In the evening, a small carriage convoy drove up from the northwest border of Selida Forest.

This area is not a normal driving area, but the dozens of guys dressed as caravan guards around the carriage show that this convoy is not an ordinary convoy, at least not the scale of protection that a normal caravan should have.

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The convoy was moving very slowly, and they also specially selected a very inconspicuous lowland to park and camp. As the leader of the convoy, Morana took a small number of guards and Shay to a nearby highland to watch the distant scenery.

Selida Forest.

"Is this here?" Morana looked at the edge of the forest in the distance and asked, "Is this the legendary dragon's territory?"

"Yes, at least that's what the local legend says." Shay, who was following Morana, looked at the surrounding environment and then analyzed: "The bright light over there should be the outpost set up by the Grand Princess, but we can

Enter the forest from somewhere else. The message I heard before mentioned the phrase "go along the river". I think the river here refers to the unnamed river next to the outpost, the end point of the river.

It's the lake where the dragon sleeps... However, there are at least three very similar rivers in this forest, so if we don't find the right river..."

"Will you be confused?" Morana unexpectedly looked at the dark forest border in the distance and asked, "Is there any forbidden magic here?"

"I don't know, I haven't gone in yet." Shay took out a roll of paper from his pocket and handed it to Morana and then said: "We are not the first people to enter Selida Forest."

Morana took the paper and looked through it carefully. What was written on it were some black organizations active in human society and even some gray religious groups from the central region. But the names of each organization were drawn

With a small cross on it, Morana can understand what it means without Shay having to explain it.

"They are all dead?" Morana put away the paper, crumpled it into a pile of paper scraps and threw it on the ground.

"I don't know...most of them were captured by the Grand Duchess, but the rest..." Shay paused for a moment, then sighed and said, "Anyway, I never heard of them again.

news, but they have definitely not returned to their own organization. The reward for their whereabouts in the black market here is higher than the reward for forest information."

"It seems that there is indeed something unknown in this forest..." Morana looked at the nervous Shay with interest and asked: "What are you afraid of?"

"Mrs. Morana, I still don't think it would be a good idea to come here rashly. At least... you shouldn't come in person." Shay lowered his head and whispered.

"Afraid of so-called gods?"

"maybe……"

"Do you think it is credible?" Morana asked disdainfully: "Do you think such things as gods really exist?"

"I don't know." Shay clenched his fists and seemed to be thinking about this in his heart. Then after a moment of silence, he raised his head and said: "The locals believe in the existence of gods very much, because they all claim to have experienced 'divine descent'.

' and the 'Dragon Roar' incident... I can guarantee that they did not lie, because I have used some means to identify several soldiers who claimed to have seen the goddess descend with their own eyes. At least they did see something extraordinary.

Appeared in the city of Welsk...and the woman who calls herself 'The Chosen One' does have weapons similar to muskets."

After listening to Shay's story, Morana thought for a while, then she looked at the edge of the increasingly dark forest and said lightly: "There are extraordinary beings everywhere in this world... but they are by no means omniscient and omnipotent.

God. Anyway, my shadow power does not come from the favor of any god... As long as it is not a god, then there is nothing that cannot be killed. The only difference is the different methods."

"But, madam, that woman's musket is better than that prince's... it can even fire continuously..." Shay got a little excited, and seemed to be planning to use this as an excuse to dissuade those who wanted to enter the forest.

Morana in.

But before he could finish speaking, Morana put her finger against his mouth. Then Morana showed an extremely helpless look and said: "It's not that I don't believe you, Shay. I received your message."

After the message, you did tell His Highness about it, but it was empty talk and you did not provide evidence to prove it, so all the senior officials, including His Highness, scorned it... That's why I came here in person."

