Although Raphael didn't know what Lin En was doing, he still took the [Ring of Mysticism] out of trust.

Yolande, Tik, Ivina and others also took their instruments and prepared for the trip.

Lin En did not give a long speech to boost morale, but instead told them to be careful and cautious. Safety and secrecy were the most important thing for this exploration. At worst, they could retreat and rest while the council prepared a second team to go in for the exploration.

"We will pay attention, see you later!" Raphael said solemnly, and then took the lead to step into the surging time and space gate, and the others hurriedly followed.

"Sure enough, it's been cut off?" Watching several people disappear into the time and space gate, Lin En sensed it and thought secretly.

However, this was also within his expectations, he just didn't know whether the soul-splitting magic could work on the other side.

…

On the other side, Raphael, who stepped into the space-time gate, felt dizzy, as if his consciousness was stripped away and his body was stuffed into a whirlpool and spun dozens of times.

When Raphael came to his senses, he had already appeared at the other end of the space-time gate.

"Such a strong magic."

This was Raphael's first feeling. He didn't know if it was because of the space-time gate, but the magic content nearby was almost comparable to the magic tide on Sundays every year.

Beside him, Yolande, Tik, Ivina and others also walked out of the vortex of time and space, and saw a dark, cold and desolate world.

Just as the intelligence said, the temperature here was extremely low. Tik couldn't help but shiver. He took out the temperature detection device and let it sit for a while, and soon came to a conclusion.

"The temperature here is around minus twenty degrees Celsius." Tik said in astonishment.

"No wonder it's so cold." Yolande also shrank his neck. Even though he had cast anti-cold magic on his wizard robe in advance, he was still freezing.

"Also, the gravity in this world seems to be lighter." Ivina tried to jump and suddenly jumped three or four meters high.

Although her physical fitness was very good, she had never been able to jump to such an exaggerated height without the help of magic and divine arts.

With Ivina's reminder, Raphael and others also noticed this and their bodies did feel a little light.

"According to the theory of universal gravitation proposed by Speaker Linn, the mass of this world should be much smaller than that of our planet." Yolande, who specializes in astronomy, looked up at the sky.

There are no stars, moon or sun here, just darkness.

"Now is not the time to think about these things. Let's find a place to settle down and do an experiment on gravitational acceleration and we'll know." Raphael drew everyone's attention away from the exploration of gravity and temperature.

In fact, this is also one of their missions this time, to explore the composition of the elements and the gravitational constant of this world, and they have brought the relevant instruments with them.

If conditions permit, the parliament would like them to use Lynn's light difference method to estimate the area of ​​the continent or planet, but Raphael felt that those parliamentarians had a complete problem with their brains, as there was not even any light in this place.

If one wants to create a large enough light source, one has to release [Skyfall] directly in the sky, but that would be like exposing one's whereabouts...

"As bright as day." Raphael raised his hand and cast a spell. A flashing ball of thunder condensed above everyone's heads. The continuously emitted fluorescent light immediately dispelled the deep darkness nearby.

Only then did everyone realize that the space-time gate here was also erected in a valley. Probably because the church's expeditionary force had slaughtered nearby monsters not long ago, the air was filled with a bloody and foul smell.

"Very good, the magic can be performed smoothly." Raphael breathed a sigh of relief. The thing he was most worried about did not happen. He suddenly felt more confident and then turned his gaze to the psychic wizard Tika in the team.

Tika nodded and opened his large wizard robe.

Ivana's pupils shrank slightly, because the other wizard's robe was filled with half-palm-sized, pitch-black bats.

"Is it a demon bat?" Several wizards recognized it immediately. It is a kind of weak magical beast that likes to suck blood. However, it usually moves in groups. Without the help of wizards or diviners, a hundred demon bats can massacre an entire town.

However, this psychic wizard brought the magic bats here specifically, obviously not to let them fight.

This kind of magical beast can use echo waves for positioning, and is undoubtedly an excellent reconnaissance assistant in the dark environment of foreign lands, reducing the possibility of being exposed.

Yolande on the side also took action and put his hands on the ground.

He was chosen to join this exploration team not only because of his knowledge of astronomy, but more importantly, he also had the ability to sense ground vibrations.

In an unknown world, the more investigative means the better, otherwise there might be some oversights.

For example, now...

Yolande's expression suddenly changed as he touched the ground. He suddenly shouted in shock. "Underground...Underground!"

At the same time, a warning sign surged in Ivana's mind, and then the solid ground under her feet suddenly collapsed. A huge mouth full of fangs emerged from the ground and bit towards her, with cruel and murderous gleams in its blood-red eyes.

Ivana had already jumped high into the air. Facing the huge mouth of the abyss, the girl's expression remained unchanged. She drew out the slender blade at her waist and stabbed it into the opponent's bloodshot eyes with incredible precision.

Hot blood and green juice spurted out together, and after falling to the ground, they were frozen into pieces of tiny ice crystals, along with roars of pain and anger. The two-meter-thick body swung wildly, plowing grooves in the solid ground like a drill.

Ivana used the reaction force of the other party's swinging body to pull out the blade and retreat to a safe area.

However, there was more than one giant worm that attacked them. An unlucky wizard was also targeted. However, he obviously did not have Ivana's excellent reaction speed, and was swallowed up by the giant worm that drilled out of the ground.

Tik and others immediately rushed up, trapped it with magic, cut open the body of the giant worm, and rescued the unfortunate wizard.

