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Zoe held the hilt of the sword with a breath taken.

Andasu looked at her feet and patted her shoulder.

"Oops!"

The tree roots beneath the girl's feet suddenly snapped, and she landed on the ice, nearly falling flat on her butt. It was only thanks to her animal-like reaction speed that she avoided a real fall.

"Watch your feet first," said Andasu.

"Mmmmm, those damn wolf ears." Zoe gritted her teeth in anger.

"Keep going," Leon said to them, "There's still some time before dark. If we kill one or two monsters, we can set up camp."

After they had walked a distance, Dorothy whispered again, "Do you think your ex-girlfriend killed those people?"

Don’t say it, Li Ang really thinks so.

Although Leon had no idea about Meluna's specific personality, he was sure that if she was harassed by that group of people, she would definitely chop them down with a sword to instantly kill their noise.

"You're getting more and more excessive day by day." Turning to look at the half-elf, Leon grabbed her plump buttocks hard at an angle that the other three couldn't see.

The half-elf's inhaled whine instantly turned into a sweet moan.

As soon as he withdrew his hand, Li Ang raised his head and met a pair of light blue eyes.

At some point, Meimei, with two pigtails, suddenly appeared not far from the crowd. She stood on the tree roots and looked towards Li Ang.

Li Ang felt a little guilty for no reason, but he asked, "When did you get here? Where's Senior Otto?"

The girl held the rabbit and smiled faintly, even at this age she was still very charming.

"Sister Shu sent me here. Grandpa Otto said he discovered the source of the monster riot."

Meimei raised her little finger and pointed at the divine eye pendant on Li Ang's chest: "Those bad guys have this mark on them."

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"empire?!"

Hearing Meimei's words, Zoe and Dorothy shouted in unison.

Alulu said seriously, "Is this the Sporrel Empire you mentioned earlier?"

Dorothy said, "To be precise, it's the 'Holy Sporil Empire.' Due to historical reasons, if it's not called that, it will be misunderstood as some other power."

The half-elf tangled his fingers in her hair, twisting it back and forth. "Are they really starting to cause trouble after all?"

Zoe had only come into contact with the Empire when she saw the atrocities of the Imperial soldiers when she left Satus Island, but she had heard Leon talk about the origins of the Helmet of the Divine Eye and the Apostle of the Divine Eye.

Dorothy personally witnessed her brother, her nominal fiancé, and the empire's Apostle of the Divine Eye conspiring, and she also saw Leon, despite being unprepared, fight against the Annihilation Knight wearing the Helmet of the Divine Eye together with the Knight Lancelot of the Flame of Order.

"I don't know, but that's how it is."

Meimei said as she hugged the rabbit monster and touched it again.

She looked at Leon sideways, her eyes focused on the Divine Eye pendant.

"Why do you have the same symbols as them?"

Li Ang picked up the Eye of God pedestal from the pendant chain and said, "This is the trophy I captured after defeating them."

"The spoils, oh, it's the spoils." Meimei was lost in her own thoughts.

The corner of Li Ang's eye twitched, and his mind was a little confused.

The Empire's arrival on Mengze Island was one thing, but after Otto's reminder, Meimei's tone of voice and behavior really made Leon feel that she was becoming more and more like Meluna.

She has her own parents, she can't be my daughter, Li Ang said to himself.

On the Empire's side, the Order Flame Group should have prepared defenses in the Ignis airspace. Leon's intuition guessed that the Empire's people had used some other method to slip out of the Fire Airspace.

I don’t know when the other three members of the Airspace Order Group and the elite of the Order Investigation Group promised by Sisyphus will arrive. It has only been a few days since they left the Holy City, and these people are probably still on the way.

"Where are those bad guys?" Li Ang asked.

"Grandpa Otto caught him and locked him outside the village."

Meimei's pretty face lit up with a smile: "He was afraid that you would think he didn't keep his word, so I asked Sister Shu to bring me here and tell you about this."

"Didn't Otto ask you to come?" Leon asked in surprise.

"I came here on my own."

This little girl was the same when we encountered the demonic tide before. She suddenly appeared like a ghost.

At this moment, she seemed to feel that she had done something good, and a little pride appeared on her face.

