After breakfast, the caravan continued to set off. At sunset in the afternoon, they did not stay overnight in the nearest village, but camped directly in the open air.
Yesterday's overnight stay in an uninhabited village had already frightened everyone in the caravan. Even in villages that were obviously inhabited, the caravan had no intention of staying overnight.
The caravan set up camp and prepared dinner. Gray left the carriage and walked toward the nearby mountains and forests.
He wanted to find a remote place to practice.
I didn't have time to practice last night because of the heavy rain, and this morning I didn't have enough sleep because of the ghost thing, so I didn't practice either.
Today in the carriage, he slept for several hours, and finally made up for the sleep he owed, and he began his routine blood magic practice.
Hooray!
As he practiced the blood method "Gust Wind", wind suddenly began to appear in the remote clearing in the forest that he had specifically found.
These winds swirled, blowing the surrounding leaves, and occasionally involved fallen leaves, forming an extremely small tornado in this clearing in the forest.
The hazy blue light gathered together and arranged in a regular pattern. A blue wolf went from blurry to clear, and finally became indistinguishable from the real storm wolf.
Gray was immersed in practice, and he seemed to have turned into a strong wind wolf that could control the strong wind, hunting, roaring, and growing...
More than 40 minutes later, the green storm wolf shattered, the green light disappeared, and Gray ended his training.
After wiping the sweat from his forehead, Gray returned to the caravan, preparing to take a bath and then hand over his clothes to the servants of the caravan for cleaning.
"This is… ?"
After walking for a few minutes, he suddenly discovered a strange light coming from a place in the forest.
With a slightly raised brow, Gray groped in that direction carefully. When he walked out from under a tree that blocked his view, his pupils suddenly shrank.
In an empty clearing in the forest, four "blood beasts" stood at a distance from each other.
Among them was a blood beast with a dark blue color all over its body, slender limbs, and a mysterious aura about its body.
There are huge blood beasts with double horns on their heads and bodies as thick as rocks.
It has a green body, its forelimbs are like two broadswords, and it looks like an enlarged version of a mantis-like blood beast.
There are also avian blood beasts that are covered in orange hair, have long legs, and long pointed beaks, and are of no apparent type.
"No, this is not a blood beast, but an external manifestation when practicing the blood method..."
However, Gray soon discovered that although these blood beasts looked extremely real, they were still somewhat different from real blood beasts and were not real blood beasts.
Because these blood beasts do not have the agility of real blood beasts, and they do not move at all in place, just like sculptures.
But this did not make Gray relieved, but made him even more shocked.
"Four fierce-blooded warriors or more."
He had already learned from Viscount Fergus that the phantom of the blood beast was formed on the outside during practice. This was a phenomenon that would only occur when fierce blood warriors or even beings above were practicing.
In other words, the four people here are at least as strong as fierce blood warriors, and may even be more than that.
"It's those four people..."
Because of the shadow of the blood beast, Gray could not see what the four people inside looked like, but it was not difficult for him to guess their identities.
Those who will appear nearby must be people from the caravan, and the caravan side can almost be ruled out.
After all, if there are four or more fierce blood warriors in the caravan, the caravan will never do such a small business that only earns a dozen gold coins in one trip.
If nothing else, if four people work together to surround and kill the blood beast, there is no problem at all.
Just kill one and you can earn thousands of gold coins, which is much more money than following a caravan.
Apart from the caravan, there is only one answer left, and that is the purple-haired girl Sophia.
"Although I felt that Sophia and the other four were not weak last night, I didn't expect them to be this strong."
When dealing with the ghost last night, he could clearly feel that the strength of the four people was not weak. Of course, to what extent, he did not feel it at the time. After all, the ghost moved slowly and did not need to move very fast.
"What is Sophia's identity?"
Among the four, the youngest Sophia is obviously the leader, and enjoying the following and protection of three at least fierce blood warriors, Sophia's identity is definitely not simple.
"Becoming a Vicious Blood Warrior at such a young age may even be more than a Vicious Blood Warrior. Sophia's talent is not simple..."
The reason why Gray is able to achieve his current strength at such a young age is because of his transformation ability. According to the original qualifications of this body, it would be problematic for Gray to become a mid-level blood warrior at this time.
But it is obviously impossible for Sophia to have this transformation ability, but she has grown to such an extent.
The large amount of training resources is the reason, but Sophia's own talent cannot be ruled out. Without the corresponding talent, it would never be possible to grow so fast.
To avoid being discovered by the four people and causing unnecessary conflicts, Gray retreated quietly.
Returning to the caravan, as expected, Sophia and the four were not in the caravan. Obviously, the four people in the woods were indeed Sophia and the four.
More than ten days later, a majestic city appeared in front of everyone.
The city wall is as tall and thick as a mountain, made of huge stones, and stretches to an endless distance, with no edges visible at all.
The huge city gate made of metal is thick and strong, more than ten meters high. When you come to the gate, you feel like you have entered the country of giants.
On the city wall, elite soldiers wearing black leather armor would patrol back and forth from time to time, and sometimes even bloody warriors in battle uniforms could be seen patrolling.
Oka City, the largest city in the territory of the Marquis of Oka, is a city with a population of one million.
Seeing this city, everyone in the caravan finally breathed a sigh of relief. The nerves that had been tense for more than ten days finally relaxed like a loosened bowstring.
After encountering the ghost, the caravan was extremely cautious and stayed camping instead of staying in a nearby village.
Everyone's nerves are like a taut bowstring, tense at any time, and they often wake up from their sleep with cold sweat on their heads.
Now it's finally better and we finally arrived at our destination.
It's just that many of them have the intention of leaving the caravan and doing other things. The unknown death is really too scary.
Although they had encountered robbers before, and some of their companions had been killed by the robbers' blades, the level of terror was far less terrifying than death possessed by a ghost.
"arrive!"
Looking out from the carriage window, Gray watched with interest the people and carriages that were busy coming in and out.
He has long been freed from the influence of ghost attacks. In the final analysis, ghosts are just a kind of "creature" that mutates into after death. Although this creature is special, it is not invincible. It just requires fire, thunder and lightning. special way.
Knowing how to kill, and the weapon in his hand happens to be the nemesis of this kind of ghost, he can easily kill it the next time he encounters it.
"finally reached!"
The woman in the orange battle suit breathed a sigh of relief.
"Yeah, it's finally here!"
The woman in the red battle suit also looked relieved.
Judging from the expressions on their faces, it seemed that they had not yet gotten rid of the influence of the ghost.
Although he is a powerful blood warrior, she is a woman after all, and her courage is far less than that of men. After encountering this unknown creature, the impact is far from being eliminated in a short time.
On the other hand, Sophia made Gray look at her differently. Even when faced with attacks from ghosts, she could still remain calm and recall the weaknesses of ghosts recorded in the book. This kind of calmness was rare given her age.
The caravan entered the city, and Gray and Sophia left the caravan and went their separate ways.
Gray was really curious about the identities of the four Sophia people, but of course that was all. He had no intention of exploring them because he felt it was a very dangerous move.
(End of chapter)