Chapter 55 Shadow of the Beast

Time has moved forward for a few days. Elvin and his party have come to the border area of the Black Forest in the southwest, which is also the territory of Lord Libel.

Mikal was unwilling to ask lonely again: "Sorry, Master Xingzhi, although I know that I have asked this question many times, where are we going now? Where on earth are the tears of the stars waiting for us?

Xingzhi still answered calmly: "Don't worry, the tears of stars will always exist in our fate. Even without my guidance, you will also meet them for other reasons. This is the expectation of the world's great consciousness."

Another answer with such content, Mikal really can't accept it.

ai wen also wanted to know more details, so he took the initiative to ask again, "However, I hope that Xingzhi can reveal it to us a little and make us a little psychologically prepared. After all, everyone has been on the road for so many days. In order to avoid the road, we have also made a lot of detours, and our body and mind begin to get tired."

Xingzhi then made the content more specific: "I understand. In fact, I don't really know where the tears of stardust are. According to my spiritual sense, the tears of stars are not far from us. I believe that they can reach it in less than two days. It is now in the southwest direction. It seems that it is in our water. Under the square position."

Under the horizontal direction? What's the solution? Is it buried in the ground? But since Xingzhi is not sure, it seems that he will only know it when he sees it in person.

Mikal complained again: "Dizzy, Master Xingzhi, you don't know where the tears of the stars are and what they are like. If it was really buried deep in the ground, we don't have digging tools on hand now. If we had known that we had bought a few shovels in the small village we passed by before.

"Mikal, don't complain so much about Master Xingzhi. In fact, it was the first generation of monks who discovered the tears of the stars. I believe there must be a way to connect." Everyone thinks that Elvin's words are very right.

Evan continued: "And now if Master Xingzhi hadn't led the way and let us get supplies in several small villages nearby, otherwise it would have been really difficult to go on. However, to be honest, I didn't expect that there were so many villages in such a border place, and on the edge of the rumored very horrible black forest, and it seems that the villagers inside are also relatively peaceful, which is much more peaceful than the small town of Shona, which is also a border land.

Since it is not completely clear where the tears of the stars are, Xingzhi began to tell everyone what he knew about this neighborhood:

"Because this is the border land of the kingdom, the Libel territory, because this territory is located on the edge of the black forest, sparsely populated, poor in materials, without any specialties, and the minimum annual tax. Therefore, it has been ignored by the kingdom and is the weakest place under the control of the kingdom, so here It is also the smallest place to rule the kingdom. Moreover, the last lord here is also a more enlightened person. He is still very kind to the people in the territory, but it's a pity..."

"And the current Lord Nadir is rumored to have suffered from a strange disease - autism and is full of fear of the world outside the castle, so he has never left the castle where he lives. Therefore, the control of the lord here is very loose. , unlike other lords, they don't suck the people like other lords.

"So it attracts many people who are afraid of heavy taxes in other territories and come to settle down. Although they are foreigners, they can only live in the black forest around the territory. Although in this black forest, they will face the danger of huge monsters running out of the depths of the black forest, Compared with all kinds of taxes and forced labor in the kingdom, the former is much more 'gentle'.

"Nadir, the lord of Libel, who was afraid of going out, did not force it. Naturally, his auxiliary officials would not take the initiative to risk being attacked by monsters in the Black Forest. As a result, they only collected a little tax, so those officials still hid in their castles. Safer."

"In fact, the people still have a good impression of him and his parents, and more affection is sympathy for him. The reason why he is afraid to step out of his castle is that when he was a child, when he was traveling around the Black Forest with his parents, he met After the beast attack, his parents died in front of him, so he suffered from such a serious psychological trauma.

This is the local situation here that Erwin and their star wisdom know first to come here.

After listening to Xingzhi's long narrative, Aiwen remembered it. No wonder he had never seen the lords here at the founding celebration of the capital of Athos. Elvin thought that it was so remote that it was so poor that it rarely appeared. It turned out that the actual situation was like this, and Aiwen and others saw it for a long time. I know.

Then, it is rare for a lord who is not so harsh on the people. Elvin also deeply sympathizes with the tragedy encountered by Lord Nadir in this Libel territory.

Then, the topic began to turn heavy, and Xing Zhi continued to say:

"For decades, the Lord Nadir has been hiding in his castle without asking about the world. It was also because of Lord Nadir's own reasons that a few years ago, the kingdom sent an official named Farnos as the acting lord here to take charge of all the affairs here.

"The current Farnos, who is in charge, is very ambitious and has been trying his best to accumulate wealth to slap the senior officials in power in the capital of Athos. He has always wanted to replace Nadir as the real lord. In addition to the lord Nadir himself, this matter can be said to be an open secret."

"He needed a lot of money to bribe officials, so in order to increase his wealth as much as possible, he also reached out to these small villages on the edge of the black forest and directly led the army to levy taxes. At first, it was a year and a half to levy taxes, and then the interval began to get shorter and shorter, getting closer to the main city of Libel. The more damaged the villages are, like the small villages we passed before, because they are too far away to maintain a more peaceful and stable appearance, but this is only superficial. In fact, the local people have begun to worry that in the near future, Farnos's black hand will eventually reach out to their faces. Come here."

