Chapter Ten: The Wheaton Merchant Group

  I headed south, where the wealthiest country on this continent is located - the Weldon Kingdom. This is a highly commercialized nation, and it's said that in all the trade across the continent, you can see the shadow of Weldon merchants. Many Weldon merchant caravans have crossed the grasslands to reach Mosan, exchanging exquisite goods and gold coins for Mosan's abundant agate stones. Not a few Mosan families have beautiful furniture from Weldon in their homes. I've long yearned for the wealth of the Weldon Kingdom, and since I couldn't stay in Mosan anyway, I decided to go to the Weldon Kingdom to try my luck and see if I could make a fortune.

  The night had fallen, and I set up the tent. I lay comfortably inside, while the once haughty Queen Serina sat with her back to me, her beautiful face cold and unyielding, not even sparing me a glance. As I gazed at her slender figure from behind, my heart was once again ablaze with passion. I reached out and wrapped my arms around her waist, pulling her close as I rolled on top of her. She let out a cry of surprise, and for the first time, her icy gaze was filled with shame and helplessness.

  On the run, I was tempted by the incredibly beautiful body in my arms and violently possessed this beautiful woman's body. The wonderful taste truly made me unforgettable. The woman's helpless struggle and painful crying only made me more **aroused.

  After I got her body, she kept trying to resist. After assassination and poisoning were ineffective, she started running away. However, when I pressed the wildly galloping horse to the ground that time, she gave up resisting, silently enduring my repeated thrusts, neither cooperating nor resisting, as if she had already given up.

  "Haha, look at you, this noble queen, now you're in such a state, I'm afraid even your husband wouldn't recognize you if he were to come." As I looked at the woman beneath me, who was enduring my actions with a stoic expression, I felt extremely uncomfortable. I continued to taunt her with words while using forceful movements, making her recall her own identity. I discovered that every time I said this, she would react strongly, even if she didn't admit it, and her body would become more accustomed to my powerful invasion, which was unmistakable."

  Xilina is indeed very enchanting now, her golden long hair scattered behind her, her beautiful face full of passion's flush, sweat beads all over her excited body. Although she tightly closed her mouth, deep breathing still came out from her nose. This mature woman has already been indulged in the turbulent love. It seems that soon I will be able to thoroughly conquer this renowned beauty of the grassland. Thinking about this, I become even harder, provoking her to hum in protest.

  It seems our luck isn't bad, on the seventh day of escaping from San Mohan City, we met people for the first time on the road. It was a merchant caravan from Weiton, loaded with goods that showed the owner's good harvest, some men who looked like mercenaries held knives and arrows to guard the convoy around, vigilantly paying attention to all suspicious situations around them, and our arrival also caught their attention.

  A man rode alone towards us from the merchant caravan. He was a rather old man, with a face that had been weathered by the years and showed many signs of age, but his eyes were sharp and piercing, and anyone who underestimated him would be in for a big surprise. The large sword on his back indicated that he was a mercenary, and his position among the mercenaries should not be low either.

  Before long, he came before us. When he saw our faces, he was visibly taken aback: a nightwalker and a woman, what a strange combination. I had already made Celine cover her face, so as to avoid trouble in case we ran into someone who knew her, so he didn't see Celine's breathtakingly beautiful face, but her curvaceous body still led the man to categorize the woman before him as a beauty.

  "Hello, I am Koro, the leader of the Storm Mercenary Group. May I ask for your identities?" The man and woman in front of him were unlikely to be bandits, but he still asked cautiously about their identities.

  "I am Viter, this is my wife Nana", at this time the Serina in my arms twisted my waist fiercely, but I continued to say without any concern: "We want to go to the Kingdom of Weiton, but we got lost on this vast grassland. It's really great that we can meet you now, I wonder if we can travel with you?"

  "This is...," Koro hesitated for a moment. As the leader of the mercenary group, he should eliminate any unfavorable factors, but the young man and woman in front of him didn't seem like ruthless bandits at all. After a brief hesitation, he made up his mind and said to us: "This trip is to escort a Wighton merchant named Lifman back home. I'll go ask him, if he agrees, then there's no problem." With that, he headed towards the largest carriage in the convoy.

  It wasn't long before he returned to us with a relaxed expression: "He agrees to your joining, the last carriage can be temporarily used by you, welcome you to become our travel companion, my friend."

  I didn't expect this Lifman to be so easy-going, not only did he agree to travel with us, but also gave us a horse carriage. However, what Kolo whispered to me afterwards made me dismiss my gratitude towards him: "Mr. Lifman hopes that when we encounter danger, you can lend us a helping hand."

  It's really worthy of being a meticulous and calculating merchant from Weiton, isn't it? A useless carriage is exchanged for a free night tribe bodyguard who is famous for his divine shooting skills. No matter how you calculate it, he doesn't lose out. It seems I'll have to do some unpaid work for a while.

  The days of following the caravan were extremely monotonous and boring. Apart from teasing Serena in the carriage during the day, I only had to spend time chatting with those mercenaries around the bonfire at night, expecting to encounter robbers but not a single one appeared. The only comfort was that under my deliberate gentleness and endless loving offensive, Serena seemed to be gradually moved by me, at least she was no longer as cold as before, occasionally even showing a few smiles, making me infatuated.

  At dinner time, I did meet the boss of this fleet, Lifman. He is indeed a rich and oily businessman. To be honest, I have never seen anyone fatter than him before. No wonder he rides in that largest carriage, smaller carriages might even be crushed by him.

