The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Chapter 417 Wilderness Boundary Marker
The Wilderness Boundary Marker is the boundary marker of the Witch Wilderness; it appears before every creature that approaches the boundary line.

Whether they fly in the sky or walk on the ground, whether they are intelligent races or magical beasts, it's all the same.

The monsters couldn't read the words, but they could sense the targeted pressure of the boundary markers and instinctively wanted to stay away.

Intelligent beings can read the common language above and will know that ahead lies the Witch's Wilderness, and that trespassing will be considered an enemy.

The consequences of being regarded as an enemy by the Wilderness Boundary Marker are not explicitly stated on the marker, but they are common knowledge among the people of Valen.

Anyone who knows about witches knows that trespassing into the witch's wilderness will result in being sent flying by a magic firework, their body blown to smithereens.

As for intelligent beings who cannot understand the common language, if they do not receive the warning on the boundary marker and accidentally cross the boundary, they will suffer the same fate.

The principle of "ignorance is no excuse" doesn't apply to Valen or the witch.

Therefore, the common language of Valencia was indeed an essential language for traveling across the continent.

If you don't understand this and wander aimlessly across the continent, you might very well stray into forbidden territory and lose your life.

While every intelligent race can learn the Common Language of Valen, it is not the racial language of any single race.

Unlike on Earth, where the language of a powerful nation is the international language.

"Moran, let's land down and see how the boundary marker moves!"

Lilith was very curious about how this boundary marker appeared in front of every creature that reached the edge of the wilderness.

Moran was also very curious. Now the boundary marker looked like it was growing in the clouds, and it looked very natural.

If she hadn't previously ridden the flying carpet through the clouds and learned that even Valen's clouds were just a mass of water vapor with at most some water elemental power, and couldn't possibly support a stone monument, she would have thought the boundary marker was already in the clouds.

She lowered the flying carpet to the ground, and before it had even fully landed, Vasita pointed at the ground and exclaimed, "Boundary marker! It's appeared again!"

This time, they saw it very clearly.

The boundary marker appeared on the ground in the blink of an eye.

Here, near the Black Forest, the clear streams, lakes, and thick meadows of the former Cuixi Plain turn into dark, wet mud and a few sparse, withered grasses.

The boundary marker sits in the mud, perfectly natural.

They looked up at the clouds, where the boundary markers had disappeared.

Moran flew to the side again, and the boundary marker immediately changed its position.

I always appear right in front of them, making sure they can see me as soon as they look up.

After going up and down many times, they finally stopped when it was getting dark.

Lilith released the vampire vines, and Sylph took out the burrowing mushrooms and set up an underground mushroom house camp for the night.

After learning meditation, they don't actually need much sleep or rest, but they still need some personal time to study quietly during their travels.

Nighttime became their time for studying and improving themselves alone.

Usually, after dinner, they would go back to their own tents to do their own things, but today was different.

They're leaving the wilderness tomorrow, so we need to discuss what to do once we're out there. First, we need to adjust our travel methods, as the wilderness outside is much more dangerous than inside.

"Should we continue flying over, or walk?" Lilith asked.

“Fly!” Moran said. “Walking isn’t always as safe as flying.”

Although there are many flying magical beasts in the Green Creek Plains area outside the wilderness, our side is closer to the Black Forest. Affected by the power of death, the grasslands are more barren, and even wild beasts don't come here much. Only snakes, insects, and rodents are rampant. Powerful large flying magical beasts probably won't come here to forage.

Moreover, the Black Forest is not far away. After we leave the wilderness, we can enter the Black Forest within a few minutes, so we don't have to worry about flying monsters.

You just need to be careful of the undead creatures in the Black Forest.

The Black Forest, shrouded in a dense aura of death year-round, has become a paradise for undead creatures.

However, there aren't many undead creatures that can fly, so we should just not fly too high.

Flying around the treetops or canopy is sufficient, which will also help avoid the poisonous insects coming from the poisonous fog swamp.

“It is said that there are some living Black Death Trees hidden in the Black Forest. They are not visible to the naked eye, but as soon as you enter their hunting range or touch them, they will bind you and drag you to the bottom of the tree to bury you as fertilizer. We are too close to the tree. Will we be attacked by the living Black Death Trees?” Sylph said.

"It's alright. The 'Valen Travel Guide' has a special volume about the Black Forest. It says that the living Black Dead Tree only attacks living things. You can use the pseudo-death technique to make yourself exude death power and disguise yourself as an undead creature, and the living Black Dead Tree will not attack you."

Furthermore, the activated Black Death Tree is only a high-level magical plant; the advanced Clearance spell will also work on it. We can force them to 'move aside'!

Moran had already carefully organized the usable information about the Black Forest in his mind long before everyone decided to go to the Black Forest to find corpses to make humanoid death servants.

“Don’t worry about the Black Death Tree. It’s definitely easier to fly in the canopy. The ground environment is too complicated,” Lilith said.

Seeing that they had decided on how to enter, Vasita suddenly pulled out a map: "My mother's reply arrived today. Here, here, here, and here, all the places marked in dark red, my mother has been to these places in recent years."

The lighter the red color, the earlier the last time it was visited.

She wrote a letter to her mother, intending to ask where in the Black Forest it was best to find human-shaped corpses, but her mother sent her a map instead.

Mom searched the entire Black Forest.

Every few years, they would even go back in for a stroll, to see if there were any new corpse materials, and also to pick some magical plants unique to the Black Forest.

“Your mother has already been there, so will there still be any remains or materials there?” Lilith asked.

“Of course!” Vasita said. “My mother said she doesn’t want even the most rotten bones.”

She suggested we go to the north of the Black Forest, where fresh corpse materials often appear.

And she had one more request.

Vasida's expression was somewhat strange when she mentioned this request.

"What request?" Moran asked.

She said that if we encounter undead creatures with red cloths hanging from their bodies, we can use the witch's tongue to say "back away" to drive them away, or say "Genia" to them, and they will treat us as one of their own.

But please don't break them apart, and don't take away their body parts, because... because those were the undead servants she left to roam freely in the Black Forest after she returned to the wilderness, as she could no longer afford to raise them..."

(End of this chapter)