The bivouac was a glade off the trail.
It can be seen from the traces on the ground that there are caravans staying here all the year round, so the simple wooden houses and the firepit for cooking are all ready-made.
Unfortunately, due to the lack of resident management, the facilities here are often damaged and invaded by jungle beasts.
Since it is only a temporary nap, the team cannot stay here for a long time.
From setting up camp to preparing lunch and leaving after eating, it took no more than an hour at best, and the reason for this was just to take care of the ordinary people who accounted for most of the convoy.
And taking advantage of the short time for everyone to rest for lunch, those apprentice witches can take the opportunity to explore some further regions.
In the depths of the black forest, if they were lucky, they could occasionally find some wild resource points. There are usually places where magical energy naturally gathers, so some wizard resources grow there.
After a long period of exploration, witches of any family may find such a wild resource point, and then try to hide it. In this way, they only need to run at regular intervals to harvest once.
And such a harvest is also a considerable amount of resources for the witch!
So while the ordinary handyman driving the cart was busy with lunch, witches and apprentices in twos and threes got on their brooms and went into the depths of the Black Forest.
Greem and the others are not familiar with the terrain here, and once they go too deep into the Black Forest, it is easy to lose their way. If it takes more than an hour to turn back in time, the caravan will not stop and wait for them. Therefore, passing wizards like Greem can only look at the resource-rich Black Forest and sigh secretly, but they cannot hunt for treasure and explore inside like witches.
However, with their strength, there is no problem in doing simple activities within three to five miles around the camp.
And Greem did the same.
...
In the dense dark forest.
There are wild vines and shrubs all over the place, together with the gnarled tree roots that drilled out of the ground, as well as the grass, moss, dead branches and leaves and all kinds of strange flowers that cannot be named, covering the entire forest glade. Everything fills the entire forest clearing tightly, and it may be difficult for ordinary people to walk through it.
As Greem walked forward slowly, his blue pupils flickered, scanning the surrounding plants carefully and meticulously.
In many cases, there is only a very small space for people to walk through the chaotically growing shrubs, and the horizontal branches and thorns can easily scratch the soft and light cloth robe. Therefore, in such a region, you can avoid embarrassing yourself by wearing a thick and dense traveler's cloak.
Under Greem's elemental vision, the unique gloom and blackness of the surrounding Black Forest are gradually fading, revealing some different colors one after another.
A large canopy of shrubs blocked the way, and the space in it was so narrow that only one person could pass sideways.
Greem's blue pupils slowly swept across, and he smiled faintly.
When he stepped forward again, a faint red enchantment appeared beside him.
The range covered by the enchantment is not large, only two or three steps away, but its power is really not small.
All the plants that touch the flame barrier will instantly be incinerated into ashes with a bang, and as Greem continues to move forward, a road of ashes suddenly emerges from the dense plant bushes. And in the scorched black ashes, the blood-red vines twisted and curled up crazily, lashing the ground and everything around them forcefully.
Some blood vines retreated in time, curling back into the surrounding bushes to hide themselves again; while some blood vines struggled for a while, finally unable to withstand the burning of the flame barrier, and eventually turned into fly ash like the surrounding vegetation .
Greem's arrival seemed to have sounded the death knell of the enchanted plants, and for a while there were rustling noises from the bushes in front of him.
Countless vampire vines, piranhas, and poisonous roses hidden in the bushes after camouflage swayed their short, short, forked lower limbs, and staggered away from Greem's path.
The bushes in front of him seemed to be shouting 'Open the Sesame'. Amidst a strange creaking sound, Greem cleared an unobstructed path. And countless withered yellow vines hanging from the top of the tall trees also began to curl up and wriggle like snakes, and slowly retracted their tentacles.
It was as peaceful as usual here just now, and it seemed as safe and peaceful as a beautiful and warm grove behind the house, where people could go to explore after eating and drinking. However, when they were forced by Greem to remove their disguise, they instantly turned into a magical forest where demons danced wildly.
Of course, the scene in front of you is actually the most real side of the Black Forest, and the tranquility just now is just an illusion presented to the prey by the demonized plants hiding their fangs and tentacles.
Greem grabbed a rapidly retracting blood vine, and in the middle of its long vine, a fist-sized tumor-like protrusion was extremely eye-catching.
