Deep in a continent that is an unknown number of miles away from the Ishgar continent, there is a primitive forest that is deserted all year round. More than 90% of this primitive forest is covered by lush dense forests. Only the east side has a road that spans a long distance.
There is a huge canyon for countless miles. Seen from a high altitude, this canyon looks like a giant python, cutting off the forest on the east side.
This forest is called "Karunku Forest" by people on this continent!
It is said that in the Kalunku forest, a primitive tribe lived there a long time ago, and in the language of this primitive tribe, "Karunku" means death and nightmare.
The canyon in the forest on the east side is called the "Canyon of the Dead" by residents on the mainland. As the name suggests, only the undead can survive under this canyon.
The history of Kalunku Forest is very long. Because of this, this forest has given birth to countless extremely rare and precious creatures and treasures. Therefore, Kalunku Forest has always been home to many treasure hunters, mercenaries, and wandering magicians.
A place where people like to visit.
certainly.
At least 90% of these people will eventually be buried in the Kalunku Forest.
Otherwise, Kalunku cannot be regarded as "deserted" all year round. After all, the dead are not considered human beings, they can only be regarded as "corpses".
But just today, a "different guest" came to the Kalunku Forest.
Chrissy is a student at Astidine Academy of Magic, and she is one of the students with very good grades. However, compared to other outstanding students in the academy, Chrissy's family background is not that outstanding.
That is the so-called "civilian genius".
a week ago!
Chrissy's mother was diagnosed with "Larkashi disease," a disease of internal organ failure that is almost incurable to ordinary doctors.
However, if "magic" methods are used, there is a glimmer of hope for recovery.
However, the medicines needed to treat "Larkashi Syndrome" are extremely expensive. At least based on Chris's family situation, it is simply impossible to come up with this amount.
Chris thought of countless ways and asked several 'pharmacists', but the final result was disappointing.
Fortunately, Chris has a good relationship with her college tutor.
After Chris's pleading, the "pharmaceutical instructor" who taught Chris finally gave her some tips.
Ghost flower!
This is a special potion that only grows under the cliff of "Canyon of the Dead". "Ghost Flower" is the core material for refining the potion to treat "Larkashi Syndrome". Similarly, the reason why this potion is so precious is,
Most of the reasons are also because of this magic potion.
If there are "ghost flowers", the cost of pharmacists refining medicines can be greatly reduced or even free.
After getting this news!
Chris hid it from everyone and paid a group of "mercenaries" to take him to the outskirts of the Kalunku Forest. Then she walked towards the "Canyon of the Dead" alone.
Although the "Canyon of the Dead" is located on the east side of the Kalunku Forest, it is actually located closer to the depths of the forest, and because there are many weird and dangerous creatures living near the "Canyon of the Dead", even experienced hunters and
Magicians rarely venture here.
This is also the reason why Chris just asked the "mercenary" to take her to the outskirts of the forest and then stopped. If she wanted the "mercenary" to escort her all the way into the depths of the forest, it would not be a matter of spending a little money.
Chrissy's magic level is not low.
At least this is the case in Astidine Magic Academy. Only the first year of higher education has the level of an A-level magician. Such magical strength can be regarded as middle-class even among the students who are about to graduate in the third year of higher education.
It's up to par.
However, in the Kalunku Forest, this level of magic is nothing at all.
Just one day.
Kris has already experienced nearly twenty battles, large and small, and in at least ten of these twenty battles, Kris turned around and ran away without hesitation as soon as she saw the enemy, and then the "enemy" chased and killed her.
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In almost seven other scenes, after a brief fight, Chris turned around and ran away.
There were only three battles that Chrissy won.
That was when Chrissy had just left the "mercenary" team and hit the road alone.
Having just entered the Kalunku Forest, Chrissy was in a nervous mood with a hint of curiosity, so although she kept warning herself to be careful, she still couldn't help but feel excited when she faced an ancient mud monster.
A "desire to fight".
Then.
In this way, Chris began her first escape in her life.
emmmm!
Don’t get me wrong, Chris is not being chased by the “Old Mud Monster”. The “Old Mud Monster” is just a seemingly disgusting but actually completely harmless elf in the Kalunku Forest. The real reason why Chris is being chased is
The reason for the killing was that when Chris defeated (qi) the ancient mud monster (fu), she accidentally misplaced her magic and disturbed a pair of green-skinned gorillas nearby who were preparing to create offspring.
