Burning Forest (3)
Ahead of the pack.
Winter, who was taking a step with her mother, the boss Yuhua Lin, thought.
‘He’s been targeting us precisely from the beginning.’
The guy is already aware of the fact that their group is here.
But you must never come face to face with him.
Because that moment will be the moment when the fate of death is confirmed.
The future is unknown, although all living things are the same.
One thing is certain. If you run into him, they have no future. They will be pursued and hunted to the end.
‘You must avoid it unconditionally. No matter what.’
He is a nightmare opponent that even her mother Yuhwarin couldn’t match.
It was hard to think that someone in the crowd would survive such an existence, winter or otherwise.
It was the same even if the whole group joined forces.
He is an unbeatable opponent.
‘The best thing is not to run into each other. But… It’s going to be difficult for a while. It’s more like a hopeful wish.’
Black Sun. An ominous disaster that devours light.
The ominous dark Phenix prescribes beings with a large amount of magical power as prey and eats them.
Of course, the means to find a being with magical power was a guy who had established itself as one of the functions of my body.
I don’t know how much that sense is.
It was obvious that it was far superior to Winter’s means of detecting magical power.
Because he was a being that wandered around in search of prey in units of gigantic land masses between continents.
The guy who came to this forest after targeting the pack of werewolves as prey from the beginning.
Of course, it’s almost impossible to calmly avoid such a guy without any accidents.
‘But I have prepared enough for me. All that remains is to finish the remaining preparations before he arrives.’
Flutter! Flutter!
Around winter, even at this moment, three books are floating in the air,
The pages of the book were turning one after another.
This is because his spell casting continues in real time.
These magic books Winter found were not ordinary records.
As a kind of magic instrument, it was a kind of storage tool used to store magic spells.
If you put it more simply, it would be nice to see it as a kind of cane.
The only difference from ordinary wizard wands was that these books had weak durability because they were paper wands with all sorts of spells written on them.
The three books he had were acquired from the ruined mage tower.
Of course, it wasn’t really valuable treasure.
Since most of those things were already wiped out a long time ago, they are relatively weak and insignificant.
‘But magic is magic. Much better than nothing At least it can be used as a storage tool for casting spells.’
I was able to store one Greater Spell in one volume of the book,
As long as the spell was saved, it was possible to cast a spell at any time and in an instant.
Of course, there was no way these books would get wet in the pouring rain.
For winter, who deals with water vapor, keeping a few books like this from getting wet was now as natural as breathing with your eyes closed.
[Kurrureu-…]
[Kreureung.]
A bunch of werewolves.
Now even they were following Yuhwarin and Winter with nervous expressions.
They are somewhat different from the first expressions when they were young with a lot of complaints.
It’s worth it.
It was because they knew now.
Something unusual is happening in this forest.
And winter sensed it and announced it beforehand.
So, finally, with winter and Yuhwarin’s guidance.
They arrived at the front of a place.
Go oh oh-.
It was an underground tunnel so large that it reminded me of a cave.
‘…A nest of giant ants.’
Staying there.
Let’s stare at the inside of the cave, where the winter still creates a shady silence.
[Cheerreuk?]
“Ha, how?”
The werewolves around him looked at him curiously.
This was a nest of ants with numerous dead bodies.
A long time ago, before the giant ants migrated from this place, the bone fragments and shells they ate and left behind were piled up like a mountain around them.
I stared at the huge crypt for a while.
The silent, silent winter soon spat out a short word.
[Kang! Can-can!]
‘Here. Inside.’
With that said.
Winter set foot first.
Now the owner is gone.
To the old nest of Giant Ants.
* * * *
Deep crypt.
Winter entered the place and looked up at the top of the tunnel.
Knock. Again.
On the ceiling of an endlessly deep cave.
Even at this moment, I could see water droplets condensing and falling from the ceiling.
It was rain that fell heavily from the outside and flowed along the walls and ceiling of this cave.
