As a Sword Saint, I Want to Be a Demon King

"Oh, indeed."

Ai Wen climbed up a few more meters, and saw a cone-shaped mountaintop rising into the sky from a distance, like a conspicuous road sign.

"This damn Elek, always likes to leave half of what he says."

Jumping off the big tree, the silver-haired girl complained in her heart:

"What's the matter with speaking clearly? Every time I deliberately show off mysteries."

But complaining is complaining.

Until Bazel returned from the Demon Realm, the other party was his only backup in the Eastern Continent, and this could not be changed.

What she didn't know was that not long after jumping down from the tree, the big tree opened its eyes.

Then shook the leaves on her body, and whispered rustlingly to the surroundings;

After a while, all the trees by the lake were uprooted, and they slowly walked into the depths of the forest.

As the trees left, a group of monsters that looked like pangolins emerged from the ground and began to dig soil to fill the lake.

Not long after, the lake completely turned into a flat land, and there was no longer a drop of lake water to be seen.

"Whoa... whoa..."

As if urged by some unknown force, the nearby trees began to shake their branches and leaves, moving closer to the filled lake.

Eventually they re-rooted there and formed a new jungle.

……

……

"We can choose a shorter path."

In the forest, the magicians gathered together to discuss countermeasures:

"There should be a lake near here, in the northwest; not too far from our current position."

One of the magicians suggested:

"From there straight to the east, you can go directly around the Cone Mountains to the Mill River."

"Then we make a few canoes and follow the river back to the main road."

"No, this route is too close to the mountains."

Ali Emerida shook her head and said:

"You all know what's out there...we can't take any chances."

"Then go north first."

Another magician said:

"Although it will take some detours, it can perfectly avoid that mountain, and it won't take too long."

"The key question now is how to find Miss Envoy."

The old magician who looked very stable said:

"It would be most effective to use things like magic fireworks, but it's easy to alarm the owner of this forest. Does anyone have a good idea?"

"—How about sending a voice message?"

Everyone chattered for a while, and in the end it was Ariel Emerida who suggested:

"I happen to have a messenger whistle here. With a little modification, it can avoid the frequency band that is sensitive to monsters, and let people within three kilometers hear our voice."

"That's probably the only way out right now."

The old magician was the first to agree to her plan:

"Three kilometers is a bit narrow, but the trees in the Willow Forest are very old and can be used as materials. Let's make a few more and then divide into groups to search together."

"But... this will disperse our strength."

A magician frowned and said:

"What if we are in danger?"

"Just reduce the distance between each other, there is no need to be too far away."

Ally Emerald says:

"Well, let's take 2 kilometers as the boundary and advance in parallel until we find the special envoy."

——Magi have this kind of advantage, even in a strange environment, they don't need to worry about survival.

They don't need to find water sources (just condense water balls with water spells), don't worry about how to make fire (fire magic can create flames at any time), and don't need to look for food (alchemy can convert things like branches into other items) , although the taste is not good but it can fill the stomach.)

Therefore, except for the rugged land, forests and swamps... these natural obstacles, everyone seems to be camping, and there are almost no accidents.

Even if they occasionally encounter some ferocious monsters, they can detect them from a distance and avoid them in advance.

"Huh? What's that sound?"

The silver-haired girl was on her way when she suddenly heard a strange sound.

But this sound only appeared for a moment, and soon disappeared.

"strangeness."

She rubbed her ears and continued walking.

Don't think that it is very shady and cool in the forest. In fact, it is hotter than outside in many cases.

And this kind of heat is sultry, the kind that makes people breathless. After a long time, it seems that the whole forest is pressed on him.

Passing through the dense bushes, the silver-haired girl gradually approached the conical mountain.

Soon, she found that the road became very difficult to walk.

The closer to the mountain peak, the denser the arrangement of trees, and some thorns completely blocked the gaps, making it difficult for her to move.

Several times, she couldn't help but want to cut off the unsightly branches and thorny vines, but her instinct told her that it would be wrong.

"Wow, there's a river!"

After passing through this hurdle with difficulty, a meandering river appeared in front of her eyes, winding around the edge of the low hills, and flowing happily into the distance.

"The water of the river happens to go eastward... If you follow this river all the way down, will you be able to find people?"

She was very excited:

"Finally no more wandering around this lifeless forest!"

"Whoa!"

She was just about to go into the river when suddenly an ugly head popped out of the water.

"..."

It was an animal that looked a bit like a hippopotamus.

The other party didn't seem to expect to meet her either, and a pair of bright eyes stared at the shore, seeming to be on guard.

"Humanity?"

Hippo suddenly spoke:

"Magician?"

What the other party spoke was not the language of the demons or the language of the abyss, but the lingua franca of the mainland.

"...I'm human, that's right."

The silver-haired girl was stunned for a moment, then replied:

"But not a magician, but a swordsman."

"Humans, magicians, eat them!"

Said the hippopotamus in a low voice, and rushed towards her from the water!

"Shh!"

Before the silver-haired girl raised her sword to fight back, a few thick branches suddenly dropped from the bank and stabbed the hippo monster hard in the eye!

The monster screamed.

It shook its head and retreated into the river, splashing a huge splash!

But the branches didn't just let it go.

After the first attack, more and more branches stretched from the air to the river, and in a blink of an eye it became a hedgehog.

A large amount of black blood flowed out from the monster's body, and the entire water surface turned black and red for a while!

After doing all this, those blood-stained branches slowly retracted.

"rustle……"

At the same time, there were rustling whispers in the forest, and the surrounding trees seemed to be talking to the silver-haired girl.

Chapter 240 The Unlucky Magician

"Are the trees... protecting me?"

The silver-haired girl thought in surprise.

It's a pity that she couldn't understand what the other party was talking about.

She tried to talk to the tree, but the tree couldn't do anything but rustle, couldn't communicate at all.

"Forget it, let's go quickly, the sun will go down in a while."

She took steps, intending to walk east along the river.

Unexpectedly, a dry branch immediately stopped her and prevented her from going further.

--what the hell?

Ai Wen stopped and looked at the dead branches in front of her vigilantly: