After the swarm had cleared all the Sinking Demons in this underground square, Xue Hua left here with two small mercenaries.

As he was leaving, he noticed that the golden boots had been identified and were wearing them on his sister Phnia's feet.

Seeing the master's gaze move to her boots, the little girl immediately blushed.

"Hmm... My sister said that she didn't want anything, and she just put it on my feet... She still tickles me~~"

Hearing Funia's complaint-like tone and Annie's puffing expression glaring at her sister, Xue Hua couldn't help but shake his head with a smile.

Twins with such a good relationship between sisters are rare~

This also has something to do with their families.

The two little girls had grown up with their mother, Ms. Virginica, and had never met their father.

Lady Virginica is also a Roger mercenary who is away from home all year round, so except for Cassa and the other Rogers who occasionally visit them, the two little girls have always taken care of each other.

This is how her younger sister Funia's good cooking skills and her sister Anne's serious and careful personality were cultivated.

"Okay, didn't you just sweep out a whole bunch of miscellaneous things? The two of you go get some blue gear first, put them on and deal with them first, and there will be a lot of good things in the future! ”

Xue Hua patted the little heads of the two girls and let a cockroach crawl over with the loot just now.

At his urging, the two girls held torches and carefully selected, selected a few blue suits with suitable attributes to put on, and took some mana potions or something.

Xue Hua saw that they had finished picking, so he also stepped forward and rummaged around a little, then pouted, took two bottles of blue medicine and physical strength potion casually, and piled the rest directly on the side of the wall of the underground passage, just to give a little benefit to the people who came behind.

After processing the loot, Xue Hua took the two girls and the insect swarm and continued on the road, originally he was going to directly teleport the scroll back, and directly to the dark forest through the small station.

However, Tunam's vanguard swarm soon found another hole in the underground passage.

And judging from the information fed back by the probing jumping insects, it should be the exit to the dark forest.

Now that the exit has been found, there is no need to waste the return scroll, and Xue Hua quickly walked out of the underground passage with the swarm.

......

The Dark Forest, in the game, is a sparse forest, and the density of the trees is barely enough for even the "woods" level, let alone the forest.

But in reality, the Dark Forest is a large, uncompromised forest of large broad-leaved trees.

And the vegetation cover is quite dense, and the trees are completely unknown what kind of trees they are, with black trunks, black branches, and black broad leaves.

Even the veins on the leaves are reddish-black.

The dense broad-leaved forest that stretched out its foliage obscured the sky of the Dark Forest, and the black trees made it look terrifying and eerie.

It is said that this was not the case in the dark forest, which was once one of the finest hunting grounds and timber sources in the Canduras region.

That underground passage was actually dug up by the hard work of the lumberjacks and hunters for generations.

After the invasion of Hell, most of the animals in the forest died, and those who did not die mutated into demons.

The black trees used to be normal broadleaf pines, but some of them died due to the infestation of the forces of hell, and the other became what they are now.

It is said that these black trees survive by sucking blood and decomposing corpses that bury the thick humus layer of the dark forest, which is why they grow so tall in the Canduras region, where the sun is not shining.

In this forest, which has been completely corrupted by the forces of hell, there is only one tree that has not been corrupted, and that tree is the legendary sacred tree, the tree of prophecy - Aniphus.

The bark of this tree records the secret of how to open the portal to Tristram from the five stone pillars in the Stone Wilderness, of course, this bark scroll has already been mastered by Camp Rog, but the demonic power in Tristram is too strong, so although he has the key, he really can't save people.

When he was in the stone wilderness, Xue Hua had also seen the five stone pillars, and each stone pillar had a strange rune with a deep imprint, and the whole exuded a strange smell, but he didn't know what year and month it was built in, and whose hand it was.

Isha had warned him that there were traces of super-high psionic energy left between the stone pillars, and that the current swarm could not deal with them.

