The sky in the Hell of God's Punishment was always gray. There was no day, night, or season. When a volcano erupted, the fire would light up the sky. Plants would absorb the heat and grow crazily. The forest at the edge of the volcano could absorb the most heat and was the most luxuriant.
It was like the Demonic Plane, except that there was no dark red sun.
Neris stretched her body, intoxicated. Her snow-white leather coat turned gray and soon overlapped with the color of this world. Her figure became indistinct. Looking from afar, one couldn't even see a demon hiding on the top of the barracks.
Making battle puppets wasn't difficult. A level-four mage could do it well. Rex was already at the peak of level-five. It wasn't a problem for him to make thirteen battle puppets at the same time. However, the room was very small. As the barracks of the commander, one room could accommodate ten people. The thirteen battle puppets almost filled the barracks.
Sicar sat at the door and waited. After a long time, Salin and Rex finally walked out.
"Salin, how was it?" Sicar was getting impatient.
"It's done."
As soon as Salin finished speaking, a row of battle puppets walked out of Rex's barracks. These puppets were less than two meters tall. Their upper bodies were humanoid and covered in heavy metal armor. Their lower bodies were wolf-like with four legs and sharp claws. Because they were consumables, their claws were very long. If they dug into the ground for a long time, they would definitely be worn out.
The lower bodies of these half-human, half-beast puppets were also covered in armor. The helmets were completely sealed. There were metal gloves on both hands that covered the fingers. These puppets only had four fingers on both hands. This was to make the fingers thicker so they could withstand more power.
The puppets held metal shields in their left hands and broad curved blades in their right hands. The ends of the blades were reversed sawteeth. Their bodies were obviously thicker than humans. They carried a bunch of javelins on their backs. These javelins were less than three meters long and made of metal. If these javelins were used by humans, only warriors like Sicar, who were born with great strength, could throw them.
The thirteen battle puppets were orderly. They walked around the barracks and took on the task of guarding.
"Let's rest for the night. We'll leave tomorrow," Rex said. He took Hall's alchemy telescope and flew into the sky. Rex flew upwards for more than four hundred meters before he could no longer control the airflow. Fifth-tier magic casters could fly with the help of magic tools. Rex also relied on the colorful magic robe he was wearing to fly.
If he wanted to pass through the forest, he needed to find a relatively short path. Rex raised his alchemy telescope and began to observe from the air. In the Myers Continent, it was very common for forests to stretch for hundreds of miles. Rex didn't want to see the end of the forest, but he needed to find a way out.
The plants in the Hell of God's Punishment grew in a regular pattern. Even the arrangement of leaves seemed to follow the principles of a magic formula. There was no sunlight here, and the leaves of the plants were used to absorb elemental energy. Rex silently memorized the arrangement of the trees at every angle before he landed on the ground and started to calculate using Figaro's magic formula.
Thirteen battle puppets loyally surrounded the camp. The camp was shrouded in a dark space. Tonight, everyone could rest in peace. Once they entered the forest, even if there were puppets keeping watch, no one would be able to sleep well.
Everyone rested for ten hours. Rex removed the dark space and put the two metal disks back into his Divine Sieve Ring. Salin had a good sleep. Now, he took over the command of the three battle puppets and started to dismantle the camp with Rex. While dismantling the camp, Salin familiarized himself with the control of the battle puppets. He realized that he was lucky that he had said modestly that he could only control four puppets. Rex had only given him three after taking his Hunter Spiders into consideration.
Controlling the battle puppets was much more difficult than controlling the Hunter Spiders. The Hunter Spiders were very small, and the magic arrays inside were also very simple. They relied on special materials to achieve victory. Even though the battle puppets had four legs, it was still extremely difficult to control the balance of the puppet.
Salin sweated. He thought that it would be an easy task, but now it had become a burden. Suddenly, one of the puppets went out of control. Salin was shocked, and then he felt that the control of the puppet had been taken by Nelis.
Soul ability?
This technique is too good. Salin was relieved. It was much easier to control two battle puppets.
The battle puppets didn't know fatigue, and they consumed the power of the magic cores. The camp was quickly dismantled into all kinds of huge parts. Rex put them back into his Divine Sieve Ring one by one. Then, Rex took out five cloaks and distributed them to everyone.
"If you get lost, pull up your hoods. There's a sound transmission magic array. But in the forest, I estimate that the furthest I can sense is about 500 meters. In other words, if two magic arrays are activated at the same time, the sound can only spread for 500 meters at most. "
Salin took the cloak and put it on. The quality of the cloak was not bad, but strictly speaking, it wasn't magic equipment. It just didn't affect the release of magic. There were three enchantments on Salin's magic robe: Invisible Shield, Resistant Ring of Fire, and Great Strength. These three weren't water spells, and needed to be activated by the magic cores embedded in the belt. If the Resistant Ring of Fire was activated, the ordinary cloak would be burned.
