black forest.
This is a terrible name full of many taboos in the Wizarding Continent.
For most common people, it's a name that signifies death and chaos. If you look at the development history of the Wizarding Continent, you will find countless tragic examples.
In the year 13179 of the Wizarding Calendar, in a small human mountain village on the western border of the Sandi Tallinn area, more than 120 people in the village disappeared overnight. According to the wizard's investigation, traces of the mind flayer's activities were found in the village...
In the year 17281 of the Wizarding Calendar, a newly formed human settlement in the Nalan area of the witch territory of the North was attacked by a wave of beasts. In three days, more than 20,000 people died, and countless people were disabled and missing...
In the year 22765 of the Wizarding Calendar, after forming the 17th Constructed Legion, the Silver Alliance expanded into the depths of the Black Forest, and suffered a terrible counterattack by monsters, causing heavy casualties...
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Looking through these histories, all human beings will have a natural sense of awe towards the Black Forest.
This is not only their inexhaustible treasure house of resources, but also the source of turmoil where terrifying monsters gather.
This kind of life living next to the monsters is worrying day and night, not only worrying about the sudden outbreak of a large-scale beast tide, but also worrying about those terrifying monsters rushing out of the forest... People who have never experienced this kind of life are fundamentally unimaginable.
So the people of Songta Town were almost stuck here, not daring to take half a step out of the thick wall. Even if you go to the nearby forests to collect some firewood during the day, you need to act together in groups. And the residents in the small town lived for no more than five years at the longest.
As for the old residents who came to Songta Town in the early days, they have been swallowed up by the surrounding forest one after another.
Among the outsiders who gathered in Songta Town, the largest number were mercenaries and adventurers who came to make a living, and some wizard apprentices who came to find materials.
They were hired, and frequently haunted the nearby forests for some gold coins and magic crystals. Or to find a special enchanted plant, or to capture a delicious meaty monster, or to explore a certain area... In short, the spoils they exchanged for their blood and life will eventually appear in a certain place. A wizard's lab bench or dining table.
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Early in the morning, the team set off.
Parting from the pre-dawn mist, passing through the narrow village gate of Songta Town, everyone wrapped in thick cloaks and cloaks, silently entered the mountain forest.
When entering the forest for the first time, it is obvious that this place belongs to the normal forest category.
Between a lush and vast sea of trees, a huge yellow-brown cliff stands quietly. Like a proud king inspecting his subjects, the cliff is located alone in the depths of the green sea of trees, with wisps of white clouds floating around.
The top of the cliff is flat and covered with dark brown moss.
The breeze blows, the sea of forest is choppy, and there are bursts of rushing sounds, and a group of blue birds fly up from the woods and soar towards the distance.
Walking through this kind of forest sea, the eyes are full of emerald greenery, green flowers, green grass, green vines and gray trunks...
Vitality, a thin burst of vitality is refreshing!
In the quiet and dark jungle, the light is not bright, and there are branches and vines and shrubs growing randomly everywhere. If you want to walk through such a jungle, it is almost impossible to walk without a 'guide' who is familiar with the terrain.
Lowe, who was hired as a sword and shield warrior, has now temporarily changed his job to a scavenger. With a round shield on his back, he wields a sharp hatchet to cut off the vines and thorns that get in the way, and barely clears a path in the forest that can be used by others. The 'passage' through which people walk sideways is moving forward step by step with difficulty.
Walking in the primeval forest, the soft and delicate cloth robes that wizards usually like to wear become inappropriate. Overhanging branches and thorny thorns can easily tear their clothes. Therefore, even wizards and apprentices who don't need to do anything can only put a thick and dense cloak or cape on the outside of the cloth robe, so as to avoid the feet of the robe from being hung and falling all over the face.
Moreover, these wizards who usually hide in tall witch towers and well-protected laboratories do not have the usual arrogance and mysterious wisdom. Even an ordinary gentle slope may become a huge problem blocking their progress.
Someone on the top threw down the rattan and pulled it upwards, and someone on the bottom pushed the waist, limbs and buttocks upwards. Only the Gegewu wizard who lacks physical exercise on weekdays can climb these rocks or low cliffs less than two or three meters with difficulty.
On the contrary, Greem, who was also a wizard, showed a strong physique not weaker than Lowe's. Not only trekking through mountains and rivers is like walking on flat ground, but even ordinary low cliffs can learn how the third-level thief Rhodes did, grabbing the rattan and pedaling up.
