Witch Forest Friends Club

"The road of pilgrimage is long and full of thorns, and in order to reach the glorious end, we must unite."

Sparks scattered like fireflies, reflecting in the girl's shining blond hair and blue eyes, giving her calm and confident soft oval face a layer of sublime charm.

"Just as Master Stella led his followers, overcoming all difficulties and dangers, ignoring the attacks and wavering of enemies and fools, and finally opened the ancient gate of Galantia, bathing the entire peninsula in the light of stars—ordinary people only care about the short-term How can sight touch what our truth-hungry eyes see?"

"Are we going to be at the mercy of the cunning old man, and let the jeers of the wolves crush our will, which is as pure as stars?"

"Sisters, the glory of the Stargazing Palace cannot be tarnished. I—Vanna O'Delaine Marshall of Cold Lake Territory, volunteered to raise the flag of the parade. If you share the same goals with me, please show your determination."

She turned and looked around at the faces flitting around the campfire.

No matter whether the gazes gathered on her are admiration, disdain, remorse, panic... she is like a lake with open arms of calmness.

"Seconded."

"Seconded."

The slender and white hands held the staff and raised it up, agreeing with the girl's idea.

Anjaye and Elsa leaned back on Bill's lying belly, observing the cooperation of Vanna's followers in the crowd.

"Devil Division, Star Stone Division, Magic Energy Division." An Jiaye whispered, "In addition to the fans in the team, several major teams have also been won over by her."

"Second!" Elsa actually raised her iron rod high.

Anjaye covered his eyes.Well, Elsa, who represents the astronomy department, also "surrendered to the enemy".

The girl had no choice but to symbolically raise her mushroom staff, casting a valuable vote on behalf of the alchemy department that had no sense of existence.

So the seven classrooms were temporarily gathered under Fanna's staff.

The theme of the subsequent meeting focused on how to solve the problems of travel difficulties and task distribution.

The meeting unanimously recognized that the pilgrims need a leader to represent everyone's will and no longer be led by the nose by Gambino.

And Miss Vanna Marshall, relying on her tough attitude towards Gambino, possessed the identity of fifty elite guards, and was elected as the leader of the pilgrims.

"Okay, Fanna is really the leader this time." An Jiaye saw the girl holding the flying bird staff in the center of the bonfire for the oath ceremony, and her hard-core teammate Luke was also releasing gorgeous magic fireworks by the bonfire. A salute to the coronation of the "Little Queen".

As expected of a future wizard chef with full banquet skills.

"It's very fun." After the meeting, Elsa simply expressed her thoughts of being a "fun person", "Let me see how far she can do it."

Anjaye had already guessed the purpose of Fanna's meeting. If she could safely bring the little witches to Aronda, the capital of the kingdom, this strong and capable wrist and the leader's demeanor would definitely help her. Picking the crown of chief student adds a lot of luster.

In the early morning of the second day of the meeting, when Old Man Jose entered the camp of the pilgrims, Fan Na, who took over the position, led her die-hard supporters to "friendly" Old Man Jose as a guest in her wandering carriage. And in the negotiation with Gambino who came immediately, Elsa did not lose the wind, so that Elsa ate enough melon again.

Finally, after a "full tolerance" exchange of views, the two parties reached an agreement both internally and externally—

Under Fan Na's leadership, the small pilgrimage groups that were originally disorganized did their best to divide into new groups to deal with various tasks on the pilgrimage.

And those unstable elements who ignore Fanna's authority or hinder the team's operation, such as Elsa and Anjaye, plus the "bagpipe" Jana of the psychic department who is free and loose by nature, and the "cowardly Adele" of the curse department. ", and Bunty, a problem child in the Mana Department dressed as an Orion, "Long-legged Lynx" Bunty, was divided into the idlers group.Fanna also arranged mobile tasks for them, either helping out with odd jobs and running errands, or looking for opportunities to collect ingredients and handing them over to Luke to cook and improve their meals.

And the other little witches who are willing to listen to Fanna's command, some specialize in camp management and logistics, and some form patrol teams with the soldiers of Lenghu, and get the same power to go out to investigate as Gambino's peripheral scouts and hunting teams , to provide Fanna with timely information on the march.There are also spell-casting teams who take turns to solve obstacles on the marching road.

