Half-elf Notebook

The outer edge of the Warcraft Forest

With a faint blue glow, an invisible barrier formed around her, and Ina had cast a second-level shield on herself.

After previous reflection, she no longer used the Magic Eye indiscriminately, and instead chose to cast a semi-automatic shield spell.

The white-haired girl held the bow in her left hand, gently pinching two arrows, and holding the string with her right hand. She shuttled through the endless green shade at a considerable speed.

In compliance with the agreement with Rick, Ina did not intend to go to the border of the restricted area. She was still deeply afraid of it, but the outermost edge of the forest was not her goal either.

After about an hour, the sounds of birds chirping in the woods became much less frequent. Even in the warm spring, the vitality that the forest should have originally been possessed of was gradually replaced by silence and serenity.

This unique silence is what makes this place special and means you are close to the "border".

Ina slowed down her pace and took a few breaths. Even for a transcendent being, climbing over mountains and crossing hills for more than ten miles in an hour would inevitably cause some physical discomfort.

This was a last resort. There was only one bounty, and someone else got there first. She could only sell her prey at the market price.

Then, where to start... Ina took out the wrinkled map from her bag.

It depicts the Warcraft Forest, the simple mountains within the Earl of Crosroy Ridge, and two shadows of varying depths, which represent the restricted area and the border.

Because the boundaries and restricted areas are divided according to the density of Warcraft, they advance and retreat like the tides, and the Adventurer's Guild will have corresponding range updates every month.

Ina looked at the map while recalling the commission she had chosen.

1. An 80% complete blood wolf skin, five kingdom gold coins, and the range of occurrence is ten kilometers inside the western restricted area.

2. Fifteen pieces of 80% intact one-horned elk skins, one kingdom gold coin per piece. Found in the forest outside the western restricted area.

Normally, deerskin is more valuable than wolfskin, but the blood wolf is a second-level magical beast, and is much more difficult to hunt than the first-level magical beast, the unicorn elk.

Moreover, as a magical material, its value is higher, so the price naturally goes up.

Ina also specially prepared a few bottles to store the monsters' blood, hoping to sell it for more money.

"But ten kilometers along the western edge? That's really vague." Ina couldn't help but complain about the information listed in the commission.

Ten kilometers may not seem like a lot, but the mountains in the Warcraft Forest stretch for hundreds of miles, which is equivalent to 100,000 hectares of land, so it is very vast.

As they approached the border, the probability of encountering monsters increased. Hunters who made a living by hunting ordinary wild beasts and small animals no longer went deep into the forest. The forest, which was only visited by a few adventurers, seemed extremely natural.

There were no trails opened up for hunting. With the arrival of spring, the bushes growing everywhere greatly slowed down Ina's progress. The mountain road had a slope of nearly 40 degrees, and the mud and green moss left by the melted spring snow almost made the white-haired girl slip several times, forcing her to put away her bow and arrow.

This is not as easy as meditating while Uncle Shuxi is smoking next to you... Ina shook off the wet mud stuck on her deer shoes.

She was not an experienced Rick, and with only one hunting experience, she only had a vague understanding of all the scenes here.

Rick might be able to skillfully find more suitable movement paths, better observation points, and positions to engage the enemy in this forest, but the girl couldn't do it.

Nearly two hours have passed since I entered the forest alone.

Suddenly, an abrupt metallic reflection attracted the girl's attention. Ina moved closer and immediately discovered that the reflective point was a bronze dagger that fell next to the humanoid corpse.

The strong stench made Ina frown.

This smell is no joke... Winter has been over for less than a month, and the temperature and snow melting time are even shorter... They should have died in the first half of the hunting season... Ina was quite calm about this, she had seen dead bodies, and more than one.

It was a corpse sitting against a tree, with only rotten flesh clinging to the skull and two eyeballs that were shriveled like dried salted fish and sunken into the eye sockets.

It can be seen that this poor guy has been here for at least a week or two even at normal room temperature.

One hand disappeared, and the stomach was eaten by "human".

Except for some rotten lung lobes and a few liver fragments hanging high in the upper chest, the rest had been eaten up. Naturally, only white bones were left of the predator's prized thigh meat, which looked particularly disgusting and creepy among the surrounding rotten and blackened remaining meat.

"It seems that you are as unlucky as I am, Senior."

Ina pulled out the copper dagger that was stuck upside down in the soil, cut off the storage bag on the corpse's waist with one-handed sword, and picked it up.

"I'll accept these. Just consider them as burial expenses." She held the half-full storage bag and shook it towards the corpse.

In order to reduce troublesome disputes, the guild generally does not require hunters to hand in relics obtained from hunting unless someone voluntarily entrusts them to do so.

It is an unwritten rule in this industry that people do not blame others for taking the remains of dead hunters and adventurers for themselves.

There weren't many things in the bag, just a medal, a piece of rough blackened paper stained with blood, a few pieces of... um... rotten meat, a parchment scroll, seven or eight silver coins, and a dozen gros.

Ina picked out the coins, medals and parchment scrolls at random and threw the rest on the mud. The remaining ones should be the commission and delivery from this poor hunter.

In all likelihood, he was on his way back and was unfortunately attacked by a monster far stronger than himself, and thus died here.

After putting Ginlang and Gro into her bag, the girl began to check the remaining items.

The front of the medal was engraved with a half-drawn sword in a scabbard. It was obviously a normal adventurer's medal.

The rank will not be engraved on the medals of low-level adventurers.

After all, he was at most a bronze level, even though he was a veteran who had been in this business for ten years, and even though he had walked in and out of the paths he had walked hundreds or thousands of times.

In this Warcraft forest, near the border of the restricted area, as long as he had a moment of relaxation before walking out of here, or a little misfortune, his death would not be a surprising thing.

The magic scroll was the most unexpected gain for Ina. In order not to trigger the scroll for inspection, she pinched the unfolded page of the parchment with her index and middle fingers, pressed her thumb on an unknown pattern that slowly unfolded on the parchment, and slowly spread out the parchment from the other side.

It was a picture scroll outlined by light blue magic ink, composed of adverbial inscriptions, runes and magic circles.

Unfortunately, judging from the drawn magic circle, it is a second-level fireball spell.

However, even though it is of little use, it can still be sold for a few silver coins due to its relatively good integrity.

"May the goddess' dawning light shine upon your next life."

She drew a white cross and scorching sun on her chest, representing the goddess of dawn, and after a brief prayer, Ina chanted the magic of the earth element in a low voice, preparing to dig a pit.

This is not a necessary action, but Ina still hopes to do the right thing.

At this moment, Ina heard a sudden sound of wind behind her, like the sound of wind breaking caused by a powerful crossbow arrow.