Chapter 35: Met a living person?
[Cultivation successful, experience value +1]

[Professional level upgrade, lv7→lv8]

……

One night.

Rhodes' experience finally reached the maximum value and he successfully reached level 8.

Feeling the changes in his body, Rhodes was full of confidence. He brought the little thing to the altar early in the morning to count the supplies.

This time out.

He can be said to be well prepared.

Not only did he bring seven or eight newly ripe black fruits, he also used the collected wood to make a simple sealed container, filled it with Moon Spring and stuffed it into the groove on his body.

With this restorative holy water, he could finally go deep into the druid's lair with confidence and take a look inside.

"I hope I won't be so unlucky this time and encounter a level 10 black beast like last time. Come on, let's go!"

After asking for the tree god's protection from the statue of the Tree of Life, Rhodes took the little thing deep into the black soil and hurried towards the marked direction.

As for the soul ravens and elemental spirits, they were left on the altar.

Because their intelligence is not high and the black soil is very harmful to the soul body, staying at the altar to guard the house is the best choice.

"Yeah!"

While he was thinking, the little thing on his head issued a warning, and he could already see the dark forest outside the druid's nest in the distance.

Rhodes paused in his running and gradually slowed down.

"Be careful, don't get pecked by the crows this time."

After several previous explorations, he had basically figured out the surrounding terrain, and he passed through the periphery with ease and walked into the forest full of dead tree trunks.

The little thing stretched out its head and looked around vigilantly, ready to fight at any time.

The surroundings were silent except for the sound of Rhode's light footsteps. Even the previous sounds of ghosts howling and crows had disappeared.

"That's not right, why is it so quiet?"

After walking another hundred meters, there was still no change.

The whole forest was lifeless and eerily quiet, completely different from when they had come here before.

You have to know that at that time they would encounter a crow almost every hundred meters they walked, and when they were unlucky, they would even encounter two at a time.

"Something's wrong."

"Something is very wrong."

"Could it be that they all ran out during the black moon?"

Rhodes stopped and hesitated whether to move forward.

After all, with his current strength, he can only go four or five kilometers at most. If he goes any further, he might not be able to make it back.

But he didn't want to miss such a rare opportunity.

Without the black beast blocking us, we might be able to go straight inside and explore the situation.

Otherwise, he would feel uneasy with such a time bomb placed around the altar.

"Let's fight! At worst, we can just run away if we run into danger!"

"Yeah!"

With a determined heart, Rhodes and the little thing finally moved again, walking cautiously towards deeper places.

During this time, he also ate a black fruit to ensure the recovery of his magic power in case he would not have enough time to eat it.

I don't know how long I walked like this.

When Rhode estimated that he was about to cross the five-kilometer warning line, his vision suddenly opened up and he was on top of a huge deep pit.
wrong.

It should be called a canyon.

A huge canyon nestled in the middle of a forest.

“What a strange terrain.”

With great curiosity, Rhodes came to the edge of the canyon and looked down.

But when he saw it, he was so scared that his soul almost flew out of his body.

nest.

Countless nests!
They are located one after another on the cliffs in the canyon, extending from the top to the ground. The entrances are deep and unknown where they lead to.

However, what shocked him the most was the bottom of the canyon.

The dense black figures gathered in one place, weren’t they the black beasts that he had encountered along the way?

“They all came here.”

Looking at the endless black beasts, some of which were over ten meters in size and had terrifying auras, Rhodes felt his scalp tingling and almost turned around and ran away.

But oddly enough.

These black beasts did not make any movement at this time. They all stood there stupidly, looking in the same direction.

Black threads flew out from their bodies, converging in the same direction and interweaving into a wriggling net in the sky.

Rhodes looked upward along the big net, and his pupils suddenly shrank.

In the sky where the silk threads gathered, a familiar shadow of a waning moon was looming, emitting a strange glow.

Black moon!

Rhodes almost couldn't help but exclaim.

Although it was just an unformed waning moon, he could recognize it at a glance; it was the black moon that had appeared before!
I was wondering if something was amiss, turns out it was you pagans secretly performing sacrifices here!

Believed in the moon god when alive.

Even if you die, right?

For Rhodes.

This is not good news.

And looking at the current situation, it is obvious that these monsters are providing power to Black Moon.

Once the black moon takes shape, I am afraid that the previous situation will happen again. All the black beasts will go crazy and madly attack anything that contains the breath of life.

Fortunately, he made a special trip here.

Otherwise you will be kept in the dark forever.

"Huh? What is that?"

Suddenly, Rhodes' eyes moved and he noticed a figure moving quickly at the edge of the canyon.

The figure was not too big, at most the size of an ordinary person, but it was still very eye-catching among the motionless black beasts, and even the small thing on his head was noticed.

"Let's go over and have a look."

Rhodes acted decisively and moved closer to the figure.

It was not until he stepped over a huge rock protrusion and reached the edge of the canyon that he finally got a vague glimpse of the other person's appearance. It was actually a humanoid creature with purple wings on its back!
"Angel?... No, angels aren't that black... Birdman? It doesn't seem like that either, a birdman should have a bird's beak... Could it be a demon or a vampire? Are there even such species of black beasts?"

In Rhodes' limited knowledge, there were only a few types of humanoid creatures with wings, but they all seemed to be different from the figure in the canyon.

And just as he was guessing.

The other party seemed to have discovered something and rushed into a beast cave opposite.

When he reappeared a few minutes later, he was holding an emerald stone in his arms and his face was full of joy.

and many more.

Smile?

This is not the black beast!
Finally, Rhodes reacted and looked at the quickly departing figure in shock.

He knew very well that the black beast had no independent consciousness, let alone any expression other than ferociousness and brutality on its face.

In other words.

That birdman is most likely a creature like him, living in this black earth world!

good news.

Great news.

He originally thought that except for him, all the people in the Black Soil World were unconscious monsters, but now it seems that he was wrong.

this world.

It was far more complicated than he had imagined.

There might even be other species and lives living somewhere he doesn't know about, but he just hasn't encountered them yet.

"That's what I was saying. How could all living things become extinct? Maybe there are species with genetic mutations that survived?"

Rhodes walked quickly as he went around the edge of the canyon and chased after the figure in the direction he left.

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(End of this chapter)