Wizard: I Can Refine Everything

Chapter 384: Chapter 4: The Green Hell

Within the dense forest, all was calm.

A black crow darted through the woods, like a streak of black lightning. Behind it, besides a dark-robed wizard closely trailing its steps, the remainder was a tide of vines.

Boom!

The wizard casually hurled a fireball, blasting the encroaching vines apart. The flames, hot enough to melt steel, spread rapidly along the vines, looking as if they might transform the entire ocean of vines into a sea of fire.

But strangely, although the flames spread, the fire that should have been raging due to the vines kept diminishing in the process.

It was as if an invisible giant mouth was gobbling it up.

The wizard, catching sight of this scene, couldn’t help but frown deeply. He thought to himself, “What kind of monstrosity did the Pioneer create?”

The wizard was Richard, and ever since he entered this jungle untouched by the White Wizard Army and unscathed by their spells, he felt as though he had entered the belly of a huge creature.

Everything around him was fighting against him.

Snap!

Richard swatted and smashed a bug trying to stick to him with an easy slap.

He had been in this jungle for half a day, and during this time, apart from the chasing tide of vines, the most he saw was bugs—bugs of every kind.

From alien mosquitoes the size of a thumb to deadly poisonous beetles as big as a fist, and even sky-centipedes the size of toxic snakes.

Each insect was filled with deadly poison and had a strong set of mouthparts.

When Richard first entered the jungle, he thought the scales on his body might protect him from the bugs.

But after seeing the dense acid digestive fluid spewed from the mouthparts of the alien mosquitoes and a palm-sized longhorn beetle biting through his scales, Richard figured it would be better to take action.

After all, most of the creatures in this place were likely biological weapons left behind by the Pioneer of yore, and underestimating them would only harm himself.