Three Great Forest Dominators Arrive at Karn Village
Tang Zheng left E-Rantel in the early morning and followed the information and crude map he had gathered from the Adventurer's Guild.
He headed northwest, towards the border area of the Re-Estize Kingdom closest to the Tove Great Forest.
There was a place called Karn Village there.
This village.
Although it was a border village, it had a history of nearly a hundred years. However, even with its long history, it couldn't change the village's impoverished state.
It was a completely inconspicuous existence in the kingdom, even ignored by people. However, in the anime, it ran through a series of plots! Of course.
This village actually had no connection with any plots and was more like a transfer station for the plot.
"Wah wah!"
In the grass of a desolate hillside by the roadside, a goblin lying in the grass suddenly rushed out.
Tang Zheng glanced over, drew the iron sword from his waist at the first moment, and easily dodged the ambushing goblin with a sidestep, while swinging his arm to slash down.
Pfft! The blade flashed!
The goblin screamed miserably, its body cut in half on the spot.
『Gained 30 experience』
Tang Zheng expressionlessly flicked off the green blood on the iron sword and looked around. He saw four more goblins emerging from the grass.
"What troublesome creatures." Tang Zheng thought, and said, "Magic Arrow!"
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! After consuming 5 points of mana, Tang Zheng consumed another 1 point of mana and created four Magic Arrows in one breath, shooting them at the four goblins that had appeared.
Four green blood flowers bloomed! As the sound of falling bodies rang out, information appeared on the attribute panel.
『Gained 27 experience』
『Gained 25 experience』
『Gained 30 experience』
"The experience is similar to that of wild beasts. Reaching Karn Village should allow me to level up once. Leveling up is indeed faster in the early stages."
Tang Zheng stepped forward and cut off all the ears of the dead goblins. After all, goblin ears could be exchanged for money at the Adventurer's Guild.
This was a considerable income.
In the following journey.
Tang Zheng encountered several more waves, but they were no longer just goblins, but also attacks from some small magical beasts.
Under such circumstances, Tang Zheng finally arrived at a small village surrounded by wooden fences with wisps of smoke rising from the chimneys in the evening.
Looking around.
Such defensive wooden fences had basically little blocking effect against the attacks of magical creatures in the forest! And this Karn Village, which was very close to the Tove Great Forest, had always existed without being destroyed by magical creatures, which was an interesting thing in itself.
Having encountered attacks from magical creatures from time to time along the way, Tang Zheng's feelings were naturally the most real.
After leaving E-Rantel, the number of magical creatures and goblins gradually increased, but the closer he got to Karn Village, the number of magical creatures decreased a lot.
This was because there were three major magical creatures called the Forest Dominators in the Tove Great Forest!
The Forest Dominator in the south, the great magic beast - Forest Wise King - Hamsuke.
The Forest Dominator in the east, the Eastern Giant - Ogre - Gu! The Forest Dominator in the west, the Western Magic Serpent - Naga - Lululus! These three beings could be said to jointly dominate the entire Tove Great Forest, and Karn Village was precisely Forest Wise King - Hamsuke's territory.
This was also why no magical creatures attacked Karn Village.
The levels of these three Forest Dominators were all around level 30. Forest Wise King - Hamsuke's level was even higher. According to human standards, they were all existences that had stepped into the Hero Domain.
However, even humans in the Hero Domain were almost certainly not a match for the three Forest Dominators in a one-on-one situation!
This was the advantage of demi-humans or heteromorphic races.
Tang Zheng shifted his gaze away from the gate of Karn Village and looked into the distance, at the seemingly endless primeval jungle that was already visible to the naked eye.
His vision was blocked by the towering, dense branches and leaves, and he couldn't see anything. However, Tang Zheng's eyes revealed solemnity and apprehension.
In the Tove Great Forest, the truly terrifying entities are not the three Forest Dominators! But an existence located in the deepest part of the forest! 200 years ago, during the Thirteen Heroes era, one of the monsters that descended upon this world was the "Magic Tree". Its level reached 85, and even back then, it wasn't completely eliminated, but merely sealed in the deepest part of the Tove Great Forest.
When the anime storyline began.
The reason Shalltear suddenly encountered the Slane Theocracy's most powerful force, the "Darkness Scripture", which was also carrying the World-Class Item [Nation and City Incinerating],
was purely because Shalltear was unlucky!
The true purpose of the "Darkness Scripture" carrying the World-Class Item was because the seal on the "Magic Tree" had begun to weaken.
They wanted to unseal the Magic Tree and, by the way, use the World-Class Item [Nation and City Incinerating] to control it, but they encountered Shalltear.
This led to a completely inexplicable battle between the two sides! In the anime, it was only briefly mentioned, but in the light novel version, there was some description.
The "Darkness Scripture" suffered heavy losses, and the human who used the World-Class Item was even counterattacked and killed by Shalltear before she was controlled.
This is also why Shalltear, despite being controlled, turned into a "wild monster". It was entirely because the person who used [Nation and City Incinerating] was already dead.
"Who are you!"
Suddenly, at the entrance of Karn Village, two middle-aged villagers holding steel pitchforks appeared, looking wary and cautiously at Tang Zheng, who had appeared at the entrance of their village.
"Sorry for disturbing you, I am a traveler passing by the village and would like to ask for lodging for the night," Tang Zheng said, looking at the two men, keeping his tone gentle.
Upon hearing this.
The two villagers holding steel pitchforks exchanged glances, the wariness and vigilance in their eyes not diminishing at all, but first looking in the direction behind Tang Zheng.
Finding that Tang Zheng was alone, the two villagers' expressions softened slightly.
"Wait a moment."
The two villagers were obviously unable to make a decision. One of them spoke to Tang Zheng, then turned and quickly ran towards the village.
Without waiting long.
The villager who had left returned with a man who looked to be about forty or fifty years old, with dark, rough skin and grayish-brown hair. Judging from his appearance, he should be the village chief of Karn Village.
After the village chief arrived, he carefully sized up Tang Zheng, especially pausing his gaze on Tang Zheng's black hair.
"You're here to ask for lodging?" the village chief asked in a somewhat rough voice.
"That's right."
Tang Zheng nodded.
"Then please come in." The village chief didn't ask any further questions, but instead spoke very readily.
This surprised Tang Zheng somewhat.
Karn Village rarely had any outsiders visiting, only tax collectors and merchants buying herbs would come in late autumn.
"Village chief?"
The two villagers spoke in surprise, obviously not expecting the village chief to agree so readily.
It was already evening, and arriving at their village at this time clearly made the two villagers feel uneasy.
"These one or two months are when the magical beasts and wild animals in the forest are most restless." The village chief sighed softly and opened the gate.
Upon hearing this.
The two villagers finally realized that although their village was peaceful, the road to get here was not so peaceful.
The fact that this person could come here alone showed that he was quite strong, and the village's wooden fence couldn't stop him at all.
And the fact that he didn't do so meant that the black-haired youth had no malicious intentions.
Having figured this out.
The two villagers no longer had the wariness they had at the beginning.
Led by the village chief, Tang Zheng followed him into Karn Village.
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