Translator: Henyee Translations  Editor: Henyee Translations

In terms of choosing the direction, the young couple did their best.

Using the stars to identify their position was not their forte.

Violette was a bona fide at business, while medicine and magic were her secondary talents.

Aupin’s memory was incomplete, but so far, he discovered that he was good at fighting.

The two of them rushed to take the seat of White Sand City Lord, who would have thought that they would encounter a shipwreck? Who would have imagined them landing on such a sinister island?

The two walked straight ahead and occasionally,they would search around to confirm their direction.

The strategy of exploration was different from yesterday. They soon passed the range of yesterday’s exploration and reached a brand new area.

“Be careful,” Aupin reminded.

Next to them was a cliff with a big tree growing on the edge, which soared into the sky. Its tree roots were exposed on the cliff.

There were many trees growing at the bottom of the cliff, the top of these trees were still a few meters above the edge of the cliff.

Violette nodded, she followed Aupin, carefully avoiding the cliff.

It was high up, so falling down had serious consequences.

Broken organs and bone fractures were normal.

Inside this jungle, human fragility was beyond one’s imagination.

Even just a sprained ankle, one would likely pay the price of life. A sprained ankle could cause a series of consequences such as being attacked by a beast and being unable to escape.

If they stumbled and fell down the cliff, even someone with Aupin’s strength would suffer a lot.

After all, he couldn’t activate his battle aura.

After walking away from the cliff, Violette glanced back with fear.

This kind of cliff terrain was easy to avoid during the day. But it wasn’t so easy at night.

Human vision is limited at night.

Without the help of battle aura and magic, with his eyes alone, he was almost like a blind person.

One could easily think that they were walking on flat and safe terrain, but after pushing away the branches and walking forward, they could fall down the cliff!

“Fortunately when we ran away, we didn’t encounter this kind of terrain,” Violette said gratefully.

“Yeah…” Aupin was also fearing for his life.

If they fell off the cliff while being chased by the Fire Venom Bees, the two of them would have become corpses at the bottom.

After moving away from the cave, there were more and more cliffs of this kind.

The terrain change was becoming more and more obvious.

This change was not totally bad.

Because sometimes, the young couple would stand on the edge of a cliff: a place with a wider field of vision, to observe from a distance.

Of course, this only occasionally happened. Most of the time, even on the edge of the cliff, there were large trees, with tree crowns and branches tightly blocking the view.

There were trees everywhere.

It was easy for people to lose their way when walking in such an environment.

Aupin kept making drawings on the map and recording his route, which was a straight line.

But was their path really a straight line?

The young couple wasn’t sure. In fact, they were almost lying to themselves. Because they understood that in the absence of references, it was difficult for them to ensure that their path was straight.

Therefore, whenever there was a cliff with a wider field of vision that allowed them to look far away, they would cherish the opportunity.

It is difficult for ordinary people to imagine this.

While exploring in the jungle, even being able to look far away could make the people trapped deep in the jungle feel confident and joyful.

This was of course also because Aupin was not good at climbing trees.

Training to be a Templar never taught him to climb trees.

This was not strange.

Because once the knights mastered battle aura, they could jump up straight to the tree branches. There was no need for special training to climb trees.

When a knight fought, he was never alone.

They had mounts and aide-de-camps. When the legion went to war, there were auxiliary soldiers to clear the way.

Aupin tried to climb trees.

After getting three meters above ground, he gave up.

First of all, he had to climb near the crown of the tree so that he could look far away. To do this, he needed to be at least ten meters above ground.

This height was extremely risky.

If he fell to the ground, he would be injured.

He was a knight, the most elite Templar under the command of Emperor Holy Brilliance, but he couldn’t activate battle aura. Without a battle aura’s protection, it would be difficult to withstand such a fall by relying solely on the body.

If an attack came while he was climbing a tree, it was also the time when he and Violette were most vulnerable.

Also, it was far more difficult to climb this kind of straight and tall tree, as opposed to those rainforest trees with slanted branches and tangled vines.

Finally, he had to consider his physical strength.

Climbing a tree took too much energy.

If he exerted too much effort, he would sweat, he would get hungry, and would need a lot of food and water. The young couple’s supplies were getting low.

Aupin looked far away off the cliff.

“Look over there, there is a sunken place there,” Aupin observed.

They wanted to try and go as low as possible.

There was likely water in low terrain areas.

On one hand, it could help the young couple replenish their water supply, on the other hand, they may be able to find a river along the way, and walk along the river to get out of the jungle.

This was because the island was surrounded by sea on all sides, so the water flowing to lower terrain would eventually merge with the ocean!

An ideal river would end at a beach or reef.

After sprinkling a packet of bright powder on the edge of the cliff, the young couple changed their direction slightly.

Soon after, they came to the low terrain.

They were relatively disappointed as they did not find a river, nor any water.

This landform looked like a giant bowl, there were trees in the bowl.

However, just as the two were about to change directions, they suddenly stopped.

A black panther appeared in their vision.

It had black scales and a horn in the middle of its head.

It’s a Scaley Horned Black Panther!

When they saw the black panther, the black panther also saw them.

Instantly, both parties were stunned. This encounter seemed to be unexpected from both sides.

Aupin quietly clenched his spear as he became nervous.

He was not afraid of one Scaley Horned Black Panther, one panther was easy to defeat. But what about a group?

What was even more frightening was, what if this was not the group of black panthers that attacked the Monkey Tailed Brown Bear, but another uninjured group instead?

Although most of these Scaley Horned Black Panthers were only Bronze rank, they hunted collectively and were large in numbers. They even dared to besiege Silver-rank monsters like Monkey Tailed Brown Bears.

