“Is everyone ready?”
Lumen grinned mischievously and started walking again, and Cadel shook his head as if to say he'd seen enough of this little bastard. It was so Lumen-like that he didn’t say a prayer for Van.
* * *
Cadel and the others walked for about an hour, following the prearranged location, and soon found a huge forest filling the horizon.
‘This is the Forest of Enchantment…….’
The green, evergreen forest was shrouded in dense foliage and did not get much sunlight. Reaching the entrance to the forest, Cadel did not immediately begin his search but instead called Van and Lumen to a halt before him.
“The time limit is 10 minutes. I'll shoot a fire in the sky in 10 minutes, so you have to get out of the forest as soon as you see it.”
“Regardless of whether we find the herbs or not?”
“It doesn't matter, the herbs I'm looking for are at the beginning of the forest, so if you can't find them, just get out and explore another direction. It's said that this place is not a good place to linger.”
No matter how notorious the forest was, the probability of being attacked as soon as entering was extremely low. Therefore, Cadel established the so-called ‘Operation Ding-dong Ditch’.
In a short time of 10 minutes, after clearly exploring the entrance of the forest where medicinal herbs grew, immediately escaped the forest after the time limit had elapsed. After a reasonable amount of time, they would resume their initial exploration in a direction away from the beginning. The plan was to trudge on until a single herb was caught. The method would be unappealing but it wouldn't matter as long as the survival rate was high.
「There are recruitable knights nearby.」
「Number of people: 3」
