A few days later in the morning, Gray flapped his blue-black wings and flew away from Fergus Castle.
"Gray Fergus has left Fergus Castle. Hurry, report to the family!"
In the city of Fergus, the hidden spies of the Nahum family began to move. News of Gray's departure from Fergus Castle spread to the Nahum family through multiple channels.
Flying at a low altitude, Gray entered the Iron Stone Forest one day later after purchasing some outdoor camping supplies in a small town.
The Iron Stone Forest is one of several large forests in the Ziyue Kingdom. The forest is famous for its abundance of iron stones.
This kind of iron stone is extremely hard, almost as hard as steel. It is a high-end building material as famous as bronze stone and is extremely favored by large noble families.
Because it is easily attacked by blood beasts, the mining of this kind of iron stone is extremely dangerous, and coupled with the difficulty of transportation, the price of this kind of iron stone on the market is extremely high. Even so, many big families still flock to it.
"Lord Barnett, Gray Fergus left the Fergus family and entered the Iron Stone Forest."
As a ducal family, the Nahum family has spies in many places, and this time in order to monitor Gray, the Nahum family has spies in Fergus City as the center and around.
Gray's low-altitude flight provided convenience to the Nahum family. Gray's figure was spotted from time to time, and soon the news of Gray's entry into the Iron Stone Forest reached the Nahum family.
"Iron Stone Forest?"
Upon hearing where Gray was, Barnet Nahum stood up with a sneer on his lips.
The Iron Stone Forest is a forest with not dense vegetation. In the forest, you can see some bare stone mountains from time to time. Some stone mountains even have traces of mining, which are traces of the iron and stone mining in the past.
After entering the Iron Stone Forest, Gray went deeper and finally arrived near a huge stone mountain deep in the Iron Stone Forest.
There is no vegetation around the stone mountain. If you look down from the sky, nothing on the ground will be visible.
There are several huge artificial caves around the stone mountain, which are traces of iron and stone mining in the past.
After arriving here, Gray began to hunt blood beasts with this stone mountain as the center.
In the past six months, Gray has basically not gone out much, and has almost consumed all his meat. He can just take this opportunity to hunt some blood beasts and replenish his "inventory".
After some searching, Gray found his target.
On a piece of grass, an eight-meter-long blood beast ate grass leisurely.
The hair on its body is blue-black and very fluffy. Its body looks extremely bloated, and its torso is like an inflated balloon.
It has a head like a sheep, with two curved sharp horns on its head, and four legs with hooves, which is slightly slender compared to its body shape.
This is the desolate level blood beast Hurricane Sheep. It is not a special blood beast, but just an ordinary blood beast. It can be said to be the weakest type among the desolate level.
According to custom, the four kingdoms like to call those who practice special blood methods and enter the Desolate level for the first time as the first level of the Desolate level, but in fact, strictly speaking, they should be called the second level of the Desolate level, because before this, There is also a weaker level, which is the ordinary level of wild-level blood beasts.
If we start from the lowest level, there are a total of 4 levels at the Huang level, and it takes a total of three transformations to become the King level.
It's just that people who can practice to the wild level cannot be bad at blood magic, and it is almost impossible to practice ordinary blood magic. Over time, this level is automatically ignored.
"Although mutton has a smell, if it is processed well, it will be very delicious."
With Gray's current strength, it wouldn't be too difficult to kill an ordinary-level blood beast.
Uh-huh!
A wind blade more than 10 meters long shot out from in front of him, slashing at the hurricane sheep. The hurricane sheep fled in fear, but before he could avoid it, he was already slashed by the wind blade.
puff!
The huge body was almost split in half and he died on the spot. Gray skillfully stepped forward to collect the blood and put the hurricane sheep into the purple ring.
Two days later, Gray appeared more than 10 miles south of Stone Mountain.
Here, you can see stone mountains everywhere, and the ground is also made of stone. The color of the stone is dark red, as if it were dyed red by blood.
Sparse plants grow out from between the cracks in the rocks. They are all extremely tenacious plants. Plants that are too delicate cannot survive here at all.
"That is… ?"
On the cliff of a rocky mountain, a plant caught Gray's attention.
This is a plant that looks like an old tree root. Its whole body is dark red in color. Its trunk is winding and strong like a dragon. The old skin on its surface is like one piece after another of dragon scales.
"It's actually a blood dragon root."
Gray's face showed a hint of joy.
Blood Dragon Root is a very rare magical medicine. It is said that it can only grow in places soaked in the blood of dragon beasts above the king level.
Dragon beasts have a long lifespan, and the lifespan of dragon beasts above the king level can reach thousands of years. The blood dragon roots nourished by their blood have life-extending effects and are very cherished.
