The orange-shaped fruit feels slightly cool to the touch and has an enticing aroma.

Linda breathed a sigh of relief and began picking the second dark-colored tree fruit.

Lia calmed down, patted her cheeks, and resumed her struggle against the restriction.

This time, she learned from her mistake, first using flames to deplete the Void Serpent's energy, then taking advantage of its unpreparedness to defeat it in one fell swoop and successfully harvest the Dark Fruit.

"good!"

Lia wiped the sweat from her brow, pursed her lips, and looked around.

"Has a minute passed? I need to get the hang of it quickly and try to pick more fruit!"

With this successful experience, Leah gradually became more familiar with the process.

One, two, three...

Ten...

Linda's magic wristwatch chimed, signaling that the preset three minutes had elapsed.

"It's time to leave."

Linda's expression was grave as she and Lia fled into the distance.

On the way, the two exchanged their findings: they had obtained twenty-seven tree fruits, and Leah had twenty-three, for a total of fifty.

Every twenty tree fruits can restore a star-level adventurer's magic or battle aura from zero to full.

Linda, having recently leveled up, has about 90% of her magic remaining, Lia has 20%, and Tasia, tasked with attracting the two-headed snake chieftain, must have expended a great deal of energy, likely having only 10% left...

Tonight, fill their magic circuits with dark berries!

"Isn't it too quiet?"

During her escape, Leah suddenly stopped.

Linda's thoughts were interrupted, and she was stunned for a moment.

He rested his chin on his hand and pondered. Indeed, if the snake-man soldiers returned and saw the dark fruit trees that had been picked, they would be furious.

He heard no sound at all, not even the footsteps of the snake-men soldiers returning to their tribe.

"Could it be that Tasia is trying to buy us time?"

"Given her rigid personality, three minutes is three minutes, not a second more or less."

Linda frowned.

A bad feeling crept into my mind.

After a moment's thought, he took the spatial ring off his finger and handed it to Leah:

"I'll go check it out. You take the supplies back to the cave and consume the Dark Fruit to restore your fighting spirit."

Leah's expression changed, and she pushed the ring back. "No, I want it too!"

"Tasia is also my temporary companion, I can't abandon her."

"But your fighting spirit state..."

Linda hesitated.

"Even if there aren't many left, it'll be enough for one finishing move." Lia took the lead and ran back. "Don't worry about me, saving Tasia is the priority!"

"you're right."

Linda's fist clenched and unclenched repeatedly.

The two quickly turned back and hid in a large tree to observe.

Only a dozen or so snake-man soldiers returned from the snake-man camp; their leader was nowhere to be found.

Nine times out of ten, something unexpected happened in Tasia.

Linda used her feet to leap from one tree to another, chasing after the direction in which Tasia had led the snake people away.

...

To the west of the snake people's camp, in a rocky hill.

Huge, bizarre rocks stand tall, while the blood-red sun overhead releases its light and heat, dispelling the thin mist.

The adventurers' and monsters' vision and perception are gradually recovering.

Tasia, panting heavily, held the magic cannon in both hands and looked ten meters away at the two-headed snake chieftain with a sinister smile on his lips.

From beneath its crotch grew a blue snake head as thick as a human arm, which spat out a venomous wind blade that injured Tasia's right leg.

No one expected that the third snake head was hidden in the armor under the crotch.

This is a level 31, epic two-star three-headed serpent chieftain!

More than twenty snake-man soldiers surrounded Tasia and tightened their encirclement.

The snake-man chieftain raised his staff and chanted hoarse, strange syllables.

Numerous red magical dots appeared around it and converged upwards.

The temperature here quickly doubled, as if we were under the blazing sun.

Tasia steeled her resolve, her eyes turning pitch black.

"Senryu's Wrathful Fang!"

Just then, an angry shout came from afar!

He deliberately shouted out the name of the move in order to attract the attention of the snake-man chieftain.

As expected, upon hearing the shout, the snake-man chieftain's eyes flickered with emotion, and the syllables of his chanted magic slur faltered.

It turned its head and looked around; all six of its eyes revealed a look of terror.

A wooden dragon made of vines attacked, containing a trace of dragon's aura!

The snake-man chieftain trembled slightly, and his chanting of magic went completely awry.

The vine-like wooden dragon bit into the snake-man chieftain's neck, coiling around his body, and a terrifying creaking sound of bones echoed continuously.

The snake-man chieftain screamed repeatedly, trapped in place, unable to escape for the time being.

A strange look flashed across Tasia's face.

Those two figures in the distance, aren't they Linda and Lia?

Taking advantage of Senlong's Angry Fang binding the snake-man chieftain, Lia, having finished gathering her energy, strode forward, raised her greatsword, and prepared to unleash the Blazing Slash.

However, the snake-man chieftain's red head on the left opened its mouth wide, and a burst of flames shot out, burning the vines to ashes.

Its right hand wielded a gleaming curved blade, while its left hand shook a staff, one of which was a snake head chanting a spell.

"Back off!"

Linda sensed danger and said with a sharp look in her eyes, "Take Tasia and retreat first. I'll hold off this monster!"

"Then what will you do?"

Leah backflipped to dodge the snake-man chieftain's attack and noticed that her voice was trembling as she spoke.

Her brow twitched, and she looked up at the five-meter-tall, ferocious-looking snake-man chieftain. For a moment, she felt as if she had returned to the twelfth level of the Great Secret Realm.

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