The long convoy rumbled through the dark forest.
The trees on both sides of the road are straight and tall, each of them is more than 30 to 40 meters high, and it is as thick as four people hugging. Coupled with the deep forest and lush leaves, the huge canopy extended to the sky above the road, leaving only a thin white line above the head.
It was clearly daylight, but the road in the forest was so dark that it needed to light a torch to see everything around it clearly.
It was as if the convoy had entered a dark and closed corridor of silence, except for the sound of wheels and the vibration of pack animals striding forward, there was no other sound around them.
silence!
Very quiet!
You can't hear the chirping birdsong of the ordinary forest at all, and you can't see jungle creatures like hares and coyotes running around.
As soon as he stepped into the Black Forest, Greem could clearly feel the weak magical energy flowing slowly in the forest. The activity of elemental particles is also one or two frequencies higher than those outside the forest!
"Chip, let's collect environmental data in the Black Forest!" Greem thought for a while, and couldn't help giving the chip an order.
"Drip, the task has been established... Environmental data is being collected continuously..."
Seriously speaking, the area occupied by the Black Forest of the Wizarding Continent is as high as 60%, while the living space occupied by the Sandi Tower Forest and the three major wizarding organizations is only 40% of the total area of the Wizarding Continent.
This also means that there are still many undeveloped lands in the Wizarding Continent, and it is these endless black forests and vast wild grasslands that hinder human beings from moving forward.
With the huge size of the wizarding world and the almost perfect high-magic environment, in the black forest and wild grassland that occupy 60% of the area, even if only one-thousandth of the creatures are infected with magical creatures, the resulting terrifying amount is already Enough to discourage ordinary wizards.
Therefore, if the wizards want to expand the boundaries of their territories, they need to continue to penetrate deep into the Black Forest.
Cut down trees, level roads, build settlements, erect wizard towers to guard them...
Such a colonization process has never been smooth sailing!
Every step the human living area extends into the black forest will attract powerful counterattacks from powerful jungle creatures, terrifying monsters, mutant monsters, and polluting creatures.
If it's just a sporadic attack of monsters and monsters, it's okay to say that at most it will only cause a small-scale loss of resources such as personnel and buildings. But if a large-scale monster group counterattacks, or if a powerful monster drives the beast tide, then the newly established settlement may fall.
In the history of the colonization of the Wizarding Continent, there have been countless large-scale raids by monsters in the Black Forest. Every time it happens, it means that thousands of ordinary people who have just moved into the settlements have become victims of the struggle between the two sides. In the entire newly colonized area, perhaps only the wizard tower can barely survive, and everything else will be razed to the ground.
Therefore, every step forward in the living space of human beings requires such complicated pulls many times, and it is possible to exhaust the patience and number of forest monsters, forcing them to transfer their territories to deeper forests.
Therefore, for a huge territory covering an area of hundreds of miles, from the beginning of colonization to the stable establishment of ordinary people living in it, it usually needs to go through many iterations, and it will take decades to be possible. In the process, it is very common to consume tens of thousands of people and the lives of wizards in double digits.
Therefore, every wizard who overcame obstacles and led his followers and slaves to snatch the living space from the Black Forest is a real strong enough to be remembered forever by the younger generation!
For ordinary people, the Black Forest represents mystery, evil and power, and even death!
But for wizards, this is the biggest treasure trove of resources!
Magical plants growing everywhere, a wide variety of jungle creatures, metal deposits with abundant resources, and mysterious and powerful monsters...
Many rare resources that have been extinct in the wizarding world can be found in the depths of the Black Forest.
So in addition to the conquest of the planes, small groups of wizards went deep into the black forest to explore ancient ruins and hunt monsters, which became the fastest and most convenient way for them to gather resources.
The preconditions required for plane conquest are too harsh, and not all wizards can meet them, so 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 dark forest in the distance.
