Magical girl? She got tricked into this!

After entering the desert, Sakura Fuko stood on the highest sand dune and looked out. There were no tall plants in the entire desert, and it could be said that it was endless.

Although Meiko Anten has never been to the desert, she has seen many photos of the desert and has longed for that place covered with golden color.

But now it doesn't seem as beautiful as she imagined. It is deserted and dead silent. For someone like her who is afraid of loneliness, it is simply hell on earth.

However, there were no wild animals in sight, which was in stark contrast to the noisy forest behind him.

"Is it really necessary to explore a place like this?" Even Nanako couldn't help but put her finger to her lips and asked.

"Of course it's necessary. Exploration is not just about looking. We have to go to the places where the wild beasts live to see exactly what is happening." Sakura Fuko explained to her reasonably.

The experience of just a few days has made this naturally gentle girl grow up a lot. She waved to the people behind her and said, "Let's go."

Everyone agreed and followed her into the desert. The golden color filled the entire view, and every step they took left deep footprints in the yellow sand.

The most troublesome thing is not the desert's characteristic of restricting movement, but the fact that yellow sand will enter the shoes when moving, making Sakura Fuko and others feel very uncomfortable.

On the one hand, people like Youti who wear long boots don't have this worry.

Of course, she was still able to grit her teeth and persevere. Although Sakura Fuko was a young lady, she was not someone who could not endure hardship. Otherwise, she would not have chosen to join the Aegis to fight against the Void Beast after becoming a magical girl.

They marched through the desert for three days, but they didn't see a single wild beast, monster, or even a lizard.

Based on her memory, Youti brought them to the territory of the Sand Wolf, where there was a rocky hill that was much higher than the surrounding terrain, and there was a cave hidden under the hill.

"There's a huge space inside the cave where the Sand Demon Wolves live. When the cave's capacity exceeds its limit, the Wolf King will drive the old wolves out of their home and let them wander outside."

After listening to Youti's explanation, everyone walked to the bottom of the rock hill and leaned against the rock wall to discuss the next countermeasures. Youti said, "If the attack was just the Sand Demon Wolves that strayed into the forest due to over-breeding, then there must be many wolves in the cave."

"But there's nothing in here." Nanako said, tilting her head.

"how is this possible?"

Vita had no doubts about Nanako's words: "I believe her. Her perception is much stronger than mine now. If she says there is no such thing, then there must be no such thing."

Sakura Fuko also nodded in agreement at this time, and quickly made a judgment: "Nanako, you and Lulu can stay outside, and the three of us will go in and investigate."

"Okay." Everyone agreed and started to act separately. Nanako and Luluko stood still without moving, while Sakura Fuko and the other two walked into the Yue*yi/首-发_ cave.

Just as Nanako said, when they reached the deepest end of the cave passage and arrived at the huge space, they could not see even a single sand wolf.

There was no wolf king, adult wolves, cubs, or even the old, weak, or sick ones. The entire pack of sand demon wolves in the cave seemed to have disappeared completely.

If it weren't for the foul-smelling feces still left on the ground as evidence of their existence, Youti would have thought that the sand wolf pack had moved away long ago.

However, it was precisely because of this that Youti confirmed the views of the three elders and Vita, that the sand wolf pack was indeed controlled by something.

Otherwise, even if the entire race ran back to hunt, they would at least leave the newborn wolf cubs in the cave, so as to truly protect the next generation.

"There's nothing worth investigating here anymore, let's leave quickly." Vita said and turned to walk out.

At this moment, Youti hurriedly took out the gem in her hand, and the figure of the Great Elder suddenly appeared in front of them. The green light emitted from the gem completely illuminated the surroundings.

"Elder Ivy, we have arrived at the lair of the Sand Wolf, but..."

"Youti, listen to me first. The other three regions have discovered the existence of the united territory and are gathering forces to attack us. We cannot withstand this kind of attack. Take the guests and leave the forest and find a safe place to hide..."

Before Ivy could finish her words, the communication suddenly stopped. No matter how Youti mobilized her magic power to activate the green gem in her hand, she still couldn't transmit the information.

"What happened? Why did the communication gem stop working?"

