After discussion between Xu Yue and Aiwo, the two decided to target their first large-scale trade as the elves tribe in the Tarila Forest, which is very far away from Yege Forest.

With the elves' natural and arrogant personality, even a little goblin who seems to know that there is no background, who takes out goods worth hundreds of thousands of gold coins to trade with them. Their arrogance does not allow themselves to do anything that loses the identity of the elves. For example, grabbing the source of the pure container of Avo, or robbing the payment for the goods.

Therefore, it is safest to do business with these elves. As long as you don’t do anything in the goods, the elves will definitely not make things difficult for you.

Another reason why Xu Yue and Aiwo regard elves as the first transaction object is that the elves are rich in archers and magicians. For magicians, pure containers that can preserve magic materials are indispensable. Although elves have their own unique natural magic that can extend the storage time of magic materials, it is complicated and consumes more energy than putting them in pure containers to preserve. Almost no magician is willing to put their extra energy into this aspect. They are more willing to calculate more spell models or magic knowledge that they have not learned yet.

Of course, there are not without drawbacks in trading with elves. The Tarila Forest where elves live is too far from Komodo Town. Even Evo travels day and night, it takes nearly forty days. With the transaction time, it takes almost three months to run back and forth.

In order to transport the goods safely, Xu Yue had to emptiate the storage ring left by Oward for him and lend it to Avo. Although the space inside the storage ring is not large, it is barely less than two cubic meters of space, it is enough to just place the glass bottles as goods.

Xu Yue has done everything he can do, and the final result can only be left to fate. The worst result is that the transaction is lost all its money, but as a pure container of goods, the cost is almost nothing for him, so at most it will only start again in another place.

Temporarily throwing the transaction behind his head, Xu Yue devoted all his experiences to learning language and magic in the next time. After nearly three months of study, his Carter language has been able to skillfully communicate and read. Even some rare Carter words and words can be quickly mastered. For this reason, he has to borrow a few books from Ugarite scholars every day to copy them.

Although quick reading allows him to remember a lot of content in a short period of time, it does not help him in understanding the content of the book, and he can only learn little by little by little. He likes to use transcription to deepen his understanding of the knowledge recorded in the book.

Taking advantage of the dim oil lamp, Xu Yue used a quill to dip ink and wrote the last text on a piece of paper. Looking at the oil lamp that could only allow him to see the brightness of the desktop clearly, he reluctantly picked up a small stick and picked up the wick. The bean-sized light suddenly became much brighter.

To be honest, he was surprised that most people were illuminated by the world of Tarenmiya, which was full of magical powers, using oil lamps, but considering the expensive price of magic crystal lamps, it is not unreasonable.

Because he didn't want to attract too much attention, Xu Yue did not buy a crystal lantern to light him at night. In fact, he couldn't afford it now. He spent too much money when signing a magic contract, and now the gold coins left on him are only enough for his daily life for three months.

As for how to make money by selling pure containers from Adventurer gold coins or others, he doesn't plan to use them again. The previous few transactions are already noticeable enough. If you do it again, the possibility of being targeted will be very high.

This is the end of the second month of Avo's departure. After calculating the time, I will probably return from Tarila Forest in about a month. If everything goes well, then he will have sufficient funds to do something.

He did not spend all of his language learning in the past two months, and his progress in magic made him feel even more excited. After learning the zero-level spell of "speed reading", he continued to learn six spells: "greasy", "ignition technique", "light technique", "detection of poison", "wizard's hand" and "sleep technique".

As a level zero spell, these six spells have no attack power at all, but have good auxiliary abilities. They are several spells that magic apprentices must master.

In fact, the magic here requires the mental power of an intermediate magic apprentice to learn, but Xu Yue found that because of his somewhat high magic affinity, he could allow others to cast the same magician and consume less mental power to achieve the same casting effect as others.

After several experiments, he estimated that if a middle-class junior magic apprentice consumes five units of mental power using a light technique, then he only needs to consume about three or even two units of mental power to achieve the same effect. This allows him to learn many spells that require the mental power of an intermediate magic apprentice to learn when he is just a junior magic apprentice.

