God's Garden

Purple-gray tree vines are attached to the wall, and a frightening black atmosphere permeates the bottom of the wall, as if a loss of consciousness will drag people into the abyss.Although the sun is still high in the sky now, the eerie feeling has not diminished.

In the past, I didn't have any ideas when I looked at it from a distance, but now Bei Yumen, who is standing outside, understands this daunting feeling of suffocation.

"The content of the actual combat is very simple."

Naia, Bien and teachers of other courses stood at the front, and Naiya gave a unified explanation,

"In the middle of the forest lives the lord of the half-demon forest, the Baili Snow Lion." Niya paused, and continued, "The Baili Snow Lion is the largest creature in the half-demon forest. To make medicine, your task is to find a way to use a short beard from it."

At this moment, Bi Lianna raised her hand and asked, "Is one root for each person? Teacher."

"That's right." Naiya drew a length with her staff, "Whether you want to cooperate or fight alone, a person must hold a five-centimeter beard for three days to be considered successful."

Naiya also explained some things, and then issued a moving spell to each of them.

"This spell can allow you to leave the half-demon forest in an instant. It can be used if you encounter an unsolvable danger. Similarly, the actual combat course is also regarded as a failure."

Naiya saw that the expressions on the faces of each of the students were different, and she didn't know what to say for a while. Since she knew that the actual combat lasted for three days, she had a bad feeling.After explaining the important things, the teachers who were blocking the entrance of the half-demon forest stepped aside one after another.

"When three days come, you will be forced to leave regardless of success or failure. Is it okay?"

"..."

Everyone was so nervous that they couldn't speak, and so did Bei Yumen, their hearts were beating thumpingly.

"Hero, aren't you nervous?"

Bei Yumen looked at He Luo beside him, and saw that he looked relaxed, with his hands in his pockets, as if he was very leisurely.

"No." He shrugged, "Anyway, we're in a team of two, and I'll leave it up to you to be nervous."

"..."

Not giving the two people a chance to continue chatting, Naiya stretched out her staff and pointed at the high wall of the half-demon forest. After muttering a spell, the gate slowly shone along a specific pattern.After the light dissipated, the stone door also opened, and the thick mist rushed out immediately, with a bit of icy breath, which made people subconsciously avoid it.

"……Ok?"

Herro questioned and squinted towards the door, but when the fog cleared, there was nothing.

At the same moment, Naiya waved her staff to ask the students to enter.

"Practical exam, start!"

When everyone entered the forest, the gate behind them had already been closed, and everyone dispersed according to their groups.

The feeling of no retreat made people even more nervous, especially the bottom of their feet seemed to be wrapped in black mist, which was extremely terrifying.

The towering purple trees covered the sky, it was impossible to tell that it was still broad daylight, and the forest was unbelievably quiet. Bei Yumen looked around nervously, worried that something would suddenly run out from behind the trees.

"..." Looking at his appearance, He Luo smiled, "Are you really nervous for my sake?"

Bei Yumen, who subconsciously hid behind him, glanced at him, "Wouldn't it be scary if something ran out suddenly?"

Horror movies are what he hates the most in his life. Horror movies are also one of the reasons why he hated looking at mirrors before. The atmosphere like the half-demon forest is what he fears the most. It is so quiet that he has to maximize his senses. like.

"How do you get to the middle of the forest like this?"

Bei Yumen flattened his mouth, "... Wordy!"

He Luo smiled and walked inside, and Bei Yumen had no choice but to follow.The grass was a bit wet, and the touch under his feet always felt disgusting. He tried to ignore the black mist under his feet, while walking forward while holding his staff tightly.

After walking for nearly 10 minutes, the surrounding scenery did not change. Hero was about to observe whether there were any traces of biological activity nearby, when he frowned and made Bei Yumen back a little.

"Something is coming."

Hearing what he said, Bei Yumen took a deep breath.

Before he had time to prepare himself, he heard a terrifying roar, and a pair of bright red eyes appeared in the darkness. When Bei Yumen saw clearly, he subconsciously took a step back.

It's wolves.It was bigger than him, and there were still blood stains on the fangs and sharp teeth. It was facing the two of them in a vigilant posture, and the grunting sound from his throat made his whole body feel like goose bumps.

"Oh, did we enter the territory by mistake?"

Seeing that He Luo was still in the mood to smile, Bei Yumen was nervous, "Now, what should we do now?"

"What should I do……"

Herro thought for a while, then stretched out his hand, beckoning to the wolves, full of provocation.

"How about playing around?"

Woo——you are not asking a question at all!

Beiyumen didn't even have time to cry, and the wolves rushed up together. According to visual inspection, there were about six of them, and they all attacked from the front.