Vita frowned slightly and said, "Perhaps someone has cut off the communication by some means."

Hearing that the three regions were about to launch a general attack, Sakura Fuko's face was not looking good. She carefully considered and said, "Let's give up the investigation now and rush back to the joint territory immediately, otherwise they will be in danger."

"No..." Youti refused. "The elders asked us to take you to a safe place. I..."

Before she could finish her words, Vita interrupted her: "If the forest falls, the laws of the entire continent will be disrupted. Then this small world will collapse and disintegrate. Where will there be any safe place?"

Once the small world collapses, the entire continent will be assimilated and submerged by the space channel, so there will be no safe place at all. The only option is to go back immediately to resist the attack of the monsters and protect the three major tribes that have regulated the forest.

She herself was a member of the tree elves, so Yuti knew very well that what Vita said was not bragging. After much consideration, she agreed with the decision of everyone to return to the united territory.

Of course, there was a selfish motive in this. After all, her original intention was to go back and fight to protect her territory and people, but due to the orders of the elders, she had to make a choice against her will.

Now that Sakura Fuko and the others have made this decision, there is nothing to hesitate about.

Therefore, everyone gave up the original plan of continuing the exploration and immediately turned around and headed back to the forest. They didn't know the exact time when the Warcraft would launch the general attack, but it would be best to arrive earlier.

However, just as they were about to enter the forest, a tall figure suddenly walked out of the dense forest and stood in front of everyone.

When she saw the man's appearance, Youti's pupils suddenly shrank to the size of a needle tip, and she subconsciously said a few words in a trembling voice of disbelief.

"Dad...Dad?"

Volume 7: A Strange Journey to Another World: Chapter 67: Root Realm

Youti's words were shocking. This short call actually controlled everyone present and made her the focus of several gazes.

They subconsciously turned around and looked carefully at the tall young man in front of them.

The young man had the signature green hair of the tree elves, a straw rope headband on his head, and a top made of animal skin, revealing the right half of his not-so-strong figure.

She was wearing a battle skirt woven from banana leaves, with her feet exposed. This combination, coupled with her messy long hair, made her look like a savage who had been wandering for who knows how many years.

"Is he... really your father? Did you recognize the wrong person?" Vita asked Youti, who was in a daze beside him, with some confusion.

But Youti nodded decisively: "I'm not mistaken. I can feel the blood connection from him. His name is Mortis... He is the father who left the tribe and went to the plains when I was a child."

"Dad, Dad...where have you been all these years..." Youti's eyes were suddenly filled with tears, and she walked towards the tall young man.

But Vita's expression suddenly changed. Her eyes fixed and she quickly rushed forward a few steps, then leaped forward and knocked Youti to the ground.

A black shadow flew over Youti's head at an extremely fast speed, stayed there for a moment, and then began to slowly shrink back into the ground.

It was a tree root that was completely black. If Vita had not knocked Youti down in time, the root would have pierced the latter's head.

"Dad, why...why are you doing this?" When Youti saw her father whom she hadn't seen for a long time, she found that her father actually wanted to kill her. This situation caused her emotions to be strongly shaken.

Vita forcibly held Youti down, preventing her from moving forward. She looked cautiously at the tall young man in front of her and said in a deep voice, "Don't go over there. There's something filthy in this man's soul. He must be being controlled by some means."

Vita's words were still very convincing to her, so after figuring out the situation in the shortest time possible, Youti calmed down completely.

She raised her head slightly and saw her father's dull eyes. His lifeless eyes were clearly looking at them, but there was no sign of focus at all. His pupils were dilated, like a dying person.

Suddenly, the ground began to shake continuously. Something within a radius of one hundred meters pushed away the sand on the ground and continued to rise, reaching a height of ten meters.

The black wall was tangled and complicated, and upon closer inspection, it was actually formed by countless black tree roots. This undoubtedly meant that they were locked inside.

"It seems that the mastermind behind this doesn't want us to go back to support the United Territory. Could it be that it really wants to destroy this fragmented world?" Vita murmured softly.

"Everyone be alert! Get out of the way!" The next moment she keenly sensed the magical fluctuations coming from the wall and immediately called on everyone to dodge.

