Goblin Dependency

Suddenly, a deafening roar sounded beside me.

Instinctively, I turned my head to look and saw that the original invisible map boundary at the junction of the plain and forest where I came from was now emanating a faint red glow that induced an urgent feeling.

The speed at which it was contracting inward had visibly increased manifold.

Parachute drops, and the fire element demons that had just fallen from the sky, were essentially ways to accelerate the ritual process.

At this moment, whether the number of adventurers remaining on the map had reached a certain limit or the ritual time had hit a specific point, the accelerated contraction of the secret realm’s boundary clearly meant that the large-scale ritual arranged by "Algae Scale" Dodd was approaching its end.

Wolf Eyes subconsciously glanced at the teammates beside him.

The intelligence available for now was that the twin warrior brothers Rein and Gordon had not been drawn into the secret realm, and Barbarian Aken, Druid Hai Yin, and Lorin’s brother Ellison had already exited the ritual, not to mention Lorin, Sarisa, and Sasha who were beside him at this moment.

The entire ally camp currently had no information left except for Half-Elf Alton, who was chosen by the Goddess of fortune.

"What state is that little guy in now?"

Regarding this, Xia Nan was not particularly worried.

After all, based on the impression the other left in his heart previously, to put it bluntly, even if the entire Stodd Island sank into the sea, that little guy might just be rescued by a dolphin swimming by accidentally and safely taken to land.

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"Huff... Huff..."

The urgent panting resonated in the forest.

A grown lion with strange rock-like skin and dark, coarse grey mane was laboriously dragging its heavy and bloated body, sprinting through the dense forest.

Even though its defense ability seemed extremely strong, resembling rocks, the surface of the skin was left with numerous bloody wounds.

Clearly left just now, some wounds were oozing blood due to his intense movement, coupled with the scattered leaves and grass on his body along the way, making this lion, who should’ve been majestic and fierce, appear particularly battered.

One could tell from the lion’s eyes shining with the light of intelligent creatures that it’s most likely an adventurer swept into the secret realm.

Iron Grid thought his luck wasn’t great.

As the captain of "Furious Tide Battle Gang", if his encounter on Stodd Island was still within the plan, after being drawn into this ritual seemingly held by "Algae Scale" Dodd, everything started veering off in unforeseen directions.

Showing remarkable foresight, many years ago, when he first established the Furious Tide Battle Gang, he had thoroughly planned for various emergencies that might be encountered during adventures with his team members.

This included situations like the current one where team members lost their original bodies, making it difficult to identify each other, scattering everywhere.

In response, Iron Grid’s plan was to adapt to the environment, use the team’s shared identity marks to gather as quickly as possible, then leverage the team’s numerical advantage to attain a favorable position in events.

There’s nothing wrong with this.

In fact, such calls to action are often practical and effective.

But in the current ritual held by "Algae Scale" Dodd, the core mechanism was slaughter evolution, and there were also direct competitors with vendettas like "Wind Forger".

Iron Grid only realized this after he first killed a snake inhabited by an adventurer that tried to ambush him, absorbing the life energy to evolve.

Sadly, now the elite adventurers in the team have entered the secret realm, and he couldn’t communicate with them anymore.

Thus, Iron Grid’s real-world body could only watch as the azure light representing the survival of teammates vanished one by one from the corner of his eye.

Due to limited perspective, he didn’t know how many teammates survived behind, but evidently, the Furious Tide Battle Gang suffered heavy losses.

To some extent, the fact that he hadn’t encountered any teammates as the secret realm’s boundary gradually shrunk is enough to reflect a bit.

Fortunately, his adaptability was fairly good, and his initial race’s combat power was above average among adventurers.

After some exploration, he had completed the second evolution and estimated that he belonged to the first echelon among adventurers in the entire secret realm.

Also considering the secret realm’s contraction accelerating the need for growth, he was attracted by a mass of life energy falling from the sky recently, mistakenly thinking he could profit from it.

But when he dragged his rock-like heavy body to the glowing blue mass drop point, the scene was a mess, with beast fragments scattered everywhere, and above floated the life energy symbolizing deceased adventurers.

In the center of the field was an "Air Element" with a challenge level as high as level 5.

The good news was that Iron Grid, after the second evolution, with his unfamiliar demon form having a lion appearance and rock-like skin, was greatly resisting the Air Element.

Whether Wind Blade or Lightning could only leave ordinary wounds on its surface.

The bad news was that the Air Element was an energy creature, immune to physical attacks, and Iron Grid had no attack methods aside from biting and clawing.

Consequently, he had no choice but to flee in embarrassment.

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