Herro took a step back, and turned his head to Beiyumen, "Hold me for a second or two, okay?"

"..." Bei Yumen frowned, seeing the wolves jumping up one after another, he could only raise his staff, "Angel shield!"

The huge shield blocked the way of the wolves, and they landed on the shield, biting vigorously. It didn't take long for the shield to crack, and then slowly disappeared.The wolves, who were about to continue attacking without any obstacles, aimed at Herro again.

But at this time, Herro had already finished casting the spell, facing the wolves that were about to fall, he snorted and laughed.

"Bye bye—" He stretched out his hand and waved it up lightly, "No dust and chaotic wind."

Suddenly, a huge gust of wind blew up from below, and Kita Yumonnin almost couldn't stand still, and the wolves who were still in the air were directly blown far away.

"Look, I said don't worry..."

Before Herro finished speaking, a wolf howl interrupted him, resounding throughout the sky.

He followed the sound, and saw one or two still hiding in the bushes in the forest, their blood-red eyes wide open, and howling wolves kept ringing.

"..." He Luo breathed a sigh of relief, grabbed Bei Yumen's hand, "Let's go."

"Eh, eh?"

"They are calling for their partners." He said, pulling the Beiyumen away, "If it is not killed, the Gorefiend wolves will appear in an endless stream."

Finally, they stopped hearing howling wolves, and Bei Yumen looked around, and there was no longer any biological breath, so they stopped running.

"That kind of wolf just now is called a blood demon wolf?"

As Bei Yumen asked, he took a breather. In that state just now, he had no chance to read information about the wolves, so it was considered a kind of monster, right?

"Yes, their characteristic is that their eyes are red like oozing blood." Hero said leisurely, "It is a very united group. If they didn't leave just now, they might call the blood demon wolves in the whole forest over."

"..."

Bei Yumen sighed, Hero hadn't stopped to repel them, otherwise he was the one who most wanted to leave quickly.

Well, but thanks to repelling the wolves, they have time to retreat...

"Then how do I get to the middle of the forest?"

The Baili Snow Lion lives in the middle of the forest, but neither the campus map nor the map on his bracelet works. How to find the center?

"Hmm, good question."

"That……"

"I don't know either." Herro spread his hands.

"..."

Bei Yumen feels that his future is worth worrying about.

"Anyway, let's move on."

Hero spoke leisurely while continuing to walk forward.In fact, he was a little confused, because the blood demon wolves usually don't appear on the outskirts of the forest, they should choose to live near the center of the forest...

The two walked in the forest for a while, and encountered nothing unexpectedly, but they were still a little tired from walking on the wet and sticky land for a long time.Seeing that it was already past noon, Herro found a relatively clean place for Beiyumen to rest.

Sitting on the boulder, Bei Yumen crossed his legs, not wanting to keep his feet stuck in the black mist.Herro took out his pocket and handed him a few cube-like objects.

"What is this?" After taking it, Kita Mimon stared at the small square on his palm.

It's a brown cube that doesn't smell like a cookie, but looks a bit like a biscuit.

"Food." Herro threw one into his mouth, "You can also treat it as a concentrated meal of nutrition, a specialty of our country."

"..."

Staring at it for a while, Bei Yumen took one and put it in his mouth. It had no special taste, and it tasted crunchy.As soon as he swallowed it, he felt an obvious sense of fullness, and his spirit seemed to improve.

A little surprised, Bei Yumen's face was full of surprise, "It's so convenient."

"After all, it was invented for convenience." Hero waved his hand and continued, "It also lacks the enjoyment of eating food."

Seeing that he nodded in understanding, Herro smiled, "You take those with you, you can eat them when you're hungry."

"That's right, I didn't even notice what to do with the diet for these three days." Bei Yumen scratched his head, "Thank you."

Herro tilted his head and didn't say much.After they rested enough, they set off on the journey again.Because they will spend the night in the forest for two days, they should also pay attention to whether there is any cave or other safe place for them to spend the night while walking.Otherwise, you can only make a fire to get through, although I don't know if the monsters here are also afraid of flames.

In addition to a variety of monsters living in the Half Demon Forest, there are also some plants that Bei Yumen has never seen before. For example, plants that keep dripping juice. He thought it was water drops or something, but when the liquid fell There was a sizzling sound when it was on the ground.

It turned out to be strong acid... Fortunately, he learned well in herbology class and didn't directly touch it.What surprised him the most was finding ganlu in the forest. As expected of the half-demon forest, it has enough dark and humid characteristics, but ganlu must grow in a very clean place. Is the half-demon forest actually very clean?

What a surprise...

Herro looked at Beiyumen and saw something he hadn't seen before, so he wandered here and there with full curiosity. He didn't feel scared at the beginning. He looked at Beiyumen squatting by the tree with dumbfounded laughter. .

