had not yet invaded, and the power of mages from various factions was also at an unprecedentedly powerful stage.
So the result can be imagined. Even with the home field advantage, the dwarves were still defeated miserably at the hands of humans.
After suffering a defeat, the dwarves retreated deeper into the rainforest, where they established new tribal gathering places and took advantage of the familiar terrain to continuously attack passing human caravans.
The fighting between the two races has become a feud.
The dwarfs built a terrifying prison called the "Skinning Cellar" in the forest, which contained all captured human traders or travelers.
They brutally skinned the captives to death, and then glued the skins to cellar walls and forest trees.
The dwarfs would tie these skinned corpses on rafts and send them to the city of Kurast through the Zuraka River, in order to take revenge on humans for infringing upon them.
The residents of Kurast were horrified by this sight, so they once again sent out troops to encircle and suppress the dwarf tribe deep in the rain forest.
However, this time, the dwarfs who had learned a lesson were no longer confronting the human legions of mages.
They took advantage of their familiarity with the terrain to engage in guerrilla warfare with humans. Although they failed to injure the human legions in the end, they gave the proud human mages their first taste of failure.
After the unsuccessful encirclement and suppression, the dwarves' behavior of intercepting and killing human caravans became more and more rampant and unscrupulous. Many business travelers from the West eventually had to change their business routes because of fear of them.
The Kurast Mall, which was once extremely prosperous in the middle of the rainforest, suddenly declined slowly.
Faced with the declining city, the later Lord of Kurast finally had to make a difficult decision - to migrate.
They abandoned the city of Kurast in the rainforest and walked downstream along the Zuraka River Basin. Finally, they found a new territory near the mouth of the sea. The residents of Kurast established a new territory on this territory.
A new city - Ji Ku.
However, not long after Ji Kuer was established, the invasion of hell began.
In order to resist the demonic army coming from the direction of Kejistan, the residents of Ji Kul once again abandoned the homes they had just settled in and moved to the other side of the Zulaka River, establishing a settlement between the tidal flats.
The new "Kurast Seaport".
Kurast Seaport relied on the natural danger of the Zulaka River to successfully survive until the era when the demon army was expelled by the will of the world. The King of Hatred Mephisto, who led the army of hell to attack here, also suffered from the weakening of the will of the world and the newly emerged Zakarum Church.
He was hunted down and eventually captured.
The Zakarum Church finally built a fortress just west of the original Kurast Mall specifically to suppress Mephisto's soul. The name of this fortress was "Trevank".
What happened later was that the Zakarum Church finally fell completely under the corrosion of Mephisto's power of hatred day after day, and Mephisto's soul also took this opportunity to escape back to hell.
Since then, Kurast Seaport has become the last human city in this rainforest besides the mysterious "City of Life and Death Uri". It not only serves as the trade interface between humans and the rainforest area, but also serves as the
The important task of guarding Cui Fanke who has fallen.
The Council of Heaven and Demon Fortress regards this city as the last level of professional experience.
They set a task in Cui Fanke, allowing professionals who came here to explore here to enter Cui Fanke and obtain the "Mephisto Soul Stone" suppressed in the "Hate Prison" (of course it is fake). When the professionals
After successfully completing this task, he or they are qualified to go to the demon fortress with an extremely special environment to accept the final trial.
