It was slowly getting dark, and everyone who had been on the road for a day was a little tired. Henry glanced at the vanishing sunset, and shouted to the ranger who was walking in front of him, "We must find a place to camp now, there is still plenty of time, there is no need to venture into the night walk." ”

Zuvosa turned around and nodded. "I'm going to scout ahead and see if I can find a cave or something. Otherwise, everyone will have to spend the night in the trees tonight. It's best not to start a fire just to be safe, I just saw a lot of monster footprints, and it would be dangerous for them to find them. ”

"Take this potion of invisibility with you, and drink it if you're in danger. After all, this is the monster-infested Color-resistant Mountains, so you have to be careful. With that, Vaughn pulled a bottle out of himself and handed it over.

Zuvosa smiled at him and slipped the bottle into his belt. "Don't worry, I've been living alone in the forest for a long time, and most of the beasts and monsters don't pose much of a threat to me." After saying that, she ran forward quickly, and after a while, she disappeared from everyone's sight. The others followed unhurriedly, waiting for news from the front.

Ten minutes later, the Ranger ran back. She gasped for breath as she pointed to a cliff ahead. "There's a cave in mid-air, and I think it would be safe to spend the night there. It's just that it might be a little troublesome when you go up, and this big brown bear will definitely not be able to go up. ”

Henry looked down and thought for a while, and soon found a solution. "It's okay, I can fly up and tie the rope first. Then everyone climbed up along the rope, and as for Ares, covered it with a net and slowly pulled it up. ”

"Then what are you waiting for, let's climb up and make a fire and cook now, I'm dying of hunger." Vaughn touched his stomach and complained.

Bambock took the opportunity to fly over the head of the orc warrior and shouted, "What a rice bucket you are! Every time, I was the first to cry hunger. Vaughn waved his hand in exasperation. Drive this pesky parrot aside.

Henry shook his head with a smile, blessed himself with a flying spell, and flew towards the cave in midair. It didn't take long for him to find this place in the middle of the cliff. It is a weathered cave where the strong air circulation between the mountains accumulates over time, gradually opening a gap here. It's a bit windy, but it's still much better than encountering monsters at any time from below.

After looking at his surroundings, he took out the rope from the dimensional bag, found a relatively strong stone pillar and tied it, and then threw all the ropes down the hole. A few people who had been waiting below hurriedly climbed up the rope. The pesky Bamberk kept flying around them, laughing loudly at everyone's climbing posture.

Henry sighed, and directly used a spell to catch it and threatened: "If you harass your teammates again, I will use silence to make you never speak." ”

Bambock immediately covered his beak with his two wings and kept nodding his head. If you really can't speak in the future, it will suffocate to death. After everyone had climbed up, Henry flew down and wrapped Ares up with a tenacious net. After tying the entire net. He stood below and waved. A few people on top began to pull the rope hard. The large brown bear was slowly dragged up the cave in mid-air, and Henry kept his side from crashing into the protruding rocks.

When the job was done, everyone sat on the ground gasping for air. After a while, Vaughn was the first to stand up, and he blocked one side of the hole with several quilts to prevent strong winds from blowing through the mountains. Amy poured out some dry wood from the dimensional bag and started to start a fire. It didn't take long for the bright light of the fire to warm up the surroundings. Zubosa set up the shelves and began to take care of the cooking, and everything was going on in an orderly manner.

Everyone simply drank a bowl of soup, ate something and began to rest, because it was in a cave in the middle of the air. So there was no vigil arranged. The bonfire was quickly extinguished without being tended, and no sound could be heard in the entire forest except the whirring of the wind.

The next morning, Henry was the first to open his eyes, and when he was about to go to the entrance of the cave to make it easier, he suddenly saw countless monsters advancing below. They seemed to have formed an army and were heading in the direction of Silvermoon City. There are giants, trolls, bear goblins, goblins, kobolds, some wolves, and a large number of common goblins.

Looking at the endless army of monsters, Henry quietly retreated into the cave and immediately called out all his companions who were still sleeping. When they saw the scene at the bottom of the cliff, they all broke out in a cold sweat. If you had been camping down there last night, you would have ended up surrounded by this large army and become a snack in the mouths of countless monsters.

