In the Great Forest
Time went back to July 17. Landen's ancestor, the Wood Elf princess Halcala, brought a group of juniors to Camp No. 3 in the Great Forest—the forward camp that, in the history of the Gallop Family, had reached the deepest into the Great Forest.
Today's Camp No. 3, after Landen's tireless remodeling, had undergone an entirely new transformation. It had become an earthen castle several thousand square meters in size. Inside the castle were small buildings constructed against the trees for resting, while the courtyard held nurseries for all kinds of Magic Plants.
"Is this your deepest camp?" Halcala looked at everything before her. "Isn't this far too crude, and far too close to the edge?"
"There's nothing we can do. Once we go too deep, powerful Magic Beasts will harass us," Kaiyi said with some difficulty. "When we followed Totapara here to hunt, we also used this place as our departure camp."
"This distance is far too short." The Wood Elf listened. "And aren't all the Magic Beasts nearby below intermediate rank? What is there to be afraid of?"
"Ancestor, we only started being less afraid of intermediate-rank Magic Beasts this year," Raul, who was accompanying them, said quietly. In truth, the unworthy descendants of the Gallop Family had only started not fearing beginner-rank Magic Beasts this year. Even last September, they had still been chased all over by the Magic Pattern Tiger that was now Landen's pet!
"If that's the case, then we'll have to go rather far. But my mana should be able to support it!" Halcala flew straight up into the air twenty meters high. With a string of elven incantations, white little flowers and mushrooms grew on both sides of the path before everyone. The crown of branches and leaves above