This means that he will not be able to rely on the power of the winter wolf dragon spirit in the short term.

'Damn it, this won't work! I have to find an animal companion who can get me out of this mess!'

Feeling that the distance between himself and the enemy was gradually shortening, Udyr, a veteran ranger, immediately made a decision.

His eyes quickly swept in the direction of his escape, but the area in front of him was a swamp.

"Why would I come to a place like this? Isn't this just courting death?"

Cursing himself in frustration, Udyr tried his best to find a rideable animal that looked suitable for moving in the swamp, trying to make it his animal companion.

But where are there so many beasts in the swamp that are suitable to be animal companions?

In this harsh environment, most of the animals that survive are relatively violent carnivorous animals that are extremely difficult to tame.

While searching, Udyr and his enemies had already run into the swamp.

The land of this swamp was quite solid and it was not as easy to sink into it as Udyr had thought.

The two men continued to go deeper into the swamp, and suddenly, Udyr saw a piece of dead wood floating in the mud.

The ranger's intuition told him that it was not a real dead tree, but a crocodile disguised as a dead tree.

Murmuring the comforting words "Something is better than nothing", Udyr quickly released his own characteristics towards the other party.

Changing the characteristics of an animal companion does not make the corresponding animal obey the ranger's orders immediately. Generally speaking, it takes at least 8 hours of living together to cultivate feelings.

But Udyr didn't expect the other party to obey his orders directly. He just wanted the other party not to attack him first when he passed by it.

'I have been running in this area for a long time, and the ecology of this area has obvious boundaries, that is to say, the boundary of this area is in front!

As long as the crocodile blocks the guy behind for a dozen seconds, I can use the rules of space jump to escape! '

Although the "more than ten seconds" rule is not accurate, Udyr also plans to interfere himself.

After repeating his plan in his mind, Udyr took a step forward, stepped on a crocodile disguised as a dead tree, crossed a pond, and continued to run forward.

The pursuer behind him was not a ranger and his knowledge of creatures was obviously insufficient.

When the crocodile floated up from the bottom of the water again, he subconsciously imitated Udyr's actions just now, preparing to step on the dead tree and trying to use the opponent's buoyancy to make a jump.

For a wanderer, this operation is not difficult.

But just as his front foot touched the "dead tree", two reptilian eyes opened on the "dead tree".

"Yeah~"

In the blink of an eye, a bloody mouth suddenly opened and bit towards the pursuer's calf.

The pursuing wanderer's pupils shrank, and he twisted his body forcefully in mid-air, finally escaping from the crocodile's attack range before the crocodile's teeth bit him.

With a "splash", the wanderer stepped into the pond.

This didn't seem like anything on the surface, but his expression immediately turned very ugly.

Because the mud in this pond was different from the surrounding land, it was actually pulling him down!

'Damn it!'

After a brief standoff, the crocodile confirmed that the man in front of him had no strength to resist and pounced straight at him.

At the critical moment, a light suddenly appeared where the wanderer's arm should be.

A violent whirlwind of magic power spread out in all directions with him as the center. Water, mud and crocodiles that flew towards him were forcefully pushed away from the wanderer's body by the whirlwind of magic power.

With the help of this ability, the wanderer leaped out of the quagmire again.

"Humph! Udyr, you can escape for a while, but you can't escape forever! You made me waste my dragon pattern ability in a place like this. It seems that this guy's strength has not declined because of his indulgence in alcohol and sex."

Looking angrily in the direction where Udyr fled, the Wanderer muttered to himself in a hoarse voice.

By this time, Udyr had already escaped from here through space jump and his whereabouts were unknown.

Rolling up his sleeves, a dragon mark different from that of the twelve dragon mark families appeared on the left shoulder of the wanderer.

This is a dragon pattern called an alien dragon pattern. Compared to the stable dragon patterns of the dragon pattern family, the alien dragon patterns have different functions, and some of them are even more powerful than the twelve dragon patterns.

However, the abilities of alien dragon patterns cannot be inherited stably, and the Dragon Pattern Family once carried out operations to capture and eliminate alien dragon pattern holders in various countries on the grounds that "alien dragon patterns may cause disasters."

This results in the holders of alien dragon patterns rarely appearing in public, and they have also specially developed special props that can hide their own dragon patterns.

Taking out something similar to a sticker from his dimensional bag, the wanderer who possessed the alien dragon pattern pasted it on his own dragon pattern.

The sticker quickly merged with the skin around it and completely covered the dragon pattern.

…

In the early morning, when most of the residents of Storm Bay were still unconscious, Carl took Lisanna, Hope, Nia, and Shadow and left for the adventure area.

"Wow~, why are we going to the adventure zone at this time? I'm so sleepy~"

With half of her body leaning on Hope, Lisanna walked forward sleepily, as if she had not yet woken up.

But she clearly went to bed earlier than everyone else last night.

"Okay, stop pretending to be pitiful. We are here to collect materials for you. Storm Bay has the least people at this time. You will run into many adventurers at noon or at night. At that time, there may be some rumors in Storm Bay."

Looking up at the sky, Carl took out the portable off-road motorcycle that he hadn't used for a long time.

Lisanna clung to Hope like a koala and sat on her motorcycle.

The corners of his mouth twitched twice, Carl put on his helmet, and drove everyone to the exit of the town.

Just as they were about to jump, a figure suddenly appeared at the intersection ahead.

The man was covered in dried mud, and the sleeve of his left arm was rolled up, making him look like he had fallen into a swamp and had just climbed out.

Noticing Carl and his companions, he quickly made way and let them pass.

When passing by, Carl and the other person's eyes met in mid-air for a moment. Carl's psychic talent allowed him to sense that the other person was not in a calm mood at the moment, but he could also sense that the other person's negative emotions were not directed at himself, so he didn't care.

Then, Carl and his team drove to the edge of the area and jumped away.

(End of this chapter)