Chapter 113: Destroyed Forest Gnome Tribe, Valley

The firelight from the burning wood flickered slightly in the night.

Dagan woke up in a start and sat up, looking at the campfire in front of it with a dazed expression.

Next, it reacted, hurriedly lifting its head to look at Tang Zheng, who was sitting not far away and looking at it with a smile.

"Human, human."

Dagan's voice was a bit stuttering. The pain in the back of its neck made it realize that everything before it was real, and its green pupils shrank.

Subconsciously.

Dagan curled its legs, looking at this human before it with a face full of wariness and tension.

When its consciousness wasn't very clear during the day, it fought with this human before it, and Dagan didn't feel anything wrong, just wanting to kill the other party.

But at this moment, its consciousness had cleared up.

Dagan immediately realized the incredible parts: this human could not only summon objects like angels that existed in the human world.

He himself also possessed terrifying combat power, and even knew how to use abilities like "Shrink," which only their race could learn.

Most terrifying of all!

This human had the power of a curse on him, but it didn't seem to have caused any impact on him.

"It seems you have sobered up."

Tang Zheng noticed that the bloodshot veins in the pupils of the Forest Gnome before him had faded, and along with it, the somewhat neurotic and frantic emotions had also stabilized.

"No need to be so tense, I don't have any malicious intent."

"In any case, let's fill our stomachs first, then chat slowly."

Tang Zheng picked up the wild boar meat from the campfire, roasted until golden and sizzling with grease, and handed it to the tense Dagan beside him.

During the time Dagan was unconscious, Tang Zheng hadn't been doing nothing.

【Experience Bar: 9632/10000】

First of all, the experience points had already increased to over 9000. If it weren't for the time limit on the angels' existence, he probably could have filled the experience bar today.

Although the area of this forest was far inferior to the Great Forest of Tob, the range was not small either. The ten Flame Archangels could only clear out the monsters in this area within the limited time.

He currently still had 15 Flame Archangel summoning scrolls on hand. To prevent accidents, he didn't continue summoning angels.

Besides the harvest in experience, the curse power within Tang Zheng's body had become a bit more concentrated again, but the overall concentration of the increased curse power was not high.

At first.

Tang Zheng suspected whether it was because the angels were too far away from him, and the curse power that dissipated from the monsters' bodies after death could not be absorbed.

Therefore, Tang Zheng went into the forest himself to kill a few monsters and found that the curse power energy he obtained was indeed not much.

The only thing that could be determined was that the content of curse power within different monsters varied greatly, especially the stronger the monster, the more curse power energy it contained.

"Can't eat it!" Dagan's expression changed when it saw the wild boar meat handed over, and its body retreated backward.

Tang Zheng was startled and looked at the other party with confusion.

"This forest has already been cursed, all living things have poison in their bodies!"

Dagan's eyes held a trace of fear, and immediately after, it thought of something and looked at Tang Zheng:

"That's right, that's right, you master this curse, you aren't afraid of this forest."

"Where is Pasha? Is he okay?"

Dagan's emotions became a bit agitated again, but this time it didn't lose control.

Poisonous?

Tang Zheng's hand holding the wild boar meat paused. Before Dagan woke up, he had already eaten quite a bit.

He didn't feel any discomfort in his body.

"Cough."

Tang Zheng gave a dry cough and put the wild boar meat in his hand back onto the campfire.

The "poison" Dagan mentioned should be the curse power within the beasts and monsters. He himself mastered this power, which was why he wasn't affected.

"If the Pasha you mentioned is the Forest Gnome who left a few years ago, he is currently living very well in our human empire. After all, a race like yours is very rare. Currently, the most famous one in the empire is a troll known as the "Martial King," who is quite popular."

Tang Zheng spoke softly with a smile, half-truth and half-false.

Dagan was silent for a moment, then let out a heavy sigh, lifted its arm to wipe its eye sockets, and muttered in a hoarse voice: "As long as he's alive, as long as he's alive."

"Can you tell me what exactly happened?"

Tang Zheng saw that the other party's emotions had stabilized again and asked, "A friend of mine is currently suffering from the torment of a curse just like you. I want to figure this matter out; perhaps I can find a way to resolve this kind of curse."

Dagan lifted its head, and a trace of astonishment faintly appeared on its hair-covered face.

"Even you, who master this power, have no way to resolve it?"

Dagan's green pupils dilated.

Tang Zheng shook his head, "Sorry, I haven't even fully figured out this power myself."

"By the way, do you want me to send you back to the tribe first?"

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He felt that the current mental state of this Forest Gnome, Dagan, still had some problems. If he could go to the other party's tribe and communicate with the remaining Forest Gnomes, that would naturally be for the best.

"The tribe... the tribe has already been destroyed."

"They are all dead."

Dagan couldn't help but shake its shoulders, its hoarse voice filled with deep repentance and despair, muttering, "I am a deeply sinful person."

Before Tang Zheng could speak.

Dagan had already lifted its head abruptly, its green pupils staring fixedly at Tang Zheng: "It's the Abyss!"

"Something went wrong inside the Abyss!"

Next, Dagan climbed up and knelt before Tang Zheng: "Take me to the Abyss. Only a lord who masters the power of the curse can approach that kind of place!"

"Alright." Tang Zheng was startled, then nodded.

The next day.

Just as dawn broke.

Tang Zheng and Dagan had already set off, heading toward the deepest part of the jungle.

The "Abyss" mentioned by the other party was not that kind of place from legends, but rather a bottomless canyon located at the junction of the forest depths and this mountain range.

This place had always been called the "Abyss" by the people of the Forest Gnome tribe.

Dagan didn't go into detail about the complete sequence of events.

But through side-probing, Tang Zheng was able to roughly clear up the general outline.

The time this matter traced back to was even further back than when Reynas obtained the curse power.

Dagan's tribe had long ago started dealing with poisonous monsters that would crawl up from the valley abyss from time to time, with black corrosion on their bodies and toxins inside.

Their tribe would kill these monsters and then burn them with fire, but there weren't too many of these monsters.

However, a few years ago, an accident occurred, which seemed to involve the magic ritual passed down by the tribe that Dagan mentioned.

Rustle, rustle.

The branches and leaves in the forest swayed, and the collision of leaves made a light sound.

The two moved rapidly through the forest. Tang Zheng had the "Forest Traverse" magic item, and Dagan, as a Forest Gnome, was also skilled in moving through the jungle.

Along the way.

Whether it was because of Dagan, no monsters attacked them. Even so, it still took them most of the day to reach the edge of the deepest part of the forest.

The deep valley looked as if it had been cut out by a single blade.

Ahead was still a dense jungle, but after taking one step, beneath their feet was already a bottomless valley, as if the forest had been cut in half and a piece had disappeared.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 114 =====