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Chapter 398 Plaguewood

Garga the first half of the trip, now that he was subordinate to Greem

He used his skills as a potions ical creatures The s from his staff acted as a repellant It saved the exploration party froaical creatures It had zero effect on the ordinary woodland beasts That hen the mercenaries shined

Love, Rhodes, Fila, and the ah to deal with these ordinary beasts If a horde of such animals attacked theirl was brought to bear It didn't ical beasts were They were still no htered and disasse the attention of the le-handedly exter a single scratch

Her od-like existence in the eyes of the adventurers However, her poas next to nothing to the adepts She didn't even dare breathe loudly alking behind them, and obediently obeyed their every order Even the frail and skinny Gargamel confidently ordered Sabrina about, despite how ust of wind

The party advanced at a amel's help Just three days later, they approached their destination

It was the first time here for most of the party They acted cautiously and chose to set up camp near a cliff before further exploration

Love the Swordsah the gaps in the trees

Plaguewood!

That was the local's name for this twenty-five kilometer stretch of the Black Forest

The only reason why it was known as such was due to the strange state of the trees here It was alle one of them had contracted an unknown disease Their leaves had withered and yellowed, much like trees that were at the end of their lives

Honestly, Plagueas no hest point was only two hundred entle with no dangerous cliffs Odd bony trees stood all over the mountain What leaves they still had were a soreen It was an unusual sight to behold

The trees were not very tall, and large cluleaht The ancient tree roots had a difficult tiround, so many of the roots stuck out above the earth

There was a trace of yellow in the brown dirt of the hill, almost as if it had the color burned away froe of heat continuously roasting the place from underneath The trees on the hill were like half- pan If it weren't for the inter the left on the hill!

Greeamel looked at each other and nodded

It was evident that there was a heat source beneath Plaguewood However, they would have to risk their lives and go into the hill to discover the exact reason for the heat

"There are caves there, there, and there The caves are very narrow and tiny; an adult htly bigger cave in that direction, but there are a lot of terrifying bats in there It's virtually i them" As expected of an adventurer that lived by the Black Forest, Love even had a basic understanding of a dangerous place like the Plaguewood

However, it was apparent that his understanding was liuewood The world hidden underneath the hill was not an area he could ever hope to access!

It was fortunate that Greem had found out about the manticores from the forest spirit Otherwise, he would have had to find out on his own Even Gree aardly away from the cave if he dove headfirst into a pack of ht not die, but he would have to pay a hefty price to get away!

The adventurers had fulfilled Greeround on a further discovery mission was not a task that ordinary adventurers could take on It didn'tto proht into a den of ical crystals were sweet rewards, but being alive to spend them was even better!

Greem didn't force them on any further missions either He only asked the adventurers to stay at the surface ca into the hill would be Greeain darkened when evening fell Everyone gathered around the ca from the direction of the hill