Shenmu Village – Tataman's home

After listening to the detailed explanation of the village chief Tataman, some of the adventurers with insufficient strength quietly retreated, although the reward for this crusade mission was very generous, but it was necessary to take the life to get it.

The rest of the adventurer team, including the Nebula Four, made a total of eight teams. Most of the adventurers were at levels ninety to one hundred and ten, and only one middle-aged man in a red magic robe had reached level one hundred and fifteen.

After seeing Tataman take out a heavy stack of parchment, the captains of the seven teams walked up to Tataman one after another, took the paper handed by Tataman, looked at it a few times, and then signed the paper.

Probably seeing Nebula's puzzled expression, Lucio on the side explained to Nebula: "This is a temporary mandate, when a village or city is threatened, the person in charge of the region can temporarily entrust the adventurer to eliminate the threat for it according to the difficulty of the task, and its effect is equivalent to the commission of the adventurer's guild." ”

As soon as Lucio finished explaining, Nask, the leader of the War Dragons, had already gone to Tataman to sign a temporary power of attorney.

Nask knew very well that since he and the others had accepted the escort mission entrusted by Nebula, he and the others could not take the initiative to put their employer in danger.

Therefore, before escorting Nebula to its destination safely, he and the others must not take the initiative to hunt monsters.

Nask told his teammates what he thought, and after receiving their understanding, Nask took Nebula and two of his teammates and walked quickly towards the forest east of Shenmu Village........

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Shenmu Village – Minar Forest (East)

Minar Forest is the outer part of Shenmu Village, and there are various monster populations living in the forest, the western forest is filled with long-haired monsters such as Lacey and Dark Lacey, and the east is insect-like monsters such as beetles and metal beetles.

In addition to this, the central part of the forest is also inhabited by strange races such as pygmy monsters, demon sheep, Harvey, centaurs, and it is said that the depths of the forest are also inhabited by legendary monsters Gryffindor and Charizard.

As soon as he entered the forest, Nebula saw dense woods and green meadows, birds singing, and insects low

Ming, it seems that the forest is full of life.

Unlike the damp and shaded forests of enchanted forest, the Minar Forest is full of light and is full of life

A paradise with sunshine.

Originally, this was supposed to be the case........

Not long after Nebula and the others entered the forest, they encountered an oak beetle.

The oak beetle is a giant hard-shelled insect that lives in the Minar forest. Loved the place with lots of trees and leaves. It has a solid shell that can withstand strong external impacts, and the horns of the head can attack enemies, and it has a strong ability to fly.

Oak beetles are docile and generally do not actively attack other creatures, but once they sense danger, they will enter a fighting state and attack in groups.

A large part of the reason why the dwarves chose the oak beetle as their neighbor is because of this, as long as the dwarf does not provoke the oak beetle, the oak beetle is like a natural umbrella, as the outermost defense line of Shenmu Village.

The oak beetle has large round eyes, cute little short legs, and a dark brown hard shell.

If it weren't for the dwarf spikes on its shell, the Oak Beetle might have been chosen by the Beast Trainer as an exclusive mount for certain classes.

However.......

The oak beetle in front of Nebula was a bloodthirsty monster with scarlet eyes wrapped in black mist.

The darkened oak beetle flapped its wings and struck Nebula and the others at great speed.

Without hesitation, Nask picked up the Battle Spirit Halberd in his hand and slashed towards the Darkened Oak Beetle, desperately blocking the Oak Beetle's attack.

Instead of fighting, Lucio and Elaine escorted Nebula around the Darkened Beetle and continued toward the border to the east.

Seeing this scene, Nebula couldn't help but silently praise the approach of Nask and the others in his heart.

Even if the strength of the oak beetle has increased after darkening, it still can't compare with the three people of the war dragon team, and it only takes three minutes for the oak beetle to be under Nask's spear.

However, in the face of the low-hanging fruit, Nask did not choose to fight, but chose to block, and after a few short handovers, Nask seized the opportunity to use a matchless spear to sweep away the oak beetle that had lost its center of gravity.

While the oak beetle was knocked away, Nask used the flying leaf without hesitation, quickly leaving the battlefield and joining up with the nebula and the others in front of him.

When Nask rushed behind Nebula, before Nebula could ask Nask about the situation, Nask picked up Nebula and put it on his back and continued to run forward.

Lucio, who sensed the situation in the rear, also used Leap and followed closely behind Nask, while Elaine glanced at the rear in a daze, and saw the furious darkened oak beetle chasing after him, Elaine hurriedly used teleportation to closely follow Nask and Lucio in front.

