Chapter 14 The Burning Forest
A flash of light crossed the sky and landed on the edge of the woods. The loud noise stopped the humans and monsters who were fighting.
"Captain, what's going on?"
"I don't know, it seems that something has fallen there."
"Oh no, that's where the fire mastiffs stay."
"Sharon, what do you mean?"
"It means that it may be difficult for us to hold on until dawn. Haosgao, let the seriously injured people clean up and prepare to withdraw first."
"Captain...yes."
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"Ph~Ph~" Lu Chen looked around the smoke filled with smoke and dust while spitting out the messy things that ran into his mouth.
The trees were smashed into a circle, and I was sitting in a shallow pit, with a faint smell of fishy smell nearby.
"What's the taste? It's a bit familiar, it seems... blood?!" As soon as I came to the conclusion, Lu Chen saw a very terrifying scene.
Behind the gradually fading smoke and dust, more than a dozen red spots of light lit up, and in the woods where the starlight could not see through, it was swaying slightly like a ghost fire.
Lu Chen would not think that it was a fireflies that comforted me, and this was not a cemetery with awesome spirit. With the slight but clear low whimpering sound, the name "Wolf Pack" naturally came to my mind.
Sure enough, the strange left eye immediately confirmed his guess. After seeing the true face of the "wolf pack", Lu Chen began to swallow his saliva continuously, his body trembled instinctively, and fear occupied all his thinking at this moment.
The calves' figure, the dark and dull fur, the red mane, and the sharp gums as sharp as saws, all reveal their bloodthirsty and power.
What Lu Chen couldn't stand was that behind them were a few adult beasts who were two or three times larger and had dagger-like fangs standing behind them, which were obviously adult beasts who were guarding them.
"Howl~"
Perhaps the smoke and dust had not dissipated, maybe the huge momentum of landing, or for the safety of the cubs, the "wolf pack" did not immediately launch an attack on Lu Chen, but instead, led by several huge adult beasts, whistled to the sky.
Then it was like a response, and more long roars followed, and for a moment, it seemed as if the entire forest was a huge beast.
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"What's going on... Hill."
"I don't know...but this number... Team, no, Haosgao, it seems that I can't get through this time. If you can find mine after dawn... mine..."
"Why do you talk so much nonsense? You kid, even if you go to the underworld, you can only be my follower. Everyone should put the crossbow arrows on it and make the bonfire highlights. I don't believe that I can't kill all these beasts."
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"This is the other world version of 'just leaving the tiger' and entering the wolf'. Haha, it seems that I can't buy lottery tickets anymore. This time travel is obviously just memorizing it to the extreme. I just don't know if the scrolls given to me by the teacher will expire." Lu Chen thought to himself, and the constant approaching roars and invisible retreat made him calm down.
According to the teacher's teaching, Lu Chen quickly connected his consciousness to the space ring and searched for the magic scroll inside. This was his only reliance and the strongest one.
Without wasting much time to think, Lu Chen directly took out two red scrolls. The beast's inertial thinking of fearing fire made him choose fire magic.
The principle of starting first is generally universal. Lu Chen did not hesitate to move towards the place where the "wolf pack" was located, releasing two magics that he didn't know the name at all.
First, a huge fire wall erected among the cubs, and then a basin-sized fireball flew out and exploded after hitting a cub. Although the flame-like red mane indicates that they are both fire-attributed, it does not mean that the flame cannot harm them. Almost instantly, the fire mastiffs in the row were ignited immediately, and the howling of death immediately overshadowed other sounds.
With the cubs crying, the atmosphere in the forest also changed, and there were another series of long whistles, but this time it was obviously filled with sadness and anger.
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"Look, there is a fire, they are all retreating."
"It's so miserable now. I really don't know which idiot did it..."
"It's not good to retreat? Sharon, do you really want me to kill them all..."
"…Haothao… asked everyone to gather their formation and evacuate as fast as possible."
"Captain? This..."
"Go quickly. Someone killed the baby beasts of the Fire Mastiff. There is no room for anything else. Now I can only hope that the man is strong enough to kill them all. Otherwise, these fire mastiff beasts will be culling humans in the future for the purpose of survival."
“…yes. What about the goods we shipped?”
"Let's stay here for the time being. I can only wait until the fire mastiff retreats before coming back. How much can I take back depends on the fate arrangement." The commander said, looking at Sharon beside him, and he only breathed a sigh of relief until the other party nodded in agreement.
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Looking at the baby beast struggling in the fire, Lu Chen felt a little uncomfortable, but he had no intention of stopping.