Of course, the century wasn’t that great.
So, Winter breathed a short sigh of relief.
‘It’s fortunate.’
If the water level had risen for a long time like before, the result would not have been so good, although I don’t know.
But at this point, it was fine for now.
I was able to survive down here for a while.
The further inside, the light quickly faded, leaving only darkness in its place.
Hwareuk!
Entering the pitch black darkness, Winter focused his mind for a moment.
Then, several bright blue flames appeared around Winter.
It was a low-level luminous magic called ‘goblin fire’.
“How?”
“Hmm?”
A few werewolves opened their eyes wide in surprise.
A manifestation of magic that I have never seen before.
It’s the first time they’ve seen such a blue flame, so they tried to touch it unintentionally, but-.
‘That’s not possible.’
Winter quickly moved the wisps and pulled them toward him.
“…”
Then some werewolves licked their lips in regret.
However, like the two older sisters, I didn’t rush to extinguish it. After all, adults were adults.
But even so, it was still shady and dark.
It seemed that there were people who were scared.
“Ugh, ahh!”
Suddenly, two young entities.
Inari and Luna started crying in turn.
“Huh huh huh?”
“Aww.”
Eve and Rubris, the mothers of the two cubs, held the children in their arms and comforted them.
But even so, this sudden and dreary change to the environment was not something that werewolves would experience easily.
The two little pups didn’t stop crying easily.
“Ahh!”
On the contrary, the cries only grew louder.
The cry of two young individuals echoing in the silence.
The other werewolves are trying hard to ignore them, but there’s no way they can ignore the sound in this small and closed space.
‘…Well, it can’t be helped.’
Because it seemed like it wouldn’t be easy to calm down at this rate.
In the end, I decided to go for the winter.
‘I’ve been diligently collecting mana in my own way, so it’ll be okay if I use it a little more.’
Flame!
Suddenly, Winter concentrated her mana and created another demon fire.
“Ahhh-!”
Let him bring the wisp fire close to the two little ones.
Soon, the eyes of the two who were crying out loud turned to that direction.
“Ah, Abu…?”
They stopped crying.
“Aww!”
Inari and Luna stretched out their small hands and placed their hands on the wisps of wispy blue flames.
Then it seemed like he was trying to avoid the two of them.
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The goblin’s fire began to move and wander around the area.
Smiles appeared on the lips of the two little guys, who were soon weeping, as if they were having fun at the sight.
“Kyaaa!”
“Abu!”
‘As expected, a child is a child.’
At that, Winter quietly smiled on his lips.
Occasionally he waved the wisp fire around the neighborhood, thinking that the two would cry.
“Kyaaa!”
At that time, the two of them laughed out loud at what was so funny.
But that’s an act to appease the two young guys.
Perhaps Eve and Rubris also knew about it.
“Ha-ung.”
They bowed their heads to greet him.
The meaning of gratitude in their eyes reached Winter.
‘You’re welcome.’
It was winter that brought him here.
So, resolving embarrassing situations was one of the things he had to do.
And so,
How much further did you go?
Within.
Soon they reached a very large hollow area.
Where the Giant Ants stayed.
It was to reach their deep nest.
It was at that moment.
Koo Goo Goong -.
Suddenly, an intense vibration began to resonate that even those who were very deep underground could hear it.
That earthquake.
It went on for a long time.
[Kururu!]
The surprised werewolves reflexively sharpened their claws, revealing sharp-forged kills.
‘Is this…?’
The impression of winter hardened.
He looked up involuntarily.
Above where nothing can be seen because it is blocked by the ceiling.
However, what he saw was the ground beyond.
[…!!]
The winter has grown rapidly.
‘Come!’
Hey, Fenix.
The guy who finally reached this forest was announcing his appearance in earnest.
The ground side looked out by winter.
It was already swallowed up in a sea of miserable fire.
Black flames were roaring with the momentum that seemed to cover the entire forest.