Don't call me evil god

Chapter 152 Abnormal Misty Valley

After learning how to use the team reward mechanism, Brandon finally understood.

If he wins alone, it doesn't count as a win.

Bring your companions and you can win more!

These 25 new believers of Novan immediately became popular.

Brandon selected four of them who looked pleasing to the eye and formed a temporary team.

Although their common goal is to reach the altar of creation, they can also kill some monsters along the way to earn more points and experience!
There is never a shortage of monsters in the Dark Forest.

Following the "Border Rat", there are also strange monsters such as the "Border Snake" and "Border Toad" with deformed scales.

Because we are still on the outskirts of the forest, the number of monsters is not that exaggerated. The number of monsters in the nests that can be found occasionally is only in the range of a dozen to dozens.

With everyone's cooperation and some effort, it can be eliminated.

In terms of loot.

If you don't count the points and experience points that Nowen rewards his followers, the amount of valuable materials that can be found on monsters is not that large.

The most common monster bones are mainly found on skeletal monsters, but it is not something that can be counted just by breaking off a bone from a corpse.

Only those bones that have undergone benign deformations and can be purified to rid them of the evil spirit are qualified.

Pete and others knew nothing about identifying the spoils of war; this was completely a blind spot in their knowledge.

Brandon understood a little bit, but only the basics, and he didn't know how to actually distinguish them.

In the end, Brandon took the initiative to pray to Nowen and spent points to exchange for relevant knowledge, which enabled him to gain the ability to identify valuable loot.

After trekking and hunting in the forest for most of the day, I later discovered two small-scale nests, plus some lone monsters. After finally sorting and calculating, the value of them was probably just over one gold coin.

It looks quite impressive, but the main contributions were made by Pete and Gale. After all, in the outer area dominated by level 0 and level 1 monsters, a level 3 wizard is already an overwhelming force.

If we remove the gains from the two of them killing monsters, the actual number of spoils will be greatly reduced.

more importantly.

Traditional tier 3 mages are constrained by spell slot limitations, and the number of spells they can cast each day is limited.

In this way, Pete and Gale can rest for a while after the battle and recover before casting spells again, which greatly increases the team's combat effectiveness limit.

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The distance of 3 kilometers, if it were within the territory of the Kingdom of Reyak, it would take less than a day to reach the destination if one walked quickly. However, in a place like the Dark Forest with complex terrain and dangerous environment, it took Pete and his team more than three days.

The good news is that there were no casualties on this stretch.

This was mainly due to the timely treatment provided by Miranda.

Faced with the monsters that attacked from time to time on the road, it was inevitable that people would get injured. If it were other teams of adventurers, they could only temporarily use bandages, herbal treatments and the like to provide relief. The more luxurious ones would take magic potions and wait until they returned to the kingdom to find a priest for treatment.

Miranda has been very busy these days. Not only does she have to treat the wounds of her companions who were accidentally injured in the battle, but the new believers are also generally sick. She also wants to use the second-level divine spell [Relieve Disease] on these people regularly to make them feel better. Applying [Relieve Disease] to 2 people in a row is enough to drain Miranda's mental power, not to mention that this operation is more than once.

When she arrived at the "Misty Valley", Miranda was dejected.

She had used magic too many times and now she felt dizzy and had no energy at all. She urgently needed a quiet environment to have a good rest.

However, in contrast to Miranda's dejection, the new believers are in a brand new state as if they were reborn!
The rewards they got from killing monsters along the way were enough for them to exchange for the professional knowledge they wanted.

In order to master the knowledge as quickly as possible, many people simply stayed up late to practice during their night rest time. At this moment, they have barely reached the entry level of a Level 1 professional and are no longer ordinary people with almost no combat power.

As they went deeper into the dark forest, they found that there were already tier 1 monsters among the monsters that attacked them, and their attack power, defense power, and physical strength had been improved.

It is also a bone monster.

The most dangerous part of a Tier 0 Border Rat is the bone spurs on its body, but the rest of its body is only slightly stronger than an ordinary rat, and its size has not become too exaggerated.
The first-level skeletal rat monster has no changes in its bone spurs, but its body has expanded several times, and is now as big as a dog. When its attacks leave wounds, it spurts out smelly pus and blood, and it is more resistant to blows. Attacks caused by ordinary people's strength are no longer able to cause effective damage.

With just the five of them including Pate, it is definitely impossible to constantly guard against the sneak attacks of monsters and protect everyone, so casualties are probably inevitable.

Fortunately, the new believers barely managed to cross the threshold of becoming professionals and completed their self-rescue.

As long as you can master a combat skill, magic, or divine art, you can at least ensure that you have the ability to resist when faced with an attack!

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When they arrived at the place known as the Misty Valley, everyone was a little surprised.

Because when entering this area, the number and density of monsters suddenly began to decrease drastically.

In the area closest to the outskirts of the valley, there was no trace of the monster at all.

When we were traveling in the past few days, we had clearly seen quite a few level 1 monsters appear. This was consistent with the situation on the outskirts of the Dark Forest. The deeper we went, the stronger the monsters would be.

As a result, the situation here is quite abnormal.

The monsters seemed to be avoiding this valley on purpose!
There is another surprising thing.

They stayed in the dark forest for several days, and their mentality was inevitably affected by the depressing environment.

Although it's not to the extent that I can't get a response from the gods, or that I see visions or hear hallucinations.

But I still feel heavy in my heart, as if a huge rock is pressing down on me and I can't breathe.

As we approached the Misty Valley, this state gradually dissipated.

This is also very unusual.

After much thought, Petes finally attributed the result to the blessing of God.

The God of Knowledge is an old god who has existed for such a long time. He must have fought against evil gods for a long time and must have more experience than the gods of the New Glorious Era. So it shouldn't be a problem that his believers have a stronger ability to resist pollution?
What's more, the Creation Altar in the main quest was what the God of Knowledge guided them to find!
The fact that a god, and an old god at that, could specifically provide guidance for this purpose means that there must be something special about this place!

Now they are about to uncover the secrets of this valley!
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(End of this chapter)