The Path of the Master's Development

The red hair of His Majesty the former Demon King looks quite similar to Orlando, but the eyes are golden red, and the whole demon looks like an adult version of Orlando.

"It's really you..."

Kadolan's voice sounded like a sigh, and there was no trace of the missing person's joy of seeing his godson reunited after a long absence. Instead, there was a deep sense of "Why are you here?"

"Come with me."

The people gathered nearby because of the opening of the teleportation channel saw that the two demons had successfully recognized each other, so they dispersed one after another. Only then did Isaac discover that there was actually a small... village in this weird forest.

--etc!Why did Uncle Kadoran come here to be a farmer while letting the devil do wrong?Obviously, all the demons thought that the former demon king went to some library to live as a bookworm...

Seeing the former Kadolan Hilfis lead himself and Rein slowly to a wooden house, there was a field surrounded by the wooden house, and some familiar things were planted. I complained in my heart.

Look what's in the vegetable garden...

- Black screaming carrots, black grimacing pumpkins, black blablas...don't do that!The demons obviously have normal food, okay? !Is this stuff really edible?

When Rein saw the vegetable field, he thought of the flowers that Isaac had planted in the first place. Although they had long since disappeared in Xiluta's rampage, they looked similar to this black vegetable field.

"Uncle Kadolan, what is this place?" Isaac looked up at the black cabin, and he could see that it was taken from the dark trees around him, but he didn't expect those trees to look like dead branches. Lim, the wood made of it is quite interesting.

"Haven't you understood after looking at the surrounding environment?" Cadolan said lightly, "Have all the teaching materials for the demon children been returned to the books?"

Isaac: "..."

——It's such a time, godfather, can you accept the demeanor of the demon educator?

But he did remember.

I was shocked by the "heavenly realm" at first, but now that I think about it, maybe the passage doesn't lead to the heavenly realm at all. If the interference from the heavenly realm is eliminated, there is indeed such a place in the human world, which is a dark place like the Valley of the Undead.

dark forest.

A settlement of dark elves.

Isaac and Rein looked at each other, and at the same time thought of Auriel who died in the dungeon of the Demon King City and the female elf who had seen beside him.

——Is it actually the base camp of the dark elves? !

Seeing from their faces that they had already guessed the location at this moment, Cardolan nodded: "The human world geography manual is indeed not in vain—you originally planned to go to the heaven?"

Isaac faintly smelled a conspiracy: "That's right...what's going on here?"

"Everyone here is planning to go to the heaven, and the 'passage' made a mistake, and they appeared here." Kadola brought the two into the house, and said slowly.

No one knows what the criteria for triggering the abnormal channel are. The only thing they know is that they want to go to the heaven on a whim one day, but they end up in this ghost place.

Although this forest seems ordinary, and there are no powerful monsters, it seems to have no boundaries, and it will always be an endless forest.

None of them could get out, and none of them had researched out what kind of magic or enchantment there was, so they could only be trapped here day after day.

In order to survive, these trapped people began to search for food and build houses... Fortunately, the forest has the necessities of basic life.But after such a long time, even the former Lord Demon King has changed from a bookworm to a farmer who works at sunrise and rests at sunset—however you look at it, it is a bit scary.

After Kadoran finished explaining, he arranged a room for Rein and Isaac, and then went to water the black plants he planted to get rid of insects-does that kind of thing really grow insects?

"That's not right." Isaac said standing in the room with a frown.

"What's wrong?" Rein lowered his voice, "Isn't this Lucius' father?"

"No, he's Uncle Kadoran...but he didn't ask who you are, or what we're doing in the heaven..."

Lein stood at the window and looked out.

The people around are all looking depressed.

"They've been trapped for too long and have lost hope."

"I won't let you become like this, we can definitely leave!" Isaac held Rein's hand and shook it with a smile, "Don't worry, we have to go back to hell to get married and cheat money!"

I don't know when he became a scheming boy. Isaac Christopha, who played the star of Rein's death, still makes Rein speechless today.

——Instead of worrying about this, you should worry about the crisis of virginity, Rein!

The blond young man tilted his head with a blushing face, pointing to a blue figure in the distance: "Do you think...that sea monster looks familiar?"

Isaac, who was busy admiring Rein's red face, didn't even look at the direction Rein was pointing at, so he responded casually: "I saw it before, it's probably Neptune's wanderlust brother, the original heir."