Thanks to the fact that the wizard was swallowed in one gulp, he was not bitten into pieces by the worm's fangs. In addition, he was rescued in time, so he was not seriously injured. His body was just covered with green body fluids.

Seeing that the other party was not seriously injured, Raphael finally breathed a sigh of relief. If there were casualties as soon as they entered the foreign land, or if the other party was seriously injured and needed to be sent back, it would be a great embarrassment for him.

On the other side, Ivana also cooperated with Yolande and others to kill the worm that attacked her, and removed some limbs and blood of the [Sand Worm] and sealed them for research.

"This should be the [Sand Worm] mentioned in the intelligence. I didn't expect that this thing's actions would be so secretive." Raphael said in a serious tone.

He originally thought that something this large would have some signs even if it was moving underground, but it turned out that even he himself was unable to detect any signs.

"No, I think they have been waiting here to hunt." Yolande explained. Just now when he cast the detection magic, he found that the two worms had been hiding underground.

"It's really insidious. It has actually learned to wait in front of the gate of time and space, waiting for others to come in." Tik said with a palpitating heart as he looked at the dead [Sand Worm] that was dismembered. If it was him who was targeted just now, he would not be sure that he could escape.

Tik even suspected that these giant worms had the ability to distinguish the strength of their prey, because the best time to attack should be when they just came out of the space-time gate, but the other party did not take action.

Perhaps because the first person to step in was Raphael, the Sand Worm did not have the ability to kill him, so it remained silent until it sensed the slight vibration caused by Yolande's detection magic. It realized that it had been discovered and suddenly launched an attack.

"In any case, we must be more careful next time." Raphael was extremely alert, then looked at the psychic wizard Tika and asked about the situation of the magic bat's investigation.

"Everything is normal for now. We have spotted several monsters two kilometers to the west. They don't look very powerful, but it's best to avoid them..."

Tika truthfully described everything he saw through the psychic eye, but soon paused, a look of surprise appeared on his face, and he hurriedly reported his new discovery to Raphael.

"Are you sure?" Raphael was also a little surprised. After thinking for a while, he spoke again. "Then let's leave here first."

Yolande and the others nodded, and after checking that the instruments they carried were still effective, they left the valley together.

Before leaving, Raphael extinguished the thunder ball above their heads. It would be too conspicuous to carry such a light source.

It was still okay in this valley. The church had sent expeditionary forces several times to slaughter the monsters gathered nearby, and the noise they made was much louder than theirs, but it was not certain what would happen after they got out.

As the nine people left, the valley returned to its previous tranquility. About half an hour later, three short figures wrapped in animal skins trotted over from the outside of the valley, their target clearly being the two dead [Sand Worms].

The three men moved with extraordinary skill. They quickly swung the bone knives in their hands to cut open the worm's body. After draining the green juice on the surface, they cut off a layer of thin film inside, revealing the brown flesh underneath.

The juice of the [Sand Worm] is very corrosive, and only a small part of the meat inside the body is edible. However, based on its huge size, it is enough for a small tribe to eat for a week.

With the skilled movements of several people, all the flesh in the body was cut out in just twenty minutes.

As for the part of the body that was buried underground, they did not move it because digging would take a lot of time. Every second spent here was extremely dangerous because a powerful monster might smell the scent and come looking for it at any time.

In this God-forsaken world, greed and death usually go hand in hand. If you want to survive, you must be careful enough.

Several short figures wrapped the separated meat with the film torn from the body of the [Sand Worm] and were about to drag it away.

However, the way out of the valley was blocked, and a glowing lightning ball was flying towards them at an extremely fast speed.

A sharp shout came from the leader's mouth, and the other two people without hesitation dropped the pieces of meat they had worked so hard to peel off, turned around and ran away.

It was a pity that their speed was obviously not faster than lightning. The flying electric ball soon exploded, and the flashing arcs spread rapidly like a spider web, covering the area within a hundred meters around.

The one who made the move was Raphael, who had concealed himself with polarizing magic. He had turned back and was holding an equally short figure in his hand - a sentry.

Several magic bats flew down from the sky and landed on the shoulders of the psychic wizard Tika. He had already discovered the four people hiding outside the valley, but he did not know their identities and purposes, so he did not act rashly.

After receiving the news, Raphael did not want to alert the enemy. The distance between the two sides was too far, and it would be difficult to stop them all with just a few magic bats. So he pretended to be unaware and waited for the other party to take action first.

What was beyond Raphael's expectation was that these three people were not targeting him, but the two [Sand Worms] that were killed in the valley.

Are you here for food?

Raphael glanced at the scattered film bags, and he understood a little more.

"They seem to be all children?" Tik walked forward, looked at the dwarfs who were twitching due to the electric shock, and said in surprise.

"No, it should be a halfling." Raphael corrected. He had seen Lydia many times and had some understanding of the halfling group, so he recognized her at once.

"Are they the natives here? Or did they accidentally step into the space-time gate? Or were they driven in by the church?" Yolande guessed one after another. What surprised him most was that halflings could actually survive in such a desolate world.

There is no sunlight here, the moisture in the air is very thin, there are many dangerous monsters, and the most important thing is that the opponent's strength looks really weak.

"Don't underestimate any species. Even in the harshest environment, life will always find a way out!" The speaker was a plastic science wizard. Having dissected thousands of creatures, he naturally understood how tenacious life could be under the trend of the desire to survive.

(End of this chapter)