Aiwen sighed, "Alas, the world is so big, but all the people of the kingdom are dominated by the kingdom."

After finishing the topic here, everyone continued to walk, but at this time, Shona looked a little scared. He quietly pulled down Evan's clothes and whispered, "Brother Evan, this... will run out of the huge monster that cannibals in the black forest. Is this... true?"

Xingzhi has just said so much. It seems that what Shuna cares about and fears most is about the monsters in the Black Forest, and the danger is so dangerous that even the lords have been killed. It can be seen that in this black forest, it is really very dangerous.

ai wen comforted Xiuna and said, "Shu Na, don't worry. If there is a monster, we will also protect you and won't abandon you, just like at the broken bridge."

Hearing Evan's comfort, Shona breathed a sigh of relief, but before Shuna could take a second breath, a dark shadow suddenly flashed from behind the trees beside him.

"Roar!" The shadow made a loud cry.

The people who were both agile and reacted quickly saw through the identity of the shadow. It turned out to be Mikar. He deliberately hid and wanted to suddenly scare Xiuna like this.

For Shuna, who had a weak reaction, this scared him and hurriedly retreated, but because he was too anxious, he accidentally fell down, sat on the ground, and shouted desperately in his mouth: "Wow! It's terrible! It's so big! Spider!"

The purpose of Mikal's prank has been achieved, and he said to Shona with a smile, "Hahaha, it's me. Don't exaggerate. If you are a man, you should have the courage to be fearless. Hurry up. How can there be so many beasts and monsters coming out in such a daytime? Do I look like spiders? Spider, haha...ha...huh? Spider?"

When Mikal was still puzzled, he suddenly felt that a foreign body fell on his head, and it was so big that he covered his whole head, but what was more frightening was that the foreign body actually began to move, obviously a living thing, and it was crawling towards Mikal's face.

"What a big spider!" The people around shouted in one voice.

And Mikal, the person involved, also understood, desperately pushed away the foreign body on his head with his hand, and then stared with his feet and jumped far away, looking very embarrassed.

The foreign body was pushed away and fell to the ground. Yes, this is really a spider. It's not as big as a person's whole face. Looking at the pattern on its back, it's like a human face. It's terrible. After landing, the spider hurriedly climbed away and suddenly disappeared among the trees.

Shuna and Mikal, who were scared by this, did not make a sound and stared at the place where the spider had just disappeared for fear that it would emerge again. Suddenly, Mikal felt the presence of a foreign body on his back, and the frightened Mikal jumped away again with a "wow" sound.

This time it was not the spider attacking again, but Ted patted him on his back. Everyone laughed at Mikal's reaction, and even Shuna, who was sitting on the ground, was so happy that they couldn't close their mouths.

Mikal hurriedly explained, "Why are you laughing? People will react like this when you are suddenly bapt on such a big spider. And you, Dead Ted, deliberately patted me on the back like this. He has a bad intention. Do you know that people will scare people to death?

Ted said bluntly, "I didn't mean that just now. I just patted the dirty things on your back with my hand. And you just said that if you are a man, you should have the courage to be fearless.

Carlton was a little dumb: "Well... Well, I'm not afraid. I just hate spiders all the time, and my movements have always been so big."

ai wen clapped his hands to calm everyone down: "Okay, this is just a spider. Although it is a little bigger, it is also very common in such a forest environment. Generally, it is just to catch some small animals and so on. Don't be surprised. As Mikal just said, big During the day, no beasts will come out.

So the farce ended in the laughter of everyone, but when Elvin and the others continued to move forward for a while, they couldn't laugh.

In front of them, there were many broken branches lying horizontally and vertically. Not only that, even the thick trunks were broken or uprooted and fell to the ground. The surrounding vegetation was covered with scratches of various sizes, and a large gap was broken on the larger stones. I also saw a pool of turquoise, emitting stench stickiness**.

At this time, everyone knew that there had been a very fierce battle here, and it can be seen from the broken branches that this was caused by the violent impact of some huge object or what happened not long ago, and those large pools of disgusting stickiness** were obviously some kind of creatures being rocked. The blood that flowed from the injury, which was something that Elvin and the others had never seen before.

What kind of creature can flow out blood? Various phenomena and evidence show that this creature is very large and full of wild violence. Not only that, but also a very huge crack was cracked on the ground not far away, forming a big hole leading to the ground. The hole was very dark, which made people feel creepy at a glance.

This scene cast a shadow on everyone's hearts. Everyone couldn't laugh and dared not stay here more. They hurriedly took a detour and raised their vigilance.

It was not easy to leave the ominous place, just as everyone's heart was about to fall, suddenly a slender object flew out of the forest in front of it. It was so fast that even Grimio could not fully react. Fortunately, this object hit the ground in front of everyone, and then everyone could see the appearance of this object. It turned out that this was an arrow. It can be seen from the arrow that it was made by hand, but it looked very delicate, and the arrow penetrated deeply into the ground. It can be seen that the person who shot this arrow is very good at archery.

At this time, a man's voice came from the front: "This arrow is just a warning that you can't move forward. If you step over that arrow, the next arrow will be deeply inserted into your chest."