On the other hand, Vesh, Veron, Revi, and Miru headed towards the forest. Two awake, two sleeping.
Revi and Miru were asleep in the mist. And it was late at night, so everything was dark.
There were watchtowers, but it was easy to dodge their lights as Vesh made his mist domain black by increasing Poison and reducing Corrosion, meshing it into the dark night.
But Vesh and Veron could see clearly due to Vesh's racial characteristics, so they smoothly entered the forest without any obstruction or getting detected by watch towers.
"Where are we going?" Veron asked as he saw Vesh holding the map next to him.
"You see this line. It's the border, if I am not mistaken."
"Yeah."
"So this mountain range six kilometers ahead is a perfect place to hide. We'll build a house somewhere in a hidden spot to keep your wife and daughter safe."
"But why don't we just move to a different town?" Veron frowned. "They'll be safer there."
Vesh paused and looked at him. "Are you stupid?"
Veron was taken aback. "W-Why?"
"Sigh…forest is safer than the town. We can make arrangements to keep beasts away. They live by the law of the jungle. They are not stupid. They are cautious and smart in a sense."
"But humans?" Vesh's eyes glimmered coldly. "Your wife and daughter are not safe from them. They are idiots, more impulsive, blinded by greed, and overall unstable. What if someone like Duke saw your wife and decided to get there while we are away?"
Veron's lips trembled. "A-Alright, we won't go to the town."
"We need to build prestige and beneficial connections, but for that, we need power," Vesh muttered as he continued walking. Cradling mist to his one side and Veron to his other as the group continued walking into the forest.
…
Revi opened her eyes and saw an unfamiliar, smooth, and beautiful ceiling.
As she got up, the window was open and she saw cavern walls ten meters away.
"T-This…"
Not waking up Miru, she got off the bed, which was made of leaves.
Leaving the room, she found herself in a sizable living room with a simple kitchen platform and a stone-carved bucket with a wooden net.
As she left the house, she saw stairs made of wood leading to a hole that was giving off light.
"Where are we?" Revi muttered as she climbed up.
The first thing she saw was a small pond twenty meters away. A clean ground in the surroundings and lush trees further in the surroundings as she looked around.
"Forest?"
She saw Veron was practicing with the knife, his back facing her, as he was just several meters away from the hole.
Suddenly, Revi heard a strange sound getting closer to her from another direction and turned.
Boing!
Boing!
A blue slime with dark blue sparkling eyes was jumping towards her.
"I am Vesh. Don't be startled."
Revi blinked. "You changed."
Veron turned around.
"Revi! Good morning." Veron smiled. "We changed places."
"What is going on?" Revi asked.
"We relocated to this Akslan Mountain range to get away from the duke. We'll stay here until the matter is resolved." Vesh answered. "By that, I mean once the duke is dead and this town is purged with my method."
…
While Revi and Miru were playing after cooking food, and Veron was training, Vesh continued to explore his powers and enhance himself.
His second form slot was unlocked, and he got a perfect target for it last night after entering the forest, so he took it.
A dead slime.
This forest had some monsters, but most of them were Tier-1 and then Tier-2, which were easy to deal with. He had yet to see any Tier-3 monster.
Killing monsters gave him Formless Essence, and he had already hunted a lot of monsters in the surrounding area of this area, so his current Formless Essence was 1.4k
Of course, he already spent 1k to evolve his second form to Tier-2; otherwise, he would have 2.4. Formless Essence.
[ Vesh Formless — Glacialblitz Slime ]
Lifeform Rank: Tier-2
Formless Essence: 1.4k
Stat points: 0
Durability: [1000/1000]
Mystic Power: 200 | Mystic energy: [1958/2000]
-Water: 138
-Ice: 123
-Lightning: 107
He didn't have any more stat points after distributing them in his knife form and Veron, so the pressing issue was getting stat points.
And according to information he got from the mysterious voice yesterday, the only way to acquire stat points was by absorbing magical resources.
He was searching around for such a resource, but he had yet to find any.
'There should be a damn magic resource in this big forest and mountain range, right?'
Vesh spread out in mist form further in different directions, looking everywhere.
But suddenly, he found something.
Not the magic resource.
But people.
People camped at the other side of the crude border between the two kingdoms.
A group of five people like adventurers. One was cooking, three were talking, and the last one made his blood boil.