Walking forward from the snow line that has not yet melted, away from the area where Muri usually moves, there is an area with more special landforms, where the largest variety of large and small magical beasts live in the polar regions. The number of low-level magical beasts is the largest, and there are also a small number of mid-level magical beasts.
During the coldest time of winter, the monsters that fled to human activity areas due to tidal disturbances returned to the polar regions after the tides ended and the temperature rose more than a month ago.
Since Muri came back to the lighthouse as an adult, Meili has rarely seen traces of monsters. She guessed that they were all killed in the winter confrontation with humans. After listening to Muri's explanation, she realized that most of them are now in another area that is more suitable for survival.
During this season, they need to gather together to reproduce, so they will disperse and return to their previous homes after a period of time.
It was a pity that Meili didn't see the purple tide that marked the end of winter more than a month ago. But the tide at the end was silent and extremely short-lived, spreading a strip of light in the sky before disappearing without a trace.
Without the vibration reminder of the monsters running wildly when the tide began, Mary, who was still asleep at the time, naturally missed it.
Muri should have been very sensitive to these things, but he had just gotten used to being a human being. He lay there sleeping in the form of a human. There was no danger around him, only a special fragrance from Mary's body. He accidentally fell into a deep sleep and did not react, so the tide passed.
He was very upset, but Mary comforted him, saying that she would still have a chance to see it after the winter.
In order to compensate her for not being able to see the tide she wanted to see, Murri took her to the tundra to see flowers, and they stayed there for so many days without even returning to the lighthouse.
This time, because their lighthouse was flooded, he took her to that special place where many monsters gathered.
This is the outer edge of the polar region, so of course the ice and snow have melted, except for the snow-capped mountains. At the foot of the mountains are basins of different sizes. Because these basins are surrounded by snow-capped mountains, they block the cold wind from the north, and the temperature is higher than that of places further out.
Such a warm and humid place gave birth to more plants and animals.
Meili was also very surprised when she saw the coniferous forest growing in the basin. She had been in the polar regions for so long, but she had hardly seen any forests there. It had been a long time since she had seen such rich and lush green.
Some of the snow on the snowy mountains melted and meandered into the nearby basins, gathering into lakes. The places where the water flowed were moistened by the snow, and flowers like those on the tundra outside grew there. Various colors were painted here wantonly, creating endless liveliness.
Although this place is beautiful, it is not very peaceful because there are too many monsters living nearby.
Before Mary had time to take a closer look at the coniferous forest, she saw two magical beasts running out of the forest, biting and fighting each other, with blood and flesh flying all over their bodies, looking extremely crazy and ferocious.
Murray took her to stand above the basin, looked for a while and said, "They are competing for the right to reproduce with the females."
Before the two monsters finished fighting, a monster larger than them ran out from the woods and bit and ate the two male monsters, who were both injured.
Meili was shocked: "What kind of monster is this monster that looks different?"
Murray: "This is the female they are fighting for. Sometimes female monsters don't like their suitors and will eat them."
Mary felt that her eyes had been opened. She had never known that such a thing could happen.
"Are we going to the woods? There seem to be a lot of monsters there. It must be dangerous."
Murray was puzzled and said the truth, "I went there, and they are the ones in danger."
Meili kept silent and followed him, slowly walking into the basin and approaching the coniferous forest.
There were only a few skeletons left at the place where the two beasts had fought. After the female beast had eaten most of them, the remaining corpses were snatched up by many small magical beasts who were hiding somewhere.
When Mary saw that scene, she realized how dangerous this seemingly beautiful place was.
But she walked beside the powerful big bear and encountered no danger along the way, and walked safely into the coniferous forest.
The woods here are very different from the woods outside. There are almost only one or two kinds of trees inside, all of which are coniferous trees with slender and hard leaves. There are sparsely growing half-human-high shrubs under the trees, and there are only one or two kinds of them. There are mosses and ferns underfoot, with a simple structure.
In some places in the woods, trees were broken and collapsed, and the ground was trampled, obviously by large monsters. Even Muri, who maintained his big bear appearance, entered the woods, and the sound of trees breaking was heard everywhere he passed.
Mary walked on his chest, with his big head leading the way, so they walked smoothly, but the path he opened was too big.
Meili asked him, "Can you turn into a human?"
Stop destroying these rare trees that grow in the polar regions.
Muri preferred to accompany her in the form of a big bear because she would feel more relaxed that way, but since she asked so, he had no objection.
The big white bear disappeared, and the tall man with black skin and white hair stood up from where he was. He stepped on the green moss with bare feet, open and honest.
Mary immediately took out his clothes from her bag and gave them to him, because he was a bear that could transform and couldn't bring his own clothes, so she had learned to carry clothes for him.
Otherwise, Murri would definitely not feel embarrassed, only she would be affected and unable to control the color on her face.
After getting dressed, Murray still let Meili walk in front of him, only one or two steps away from her. At this distance, he could reach out and push aside the branches blocking Meili's way. Unfortunately, there was not much need for him to clear the way in this sparse coniferous forest.
