Wasteland 1

In the vast underground world, goblins are known for their enormous numbers.

Raymond remembered a saying: If there was no killing, the whole world would become the food of goblins!

Near the end of a nearly month-long journey, the beast car passed by a gathering place for goblins. Looking at those weak and thin little goblins playing in the mud, Raymond thought of this saying and casually mentioned it.

But what shocked Raymond was that this saying was sighed by the coachman. "Never underestimate these dirty and ugly goblins. They were once glorious a long time ago. They were almost the rulers of the underground world!"

The coachman's sigh made Raymond somewhat unbelieving. In his understanding, goblins were just cheap laborers hired by the Wizard Academy. They guarded human settlements like the Wizard Academy in exchange for food provided by the wizard organization.

Of course, nominally, the tribes of these goblins were the most important allies of the Red Marsh Wetland Wizard Academy.

But these goblins with green skin could only become cheap laborers who needed to provide abundant resources for wizards at the cost of blood and life after proper arming by the Wizard Academy, relying on their large population.

As far as Raymond was concerned, that was all.

On the third day after the beast car left the hilly area, Raymond and the others' comfortable and monotonous journey ended. Not far from where they were now standing was the place shrouded in fog. According to the map provided by the black market, behind this foggy area was Raymond and the others' first goal, an area suitable for level two apprentices to enter.

When choosing the entrance point, Felix had a dispute with Raymond. According to Felix's idea, they should go directly to the area suitable for level three apprentices.

Because according to the time, they would be the first batch to enter, so the harvest would be extremely rich.

But Raymond insisted on entering from here. He did not do it entirely because of Rebecca. Rather, Raymond instinctively chose a relatively safe way. Since it was an exploratory resource collection, it also meant that risks still existed.

Although Felix had reached the peak of a level three apprentice, this did not mean that he could command Raymond. At Raymond's insistence, Felix still compromised.

After leaving the beast car, everyone entered the fog. Under their feet was a rough, gravelly ground. The wet mist made people feel as if they had fallen into the water, wet all over. But the people whose vision was blocked by the fog did not encounter any creatures in the fog.

Two days later, when they passed through the fog, Raymond also noticed that the ground was sloping downward. When the fog became thinner, what appeared before them was like a wasteland. The gravel under their feet had turned into deep black humus, and a faint foul smell permeated the air.

After leaving the foggy area, Raymond and the others rested for a while and then entered this wasteland.

But after entering the wasteland, Raymond and the others were like entering a savage land. As far as the eye could see, there were only low and sparse vegetation, no creatures, no insects, not even traces of some common flying birds in the underground world.

In such a vast and silent environment, the intense palpitations made everyone lose interest in talking. Until the sharp-eyed Alvin discovered the first medicinal herb of value, this depressing atmosphere was broken.

Hidden in the bushes, this medicinal herb was first discovered by Alvin when everyone was resting.

About an inch long, with only six or seven pale gray leaves, the gray blood grass was the main material for making potent hemostatic agents. Although the value of every ten plants was only one low-level magic stone, with the discovery of this medicinal herb, Raymond also understood the true value of this wasteland!

Gray blood grass for making hemostatic agents, blue lotus needed to make awakening agents, and ground bamboo roots needed to make affinity enhancing potions...

As Raymond and the others went deeper and deeper, many plants useful to wizards were also discovered in succession. Although they did not grow in clusters, the vast territory here made the available number seem extremely considerable.

Collecting these useful things along the way, everyone's mood gradually became cheerful. But on the third day after they entered the wasteland, danger descended inadvertently.

The cause was quite simple. When Louisa was picking a blue lotus, the excited her did not notice the huge wild bee hive hidden in the bushes.

So because Louisa's picking action was too large, the wild bee swarm that suddenly emerged from the bushes immediately showed Raymond and the others the danger here.

The wild bees in the underground world, each bigger than a baby's fist, also contained fiercely effective bee venom on their sharp tails. Ordinary people would die of paralysis after being attacked by more than three wild bees.

The wild bee swarm that suddenly appeared in everyone's sight, overwhelming like covering the sky and covering the earth, emerged from the bushes. This first encounter also tested the team that had just been formed.

The frightened Louisa was saved by Rebecca, who was close to her, and pulled out of the bushes quickly.

Raymond's ice spears, Felix's flames, and Alvin's magic attacks also completely covered that area when Louisa left the bushes.

The sudden encounter reached its climax in a few seconds.

The sound of magic spells being cast, the angry buzzing of wild bees' wings, were mixed together frighteningly. But soon only the roar of magic was left echoing in the wilderness of this wasteland.

After suffering the unscrupulous magic attacks of Raymond and the two others, the bushes were completely overturned. The huge beehive was ignited and burned to ashes, and the even larger bee queen did not have time to escape and was pierced through by Raymond's ice spear, killing her directly.

Therefore, although the angry wild bee swarm was not completely killed in the first wave of attacks after the bee queen died, they lost their commanding and only a few scattered wild bees broke into Raymond and the others' defenses, stinging the unprotected Alvin. Then the wild bee swarm began a large-scale retreat and quickly disappeared from everyone's sight.

The brief confrontation ended here. Alvin, the only one stung, became the only victim of this incident. Where he was stung swelled up, and the intense pain made him roll all over the ground screaming like an ordinary person...