Goblin Dependency

It’s hard to imagine that nature could evolve such a unique creature as the Soros Blade Wolf.

Clearly its body is that of a complete four-legged wolf, but its primary attack method is by collecting weapons from intelligent beings, gripping them in its mouth and using the power of its waist and neck for slashes.

According to the information revealed on the attribute panel, this type of wolf seems to have a certain grasp of weapon usage techniques.

Which made Xia Nan marvel at the wonders of the supernatural world.

But there’s no need to delve too deeply into the rationality of such demons’ existence with the knowledge and experience from one’s past life.

After all, the current place is a fantastical otherworld where deities able to manipulate physical laws truly exist. Magic particles, highly active towards external things, fill the air, making everything possible.

Moreover, throughout the long history of the Aifala Continent, there have been countless Arcane Masters dedicated to biological modification.

To some extent, if you exclude its fame and observe its appearance alone, monsters like the Bear or the Armored Monster, long familiar to the adventurer community, are more bizarre than the Soros Blade Wolf. Tracing back, they are intricately connected to legends and spell experiments of biological types, with traces of human intervention visible everywhere in their body structures.

Overall, Xia Nan did not dwell too much in this aspect.

With a slight adaptation to the rapidly evolving body, he wedged the sword horn from the beetle adventurer just now horizontally into the long narrow flesh seam under the blue-gray mane on the side of his body, and turned his gaze toward Black Bear Sasha, who was looking at this place from the side.

He opened his mouth and found that the evolved Soros Blade Wolf also possesses the ability of speech, and said:

"How is it, not injured?"

On Sasha’s face, wrapped with dark fur, one could see not only the relaxation after the enemy’s death and the relief of finding teammates in a strange environment, but also a hint of human-like oddity.

Obviously, he had never seen a demon like the Soros Blade Wolf.

After a slight movement to check his body and finding only minor injuries, he shook his head and walked forward.

He waved his bear paws to write on the ground:

"Why are you here? Is it because of that blue light in the sky?"

Patiently waiting for the other party to finish writing the whole sentence on the ground, Xia Nan was about to answer.

Sarisa, who was possessed by a sparrow, had already flown down from a tree branch nearby.

Initially, Sasha was startled by this inexplicably descending brown-feathered sparrow with the obvious brilliance of an intelligent life form.

After a brief exchange through writing, the two quickly confirmed each other’s identities.

In the distant sky above, the shimmering blue light group was leisurely descending, and it would be quite some time before it completely fell to the ground. Sasha then communicated simply with the two teammates in front of him about his experiences since his arrival.

At present, he hadn’t absorbed life energy to complete evolution; his race identity upon descending into the Ritual Secret Realm was that of the current Black Bear.

As a top predator in the forest area, and with the protection of adult individuals, Sasha passed his most vulnerable juvenile phase very smoothly.

And after acquiring some self-preservation abilities, he also demonstrated his immense proactivity as a Senior Adventurer, actively stepping out of his comfort zone, leaving the protection of adult female bears, and exploring the surrounding environment.

Possibly being drawn into the ritual with his position in the real world being nearby, or possibly just pure coincidence.

Luckily enough, on the twelfth day after descending into the Secret Realm, Sasha encountered the first adventurer he met.

After confirming identities as before through a code, he discovered that the strange multi-colored feather pheasant was his teammate on the Vengeance Blade Blade—Barbarian Aken.

Naturally, the two completed a team assembly and explored the surrounding area together.

Regrettably, to some extent, also due to Sasha and Aken being too lucky, the first adventurer they encountered in the Secret Realm was a teammate, avoiding combat between participants.

This left the two unaware of the special mechanism of ritual-killing evolution, planting a seed of disaster for the worsening development afterward.

Initially, in the process of exploring the surrounding environment, they proceeded smoothly. After all, they were both seasoned adventurers with rich experience—a Black Bear and a pheasant. Facing those foolish low-intelligence wild animals, even if they were fierce predators, they could handle them very easily.

Until three days ago when the duo truly encountered adventurers from another faction.

"It was the captain Sefeng from the Wind Forger Team, along with two other adventurers suspected to be from their team, or possibly unknown adventurers they happened to meet in the Secret Realm."

"But no matter what, the three of them formed a temporary team."

Sasha wrote on the ground with his short, stubby front paws.

At that time, Sefeng should have completed one evolution and likely grasped the mechanism of this ritual.

Upon confirming the two in front were not his teammates and slightly leaning towards the "Furious Tide Battle Gang" opposing faction, he immediately launched an attack on Sasha and Aken.

Even though they had been cautious all along, having not absorbed life energy from other adventurers, they were just ordinary beasts in the forest.

Facing Sefeng, who had reached one stage of evolution, and his two helpers, the two had almost no room for retaliation.