I am the Enchantress!

Chapter 141 Three Plants

The fire is not completely extinguished yet.

This area is sparsely wooded, a rare clearing in the dense forest; otherwise, it would probably still be a sea of ​​fire.

Most of the vegetation on the ground had been burned to ashes, and a few low shrubs and trees were still burning, making unsettling crackling sounds.

The air was filled with the smell of gunpowder and a faint stench of blood.

A lingering heat wave swept by, filling the air with snow-like ash and debris.

The entire sky was once again dyed crimson, even more intense than the sunset.

The team members stood still, not uttering a single word for a long time.

What a fierce battle!

Even standing on this land where the battle is over, my heart races and my adrenaline surges.

but----

What was the outcome of the battle?

Wilder looked around.

The red dragon was nowhere to be seen in the vast sky, nor was its body on the equally open ground.

The red dragon is enormous, and if the research team successfully hunts it down, transporting it away will be no easy task.

The entrance to the [Secret Gate] is not large enough, and moving it would require more manpower, making it impossible to move it in such a short time.

Therefore, the Red Dragon should not have lost.

Meanwhile, the ten members of the investigation team were nowhere to be seen on the ground, which was covered with vegetation ash.

There were neither living people nor corpses.

Did they lose?

not always.

Although dragon breath has the ability to instantly melt a human body.

But the probability of all ten people being burned to ashes was still too low, after all, there were still a few kobold corpses remaining on the ground.

The soldier leading the investigation team also said that this was a juvenile red dragon, and theoretically it couldn't use that kind of earth-shattering dragon breath.

The investigation team should have already left.

You could say they didn't lose.

So————

A draw?

Wilder was lost in thought.

However, the investigation team arrived here through the [Secret Gate] with the sole purpose of hunting the Red Dragon.

Now that both sides have left, it should actually be considered that their mission has failed.

However, there is another possibility: the investigation team did not withdraw, but instead went to pursue the fleeing red dragon.

He gazed into the distance, where only a few unidentified birds flew across the crimson sky.

At this moment, the rest of the squad also snapped out of their daze at the scene on the battlefield.

As usual, Cyril and Wilde lit genuine Caratou tobacco, making the already smoky air even more murky and complicated.

Lyle and Joffrey disappeared from the spot, each searching for any clues left on the battlefield.

Maeve didn't go far. She squatted down and used her small hands to rummage through the ashes on the ground, as if she were looking for something.

"Aww!"

Bruce had no interest in the battle that had just taken place, but he was excited to find that there were more kobold corpses roasted on the ground.

Moreover, compared to Wilder's fire magic, dragon breath was clearly much crispier and more delicious.

As expected of a dragon!

It happily ate with its rear end sticking out, showing the best attitude in the team.

Not long after, Lyle and Joffrey returned from their investigation.

Sure enough, neither the dragon nor the research team were found in the entire open area.

"There's something rather strange."

Lyle squinted his narrow eyes and said, "I just climbed to the top of the tallest tree, but I didn't see any trace of the red dragon leaving in the air."

"The battle ended so long ago, it's normal that you haven't seen it, right?"

Gru chuckled and said, "What's so strange about that?"

"The view from the treetop is incredibly expansive. With my eyesight, I can even see the birds flying over Ironweave Town, let alone a dragon."

Lyle rolled his eyes at Gru, then said, "Of course I understand you, after all, dwarves are inherently disadvantaged in this respect."

"You're really annoying!" Gru said angrily.

"The red dragon is probably injured, and it must be quite serious. It will likely not fly far before it lands in the dense forest."

Wilder recalled that the investigation team unleashed a number of spells and combat techniques at the time.

Especially the warrior who was constantly gathering power on his greatsword; it was unclear what the final blow would have.

Two loud explosions occurred at that time.

One sound came from the dragon's breath, and the other must have come from the warrior's combat skill.

"Look at these things."

Maeve stood up from the ground and spread her small hands in front of the group.

In the snow-white palm are three very special plants.

The mushrooms have red skin, are about the size of goose eggs, and look very fluffy;

The grayish-green rhizome is thick and patterned, and at first glance it looks like the shed exoskeleton of a snake.

I've seen this blood-red grass before.

"I#!"

Gru's eyes widened instantly. "Bloodroot! Well done, Maeve, another gold coin in hand!"

Wilder frowned.

Besides the bloodroot grass, the other two plants evoked a strange sense of familiarity once again.

Could it be that...?

He looked at Cyril with a questioning gaze.

Cyrion instantly understood what he meant and nodded.

“Gru, Maeve has more than one gold coin in her hand,” he said. “It’s three gold coins!”

"Huh? Three?"

Gru paused, then realized what he meant, "You mean—"

"Yes, the other two plants are the red amanita mushroom and viper root."

Cyrion explained, "These are the raw materials Louis is looking for to make the healing potion; each plant is worth one gold coin."

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"Okay, okay! Quickly put it away!"

Gru's grin stretched almost to his ears. "We didn't find much in the kobold crypts, but we made up for it here!"

"There are still some on the ground, all broken off at the root," Maeve said with a smile.

"What? There's more?!"

Gru instantly crouched down, searching for those plants with the same eagerness as Bruce had for the roasted kobold.

"There really is!"

He exclaimed in surprise and picked up a red mushroom with a broken root from the ground. It was a red amanita mushroom worth one gold coin.

"It seems that, like the Bloodroot Grass, it fell from the red dragon."

Cyrion analyzed.

"Well----"

Wilder was taken aback.

He tried to connect the dots and suddenly came to an absurd conclusion.

"Could it be—"

He frowned and said, "Did this red dragon accept that gathering quest offered by Louis at the association?"

"ah?"

Everyone looked at him strangely.

At that moment, they remembered the boy who had performed the "elephant trunk" for them after their first mission.

"Little guy————"

Gru raised an eyebrow. "Your comedic talent has declined, huh? It's not funny at all."

Cyrion and Lyle nodded in agreement.

"Elephant trunk—"

Maeve seemed to recall some unusual image, and her fair face suddenly flushed red.

I'm serious.

Wilder explained, "First of all, the red dragon came from the heart of the forest."

"Secondly, it happened to be carrying exactly three types of plants for which a bounty was placed, no more and no less."

"Finally, the direction it initially flew towards was Ironweave Town again."

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"Isn't it just doing that bounty mission?"

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