klisemfg Chapter 230: Pathless Forest
Chapter 230: Pathless Forest
"Ah, when I was young, I dreamed of becoming an explorer!" Hurst sighed wistfully as he stepped away from the loudspeaker. "As an explorer, who wouldn't want to see what the world of elves looks like?"
Unfortunately, the Pathless Forest was the limit of his exploration. No matter how hard he tried to mark the direction inside, he would eventually appear at the starting point of the forest where he entered, again and again until his food reserves were exhausted and he had to leave.
The natural barrier stationed outside the elves' territory does not welcome humans.
An emergency also occurred on the other side of the field. When the blue team took the box, countless spiders crawled out from a crack in a hill, densely packed and hissing, rushing towards the players.
"Oh my God, I will never participate in this competition, and no one can persuade me in the future!" Lilith, who still cannot desensitize to arthropods, said with a pale face.
A girl on the blue team was a little slow to react and was entangled in the silk threads spit out by the spiders. She was stuck in place and couldn't move. The spiders immediately climbed up her legs and were about to wrap her up completely in the blink of an eye!
"Vina, get out!" Their commander remained calm in the face of danger. Seeing that he could not immediately help his teammates out of danger, he simply asked her to leave, so that others would not be slowed down by worrying about their teammates.
Vina gritted her teeth, crushed the slug flower, and disappeared into the arena.
The spiders lost their prey and suddenly fell from mid-air. They seemed to be stunned for a moment. When they tried to find other targets, the other members of the blue team had already run to the intersection of the central waterways, stood under a towering tree, and began to cover the magicians in their team as they chanted group spells.
In the river behind them, a huge black shadow was prowling. The audience on the podium could see it clearly and couldn't help but worry for the blue team who were facing the river.
After one magician cast a large-scale ice spell to freeze all the spiders rushing over, another magician took over and chanted the spell of the thunder and lightning realm. Purple lightning flashed at a high frequency, like a divine punishment from the sky, which brought a devastating blow to the spider group.
After the thunder and lightning, only a pile of spider remains were left on the ground.
"Hey! It took me a long time to catch these things! I finished it so quickly!" In the special guest seats next to the teachers' seats, the dwarves drank and watched the fun.
"Burp————" The partner next to him wanted to speak, but he burped for a long time first, "It's okay, man, I still have a lot of things that I haven't put into the stadium yet."
When the Blue Team finally breathed a sigh of relief, the dark shadow in the water behind them finally moved. It gradually approached the shore where the noise was the loudest, tentatively extended its tentacles, and then suddenly wrapped around the waist of the person standing at the end of the team from behind, dragged him off the shore, and threw him into the air.
"Patton!" His partner noticed something was wrong the first time and tried to pull, but he was unable to shake the tentacles' power and was almost carried away. His teammates hurriedly shouted at her to let go.
Fortunately, Patton was on alert at the time, and his sword was tightly held in his hand. Even though it was suddenly rolled up by the tentacles, he was still able to move. Looking at the frightened faces of his teammates, he gritted his teeth and chopped hard at the tentacles on his body!
With a "swish", the flesh was actually cut open, revealing the snow-white flesh inside. Patton was stunned by how easy it was to do it. He clearly remembered that last year the seniors had almost no way to deal with this thick-skinned creature.
"The new tentacles are really more tender—" Lilith kept an eye on her ingredients and wiped her saliva. Seafood hotpot! Let's have seafood hotpot today!
The watcher in the water felt the pain and fell into a state of rage. The IQ of this creature was not low. It was defeated by these two-horned beasts last year. It came this year with a heart of revenge. Now it was injured again and didn't even have the mood to eat this ugly thing!
It kept its body close to the water surface, raised the tentacles wrapped around Barton higher, and then slammed it into the huge rocks on the other side of the shore.
It actually wanted to throw him to death!
"Patton!" His partner was stunned, but they were too far away from the other side and could not provide any support from this distance!
Patton only felt the force on his waist and abdomen suddenly tightened, almost making him vomit his breakfast, and then his perspective suddenly spun, he only caught a glimpse of the pale and terrified faces of his teammates, and then a stone wall came into view, he closed his eyes helplessly, waiting to be eliminated.
With a "bang", Barton felt as if half of his body had lost consciousness, and his head was buzzing. He opened his eyes calmly and prepared to greet the teachers in the school clinic, but he saw himself lying on -
On a tree trunk?
"That's--" Lilith's eyes widened immediately, and she heard a tacit and synchronized inhalation sound in her ears.
The huge tree near the central water area stretched out its branches to catch Patton when he was smashed into the boulder? He looked at the trunk of the tree and found that the tree lines on it vaguely formed a face, which was staring at him!
"I've learned so much this year..." Jaina sighed sleepily beside Lilith, "I thought these things would only exist in textbooks forever, those Tiplins, and this--"
"Oak Guard?" Instructor Hurst was also stunned. He looked at the dwarfs beside him in doubt. Are you going to the Pathless Forest to buy goods? He was still trying to laugh.
"Ahaha, it seems, it seems that there are really many new things this year! Our competition field not only has various threats, but also friendly neutral creatures. This, this must be the ingenuity of our dwarf friends!"
At the dwarfs' table, there was already a huge quarrel -
"Who, who did this?!" Suo Rong jumped up and down on his chair, "Who brought this guy out?"
"Haha, I drank a little too much that day. To be honest, it was too late, so I just dug a piece of land here." A dwarf with pigtails said with a dazed look.
"This guy refused to leave, so I just, hiccup, brought him here with me. Don't worry, I'll send him back when the time comes. The elves won't find out, hiccup—"
However, the atmosphere in the teacher's seat nearby was not so relaxed and harmonious.
"These..." Lady Terra put down the telescope after seeing the tall oak guard send the student to the shore. She sighed, "These seem to be creatures within the elves' territory. I really envy those messy dwarves."
The teachers were speechless for a moment. Although none of them had ever witnessed the elves' survival in Gloria, they could imagine the prosperity of the past from the current scale of the academy and the empty houses. Their views on the elves were the most complicated.
"The East Coast is in such a situation now. We should work together... just like a thousand years ago." Teacher Wolfe stroked his hair irritably. "This is our common responsibility, but they..."
"But they still refuse to communicate with us." Teacher Colin sighed, "Even Simon...can't cross the Pathless Forest. Without the elves, it will be difficult for us to unite more tribes..."
"They won't even accept half-elves? How much do they hate us?" Teacher Wanda exhaled a breath of hot air in the cold, rubbing her hands and sighing.
"Be positive, dear." Teacher Jacqueline pulled her shawl tighter and looked towards a simple shed outside the stadium, which was a temporary shed built by the school doctors to treat the wounded.
“Perhaps the key to breaking the impasse has not arrived yet,” she said, looking at the silver-haired girl standing outside the shed.