Zuwosa glanced at Henry and asked, "What should I do now?" Looking at it like this, the monsters down there won't be able to finish for a while. Have we been waiting for an opportunity here? ”

"I'm afraid there's no time to wait, as the weather gets colder and colder, food in the mountains will become scarce. It won't be long before the monsters here will gather in groups, and it will be difficult to get out when the time comes. ”

Amy's eyes lit up as she glanced at the hole that had been blocked with the quilt. "We can pass from the other side of the hill, so we can get on the road right away and avoid the guys down there."

Henry nodded, and Vaughn opened the blocked hole, and then told Bamberk to fly down to reconnoitre. Confirming that there was no danger, they slowly lowered Ares to the surface before the others slid down the rope. Henry used a "northward pointing technique" to find the direction, and everyone began to walk along the mountain road.

It wasn't long before they ran into a big problem, and a mountain stream was blocking their way not far ahead. The group looked around but did not find a bridge, and the rope they carried was obviously not long enough. I had no choice but to walk slowly down the rugged path next to it. I'm going to look along the river down there to see if there's any other way out.

Once again, Ares' enormous size became a liability, and he carefully straightened up, clutching the rocks on the cliff with his bear paws, moving little by little, and letting out a low roar from time to time. Everyone laughed when they saw its cute appearance, which relaxed the nerves that were originally a little nervous.

After more than three hours of slow climbing, everyone finally came to the side of the rushing river at the bottom of the mountain. Henry glanced up at the position of the sun and saw that it was almost noon. He shouted at the ranger who was walking in front, "Don't go! We'll take a break here and wait for lunch before continuing our journey. ”

Zuvosa turned and nodded, then slashed some low bushes with a large knife around him. Soon the bonfire was lit, and the people caught a few fish in the river, cleaned them up, and roasted them on the fire. After it is cooked, take your own fish and start eating it. While eating, Henry asked the ranger beside him, "Do you think it will be a few more days before we can get out of here?" I felt that the road was too difficult to walk, and it was likely to take a lot of time. ”

Zuvosa swallowed the food in his mouth and thought for a while and replied: "If you take the normal trade route, it will take about a week, but we are now walking on the mountain road, and it is estimated that it will take twice as long. ”

"Looks like we're going to have to go through the night, otherwise we won't be able to leave the Neser Mountains until the first snow falls." As he spoke, Henry picked up the stick that pierced the fish and began to write and draw on the ground. Soon a topographical map of the surrounding area was drawn.

He pointed to one of the lines and said, "This is the road we used to take, and now we are on the other side of the mountain." It is necessary to find an outlet to the east along the river before you can cross it to the River Raven. It's cold enough now, and by the time we get there, the water will be covered with a thick layer of ice, and we can see the gates of Sandaba. ”

Vaughn's mouth grew in surprise. "Head! You mean to rush for a night road in such a dangerous place? It wouldn't be nice to accidentally break into the territory of some monster, as far as I know, there are several dragons living here. ”

"If you don't speed up, it's very troublesome if it snows heavily, and you may not be able to go out even if it takes a month." Amy looked at the current location of everyone on the map and sighed.

Zubosa nodded, agreeing with Amy's statement. "In that case, let's prepare, it's not easy to travel at night, especially in this season, when the temperature at night is too low."

"Don't worry, I brought a lot of winter clothes with me when I came out, enough to keep out the cold at night." As he spoke, Henry took out several fur coats from his dimensional bag, which were originally prepared for going to Icewind Dale, and now they came in handy in advance.

Each of them took one and put it on their bodies, and Vaughn tried to move his body before cutting off some of the parts that affected his movements with a dagger. "Head, these clothes seem to be a little big, and they're uncomfortable to move around."

"Let's just take a look, it's all custom-made, and I haven't measured your height." Henry shook his head helplessly, when he made it, he didn't think about whether it fits at all. As a mage, he can always give himself spells to resist the cold or heat. So when his impression of winter clothes was still at the stage of ordinary people, he thought that they were worn outside to protect him from the cold, and he never thought that there was such a thing as fighting.

Zuvosa quickly cut her tunic to suit her needs, and she put her weapon back on her back. "Now that the problem of keeping warm is solved, the rest is easy to do. When it gets dark, we tie ropes around our waists to prevent someone from slipping and falling off the cliff. Nothing else is too much to pay attention to. (To be continued......)

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