Moreover, after nearly three months of meditation, he felt that his mental power had made great progress, and he was only a thread away from the intermediate magic apprentice mentioned in the Magic Book.

Sitting up from some old chairs, Xu Yue pushed open the wooden window in front of the table, and a cold wind mixed with snowflakes blew in from the open window, and the light of the oil lamp on the table was blown violently by the wind.

After shivering slightly, Xu Yue used his left hand to protect the wick of the oil lamp, and pointed his body to the side of the window and looked out. He could only see the dark streets and the dim lights from the neighbor's houses through the cracks in the window.

Because the cold winter is about to pass, Komodo is gradually becoming more lively. The reduction in snow has made it easier for mercenaries to find some cold-resistant plants, and some special magic plants can only be collected after-sales service that is about to end in this cold winter. Therefore, more and more mercenaries and adventurers are taking tasks here to collect magic plants in the city.

However, there have been several recent incidents in which mercenaries and adventurers were attacked by monsters in the Yege Forest and suffered heavy losses. There were even two four-person mercenary teams that were wiped out. The search only found their weapons and some fragments of their clothes, and they were not even found. However, the blood on the ground showed that the few people basically could not have a chance to survive.

Although mercenaries and adventurers are doing business of licking blood on the blade, such cases of continuous huge casualties over a period of time are not common on the periphery of Yege Forest. The mercenaries who work on missions in this season basically collect some magic plants unique to Yege Forest in winter, and the target is not on the body of monsters. Therefore, they are all small teams composed of first- and second-level professionals. These teams are generally active on the periphery and have relatively little danger. Even in the lively summer, there will be no deaths a few times a month, and injuries are common.

Due to the recent attacks, the atmosphere in the town has become a little nervous. Some injured mercenaries have to return to the city for treatment, and the treatment conditions in the town are still very limited. Some other mercenaries and adventurers have also temporarily retreated from the Yege Forest. They plan to wait and see before deciding whether to give up the mission and return to the city.

They will not give up on the task unless they have to. After all, the penalty for failure of the task is still very unbearable for these mercenaries and adventurers who habitually spend all their income each time.

In view of the unusually active monsters in the Yege Forest recently, the town's security team has also strengthened patrols. They even arranged several teams of people to take shifts at night, which made the young men in the patrol who need to be alerted around the town on such a cold night.

However, no one complained. The security team members were all from the town, and their relatives and friends were all in the town. Patrol was equivalent to protecting their families, so apart from calling a few rants, no one in the patrol was lazy.

After seeing the lights of the patrol team walking towards the other direction of the street, Xu Yue turned off the window of the room again and took the oil lamp to the cabinet beside the bed. He had completed his language learning today and it was time to start daily meditation. Because meditation also requires people's mental power, the more time he meditates every day, the better. According to the records in the Magic Book, he only meditates for about two hours at night every day.

Habitually posing with five hearts facing the sky, sitting on the bed, Xu Yue closed his eyes and began to adjust his spirit according to the meditation technique, so that his spirit could feel the existence of elements to the greatest extent. He had become accustomed to the ocean of various elements that appeared in the spiritual world every time he meditated. He only needed to carefully find the special magic element needed for meditation technique in this ocean, which was not difficult for him.

However, today he entered meditation and his usual situation. When his spirit felt the magic elements around him, the special magic elements that were usually only passively captured by his mental power became very active after contacting his mental power. These elements could be captured by him and easily integrated into his body without any effort.

Xu Yue felt this situation and was immediately excited. This was very similar to the signs of breaking through to the intermediate magic apprentice recorded in the magic book. He quickly increased the output of his mental power and mobilized more mental power to feel the special elements captured by the meditation technique around him.

He felt that as his mental power increased, the ocean of surrounding elemental light spots seemed to begin to fluctuate, and the magic elements needed for meditation began to spontaneously gather towards his body, and the speed became faster and faster.

Now if you look from the side, a faint white light appeared on Xu Yue's body surface, and this layer of light continued to merge into his body like a stream of water.

This process didn't last long. After only four or five minutes, the light had completely merged into his body.

