In the Dark Forest, Alex was leading John, Azure, and a group of undead in pursuit of a horde of giant spiders.
These spiders had legs that stretched over six feet, with ghostly face patterns on their abdons and six glowing red eyes on their heads, making them a nightmare for anyone with arachnophobia.
The trees around were all connected by white webs, indicating this was their habitat. So webs even held the corpses of birds and beasts, corroded by the webs and oozing pus.
"Disgusting and foul," was Alex's assessnt.
Alex only dared to use magic for ranged attacks. The spiders' shattered limbs and green blood were highly toxic, so she left the close combat to the undead.
Among the spiders were several Commanding levels. Whenever the undead got entangled in the webs, Alex would use fire magic to burn the webs and free them.
Soon, the spiders realized Alex wasn't their prey but the hunter, and they began to flee frantically.
[Congratulations, Lord, for successfully killing lv3 Commanding level bloodlust spider, gaining 150 experience points!]
"Finally, they're all dead."
Alex carefully walked over, avoiding the green liquid on the ground, and summoned the corpses before Disassembling them.
She checked the ti and realized it was getting late. She had no idea how far into the Dark Forest she had chased these spiders.
Alex continued to lead the undead, searching for enemies nearby, her eyes scanning the surroundings.
The interior of the Dark Forest wasn't flat; there were ravines, rivers, and even hills up to twenty-five feet high, all covered in trees.
Speaking of trees, Alex paused, realizing the trees around her had changed.
"These are fir and pine trees?"
Alex looked at the towering trees, each at least 130 feet tall, with lush branches blocking out the sky. She retracted her earlier statent about a zombie titan being easily spotted in the Dark Forest.
These trees were easy to distinguish. Alex felt like she had entered a prival forest, with trees so thick it would take two or three people to encircle them.
This was completely different from the outskirts of the Dark Forest she had entered before, where the trees were just a few feets tall, leafless, and barren.
"Is this the real Dark Forest?"
Alex looked around, feeling like she had stepped into another world, entirely different from the terrain near her castle.
She was stunned. She had thought the Dark Forest was just an ordinary forest.
Alex walked forward, spotting a massive boulder about ten feet wide and high on a slope. She decided to climb it to get a better view of the surroundings.
With a teleport, Alex landed on the boulder, imdiately dropping to her stomach.
"What is that?!"
Alex exclaid. Ahead was a downward slope, giving her a clear view. At the bottom was a river, and beside it stood a nearly thirty-foot-tall blue creature.
The creature held a massive wooden club, looking like a giant human, but with blue skin, no hair on its head, and yellow mane running from its head down its spine.
Of course, it wasn't human. Alex only saw its back, not its front.
The blue creature seed to sense it was being watched and turned to look directly at Alex.
It had a pointed nose, yellow eyes, and yellow fur on its ears.
As their eyes t, Alex felt an intense sense of danger and imdiately teleported away from the boulder.
She hadn't figured out how it had spotted her from such a distance when the boulder exploded, startling her.
"Run!"
Alex turned and fled with the undead, but the creature appeared in front of her, swinging its club.
"How is that possible?!"
The creature had been so far away, yet its attack seed to be about to hit Alex.
Boom!
Alex and the undead suddenly vanished from the Dark Forest, the creature's attack missing.
Alex felt the surroundings blur, turning black as if she were in a void, with a faint light at the end rapidly growing.
"Child, it's late. Go back."
"Who?!"
Alex shouted, but the light engulfed her, blinding her.
When her eyes adjusted, she found herself outside the Dark Forest, recognizing the area as even further out than where she had been hunting spiders.
It was already dark. Alex looked back, seeing the undead had followed her out. She didn't hesitate to leave.
"Return to the castle."
This was too bizarre. Alex was bewildered, her mind reeling.
Who had spoken and saved her?
Alex clearly rembered the voice, guessing it was a middle-aged man.
Why would a native human save an extraterrestrial visitor like her?
And how had it gone from daylight to night so quickly?
The Dark Forest was not only strange but terrifying.
Even back at the castle, Alex's heart was still pounding.
"Ice Cream, do you know anything about the Dark Forest?"
Alex asked, hoping the native dragon might have so information.
But Ice Cream's answer was disappointing. Without much thought, it said,
"Because the Dark Forest is a forbidden area."
"The Dark Forest is a forbidden area? Isn't Frostwind snowy mountain also a forbidden area?"
Alex didn't understand.
"Frostwind snowy mountain was called a forbidden area because of my mother's presence. The Dark Forest is different."
Alex wanted to ask more, but it seed Ice Cream knew no more than that.
Alex now knew the Dark Forest was a true forbidden area, while Frostwind snowy mountain had lost that status after the frost dragon's death.
Today's accidental venture into the Dark Forest's depths had left Alex shaken. The outskirts couldn't even be called the Dark Forest.
The creature's attack was too bizarre. She had never seen such a strange attack.
Whoosh—
Alex turned on the shower, taking a cold bath to calm herself.
"Forget it. I'll develop in White Rock Mountains."
The unknown was the most terrifying. At least she understood the dwarves better.
After drying off, Alex put on a loose T-shirt and went out. The corpses outside had been Disassembled, yielding over 2k magic crystals, 200 Essence Shards, and more Standard equipnt, which she gave to Chi-Chi.
Alex checked Chi-Chi's progress.
[Territory Lord: Chi-Chi]
[Strength: lv7 Standard]
[Territory Level: lv9 Initial Castle]
[Barracks Level: lv7 Beasts Crystal]
[Special Building: Ti Chamber]
[Troops: Seven types of beasts]
[Equipnt: Flying Nimbus, Doran's Blade]
"Wow, her castle is already lv9?"
Alex understood the Barracks upgrade, given the equipnt she had provided, but the castle upgrade seed fast.
But she didn't question it. Chi-Chi might have had so fortuitous encounters.
Alex asked Sophie about the situation in White Rock Mountains and was relieved to hear there were no issues.
She sent all available necromancers, including liches, specters, death conquerors, Destroyers, and Ghouls, through the portal to Sophie's side.
With her area unsafe for developnt, the undead couldn't sit idle. They could at least mine stone in White Rock Mountains.
What? They don't know how? They can learn. They can't just do nothing.
Alex returned to her bedroom, waiting for the leaderboard to refresh at midnight.
She sat in her room, passing the ti by browsing World Chat, finding the Lords' discussions amusing.
Ti flew by, and at midnight, the long-awaited announcent appeared.
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