Gambino can assign tasks to the pilgrims, but the march should also match the pace of the pilgrims as much as possible, giving them enough time to recover from meditation and providing a certain amount of potion supplies.

To be honest, given Anjaye's understanding of Gambino, he didn't even know why the old wolf would make such a concession—Vanna's idealized strategy was almost perfectly realized.

However, after traveling with more leisure time, Anjaye also had the opportunity to collect plant specimens such as mushrooms and medicinal herbs, and Vanna Paluke led the cook to help everyone cook, which made Miss Elsa affirmed—— This is where she finds Fan Na the most pleasing to the eye.

In short, with the head sheep, the poor situation of the pilgrims has been alleviated.

Even Anjaye, who was originally wary, felt that Fan Na had done a good job.

"Is she working so hard because she cares about the position of the chief student, or is it really out of the noble's sense of responsibility?"

PS: Thank you Mina-san for your support.Because the subject matter is small, it is also taking an outdated way of serious storytelling.The background data of the author's book is not outstanding, and it is impossible to get strong support from any resources at present. He can only work hard to code words, and rely on the help of readers to fight his way out. In terms of the concept setting of the whole story of "Witches Forest Friends", the outline and core are complete, and the characters are three-dimensional and full. After the author matures, he understands the principle of restraint, so the story will not collapse.

Chapter 15 Dead bodies are buried at the feet of the Mushroom Witch

Life and death are just ordinary.How beautiful is the pulsating life of mushrooms, the flowers of fungi blooming in decay. ——"Ankaye's Chat Notes"

Just when the little witches are satisfied with becoming a decent patrol appearance, new tests during the journey are also waiting for them.

After more than two weeks of running in the team again, the season has passed from the "red dew moon" in late autumn to the "harvest moon" in late autumn. This complex team has arrived at the most extensive branch of the Feilengcui River—— Waterwheel River Basin.

On the yellowed sheepskin map in Anjaye's hand, the winding and dense water network depicted is a granary and an important agricultural trade center for weaving and dyeing, which was famous for its waterwheels all over the river bank during the prosperous period of the Anthony Dynasty, which dominated the peninsula more than 600 years ago.

However, the boats full of food and cloth that shuttled on the river in the past have all disappeared, and the prosperity on both sides of the river has become barren land. Only the big river is full of waves, surging as before.

Crossing the main trunk of the water wheel river also indicates that the pilgrims are about to cross the border of Oga.

Even in the dry season, the narrowest part of the main river still has a water surface nearly [-] meters wide. The water waves are gentle and mighty, and the thin smoke is faint. From time to time, large groups of water birds flap their wings and fly over the mist, avoiding the shadows of underwater predators.

The convoy meanders along the west bank of the Shuilun River, passing through the ruins of the huge collapsed waterwheel and the ruins of the dyeing workshop from time to time. The vast star grass flowers and ferns on the Moshang cover these old mottled traces of people, leaving all the traces of human reclamation. Return to the ruins reborn in the wilderness.

The little witches picked up the memory shells one after another and admired the magnificent and sad river scenery, as if they had regained the joy they had when they first embarked on the journey.

And Fanna's team member - Lettice from the Water Wheel River, a cheerful red-haired girl, is pulling Fanna out of the wandering carriage, strolling along the river beach, playing with water summoning skills, and enthusiastically introducing the local human geography.

The birds and beasts that jumped out of the waves, under the guidance of their staffs, took shape vividly, and broke into water foam in a blink of an eye.This scene can't help but remind Anjaye of the fantasy dream of "Flash Chariot" putting on a magic show for Yake in Anjaye's distant memory.

She, who had longed for witch stories so much, has also changed from a "Muggle" to a real witch.

If it weren't for the mature mentality of the two lives, the girl couldn't help shouting that Yake's famous saying towards the vast river. (Familiar friends please type on the public screen)

"I heard that Lettice's home is in the town of Duer downstream." Anjaye pointed to the map and explained to Elsa, "As an important ferry in the lower reaches of the Shuilun River, Duer Town also has a good relationship with Lenghubo semi-independent territory."