Xu Yue opened his eyes and stretched his body, and a slight sound came from the joints of his body. He felt his mental power rise rapidly in the past few minutes, almost 60% higher than before. At the same time, his body seemed to have suddenly become full of vitality, making him unable to help but want to stand up and run for a few laps.

Knowing that he had reached the level of an intermediate magic apprentice, Xu Yue couldn't help but waved his hand excitedly. According to the records of the Magic Book, upgrading to an intermediate level is the first small level that a magic apprentice has to pass, but this small level is very simple. Almost all magic apprentices can reach the level of an intermediate magic apprentice if they are not too lazy. However, it only takes about one month for the best talent genius, and the poor talent can achieve it in eight or nine months. It took him three months, which is not as good as those geniuses, but it is better than those with medium talent, which is also in line with his qualifications.

Xu Yue silently estimated in his heart that with his previous mental power, he could release about ten to fifteen level zero magic. Now he could release about twenty to twenty to twenty-five level zero magic. The specific number should be determined based on the mental power consumed by the released magic. After all, even the consumption of level zero magic is not the same.

He snapped his fingers casually, and a two-inch-long flame suddenly appeared from his fingertips. The flame slowly burned on his fingertips like a candle. He could feel the heat released by the flames when he approached slightly.

This is the zero-level spell "ignition technique", which has no attack power and is used to ignite when camping. If it is used to attack, it will be difficult for a bug to burn to death.

With a slight tug of fingers, the flame disappeared from Xu Yue's fingers, and then with his palms, a ball of light emitting bright light as a fist appeared in front of him.

The 'Lighting Technique' is generally a spell used to enter certain underground ruins or caves. As adventurers and mercenaries, it is impossible to carry a torch on their backs all the time, and many humid environments will make the torch unable to ignite. It is very convenient to have a companion who can illuminate the lighting Technique at this time. The Technique, which can illuminate a larger range than a torch and last for a full two hours, is almost the best choice for dark environment exploration.

After practicing several level zero he knew one by one, Xu Yue nodded with satisfaction. Although these spells do not have direct attack power, it does not mean that there cannot be indirect attack methods after the combination. For example, after combining greasy and ignition, it is a classic combustion spell combination.

While the greasy technique can make the ground greasy and slip easily, the greasy ingredients contained in it will burn violently after contacting the flame. If combined with the ignition technique, the combustion effect can be used to damage the enemy. However, the combustion power of this natural flame is not very strong. Unless the greasy technique is used to spread it on the enemy, this flame that can only burn in a fixed position cannot cause too much damage to the enemy.

If the light technique is sacrificed to be sustained, it can increase the brightness several times. If it is used in front of the enemy without any defense, it can have the effect of blindness as the first-level spell "Flash". However, because its brightness is much weaker than the flash technique, the blinding effect is very limited, and at most it can dazzle the enemy. Unlike the flash technique that completely blinds the light technique for dozens of seconds.

Level 0 spells lack direct and effective attack methods. This is common knowledge in the magic world, so generally magic apprentices are in the auxiliary position when participating in the mercenary and adventurer teams, and the auxiliary ability of level 0 spells is still very good.

Many times, magic apprentices carry not staff in mercenaries or adventurers teams, but a sword. After all, even if the magician is weak, it is only compared to some close combat professions, such as warriors. But compared to ordinary people, magicians who have been strengthened by meditation are much stronger than ordinary people. Instead of bringing a staff that does not increase much spell strength, it is better to use a report sword to defend themselves. As for the staff like Xu Yue who has multiple spells in his hand, the price is definitely beyond the reach of ordinary magic apprentices.

Feeling that he had made considerable progress in spell casting and mental power control, Xu Yue's mood became much more refreshed. He was preparing to take advantage of the momentum of today's breakthrough and learn the planned zero-level spells he wanted to learn.

But a vague sound of wolf howling suddenly came outside the window attracted his attention.

Although Komodo Town is next to the Yege Forest, because the surroundings of the town are cleaned up by mercenaries and adventurers over the years, there are basically no wild beasts or monsters coming to the vicinity, so you can rarely hear the howlings of wild beasts or monsters in the town. Even if there are, you can hear one or two sounds from afar and then leave quickly.

