The southern border of the Guevana Empire, forest, nameless. This forest was contained in the mountains as a natural barrier. This mountain range separated the southern territory of the empire from the territories of other countries. It had an official name – Musta Mountains.
But in the local area, this forest had a name – Cat Forest.
This was because the Demon Cat Clan was in charge of everything in this forest.
Cats were just cats. They had four limbs on the ground and a long tail. They were furry creatures. They didn't have a humanoid shape. They had two round ears on the top of their heads and spoke with a "meow ~" at the end.
In the Feist District and other neighboring districts of the Society of Sorcerers, as long as the sorcerers were interested in the lich, the magic cats in the Cat Forest would definitely be their first choice. Sometimes they would take the initiative to get close to children with good magic talent. While guiding them, they would also accompany the children's growth.
There was a saying in the empire that children who were followed by magic cats were bound to become great in the future.
There was a period of time when the southern noble lords were proud of having a magic cat, so there was a craze to catch it. However, this craze died down after a few noble territories were destroyed.
It was a well-known fact that the Cat Forest was protected by the king. It was just that what the "king" was, there were different opinions. Some people said it was a dragon, some said it was a giant magic moth, and some said it was the Cat King …
When reading this statement, someone complained in his heart. Could it be that Elvis Presley traveled through time? Conquering the world with rock music or something.
These were the general information that someone got from the forum index and learned from Vana.
By the way, the widow Vana had taken her children and accepted a job offer from someone. As for her living in the house, it didn't cause any uproar. The two apprentices quickly accepted the fact that Vana was a helper and worked together.
After all, this house was a bit big. It would take a lot of time to take care of everything. If it was before, the two girls only needed to take care of the house in addition to studying. But now they wanted to contribute more in other aspects, such as the recent breeding of moth species, which would squeeze the time to take care of the house. They were more than happy to have someone to help.
The one who was the most excited was Ezio. Although it was a little late, the contact with people allowed him to start talking to others. However, the people around him were all much older than him. Even the two girls who were the closest to him had their own jobs and couldn't play with him all the time.
The Black Dragon, who usually had nothing to do, would play with him, but for a child, there was always a feeling of not being able to fully enjoy himself. Until Vana's child, Kish, came along and filled the void.
When a five-year-old child is in a new environment, he is at first a little shy. However, the two children became familiar with each other in just a few days. Then, they began to play without restraint. Therefore, when Vana came to this house, in addition to the cleaning job, she also had to take care of the two naughty children. She was so pitiful that a certain someone wanted to give her a raise, but in the end, he gritted his teeth and didn't mention it.
The exploration of the Cat Forest began as soon as they received accurate information. As usual, I used the Arcane Eye to open up the map.
Using Blink and Levitation, he stayed at an altitude of about ten thousand meters. Occasionally, clouds would float under his feet, but the clouds couldn't block the Arcane Eye's observation. Although the environment was a little harsh, such as the temperature and air pressure, with the protection of magic, it was not to the extent that he could not withstand it.
While waiting for the Arcane Eye to record the terrain, Lin also used his naked eye to observe the large forest below. However, the distance was too far, so he couldn't see anything. Of course, he also didn't see any huge creatures on the ground. The only thing he wanted to see here was the huge Devil Moth King.
Although he was in the air, a creature of that size should have left a silhouette, but in fact, he couldn't find any trace of it. Was it hiding under the leaves? Was it in a cave somewhere, or in the shadows of a ravine? Did it just happen to be out of his sight?
In the next few days, Lin kept going back and forth between the Empire's southern border and the Holy City of Estali. On one hand, it was because he had to teach mathematics. He couldn't leave the mess to the Lich like before. On the other hand, it was also because of Blink. As long as he determined the distance and direction parameters, he could continue exploring from the previous day's point at any time. He didn't have to stay in the South all the time.
He had two goals in this time. First, he had to open a detailed map so that he could carry out the next step. Speaking of which, his OCD was acting up. That was why he insisted on waiting for the map to be complete before starting the operation.
The other goal was to see if there was any sign of the Devil Moth King. However, he didn't find anything.
There were four possibilities. The first was that there was a blind spot that he hadn't discovered yet, and the Devil Moth King was hiding there. The second was that the Devil Moth King didn't exist, or it didn't exist now. The third was that it was hiding itself with some kind of illusion. If it was the last possibility, it would be the most troublesome. It was an existence with some kind of cognitive misdirection.
