Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 170 Misty Mountains
Early the next morning, Rhodes and the others walked into the Misty Mountains under Philip's leadership.

They paid Philip twenty gold coins as a deposit, and promised him to pay him the remaining fifty gold coins after they left the Misty Mountains.

Rhode felt that Philip must have certain confidence in his own strength or be a little stupid to accept their employment, but the former was more likely, otherwise he would not be able to cross the Misty Mountains alone.

"Aren't you carrying any weapons? What if you encounter a beast?" Rhodes asked suspiciously. He saw that Philip was not carrying any weapons.

"It's enough for me to bring a dagger." Philip touched his waist.

"Is it really enough for you to only bring a dagger? Isn't it said that there are undead, werewolves and other creatures in the Misty Mountains?" Baron reminded kindly.

"These are all made up by my greedy family to deceive ignorant civilians. Anyway, I have been into the mountains so many times, and I have traveled through the mountains alone and have never encountered these things." Philip smiled. "It may also be that these creatures really existed in the Misty Mountains in the past, but now the elements in the environment are gradually becoming thinner, and even the magic power contained in herbs has decreased a lot, but it is said that you can still find many plants full of magic power in Nord .”

Rhodes felt that the energy in the surrounding environment of the Nord Kingdom was more abundant, while the energy in the environment of the Fish Kingdom and the Roman Empire was slightly poorer.He could feel this when he was cultivating internal strength. The speed of increasing internal strength by running Shenzhaogong in the Nord Kingdom was faster than that in the other two countries. At first, he thought it was his own illusion.

"It will probably take us a few days to pass through the Misty Mountains?" Rhodes asked. He felt that it was really a correct decision for them to hire a guide.

Not long after he entered the Misty Mountains, he couldn't even find the way back. The surrounding fog was so thick that he didn't know which direction he should go.

"It will take at least three days if we're lucky," replied Philip.

"Why is this kind of thing related to luck?" Baron asked curiously.

"Because I'm not sure which road I will take you to, but every road can go out. Although I have only crossed the Misty Mountains once, it is not difficult for me to cross them again." Philip explained.

"What method did you use to identify the direction here?" Baron thought he was not a road idiot, but when he arrived in this mountain range, he felt that his previous experience was not enough.

The thick fog prevents him from seeing the sun, so he can't tell the direction by the sun, and the tree grows strangely, which can be described as neat, and he can't tell north and south by the growth of the tree.Along the way, he had left notches in the trees with a knife to prevent himself from getting lost.

"I have a special talent, as long as I follow my feeling, I will not get lost." Philip replied.

Rhodes suddenly felt that he might not be as reliable as himself.

He used the mage ball, and he could do many things with this purple-black light group as a medium, such as using mental power to detect the surrounding situation, and he could also drag and lift objects.

While following Philip, Rhodes controlled the mage ball to observe the surrounding environment with mental power. The area that can be explored is not large, and the maximum radius is estimated to be less than 50 meters.It is not very useful on the vast plains, but it is still useful in this lush mountain range.

"There is a saber-toothed tiger in front of us, in the bushes directly in front of us." Rhode reminded in a low voice.

In this world, the saber-toothed tiger is basically at the top of the food chain, and only a few kinds of wild beasts are its opponents, such as mammoths, frost trolls, and groups of frost wolves.Even the relatives of the frost troll, the forest troll, whose vitality is so powerful that it is unscientific, are not its opponents, but these two creatures generally do not conflict.

The saber-toothed tiger that Rhodes observed ambushing them was five meters long and two meters high at the shoulders. It was so big that Rhodes felt a little unscientific. How much food such a big body needed to meet its needs every day.

It lay quietly 30 meters away, waiting for Rhodes and the others to approach.

"What do you usually do when you encounter such a beast? With your little dagger?" Baron stopped and looked at Philip with a smile.

"Running, of course." Philip replied blankly.

"Can you outrun it?" Baron took off the newly built giant ax behind his back and held it in his hand.

"He just needs to run faster than us." Rhodes said suddenly.

He knew very well that human beings would definitely not be able to outrun this kind of beast. It would be better to fight. He felt that the saber-toothed tiger should be repelled. After some bitterness, it will give up by itself.

Rhodes slowly walked a few steps in the direction of the saber-toothed tiger, mixed his internal power and magic power, and sent an enhanced version of the flame palm in the direction of the saber-toothed tiger.

It may be the reason why the breathing method continuously increased his internal strength, Rhodes felt that the flaming giant hand launched by the flaming palm had grown a little more.

Beasts have a natural fear of flames. Seeing a giant flaming hand the size of a house flying towards it, the saber-toothed tiger turned around and ran away.

After avoiding the giant flame hand, the saber-toothed tiger didn't rush towards Rhodes and the others, but bared its teeth at them, turned around and left.

Creatures seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. A saber-toothed tiger does not want to be injured, which will make it weak, and a little weakness may lead to death.

For example, oral ulcers, for humans, oral ulcers just make him uncomfortable for a period of time, but for wild animals, oral ulcers are almost a death sentence.

"I didn't expect you to be so powerful." Philip praised.

"It's okay." Rhodes replied, he now felt that this Philip must have a hand, otherwise he wouldn't be so calm after learning that there was a saber-toothed tiger in front of him.

Before Rhodes detected such a huge beast, he couldn't help being a little startled.

"Go ahead." Baron said after seeing the saber-toothed tiger leave.

On the next road, Rhodes would use the mage ball every few steps to see if there were any beasts ambushing them, but their luck was not bad, they didn't encounter any more ferocious beasts, and Rhodes relied on the mage ball to catch seven Only a rabbit, they don't have to eat hard dry food for dinner.

Soon it was night time.

At noon, without him stopping to eat or rest, they just took out the dry food and ate a couple of casual bites.

However, they decided to find a place to rest at night. Most carnivorous animals are nocturnal, so traveling at night is not only slow but also more dangerous.

Now Rhodes thought that before coming to them, he should have just walked to the place where the saber-toothed tiger was sleeping. It wasn't that the saber-toothed tiger wanted to attack them proactively. After all, saber-toothed tigers were cats that hunted at night and rested during the day.

After the seven rabbits that Rhodes caught were skinned by Baron, they were roasted and eaten on freshly peeled branches.Rhodes still has unused cumin and some sea salt from Fish Kingdom.

Fish Kingdom's sea salt is already the finest salt on the mainland, but Rhodes still feels that it has a bit of a bitter taste, not a pure salty taste, and the grains are a bit larger than the salt he used to eat.

Rhodes thought of another way to get rich.

After eating the delicious roasted rabbit meat, Rhodes found a tree to lean against to rest. He doesn't need to watch the night today, he just needs to sleep...

　Thanks for the empty monthly pass for the bottle!

　　The side story is finished, you can check it out in the work related section.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)