Orin of Region 4 was surprised, "We just arrived at the second stage. How did this guy clear it again already?"
"That doesn't make sense, does it? I heard the beast tamer say that this stage, the Demon Forest, is extremely difficult!"
Duma of Region 9 also frowned and said, "Apparently, both the sky and the forest floor in the Demon Forest are restricted areas! Even a combat machine as powerful as a mammoth has to rely on the main group to open up a small path together."
"And apparently, even when following the bulldozer through the Demon Forest, you still have to constantly watch out for incoming tree vines and Shadow Birds!"
"Just how did that guy clear it?"
While everyone was saying this, suddenly, a vine swept toward them.
Boom!
Fortunately, Blake was fast and directly burned the vine with a burst of fire.
Only then did he look somewhat speechlessly at the other two and say, "No matter how he cleared it, he's already cleared it anyway. There's no point discussing him anymore! Watch yourselves. Be careful not to fall into a ditch and get dragged into the forest by these damn vines. By then, no one will be able to save you!"
"Got it!"
"I'll be careful!"
Among the three, Blake was a fire-element mage and had the strongest combat power in this Demon Forest, so the other two naturally didn't dare say anything more.
"Ah!"
"Help!"
And while they were talking, countless contestants had already been dragged into the Demon Forest from both in front of and behind them, their life or death unknown.
However, judging from their screams, everyone could basically tell that those contestants were probably finished.
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After Ethan passed through the Demon Forest, there was a strange red ocean in front of him, or perhaps it was a huge lake?
This stage should be the Water Stage related to the Water Element.
And because he had taken first place.
The Magic Tree had actually thoughtfully given him a [Special-Grade Raft], but wasn't a Special-Grade Raft still a raft?
'What a freaking scam!'
Ethan angrily threw the raft in his hand into the Red Sea.
The next second, the raft actually changed as soon as it entered the water.
The originally palm-sized little raft, at the instant it fell into the water, instantly transformed into a huge raft that was nearly one hundred square meters in size.
Moreover, there were pavilions and towers on the raft, and there was even a hot spring pool?
There was even an orchard?
'The hell is this a raft?'
Ethan was completely stunned by the raft before his eyes. No wonder it was called special-grade. This damn thing really was special-grade.
Suddenly, Ethan didn't even know whether he had come to clear the stages or to go on vacation.
But it didn't matter. After playing two stages, he really happened to be tired.
With one quick step, he jumped onto the raft.
Perhaps because the raft was simply too large, Ethan couldn't even feel the slightest bit of swaying. He only felt as if his feet had landed firmly on a patch of ground.
If it weren't for the water of the Red Sea fluctuating and causing the raft to drift along with it, Ethan might not even have noticed that he was currently standing on a raft.
"These oranges are pretty good!"
Ethan reached into the little orchard on the raft and pulled down an orange, broke it open, peeled off a segment, and put it into his mouth.
The stimulating fragrance unique to the orange instantly drifted from his mouth into his nose, while the sweet juice also surged into his throat in an instant. It was really thirst-quenching, with just the right sweet-and-sour taste.
Ethan thought these oranges were really good, so he picked several more. Just as he was about to put them into his Magic Ring.
He discovered that his Magic Ring actually couldn't be used in this Magic Tree Climbing Game?
'Fuck! So that's how it is.'
It turned out that the scariest part of this game wasn't the dangers in the stages.
It was that everyone had long since become accustomed to taking things from spatial backpacks or spatial rings, including weapons, equipment, and so on. But in this place, none of the spatial equipment could be opened.
Didn't that mean that everyone here could only rely on the things they currently had in their hands to clear the stages, and couldn't rely on external items at all?
They couldn't even take out the slightest bit of food or water.
Thinking of this, Ethan finally understood just how precious the things on this Special-Grade Raft were.
First, it provided Ethan with lots of fruit, as well as a pool of hot spring water. These could be drunk, and the hot spring could also be used for bathing.
Then there was a small room that was unaffected by others and could be used for resting.
After all... Nobody knew how large this sea was.
If someone drifted on it for several days without anything to eat or drink, and without even a place to shelter from the wind and rain, then they really could be worn to death.
Without his storage space, Ethan could only carry a pile of oranges in his arms.
He walked to the side of the little wooden house, where there was a large round barrel about half the height of the wooden house, filled with steaming hot spring water. It looked extremely comfortable.
To enter the hot spring, he originally had to climb up the ladder behind the house and then jump into the hot spring barrel.
But relying on the ability of his Demonic Armor, Ethan directly skipped this step. A demonic staircase appeared directly beneath his feet. Ethan only needed to walk up the staircase to the top of the hot spring barrel and jump down.
As for his oranges, he placed them on the roof. If he wanted to eat them, Ethan only needed to make his hand longer and could easily reach them.
"Mm, the temperature is just right!"
"Feels great."
And just as Ethan soaked in the hot spring, while the Special-Grade Raft drifted gently in the water, making him so comfortable that he was almost falling asleep.
The other high-level players also gradually passed through the second stage and appeared at the shore of the Red Sea.
Everyone looked at the one and only Special-Grade giant raft in the Red Sea. The group of players who were both tired and hungry were so envious that their eyeballs were almost falling out of their sockets.
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