The last possibility was something that he had seen twice before. It was the World Tree, Wadwa, and Lahti. From a certain distance, it was impossible to see the World Tree's towering form. It could only be seen at a certain distance. As long as he could see the World Tree's form, it meant that he had entered its domain.
At first, he thought that it was the effect of some kind of illusion. Later, he realized that it was because the World Tree had the characteristic of connecting multiple dimensions. It caused them to exist and not exist in the main world of the maze. Therefore, people would have different perceptions depending on the situation.
Just like the saying: When you stare into the abyss, the abyss is also staring at you. When they want to pay attention to you, you can also pay attention to them.
The other thing that he had encountered that might also have this characteristic was the incarnations of the three Gods, the Masters of Protection, Fate, and Mystery. Because of the complexity of their existence, in his view, they were no simpler than the World Tree. The reason why he couldn't be sure was because he didn't know if they existed in the eyes of someone when they didn't want to see them.
If the Devil Moth King that he hadn't met yet also had this characteristic, wouldn't it mean that it was at the level of the World Tree and the Gods, or at least close to that level? Thinking of this, a certain someone felt a burst of irritation, and his heart was already beating the drum of retreat. In order to make life-saving equipment, he had to risk his life to collect materials. Wasn't that putting the cart before the horse?
However, these were all just guesses. He couldn't make any decisions before he saw the actual situation with his own eyes. However, he couldn't find the target's location from the sky. Should he search from the ground? Lin Xin thought.
Seeing that the map was almost finished, it was time to enter the next stage of the search. However, he still had math class later, so he decided to retreat for today. Grabbing the Eye of Arcane, which had been transformed by the Evil God, Lin Xin flashed again and returned to his home in the Holy City hundreds of kilometers away.
At night, Lin Xin invited Vana to the coffin room, along with Fen and Kaya. They used the coffin to show the results of the past few days. It was a bird's eye view of the southern border of the Guevana Empire.
Lin Xin asked directly, "Vana, do you know where you saw the giant Devil Moth? When did you see it? "
"I saw it in the morning when I was picking wild vegetables and passing by the lake in the Cat Forest. But Boss, what is this? "Lin Xin had learned the term" Boss "from Uzov. The first chairman of the Skills Guild no longer called Lin Xin "Mister", but "Boss". As for Vana, she was puzzled as she looked at the shrunken version of the map.
Her question confirmed Lin Xin's worries. How could ordinary people know anything about geography, let alone read a map? Vana had followed her husband, who was an adventurer. Her husband had followed a young man with magical talent who wanted to become a Magic Apprentice to the Holy City.
Unfortunately, more than a year ago, Vana's husband and the young man who had become a Magic Apprentice had died along with their adventuring team. Thus, she didn't go home because she didn't have money. Even if she did, she wouldn't know the way home.
It was really difficult for someone like her to point out anything from a map.
However, Lin Xin had a solution. He asked, "You said that your hometown is in the territory of Marquis Khorasan, right?"
"Yes, Boss," Vana replied.
Kaya understood what he meant and immediately searched through her database for the approximate territory of the Marquis of Khorasan in the Gwarna Empire, placing a colored patch on the map.
Lin continued to ask, "Do you live near the forest? How far is it? How big is the place where you grew up? Do you remember the population or the number of houses? Do you know how long it takes to travel from where you live to the next inhabited town? Tell me what you remember. It doesn't matter if you don't. "
The series of questions left Vana dumbfounded. However, she still tried to recall and said, "The place where I grew up was a small village with about a dozen families. My husband grew up in a neighboring town, and it was about half a day's walk from my village. "
Lin interrupted and asked, "Half a day? Is it the speed of an adult or a child?"
"It's an adult."
Lin nodded and signaled for Vana to continue.
"My village is not far from the forest. After walking past a few fields, you will reach the forest."
Based on the clues Vana had provided, Lin Xin instructed Kaya to enter some parameters and search for possible locations on the map. They found five or six possible locations that matched the clues. After taking a look, Lin asked, "Do you remember if there were any obvious landmarks in your hometown? Like if there was a river nearby, or what kind of mountain scenery could be seen? A few mountains or something like that. "
"I remember that if you looked to the southeast from where I grew up, you could see three overlapping mountains. There was no river nearby, and the water came from the three wells in the village. "
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