Anjaye could already see the canyon eroded by the river's downwelling under the mist. It was recorded on the map that a garrison checkpoint was built here to guard the water gate and dangerous pass leading to the lower reaches of the Shuilun River.

The convoy in front gradually received an order to stop moving - when Gambino approached the door again, Anjaye knew that her rare good mood was about to be disturbed again.

"Come with me." The old wolf rode his horse and stopped the big mushroom that was walking slowly.

"Your Excellency Gambino, you should go to Miss Marshall." Anjaye wanted to push the trouble to Fanna, the first bird.

"Only you can solve the current problem." Gambino said gloomily, "Marshall also knows."

"What did you find?" Anjaye frowned and looked at the front of the convoy, feeling ominous even with the fog covering the canyon.

"Mushrooms." Gambino managed to arouse Anjaye's curiosity with only one word.

Anjaye and the two followed Gambino to the scene of the incident—this is a large farm built in front of the checkpoint.

But there were no golden waves of wheat and no herds here, only huge gray fungus flooding the fields, growing in clusters among barns, granaries, mills and starstone blocks.Even the colorful creepers grew out of the petri dish, turning into a dense jungle of big mushrooms, almost blocking the entire canyon path, and even the walls of the valley checkpoint [-] meters away were invaded by terrible creepers—the water gate was closed , there were a few decayed wooden boats floating by the gate, and there was no smell of strangers everywhere.

"Shit." Old Jose cursed and held a long-handled ax gun. He stood outside the edge of the creep blanket, and there were several torn corpses lying at his feet. Pus and blood and phosphorous white hyphae were lying on the tattered clothes of the corpses. A raging smear on nails.

Fanna and Lettice, also escorted by Knight Earnshaw, came nearby to watch the scene of hell.

"This farm is not far from the town of Duer. When I passed by here in summer, there were no such damn mushrooms." Jose came over with an ax and gun.

"The corpses are soldiers and militiamen who were guarding the checkpoint." Gambino forced a dry smile to everyone, "The news from Twilight City is correct. This is a precursor to the fog disaster."

"These mushrooms are difficult to deal with with a sword and an axe." Jose gritted his teeth and asked, "Is there any way for Xiao An?"

The old wolf turned around and asked Anjaye: "Can you deal with it?"

Anjaye and Elsa glanced at each other. With the support of her friend, she squatted down to check the flora growing on the living corpse killed by Jose.Put on the beak gas mask with Elsa again, and carefully came to the side of the dense fungal forest that flooded the entire farm.

A slippery, translucent slime that profusely exudes on the tough off-white mushroom skin.The girl put on thick cloth gloves and got a little bit of mucus. She smelled the smell through the mask, and then used a knife to cut off some fungal slices from the canopy and rhizome of the fungus, and observed the growth of the internal tissues. Cooked residual traces.

Under Elsa's full protection, the black-haired girl limped around the edge of the fungal forest twice.She felt that in the damp soil under her feet, there was a huge vitality born of corruption. The originally lush and lovely mushroom bushes fell in her eyes and suddenly made her shudder.

After collecting some soil and samples, Anjaye returned to the crowd to make a determination.

"It's a type of corpse toadstool. It's not poisonous, but it has a strong parasitic ability."

The girl thought about it while pinching the mushroom on the staff.

"Looking at the environment here, I deduce that the farm suffered some kind of sudden attack, and there were heavy casualties. Then the fungal spores spread from the parasitic protozoa, and a terrible transcendent man cast a spell on the fungus, and the flesh of the crops and creatures, It has all become the fertilizer for the crazy proliferation of corpse toadstools."

When Anjaye mentioned that there might be a mastermind behind this terrible incident, Gambino acted indifferently as if he was not surprised at all.

The girl also gave a solution.

"Corpse toadstools and spores will still be troublesome if they get on the body. Burning them directly is the most efficient and will not produce poisonous gas. There may be parasitic living corpses hiding in the mushroom forest, and even parasitic primordial organisms. Be careful of them being frightened Then hit the convoy."