Rex demonstrated how to activate the sound transmission magic array on the cloak. Then, he pulled up his hood and said, "Let's go."
The six of them didn't move separately. They only let the 13 battle puppets protect them. Rex was in front, and Salin and Nelis controlled the three puppets to cover the back.
Salin knew that magic strings were precious now, so he only activated the Invisible Shield on his magic robe just in case. They couldn't walk too fast in the forest, so it was meaningless to use Wind Speed. The person with the weakest physique in the team was probably Salin. Even he could travel at twice the speed of an ordinary person.
The purple forest was getting closer and closer. They couldn't hear the chirping of insects or birds. The wind was very light, and the giant leaves rustled. The six of them and the 13 puppets reached the edge of the forest in about 20 minutes.
The trees here were no longer like vines. There were more leaves on the treetops. Almost every tree was so thick that it would take three or four people to wrap their arms around it. The thickest ones even needed more than ten people to wrap their arms around it.
Rex sent four puppets into the forest first. She stopped under a big tree, bent down, grabbed a handful of soil, and rubbed it in her hands. She was wearing a white magic glove. The black soil fell from her hands, and the magic glove was as white as before.
"How is it?" Salin knew that Rex was studying the characteristics of the forest.
"The moisture is right. It should rain often. There's magic beast feces and insects'. Be careful. The insects here are probably bigger. "
Bigger? Everyone thought of giant mosquitoes. Although their bodies were fragile, their sharp mouthparts could pierce through metal.
"I only hope there are no man-eating ants," Salin joked. Rex turned around and glared at him.
Salin felt that he had said something wrong, too, because Hall and Bai Meng looked terrible. Man-eating ants were a special species in the middle of the Myers Continent. They were only active around the Purgatory Desert. These ants were level-one magic beasts, but even level-six magic beasts could be devoured by a terrifying number of man-eating ants.
Rex turned and walked into the forest. The light was still dim. Instead of using Illumination, Rex released Fluorescence. This was a level-0 spell that Salin was also very good at. This spell would hardly cause any elemental fluctuations, and the illumination range wasn't large.
Other than the four puppets exploring the way in front, there were three puppets on the left, right, and rear on guard. The team didn't slow down. The plants at the edge of the forest weren't lush.
After the four puppets advanced for about one kilometer, a magic beast the size of a lynx suddenly appeared in front of them. This magic beast had the face of a wolf, and its fur was very short. Its tail was like a steel chain, just like the magic beasts that attacked the camp. This wolf-faced magic beast scuttled past the four puppets and pounced into the bushes on the other side, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
"Magic beasts are starting to appear," Rex warned in a low voice. Hall and Bai Meng both drew their swords and held them in their hands.
As they went deeper, there were all kinds of bushes. Occasionally, there were even plants that could turn into tentacles. Rex controlled the puppets and carefully chose the path to go around these dangerous trees.
After advancing for another five kilometers, there were already low bushes, vines, and long grass everywhere among the trees. The combat puppets started to use their curved blades to open a path.
The reverse sawtooth on the broad curved blades could easily cut through tough vines and weeds. With the puppets opening the way, everyone was much more relaxed. However, Rex had to release a black mist to hide the advancing team.
With a swoosh, outside the black mist, a colorful little snake swooped down from the treetops and bit the back of a combat puppet's neck. The combat puppet was protected by a helmet, and there was a metal layer that was as thick as a finger on the back of its neck. When this little snake bit on it, half of the thickness of the metal armor was bitten off, and a hole was corroded.
This snake twisted its body and was about to drill into that hole. A combat puppet at the side waved its blade and cut the colorful little snake into two, and it fell to the ground. The snake's head had already bitten the puppet's neck. If it was a human, it would probably have been bitten to death.
The puppets advancing at the side also encountered trouble. The three combat puppets advanced with difficulty among the bushes. When the leading puppet cut through a patch of vines, an empty space appeared in front of it. In the center of the empty space was a puddle. The puppet stepped into it, and there was a buzzing sound from the edge of the puddle. Tens of thousands of tiny insects flew up and pounced toward the puppet.
These insects were disgusting dark red. There was a network of intertwined protrusions on their bodies, and mucus was seeping out. These insects lived near the puddle, and they survived by surrounding and attacking animals that came to drink water. The leading puppet was immediately surrounded by the red insects, and it was covered in them in the blink of an eye.
The other two puppets didn't go forward to help. Instead, they turned around and ran. The puppet that was surrounded by the red insects lit up and started burning.
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