"I have also confirmed the evidence. When the woman was fighting the monster, she did scatter many metal shells on the battlefield. I heard that those things fell out of her power. After the battle, the woman

It was not recycled, so many people, even many civilians after the battle, picked up a large number of metal casings, and I also heard that those things were made of brass. I originally planned to get some metal casings as

Evidence..." Shay said this and lowered his head in despair.

"You haven't got the thing yet?" Morana looked at Shay unexpectedly, because she didn't think Shay could steal anything from civilians with his skills, but looking at her current appearance, it seemed that he was indeed very surprised.

Didn't succeed.

"No, I got it, but...it's gone." Shay took something out of his pocket and handed it to Morana.

"Wood?" Morana took the bullet case carved from wood and looked back and forth for a long time.

"I carved this based on one of the shells I picked up at that time. When I first sneaked into the underground ruins, I met a lot of them, and some people were picking them up there, because everyone regarded this thing as gold...

...but not long after, all these things disappeared overnight. Not only me, but also those picked up by everyone disappeared, including those in Welsk City. I guess after comparing the time, these things were all in

Disappeared at the same time." Shay became more and more excited as he spoke, as if he was worried that Morana would not believe his content without evidence.

But surprisingly, Morana was slightly surprised after hearing the word disappear. Then she called a guard and returned to the carriage to get a package. Morana pulled out a dirty package from the package.

Then Shay saw her placing the wooden shell she had carved on the rag, as if comparing it.

"Sure enough..." Morana said such a word for no reason, and then she took the rags and shells to Shay for viewing and said: "This is the 'conspirator' who was lurking in the principality some time ago.

The thing was sent back, but the old men who were the conspirators found it empty, but for various reasons they did not investigate, and finally this thing fell into my hands."

While listening to Morana's explanation, Shay looked back and forth between the two things. Soon he noticed that the stain on the rag seemed to be dried blood, and from the traces of dried blood, Shay discovered

Some clues. Then he put the wooden shell in his hand into the traces for comparison, and as expected, he found that the wooden shell he carved matched one of the traces, especially the trace at the bottom of the wooden shell.

"This piece of cloth once wrapped these shells, and there were many of them..." Shay sighed in surprise: "Where did you get this?"

"Some time ago in Lavender City, I heard that there had been serious riots there, and there were even monsters bigger than houses... But the intelligence there seemed to be under control, except for this empty package

Nothing has been sent out." Morana said thoughtfully: "But these two things together may not be that simple. At least I very much believe in the existence of the continuous-fire musket you described.

...This kind of shell is probably something related to projectiles, but it's a pity that only you and the conspirator have seen it with your own eyes... By the way, have all the conspirators' miscellaneous fish been dealt with?"

"I'm sorry, the remaining group of miscellaneous fish have been hidden. With my current status, I have no way of accessing this kind of thing." Shay said regretfully.

"Well, I don't blame you. It's better to say that you are already very good at what you have done." Morana smiled very charmingly at Shay, then turned around and pointed to the camp location behind and said: "We are here today.

I won’t go in now, but I will arrange for them to establish a secret stronghold here, and then use it to slowly penetrate this forest... So let’s go back today.”

"Okay, Mrs. Morana." Shay finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then respectfully followed Morana towards the camp.

At the same time, Erica, who was unaware of the impending danger, had just returned to the door of the lakeside villa.

She had been staying with everyone in the village of Drahm. In addition to going there to comfort the frightened children and help them dispose of the carcasses of several fire badgers, more importantly, she had discussions with Hillis and others there.

Let’s talk about the security issues in the village. After all, today’s incident of Aram being attacked by a fire badger has sounded the alarm for Erica. The “beast” problem that she has always been concerned about has finally become a reality.

Although Erica does not think that fire badgers will attack her villa, the current state of the village is not enough to defend against the attack of a large number of fire badgers, especially the two adult fire badgers encountered today.

From all aspects, this is a very deadly threat. Putting aside the not-so-skilled psychic warlock Canaway, the children's current state alone is basically unable to withstand the attack of an adult fire badger.