Meli took a bow and arrow and wanted to hunt some small animals. Just as she saw a shadow picking up the bow and arrow, Muri broke a branch above his head with a snap, and the small monster ran away immediately.
She saw a small monster eating something under the roots of a tree. Just as she was about to raise her bow and arrow, Muri kicked away a dead tree that was blocking her way.
Mary, who had lost her hiding place and was suddenly exposed, watched helplessly as yet another prey ran away in fear.
Meili: “…”
Murray looked puzzled: "Why are you looking at me like that?"
Meili stretched out her hand to him, and Murray followed her lead and stretched out his hand, only to see her suddenly slap his palm without any reason.
The big bear, with a face full of questions, was thinking about what this meant, and finally he stopped making trouble inadvertently, so Mary was able to seriously use her archery skills in the coniferous forest.
She was very adapted to hunting in the forest, and was more comfortable with it than on the snowfields and tundra. Her first arrow hit a calf-high monster.
However, the vitality of the monster was much stronger than that of a wild beast. Not only did it not fall down after being hit by an arrow, but it also fled quickly with the arrow stuck in its body.
Seeing that it was about to escape with the arrow, Murray picked up Meili and rushed out. After he turned into a human form, his strength did not decrease, and he became more agile. He jumped onto a half-man-high rock in one step, crossed a two-meter-long puddle, and kicked down a tree, leaving the monster that tried to hide in the tree hole with nowhere to hide.
Mary watched him skillfully dig the monster out of the tree hole and found that the way he grabbed herself was exactly the same as the way he grabbed his prey.
Murray put Meili down and pulled out the arrow stuck in the monster. "It was almost impossible to find this arrow."
As he said this, he threw the still struggling monster aside and let it run away. He just wiped the arrow clean and handed it back to her.
Mary has always taken good care of her bow and arrows, especially the arrows, as each one is used up and no arrow can be wasted. Murray has almost developed the habit of picking up an arrow for her after he sees her shoot it.
The food that I was going to eat later ran away.
Mary had a complicated expression: "We've already caught it, why do you only take back the arrow and let it go? Is there something special about that monster?" Is it poisonous and can't be eaten
Murri then realized, "You want to eat it?" He thought she was playing with a bow and arrow in the forest, just like she was on the tundra.
In this case, Murray picked up Meili again and caught the unfortunate monster for the second time in a few moves. He also said to her comfortingly: "It doesn't matter if it runs away, we can catch it easily."
Mary choked, looked at her bow and arrow in frustration, but soon cheered up again.
It doesn’t matter. Although Muri is very good, she will become more and more powerful in the future.
First, she had to eat to make herself stronger.
The two men built a fire in the forest and roasted meat. The burning wet leaves produced white smoke, which made a sleeping monster nearby raise its head and sneeze.
Meili looked up and saw the head of the giant beast appear above the woods. This was the largest monster she had ever seen, and it suddenly appeared so close without any preparation. She was so scared that her hands shook and the food fell into the fire.
Murray reached out and fished out the burnt meat from the fire. Seeing that she was scared, he stood up and sat behind her. He put his long legs beside her and rested his chin on her head and said, "It's a monster that eats rotten leaves. It doesn't eat humans."
"Although it has a lot of meat, it's not tasty at all. The meat also smells like rotten leaves." Murri said, with an expression as if he was recalling bad memories.
As soon as Mary heard it, she knew that he must have eaten.
Muri has grown up to this age. He has caught all kinds of monsters as long as he can find them, and he dares to eat anything.
In this forest, wherever a giant monster dies, new trees that grow there will be exceptionally lush and strong, and the soil will give birth to more life.
Mary filled her stomach and saw several kinds of magical beasts that she had never seen before.
One of them had a skin as hard as stone. It passed by nearby, took one look at Murray, then turned around and ran away.
There was a creature lying on the ground with all four limbs, a long tail, and agile movements. Before Mary could see what it looked like, it disappeared.
—The aura of the adult high-level Warcraft on Muri's body was radiating in the air without any concealment, clearly showing the meaning of expulsion.
Meili could not sense the presence of the demonic beast claiming territory like this, but she knew that as long as Muri was there, the surroundings were safe.
"Do you want to live here? We can build the kind of house you mentioned." Muri began to think about driving away the monsters that were dangerous to Mary.
Meili shook her head. "Let's just stay here for a few days and then leave. I want to see more places."
If she doesn't walk more now, she won't be able to go out often when the coldest winter comes. She cherishes the opportunity now.
While Meli and Muri were staying in the coniferous forest, a group of knights left the border of the human settlement and headed for the poles to begin their annual summer hunt.
For them, this is a way to hone their own practice and also an opportunity to accumulate wealth.
"I heard that you met a hybrid of a monster and a human before? What did he look like?"
"I didn't see it with my own eyes either. The knight who saw it with his own eyes is still lying in bed recovering from his injuries."
"This is very interesting. I really want to meet that hybrid monster if I have the chance."
"That's not that difficult. I'll catch it and put it in a cage for everyone to see carefully."
A group of young knights, who had just experienced the winter monster tide and killed many low-level monsters, were in high spirits. Chatting and laughing, they divided into several small teams and dispersed in the polar region, each going in a different direction.