And Xue Hua, who learned from Akara what was in Tristram, of course would not die.

Therefore, he was also not interested in the so-called "Divine Tree", and planned to go all the way to the Black Wasteland without any stops in between.

Since he had already come out of the tunnel in the mountains, Wang Worm's detection ability took effect again, and the long-lost God's perspective allowed Xue Hua to finally regain his sense of security.

With some excitement, he manipulated the perspective of a monitoring king insect to sweep around the dark forest, and then saw the so-called "divine tree" at a glance.

It's not that his eyes are pointed, it's that the sacred tree is too obvious.

The huge trunk, which was three times thicker and half as tall than the others, the bark that glowed with a hazy moon-white glow in the dark, and the branches that barely had any leaves, all made the tree so striking that it was hard not to notice it.

Then, Xue Hua aimed his field of vision at the area around the Divine Tree.

Then he saw dozens of huge black figures and a dark golden figure in the lead.

- Wooden Fist of the Tree, the demonic guardian of the Sacred Tree.

This is a Dark Gold Boss-level "Beast" with the dual attributes of "Extra Strong" and "Extra Fast".

The beast is an evolutionary variant of a giant beast, much like the relationship between the Blade Demon and the Sinking Demon.

In the game, when the player wants to get the bark of the sacred tree, they will be attacked by this guy, and this dark gold monster is very, very unfriendly to newcomers.

Because it not only moves fast, but also has a particularly high attack power, and the destructive power of the "beast" species template itself should not be underestimated.

In reality, this guy is only going to be more terrifying than in the game.

It has a lot more minions than in the game (and also receives speed and attack boosts), as well as more terrifying powers than in the game.

You know, there is no such thing as a "blood bar" for professionals in the real world, and if you take a punch from this giant monster that is nearly four meters tall, it is estimated that half of the blood will be gone.

It's that his life is gone.

Even barbarians and paladins as high as level 20 would not go head-to-head with the fists of the Tree Head Wooden Fist, it was definitely not a joke.

After observing for a while, Xue Hua took his eyes back from the group of gorillas, and prepared to set up camp on the spot, and after a good rest, he would continue on the road tomorrow.

He wasn't interested in Anifus, so he didn't plan to provoke the Tree Punches, so he just had to go around the area and not face them.

The two insect mothers, Tunam and Zaratusa, led the swarm to sweep around along the range designated by Xue Hua, and except for killing a small group of "Spike Demons" and a few lone beasts, they did not encounter any other monsters.

The detection of the king worm also showed that this area was relatively safe, perhaps not far from the exit of the underground passage, and the monsters instinctively felt that this place was vulnerable to attacks by professionals.

As for the Spike Demon......

The name of this thing is pretty domineering.

But in fact, it is a purple bristled mouse, just like the relationship between a beast and a giant beast, it is also an evolved version of a bristled mouse.

After clearing out the camping area, the two girls were busy.

He who makes a fire makes a fire, and he who sets a tent makes a tent.

Anne also sprinkled some homemade powder around the tent, saying that their mother, Ms. Virginica, had taught them a special insect repellent powder that would repel small poisonous bugs.

These little bugs are not monsters, but poisonous insects infested with the energy of hell, and their venom has mutated to become slightly effective against professionals.

Although the effect is very insignificant, it is also annoying to be bitten.

Xue Hua watched the two girls busy with each other, and a comfortable expression gradually appeared on his face.

How many times had he huddled alone in an icy tent, accompanied only by the equally lonely campfire and the icy swarm.

Although he didn't have to worry about safety, loneliness became his worst enemy.

During the time of searching for the burial of bones.

The loneliness almost crushed his nerves and drove him crazy.

But now.

None of this is a matter of worry.

He finally had someone to protect.

He finally had a bonfire that could bring him warmth and comfort.

(Tomorrow, I guess I'll have to use the old cat's precious manuscript again...... Yes... It's really going to die.......... ）