Hello, is this a letter addressed to Demon Fortress?

Two days later, deep within the Black Demon Forest.

"laugh--"

The sharp dagger was pulled from the little devil's sticky neck, leaving a trail of dark red blood droplets.

Lin Gui quickly ducked and retreated into the depths of the dense grass.

He deftly pulled out a handful of dry wood ash and evenly covered the corpse with it.

Suppress the nauseating, heavy smell of blood.

The entire process was silent and swift, as if carried out by a ghost.

He huddled in the shadows like a stone statue, his sharp eyes constantly scanning his surroundings.

After confirming several times that there were no other demons nearby.

He emerged silently from his hiding place, like a startled raccoon.

Wood ash can only delay the effect for a period of time.

Before long, this bloody aura will attract even more bloodthirsty demons.

They didn't want to be surrounded by a horde of demons who had come after hearing the news.

Lin Gui had no choice but to risk leaving the temporary shelter where he had been lying in wait for three hours.

The journey, which was originally scheduled to take a few days, has been going on for five days, and Lin Gui still hasn't left.

Now they are trapped in this increasingly eerie Black Demon Forest.

The reason is simple...

I don't know where this bunch of idiot adventurers came from, forming a group to hunt down a legendary demon in the Black Demon Forest.

The commotion alarmed all the demons in the entire Black Demon Forest.

Now, the Black Demon Forest is filled with the sounds of demons.

They dashed from one thicket of bushes to another.

It was concealed by the dense weeds.

Lin Gui, carrying his bulging, heavy backpack, made one perilous transfer after another.

Beside my ear, a small, light blue magic ring, no bigger than a fingernail, was pulsating and spinning faintly.

With the blessing of the high-level wind magic [Wind Listening].

Sounds within a hundred meters radius were amplified and filtered, reaching his ears clearly.

At the same time, the faint airflow of the [Wind Walk] technique wrapped around his legs and feet, making his steps light and swift.

The sounds of demons slithering around my ears kept ringing in my ears.

He relied on the sound of the wind to detect all movements.

After identifying a brief safe gap, he immediately sprinted at full speed.

Sweat soaked through his robes, clinging tightly to his back.

Until a downhill valley area.

A mixture of cries, desperate curses, and a horrible sound of something being chewed and torn apart, carried clearly to his ears on the wind.

Lin Gui felt a chill and abruptly stopped in his tracks.

Unfortunately, he was about to turn around and change course.

Behind me, a series of hurried and chaotic footsteps approached rapidly from afar!

The sound grew louder and more frequent, rapidly approaching his location.

Lin Gui frowned and clenched his teeth.

He knew very well that this was true for certain powerful demons with keen senses.

At this distance, simply hiding in the bushes is nothing short of self-deception.

The sound behind him suddenly quickened; the other person seemed to have spotted him and was charging towards him!

It's too late to run now.

In a flash, he suddenly lunged to the side.

They rolled under the gnarled roots of the nearest enormous ancient tree.

At the same time, he pulled out the seemingly inconspicuous staff from behind his back.

Suppressing his breathing, he was almost touching the ground, rapidly chanting in a low voice.

"Hidden between light and shadow, blending into the gaps of reality..."

The moment the incantation is completed.

A very thin, constantly fluctuating membrane of shadow energy.

It surged from the shadows beneath his feet and quickly enveloped his entire body.

The next moment, his figure completely faded and disappeared in the shadow of the ancient tree, as if he had never existed.

This is his masterpiece, a self-created high-level melting magic, the Veil of Dark Night.

Almost at the same second that his figure disappeared.

A foul-smelling gust of wind and a slight tremor of the ground followed.

A group of high-ranking Gale Wolf Demons, with dark fur, four horns on their heads, and protruding fangs, rushed forward.

They lowered their heads to sniff, their scarlet eyes scanning their surroundings warily as they began to search the area.

Leaning against the tree trunk, cold sweat dripped down Lin Gui's face.

One of the enormous red-eyed wolf heads almost touched his robe.

