Danmaku, my skills refresh weekly.

Raul lectured Fels for another three minutes, and then the group set off again.

……

After the squad finally managed to clear out the monsters that were ambushing them from the thick fog and passed through the fog layer, Raul turned around to count the number of people and found that Fels had disappeared again.

"...No, what's it for this time? Even if I'm alone here, I could easily die!" Raul was covered in cold sweat.

If there are casualties on the first time I lead a team, wouldn't that prove that I am extremely incompetent?

Alfia said, "Before her aura disappeared, she seemed to pause for a moment, as if she was attracted by something."

"Sigh, let's go back and look for it." Raul felt exhausted.

Charles never expected that Fels would be the worst one.

“Perhaps he really cares about that nest,” Charles said, making an excuse for Fels. “Let’s go back and take a look.”

"If there is anything unusual, we can clean it up as well."

Charles believed that Fels had found a heretic, which was why he secretly left.

The group called out Fels's name and returned to the thick fog.

To expand the search area, the group subconsciously spread out about two meters apart in a circular pattern, but they could still vaguely see each other's shadows.

They also encountered some monsters hidden in the thick fog, but they were all defeated by the combined efforts of the group.

Of course, some of them were killed secretly by Alfia. There wasn't even a formal announcement.

Charles was very dissatisfied with this.

This is not a newbie at all! Don't waste your valuable skills!

however……

When the group found Fels hiding in a cave, staring at a burn mark on the wall, and gathered together again, Charles fell silent.

"One, two, three, four, five, six..."

Cassandra, Alfia, Fels, me, Alpha...

Including Poch, who protects Cassandra, there are a total of six shadows.

very good!

Raul has disappeared!

Ciel forced a stiff smile, and a bead of awkward cold sweat slowly slid down his cheek.

"No way, what about me, such a big shot?!"

Charles looked at Pochi lying next to him. Could it be that this guy accidentally took Raul's place?

So who did Raul go with?

Does this mean that we newbies got lost, or that the pros got lost?

I don't understand! I just don't get it!

Chapter 260 Big Boss, Help!

Charles couldn't help but begin to reflect on himself.

"Did we overestimate Raul? Maybe he's not the big boss we're looking for!"

Alpha toyed with a steel ball in his hand, faint arcs of electricity flickering between his fingers: "Lord Charles, if I may be so bold, he probably can't even beat me."

"..."

“What do we do now? Go back to Mr. Raul?” Cassandra clung to Pochi, feeling uneasy in the surroundings, only Pochi’s thick layer of fat offering her a sense of security.

Instead of making a decision immediately, Charles looked at Fels and asked:

"What's going on? Leaving the team twice in a row, did you discover something?"

Fechles stretched out his finger and ran it across the charred wall, leaving a trace of black substance on his fingertip. He brought it to his nose and sniffed it.

"The fluctuations of magic are not from flames."

Alpha moved closer and, after sensing it, confirmed, "It's lightning!"

"I also found many signs of battle along the way. It seems that a small team was hunted by monsters. I'm worried about why I didn't see any corpses."

Fels analyzed: "First, the adventurer escaped but is hiding in some cave. Second, the adventurer's body was hidden by the monster."

The reason there's no option for monsters to eat people is because monsters, like wild beasts, don't like to eat bones—they're too hard. Besides, adventurers usually have protective gear, and there's no loose metal along the way.

"Hidden the adventurers? Could it be?!"

After listening to Fels' analysis, Sharl thought of an unusual enhanced species.

The Moss Giant!

It is a special monster that appears in the future. It hunts adventurers, steals their magic stones, cripples them, hides them in a corner of the labyrinth, sets traps, and waits for more prey to come to it.

This is an unusual character who is caught between heretics and monsters.

It possesses intelligent combat skills, but is still essentially a monster that cannot be communicated with.

This is clearly an "abnormal situation"!

"Could Raul have been captured by this thing?" Cassandra asked anxiously.