An Jiaye explained to everyone calmly on the surface, but her mood became a little excited - it is rare to see a bed of dead toadstools that grow to this density. She plans to study the fungi and soil components collected when she has time. Analyze the specific growth and formation process of the bacteria bed.

"Elsa, come and help burn them too." An Jiaye didn't want the "joyman" to just watch the show this time.

"It looks interesting." Elsa put away the memory shell that had filmed the corpse toadstool forest, and stretched, "Miss Ben, let's do some activities that I haven't seen for a long time."

"I heard from Lettice that there were nearly 200 people living on the farm, and there were more than 100 troops stationed at the checkpoint." Fan Na approached and reminded, "Be prepared for the worst."

"Bring both the fire pot and the petrol bomb." Gambino ordered decisively.

The old man's subordinates quickly brought boxes of kerosene bombs wrapped in wheat straw from the ordnance carriage, and engineers lined up carrying manual flamethrowers as delicate as watering pots.

"When the mushrooms are burning, if any living corpses appear, they will all be chopped off." Gambino touched the goatee, and ordered Jose coldly, "Call Ronan and Joe over, their people should be going crazy, go See the blood."

Gambino also transferred a few reinforced carriages to cooperate with the refusal to form a simple line of defense.The slave soldiers holding shields and straight swords, and the warriors holding halberds were staggered and arranged in a neat defensive formation in front of the chariot formation, guarding against the gloomy mushroom forest - and the old man Jose soon led a group of mercenaries Come here.

The old wolf gave an order, and the fire attack officially started.The strong-armed slave soldiers threw bullets like rain, and threw the fire oil bottle into the mushroom bushes violently, and the pungent smell of fire oil immediately dispersed in the mist—then the engineers distributed on the edge of the mushroom forest activated the fire pot and shot a A blazing fire snake instantly ignited a fire with thick smoke billowing.

Bill and Lance left their masters alone when the fire broke out, and hid far away, fearing that the water in their bodies would be lost.

Elsa also summons her shadow minions.The dark and flowing shapeless shadow transformed into the silhouette of a dragon with a wingspan of more than ten meters in mid-air. The dragon opened its huge mouth and spewed out a dark roar. The steaming river of black flames exploded on the mushroom forest, instantly covering A large fan-shaped area.

In the parade team, even the group of pyromaniacs from the Mana Division were good at dragon's breath, and their magic power was almost empty after one or two uses, let alone a burst of amazing power like Elsa.

And what her dragon's breath spit out was not ordinary magic element flames.

The pitch-black flames sprayed with black fluid do not need to rely on the wind, as long as they touch combustible materials, they will spread rapidly, and can continue to smolder even if there is no air.

Anjaye heard that Elsa boasted that her family has inherited witchcraft-manipulating the horror of "Shadow Flame".

Living things stained by the "Shadow Flame", if there are star stones or magic essence in their bodies, they will act as a combustion accelerant, and they will easily burn until there is no bones left, so that Anjaye always guards against her getting into his mushrooms. Hole, for fear that the pleasure criminal will "accidentally" set fire to play in it.

When Elsa was majestic and in charge of the best firepower output in the audience, Fanna also looked at her opponent with a cold expression to show off her might.

Accompanied by the wave of fire that the shadow dragon shakes its head and tail, it pushes unstoppably into the canyon trail.In the dense mushroom jungle, Elsa gradually opened up a narrow road with fire marks, so as to clear the safe route for the convoy to the checkpoint.

Ear-piercing wailing continued to sound from the depths of the fungus forest, and several living corpses covered in fire, festered and infested by toadstools jumped out from the pile of smoked mushrooms with their teeth and claws open.

The nearby Gambino guards armed with halberds immediately pierced their chests and abdomens and pressed them to the ground, then chopped off the rotten heads covered with hyphae.

PS: Hee hee, the support of readers is still very strong, the monthly ticket recommendation has increased a wave, and the number of hits has gradually caught up, but as of the 18th, there are still too few collections, less than 500.