In fact, with Chris's magic level, she would not necessarily lose even if she faced two green-skinned gorillas. However, it is obvious that although the students taught by the magic academy have high magic level, they are relatively lacking in combat experience.
few.
After a day and night of trekking.
Chris's white-green school uniform has been stained by mud and various unknown weird liquids. Her long, smooth light blue hair has also been stained with a lot of dust, dead grass and leaves, and has become dry and knotted, white and delicate.
Her face was smeared with black charcoal and mud, and the girl's original fragrance was covered in a strange stench.
If Chris is given a broken bowl now and thrown at the door of Astidine Magic Academy, there will probably be many kind-hearted students who are willing to give Chris a certain amount of help, and absolutely no one will believe this.
The "beggar" will be the popular figure in that college, the "Wind Spirit" - Chrissy!
Practice is always the best teacher.
Chris grew up very fast during this day and night. Compared with before entering the Kalunku Forest, Chris' strength has improved significantly, at least in the two aspects of "hide and seek" and "escape".
Since entering the Kalunku Forest, Chrissy has been thankful that she learned "Wind Magic" more than once. If it weren't for "Wind Magic", she would have been buried in the belly of those monsters.
The main characteristics of wind magic are reflected in two aspects: agility and perception.
With the help of the agile speed of "wind magic", Kris has escaped from the tiger's mouth countless times, and the perception ability of wind magic has also helped her avoid the territory of several powerful monsters.
Only a small part of the "things" hanging on her body were accidentally put on by Chris, while most of them were added by Chris herself during her subsequent journey.
For example, the mud on Chrissy's face from the corpse of the "ancient mud monster" was the same, as was the excrement of a giant roaring bear stuck to her robe.
Here’s a little trick Chris discovered on her travels.
Most monsters don't like "feces", and the more powerful the creatures are, the more so. When Chris coated herself with the excrement of the Giant Roaring Bear, she found that the number of monsters attacking her was significantly reduced.
Even once, Chris found that she accidentally broke into the edge of a powerful monster's territory. The monster's momentum had already burst out from a distance, but then, the monster's momentum quickly disappeared.
, it seems that he doesn’t want to make a special trip just because of a weak piece of “excrement”.
besides.
The longer Chris survives in the Kalunku Forest, the more she realizes how desperate her initial desire to "fight" was.
Maybe her magic is pretty good in the academy, but here, her magic is not worth mentioning at all.
It's not that the monsters here, Chris, can't be defeated, but because there are so many monsters here. Once a strong battle breaks out here, I'm afraid it won't even take five minutes, at least ten of them will gather near Chris.
The above monsters, and the longer the delay, the more and more monsters will become...
In one of Chris' three victorious battles, it took him four minutes to kill a red flame-tailed wolf, and then attracted a total of seven monsters that were as powerful as a B-level magician to "spectate".
Then Chris spent 70% of her magic power and suffered a blow from behind to release the wind magic and escape.
As for the last of the three victorious battles, Chrissy hunted and brought back a low-level black swan monster. She originally planned to have it as dinner, but under the gray sky, Chrissy had just lit up the fire.
Setting up a black swan barbecue attracted the prying eyes of nearby monsters. As a last resort, Chris had to abandon the black swan and run for her life.
A full day and night.
Chrissy didn't eat any food, but fortunately, "Canyon of the Dead" had arrived.
After passing through the last layer of thorny jungle, Chris, who became even more embarrassed and tattered, finally arrived at the front of the "Canyon of the Dead". Seeing the silent canyon more than a kilometer wide in front of her, Chris' tired eyes finally showed a hint of excitement.
color.
"Finally...it's finally here!"
Although Chris had no idea how many hardships she had to go through along the way, and even the threat of death, as long as she could get the "ghost flower", everything would be worth it.
"Canyon of the Dead" is as its name suggests, and it doesn't look like a place where life can survive at all.
The edge of the canyon is a row of black land. There are no plants alive on the ground. There are only graceful rocks and a large number of animal skeletons. Some of these skeletons still have some rotten black meat hanging on them, but more of the skeletons have changed.
It became a piece of withered white, half buried on the ground, and trembled slightly with the cold wind blowing from below the "Canyon of the Dead"...
It was pitch black below the canyon. Even if you looked down close to the edge of the canyon, you could see no more than ten meters.
The growth area of "Ghost Flower" is more than one hundred meters below the Canyon of the Dead.