Isaac's purple eyes slowly lifted and glanced outside the house.

"No matter what race the people around here are, they are all strong people of level nine or above."

Cardolan did not tell them this as a condition, probably because he felt that Isaac and Rein were not like ninth-level masters.

"Scholar's nature." Isaac muttered.

——If you are not 100% sure, you are reluctant to speak out easily.

Although Isaac doesn't seem to be at the ninth level, it's because he suppressed his own strength to pass through the passage, otherwise, if he used all the power of the Dragon King to pass through the passage, he would definitely crush the barrier between the three realms—even though he went to the heaven to find it. Troublesome, but not yet intended to be a public enemy.

As for Laing.

Isaac can't quite understand Rein's state now.

He doesn't remember anything about Kalhala, and he doesn't know how to use spells under normal conditions, but the strength around him is steadily increasing—it's the kind of appearance that seems to be suddenly stronger anytime, anywhere. Because he is a seventh-level magic swordsman, but now he has broken through the eighth level and touched the edge of the ninth level.

Isaac has a vague guess, but this guess is too cruel for him and the future, and he is not very willing to think about it.

—The horn is waking up.

That means the end of the world is imminent.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!" The familiar voice interrupted Isaac and Rein's thinking, they looked at each other in surprise, and hurried out to have a look.

Xiluta, Lucius, Edward, and George fell into a ball in the open space—the poor principal was almost crushed into a patty by the three people above.

"George?!" Lein exclaimed, immediately stepped forward and tried to help everyone up, "Why are you here?"

"Line!" Edward once again saw a normal face in the gray and golden, and wept with excitement, forgetting the existence of the big devil Isaac, he wanted to reach out and rush forward.

Isaac's dark wings stood up with a snap, and the sharp edges pointed directly at Edward, with an unpredictable smile on his face.

"You, you, how, what, will, be, in, here?"

"Ouch, ouch, let me get up first!" George hummed for a long time, and was finally freed from the treatment of the human mat. He raised his eyebrows and looked around, "Isn't this the Lost Forest? How did you get there?" Here?!"

"Isn't this the dark forest?" Isaac frowned.

"What is the Lost Forest?" Rein wondered.

"Uncle Kadolan?!" Xiluta exclaimed.

Lucius was stunned for a moment, and looked at the former Demon King who was standing beside him at an unknown time: "...Father?"

Cardolan's golden eyes swept across everyone's faces one by one, and finally settled on the face of the red-haired and red-eyed Lucius, who finally showed a puzzled expression: "Orlando...? Did you go for plastic surgery?"

Everyone: "..."

"This matter is a bit complicated, let's talk slowly, slowly, hahaha." George said that as an adult, he was really worried about this group of children-in fact, he was crushed and broke his waist...and fell down The sound was quite loud, and there was a three-second silence for the necromancer's small body.

With more than one person, Cadolan's hut would not be enough, so everyone asked George to set up a table of bones like in the Valley of the Dead, and sat around in a circle.

Edward touched the bone table, and said with a little thought and fear: "There are enough bones here..."

"I don't know how many people are trapped here. There are demons like me, and there are also short-lived human beings. After death, they can only be buried here."

Cardolan felt that necromantic magic was more convenient, but when he said this, everyone felt a little uncomfortable sitting.

--think about it!They might be the bones of someone's good brother or good friend sitting here!

"Why on earth did you appear here?" Just like when he was in school, Rein was always the one who changed the topic, focusing on the main building for 100 years.

"We originally planned to go to the inter-school joint competition." George said, looking at Isaac and Rein sadly.

Of course, the demon youth looked back indifferently: "Didn't you say it was half a year?"

"The federation doesn't know why the competition was held in advance." Xiluta said, although he had let go of his heart, his eyes were still shining when he saw his idol Lord Isaac, but the content of his speech was a real complaint, "It must be done this way." I rushed over to sign up in a few days."

So everyone drew a teleportation array, trying to rush to the registration location as quickly as possible—but they didn't know what happened in the middle, one of the teleportation arrays suddenly exploded, and they were teleported here.

"Aren't there any suspicious things or suspicious people?" Isaac rubbed his chin, thinking deeply - the teleportation array is different from the channel, as long as there is no problem with drawing the array map, the safety factor can basically be guaranteed. This may be a breakthrough point.

