After another five or six days of journey, Shaoke and his team had already moved to the depths of the Mist Forest where mercenaries rarely appeared. Suddenly, the ordinary beasts and monsters here increased a lot. In order to protect the safety of everyone, under the command of the captain, everyone slowed down their itinerary and changed their formation. The whole team formed a long oval. The strong soldiers slowly moved around the periphery, and used the small axe in their hands to sweep out a simple path as lightly as possible for the team to advance. Fortunately, there were fewer pain plants in the Mist Forest, and everyone just cut down those short trees, which was not so wasteful.

The scouts who went to explore the way also gathered together and formed a scout team of more than 20 people, and were about a hundred meters away from the front of the entire team. They were all composed of elites from the entire team. They could attack from a distance by taking a bow and arrow, and they could fight in close combat with a knife and axe. Their responsibility was to check the easier road ahead and drive away or hunt down those lonely monsters that were out of the crowd.

Along the way, due to the scarcity of mercenaries here, Shaoke was able to discover some herbs and some low-level spell casting materials from time to time, collecting these medicinal materials and low-level spell casting materials. This team is another most important source of financial resources in addition to hunting monsters when patrolling.

At this time, the mages were also responsible for drawing maps and recording some basic information about plants, monsters and wild beasts here. These things were done by Master Kiya and Master Yiga. Now Shaoko is not interested in recording these previous people. They have already recorded countless information and maps. Now Shaoko is taking time to combine the maps of those predecessors and the maps he drew in the past two years, intending to re-draw a more comprehensive and detailed map.

Now Shaoke's task is to guide two new mages to better draw maps, record detailed information, and tell them some skills to identify spell casting materials, and some problems such as spells that may be selected when fighting with some monsters.

After a few more days of travel, Shaoke discovered that the number of monsters here has increased sharply, and the number of ordinary beasts has dropped significantly. Although the frequency of monsters has increased sharply, most of them are low-level monsters; some groups of monsters such as mud pigs, snow deer, and ice lions. Although their ranks are low, the materials on them are very important materials for low-level mercenaries. Therefore, this news is still good news for the soldiers in the entire team. These low-level monsters do not pose too much threat to the soldiers of these empires. Soldiers can obtain some magic cores, materials for making armor, etc., and a group of things that are very popular among low-level mercenaries.

Shaoke discovered that their current location was that they had rarely arrived here before, and a large number of low-level monsters appeared. Therefore, Shaoke discussed with the captain and decided to stay and hunt these low-level monsters to prevent their reproduction from growing high-level monsters and causing the beast disasters caused by this. He also took this opportunity to obtain some fur, magic core and other materials to enrich his personal small vault. So he decided to camp here and build a temporary camp for their use during this period.

After searching for a while, Shaoke and his team found a place with fewer trees. In addition to the soldiers who needed to be alert, everyone began to use their carry-on tools to clean up the trees and weeds in the camp.

According to previous practice, Shaoke led two mages to set up some warning arrays under the protection of several soldiers, so that they could reduce the pressure on the sentries to a certain extent and save some manpower.

Shaoke led everyone to more than ten meters outside the camp, and took out the necessary casting materials from the deer-skin bag he carried with him, and casually explained: "Master Kiya, Master Yijia, please use these materials to set up the magic circle." Forget it, he looked at Master Yijia, who looked like he was willing to speak but stopped, and asked, "Is there any problem? Master Yijia, let everyone solve it together." "No, Master Xueye, there is no problem, but will the monsters here attack us on their own initiative?" Master Yijia explained nervously with a flushed face: "I think these monsters are not that powerful, they are just a little more numerous."

"Yes, they will not attack us actively, but after we attack them actively, if any remaining monsters escape, it will be very likely to attract the attack of other species." Shaoke paused slightly and then said: "It is not what the information says. Only high-level monsters will retaliate. These low-level monsters will also attack humans who have attacked them in some cases, and are even more crazy than high-level monsters. Now people only know that if any remaining monsters escape, it will attract attacks. The causes of the attacks in other cases have not been found. Maybe you will find this situation after a long time!"