He had just started practicing and had little contact with this world. It was impossible to fight with real strength. Before becoming stronger, he could only use scrolls to protect himself. After fighting with the eighth-level assassin, he also clearly felt that the strength of the monster in front of him was much worse, but it was much stronger than himself. He happened to be used as the practice object of "familiar scrolls" as the teacher said, so it is necessary to waste some scrolls.
As for whether the scrolls in the space ring are enough, Lu Chen no longer considered it after searching it just now. He doubted whether the teacher gave him the entire warehouse.
Several adult beasts did not intend to give Lu Chen too much time. After whining to convey the message, they rushed towards Lu Chen without caring about the fur of the little Mars.
Lu Chen was not surprised that the adult beasts were not afraid of the flames. No matter how they looked, they should be monsters. It was reasonable to not be afraid of the flames. It seemed that such flames did not seem to have any effect on adults, which made him feel a little scared.
The previous two scrolls, Lu Chen noticed that the number of stars on it was three, which means that the third-level fire magic could not cause substantial damage to them, so Lu Chen simply skipped the four stars, took out a five-star scroll, glanced at it and released it.
It’s not that he doesn’t want to read the name above, but that time doesn’t allow him to “translate” carefully. There are no obstacles in speaking and there is no problem writing. However, it’s still a little bit short of identifying other people’s handwriting like conditioned reflexes, just like a primary school student reading an old Chinese doctor’s prescription.
But Lu Chen was scared by himself and saw a huge cluster of flames suddenly popping out from below the adult beast, shooting straight into the sky like a pillar. Several adult beasts wrapped inside instantly became coke, and even the outermost trees in the fire pillar were burned out quickly.
"Your sister, are you five stars? Are you mistaken? That old man's level is not just a strategic missile, no, nuclear bombs are not necessarily the case. Well, absolutely, no wonder it is claimed to be the top of the mainland." Looking at the black line three meters in front of him, Lu Chen could only stand there stupidly and complain.
On the ground, there are four charred pieces of meat in the middle of a black circle with a diameter of about five meters. The outer layer was shaken off when it fell to the ground, but the inner layer was so dark that it was not a little appetite except for the rich burnt fragrance.
"Howl~Woo~"
"Woo~Woo..."
At this time, some adult beasts arrived and surrounded Lu Chen tightly. The losses of their companions were nothing, but the death of the young beasts made them crazy. But they were instinctively a little afraid of the powerful magic just now and dared not pounce on Lu Chen immediately, after all, the monster was still a beast.
Lu Chen didn't care about that. He had already made a judgment and immediately took out the four-star scroll and smashed it. After all, the teacher said that the third and fourth-level scrolls were the most, and at the same time, his mind began to imagine how many magic cores could be collected. The third-level magic did not cause much damage, and the fifth-level magic destroyed them too clean, so these monsters were at the fourth-level.
In just a moment, the pile of flames, which was no less than the previous column of fire, ignited the forests around Lu Chen, and the tongue of flames reflected the night sky red along the towering trees.
"I seemed to be stupid again, setting fire in the forest...it seemed a little proud." Listening to the howls and rushing sounds from the bushes, Lu Chen suddenly remembered how terrible what he was doing, and countless beads of sweat hung on his forehead.
Although the fire had not yet burned to his side, Lu Chen quickly took out the blue four-star scroll. It was a magic scroll in the water system. He planned to put out the fire and was glad that it was a windless night.
As the fire expanded, the forest gradually became quiet. It felt almost done. Lu Chen, who was lying on the ground and endured the thick smoke and high temperature, couldn't wait to release the water-based scroll in his hand.
A whirlpool that was enough to wrap around one person appeared in front of Lu Chen and swept over in the direction specified in advance.
To be on the safe side, Lu Chen released the scroll in only one direction. Although the sound of the adult beast basically disappeared, he was still a little worried.
I don’t know if the timeliness of flame magic has passed, but the vortex easily extinguished the fire wherever it passes, and the wet places did not rekindle the flames, becoming an obvious dividing line.
Seeing that the crisis was relieved, Lu Chen's spirit immediately came up. He took a dagger from the space ring and walked towards the adult beast that was the first to be burned to death by the pillar of fire.
In fact, when Lu Chen successfully used the first scroll, he was no longer afraid. Perhaps because he had faced the pressure of the eighth level, or because he had a lot of scrolls in his hand, he was afraid. In short, the fear when he saw these huge monsters was already thrown into some corner.
As for the disgusting feeling of digging out the flesh and blood, it is no better than the temptation of becoming a rich man.
Relying on the sharp dagger brought out from the tower, Lu Chen easily dug out four half-thumb-sized crystals from the head of the four pieces of meat.
Chapter completed!