133 The Dangerous Forest Part 2 (2/2)

The six of them did not split up. The thirteen war puppets formed a security bubble around them. Lex walked in front while Saleen and Nailisi walked at the back, controlling the three war puppets.

Now that Saleen understood how precious his magic chords were, he only activated the Invisible Shield spell found on his magic robe to guard against any unexpected events. It was not really possible to travel quickly within the forest, so there was no point in casting the Windspeed spell. The person with the weakest physique in the group had to have been Saleen, but even so, he could still walk twice as fast as the average human.

The purple forest grew closer and closer to them as they advanced forward. The wind was weak, and there were no chirps from bird or insects. Only the rustling of the giant tree leaves could be heard. The six people and thirteen war puppets took around twenty minutes to get to the fringe of the forest.

The trees in this forest did not have vines unlike the ones they had seen before, and there were many more leaves in the tree canopy. Almost every tree was as thick as three to four people hugging, while the thickest one was as thick as ten people hugging one another.

Lex sent four war puppets into the forest first while she stopped next to a large tree. Then, she bent down and grabbed some soil, rubbing it in her palm. As the soil fell from her hand, her white magic glove remained as white as it had been before.

”How is it?” Saleen knew that Lex was investigating the special characteristics of the forest.

”The moisture is adequate. There must be frequent rain in here. There are also traces of feces from magic beasts and insects. Be careful, the insects in this forest must be larger than normal.”

Larger? Everyone thought of the giant mosquitoes. Even though the giant mosquitoes had been weak, their razor sharp mouths could pierce through metal.

”I just hope that there are no man-eating ants here,” Saleen joked, but Lex turned around and glared at him.

Saleen also felt that his words had been uncalled for, as Holzer and Baimeng now looked terrified. Man-eating ants were special creatures in the Myers Mainland, and they were found in the Purgatory Desert. These ants were considered Grade 1 magic beasts, but even a Grade 6 magic beast could be swallowed up by an army of man-eating ants.

Lex turned and entered the forest. The lighting in the forest was still dim. Lex did not use illumination magic, instead casting a Fluorescence spell. This was a Grade 0 spell that was Saleen’s forte as well. This spell would cause almost no elemental fluctuations at all, and the area of illumination was not large.

Apart from the four war puppets who were scouting in front, there were three war puppets to the left, right, and back who were on guard. The six of them did not slow down their speed of advance. Also, the growth of the plants at the edge of the forest could not have been considered flourishing at all.

The four war puppets had advanced for about two miles when a bobcat-sized magic beast sprang out in front of them. This beast had the face of a wolf and had bristles all over its body. Its metal-like tail was similar to that of the beasts that had appeared back at the camp. This beast then charged into a bush on the other side of the path and vanished in a flash.

”The magic beasts are beginning to appear,” Lex warned softly. Holzer and Baimeng immediately drew their swords and gripped them in their hands.

As the six of them went deeper into the forest, all kinds of bushes began to appear. Occasionally, they also saw those plants which could become tentacles. Lex controlled the puppets and carefully planned their paths of advance, making them go around the dangerous trees.

After advancing for about ten miles, they could only see shrubs, vines, and long grass around them. The war puppets began using their curved knives to create a path for Lex and her team.

The serrated edges on the curved knives could easily cut the tough vines and weeds. With the puppets opening a path, everyone felt more relaxed. However, Lex had to cast a black fog in order to conceal the forward scouts.

With a whoosh, a colorful tiny snake pounced from a treetop and sank its fangs into the neck of one of the war puppets. That war puppet had a helmet, and its neck had a layer of metal that was as thick as a finger. A single bite from that snake had destroyed half of that metal layer, and a hole had formed via corrosion.

The snake twisted its body, trying to slither into the hole. A war puppet to the side swung its curved knife and chopped the snake into two. The snake then fell onto the ground. If the snake had bitten into the neck of a human, that human might have been dead by now.

The war puppets traveling to the side had met trouble too. The three puppets had been facing difficulty trying to move forward between the groves, so the first puppet had tried to open a way by slashing apart a vine. In front of the vine had been an empty space, and in the middle of it was a puddle of water. The puppet had taken a step into the puddle and caused tens of thousands of minute bugs to fly up. These bugs had then charged towards the puppets.

These bugs had disgusting dark red bodies, and their bodies had a network of protruding structures which squirted sticky liquid. These bugs lived beside the puddle and survived on animals who came forward to quench their thirst. The first puppet was very soon engulfed by those bugs.

The other two puppets did not try to help. Instead, they turned around and ran away. Then, there was a flash on the surface of the first puppet, and a fire started burning.

This was a Grade 0 magic array, burning magic. Real magic arrays could not be added onto the bodies of low-level puppets. The attack power of the burning magic was very low, and if these bugs had high magic resistance, this magic would not even cause any harm to them.