Chapter 539: Strange Valley

Herag looked at the ground expressionlessly and let go of the woman in his arms.

He walked forward a few steps, looking as if he was taking a walk.

Finally, he stood beside the campfire in the camp, holding a long sword in his hand.

Herag looked at the ground, holding the long sword in silence.

After a moment, he suddenly stabbed the long sword into the ground and stabbed it deeply.

A stream of blood spurted out from the ground, and the painful wail of the monster was faintly heard.

Underground was a long monster with many tentacles on its body, attached to its body like the roots of plants.

This monster was summoned through the shadow altar, so it would not attack Herag.

Herag looked at the movement trajectory of this monster and waited in this place in advance.

When the monster swam past, it was killed with a sword and died directly.

Herag's goal was to successfully reach Tares County, and this monster could be regarded as a contribution to himself.

These monsters were summoned to help wizards, and now they are just in a different way.

Torre and Ferry were relieved when they saw this scene. This kind of monster lurking underground is the most difficult to deal with.

Monsters that move underground are generally very fast, and it is difficult to accurately capture their traces.

Even if they can find their location accurately, it is difficult to cause effective damage to them.

The methods they are good at seem to be somewhat helpless against the monsters hiding underground. The powerful power on them can't be exerted much through the thick soil layer.

In this situation, generally only spellcasters have some special methods to deal with it well, but spellcasters are extremely rare now.

Now because of the war with wizards, the importance of spellcasters is increasing.

As long as there are spellcaster qualifications, they are basically recruited by some big forces, and there are very few wandering outside as adventurers.

This leads to the fact that even if there are adventure groups that can offer high prices, spellcasters rarely choose to become adventurers.

Even a powerful adventure group like Ferry is now difficult to recruit spellcasters.

It's not that they can't afford the price, but that others are unwilling to come.

After Herag solved the underground trouble, it was easy for Ferry's adventure group to deal with other monsters.

About half an hour later, the invading monster group was completely wiped out.

Although a few people were injured on Ferry's side, no one died, which was very lucky.

After this night, the people in the caravan had a more intuitive impression of the strength of this taciturn thin man, and they were more awed.

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Two months later, the caravan arrived in Tares County, but there were eight fewer people in the caravan.

Herag couldn't remember how many times he encountered monster attacks on the road, it has become commonplace.

In the remaining half of the territory of the Kingdom of Norn, except for the slightly safer areas around the city, other areas are very dangerous.

At least for ordinary people, it is more dangerous.

The farther away from the border, the fewer monsters there are.

When we arrived at Tares County, there were already very few monsters.

Even if there were monsters, they would be quickly eliminated by the defense forces here.

It is still difficult for those monsters to travel a long distance to reach here.

"Mr. Ruwak, this is your reward. Thank you for your efforts along the way." Torre took out a bag of gold coins and said.

Herag did not look impressive, but he was powerful and saved many dangers along the way.

He took the heavy purse, which probably contained more than 300 gold coins, far exceeding the price agreed at the beginning.

Herag said, "Is this reward a little too much?"

Torre smiled and said, "You deserve such a reward. We will stay in Tares County for about half a year. If you are interested, you can continue to come to me."

"No problem." Herag nodded slightly, without any expression, and did not say anything else.

Torre did not care either. He had long been accustomed to Herag's expression and knew that he was like this and did not like to talk.

After Herag said goodbye to Torre and others, he went to the city to buy a horse, replenished some supplies, and then went out of the city to the direction of the Strange Valley.

Herag also learned about it during this period. Since the invasion of Strange Valley, the world tree there was uprooted.

Now there are no elves living in Strange Valley, and no humans live there.

Only some people go there to see the scene there, but they will not stay for long.

Because it has always been the territory of the elves, no one dares to stay there for too long, so as not to provoke the elves.

It takes about a month to get from Tares County to Strange Valley. Herag didn't see many people along the way, and there were few caravans.

In the past, there were many caravans on this road, specializing in the business of the elves.

But now the elves there have been destroyed, and these caravans have naturally moved.

One month later.

Herag arrived at the small town outside Strange Valley.

When he came to this town with the Ruby Chamber of Commerce, the town was still very prosperous, with people coming and going.

But at this moment, there was only a dead silence in front of him, and the whole town was dilapidated.

Many houses collapsed, and occasionally a few adventurers could be seen finding an abandoned house in the town to rest.

They just used this place as a place to stay when they were on the road.

Herag's arrival aroused the vigilance of these people.

Those who dare to act alone outside these days are not simple people.

Herag did not pay attention to these people, but walked around the town.

The hotel where he lived at that time was already in a dilapidated state. Judging from the traces, there seemed to be some fierce conflicts before, and the main structure of the house was destroyed.

After walking around the town for a while, Herag went to the depths of the Strange Valley.

When he came to the periphery of the Strange Valley, he was a little dumbfounded.

Originally, the periphery of the Strange Valley was a forest, which was also a defensive fortification of the Strange Valley.

But now there is no forest, only a wasteland in front of him, with no grass growing.

There are some charcoal residues on the ground, and there are many messy footprints.

Herag looked at this scene, as if he saw many people taking away all the charcoal here.

It seems that the forest is indeed extraordinary. Even if it was burned into charcoal, it was robbed by a group of people as a treasure.

The original fence wall was naturally gone, and Herag stepped into the wasteland and walked deep into it.

He looked up into the distance, and the huge world tree had disappeared.

The houses in the Strange Valley also disappeared, replaced by various large pits and cracks.

The cracks on the ground were very exaggerated, the widest of which was seven or eight meters wide, like a canyon.

Herag quickened his pace and came to the location of the world tree. (End of this chapter)