"We really should let those so-called scholars sort out the books and come to this hateful place to see the real situation, so that they can verify it, so that some poor mages with inexperienced will accidentally have an accident." The young doctor who followed him said interrogated.

After answering Master Yiga's questions, Shaoko said to the doctor: "Doctor Ino Swan, you should temporarily shut your mouth. They may not be used to being disturbed by the outside world, especially at such a close distance."

Since they are all low-level mages, Shao Ke and the others have only one choice; "Yeye" is the zero-level vigilance array. This kind of vigilance array does not consume a lot of expensive materials, and the structure is not that complicated. This zero-level magic array only requires some magic powder. After finding a carrier and drawing the magic array, it can be successfully activated with mental and magic power. However, for the two mages who made the magic array alone during the first time they performed a task outside, it seemed a bit nervous and the production process was very slow. After Shao Ke had made two magic arrays, their two magic arrays had not been successfully produced.

Shaoke came to them and comforted them softly: "Don't be nervous, I was not as good as you when I was performing a mission for the first time! At that time, I was so nervous that I even used the magic powder incorrectly, and the drawing of the magic circle was even more messy. At that time, Master Fei, Master Loki, Master Loki guided me over and over again. After all, it was like this when I cast spells in the wild for the first time. It was not comparable to the environment in the laboratory. Well, Master Loki, you have succeeded, chant spells!" Shaoke belittled himself slightly depressed, hoping to make the two of them more confident; "It's not easy! Why should I do this? I was not as slow as they were at the beginning! Fortunately, they were all in the foundation. The feel was also good."

Shaoke was afraid that the soldiers would affect the casting of the two of them, so he turned his head to the soldiers guarding them and said, "Shut up, don't disturb the casting of the two mages." The soldiers followed Shaoke's warning. The people who were originally very quiet closed their breaths one by one, for fear of disturbing the casting of the mages. Only the sound of logging in the distant places came from time to time, but these would not have much impact.

After drawing the magic circle, Master Kiya accurately added enough magic powder to serve as energy. After a little pause, he began to chant the seven spells in standard magical terms. The soldiers around him looked at Master Kiya with envy. Perhaps, they also hope that one day a noble magician would appear among their descendants!

After all, it is just a zero-level magic circle. The spell is not long. The meditation method when activating the magic circle is slightly more complicated. With the sound of the spell, the magic elements in the air are slowly injected into the magic circle. With the opening of the mage's mental power, a sudden light flashed, and it became dull. It is obvious that the magic circle was successfully made. Shaoke then congratulated Master Kiya on his success; then Master Yijia's magic circle was also successfully made. With the encouragement of two companions, he began to chant the spell and successfully activated the zero-level magic circle.

The subsequent work became simple. Even after Shaoko's withdrawal, the speed of Master Kiya and Master Yiga gradually accelerated. After drawing enough magic circles, Shaoko truly felt relieved. It seemed that these two mages had adapted to such a life to a certain extent, which was very helpful for their future spell casting help. If they could not draw this static magic circle well, Shaoko would not expect them to successfully attack the target with magic spells in the battle with monsters. Of course, these ideas would not tell the two new companions.

The leveling work of the camp was progressing very quickly. The trees more than one person were cut off by the soldiers in turn and were dragged around the camp to build simple wooden bars. At about a magical time, everyone leveled out an open space that was enough for the members of the team to live in, and quickly cleaned up the branches, weeds, and some large stones on the ground, and began to build tents for the mages so that the mages could rest early. In order to protect the mages' safety, the three mages used a large tent, which was more than twice as large as the tent that the five soldiers lived in, which was very convenient for the mages to do some activities inside.

The soldiers were very considerate and dug a fire pit in the middle, prepared sufficient firewood for the wizards to help them with their needs, and then shoveled away all the snow on the ground, and stopped until the dark soil was exposed, and spread the wide wooden boards that had just been cut down. Then, the treated animal skins obtained in recent days were also laid on the floor to prevent the invasion of cold air on the ground.
Chapter completed!