Several slender black shadows were projected from the wall, shooting accurately towards where everyone was, but because Vita had reminded them, they all scattered around.

When all those things stabbed into the sand with a "hissing" sound, they could see clearly that what were shooting towards them were actually black wooden spikes as thick as a baby's arm.

"Hurry up and deal with it, we have to go back to support the forest!" Vita shouted, and the magic power in his hands surged and condensed into a gun and a sword, throwing them at the man.

The tree roots coiled in front of Mortis to form a black wooden wall. The tip of the spear pierced into the wooden wall, and the disintegration feature of the Flame Demon Spear, "Pyroblast Disintegration", was instantly activated.

The exploding gun not only blew up the seemingly thick wooden wall, but the burning flames also attached to the black tree roots, forcing Mortis to step back.

As he retreated, countless wooden thorns shot out from the tree wall again. As Mortis waved his hands forward, seven or eight black tree roots immediately extended from the ground and entangled towards Vita and Nanako.

"This is my father's magical root area. If you want to leave here, it's not enough to just defeat my father. You must destroy the surrounding tree roots."

"We have to get rid of him first!" As soon as Vita finished speaking, he immediately rushed towards Mortis. Yuti also gritted his teeth and shared the attack while charging towards his father.

"Then let's see who has more tentacles!" Nanako threw Luluko to Sakura Fuko, and her hair immediately turned into pink tentacles all over the sky.

As soon as the pink tentacles appeared, they attacked the tree roots without hesitation. One tentacle faced one tree root, and they entwined and offset each other.

Sakura Fuko, who has no fighting ability, and the fairy Luluko stand beside Nanako and let her use her power to protect themselves.

The two swords slashed at Mortis in two directions, but he did not seem to be panicking at all. With a wave of his hands, two tree roots coiled around his hands like two little snakes.

At the critical moment, he tapped the ground with his toes and exploded backward, while waving the tree root in his hand towards the two of them like a whip.

"You can't escape from me." Vita sneered, and with a thought, her magic power gathered along the route of Mortis's retreat, condensing into seven giant fire swords.

These Flame Demon Swords fell from the sky and pierced into the ground, forming a U-shape that blocked all of Mortis's retreat routes. He did not expect Vita's magic to be so tricky and practical, and he hit his back on the Flame Demon Sword without paying attention.

"Breath of air flame!" Vita took a deep breath and blew out a breath of hot dragon breath towards Mortis in the U-shape, but the color of this dragon breath was not the crimson air flame, but an orange-red flame.

Mortis tried to release tree roots to block it, but it still had no effect on the dragon breath. He could only use the tree roots to coil around himself to block the fierce flaming dragon breath.

Seeing that Youti was approaching, Vita immediately stopped breathing and let her chop down all the tree roots in front of Mortis with one sword.

Mortis, who had lost his protection, was exposed in front of the two men, and Youti and the other man cooperated with each other and threw a punch respectively. The two pink fists hit Mortis's face with extremely powerful force, knocking him unconscious.

The tree roots that were competing with Nanako immediately stopped moving. Seeing this, Vita jumped into the air and stood on the hilt of one of the huge Flame Demon Swords.

"Breathe of empty flames!"

The crimson dragon's breath swept out and attached to the wooden wall that had lost its owner's control. In just a few breaths, it burned a huge hole large enough for them to pass through.

"Let's go, go back quickly!"

Volume 7: A Strange Journey to Another World: Chapter 68: This Magic Item is Called Headphones

They waited quietly for three days. During the waiting days, Ando Meiko and Beth were not idle. Beth was responsible for patrolling the entire town to plan possible escape routes in advance, while Ando Meiko was also observing the guard structure inside the palace from the air, looking for possible loopholes.

Just as God closes your door, he will definitely leave you a window. This sentence means that there is always a way out. No matter how strict the defense of the palace is, soldiers are still human beings after all.

They also need to eat, drink, defecate, urinate and rest. It is impossible for them to stand still for 24 hours a day.

After observing for three days, Ando Meiko also found the pattern of the soldiers' shift changes, starting at midnight and changing shifts every three hours.