  After a few days of getting along, I gradually became familiar with those people in the Whirlwind Mercenary Group, especially when sitting by the bonfire at night drinking and talking, they were even more unrestrained, openly discussing women, making the nearby Serena blush and escape.

  The Gale Mercenary Corps was a small mercenary group, with only dozens of people in scale, but the people inside were all some old hands in battle, and every person's wounds on their body could tell corresponding stories. Like that thin man Rolf who held several flying knives in his hand, his left hand was cut off by a knight in one battle, but he immediately solved the opponent with the flying knife in his right hand. There was also a fiery red-haired burly man Pajiet sitting aside, when he was ambushed once, one of his eyeballs was shot through by the opponent's arrow, he dug out the injured eye and ate it down, the opponents who were frightened to be stunned were also cut into two segments by him. Even the captain Koro had a deep scar left on his chest, but he didn't want to mention this matter, as if there was some sad past event. Through chatting with them, I knew many knowledge that I had never heard of before.

  That evening, we sat around the fire as usual, drinking the poor-quality rum provided by Liveman, the leader of the caravan, and talking loudly.

  "Hey, Vito, tell us, what kind of ferocious beasts are there in the Mystic Forest?" The speaker was Gill, the team's archer, a young blond-haired man who had previously been a hunter and was full of curiosity about the mysteries of the Mystic Forest.

  "I recalled: 'Hmm, let me think. The Labyrinth Forest indeed has many dangerous creatures, and some of the animals that don't look very fierce are actually the most dangerous ones. Like the Blood Rabbit, it looks just like a harmless rabbit, but who would have thought that its venomous fangs are no less deadly than those of the most poisonous snakes? Some people who didn't know its true nature and thought it was an ordinary rabbit often died from its venomous fangs. The Labyrinth Forest also has many other ferocious beasts that match their appearance, the Saber-toothed Tiger may be the king of the mountains elsewhere, but here, it's just food for other beasts."

  Gill, who was standing beside me, had already been listening with rapt attention. A good hunter always wants to hunt the best prey of his life. Looking at his expectant eyes, I couldn't hide anything from him. However, there were so many ferocious beasts in the Labyrinth Forest that even the Night Clan people who lived here for generations didn't know them all. Those who were lucky enough to encounter them wouldn't come back to tell us about it either.

  "In the depths of the forest, there is an animal called the Saber-toothed Beast. A grown Saber-toothed Beast can be over two meters tall and four meters long, named after its terrifying saber-like teeth. The Sword-toothed Tiger often becomes its food. However, compared to its teeth, its shocking charging ability is even more dangerous. Even a tree as thick as two men hugging each other would break with one charge, and if a person were charged, they'd basically be dead."

  There is another animal called the magic leopard, which is even more frightening than the saber-toothed tiger. It can hide itself and its body color will automatically adjust to match its surroundings, making it difficult to detect even if you walk right past it. People who are bitten by it usually have wounds on their backs, so we also call it the invisible killer.

  Apart from the back, you also have to worry about your feet, because at any time you may encounter the most poisonous creature in the lost forest - the sharp-stinger scorpion. This scorpion is not very big, roughly the size of a dog, but its tail stinger is extremely deadly, and if it stings once, within three breaths, a person will be poisoned to death. Moreover, they like to bury themselves in the ground, so inexperienced people may step on them and lose their lives at any time.

  I also want to tell you that in the Labyrinth Forest, if you see a swamp, don't get close. There is a hidden killer - the Terror Crocodile. It's the king of the swamp, with a massive body over 10 meters long, strong enough to easily bite open rocks, and its thick armor-like skin makes it capable of eating any fierce beast. And once it gets on land, its prey is basically doomed. I've never seen an animal faster than it.

  If you haven't encountered these monsters, then it's best to hope that you're lucky enough not to meet the most intelligent predator in the jungle - the brutal ape. This is a creature that often hunts cooperatively, with a body over four meters tall and two arms with razor-sharp claws that are abnormally strong, its power is enough to threaten any living thing. And they, like humans, will cooperate to hunt and set up ambushes, with dozens of brutal apes acting together, no matter what kind of ferocious animal, in the end, it can only become a big meal in front of their intelligence.

  "These are all the dangerous animals I know of. Perhaps there may be even more bizarre and monstrous creatures, but no one has ever lived to see them."

  Everyone was enchanted by the animals I described, and some people who were originally resting elsewhere were also attracted here, then brought into the space of imagination by these unprecedented fresh things.

  "Oh, my heavens! If I could bring back a creature like that alive, oh, my true god, I can already imagine the scene of gold coins rolling in!" Of course, there is only one person who can link monsters and money together - Merchant Liveman. The lump of human-shaped fat suddenly seemed to have lost dozens of pounds, moving at a speed that was completely inconsistent with his body, flashing over to my side like lightning, and actually gave me quite a fright.

  "Hey, my dear friend, as a night owl, you must be able to come and go freely in the Lost Forest, I wonder if you're interested in discussing a big deal?" Liffman's oily face squeezed out a smile, his already small eyes now just a slit.

  "What business?" Looking at this smiling fat man in front of me, I tried hard to hold back the urge to punch him.

  "Come on, come on, let's talk inside my car." Without another word, he pulled me away from the crowd and into his large vehicle.