"Who is the Sister Shu you are talking about?" Li Ang asked, grasping the key information in her words.

Meimei raised her hand and pointed to the center of the lake in the center of the island, where the towering giant tree was located.

"Sister Tree lives there."

The white-haired girl's words are quite intriguing. A child around ten years old should be more eloquent. However, considering the remoteness of Huanwo Village, it doesn't seem strange that she behaves like this.

Unable to get any useful information, Li Ang smiled at her and said, "Thank you. We'll continue on our way. You can go back too."

Meimei nodded, remained silent for two seconds, then shook her head and said, "Sister Shu ignored me."

"Can't you go back?" Li Ang felt that this was what she meant.

The little girl looked a little annoyed: "Sometimes she would suddenly fall asleep and not talk to me for a long time."

"Then you come with us first."

No matter how much potential Meimei has, at her age her control over magic is limited, and she doesn't look like she has received combat training, so it would be dangerous for her to be alone in this tree root maze.

Regardless of the Empire's conspiracy, it was difficult for the Star Flower Troupe to stop what they were doing and take care of that side. They had to cut down the tree first.

Leon thanked Otto in his heart for holding on over there. He was a little worried that if he got involved in a dispute with the empire, the tree felling and shipbuilding would be delayed again. He really didn't want that to happen.

Meimei stared at Li Ang for a few seconds and nodded slightly.

"Okay, I think you're very sweet."

The four girls were all looking at Meimei. They had never seen Meluna, nor had they heard what Otto and Leon said. They didn't understand this strange girl. Out of moral reasons, they didn't care about protecting her, but they also thought she was very special and were observing her.

Hearing Meimei's words, the four of them reacted.

Andasu had no doubts: "Even a child can understand the master's kindness."

"If you encounter an enemy, remember to hide behind me." Alulu said to the little girl.

"Do you know her, Leon?" Zoe asked.

"I always feel that there is something more to it than that," said Dorothy, folding her arms.

"What are you talking about? She's just a passerby we met on the island."

Li Ang's heart was full of complexities.

He dared to claim that what he said was completely tenable, but, but, who knew that Otto would do such a thing and insist on putting Meluna's identity before Meimei's. Leon didn't know what to say.

Seeing that Leon was in trouble, the girls didn't say much, but just surrounded the little girl and continued to move forward on the tree roots.

After defeating the curse-scaled fish, the subsequent tree roots became thicker. They thought that Meimei would have a hard time moving forward and wanted to support her, but this girl was as light as a bone. With a light jump, she could leap several meters high and did not drag anyone down at all.

Without the need to look after Meimei, the girls felt relieved and Zoe approached the girl and started talking to her.

"This bunny is so cute, and it's a little pink."

Zoe stared at the Moon Hidden Rabbit in Meimei's arms.

Leon suddenly remembered that she had eaten all the rabbits on Satus Island, and was ready to stop her from saying things like "Is it delicious?"

"Yes, rabbits are very cute." Meimei hugged Yueyin Rabbit tightly.

“Is it called Bunny?” Zoe asked.

The white-haired girl nodded slightly.

"Can you give me a hug?" the chestnut-haired girl continued to ask.

"Don't hurt it." Li Ang reminded.

Zoe gave Leon a puzzled look, as if to say, "Why do you think so?"

Li Ang shook his head. Sometimes he had no idea what to do with this guy.

"That depends on whether Tutu agrees or not. She really doesn't like others touching her."

Meimei loosened her arms slightly, and Yueyin Rabbit raised her head and met Zoe's eyes.

In addition to Zoe, Dorothy, Alulu and Andasu also came over. They always took a second look at the cute little animals.

Yueyin Rabbit looked around at the four people, then punched each of them.

The rabbit's claws had no destructive power, and the soft pads couldn't cause any damage, but the four of them took half a step back as if they were hurt.

"Ah!" Zoe came to her senses and immediately got angry. She pointed at the rabbit and asked, "Why did you hit me?!"

Yueyin Rabbit raised his head, as if responding: I'll hit you, so what?

Zoe was so angry that she moved closer to it again. Just as she was about to speak, Yueyin Rabbit gave her a series of punches, forcing her back and almost missing a step.

"Hahaha."

