The inside of the Forest of Death was darker than the outside. Thanks to the dark fog, Hyeonu and Tang-E’s field of view was narrowed. Moreover, they were surrounded by black trees with dark green leaves, so it felt even darker. Tang-E gave more strength to the paw holding Hyeonu’s hand as their surroundings became even gloomier.
Feeling a heavy pressure in his hand, Hyeonu glanced at Tang-E with a faint smile.
‘In the end, he is just pretending to be strong...’
Hyeonu looked down at Tang-E and spoke in a kind voice, “I don’t think it will take too long, so don’t worry too much.”
“Bah, when did I worry? Hum hum.” Tang-E sniffed with a sullen expression, but the pressure from his paw still remained the same.
“Tang-E, it is a bit dark. Can you light a fire for me?”
It was wasteful for Tang-E to use his fire magic just to light up the surroundings, but it was fine if Hyeonu kept injecting magic power into the fire. The cooldown time would start from the moment the magic power injection into the skill ended.
“Understood, Master dude.” Tang-E welcomed Hyeonu’s words. In fact, he had been waiting for this.
Black flames appeared in the air and revealed the surroundings. Although the color of the flames was black, that didn’t mean they didn’t glow. In addition, the black flames had other effects. The intense heat eliminated the fog. Fog was water droplets floating in the air, so once the water droplets disappeared, the fog naturally lost its presence.
‘This is an unexpected result?’
The smile on Hyeonu’s face deepened at the unexpected harvest. His field of view widened by at least five meters, making his current visibility 30 meters wide.
“Well done, Tang-E.” Hyeonu gently stroked Tang-E’s head and moved quickly toward the location the demon guard had mentioned.
***
Taking the first step was always a strange and terrible thing. The source of fear was ignorance—not knowing which way to go, what would happen, or what type of place this was. The horror of not knowing lasted until a number of experiences accumulated. However, some unusual people turned this fear into an interest in new things.
“Master dude, I think I’ve adapted to this place.”
“It feels just like a forest with a slightly darker atmosphere.”
Meanwhile, there were those like these two people who adapted too quickly. Tang-E and Hyeonu quickly adapted to the Forest of Death due to Tang-E’s flames. The atmosphere largely depended on the visual aspect. So now that the fog had cleared and their dim vision had brightened up, the forest felt less gloomy.
“By the way Master dude, are there no monsters here? I can’t see any despite walking for over an hour.” Tang-E now had an expression of boredom. It was a reasonable reaction since it wasn’t normally difficult to meet monsters when hunting in a field. Rather, it was usually difficult to kill the swarming monsters. In particular, Hyeonu always went to fields with few players, so it was easy to meet monsters.
“Who knows? The atmosphere is like this, but perhaps it’s a place with no monsters?” Hyeonu said while shaking his head. This was also Hyeonu’s first time coming to the Forest of Death, so he didn’t know the answer to Tang-E’s question.
“Then it’s probably better to get out of here quickly. There is nothing to see and enjoy in this forest,” Tang-E said. Then he kicked off from the ground and rushed forward. He was determined not to remain in this forest for another day. However, unexpected actions always had unexpected consequences. Something huge suddenly appeared out of nowhere and hit Tang-E.
“Uwaaah!” Tang-E screamed and quickly avoided the surprise attack. The party involved, Tang-E, didn’t know what was going on, but Hyeonu could see the entire process from a distance. Tang-E had kicked off happily from the ground, and a huge tortoise suddenly appeared from beside him. The tortoise’s front foot attack moved like a thunderbolt toward Tang-E.
‘I knew this would happen...’ Hyeonu shook his head and drew the Mysterious Sky Sword. The pressure coming from the tortoise seemed very unusual. He couldn’t leave this to Tang-E and just watch from the sidelines.
‘Won’t it be hard for Tang-E alone?’
The tortoise was large enough to be reminiscent of a small mountain. It wasn’t for no particular reason that Hyeonu felt the tortoise was huge. Just the tortoise’s front legs were already dozens of meters in circumference. It wasn’t comparable to a soccer field but a hill in a neighborhood. He couldn’t figure out how he hadn’t seen such a huge body moving. His field of view might not be as wide as normal, but it was impossible not to have seen something of this size.
‘Perhaps...’ Hyeonu’s eyes narrowed. There must be a hidden corner. What looked like a small mountain earlier had most likely been the tortoise in front of him.
‘Is this the highest-grade demonic creature that the demon mentioned?’
Hyeonu had heard of such a monster. He remembered the story of the demonic creature of the highest grade being mentioned in the description of the Forest of Death.
‘I was told to avoid it.’
This level was worth avoiding. No, it was right to avoid it unconditionally. Nobles weren’t invincible, and the combat patterns of monsters outside such categories couldn’t be predicted before fighting.
‘Is it more powerful than a snow mountain cyclops?’
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