A putrid puff of white smoke came out from the mouth of a green-eyed troll.
The troll's single eye shone brightly, illuminating the puff of white smoke in front of it. Angor could see the troll's face clearly.
The troll was now looking at Angor's face with its enormous face.
The troll's ferocious face gave off a violent vibe. However, the troll didn't swing its axe at Angor. Instead, it tilted its head and stared at Angor with a confused expression.
Doubts kept popping up in the troll's limited brain.
It wasn't thinking about how to chop Angor with its axe. Instead, it was thinking about something it didn't even understand. If it was smarter, it would know that this emotion was called … flattery.
How to flatter a living being in front of it? That was what it was thinking right now.
"Get out of my way, Angor!" Someone yelled at him from behind. Out of instinct, he turned sideways and saw a black shadow coming from behind. The shadow split the confused troll in half.
The two halves of the troll's body disappeared into the darkness.
At the same time, Sunders walked out of the darkness with a shield of light around him. "What were you doing there?"
"… I was attracted by the troll's emotion."
Sunders frowned. "Don't let anything disturb you here, and don't trust your own judgment. Make sure you're safe first. If you want to study these monsters' emotions, you have to find a safe place. "
Angor nodded. He sensed that the troll didn't want to fight, but that didn't mean he should expose himself to danger.
Trolls were different creatures, after all. They couldn't be understood by human standards.
"Don't hesitate. Let's follow." Sunders could hear the rumbling noises coming from the front. He didn't say anything else. He patted Angor's shoulder and signaled him to keep moving.
It had been five minutes since they stepped into the darkness. Angor finally noticed something strange about this place.
In the dark passageway, the space seemed to be much larger. However, after using a light spell to illuminate the passageway, they could clearly see that the two sides of the passageway didn't extend. There were still thick walls, but the darkness magnified their sense of the unknown.
Apart from the change in space, the monsters here were also strange. Not only were the monsters themselves strange, but there were also a lot of them.
Demons continued to emerge from the darkness. Even though Rhine had been cleaning them up, and they could still hear the sounds of Rhine cleaning up the demons, more and more demons continued to emerge.
For example, the green-eyed troll they encountered earlier.
Rein took the lead while Angor stayed in the middle, and Sunders brought up the rear. Angor shouldn't have run into any monsters in this place, but a green-eyed troll still showed up.
It wasn't that Rhine hadn't cleaned it up in time, but that the Cyan-Eyed Giant Demon had appeared once again.
No matter how many monsters they were killed, they would still reappear again. In this place, the so-called "spring breeze" was probably the eerie darkness that devoured all light.
The reason why he thought so was because when the monsters died, their corpses would immediately be swallowed up by the darkness and disappear. And it wouldn't take long for new monsters to be born in the darkness.
This strange and unreasonable situation was becoming more and more similar to the Nightmare Realm.
Soon, they caught up with Rein. Rein was chopping down a bat-shaped monster that was flying in the air. He looked back and said, "I sensed mana ripples behind us. Did you do that?"
Sunders nodded. "We ran into a green-eyed troll."
As soon as he spoke, he sensed a fragrant scent coming from behind.
Everyone immediately erected barriers around themselves. At the same time, they used spells to dispel negative statuses. This series of actions was completed in one go. They didn't know what the fragrant wind was, but it would be too late to wait for it to become a deadly weapon.
When they were done, they looked back and saw countless vines crawling out of the darkness and attacking Sunders and Rein like a rain of arrows. The vines had thorns on them, and there were small red flowers that occasionally bloomed. The fragrance came from the stamens of the flowers.
"Venomthorn Crimson Vine," Sunders called out the monster's name.
Venomthorn Crimson Vine was one of the best ingredients for making poison incense in the eyes of an aroma alchemist. Not only could it be used as the main ingredient of poison incense, but it could also be used as an auxiliary ingredient for other types of incense. Unfortunately, the vine was almost extinct in the southern wizardry region.
Since Sunders was standing at the back of the group, he took the lead in attacking the vine.
Angor and Rein didn't do anything. The vine wasn't that strong. Once they blocked the poison, it would be a piece of cake to deal with it.
Angor even wondered if Leona would go crazy if she saw so many Venomthorn Crimson Vines.
Unfortunately, the Venomthorn Crimson Vine would still melt into the darkness after it died. It couldn't contribute itself as a magic ingredient. The only thing that could be collected was the poison in the air. However, there were no aroma alchemists here, nor was there any equipment to collect such things.
In less than ten seconds, Sunders burned the Venomthorn Crimson Vine to ashes with his Dark Fire.
After dealing with the Venomthorn Crimson Vine, Sunders frowned. "Mister Rein, something doesn't feel right. The frequency of demonic creatures appearing seems to have increased. "
Rein noticed it as well. When he first came in, it would take several minutes for new runes to appear after killing a batch of monsters. But now, new monsters were already appearing before they even finished the first batch. This wasn't a good sign.
The only consolation was that although the frequency of monsters being born had increased, the quality of the monsters was still uneven.
No matter how many of them there were, they wouldn't be a threat to them.
Now, Rein was considering whether to go back or not. Although the magical creatures that had appeared so far were not too big of a threat, any variable could lead to a change in the outcome, so Rhine still needed to think seriously.
After thinking about it for a while, Rein decided to keep moving forward.
The situation wasn't out of control yet, and they weren't far from the gate. If there were no monsters blocking their way, they would arrive in less than a minute.
Just as Rhine was thinking about that, a twisted spherical monster surrounded by countless tentacles suddenly appeared in the darkness before him.
Obviously, he didn't expect to see a situation where there were no monsters blocking his way.
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