Chapter 156 (1/1)

After telling filgan about Roland, cheese went to the second floor of the building. Unlike the simple layout of the first floor, the second floor of the house has too many rooms compared to the area. Although there are doors between these rooms, the mage knows from fergen that only by opening these doors in the order preset by the witches can they walk to the room in the center of the floor, that is, the safe room for witches.

Cheese plans to open the portal connected to the ash tower in the safe room, which is protected by various defensive phalanxes, and is the ideal place to expand the passageway. Taking out the red chalk again from his arms, cheese began to write on the walls and doorframes of the security room the symbols he had written in the guest room at the top of the Dragon Ridge. Soon, the preparations for launching the portal are complete.

“…… Open the way With the incantation chanted by cheese in obscure language, the space in front of him is like a torn canvas, revealing an ugly gap. As the mage provided his magic power to this gap, the originally insignificant crack gradually expanded and finally stabilized after becoming a one person wide channel.

Without hesitation, cheese enters the portal to the ash tower. What the mage didn't notice was that when he opened the portal, the color of the red runes that had been painted around turned to gray in one instant, and then returned to normal in the next.

Damp That doesn't bode well. The air in the ash tower has never been so humid. Cheese opened his eyes and, as expected, what appeared before him was not the familiar grey tower, but a forest with very dense vegetation. A dark blue forest. Whether it is shrubs, trees, vines, or even the nameless flowers in the grass, it is a color, a dull blue that has lost its vitality. In addition to water vapor, there are other odors in the air, which is a kind of fishy sweet smell, but not the smell of blood. This smell is more intense than the smell of blood, and sweet and greasy.

In the first few seconds of seeing this strange scene, the mage was so shocked that he even forgot to breathe. Cheese instinctively looks back at the portal he has passed through. His brain is spinning rapidly. The portal opened by his magic will never make mistakes for no reason. He will come to this wrong place. It is likely that some existence intentionally did it. After turning his head, the mage found that the place that should have been the portal was empty at this time!

What's going on!?

Cheese's body seems to have been struck by lightning, and the disappearance of the portal means he can't get out of here quickly. The mage quickly recalled his operation before casting the spell. With his excellent psychological quality and memory, cheese can ensure that he did not make mistakes in his operation. What is the matter in front of him?

The sound of the ”Sasha” branches being touched attracted the attention of cheese. The mage turned his eyes to the place where the sound came from, but it was no different from the surrounding environment except for the swaying leaves. If you are an ordinary person, you may think of this anomaly as the sound of a breeze in the forest. But cheese knew that there would be no wind in this forest, so what stirred the leaves?

”Hoo...” After the sound, the forest was quiet again. After confirming that the smell in the air was not toxic, cheese took a breath carefully. He found that the plants within five steps around him showed signs of being cut by some invisible force. It seemed that the portal had damaged the vegetation originally growing here when the portal was opened. So, do you want to go out of this range? The mage asked himself in his mind that these strange plants are likely to be aggressive. Maybe he did not get attacked because he relied on the safe distance of five steps. Now, do you want to risk leaving this area?

”Damn it.” With a murmur, cheese felt deeply that he might have been put aside again. No matter whether the person who disturbed and closed the portal was a witch or any other existence, they obviously lacked a good opinion of himself. Once again, irritability appeared in the mage's mind, which was not a good phenomenon. He shook his head and put aside the thought in his mind for the time being. Cheese knew that his current priority was to find out where he was and how to return to Cangshi Wangdu.

It's a safe way to try to spread your magic power as antennae. In the past, this method can make the mage detect the magic smell nearby at the first time. And even if you encounter something dangerous, cheese can guarantee that you can cut off the connection between yourself and magic tentacles in order to protect yourself. However, this time, the mage was doomed to be disappointed. Cheese found that his magic power would disappear once he left the five step range, as if the dark blue plants around had some power to cut off the perception between himself and magic. It also means that once cheese enters the forest, he will lose all his ability to release magic.

The voice of ”Sasha” appeared again around the mage, and it sounded that things under the vegetation were closer than before. What's more, there is more than one place to make a sound this time!

Interesting. Is this forcing me out of the safe area? The mage thought so. These sounds are so coincidental that they seem to convey a signal that ”if you stay where you are, you will be attacked.”. Real experienced hunters don't scare their prey step by step. It's never wise to catch a dead end.So, the next question is whether to follow the other party's will. There was no doubt that something was watching cheese in the dark blue forest, and the mage thought that it would also know why he came here. Thinking of this, cheese stepped forward and walked towards the direction different from the three sounds just now.

When the mage stepped on the land covered with vegetation, he could clearly feel the power in his body quickly disappear. As predicted, this forest has the effect of disabling most casters. It's just On the low face of cheese, the mage showed an imperceptible sneer. You know, although most spellcasters need help from the outside world like other spellcasters, as apprentices of the grey tower, everyone has some means of pressing the bottom of the box. And cheese can be used here.

Pushing aside the thick branches and leaves, the mage felt as if he was walking towards the deep part of the forest. Originally in his impression, the forest which had already been very dense became almost difficult to pass through, but the ”Sasha” voice that followed him from time to time urged cheese to move forward. However, it is not surprising that the mage lacks the experience of operating in the forest. The grey tower is located in the northernmost part of the world, which leads to the fact that cheese has hardly seen the dense forest in the south. In the mage's impression, the concept of forest refers to the sparse tall forest land in the north.

After clearing a bush, cheese saw two huge trees that were too thick to be true. The strength of these two trees could definitely make the experienced woodcutter sigh that his axe was not durable enough. And unlike the free-form trees, the two trees are so straight, like two huge pillars, that go all the way up. The mage's eyes could not help but lift up. He wanted to see how high the two big trees were.

Then he saw that, at the height of the common tree crown, the two big trees were getting closer together, and there seemed to be something huge on it. Cheese soon realized what it was, and what was in front of him had been recorded in the grey tower library.

The name ”shadow in the forest” is so obscure that people can only refer to it by this name.

”Go and kill it.” A voice that could not be more familiar to cheese came from the woods behind. In the master's memory, the master of the voice was called ”teacher” by cheese.