Although the audience stickiness of this book is quite high and the morale is available, the recommendation slots given to me next week are really not optimistic, and it is estimated that there will be no improvement in the promotion. Now there are more and more authors, and the competition for promotion is fierce. Before it goes on the shelves, it is estimated that it will be difficult to push it.

The authors need to adjust their strategy accordingly.Hedgehog cats are generally 10 to 12 words, and will be released after one month of update. The author estimates that the free period will be extended to about 15 words before it will be put on the shelves, and the number of words per day will be controlled at about 3000. Try to extend the free period to two months. Let's see if we can gather 4000 favorite readers during the period, otherwise it will really hit the street to death.I hope everyone can understand, the author will work hard to polish the text and plot!Please also continue to support "Witch Mori Friends Club"!

Chapter No.16 Bullfighting performance in the fire

Zombies don't grow brains, but mushrooms?

Hey, I'm really not good at telling bad jokes. ——"Ankaye's Chat Notes"

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As the fire continued to consume the toadstool forest, more living corpses were driven from the fields like terrifying swarms of leeches.

Occupied by the fungus, the soulless shell, twisted and carbonized in the flames, can only be driven madly by instinct, and rush towards the army that is close at hand.

Their teeth, which have only fed on ratroot and black bread all their lives, vent the pain of being cursed by fate after death, eager to bite the fresh flesh of the living.The result was either being burned to hot ashes by the dragon's breath technique, or drinking hatred under the meat grinder combined with steel blades.

Just looking at the number of living corpses on the ground, Anjaye knew that the residents who originally lived here were in danger.

Witnessing the process of burning this group of disgusting "pests", Fan Na was communicating with the seemingly depressed Lettice in her team.

"Fanna seems to be comforting Lettice." Elsa didn't forget to eat melons while setting fire, with little stars shining exaggeratedly in her square pupils, "She's so gentle, I kind of 'like' this guy."

"After all, the farm is close to Lettice's home in Dole Town." Anjaye also saw Fanna take out a handkerchief to help her teammates wipe away tears, and said, "I hope the seedling field of the dead toadstool didn't spread downstream with the river. .”

The group of fungus corpses quickly crashed in front of the iron hedgehog-like car formation, and were pushed back by a wave of tacitly coordinated long soldiers and short blades.

Compared with the large army prohibited by Gambino's order, the hyenas with poor discipline in the mercenary group were even more delighted to see them hunting, and even dispersed their forces to chase them deep into the farm that was not affected by the fire, obviously wanting to take the opportunity to search for more spoils.

Vanna didn't order the witches to join the battle, but among the pilgrims there were also thorns who followed the hyenas.

Bunty, the "Long-legged Lynx" of the Magic Department, forced the "cowardly Adele" into the front line of the mercenaries—they were also in the idle group, and they usually wandered around hunting—maybe they were simply hunting wild animals. She can no longer satisfy this active girl from a small country nobleman.

"Look carefully, Adeli, how to kill on the battlefield! Once you get used to it, you won't be timid anymore!" Bounty dragged his thin companion up the hill.This heroic and tall girl held a long bow in her hand, the string was like a full moon, and she let her golden braid flutter like a banner in the hot wind, and she didn't care at all about her companion's livid face about to spit out.

Among a group of delicate and frail little apprentices, Bunty is the only one who can be called "abundant in martial arts". At that time, she was brought to the frontier battlefield——it turned out that the girl was discovered by the itinerant witch to have an excellent talent in mana manipulation.

Bunty's way of participating in the battle is naturally much more attractive than a group of tough men playing with living corpses in the mushroom pile.

An Jiaye figured it out, she didn't purchase the set of Orion equipment in Shuyu Town on a whim.

The girl's slender and powerful arms stretched out her bow and arrows, and when she stretched her snow-white arms exposed under the leather armor shoulders, her muscles and muscles showed a strong, plump and healthy beauty. It can be seen that Bounty did not slack off training in martial arts after changing jobs in the academy— —With the assistance of Adeli from the Spell Department, she is comparable to a sniper with a high-power scope. Elemental arrows scramble to shoot out one by one, calling the clumsy moving human targets under the hill one by one.