The stench was overwhelming. Lin Gui closed his eyes, his nerves on edge.

The Night Veil was a top-tier concealment magic he created by combining his previous knowledge of optics.

It is his strongest skill and his reliance when traversing the wilderness.

It can absorb all the energy fluctuations it emits.

This includes body temperature, breathing, heartbeat, magical ripples, and even smell.

This makes it difficult for biological perception or magical detection methods to capture.

His concealment was so strong that even the legendary mages of the magic city failed to detect his presence directly.

However, this magic, though powerful, has a fatal flaw.

During the performance, Lin Gui cannot make any large movements.

If these wolf demons still refuse to leave and linger here...

Once the magic power is exhausted, the forest ghosts will be discovered by them.

Just as Lin Gui couldn't hold back any longer and was about to break the spell ahead of time and risk running away.

A loud noise came from afar, luring all the giant wolves over.

Lin Gui let out a long sigh of relief and slowly emerged from the shadow of the tree trunk.

If this continues, he'll have to compete with these wolf demons to see who's faster.

He looked toward the valley where fierce fighting was taking place in the distance, feeling depressed.

The pack of wolves had originally headed that way, but stopped because they caught a whiff of their own lingering scent along the way.

This has happened countless times in the past few days.

If there were only one riot, Lin Gui could easily slip through in the chaos. The problem is, there are fires everywhere.

The demons of the Black Forest are now in full riot, and nowhere is safe.

By the time Lin Gui realized the seriousness of the problem, it was too late to retreat.

The best course of action right now is to find a safe place and wait for the riots to subside.

He moved silently through the forest, his senses heightened to the limit, carefully avoiding all dangers.

Before long, Lin Gui found a natural hiding place.

It is a grassy cave formed by dense bushes, weeds and shrubs, which provides excellent concealment.

This is much better than the temporary shelters he had found before.

He quickly crawled inside, and as soon as he looked up, he saw someone.

The cat is inside, hiding.

No, to be precise... look at her long ears that she can't hide.

It wasn't a human, but an elf, a white-haired elf.

"Hello, human."

The white-haired elf hugged her knees, tilted her head, waved to him with a sweet smile, and greeted him.

Her appearance came without warning, as if she had always been there.

Lin Gui paused for a moment, nodded in response, and then quickly withdrew...

Not long after, he returned with a grim expression.

Several demons happened to be patrolling by outside.

The sound of a demon running past my ears.

Lin Gui looked at the sprite that had escaped his senses with a wary gaze.

Since embarking on the path of a mage, he has specialized in stealth and perception magic.

While his perception skills weren't as refined as his stealth, they weren't so bad that he couldn't sense creatures at such close range.

Either the opponent's skill in concealment is similar to one's own, or their strength is greater than one's own.

Neither of these scenarios is good news for Lin Gui.

Murder and robbery in the wild are very common occurrences.

"Don't be afraid, I'm a good elf, a registered green-card adventurer in Karan City."

The elf seemed to see through his guard and pulled out a golden adventure card, waving it around.

She pointed to her two dimples with her fingers and smiled sweetly.

"Besides, look how pretty I am, do I look like a bad person?"

The elves' beauty is renowned throughout the continent of Akara.

In the slave market, a female elf can fetch an astronomical price, which led to the emergence of hunting teams that specialize in hunting elves.

In the magical city, Lin Gui also met other elves.

But compared to them, the white-haired elf before them was far more beautiful.

Her hair was as white as a waterfall, and her skin was as white as snow.

Even Lin Gui, who was on high alert, was momentarily stunned by the other party's stunning beauty.

Moreover, she had a pair of red eyes unlike any other elf... the color and shape of those pupils...

Lin Gui blinked. If he wasn't mistaken, those eyes should be... those of a demon.

"You are...a demon??"

Lin Gui's voice carried a barely perceptible tension.

In this world, demons are synonymous with evil and chaos.

"No, it's just conjunctivitis, it's caused by genetics."

The elf tilted his head, his smile unchanged, and spoke in a relaxed tone as if he were discussing the weather.