During the shift change, the soldiers were most likely to relax. They all wanted to leave and took action in advance. Therefore, there would be a ten-second blind spot on the east and west sides of the palace.

When the guards at the city gate changed shifts, there would be a 20-second vacuum of vision. If you wanted to enter the palace silently, you could only climb over the wall through the city gate.

In order to enter the palace without being noticed, Ando Meiko designed a route that would not be noticed by anyone.

Fly in along the wall from the back door of the city gate, enter the back garden before the shift changes at the main gate, and then directly enter the palace from the back garden.

The shift change time is very short, and the internal and external operations are carried out at the same time. Therefore, even if there is a time difference between the internal and external operations, the shortest time should be used when choosing the time.

Therefore, Ando Meiko's entire plan, from the city gate to entering the palace, could not take more than ten seconds. In addition, there was no way to conduct experiments or trial and error, so there was only one chance to succeed or fail.

However, she still did not have the ability to master the route map within the palace and did not know the situation of the guards inside. Therefore, after completing this invasion route, she could only leave the rest to fate.

Three days passed quickly. On the morning of the fourth day, the prince's coming-of-age ceremony, which Ando Meiko had heard about, officially began with the booming sound of morning salutes.

Today, almost all the shops in the imperial city were closed for the day. Men, women, young and old all gathered on the streets, pushing and shoving each other, shouting and cursing at each other in order to occupy a good spot.

The soldiers who arrived early began to organize the crowd and maintain discipline, and set up a cordon around the area to prevent citizens from running into the middle of the street.

There was a constant stream of discussion, shouting, and cursing, and the whole city became extremely lively and full of festive atmosphere.

During this period, Ando Meiko did not leave the imperial city to conduct aerial exploration again, because the entire imperial city was blocked and no entry or exit was allowed. Therefore, even though they did not know what the situation inside was, they had to do it anyway.

Before leaving, Ando Meiko squeezed her left hand, and a ball of magic power condensed in her hand, and through projection magic, it formed a pair of headphones only the size of a little finger.

Beth curiously took what Ando Meizi handed her and observed it curiously: "What is this?"

"This is... a magic item, right? It's called headphones. If you put them in your ears, we can communicate remotely."

As she spoke, Meiko Ando also made one for herself, and then put the headphones on her ears to demonstrate. Beth followed suit and put them on as well.

Meiko Ando had previously created eavesdropping magic through her imagination. The communication headset she created was simply a modification of this magic combined with the projection magic in the arsenal.

An invisible and colorless magic thread was released from the two earphones and connected accurately in mid-air. After confirming that it was correct, Ando Meiko turned and walked into the alley.

She followed the route she remembered and ran straight to the palace to watch the bustling crowd. She turned on her magic radar to detect fish in full force, and everything within a one-kilometer diameter was collected into her consciousness space.

"Hey, Beth, can you hear me?"

Beth had never used headphones, so she was really startled when she heard Ando Meiko's sudden voice next to her ear: "I can hear it."

But this headset is also magical. Even though it is so noisy around, I can still clearly hear the latter's call. After confirming its function, Beth fell in love with this magic prop at once.

Because no matter how far apart she and Ando Meiko are, she can always feel the latter's presence, and will not feel that she will easily leave her, nor will she feel that she will abandon her.

Compared to Ando Meiko who needs to sneak into the palace, Beth's mission is simple. Apart from ensuring the escape route, she only has to observe the movements of the guards outside the city and inform Ando Meiko of any abnormalities as soon as possible.

Although Beth also wanted to follow Ando Meiko to carry out the infiltration plan, she knew that she did not have the ability to do so, and even if she went, she would only become a burden to the latter.

After walking out of the alley, Ando Meiko finally came to the rock wall on the side of the palace. She glanced at the time on her watch, and when the time was almost up, she cast a strengthening magic on herself, climbed up and came to the bottom of the wall.

"It's almost time." The timer on the watch showed the current time, 8:59 in the morning, and there were still twenty seconds until the shift change.

She didn't know how these soldiers calculated time, but each shift change was accurate to within three hours without any error. However, this greatly reduced the difficulty of Ando Meiko's infiltration plan.