113 The actual mission starts from here. (1/2)

The night passed while nothing unusual happened. As per routine, some beasts had stumbled upon the area, and the mercenaries quickly killed them.

Ozul opened his eyes the next morning when he felt the light enter in his tent. He was a little excited since, according to the map, they are close to the other forest.

He anticipated what dangers lay inside that old forest to make it so dangerous. And if it was really so unexplored that they couldn't even mark any critical points of it on the map, what secrets could it be hiding?

In the previous years, he had done many things, but exploring wasn't one of them. The thought of learning new things and exploring unknown places was somewhat exciting to Ozul.

Only because he knew many things from birth; every piece of new information would delight him because learning it by himself had a unique feel to it.

As he went out of the tent, he rotated three small black balls in front of him. He floated them in mid-air while continually changing their shapes and direction.

They were relatively bigger than the ones he practiced with last night. Only because he was not fully concentrating on them, but just doing it to get the hang of it.

The other mercenaries were mostly done with their stuff, and the duo had also readied the cart. He just hoped on the roof and sat there with his legs crossed.

This time Blaze sat in the carriage instead of walking alongside it while Raven was back on the driver's seat.

”Everyone is ready! Let's move!” The shout of Clive sounded out as the carriages began to move.

The convoy started moving at the same pace, but everyone was apprehensive about what was to come next. Most of the mercenaries could figure out that it wouldn't be long for them to reach the other forest.

As they were moving closer to the other forest, stronger monsters began to show up. When there would hardly be any rank 5 before, now beasts at that level were showing up like cabbages.

Though none of them could do any harm because of the number of mercenaries that were surrounding the convoy.

Except for the tense atmosphere, all was the same as the days before. One thing the convoy noticed, though, was that the forest became quieter.

The more in that direction they traveled, the quieter the forest turned around them.

”Hm. Weird.” Ozul muttered after trying to sense any life around him. It turned out that as far as he could discern, there were no beasts around them. Magical creatures aside, he couldn't even sense the ordinary animals around!

'It seems that normal beasts and animals don't even dare to go near this area.' Ozul concluded that this must be due to the dangers ahead of them. The beasts and the animals live here, so they are probably aware of which places to avoid for survival.

The convoy continued for another hour before it stopped all of a sudden. Since Ozul was sitting on the roof, he had a clear view of why the people in front had stopped.

Even he had to stare for a couple of seconds since it looked almost unreal.

The forest they were in at the moment was enormous, but the trees were tall and not mushed together. They could see their surroundings quite clearly since the trees did not block the sunlight.

However, the scene in front of them was totally different. When they had seen that this forest was connected with the other on the map, everyone had thought that there wouldn't be much of a difference.