After a while, Nebula and the others broke away from the pursuit of the darkened oak beetle and entered the realm east of the Minar Forest.

However, Nebula could not forget the ferocious appearance of the oak beetle, as if it had been manipulated by dark magic.

Not only did the darkened oak beetle become berserk, but its level also rose considerably.

The oak beetle was originally a seventy-two level monster, and its movement speed was not very fast, and the Nask of more than one hundred levels could be solved with only two or three moves if it was serious.

However, after the Oak Beetle was darkened, not only did its level increase by more than twenty levels, but even its movement speed increased a lot, and Nask was unable to defeat the Darkened Oak Beetle for a while.

Who empowers them? What is the man going to do with the darkening monsters? This dark force is somewhat similar to the power of the dark magician, or is it ........

"Hey! Hey~~~ Nebula, can you hear me? You're almost ready to come down! Are you going to let me carry you all the time? Hey~~~ Don't you strangle...... My neck ......" Nask shouted helplessly to Nebula as he tugged at Nebula's arm.

After Nask's repeated calls, Nebula gradually came back to his senses, and after coming back to his senses, Nebula noticed that he was actually lying on Nasker's back, his hands still tightly wrapped around Nasker's neck.

Nebula hurriedly let go of his hands and said with an embarrassed smile at Nask, "I'm sorry~~I'm sorry~~ I was thinking about something and didn't notice it." ”

Nask put the Nebula down and laughed dryly, with a smile on his face, but he actually ........ in his heart

However, Nask is not a grudge-loving person, and after accepting Nebula's apology, Nask asks his teammates for their opinions.

"I think it's better for us to follow the original plan, try to avoid unnecessary battles, and take the shortest route to send Nebula to the Priest's Forest." Elaine nodded and said to Nask and Lucio.

"However, there are also the most monsters in this shortest route, and if you don't spare the long way, the battle is almost inevitable....... Fight? Avoid? Wait a minute!! We can actually do this......." Lucio said to Nask and Elaine, and halfway through speaking, Lucio seemed to think of something and suggested to his companions.

"Huh? You mean props that let the flavor spread? I do have a bottle of essence here, which can make the smell of the item stronger and more diffuse. Listening to Lucio's whimsical plan, Nebula replied to Lucio as he took out a pink translucent potion from the spatial ring and handed it to Lucio.

Lucio first plucked a tender red fruit from the nearby Minar fruit tree, then squeezed the fruit in a handkerchief so that the juice of the fruit soaked the entire handkerchief, and then drizzled a lot of flavor on the handkerchief.

"Elaine, it's up to you! Be sure to let the handkerchiefs fly far enough away from us that if my guess is correct, we can avoid these beetles. Lucio ran the arrow through his handkerchief, handed it to Elaine, and said to her.

Although Elaine felt that Lucio's plan was not very reliable, she still took out a recall stone to summon the holy dragon as Lucio said, and let the holy dragon carry the arrow with the handkerchief in his mouth, enter the forest and fly in the opposite direction.

The four of them hid behind the roots of the tree like this, quietly watching the blue holy dragon fly farther and farther away in the woods.

Suddenly, with the sound of wings flapping, countless oak beetles and metal beetles in the forest flew up and chased after the place where the holy dragon was.

Metal beetles, like oak beetles, are giant hard-shelled insects that live in the Minar forest. Metal beetles are originally oak beetles, but when molted, they have a steely shell. Compared to the Oak Beetle, it has a stronger attack power to threaten the enemy.

Both metal beetles and oak beetles like to eat sap and fruit, and Lucio's plan is to use the fragrant sap of the fruit to attract some beetles, and sneak through the eastern forest while the beetles are attracted by the smell.

Of course, this plan can only be used on the premise that the flavor can spread out, and whether it can attract dark monsters is still another matter.

However, there are some things that you have to try to know if you can do it, and Nebula also agrees with this plan because he finds it interesting.

After the holy dragon flew out of everyone's field of vision, the four of them cautiously ran along the edge of the road towards the forest realm to the east.

At first, it was really smooth, the four of them didn't encounter any monsters at all, and the beetles around them were all attracted by the scent of fruit juice, and followed the holy dragon as bait, and flew towards the west side of the forest.

That's right, beetles don't have a lot of intelligence in the first place, and it's really their instinct to pursue their favorite food.

However, Lucio guessed one thing wrong.......

For darkened monsters, killing is their instinct!

Seeing the five metal beetles that suddenly appeared in front of him, Xingyun thought silently in his heart........