Meimei laughed and held Yueyintu's head: "Tutu, stop making trouble. The sisters are good people."

The little girl was also a little surprised why the rabbit treated the four sisters so badly.

After this episode, before dusk, the group only encountered one more level 5 monster.

This time it was a level 5 juvenile Frost Mist Dragon Turtle. It was not as powerful as the Curse Scale Fish, but it also had its own way of hunting.

Since the new tree root section was wider than the previous one, it also gave the dragon turtle space to shrink its shell and rotate. The cold mist it sprayed from the cracks in its shell froze the surface of the tree roots. The texture underneath the shell had long since evolved into a texture that could match the ice surface, allowing it to rotate and collide quickly on the smooth ice surface, using other tree roots to rebound, forming a back-and-forth collision.

The icy surface also made it difficult for the girls to approach from the ground. Alulu originally wanted to use brute force and the 7th level of the Burning Blood Holy Sword to chop it directly, but she was stopped by the icy surface and the high speed of the dragon turtle.

"Are all these stinky turtles going to retract their shells and spin around?" Dorothy cursed speechlessly.

In the Glittering Fields, Zoe and Dorothy were led by Leon to fight against a group of sandstone turtles by using the idea of using the venom of the venomous flying snake to penetrate the turtle shell.

The situation was somewhat similar to that time, but they had no venom to pour out.

Zoe first threw the rock shuttle, but it was all bounced off by the dragon turtle's rotation. She turned to destroy the ice surface, but the ice surface was mainly used to fill the gaps between tree roots. Her attack had little effect, and the cracks could be quickly flattened by the heavy turtle shell and the gaps filled by the cold air.

She rolled her eyes, flew to a high place, condensed the earth element and splashed it onto the entire site, and a large amount of dust and powder fell.

Li Ang saw that she wanted to fill the battlefield with earth elements and rely on earth dust to destroy the smooth state of the ice surface.

Although no venom penetrated into the cracks in the turtle's shell, the rock powder adhered to the dragon turtle's shell and the ice on the ground, effectively slowing down the Frost Mist Dragon Turtle.

Seeing Zoe's movements playing out, Dorothy raised the Tower of Golden Sand, allowing the golden sand mist to join the battlefield and cause the same destruction.

The golden sand spread out into a net, and when the dragon turtle rotated and rushed past, some of the golden sand would adhere to its shell, quickly taking away its moisture and making it more and more uncomfortable.

Gradually, the dragon turtle slowed down.

"Leave it to me now." Alulu said firmly, threw the shield aside, and charged into the battlefield with the giant sword in hand.

The slowed-down dragon turtle could hardly use its spinning to deflect attacks, and even if it could still spin, it would die if the horned girl hit it.

With arms full of divine power, he raised the sword and slashed it forward. The golden blade chopped into the turtle shell without any hindrance, and cut directly into the dragon turtle's body with a crisp sound. The sword's momentum did not stop at all, passing through the giant turtle's body and cutting through the ice and tree roots below it.

Dorothy was amazed at the damage the calf's brute strength had wrought.

Alulu swung the giant sword with one hand, and the blood formed an arc and splashed onto the ice. The hot blood of the monster, which had not yet cooled, melted the ice and turned into blood water that flowed into the lake.

She grabbed the edge of the turtle shell with one hand and dragged the giant turtle, which was as big as a small car, to a flatter place to make it easier for everyone to decompose the materials.

Li Ang smiled at her and said, "With this one, you have almost enough materials for your water shield."

"Weren't there this kind of monster during the previous monster riot?" Xiao Niu asked curiously.

"Although there are many materials for the carapace, I want to make it better, so I choose the hardest and best piece of shell for each turtle."

Alulu nodded. Li Ang saw that she wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything in the end.

As the sun sets, the evening light becomes weak and can hardly penetrate the mist of Mengze Island. The sky darkens faster than expected.

After arriving at a flat and wide section of tree roots, everyone immediately got busy and started setting up camp using the tent that Leon took out from the crack space.

When traveling, in order to reduce trouble, the Star Flower Brigade currently only sets up three tents, one for Leon and two for the other four.

But today, Meimei suddenly appeared.

She said at a loss, "Today is so strange. This is the first time Sister Shu hasn't spoken to me in such a long time."