"possible!"

"Then let's hurry and save him!"

"Wait..." Charles was about to move, but suddenly realized something, stopped, and asked curiously:

"Wasn't it him who came to save us? He's the real boss!"

"Listen, can you hear human speech?" Alfia couldn't help but smile.

Following Ciel, something interesting always seems to happen, and even the tedious exploration of the maze doesn't seem so boring anymore.

……

On the plain 500 meters away from the cave where Shire was located.

Raul was panting heavily.

He used his shield to block the club strike of the three-meter-tall giant pig-headed man (orc), and his sword grazed its side.

The orc screamed, and the white, withered tree branch in his hand fell to the ground. His massive body crashed down with a thud, kicking up a light cloud of dust.

"Damn it, how could I make such a basic mistake!"

He sat atop the massive monster corpse, his wrist trembling slightly. Beside him lay the corpses of a dozen young goblins, a testament to the small-scale monster feast they had just witnessed.

Having averted the crisis, Raul couldn't help but reflect on himself.

The main reason he got separated from his group was the poor visibility in the thick fog. He mistakenly thought the goblins and orcs were his teammates and Pochi, and followed the monsters for a while.

When he suddenly realized that his teammates' voices were getting quieter and moving away, it was too late to turn back, and he was targeted by the monsters that were closing in.

at the moment……

"Where is this place?"

He was surrounded by identical white oak forests, with gray weeds swaying on the ground and dim magic stones overhead, which were not enough for him to discern his location.

The intense battle had long since disoriented him, and he no longer knew which way he came from.

"Damn it, I have to get back to everyone quickly!"

Raul gritted his teeth, unsure whose fault it was.

Logically speaking, shouldn't the newbies all stick close to him, the team leader?

But all five teammates lost track of him at once. Was it because he, as the captain, had a problem, or because his teammates simply didn't respect him as their captain?

If Raul knew that a newbie's most basic, inherent talent is getting lost, he probably wouldn't care about this kind of problem.

With no time to deal with the monster corpses on the ground, Raul threw his longsword, then chose a direction and ran forward with his head covered, listening to the sounds around him as he ran.

If the team continues to count off as he instructed, they should soon realize they are missing and start looking for themselves.

Unbeknownst to him, shortly after he left the battlefield, a semi-transparent, snake-like figure darted through the thick fog, burrowing into the orc's obese corpse and precisely snatching out the magic stone, which it then crushed.

In the thick fog, a pair of deep blue eyes stared intently in the direction Raul had gone, until his figure disappeared into the sea of ​​fog once more.

……

Inside a huge cave on the east side.

"Hey boss, where are you?!"

"Raul, answer me!"

Charles sat on Pochi's back, holding a megaphone and shouting to the left and right.

Behind him followed a large group of orcs and hard-skinned rats, monsters attracted by Xia's shouts.

Javelin-like bristles shot from the back of the hedgehog-like, hard-skinned rat, striking the iron pot held by Alfia with a clanging sound.

"Roar!" Alpha, held in Pochi's mouth, flung out a steel ball, and a booming magnetic field erupted among the monsters, slowing their pursuit.

Along the way, Xiaer encountered many adventurers, but when they saw the berserk demon bear breaking through the thick fog, carrying four children on its back and an elf in its mouth, they all hesitated to move forward.

What's more, this bear was being chased by an "army of monsters" numbering nearly thirty.

"Run...run! It's a enhanced species! And it's carrying the adventurer in its mouth!"

Pochi: Are you being polite? Can't you see I'm the one working the hardest!

Pochi made precise missteps, dodging the scattered monsters that were closing in from the front, while also increasing the number of monsters behind him.

After running for thirty minutes, finally, at the end of the thick fog ahead, we saw Raul's figure emerging from the fog.

"Captain!! We've finally found you, Captain!!" Ciel cried tears of joy.

Raul quickly confirmed the number of people in the team.

12345, very good, not one missing!