As for the means of defense, the best way at present is to build a wall to surround the entire village. The wall is not made of wood piles. Although the wood piles are very strong, they are not resistant to burning, so Erica first

What comes to mind is concrete.

Erica doesn't have this kind of thing herself. All she can think of is that "Big Foreman" Hex will definitely have sufficient inventory. But the problem is that now Erica can't contact Hex at all. The only thing she can hope for is

That is to say, I will ask Severna tonight to see if I can get it from her or simply "spend some money" to hire the Hex Engineering Team to come over and build it urgently, because if she is here, I can talk for a few hours.

Maybe we can build a concrete barrier to protect the village.

The children were not as cautious as Erica about this situation. It seemed that they did not regard this attack as a very deadly threat. Perhaps it was also because most of the children were still too young.

Ka always felt that they were more concerned about the "Fire Badger BBQ Party" in the village tonight than the monsters. This reaction indeed made Erica a little dumbfounded. But it has to be said that not all children are like this, at least.

Several leaders in the village are still very worried about this matter, especially Aram, who is the only guardian with actual combat effectiveness in the village. Erica drew a very special map based on her findings. The content is:

Aram discovered a beast path today, a large beast path exclusively used by fire badgers.

At this moment, Erica has arranged for Puffy, who is good at forest activities, to go investigate, while Liz has replaced the injured Aram as the temporary guardian of the village, and according to the development of the situation, the two of them are now

I'm afraid they won't be able to go back to attend the party in the villa. However, the two of them really like staying in this village full of children. This may be a good thing, because Erica feels that they are at least starting to like this person they have never met before.

The forest that I have set foot on.

But what is somewhat surprising is that before Erica left the village, Norma and Lisa came to the village with little Polly. I heard that Severna had returned, and she also brought another

A very mysterious goddess, and everyone else, including Lisa, seemed not very accustomed to sitting on the same table as a goddess, so they found an impeccable reason and dragged their families to the village to help the children cook dinner.

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Erica guessed who the other goddess brought back by Severna was, but judging from the current situation in the villa, the only humans attending the party tonight were probably Diana and Aurora, including herself.

This kind of people always made Erica feel a little deserted, but she was more concerned about how to meet Diana later than this.

Erica actually didn't wake up when she was in the Severna Temple before, but she only heard that Diana and Kalia had visited her there, but at that time, she didn't know anything, so it would have been right.

This is the "first" reunion between the two since their resurrection.

Not seeing each other for one day was like three autumns. The two hadn't seen each other for almost more than a week. Erica was going crazy. She even tried hugging Diana's underwear for a few days to force herself to sleep.

Torture. But Erica, who was standing at the door now, dared not knock on the door, even though she had heard the sound of Diana busy in the kitchen coming from the balcony window next to her, and this kind of sound was completely the same as usual.

The tone still made Erica feel a little intoxicated, but she just didn't dare to take a step forward and reach out to knock on the door.

Erica actually had a little fear in her heart besides joy, because she was worried that Diana would be dissatisfied with her. Severna had mentioned to her before that when she told Diana about her "suicide"

She fell into a state of divine self-blame and pain. Even if Severna only said a few words, Erica could simulate Diana's state from her own impression based on her character. In short, that is

Too bad, that was definitely a scene Erica didn't want to see. Even if she was willing to fight a flesh and blood puppet with bare hands, she was unwilling to face a heartbroken lover, and especially since she didn't know how to do it at all.

to appease others.

For some reason, Erica felt cold all over when she thought of her lover's sad face in her mind. The sudden drop in her body temperature caused her body to become very stiff. The closer she got to the door, the more stiff she felt.

Strong. For this reason, Erica has been standing at the door of the villa since half an hour ago, hesitating. But what she doesn't know yet is that in fact, the people in the room except Aurora, who just got up from the bed.

In addition, everyone else discovered Erica outside the door through different ways.
To be continued...