"Uh... last night, I saw the principal with a red-haired, blue-eyed beauty." Edward said uncertainly, "But I can see his face, so I thought it was a dream."

Isaac, Laing, Lucius: "..."

George: "Cough cough cough! Then what, you listen to me... Uh, no way..."

——As a result, he himself hesitated.

this!one look!that is!The Book of Omniscience is doing something wrong!

Edward can see the face of the Omniscient Book because it's not human at all!

Everyone immediately turned their attention to George, with a few big characters on their faces: Tell me clearly!

George spread his hands: "I just met an old friend and exchanged some pleasantries. I really really don't know."

George also doesn't understand that Book of Omniscient is obsessed with "greeting with friends", but George himself wouldn't believe that Book of Omniscient came here to greet him on purpose.

But if it was the Book of Omniscience that made them appear here, there must be his reasons.

Either, it's keeping them from going to intercollegiate tournaments, or there's someone out there who needs them -- or both.

"Ahem, ahem, alright, let's discuss how to leave." George straightened his face, expressing that he had changed his mind and reincarnated himself, and would honestly confess that he would not stand on the side of the "enemy".

"What is the Lost Forest?" Rein, who was still understanding, saved him from the fire.

——Because Lucius, who always plays the role of a schoolmaster and a questionable baby, is looking at his long-lost biological father silently. One thinks that his father looks more down-to-earth, and the other is wondering about his own education. What went wrong, why did my son follow the trend and get his face done...

However, upon hearing this question, the nature of the Schilphis family's academic masters still overwhelmed everything else, and they unanimously turned their curiosity-seeking eyes to the only person who could answer this question.

"The Lost Forest is also a part of the Dark Forest. It is located at the southernmost part of the entire Dark Forest. From the map, it does not occupy a large area. However, this forest is said to be cursed. Even the dark elves, the masters of the Dark Forest, will never enter it." Here, once you enter, you can never leave."

"...Then we will never get out?" Edward's voice trembled a little.

"Maybe." George shrugged.

"George—" Rein dragged out his tone, feeling his hands itchy.

Probably because he hadn't supervised George for too long, the long sword beside him was a little ready to move, eager to get out of its sheath.

Hearing the familiar tone of "talk to me well", Mr. George expressed his deep nostalgia - he is definitely not a masochist, but he also really wants little Rhine who was abducted by Isaac.

When the child grows up, he doesn't need to be a godfather... Sigh...

"Okay, okay, it's not completely impossible. I heard that you have to find the source of the curse and find a way to wash away the curse before you can leave the Lost Forest."

"How did you know?" Kadolan asked. As the most knowledgeable demon in hell, he didn't even know that there was a Lost Forest in the dark forest. Why did this young human being in front of him know this? thing?

"I mentioned it before when I was chatting with the Book of Omniscience next to the Sea of ​​Illusion."

When George said this, everyone felt that it was indeed the mystic from the Book of Omniscience who sent them here.

"But we have almost explored this forest, and there is nothing special about it except that we will never go to the end." Cadolan was convinced by George's reason, so he began to discuss in depth.

Then Isaac stood up.

"I'll take a look from the sky." Said the demon youth, he raised his six wings and flew straight to the sky.

But everyone only heard a loud "Great!", and Isaac seemed to have hit something.

"Wow, that sounds like it hurts!" George said, squinting his left eye.

"..." Rein cast a helpless glance at the mean-spirited George, and couldn't help spreading out his wings of light to fly up to check on Isaac's situation, "Are you all right? Do you need a healing technique?"

Isaac put his arms around Rein's waist, and he couldn't restrain the corners of his mouth that he wanted to pretend to be pitiful: "It's okay, I'm very happy that you care about me."

It is said that the skin of the Dragon King is the thickest armor in the world. Although Isaac, who swallowed the dragon corpse, his body was not completely transformed into a dragon, his strength was not much worse.

So it's really a good deal to make Rein come to see him in a hurry.

—he has foreseen a life full of light bulbs!

Isaac looked around - except for a group of people living in the middle, there are layers of trees all around, and it is very strange to take the place where people live as the center, spreading out layer by layer, and the outer layer of trees is getting bigger and bigger. High, as if deliberately to cover people's sight.

