As everyone stared at the bottle in Li's hand, they could not help glancing at one another. This thing was truly vicious enough. If any of them drank it, the outcome would undoubtedly be utterly miserable! Arthur, who had never gotten along particularly well with Li, silently resolved never to eat or drink anything Li had touched.
With this bottle of potion, which was practically a gift from an evil god, backing them up, everyone immediately felt much more confident. Their discussion quickly grew heated. By now, they were no longer discussing how to capture the highlanders, but how to divide the spoils and transport them back to their respective territories.
It was as if the highlanders here had already been bound together and were being shipped off to their various workshops. At that moment, the sand table before them seemed to radiate an alluring golden glow in everyone's eyes.
The forest lying between the highlanders' settlement and the Rhine Mine was called the Dark Night Forest. It had once been home to a tribe of elves. After that tribe fled this land during the great elven rout, the place became ownerless territory, and for several hundred years, no one had ever been able to penetrate deep within. Akatria Duchy's damp, rainy climate kept the Dark Night Forest shrouded in incredibly dense fog year-round, with only a few fogless hours each day.
Such an environment had also bred countless mutated magical beasts of all sizes. These beasts were exceptionally ferocious, but their mutated pelts were of little value, so adventurers and mercenaries alike were unwilling to enter the forest.
Of course, dealing with magical beasts was practically effortless for the people here. Li truly did not believe there would be any level sixteen or seventeen magical beasts inside. Still, compared