Even with his eyesight, it is difficult to get 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 covered in black feathers. And the other party was staring at the huge eyes to monitor the movement around the forest, and made strange cuckoo noises at the convoy from time to time.
"That's the owl kept by the trainee witches." Alice moved to Greem's side and looked at it boredly by the window sill. "It's just some harmless small animals that can serve as their eyes."
"Why not choose a more powerful small monster?" Greem asked suspiciously.
"Cut..." Alice couldn't help but rolled her eyes: "Do you think everyone is like you and never worries about magic crystals? They are poor and can't afford to buy or raise those monsters!"
"What's the good of keeping them?"
"Usually serving as eyes and ears is a good flying sentinel. Moreover, owls that have cast spells can also have a weak talent to see through invisibility, so they are most suitable as guards. Of course, more importantly, raising them is not very important for the mental strength of apprentice witches." huge pressure."
"Then what kind of pets do witches generally have?"
"The most used ones are black cats, flower snakes, and red bat crows. Black cats can bring stealth and agility bonuses to the host, flower snakes have infrared sensing, red bats can add lightness and sonic positioning, and crows have Darkvision... 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've always wanted to catch a hellhound, but unfortunately I never succeeded!"
"Hellhound?" Hearing this name, a strange abyssal creature with a shape resembling a porcupine and covered with black and red hard and thick skin automatically appeared in Greem's mind.
This kind of abyssal creature, which can be called extremely ugly in all aspects, is actually the first choice for Alice's dream pet, which makes Greem feel speechless.
"Why?" Greem couldn't help asking.
"Therefore, a witch once captured a hellhound as a magic pet, and gained the ability of 'spell blockade' since then. Moreover, the hellhound can also provide spiritual power bonuses to the host. It is simply the best magic pet." Ai Li Si immediately started talking with glaring eyes.
"But don't you think hellhounds are ugly and ugly? And as far as I know, they are very smelly, full of the peculiar stench of the abyssal creatures in the lower realm!"
"Does it really stink?" Alice's complexion changed, and she asked Greem cautiously. When she got an affirmative answer, she couldn't help holding her small face and frowning: "Then I peeled off its skin and put spices on my body, so it should be able to cover its stink, right?"
Greem gasped, and couldn't help but began to worry about Alice's future pet.
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The convoy moved slowly in the Black Forest.
When they left Ibeth City for more than 30 miles, small animals could already be seen in the dark forest along the way.
However, there were alien mercenaries chasing them away, 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 can't be said to be full of people, more than a dozen caravans are constantly shuttling back and forth, and they have almost driven away the dangerous monsters nearby. If the remaining ordinary beasts dared to approach the convoy, they would instead become delicacies for the mercenaries to beat their teeth.
On the way, the 'sentry' sent out by the apprentice witches was simply the busiest group.
They spread their wings and fly in the dense forest that is difficult for humans to pass through, avoiding those 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 or so mercenaries, and pick back the rare plants found in the shortest possible time. And this will undoubtedly bring them a lot of income.
Of course, sometimes there will be ferocious monsters near the rare plants found, and this is the time for the witches in the convoy to come out.
Halfway gains like this are not included in the accounts of the caravan, but belong to the private spoils of the witches. After such a trip, the personal gains of each witch in the caravan even far exceeded the rewards given by the caravan. That's why these women are so interested in this treasure hunting game and are so excited.
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 a small area within ten or twenty miles on both sides of the forest road. No matter how far away the area is, even if they find it, they don't have enough time to harvest it.
And in such an area, after years of repeated searches, the resources of some value have almost been harvested. So several witches in the convoy simply gave up this mentally draining 'game', and handed them over to the trainee witches who came out to practice.
For these 'poor' apprentices who are not eligible to enjoy family offerings, even if it's just some 'mosquito meat' that Mrs. Witch despises, it is enough to make them full, so they are more and more happy with it!
So, in this seemingly slow, but actually extremely fast forward movement, the convoy came to the first campsite in the long journey.
And at this time, the time was no more than noon!