The howling of the wolf this time was a little different, with almost uninterrupted howlings one after another, and they became clearer over time, which proved that the howling beast was quickly approaching the town.

Xu Yue frowned, and after getting off the bed, he picked up the coat hanging on the wall and put it on his body. After thinking about it, he took out a long strip of cloth from under the bed, which was the staff left to him by Oward.

Because the storage ring was lent to Aivo, he had to put his own things in the house room. If he didn't need it when he went out, he would put the things through the Border Passing Gate into the safe on the other side of the Earth Villa.

Without untiing the cloth wrapped on the staff, he directly held the staff in his hand, and then took out eight magic rings from under the mattress and put them on his hands in turn. These rings include the wind blade and fireball ring left to him by Oward, and the level zero spell ring he bought himself. Although the level zero spell ring may have limited effect, it is better to carry it than not to carry it.

Finally, he thought about it and turned off the pistol seized from the Earth robbers and inserted it on his waist. Then he took out a few bottles of magic potions and put them in his pocket, then opened the door and walked out.

Although it was almost over the cold winter season, the blizzard still blew in the Yege Forest from time to time. Snowflakes that could reach the ankles had fallen on the surrounding streets and houses, which made the road a little difficult to walk.

There were already many people around him walking out of the houses, and it was obvious that they were men from various families. Some of them were holding swords and some with longbows. These people were wearing thick clothes and had a serious expression and walked towards the center of the town. There was a small square there, and people in the town would gather in that place to discuss if there was any major event.

Xu Yue didn't know much about the situation in front of him. No one had said that this town would be attacked by wild beasts during the period when he came to Komodo. It was obvious that the people in the town were not unprepared for this situation, so he was going to follow the crowd to check it out. In contact with the mercenaries who entered the Yege Forest recently, he had some speculations in his mind.

As he walked towards the square of the town, the more people gathered. Xu Yue saw a guy in front of him who looked only one meter tall but had a strong and powerful body carrying a heavy hammer. He hurriedly walked a few steps to the man and asked in a low voice: "Hi! Copper Hammer! Do you know what's going on? I've been to Komodo Town for a long time, but no one has ever told me that there are any beasts that will attack here."

This short man carrying a hammer was the only blacksmith shop owner in the town, the dwarf McCarney, the bronze hammer. At this time, the dwarf who likes to drink and brag in the Night Song Tavern was wearing iron armor, and the helmet on his head looked like a knight's helmet. He said helplessly when he saw Xu Yue next to him.

"To be honest, I'm confused now. The town of Komodo has been attacked by wild beasts before, but it probably won't happen once in ten years, and it basically happens in the season of fire. Most of the monsters and beasts in the Nightsong Forest are dormant in the cold winter season. This season will see a large number of wild beasts attacking Komodo. This is the first time in history."

After hearing his words, Xu Yue could only shruggle helplessly and follow him to the town square. The town is not large in size, and in just a few minutes, you can see the small square. At this time, there were almost 100 people gathering in the small square. The town mayor Solin Dikalo was directing the gathering men with a few people.

"The town has sent people to investigate! The specific situation will be reported back soon. Now everyone is divided into three teams according to the instructions of the sheriff Boer. The first and second teams will guard the entrances and exits on both sides of the town. The third team will patrol the wall to prevent wild beasts from destroying the wall." The mayor of Thorin Dikalo said loudly.

Boer is a strong man in his forties and over two meters tall. He is a sheriff in the town and is responsible for maintaining the security of the town. It is said that he is a level 4 sword and shield warrior, and his strength is already the best in a small town like Komodo. You should know that most of the mercenaries here have level 1 and 2 combat professions, and level 3 are rare.

His face was a scar that stretched from the corner of his eyebrows to his chin when he was taking risks when he was young, which made people feel a bit vicious. But those who are familiar with him know that as long as you don’t violate the rules of Komodo Town, he is still easy to talk to.