As if sensing Greem's malice, the blood vine violently twisted and trembled in his palm, but as the bright red fire elements quickly gathered, the bright flame instantly ignited it all.
Elemental flames come and go quickly.
After the flames were extinguished, the snake-like blood vine just now had been incinerated into ashes, leaving only a thumb-sized light red crystal in Greem's palm.
blood crystal!
A very good crystal that can be used to replenish one's own blood energy.
I remember that in the magic swamp, as an apprentice, he regularly needed to pick the blood sacs that grew from the vampire vine. And that kind of blood sac is more than one or two grades worse than the blood crystal in front of him!
In the magic swamp, the vampire vines could hardly find much fresh and powerful blood food, so the quality of the blood sacs produced was also extremely poor. How can it be compared with the blood crystal in the hand at this moment.
If Greem was still an apprentice, this blood crystal could at least bring him a 0.8-1.1 increase in physical fitness. But now...
Greem threw the blood crystal into his mouth and bit it lightly, a sweet mucus with a strong green fragrance poured into his stomach along the esophagus, making him very warm and comfortable. And in the prompt of the chip, his qi and blood were slowly swelled, almost reaching the state of overflowing.
That's it!
A blood crystal that can increase the physique of a wizard apprentice by 1 point can only replenish his vitality, other than that, the other effects are almost useless! After all, after becoming a wizard, their physique has been specially tempered, and most of the resources and materials during the apprenticeship period have no effect on them.
Although it is impossible to improve the physique, if you eat it as a kind of 'snack', it is quite good for the auxiliary meaning of the body.
After thinking about this, Greem simply strolled casually in this black forest with his hands behind his back. With the help of powerful elemental vision, in the black forest, anything showing abnormal colors in the spectrum of elements will attract his attention.
The blood crystals bred in the vampire vine are light red; the rhizomes and thorny tentacles of the human-shaped piranha are light blue; the leaves of the poisonous rose are purple; the juice of the magic grass is milky white...
It was the first time Greem saw such a wealth of monster resources, and he became a little flustered for a while.
For a while, he followed the long tentacles of the vampire vine to find its body hidden in the tall ancient tree, for a while he chased after the piranha, which was twisting its small waist and trying to escape, and for a while, it ignored the magic spirit grass. squeaking, uprooting them from the bushes...
The wicked have their own grind!
The enchanted plants, which have always existed as hidden hunters, have encountered a real enemy today.
They don't have the flexible and vigorous body of demonized animals, so facing the vicious Greem, they can only dodge and hide themselves desperately. It's a pity that the short and clumsy forked lower limbs make their escape a joke, and hiding... What kind of camouflage can escape Greem's elemental vision
So, in less than an hour, this vast and half-mile-deep enchanted plant-enriched area suffered a catastrophe, and it was almost wiped out by Greem's three-foot-digging barbaric picking!
Straightening up and calculating the time, Greem looked regretfully at the nearby jungle. There, in the pitch-black gloom, every flickering dot of fluorescent light is a target worth exploring.
Unfortunately, he ran out of time!
When Greem returned to the camp along the original road, the witches and apprentices who had gone out had already returned one after another. And the ordinary handyman who drove the car had finished eating and drinking, and after a brief rest, the team continued to move forward.
In the creaking carriage, Greem opened the package in his hand, and showed Alice the results of his hard work just now.
However, instead of the expected compliments and surprises, he received unexpected questions and blank stares.
"What? How did you do it? Haven't you learned any knowledge of herbal medicine? Why are there only blood crystals, but no vampiric vine body? Don't you know the 3-meter-long body of the vampire vine? Is it more precious than blood crystals?... "
"What is this... Could it be the rhizome of the piranha?... Don't tell me, you met a human-shaped piranha! Many wizards are willing to pay 40 magic crystals to buy this kind of magical plant... You won't buy them all Is it burnt?"
"Also... why are all the devil grasses incomplete? Didn't you know to keep their rhizomes intact when you picked the devil grass?... Such incomplete devil grass will greatly reduce their value..."
Listening to Alice's nagging like a magic voice, the corners of Greem's mouth twitched, and for the first time, he felt sad for his ignorance in herbal medicine.
Damn, isn't it just picking some magic materials? How could it be so troublesome!
Greem's face immediately became ugly.