Last night, the nearby teams were noisy for half the night, but none of the teams here knew about it. Because there was no need to worry about safety, there was no one on night watch last night, so naturally no one discovered the nearby distress magic signal, and no magical beasts dared to be reckless and disturb them. Everyone slept peacefully all night until the teacher woke up and called the students one by one.
"Ha..." After being woken up one by one by the two teachers, the students yawned, rubbed their sleepy eyes, and came out of the tent to wash up.
After washing up, the students prepared for breakfast. However, they glanced at their rations, then at Wang Han roasting meat by the fire. Wang Han had even started cooking broth, and the two-headed wolves were each grilling cleaned magical beasts over the fire. Then, one by one, the students naturally walked to the fire and began grilling their meat. The two-headed wolves also very readily offered the students the pieces of meat they were carrying to help them grill.
Seeing this, the two teachers exchanged a glance, unsure whether the situation was good or bad. The most important purpose of the Monster Forest hike was to cultivate students' wilderness survival experience, awareness of danger, and experience in life-or-death combat. Now, with Wang Han here, the students were relaxing as if on vacation.
However, they also knew that the students could only relax for now. In the future, the two teams would go deeper into the Monster Forest. Even if they did not go deeper into the Monster Forest, Wang Han would definitely find opportunities, or even create opportunities, to train An Qi. After all, Wang Han and An Qi's lives were tied together, and how could Wang Han let An Qi be a weakling?
Just like last night, Wang Han definitely deliberately grilled meat to attract the monsters, otherwise he wouldn't have grilled meat after everyone was asleep at night. Moreover, the wind at that time was blowing the aroma of grilled meat deep into the forest. However, after being discovered, everyone got up, so Wang Han simply let everyone grill meat together.
Wang Han's training of An Qi naturally included teamwork exercises, but the training would undoubtedly be more challenging. It was uncertain whether the students could handle it. As for danger, they weren't worried. With Wang Han present, while some might get injured, no one would die. Wang Han wouldn't abandon anyone to the brink of death. Otherwise, he could have deliberately lured the magical beasts over last night to train An Qi, but he didn't. Instead, he had his summoned beasts deal with all the beasts, without training An Qi. Perhaps Wang Han felt that in a chaotic battle, he wouldn't be able to protect all the students.
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More than an hour later, everyone had eaten and drunk their fill. At Wang Han's suggestion and the strong insistence of the students who were already feeling overconfident under Wang Han's protection, the group began to move deeper into the Monster Forest.
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Meanwhile, after a night of fighting, the twenty-odd mercenaries who had come to their aid, along with the three academy teams that had been besieged by monsters the previous night, rested briefly before continuing their operations in the Monster Forest. Fortunately, although most of the students were wounded, none had died. Unfortunately, because so many of them were injured, including several seriously wounded, the mercenaries who had come to their rescue did not leave but instead escorted them out of the Monster Forest to ensure their safety.
Suddenly, the mercenary squad leader at the front stopped and raised his hand behind him, signaling the others to stop as well.
The group of about a hundred people stopped abruptly. The mercenary captain sniffed the air around him and frowned, saying, "The stench of blood is very strong ahead. Let's take a detour."
Upon hearing this, the teachers from the academy behind them couldn't help but change their expressions. The strong smell of blood meant that there was likely another academy team that had also encountered a monster rampage, and the direction of the monster rampage last night had come from this side. The fate of this academy team might not be as good as theirs; they might even be wiped out.
"Captain Kru, I suggest we go check it out. Maybe one of our academy's teams encountered yesterday's monster rampage. If so, there might be survivors," said the elderly teacher named Haibo.
Upon hearing this, mercenary captain Kru nodded and led the way towards the direction with the strongest smell of blood. Although he didn't really want to go, rescuing the academy's team was a mission assigned to their mercenary group by the academy, and he couldn't easily refuse. Refusing without sufficient reasons and conditions would be seen as abandoning the mission or being perfunctory. Moreover, he wasn't too worried. The twenty-odd people who came to provide support were all elites of the mercenary group, all of them warriors and mages. This was only the outermost edge of the Monster Forest, and even if they were besieged by a horde of monsters, they could hold out for a while until reinforcements arrived.
"Captain," one of the mercenaries, a thief, said with a frown after the group had walked for a while, "There's a smell of roasted meat."
"It should be a magical beast that was burned to a crisp by fire magic during battle, though it could also be a person," a mercenary analyzed. Hearing this, several teachers at the academy turned grave. Some students who understood also turned pale, and a few even vomited.
"This isn't the smell of burnt meat." The mercenary captain frowned and sniffed the air hard. His face was gloomy as he said, "This is the smell of roasted meat with spices. Someone is roasting meat in the Monster Forest, and it's not just one or two idiots, but a whole bunch of idiots. It's definitely the students from the academy."
Upon hearing this, the teachers breathed a sigh of relief, but their hearts tightened again, and they cursed inwardly at which idiot teacher had led the team.
After saying that, the mercenary captain said to the teachers of the academy, "The smell of roasting meat is still there, which means that someone was roasting meat at most half an hour ago. The situation may not be at its worst yet. However, the strong smell of blood here means that they may have already been fighting with magical beasts, or the battle may have already ended. Teacher Haibo, you make the decision."
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