There is an unwritten rule for professionals on the mainland. Professionals who stay or live anywhere are obliged to help their location defend when attacks occur without war factors in these places.

In other words, if any profession stays in a certain place and that place is attacked for other reasons other than war, the profession must help the place defend. This regulation is to prevent beast tides, bandits, etc. from attacking villages and towns. Basically, no profession will violate this regulation unless he wants to be ridiculed by other professions throughout his life. Moreover, if he does not help defend, the profession will be expelled from the place as soon as possible, which is no different from seeking death in most cases.

Xu Yue was assigned to the second team, and this team guarded the entrance to the Yege Forest. It was the direction where the wild beasts came, which was relatively dangerous than the other direction. However, Xu Yue did not feel afraid, because he had experienced being besieged by the wind wolf pack before, so he had very experience in dealing with wild beasts. Of course, this experience was based on the premise that he had magical equipment.

The sound of the wolf howling was becoming clearer and clearer. Judging from the sound, it was probably about to approach. At this time, a figure ran over in a hurry on the path leading from the town to Yege Forest. Before he could get close, the figure shouted in anger: "Hurry... hurry, report it to Mayor Solin, wolf, wolf pack! A large group of wolves are approaching. There are more than four hundred."

"It's Moss, they are the ones sent out for investigation! Damn it! It seems that he is the only one who comes back alone, and the others probably haven't come out." A hunter holding a bow and arrow next to him shouted.

The people here hurried out and helped Mos in alone.

The news brought by Mos made the team guarding the town gate panic. There were only thirty people here, and it would be impossible to bear the wolves made of four hundred wolves for a long time.

Xu Yue came over to hold Mos, covered in blood, and asked with a serious expression: "Moss, have you seen clearly what kind of wolf it is? Is it an ordinary beast or a monster?"

Moss breathed a few breaths weakly and said, "I didn't see it very clearly, but it was definitely not a kind of wolf. As soon as we entered the forest, we were surrounded by a large group of wolves. The other people tried hard to delay me before I could break out and report the news. I saw three types of wind wolf, iron-toothed wolf and spider wolf. When I ran away, I turned my head and looked, and even saw two storm demon wolves behind the wolf pack!"

His words made Xu Yue's heart sink quickly. Only monsters can command different wolves to gather together to launch an attack. Moss said there were two storm demon wolves, which were the advancement of the wind wolf and were already a second-level monster. A wolf pack can only have one commander. It is obvious that these two monsters cannot be the guys who command these wolves. Then there must be a more advanced monster than the storm demon wolves to command behind.

"Send someone to notify Boer that there are monsters above level three to command behind us. We need support, hurry!" Xu Yue pulled someone next to him and shouted in a low voice. After hearing this, the man stumbled towards the square of the town with horror on his face.

"Everyone quickly threw the things that could burn into fifteen yards ahead, hurry! It would be better if the oil could be found!" Xu Yue shouted hurriedly at the person next to him.

The others did not care that Xu Yue was not the commander of their team. They knew what he was going to do when they heard Xu Yue’s shouting, and this method was the only way to delay time.

The people around him divided up several and rushed into the nearby houses. After only a dozen seconds, each of them ran out with a container of large or small. As soon as they arrived at the door, they quickly threw the jar in their hands not far from the front of the door, and then returned to other residents' homes to search.

The jars thrown were filled with oil. Xu Yue asked one of them to ask for a jar, and then used the "ignition technique" to ignite the oil in the jar, and then threw it on the ground in front. Suddenly, the oil flowing on the ground was ignited quickly, and the rising flames formed a fire wall to block the gate of the town.

Seeing that it was too late, Xu Yue quickly used four or five greasy techniques to fill the gaps in the fire wall. After the greasy technique was ignited, it quickly filled the gaps in the fire wall. The moment he finished doing these, he saw green lights appearing from the forest in front, and then all kinds of wolves walked out of the forest.

Suddenly, Xu Yue saw a wolf staring at him in the pack with hatred eyes, and that familiar gaze immediately made him recognize the other person.

Wind Wolf King! This guy who was almost destroyed by Xu Yue actually appeared among the group of wolves.

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Chapter completed!