Suddenly there was a thick fog in Nolan Forest, making it difficult to see things from a little distance.

But Otto still decided to go for a walk. He needed to take a bath. The smell of both him and Sophia was very touching.

This is a moist rainforest and a paradise for monsters and beasts. There are giant trees everywhere, entangled thick vines and dense forests of different heights forming a natural maze.

Otto emerged from a pool of water, and all the dirt on his scales was washed away, making him feel very comfortable.

Sophia sat on the shore and put her feet in the water and swayed back and forth. When she saw Otto, she smiled and took a rag to wipe his scales.

The surrounding beasts and monsters did not dare to approach Otto, a behemoth that suddenly appeared. Due to biological instinct, they did not dare to approach this sudden behemoth.

But their need for water makes them reluctant to run far, and this is the only water source nearby.

Otto caught a fat-looking giant wild boar for today's dinner. Due to its size, this guy dared to approach the waterhole to drink water.

So Otto simply went to the waterhole, killed it cleanly with his sharp claws, and brought it back to the cave. After he left, the various beasts and monsters hiding around dared to come up to drink water.

On the way back, Sophia picked some more fruits, but she couldn't get enough from just these fruits. The little half-elf loli didn't like meat, but it wasn't that she couldn't eat it, she just preferred lighter food.

After returning to the cave, Sophia lit the fire with a skillful fireball, while Otto threaded the slaughtered wild boar on a small tree trunk and simply roasted it.

Although eating raw meat has no impact on Otto, since he has the conditions, of course he still wants to eat cooked meat, not to mention that eating raw meat is not good for Sophia's growth.

While eating barbecue, Otto was thinking about what to do next. Now that he was free from the Colosseum, he still knew very little about the world.

This is just the outskirts of the Nolan Forest, and there are very few entities that can pose a threat to Otto. In contrast, the prey that can be obtained here are not enough.

The black bears in this cave are almost the overlords in this area, and creatures as big as giant wild boars are also very rare.

Most of them are ordinary hares or kobolds. It is obviously difficult to survive here for a long time.

As Otto's size grows larger and larger, his need for food naturally becomes more and more exaggerated. It seems that his development into the depths of Nolan Forest is inevitable.

As for returning to human society, isn't that asking for death? Either he will be hunted by human adventurers, or he will be kept as a pet by dignitaries, neither of which Otto likes.

While Otto was thinking about what to do next, Sofia took small bites of barbecue and complained: "This fog is really strange. As long as I stay within the range of the fog, the magic elements are not willing to respond to me.

It's as if the mist itself is a spell."

Otto knew nothing about magic and could not even sense the existence of magical elements, so he could not continue this topic with Sophia.

What he didn't expect was that it was precisely because of this mist that he couldn't understand that their existence was exposed to the owner of Nolan's Forest.

In the deepest part of the Nolan Forest, the trees here are more dense and lush, and among them is a giant tree as tall as a mountain.

The giant tree is covered with vines that are thicker than a human being. These vines are densely and orderly intertwined, weaving a huge nest of strange shapes.

There are also hard and sharp thorn bushes growing on the vines, arming this bird's nest-like nest into an indestructible fortress.

Just from the appearance, this place really looks like the devil's lair.

In fact, it is almost the same. The owner of this Nest of Thorns is Cassiopeia, the mother of thorns, who claims to be the sole master of the Forest of Lorraine, an adult green dragon.

When she was still a young dragon, she was kicked out of the dragon's lair by her mother, and then came to the Nolan Forest to seek life.

After more than a hundred years of management, he finally took part of this vast and rich rainforest into his own hands and became the uncrowned king here.

Although he was only a king in name only, he lived a good life, but who would have thought that in the past few years, a red dragon suddenly flew over from the nearby Sulfur Mountains.

If this guy disagrees, he will take away the territory that he has worked hard for more than a hundred years.

Because the two sides started fighting right away when they met, Cassiopeia didn't even know the red dragon's real name.

In the first few meetings, this guy didn't get any benefits from his hands. After all, most red dragons like to be alone, and this one is no exception.

Cassiopeia has been operating in the Nolan Forest for more than a hundred years, and has countless monsters under her control.

In a single fight, she is no match for this red dragon, but who said she would face him in a duel?

What she loves most is to directly drown them with the sea of ​​monsters from the Legion of Thorns.

Every time she saw the dim-witted red dragon being beaten up and down by a group of people, it always put her in a good mood for a long time.

But the good times did not last long. Suddenly, a large number of powerful monster relatives appeared under the red dragon. As a result, the battle between the two sides gradually changed from a one-sided crushing at the beginning to an even match.

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But the fighting power of this red dragon was slightly stronger than hers, so in the subsequent battle, she had a vague advantage, which made Cassiopeia very irritated.

Fortunately, this guy was a brainless idiot, otherwise Cassiopeia might have lost the battle long ago.

She first tried to figure out why this red dragon was suddenly followed by so many monsters, but when she learned the truth, she became even more irritable.

Not to mention lowly monster races like kobolds or gnolls.

But those powerful monsters, such as the wyvern and the spiny-tailed lion, actually chose to follow him unconditionally just because this guy was an adult red dragon.

Monster tribes like the wyvern themselves once extended an olive branch, but at that time these arrogant guys didn't care about them at all.

In order to get the followers of these monsters under his control, he had to use coercion and inducement, but it was very troublesome.

In the end, the brainless red dragon could actually rely on his face to make a living. Just because he looked more powerful, he could see a large number of loyal followers, which really made the dragon's nest popular.

"Bah, this world is based on looks!"

The unhappy Cassiopeia began to check the feedback from her detection magic, Eye of Mist.

Now she is still in a fight with that red dragon. This guy's brain is not working well, and every time he comes to find trouble, it's just on a whim.

In order to avoid being suddenly attacked, it will regularly emit mist eyes to the outside world, and use the magical mist it generates to detect its territory.

The detection range of the magical fog generated by the Eye of Mist is very large, and can almost cover the entire Nolan Forest.

But this magic has a flaw, that is, it can only detect creatures larger than five meters in size.

Since the target is an adult red dragon, the flaws of this magic can be completely ignored.

Unfortunately, Otto's size just meets the detection conditions of the Eye of Mist.
Chapter completed!