When Gray and the Red Wings mercenary group went to hunt the Corpse Hair Ape, they encountered it at a vendor in a town near the Thunder Mountains. However, it was not a real blood dragon root, but a mangrove root. rhizome.
But what is in front of me is obviously not a mangrove rhizome, but a real blood dragon root, because unlike the mangrove roots, it has a scale-like old skin on the surface.
Green-black wings grew out of his back, and Gray flew up the cliff and came close to the blood dragon root.
The blood dragon root grows in a crack in the stone. It has no leaves and only a trunk. It really looks like a tree root, so some people use mangrove roots to pass it off as the blood dragon root.
Gray stretched out his hands towards the blood dragon roots. The strength of his hands was now stronger than steel, so he did not need any tools at all to dig out the blood dragon roots from the rock.
hiss-
Suddenly, there was a weird sound, and an earth-yellow snake head actually sprang out from the rock wall, opened its huge mouth enough to swallow Gray whole, and bit him in one bite.
Generally speaking, the more precious the magic medicine is, the more powerful blood beasts will guard it. They will guard the magic medicine and swallow it when the time is right.
Blood dragon roots have the effect of extending life for humans, and the same is true for blood beasts. This giant snake used its earth escape ability to escape into the earth and rocks, so that Gray, who has infrared sensing ability, was unable to find the opponent hidden in the stone mountain. .
"snort-"
The giant snake that suddenly jumped out really startled Gray, but with Gray's current strength, even if it was a sneak attack, there were not many people who could sneak attack him.
The figure flying in the air moved slightly to one side, and Gray had already avoided the bite of the snake's head and appeared at the position of the giant snake's body.
puff!
The magic sword at the waist was unsheathed, wrapped in black mist, and became several meters long, cutting through the giant snake's trunk like tofu.
The giant snake's head fell off, its torso spurted blood, and half of its body was embedded in the rock, leaving only a feeble struggle.
Without asking for the snake's head, Gray collected the giant snake's trunk. Then Gray came to the blood dragon root, inserted his hands into the rock, and carefully dug out the blood dragon root.
"It's actually three feet long!"
Seeing the length of the blood dragon root in his hand, Gray's face became even more joyful.
Blood dragon roots grow extremely slowly. It takes a hundred years to grow about one foot in length. A three-foot-long blood dragon root takes almost 300 years. If used to extend life, it can extend life by fifty years.
Gray doesn't need it, after all, he is not far away from the king level now. Once he becomes a king level warrior, he will have a long lifespan of 300 years, and there is no need to consider these issues at all.
But everyone in the Fergus family is in need. Without Gray's talent, it is almost impossible for them to become kings in the future. To make them live longer, life-extending magic medicine is essential.
"Blood dragon root is really a good thing. I didn't expect there would be an unexpected harvest!"
Gray was about to put the blood dragon root into the purple ring. At this moment, an old voice sounded, and with the voice, an old man with an old face walked out with strong pressure.
The old man was Barnett Nahum. He looked at the blood dragon root in Gray's hand with burning eyes.
Having experienced the end of his life, his desire for life is far stronger than that of ordinary people. Although he has now become a king-level warrior and has a lifespan of nearly 300 years, he will never despise his lifespan.
A blood dragon root that can extend life span by 50 years is no less precious than evolutionary medicine in his eyes. He originally came here to kill Gray, but he didn't expect to get such an unexpected harvest.
"who are you?"
Calmly putting away the blood dragon root, Gray looked at the old man. Even if he felt the strong pressure from the old man, his expression did not change at all.
"Sure enough, he is worthy of being favored by the royal family. He can still be so calm under such circumstances!"
Barnett Nahum looked at Gray with interest. At this time, he was no longer as unshabby as before. His beard was neatly trimmed and tied into a pigtail.
He did not rush to attack Gray, nor did he make a sneak attack at the beginning. In his opinion, using his king-level strength to deal with a wild-blood warrior was completely easy, and using a sneak attack would really harm him. Prestige.
"It seems you are here to kill me?"
Gray was not in a hurry to take action, and looked at the old man with the same interest. Since he chose to lead the other party here, Gray had naturally made some preparations before. The other party was not in a hurry to take action, but it was just what he wanted.
"There are not many forces that have enmity with me. The only ones who would take action against me are probably the Nahum family. I am very curious, are you a member of the Nahum family or are you hired by the head of the Nahum family?"
"It seems that you still have some self-awareness, but if you knew it would be like this, you should not provoke my Nahum family. There are some families that you cannot afford to offend."
Barnet Nahum looked at Gray like a dead man.
(End of chapter)