MTL - Dawn of the Grey Tower-Chapter 9 forest of giant trees

To be honest, Cheese has gradually lost the sense of time, and people's sense of time is easily affected in such rain. What's more, he is not facing the outside world alone, he can use all his energy to calculate and react, he has to take care of Yuni, and even properly guard against employment threats.

These things will make the cheese unable to calculate the time perfectly. Once mistakes and omissions occur, once doubts arise, it will bring further problems, and eventually the sense of time will completely collapse. Gray Pao needs to convince himself not to care about his mistakes. His state is not static. When he is full of energy, he will naturally be unable to do what he wants.

Cheese has not attributed his current mistakes to the decline of his state. He gradually realized that it takes far more energy to train apprentices than to give lectures.

Of course, this didn't scare Gray Robe. He would adapt to his new identity, try to find the tricks, reduce its influence on him, and finally turn it into a part of himself. As for the time in front of you, let it flow naturally, anyway, as long as the rain doesn't decrease, those times are similar.

The rain, after all, has not diminished. But the people in the tree hole had to leave, and more and more water flowed uncontrollably into this small shelter, making it even more inappropriate for rest. Gray Robe awakened the apprentice, giving him time to adjust his state and prepare for the second trek.

Cheese understands that with this type of action, the distance in the middle will only get shorter and shorter. When everyone can't walk, it is the time when danger comes. Until then, they have to find a real foothold, or create one themselves. This is also the reason why he wants to move towards the woods. The resources of the woods are rich enough. Although it is not Druyin who is adjacent to nature, the mage can also better display his skills.

Maybe it was the first time that they had gone far enough. When the three of them left the tree hole that was about to become a cistern and continued to walk forward, they saw the shadow of a giant. Of course those shadows are not giants, nor giants standing in such rain, shadows belong to trees, old and tall trees.

Elves and other forest dwellers believe that when a tree is old enough, it will have the same intelligence as intelligent creatures, and even if humans cannot communicate directly with them, they can vaguely feel the aura emanating from the giant tree itself. In this sense, the trees in front should not welcome unfamiliar visitors, and their shadows in the icy cold water only make people feel cold on their backs.

So what? Cheese has never been a person who regards courtesy as the first priority. Before he knew the people of the Northland, he did not add color to the worldly etiquette. It is impossible for a few trees to divert the gray robes through their momentum.

The breath of dawn dispels false apparitions, the ancient trees reveal their moistened skin, and the rain drips from the veins of the bark like the weeping eyes of trees.

Cheese identified the surrounding tree species, there were more than one species, and within the visual range, he saw at least three trees growing in similar places. This is also normal. The mild climate in the south can allow a wider variety of animals and plants to survive, unlike the strict selection of residents in the north.

The leaves were knocked down, like a leaky boat plunging into the water in the spray. But even so, the canopy provided some protection for the three of them, reducing the pressure on their heads slightly.

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This is still the outer perimeter of the woodland, and going inward, the denser and denser trees help them better shelter from the rain. But that's not all Cheese's purpose is, he's looking for some kind of passage from tree to tree, confusing the other two.

When Yuni felt as cold as his body was stuck against ice, his teacher finally got what he wanted. The warm morning light restored the apprentice's awareness that he was about to close, and what motivated Yuni even more was Cheese's slightly excited smile.

Yuni looked behind the teacher, and he saw that the giant trees were bizarrely broken to both sides and turned into a road. Although there were some new trees on the road, they were far from being able to fill the gap.

Young people are still thinking about the meaning of the road, but Pinwei has already understood the origin of the road. The road is obviously the trace left by some kind of strong giant creature walking through the forest. Combined with this being the edge of the blank world, then the creature that left it is ready to come out, giant dragon.

This is the trace left by the dragon, the damage caused by the dragon to the forest. Cheese is looking for it, but why? This is something the half-demon can't figure out on his own.

Cheese didn't intend to explain his actions and specific purpose, he directly led the two of them along the road destroyed by the dragon. Considering their size, it doesn't matter whether there is this road or not for them to travel through the giant tree. The reason why the gray robes are so determined must be because there is something at the end of the road that can help them get out of the crisis.

When the shadows that are different from the trees in the distance begin to appear, the answer is also ready to appear, a town.

No one could have imagined that there would be a mortal town in this suffocatingly ancient wood, abruptly existing at the end of the dragon trail, as unreal as the witch's candy house in the fairy tale or the dwelling of the cloud giant. . But this unreality subtly subsided when Pinwei saw the material of the town's outer walls.

Only the broken and damaged tree roots can be seen on the road before, and the upper part of the giant tree that disappeared is here. This is a settlement built entirely from those fallen trees, a town entirely made of wood. Now the half-demon understands why Cheese is looking for traces of the dragon's destruction. He obviously has long known that such a group of survivors exists in this forest.

Now that there are towns, the rest is easy. Cheese and the others came to the periphery of the city wall, outside the gate made up of several semi-logs. If these logs with bark were placed in the north, each of them would need half a tree, but here it is only the outermost of the giant tree. thin layer. Even so, the height of the town gate is nearly four meters high and five meters wide.

It is unrealistic to call people to open the door in this kind of weather. However, such a huge door must only be opened in a few cases. When Gray Robe looked for it, he saw the wooden wall for one person. through the door. To open this kind of door, a mage does not need the consent of anyone, a small spell will open the door on its own.

The town in the gate is quite small. If you want to say it, it may be on the same level as the city where the Frost Guards are stationed. The wooden buildings are scattered in the wooden walls in random positions and styles, and they are strange in the heavy rain. and depression. Gray Robe closed the narrow door and walked towards the nearest hut, which was supposed to be an outpost, but at this time it was empty. This is also a matter of course, normal people would not want to be on duty at such a time.

And the closed hut, with the pits in which the fire can be sunk down, and the ready-made firewood, are simply heaven for the three of them now. They don't need anyone to distribute, they naturally raise the fire according to the division of labor, and set up racks to dry the clothes. At this time, Baowei has the opportunity to ask about Cheese.

"How did you know there would be such a village here?"

Cheese's eyes stared at the flames, and after a few seconds he raised his head suddenly, showing a helpless smile, "Ashamed to say, I didn't remember until just now that I have actually been here. At least I have been close to here."