"I see you are not afraid of the half-demon forest at all."

"Me? How could there be?" Bei Yumen looked back at him suspiciously, "I'm very scared!"

"..."

What does it look like running between the trees?

Regardless of him, Hero said leisurely, "Be careful when you encounter plants that can eat people."

"Is there such a thing?" Kita Mimon looked at Hero suspiciously, and then remembered that both Hero and Fujikawa liked to lie to him, so he pursed his mouth, "You lied to me?"

"I didn't lie to you."

Hero was looking around, thinking about where to go, but when Bei Yumen said this, he frowned and turned his head, only to find that his hand was stretched out in front of some kind of plant, so scared that he was almost drooling Choked.

"Hey! Stop it!"

"what?"

Bei Yumen turned around in confusion, but was surprised to see that the plant in front of him opened its mouth at some point, and bit down on Bei Yumen's finger fiercely in the next second.

"—Okay, it hurts!"

There was a kind of pain from needles being stuck in the flesh, the pain spread quickly, Bei Yumen tried to pull it out but couldn't, the harder it was, the tighter its bite, Herro hurried forward and cast a small wind blade Magic, cut off the head of the plant.

Enduring the pain, Bei Yumen carefully pulled the plant's mouth away. The feeling of the needles slipping out of the flesh made him almost get goosebumps, but he wanted to save his fingers more than nausea.

Looking at the blood hole around his finger, Bei Yumen hurriedly took out the Lemu he was carrying and applied it. Although it could not heal the wound, it could prevent inflammation.

"Look, I said there would be plants that eat people."

Herro gloated, throwing the plant's head back into the bushes, "Fortunately, it's a small one, and it's not poisonous."

"..."

Kita Yumen pouted, while pinching his fingers, "What kind of plant is this?"

"Blood-sucking Roman grass." Herro pointed to a few nearby plants, "These are still small here, they only bite people's fingers or calves, and suck people's blood."

"..." Bei Yumen blinked, "Where's the one from Dazhu?"

Herro squinted and pointed at his ram-wrapped finger, "Then your finger may be broken, and the venom may also use up your entire hand."

"..."

Shivering all over his body, Bei Yumen walked a few steps away from these plants.

Because the plants he saw just now were not threatening, making him think that the surroundings should be... It seems that he still hasn't learned how to be good, so he should see clearly next time.

By the way, how about taking a branch and poking it first?

Bei Yumen thought seriously, but Herro didn't care about him.

But seeing that Hero was going to continue walking, Bei Yumen also raised his footsteps to keep up. He felt that they should have left the outer circle of the forest, because the more they walked inside, the more obvious the gloomy atmosphere.

He took a small hemp rope from the bag and lightly tied the lem on his fingers to prevent it from falling, Bei Yumen then looked around.He was always frightened by things flying overhead from time to time, so fast that he couldn't tell whether it was a crow or a bat.

Fortunately, they all flew directly over and did not stop to attack them.

"Why are these trees purple..."

Bei Yumen shrugged his shoulders and walked cautiously behind Hero.

Hero glanced back and answered for him, "Because the land of the forest is purple, these trees are only affected by it, but these black mist are released by the corroded trees."

"Corrosion tree?"

"It's these purple trees." Hero pointed with his chin. "The longer they live, the drier they will become. They are not corroding other creatures, but themselves being corroded."

"...a strange tree."

So it sounds like the tree doesn't seem threatening, maybe even pathetic?

Having said that, these trees seem to have become thinner, "Have we entered an older area?"

"You're quite smart." Herro glanced at him with a smile, "The habitat of the Baili Snow Lion, the trees over there should be as dry as twigs."

Ignoring his teasing, Bei Yumen snorted.He can figure out such a simple thing, okay?

The two continued to walk inside, and suddenly Herro stopped again.

"here we go again."

"What?" Just as Bei Yumen asked, the familiar howling of wolves came into his ears again, "...No way?"

"That's the one that won't."

Herro snorted. Although he didn't think that the wolves would let them go, he didn't expect to be so bold as to come forward.

This time, the number of Gorefiend wolves was much more, with blood-red eyes in all directions, howling wolves resounded throughout the forest, and the high frequency of howling represented that they were chasing their prey.

"A lot! Too many!"

There are at least a dozen or twenty of them, and the Angel Shield can't provide all-round protection!

"Come on, little wolves."

Herro challenged the largest wolf in the room, what appeared to be the alpha wolf.

I saw it showing a pair of scary fangs, leading the pack of wolves to rush forward.

Ah - can't stand it!Why do you have to provoke them!