After landing, Isaac told everyone what he saw, and everyone felt that it didn't look like it grew naturally.

"Maybe..." Cadolan pondered for a moment, then said, "Maybe the surrounding trees grow like this because they are affected by the curse."

Most of the people present were not stupid, and they knew what the former Demon King meant when they heard it.

Since they are all trees of the same species, there is no reason for the distribution of heights to be so neat, unless the curse has affected the growth of the trees. The closer to the curse, the shorter the tree, and the farther away from the curse, the taller the tree-this is also a reasonable guess.

Lucius spoke suddenly: "But when it comes to curses, the conjurers are the best at it, right?"

Xiluta was stunned. Although there was nothing wrong with saying that, he never felt the breath of the curse from the moment he fell in the Lost Forest until George mentioned the curse.

What's more, the dark elves themselves are also great experts in the study of curses, even if they dare not set foot here easily, he really has no confidence.

Lucius gave Isaac a look.

Isaac was silent for three seconds: "Yes, Xiluta, I believe in you!"

——What about morality?

But the power of idols is infinite!

The evidence is that Xiluta, who was still hesitant, immediately clenched his fists and said loudly: "Don't worry, Lord Isaac! I will definitely find out the source of the curse!"

Cadolan looked at the somewhat familiar scene in front of him, and couldn't help recalling how Orlando, Isaac, and Siluta got along when they were still small groups, and found that there was no sense of disobedience after the substitution.

So he finally acquiesced that the calm, black-bellied, cunning, and knowledgeable guy in front of him had indeed remained the same except his face.

"Let's look for it together with Xiluta." Edward took the initiative to stand beside Xiluta, "I seem to think there is something weird here."

Everyone looked at Edward, showing "Oh..." in the same way.

——Did this guy become addicted after being cheated by Xiluta twice in a row in the Holy City of Light and the Siren Palace?

Congratulations to Edward, who couldn't see everyone's expressions at all, and Rein's expression was always so upright, so he didn't realize that his little abacus was misunderstood and distorted to another place.

——That's right, he just considered that it is very possible to form a team to act in this damned forest, so he found his teammates in advance to prevent him from falling into a tragic situation.

You see, Isaac must be with Rein.

Lucius met his dad and sure had a lot to say.

And Mr. George, the headmaster, is a capitalized troublemaker, and if he is tied up with him, he will definitely be pitted to death.

After much deliberation, the only thing left is Xiluta who only stares at his own purse!Anyway, his pockets are already empty, so don't worry about debts!

Xiluta, who had worked with him many times, did not misunderstand Edward's actions - he had already figured out what this guy was thinking.

So the little black loli stood aside and sneered: Boy, you are so naive!There is a thing in this world called IOUs!

"Okay, okay!" George clapped his hands and stood up, expressing that he would make a meeting summary for the students and their parents, "Since we already have a clue, we can't just let Xiluta do it, we will help too! Maybe we can catch up with the inter-school joint competition after we leave."

But the response was not so good—

"Are you serious, Headmaster?"

"Dream?"

"I'm sure I won't be able to catch up."

"If you want to blame it, blame the Book of Omniscience, aren't you 'good friends'?"

"George..."

"Cough, cough, cough!" George stared at the pile of heart-stirring students with his hands on his hips, "You have to have a dream, do you know that?! I know it's very likely that you won't be able to catch up, but what if you can?!"

Everyone glanced at each other, saying that George didn't feel any tense atmosphere at all, even if he was too serious, he seemed to be making trouble with himself, so the atmosphere relaxed a lot, and they all nodded.

"Okay, okay, the principal's adults are right."

"We can catch up with the inter-school joint competition, and we can also drag Isaac and Rein to participate in the competition, and come back with a championship."

"Anyway, it's just a dream, let's just dream of digging out a large amount of treasure directly from the Lost Forest, and directly becoming a school for local tyrants comparable to the school for the clergy?"

"That's too dreamy. Why don't you dream that after the curse is lifted, you enter the dark forest and the dark elf city to grab a lot of wealth and return home."

"Oh, this is pretty good." George interrupted suddenly, "I announce that the Dark Forest tour group is officially established!"

Everyone: "..."

——From the skinning squad to the dark forest tour group... Mr. George's taste, tsk tsk tsk!