Standing on the edge of the "Canyon of the Dead", Chris glanced down, then she couldn't help but close her eyes, staggered back a few steps, took several deep breaths, and managed to stop her trembling legs.
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Picking "Ghost Flower" Benshan is not a difficult task, it just requires a little luck.
The dark wind blowing up from below the "Canyon of the Dead" is extremely corrosive and can corrode objects such as ropes and chains in a very short period of time. Only a special kind of vine growing near the canyon has strong resistance to the dark wind.
, but it only slightly extends the corrosion time.
Each vine has a different time to resist corrosion.
If the people picking the "ghost flowers" don't climb up before the vines are corroded and broken, there will be only a dead end.
"Huh~~" Kris took a long breath and comforted herself: "No problem, I can walk here from the outskirts of the Kakulun Forest alone, which means I must be lucky."
Chris comforted herself, but what she didn't know was that of the 90% who died entering the "Karunku Forest" in the past, 40% died while entering, while the other 50% died on the way back.
of.
Chrissy began to tie the vines to the boulder on the side. There were many traces of vines on the edge of the boulder, indicating that there were not many people coming to the "Canyon of the Dead" in the past, but the "ghost flowers" are still on the market today.
It is an extremely rare magic potion, which is enough to prove a lot of things.
These vines were picked by Chris when she came over. She planned to tie a total of three vines to the boulder. This is the maximum number that can be stuck in the "strangle marks" under the boulder. It is also the number that most people who come here to pick "ghost flowers"
"Human choice.
In fact, in essence, the difference between three vines and one vine is not very big. After all, the dark wind in the "Canyon of the Dead" will not corrode the vines one by one. In many cases, the extra two vines still can't save anything.
However, two more vines always give people a little more confidence.
Looking at the dark canyon below, Chrissy's breathing became slightly heavier. However, she wanted to suppress her fear and cast a magic circle on herself.
He jumped down into the canyon.
With the "dexterous" blessing of wind magic, Chris quickly descended a hundred meters below the canyon.
But just after she arrived at her destination, she saw a vine on her left suddenly fell down the canyon, and the vine broke.
This sudden scene immediately made Chris's eyelids twitch. Although she knew that the canyon wind corroded the vines very quickly, such a fast speed still shocked Chris.
Without any time to think, Chris quickly started looking for traces of the "ghost flower" in her surroundings.
However, at a glance, there was not a single "ghost flower" around.
"Is it still down there?"
Seeing the darkness below and the disappearing vines on the left, Chris hesitated for a second, but decided to slide down another fifteen meters. Just when Chris was about to touch the bottom of the vine, suddenly, a flower
The pale black four-leaf flower with a hint of transparency slowly came into Chris's eyes.
Phew~
A breeze blew by, and at this moment, the vines on Chris' right side also broke and fell into the canyon.
Kris felt something bad in her heart, but looking at the "ghost flower" right in front of her, Kris still exerted a little force and swung her body in the direction of the "ghost flower", with the "magic of wind"
With the blessing of the flower, Chris's body was extremely dexterous. She came to the front of the "ghost flower" with a slight swing, grabbed the "ghost flower", and Chris quickly started to climb up...
Chris climbed very fast. She kept releasing the little magic power left in her body, and kept urging the magic array under her feet to exert force. In the blink of an eye, she had climbed nearly a hundred meters.
Seeing that the ground of the canyon had appeared in front of her eyes, Chris's eyes suddenly lit up, and she subconsciously stretched out a hand to grab the black soil on the ground. However, at this moment...
Snap!
The vines suddenly broke.
The sudden scene made Chris's heart skip a beat, and a surge of blood rushed into her brain. Indescribable blankness and fear rushed into her mind, and even made Chris lose her ability to think.
Then Chris just watched the ground of the canyon getting farther and farther away from her. Chris wanted to call for help, but before she could open her mouth, an inexplicable weakness suddenly broke out from her body. In an instant, Chris
Her vision fell into darkness, and her body fell like a kite with its string broken...
At this moment, an unusually intense light suddenly burst out from the deepest part of the canyon and rose rapidly. Then it held Chris up, leaving a line of light in the canyon, and quickly came to the ground.
"Huh? What is this?" A slightly puzzled voice came from the light.
When the light dissipated, only a shiny bald head and an unknown black and white creature the size of a horse slowly appeared on the edge of the "Canyon of the Dead".