Bei Yumen, who wanted to cry without tears, knew that he could not focus on defense. He first put an angel shield on the wolves who were facing him, and then called out dozens of huge water balls.

"Go! Water string dragon body!"

The water polo rushed past the jumping wolves like a dragon, and imprisoned them in the water polo in the next second.

"not bad."

Hero was very leisurely, and he was still in the mood to watch Beiyumen's magic. He used ice magic to make a long sword, which resisted the sharp teeth of the leader wolf, and the sound of rubbing against each other made people shudder.

"You are very leisurely!"

Bei Yumen frowned and stared at him. Some of the wolves who attacked him were submerged in the water polo and lost consciousness, while some already knew how to poke their heads out of the water polo.

When they landed again, Beiyumen threw the fainted wolves to the distance of the forest first, and finally lifted the magic.

Bei Yumen was a little flustered. After all, he didn't dare to use fire magic in the forest. He kept turning his head, but the wolves that were coming towards him didn't give him time to think.

"..." Bei Yumen took a step back in panic, seeing Hero's ice magic freeze the limbs of the wolves, he took a deep breath.

To be honest, his synthesis of ice magic is currently the least proficient, but up to now, he can only try it out!

"Spirit of Frost, hear my call, respond to me, use my strength, and merge with the Spirit of Water!"

Bei Yumen muttered in a low voice, only to see a faint light from the wand, and a large number of water balls appeared beside him in an instant.

"Frost Water Polo!"

Several small water balls headed towards the wolves. When the balls hit the wolf's body and limbs, the liquid instantly froze the body into frost, causing the wolves to fall to the ground unable to move, and could only keep making scary noises. sound.

"Success...success..."

Feeling that he spent more mana than usual in practice, Kita Mimon gasped slightly.

Herro saw that his own part had been dealt with, and he didn't play much. After repelling the leader wolf, he stretched out his hand.

"Get out." He stared at the wolves with his eyes narrowed, "If you don't get out, it's not as simple as flying."

The wolves were obviously scared back by his aura, but following the roar of the leader wolf, the Gorefiend wolves rushed towards Hero again with their mouths wide open.

"Have guts! Kita Mimon, stand on top of the angel's shield!"

"Eh, eh!?" Kita Yumon had no time to be astonished, so he jumped up and cast it on the ground, "Angel Shield!"

In the next second, Herro thrust the ice sword just now into the ground fiercely, and the two hands suddenly glowed, "Frost Earth!"

In an instant, white frost poured out from the blade, freezing the entire body of the wolves that came into contact with it into ice cubes, including of course the biggest leading wolf.The surrounding corroded trees also added a layer of white frost, and the biting cold came from the ground, making the already wet and cold forest even colder.

"..."

Snorting, Herro withdrew his hand, and looked at Bei Yumen, who was half-squatting on the angel's shield in a strange posture, his hair stunned.

"Do you need me to rescue you?"

"..."

Bei Yumen came back to his senses, let out a snort and released the angel shield, and looked at the frozen surroundings with some surprise.

"This...is this intermediate magic?"

"Forget it." It doesn't count, it's actually advanced.

Hero spread his hands leisurely, this is the fastest way to get rid of all the wolves at once.But it would be bad if it was discovered. Fortunately, no one else was around.

"..."

He was a little dumbfounded. Although he had long felt that Hero's magic was very powerful, he never expected that he could achieve this level, adding a layer of white to everything he saw.

Looking at the wolves frozen in place, Bei Yumen frowned, "Are they dead?"

"No, it's just frozen." Herro glanced at him, "It will recover in a couple of days. The Gorefiend wolf is not so fragile."

"That's good."

Nodding his head, Bei Yumen originally wanted to touch those ice cubes, but seeing the frightening coldness seeping them, he finally stopped and gave up, feeling that if he stretched out his hand to touch it, he would be frostbitten.

Hero smiled helplessly after hearing what he said, "Worried if it will die after being attacked?"

To be honest, killing the Gorefiend wolves is the quickest option, otherwise as long as they are still in the forest, the Goregore wolves will keep looking for them.

...However, he always felt that he couldn't beat the killer in front of Bei Yumen.

In the end, they had to choose to let them freeze for two days, and they should melt soon after they left the forest.

"Because we broke into someone's house." Bei Yumen said seriously, "They are also very pitiful."

"..."

Yes, they are the uninvited guests.

Well, he took it, luckily he didn't kill the wolves... no, luckily he was in this country.

Herro looked intently at the sky covered by trees, as if looking for something, and after a while, he raised his footsteps.

"We walked a lot today, let's find a place to rest, let's go here first."

"okay."

Nodding his head, Bei Yumen did not relax his hand holding the staff, and followed Hero slowly away from the area frozen by the frost.