This made Gargamel stare at his burly figure and drool more than once!
To be honest, any wizard who has just advanced has a strong physique like a warrior, an agile figure like a thief version, and quick reactions like an archer. However, due to years of lack of exercise, coupled with the erosion of a large amount of poisonous and harmful witchcraft materials, there are only a handful of wizards who can maintain this physical advantage.
So seeing Greem's amazing physical fitness, Gargamel not only didn't think it was different, but showed a pensive look from time to time.
Once upon a time, he also had such an excellent body!
At that time, he could still sing and sing every night, and he could also kill every day... Unfortunately, with the passage of time and the erosion of witchcraft energy, all of this has become a thing of the past. And now he is just a bad old man who is not much better-looking than Li Gui!
However, his powerful witchcraft power makes him still a terrifying wizard who makes the world feel awed. Once you let go of your hands and feet and give full play to your strengths, killing a small town of Songta is just a snap of your fingers.
It's a pity that such power can't be played in the black forest!
In the way of a wizard, just summoning some flying servants can avoid this annoying and troublesome jungle trip, and then soar over the black forest to your heart's content.
But it is good to think about such an idea, but it cannot be put into practice, otherwise the end will definitely be miserable!
The idea of using means to fly over the Black Forest is really good, but how to locate it has become the biggest problem.
Fools who have never taken to the sky will never know the pain of getting lost.
Flying above the blue sky, with rolling forests and mountains under your feet, you may be able to identify the direction, but finding your destination has become an impossible task. The Black Forest stretches for tens of thousands of miles, or hundreds of thousands of miles. It is simply a joke to find markers in a forest sea that fluctuates with the wind to confirm the location.
The unique high-magic environment in the Black Forest also makes many detection or prophecy-type witchcraft seem specious. The prophecy magic wand is not easy to use here, and many times it will even take you directly to the lair of some horrible monsters among.
And flying in the sky is so cool, it is easy to become the target of powerful monsters.
The monsters in the black forest all have a strong sense of territory. If you sneak past the edge of its territory quietly, it won't be able to perceive it. But if you want to kill yourself, you have to fly over people's heads...
Decorate their caves with your dead bones, that may be the only end for you!
The ten-mile mountain forest ahead is just a small trial for the subsequent difficult journey.
As they deepened step by step, the green in the forest gradually became darker and darker. As soon as the ten-mile border crosses, you can see another strange world that is different from before.
Looking up, the sky above the Black Forest is full of black canopies covering the sky, like a night sky full of stars.
Layers of black leaves covered the clear sky outside, forming the deepest and darkest night. And what flickered was the light blue fluorescence like fireflies that could be seen everywhere in the forest. It is them that have added a strange beauty to the 'night sky' here.
In addition to such a beautiful 'night sky' scenery, the environment of the Black Forest is also particularly elegant.
The forest is filled with fragrant flowers, and the ground in the entire forest is covered with ankle-length green grass, stepping on it is like stepping on a fine velvet carpet, so soft that one wants to lie down and roll on it.
To be honest, each Black Forest has a completely different style and tone.
If it is said that the Black Forest that he passed through before going to the North was full of gloom, darkness and chaos, then the Black Forest in front of him is full of magic, weirdness and beauty.
Greem and his party seemed to have suddenly broken into a magical forest, filled with magic power everywhere, full of beauty and magnificence.
Many of the people present were seeing such a fantastic and beautiful scenery for the first time, and they were stunned for a while. And Luo Wei, who haunted here all the year round, straightened up, wiped off the sweat from their foreheads, and enjoyed the bizarre beauty here with ease.
Greem, on the other hand, silently scanned everything in front of him, and what the elemental vision presented was another completely different world.
In the dark jungle, strands and wisps of magical energy flowed.
As inexhaustible magic nourishment, they nourish and strengthen the world in front of them bit by bit.
In Greem's vision, every plant, every tree, every flower and every bird here is filled with elemental particles representing magical energy.
The red one is fire, the blue one is wind, the brown one is earth, the green one is wood, the blue one is water, and the purple one is soul... Layer by layer, piece by piece, piles, the rich magical energy engulfs the entire forest. Soaked in the magic ocean.
In such an environment, as long as it is not an ignorant stone, it is possible to breed enough spiritual wisdom and give birth to an intelligent life that is comparable to a wizard...
The Black Forest, seriously, should be called the Enchanted Forest!