552 Cloud Rhinoceros (1/2)

Lin Yun calmly took over the task of blocking the magic beasts. After this small disturbance, the team started moving through the forest once again after having stopped for a while.

Perhaps due to approaching the center of the primitive forest, the magic beasts' attack frequency greatly increased. It originally took the group one or two days before they met one or two wandering magic beasts, but now, they would meet them several times a day.

Especially in recent days, it could no longer be referred to as frequent encounter, it could even be described as continuous.

The team hadn't moved far before a deafening shout echoed in their ears.

Hearing such a howl usually meant that the ancient magic beasts controlling that part of the forest had already detected the intruders. It would then lead to an unavoidable battle.

And this was already the 4th magic beast encountered this day...

At first, Falton and the others wondered if it was possible to circumvent the ancient magic beast's location and continue forward. After all, even a High Rank Archmage would have a hard time fighting these tyrannical magic beasts one after the other.

Especially since they would gain nothing from a hard fight. For efficiency-minded mage, this held no interest at all.

The proposal to avoid a battle by circumventing the magic beast's territory was unanimously accepted by the three major forces.

It's just that this seemingly great proposal had only been implemented once.

These ancient magic beasts occupying the depths of the forest were obsessed with the intruders, far beyond what the mages could have imagined.

When the mages circumvented a group of ancient burrowing insects, they carelessly intruded on the territory of an eight-limbed monster with one eye. The burrowing insects chased them and joined hands with the monster. After being teamed up on, that idea was dropped.

Thus, when the mages heard the magic beast's roar, they all got ready for battle.

And sure enough, the ground shook just as that roar stopped. It wasn't hard to surmise that a pack of magic beasts was charging towards them.

And they didn't have to wait long...

The vibrations were getting closer and closer, and soon, a huge magic beast rushed from behind a tree trunk, exposing its fierce body, followed by more similarly huge silhouettes.

'Sh*t, it's a crash of Ancient Cloud Rhinoceroses…'

Seeing this group of colossi, even Lin Yun couldn't help but inwardly curse.

Ancient Cloud Rhinoceroses weren't easy to handle, Lin Yun had seen many reports regarding them in the decaying library, one such report recorded an event that left a profound impression on Lin Yun.

That was an event that had happened in the 3rd Dynasty and had caused a great shock.

In that era, there had once been two mage forces with really strained relationship. They could be roughly compared to the Black Tower and the Cloud Tower in terms of strength, and had accumulated a lot of enmity while fighting over resources.

One day, while they were exploring some ruins of the Ancient God Era, both factions unexpectedly met each other and automatically attacked each other to compete over the ruins, starting a war of unprecedented scale.

No less than a hundred Mid-Rank Archmages centered around the Ancient God Era's ruins and carrying out a bitter fight. This was definitely a battle bound to be recorded in history.

But, there was a very small inconsistency between what spread and what was recorded in history.

The two major forces were very similar in strength, so much that the teams they sent to explore the ruins were evenly matched. The battle sank into a deadlock from the start.

It was to such a point that despite the fact that both sides had their mages cooperate to cast taboo spells surpassing the Archmage realm, they still couldn't inflict any serious damage to the other force.

The power of both forces was too similar, to the point that regardless of what method one side came up with, the other side would be able to resist with a spell of similar rank. As a result, the very long battle continued, and despite the scars and bruises on everyone's bodies, no side had the upper hand.

If the situation kept developing that way, it would only lead to the exhaustion of both sides. After losing some people, they helplessly gave up and decided to retreat to their own camps.

But beyond everyone's expectations, a shocking crash of Ancient Cloud Rhinoceroses suddenly charged the battlefield.

Perhaps they had been disturbed by the spells cast by the mages, or perhaps this crash of Cloud Rhinoceroses just passed by and was attracted by the commotion...

But this no longer mattered.