If Aupin was besieged by black panthers, he had to protect Violette as well as protect himself.

This was difficult to do.

However, there was no other solution, he had to improvise!

Both sides remained motionless, the atmosphere seemed to freeze.

Violette held her breath, the pressure in her heart increased, her face started to turn pale.

After a brief stalemate, the Scaley Horned Black Panther suddenly turned around and slipped away.

“Quickly chase it, it might be trying to find the entire panther group,” Violette whispered.

Aupin nodded. He remembered that the Fire Venom Bees had forced a black panther away, but the whole group of black panthers came back for revenge, eventually they crossed paths with the Monkey Tailed Brown Bear.

“Come with me, if…” Before Aupin could finish, Violette interrupted him.

“Don’t worry, we both have potions, we can mark our location and meet later!” Violette said.

This was the method agreed upon by the two to prevent getting lost.

Aupin began to run quickly.

Aupin quickly dodged the tree branches rushing towards him.

The sound of wind whistling came from his ear, Aupin was fully concentrated. Not only was he firmly targeting the black panther’s figure, but also observing the surroundings to prevent any insidious attacks.

It was day time, so Aupin’s vision was quite good.

He took a deep breath and his heart pumped out blood to his body. A large number of muscles in his body were contracting and relaxing, providing strong kinetic energy.

Aupin was so fast that he quickly narrowed the distance between him and the panther.

This Scaley Horned Black Panther was not particularly fast.

As the two parties got closer, Aupin was surprised to find that the Scaley Horned Black Panther was injured.

It’s injured. Could it be that it was involved in the attack of the Monkey Tailed Brown Bear?

Aupin was a little relieved.

The leader of the panther group that attacked the Monkey Tailed Brown Bear died, with only a few panthers remaining.

I still have to be vigilant!

What if this is just a way for the panther to lure its enemy?

Aupin had heard Violette’s stories, and knew how the insidious and vicious Blue Wolves repeatedly attacked and killed the exploration team. The beasts on this island couldn’t be underestimated. Aupin would not be surprised if the black panthers adopted the tactics of baiting the enemy.

Surprisingly again, the Scaley Horned Black Panther that was running ahead stopped.

It made a whimpering sound and spun around in the same place while stumbling. It looked quite anxious.

Aupin gradually approached it. The black panther was still anxious, as if there was something hidden in the jungle which brought it extreme fear, far more than its fear of Aupin.

The young man had a solemn look on his face.

He didn’t rush to attack the panther, but he looked around instead.

He quickly noticed that the surrounding jungle was darker than before. Although the trees still towered in the sky, their leaves were pale green, the surfaces of the trees seemed to show signs of decay. There were dead tree branches and leaves on the ground. The air was unusually cold.

Aupin didn’t see any beasts, so he refocused his attention on the Scaley Horned Black Panther in front of him.

He moved forward slowly. When he got close enough, the black panther finally couldn’t bear it as it continued to run.

Aupin followed closely behind.

Roar—

The black panther let out a roar.

A white cobweb suddenly rose from the ground and scooped upwards, enclosing the panther in it.

The cobweb hung in the air, the spider silk had extraordinary stickiness. The more the panther struggled, the stronger the spider silk was.

Soon, the surface of the panther’s body was almost completely covered with spider silk.

A light blue spider slowly descended from the trees and onto the web.

The main body of this spider was as big as a basketball, its eight tentacles were slender and at least two meters long.

The spider landed on the web. As if sliding on ice, it moved around smoothly.

It started to get to work. Its eight tentacles were like a master playing the piano, fast and ordered, there was even a hint of elegance.

The spider web that trapped the panther was a bit broken, but the spider quickly repaired it.

The black panther slowly stopped struggling. The white spider silk was like a bandage, it firmly bound it between the trees, about six or seven meters above the ground.

Seeing the scene of the spider’s successful hunt, Aupin’s felt chills in his heart.

He nervously backed away slowly.

He not only stared at the spider that was still spinning the web, but also paid attention to his feet.

Perhaps there were more cobwebs hidden near him.

Fortunately, after the eight-legged spider finished hunting, it did not attack him. Instead, it climbed the spider silk and went deep into the trees, its body disappearing.

Aupin didn’t dare to relax at all, his muscles were tense.

Because he looked and found more hunted prey in the trees nearby.

White spider silk enwrapped them, with a variety of different shapes.

Most of them were shaped like a panther.

Aupin immediately thought, Were these the Scaley Horned Black Panthers that were driven away by the Monkey Tailed Brown Bear?

He now knew that the Scaley Horned Black Panthers were afraid of this eight-legged spider. The black panther group likely encountered an ambush here, and the entire group was almost wiped out. One black panther escaped by chance, only to encounter Aupin.

The black panther was not intelligent, it fled back to the previous place in a panic, only to be captured.

In addition to the panther-shaped cobwebs, there were also cobwebs in the shape of elk, foxes, rabbits, etc.

There were even tigers and rhinos.

God knows how rhinos survived in this land.

When Aupin saw this, his heartbeat could not help but increase.

Although he saw only one eight-legged spider, there were definitely many hidden in the trees. Otherwise, the black panther group wouldn’t have been annihilated. Moreover, large prey such as rhinos and tigers couldn’t be captured by a single spider.

Normal spiders hunted alone, but this eight-legged spider seemed to live in groups.

This change in animal habit was not surprising to Aupin.

Just as he was about to leave, a quiet voice suddenly floated in his ears, “Wait.”

“Don’t go.”

“Please, I beg you… Save me, save me.”

Someone was asking help from Aupin!