The Hero couldn't help but exclaim in amazement. She hurriedly looked back to make sure the Gleaming Scale Serpent had also emerged from the thick fog with her. Her fatigued face finally showed a sense of immense relief.
Although she had only maintained the pace of a walk for half the night, the Hero felt as though she hadn't slept for days. Her nerves throbbed painfully in her head, and her eyelids felt as heavy as if they were filled with lead.
[Hero's Fatigue (Fog Stone Forest +30, Extrasensory Perception +20, Night-long march +10, debuff added if above Constitution)]
D100+60=d100(60)+60=120
[Weather: Clear, Hero activates skill: Sunshine]
[Hero's Universal Attributes +10, Constitution = 124, greater than 120, passes the check]
[Hero's Beast Spirit Magic Power: 852/2000 (Fog Stone Forest -600)]
Above the highlands, the brilliant sunlight poured down, its sudden brightness causing a blinding dizziness, making the Hero sway weakly like a willow in the wind.
But the swaying was just a fleeting moment—she immediately straightened up. It wasn't an act of bravado, but rather like drawing some form of power from the sunlight; after a brief adjustment, she comfortably squinted her eyes, and her whole persona seemed much more relaxed.
The sunlight sprinkled on her hair, transforming the original fog-white color as if tinted by the radiance, changing to a brilliant hue.
The Hero took two steps forward, approaching the wall of thick fog, her fiery-red long hair swaying as if ablaze.
The thick fog remained as calm as ever, indifferent to the young girl's departure, making no attempt to retain her.
What exactly is hidden in this stone forest?
But even with curiosity, it could only be temporarily withheld—just like the notes left behind by that scholar, some secrets are perhaps not meant to be unveiled.
The Hero turned away, gathered her spirit, and looked towards the direction no longer enveloped in thick fog—
[Hero passed through the Fog Stone Forest]
[Stream Prairie——Desolate Mountain——Fog Stone Forest——?——Central Volcano Region]
[Hero arrived at the next area]
5. Black Sandy Wastes
9. Forbidden Melting Peak♛
10. Critical Success/Extreme Failure
Although the Hero emerged into glorious sunlight, the area bathed in this radiance was quite small.
As her gaze continued forward, the distant scenery suddenly turned grim and terrifying.
The black peak stood between heaven and earth, like a sheer barrier shooting straight into the sky. But behind this majestic peak was a more horrifying sight— that pollution-black poison fog tinting the sky dark, not even the towering peak could block it.
"Forbidden Melting Peak… and the volcanic poison fog."
The Hero couldn't help but raise her head, her pupils constricting as she gazed at the scene.
The poison fog, from which even the Water Mirror Crane King would Give Way Three Paces, looked like a super-gigantic alien-shaped gas mushroom planted behind the Forbidden Melting Peak,
Its enormous "umbrella" spread out, replacing the entire dome of the sky, leaving only a narrow gap against the thick white fog, exposing a narrow clear sky, letting people know that the sun has not disappeared from this world.
And the originally majestic Forbidden Melting Peak, now under the backdrop of the poison fog, looked like a warrior facing a giant many times its size, yet still does not retreat, silently and determinedly standing between heaven and earth, silently resisting the oppressive dark poison cloud.
[Forbidden Melting Peak]
In the surrounding area of the Central Volcano Region, there is a small black mountain range scorched by high temperatures all year round, almost devoid of life, with the Forbidden Melting Peak being the main peak of this range.
The soil and rocks that make up this mountain range mostly possess extremely high resistance to the fire element. Moreover, Forbidden Melting Peak itself is constructed of the highest-grade special minerals, immune to deformation by temperatures that could melt steel, and even flowing lava cannot cause it any damage.
This small mountain range continuously undulates, surrounding the Central Volcano Region like a spear phalanx of guards, with the Forbidden Melting Peak serving as the sharpest spearhead at the forefront.